One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener. "'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down."
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"Shifter" Quotes from Famous Books — The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe — A Great Emergency and Other Tales - A Great Emergency; A Very Ill-Tempered Family; Our Field; Madam Liberality • Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing — The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton — Beethoven • George Alexander Fischer — Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward |
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