24 adjectives to describe dodges

" Another little dodge of your'n, my misguided friends, is to keel off K. VANDERBILT.

Long Sleeve Kicksis got up right, and kept by an artful dodge from visiting the knees, when worn without straps.

"Soma better dodge that little fire eater," muttered Holman.

Anyhow, it was a mighty mean dodge.

This is a most useful dodge where so many enemies abound, all swifter in the water than the slow-swimming flat fish.

The deceased Mr. Sullivan would hardly recognize his favorite dodge under its classic name of hyptiasmos, or be aware that it was in use by his very respectable predecessor, Sostratus of Sicyon, who was noted for such tricks.

That sounds difficult, but it is a favourite dodge in the sea.

Look here; it's our only hopethe insanity dodge, I mean.

Bentinck seems to suppose that, in keeping back a letter which stated that Canada would separate if the Navigation Laws were not repealed, I intended by some very ingenious dodge to hasten their repeal!

It was a clever dodge, but a mean trick all the same.

Such works are bringin more ruin onto the country, than the numerous jewrys of twelve talented men, who allow murderers to come the loonatic dodge over 'em.

It's robbery, sir, I say, all these out-of-the-way cheap dodges, which arn't in the pharmacopoeia, half of them; it's unprofessional, sirquackery.

I saw at once that there might be some mechanical dodge at the back of the whole queer business and nothing at all of an abnormal nature.

They would not see in this business anything save a prince of the church and the prince of Rohan, whereas it is only the case of a man in want of money and a mere dodge for raising the wind, wherein the cardinal has been swindled in his turn.

He was searched most narrowly and carefully, so I've come to the conclusion that he carried some of his subtle poison in his mouththe hollow tooth dodge, no doubt.

A common native poaching dodge is this: if some oil cake be thrown into the water a few hours previous to your fishing, or better still, balls made of roasted linseed meal, mixed with bruised leaves of the 'sweet basil,' or toolsee plant, the fish assemble in hundreds round the spot, and devour the bait greedily.

he-e-e!how he laughs when he recurs to those days of the long, long ago, with their miserable little swindles, no better than farthing candles, (allowable rhyme,) and their puny dodges devised for flagellating LUCIFER round a stump.

Time of the trial, too, came the queerest dodge of any customer I ever had.

And quit that little schoolgirl dodge; you make me sick.

It's a shrewd dodge.

He was to be sent under guard to the Dregiment for identification; and if he were found to be a Hans and not a Tommywell, though he had tried a very stupid dodge he must have known what to expect when he was found out, if his officers had properly trained him in German rules of war.

He would try new dodges, uncalled-for, unproved, They were "going great guns," when he suddenly found That, to make himself Champion (and get himself loved By the river-side "Bungs" and their large clientèle), He mustset a new stroke in the midst of a spin A policy plainly predestined to fail, And one, we must own, scarce deserving to win.

And I'll tell you more," said Tom, warming, "of all diabolical dodges for preventing the parsons from seeing who they are, or what human beings are, or what their work in the world is, or anything else, the neatest is that celibacy of the clergy.

Just before the tramp and the boy came to close quarters Pretty made a diving sidelong dodge, and as the tramp's club whisked idly through the air past him, he dealt the fellow a furious blow across the left shin.

24 adjectives to describe  dodges