Or perhaps he was brought back by some clever forgery.

On the last leaf of this Almanack is the following notice: This is to give notice to all people, that all those Prophecies, Predictions, Almanacks, and other pamphlets, that had my name either true, or shammed with the want of a Letter [i.e., spelling his name PARTRIGE instead of PARTRIDGE]: I say, they are all impudent forgeries, by a breed of villains, and wholly without my knowledge or consent.

In Macpherson we have an unusual figure, who catered to the new romantic interest in the old epic heroes, and won immense though momentary fame, by a series of literary forgeries.

Shakspere forgeries in the Revels accounts.

Morse followed the matter up with the patience and keenness of a detective, and proved that no such letter had ever been written by Lafayette, that it was a clumsy forgery, but that he really had made use of the sentiment quoted above, not only to Morse himself, but to others of the greatest credibility who were still living.

Three and four are genuine; five is an obvious forgery.

I planned elaborate forgeries.

The letter's a manifest forgery, as I'll prove by confronting Feisul with it.

DODD, Rev. Dr. William, account of him, iii. 139; Allen's kindness to him, iii. 141; Boswell's anxiety for his pardon, iii. 119; canted all his life, iii. 270; character, iii. 122, 166; currat lex, iv. 207; dedication to Rev. Mr. Villette, iii. 167, n. 1; execution, iii. 120-1, 148; forgery, guilty of, iii. 140; Johnson, correspondence with, iii. 144-5, 147; describes, iii.

exclaimed I, stamping my foot; 'it's a forgeryan infernal forgery!'

Again and again the orator in the Philippics charges Antony with having used Caesar's seal ring for lucrative forgeries in state documents.

I had made a morally original study of a marriage myself, and made it, too, without any melodramatic forgeries, spinal diseases, and suicides, though I had to confess to a study of dipsomania.

The scrap of paper purporting to be a copy of the marriage certificate, and the clergyman's pretended letter, were mere forgeries, having about them no evidence or probability of truth.

O monstrous forgerie!

There exists a significant circular signed "J.M.B." believed to have been an outright forgery, both from its tenor and from the fact that the signature "J.M.B." is not in the handwriting of Basa's letter hereinbefore quoted.

In regard to the second section, unless we could suppose, that, by Estoitland and Drogio, some strangely distorted account of different districts in Ireland were meant to be enigmatically conveyed, the whole of that section must be pronounced a palpable and blundering forgery.

It was proof, on the contrary, of the unutterably cruel selfishness of the male Hindoos, who actually forged a text to make the suttee seem a religious dutya forgery which during two thousand years caused the death of countless innocent women.

And thenPigott, that shallow fraud, driven to suicide by those who were at first so eager to believe him: and the exposure of his silly forgery turns elections, makes Home Rule popular!

The king replies, Your words are foul slanderous forgeries.

The process that I have described is, in all essentials, that which is used in the reproduction of pen-and-ink drawings, and any of the hundreds of workmen who are employed in that industry could make a relief-block of a finger-print, with which an undetectable forgery could be executed.

Would you believe it, Dick, this copy was that from the auction, its defects repaired, its missing leaves replaced by careful forgery, and what is more, I know the vender was aware of the deceit.

Not content, however, with the discovery he had made at Wimbledon, James had secretly despatched a serjeant-at-arms to Rome, where Lord Roos had taken up his residence after leaving England, and obtained from him and from his confidential servant Diego, a statement incriminating Lady Lake, and denouncing the confession as a wicked forgery.

The crudest thing in this cruel forgery was the sentence, "Do you not think that in paying courtship to me in the desert you took unfair advantage of my loneliness?

" "I saw twenty thumb-prints, of which some were evident forgeries, some were evidently genuine, and some were doubtful.

I was counsel for a young clerk to Leopold Redpath, the notorious man who was transported for extensive forgeries upon the Great Northern Railway.