Finally she divided her capital, derived from her husband's life insurance, into three equal parts, which she determined to squander in three years in an attempt to hoodwink the world with the belief that she was wealthy.

Knock at the door,which thee mayst be sure is fast,and while one holds thee in parley the rest will set the room in order, and find a plausible tale to hoodwink thee afresh.

Mary, too, felt that it was needless to hoodwink Amy.

She'll hoodwink brother.

The visible bluish light from the tube is designed, I suppose, to hoodwink the credulous, but the dangerous thing about it is the invisible ray that accompanies that light.

It was my opinion, and I believe that of the counsel for the defence, that, although so much stress was laid upon the capsule and the administration of the poison by that means, it was not so administered, but that the capsule was an artifice, designed to hoodwink the doctors and Treasury solicitors.

Illusions most transparent to others hoodwinked her senses; her willing fancy supplied feeling, and even made up for deficiencies of art in the players, till the mimic world before her became more real than reality.

Invent some new lie to deceive the curious, and hoodwink our decent friends.

And all I get is a worthless house, a hundred acres of land, ten thousand dollars, and a doubtful claim against a Protestant nun who hoodwinked my grandfather into setting up a school for her.

She made this claim very early, however, for the purpose of hoodwinking British blockade advocates.

" So these two hoodwinked Rudolph Musgrave, and brought it about by subterfuge that his child was born.

" These reports hoodwinked the ignorant natives for a little while, but when the stream of haggard soldiers, wounded and exhausted, began pouring back from the south, they guessed what had happened, and a fierce revulsion against the Germano-Turkish régime set in.

So successful were the Indian chiefs in hoodwinking the officers at Fort Pitt that some of the latter continued to believe that only three or four hundred Indians had gone on the war path.]

So they got up a conspiracy and hoodwinked the Prefect of Police into an attempt to overthrow the Emperor.

In peace times the people only know what goes on through the press, which is bought and told what to say by those whose interest it is to hoodwink the public, while the truth is kept under lock and key.

Illusions most transparent to others hoodwinked her senses; her willing fancy supplied feeling, and even made up for deficiencies of art in the players, till the mimic world before her became more real than reality.

I persuaded Dawson, very much against his gree, to delay our going until Monday, the better to hoodwink old Simon; and on that day we set out for Chislehurst, both clad according to our condition,he in rough frieze, and I in a very proper, seemly sort of cloth,and with more guineas in our pockets than ever before we had possessed shillings.

You can't hoodwink an affectionate sister.

"Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to, Shall hoodwink this mischance.