Radio patrol outwitting the gang chief.

The chaffering began in corn-shops, where the lawless agreements for delivery of unsown harvests changed hands ten times in the hour, and bills on Rome, scrawled over with endorsements, outsped currency as well as outwitted the revenue men.

Now is our time to plot and plan how to outwit our enemies.

The plantation was now owned by a storekeeper of Tahiti, prosy and disliked, who had fattened by ability to outwit the natives; but the glory had departed, and the place languished, ruins and jungle, the prey of guava and lantana.

Main line: outwitting the IWW.

Bugs Bunny outwits the smugglers.

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Br'er Rabbit outwits Br'er Fox.

Reynard then continued to describe his loyal fears for his beloved sovereign, his resolve to outwit the conspirators, and his efforts to deprive them of the sinews of war by discovering and abstracting the treasure.

Steinbeck tells how a PT boat outwitted entire Nazi convoy.

BACON, FRANCIS L. Outwitting the hazards; youth attacks the accident problem.

My sister was the most surprised person on earth when she saw me walking into her room, and, when I told her that I wanted her to go with me on the Chester, she thought me crazy, for she knew that hundreds of persons were trying in vain to find means of leaving the country and it seemed to her impossible that we, who were Turkish subjects, could succeed in outwitting the authorities.

With that quiet smile and guileless manner he had undercut and outwitted the most cunning of Orientals.

" "Thou art the devil, Constance; but there is one who can outwit the devil, and he will do it, too.

If I had found him the snobbish pretender whom the weekly newspapers were in the habit of ridiculing, it would have been a delight to outwit his diplomacy.

Scandal-mongers were wont to say that both were in love with the Queen,and that the Cardinal, though unsuccessful in his suit, outwitted the Duke and sent him out of the kingdom,and that the Duke swore a great oath, that, if he could not enter France in one way, he would enter in another,and that he brought about a war, and came himself as a commander: of this scandal believe what you will.

As Hushaï outwitted Achitophel, so Hyde (duke of Eochester) outwitted the Earl of Shaftesbury, etc., etc. Auspicious prince.

The silent, dull, and heavy man had outwitted everybody; and he showed that he understood the French people better than all the collected statesmen and generals who had served under Louis Philippe with so much ability and distinction.

The Old Testament, for example, is basically the repeated story of how younger sons attempt to outwit their fathers for an inherited birth right.

The signora Talberg was evidently bent on outwitting all his finesse, trying to keep from him the address of her friends.

Had I outwitted my wily foe, and by some miracle stolen a march on him?

All these and many more things must be learned slowly at the expense of many failures, especially when the cubs took to hunting alone and the old wolves were not there to show them how; but they never forgot the principle taught in that first rabbit drive,that two hunters are better than one to outwit any game when they hunt intelligently together.

There he revolted against the revolt itself, got imprisoned, escaped, outwitted the gendarmes, got retaken: his adventures sound like a legend or romance.

The Emperor Napoleon arrived the same day, and access to the Mer de Glace was refused to tourists; but, by scrambling along the Plan des Aiguilles, I managed to outwit the guards, and to arrive at the Montanvert as the imperial party was leaving, failing to get to the Jardin the same afternoon, but very nearly succeeding in breaking a leg by dislodging great rocks on the moraine of the glacier.

I had outwitted Halicarnassus.