59 collocations for trick

It would be an easy matter to trick the three men into the short winding staircase that led up to the rooms Griggs occupied, and if the upper and lower doors were locked and barricaded, the prisoners could not forcibly get out.

For your sake I tricked people who loved and trusted me; but to you I was rashly sincere.

[Footnote A: Mr. Sampson, who was surgeon's mate of the ship in which the captain had thus served as a mate, confirmed to me afterwards this assertion, having often heard him boast in the cabin, "how he had tricked the law on that occasion.

"Incuriously he smites the armored king And tricks his counsellors" "True, O God!" murmured the tiny woman, who sat beside the window yonder.

SEE Stolz, Karl R. STOLZ, KARL R. Tricks our minds play on us.

Jimmy, he trapped them dogs on the ledge, an' he tricked the dog he killed up on the peak.

Pomfret, Poems (1699), Divine Attributes: 'Tricks to cully fools.' p. 249

What if he takes thee unawares?" "How, unawares?" "He might trick thee into a thing thou couldst not recede from.

Perhaps Wall Street had tricked Spike into tricking Wilbur Cowan.

It is pleaded for him that he tricked his creditors 'for the fun of the thing,' like a modern Robin Hood, and like that forester bold, he was mightily generous with other men's money.

May his Bears worry him, that Ape had paid it, What dainty tricks!

He went away in inexorable wrath; threatening every practicable visitation of public and private justice upon the head of the offender, whom he accused of having attempted to trick his daughter into an entanglement which should result in his favor.

I can faint, and I can fear, The power of petty creatures here, Who trick dark deeds in gay disguise, And weave their web of brooded lies, With so few threads made smooth and fair, All seems plain sense and reason there;

" "But he was trying to trick the defendant.

When this has been done, Krishna and Balarama trick the demons.

They are such consummate thieves and rogues, that, according to an ancient tradition still current among them, they once tricked the devil himself.

No great literary fire of purpose could be in the mind of a man who spent thought and time on such a plot to trick an editor.

Such is the will of Nemesis; at a mere nod, in a moment of time, the faithless hour tricks mortal endeavor.

" Such pretty eloquence, thoughtful withal, was not what I had looked for in this new cousin of minethis free-tongued maid, who, like a painted peach-fruit all unripe, wears the gay livery of maturity, tricking the eye with a false ripeness.

That word assures my victorie; I never Heard any wife accuse her husband of Or cold neglect or Jealousie, but she had A confirm'd thought within to trick his forehead It is but Justice, Madam, to reward him For his suspitious thoughts.

Troth, my lord, to tell you plain, I can give you no other account; nam quae habui perdidi; what I had, I spent on good fellows; in these sports you have seen, which are proper to the spring, and others of like sort (as giving wenches green gowns, making garlands for fencers, and tricking up children gay), have I bestowed all my flowery treasure and flower of my youth.

"Tie them up again, Peter," said Lolla, looking viciously at Bessie, and obviously gloating over the way in which she had tricked the American girl.

It is OK + if the balance of the story is as good (+ I have no doubts on that score) you are "It" when it comes to writting fiction as well as tricking the Insurance Thief + Standard Oil Grafters.

360 That merry peal comes ringing loud; And Geraldine shakes off her dread, And rises lightly from the bed; Puts on her silken vestments white, And tricks her hair in lovely plight, 365 And nothing doubting of her spell Awakens the lady Christabel.

By these quaint tricks free passage hath been barr'd, That I could never equally be heard.

59 collocations for  trick