Had he died, how posterity would have been befooled!

He may be misled, but not befooled.

I say not may, but must, unless we are to believe in a "Deus quidam deceptor," in a God who puts shells upon mountain-sides only to befool honest human beings, and gives men intellects which are worthless for even the simplest work.

Harriet there, serious-minded, thinking I was being befooled, and the agent thinking he was befooling me, and I, thinking I was befooling both of themand all of us wrong.

Sure you are not befooled and led away by his deceiving words to believe such madness as he speaks?' Andrew started at her touch, like a man waking from a dream.

"It's doubly interesting, because it is believed that Erskine's brother Henry, finding himself befooled by the crafty Cardinal, united with Lord Glencardine to kill him and dispose of his body secretly, thus ridding Scotland of one of her worst enemies," Walter went on.

Thus between hope and fear, suspicions, angers, Inter spemque metumque, timores inter et iras, betwixt falling in, falling out, &c., we bangle away our best days, befool out our times, we lead a contentious, discontent, tumultuous, melancholy, miserable life; insomuch, that if we could foretell what was to come, and it put to our choice, we should rather refuse than accept of this painful life.

"O Neaera, put your tricks, and practise hereafter upon somebody else, you shall befool me no longer."

Meanwhile, their visits enabled him to test his own calibre by comparison with theirs, and to realise that his instincts had not befooled him, but that he too had been called to the stage of the great world.

What if I have been befooledwhat if all the Anglo-Saxon world has been befooled by forty years of peace?

XIII "OUR FATHERS HAVE TOLD US" We have forgotten, else it would be impossible they should try to befool us.

Tomorrow, in all honor, thou Poor Gretchen wilt befool, and vow Thy soul's deep love, in lover's fashion.

The privileges of his education, which he had so much despised, now lay with an almost insupportable weight on his mind; and the folly of that career of sinful pleasure which he had so many years been running with desperate eagerness and unworthy delight, now filled him with indignation against himself, and against the great deceiver, by whom (to use his own phrase) he had been "so wretchedly and scandalously befooled."

Otherwise it gives no "power"the clause is mere waste paper, and flouts in the face of a befooled legislature.

Otherwise it gives no "power"the clause is mere waste paper, and flouts in the face of a befooled legislature.

Otherwise it gives no "power"the clause is mere waste paper, and flouts in the face of a befooled legislature.

It is the nature of sin so far to blind and befool the sinner, that he knoweth not what he doth, but thinketh he is free from it when it reigneth in him, or when he is committing it: it bringeth men to be so much unacquainted with themselves that they know not what they think, or what they mean and intend, nor what they love or hate, much less what they are habituated and disposed to.

And so it may be said of man in general that, befooled by hope, he dances into the arms of death.

The trial revealed a gross intrigue, a disgraceful comedy, a prince of the church and a merchant equally befooled by a shameless woman, with the aid of the adventurer Cagliostro, and the name, the favors, and even the personality of the queen impudently dragged in.

They made sport of him, pulled his beard and his hair, tempted and evaded him, mocked him when he grabbed at them, befooled him when he captured them.

If the unknown should prove to be a friend, my case might be better than before; if he should prove to be an enemy, I must act prudently and try to befool him.

Shakespeare's genius has simply befooled Lord Penzance.

CHAPTER V "It was not to be expected of the colonists of New England that they should be the first to see through a delusion which befooled the whole civilized world, and the gravest and most knowing persons in it.

When the befooled troopers saw the trick and tried to seize their arms, nine were cut down.

In the midst of the dance and revelry a bloody rabbit appeared to accuse Reynard of tearing off one of his ears, while the garrulous crow, Merkinau, related how the same unscrupulous wretch had pretended death merely to befool Sharfenebbe, his wife, and induce her to come near enough for him to bite off her head.