116 examples of hoaxes in sentences

The plot belongs, therefore, to that large group known as hoax plots.

"And Mr. Verdant Green's compliments to yer, sir, and will you come up to his rooms and take a glass of wine with him, sir?" It need hardly be said that the blushing Mr. Pucker passed a very pleasant evening with his new friends, and that Mr. Verdant Green was very proud of having got so far out of the freshman's stage of existence as to take part in one of the most successful hoaxes in the history of Oxford.

Of all stories told about him, none are more common or more popular than those which relate to his practical jokes and hoaxes.

It is fair, however, to premise, that while the cleverest of Hook's hoaxes were of a victimizing character, a large number were just the reverse, and his admirers affirm, not without some reason, that when he had got a dinner out of a person whom he did not know, by an ingenious lie, admirably supported, he fully paid for it in the amusement he afforded his host and the ringing metal of his wit.

But his hoaxes were far more famous than his collection of curiosities, and quite as much to the purpose; and the imprudence he displayed in them was only equalled by the quaintness of the humour which suggested them.

But the hoax of hoaxes, the one which filled the papers of the time for several days, and which, eventually, made its author the very prince of hoaxsters, if such a term can be admitted, was that of Berners Street.

The elves and sprites of this desolate region had been playing a hoax upon Goyder's party.

The backs of those sheets, with the stamps and postmarks and the address to me, will be good proof that it is not a hoax.

It is not that Lord Byron is sometimes serious and sometimes trifling, sometimes profligate, and sometimes moralbut when he is most serious and most moral, he is only preparing to mortify the unsuspecting reader by putting a pitiful hoax upon him.

They saw that several of the asserted miracles were simply hoaxes or delusions; they suspected that the unknown tongues might be nothing but the senseless bubbling of overheated brainpans; they perceived that the Doctor in his enthusiastic flights was soaring clear into the murky clouds of Spiritualism; and they dreaded lest the scoffing world should make a weapon out of these absurdities for an attack upon the Christian faith.

I admired the very presumption of the theory, and finally told him to call the next day on my agent, Mr. Schenck, at such a number (Martin Baum's) in Maine Street, to whom, in the mean time, I transferred the hoax, and duly informing Schenck of the affair; and I do not recollect, at this time, how he shuffled him off.

"Sounds like a hoax of some sort," remarked Phil.

I have heard of a man who, when he received a letter from the Prime Minister of the day offering him a place of great dignity, thought the letter was a hoax, and did not notice it for several days.

Everybody became mad to consult him; no street was ever so crowded as the one he lived in, since Berners-street on the day of the hoax.

THE SHEPHERD'S BOY AND THE WOLF A Shepherd's Boy was tending his flock near a village, and thought it would be great fun to hoax the villagers by pretending that a Wolf was attacking the sheep: so he shouted out, "Wolf! wolf!"

Honest breeders improved the yield considerably; but the succession of hoaxes roused abundant skepticism.

A simple and pathetic memoirwhich deserved to be as successful as that most felicitous of all such hoaxes, the life of the supposed Italian poet, Lorenzo Stecchettiintroduces us to the unfortunate young Irishman, who was innocently engaged to a charming lady, when, on a certain August afternoon, he strayed by chance into the Fives Court, witnessed a "sparring-exhibition" by two celebrated pugilists, and was thenceforth a lost character.

MACDOUGALL, CURTIS D. Hoaxes.

MACDOUGALL, CURTIS D. Hoaxes.

He also wrote letters to The Daily Chronicle and Nature, but both those periodicals, suspecting a hoax, asked him to reconsider his action before they printed, and he was advised that such a strange story, unfortunately so bare of supporting evidence, might imperil his reputation as an investigator.

I half suspect the fellows were like the showman in the story, and, at length, religiously believed what they first designed as a hoax.

" "It looks like a hoax of some sort," admitted Rob, sorely puzzled; "but I can't for the life of me see the object of it.

I reckoned that she would be fully three minutes going, questioning, finding out that the whole thing was a hoax, and running back to the dressing-roomthree minutes in which to open the chest, extract the bracelet and, incidentally, anything else of value there might be close to my hand.

She was explaining to them volubly, and to the accompaniment of sundry half-hysterical little cries, the infamous hoax to which she had fallen a victim.

It enabled me to walk composedly and not too hurriedly through the crowd behind the scenessupers, scene-shifters, principals, none of whom seemed to be aware as yet of the hoax practised on Mademoiselle Mars' maid; and I reckon that I was out of the stage door exactly five minutes after Theodore had called the damsel away.

116 examples of  hoaxes  in sentences