116 examples of hoaxing in sentences

Mitford was hoaxing you surely about my engraving; 't is a little sixpenny thing, too like by half, in which the draughtsman has done his best to avoid flattery.

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

But I see you are hoaxing me.

Varieties of Hoaxing.

Hoaxing, a style of amusement fortunately out of fashion how, was almost a passion with him, and his practical jokes were as merciless as his satire.

Varieties of Hoaxing.

But the hoaxing dearest to Theodorefor there was something to be gained by it-was that by which he managed to obtain a dinner when either too hard-up to pay for one, or in the humour for a little amusement.

There is nothing very original in the act of hoaxing, and Hook's way of getting a hackney-coach without paying for it, was, perhaps, suggested by Sheridan's, but was more laughable.

The hoaxing stories of Theodore Hook are numberless.

Hoaxing was the fashion of the day, and a childish fashion too.

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

Mitford was hoaxing you surely about my Engraving, 'tis a little sixpenny thing, too like by half, in which the draughtsman has done his best to avoid flattery.

'Hoaxing' is not a pretty word, my dear, and I hope you won't tell your father I used it, for I should not like him to think I was not choice in my language, after living with such a woman as Deborah.

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.

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.

My dear madam," continued she, smiling, "some one has been hoaxing youI have no coloured pupilsI could not be induced to receive one on any account.

The following account of it is from one of the Boston papers:] "Hoaxing a Governor.

The following account of it is from one of the Boston papers:] "Hoaxing a Governor.

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!"

Well, Swift is right in supposing the great art of life to be that of hoaxing.

Reader, we do not hold the grand secret of life to be the art of hoaxing, when we tell you that for a Greenwich fare you may be transported to the classic regions of Italythat a walk to Leicester Square will probably delight you more than a ride to Greenwich, little as we are inclined to underrate the last of the pleasures of the people.

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.

116 examples of  hoaxing  in sentences