89 examples of hoodwinking in sentences

Kings, less kind, Harm those they hoodwink; sow bare rock with seed; Nor use our waste to propagate the breed.

It was my opinion, and I believe that of the counsel for the defence, that, although so much stress was laid upon the capsule and the administration of the poison by that means, it was not so administered, but that the capsule was an artifice, designed to hoodwink the doctors and Treasury solicitors.

Mary, too, felt that it was needless to hoodwink Amy.

It didn't help or mend matters much to hear her own voice stammering: "Yes, of course, II don't want you toto have to go away" Oh, the vanity of trying to hoodwink him who knew so well what she was now for the first time realizing!

She had a feeling that he was trying to hoodwink her by some means not wholly praiseworthy.

Men like your uncle, who want to cover up their actions, take as much pains to hoodwink us, and use any means that occur to them to keep us in the dark when they want to.

Into her house I came at unaware, Her back was to me, and I was not seen; I stole behind her, till I had her fair, Then with my hands I closed both her een; She, blinded thus, beginneth to bethink her Which of her loves it was that did hoodwink her.

Some people are never happy unless they're hoodwinking others.

That the boots at the hotel had not been hoodwinking me I felt assured in my own mind.

not look; close the eyes, shut the eyes-, turn away the eyes, avert the eyes; look another way; wink &c (limited vision) 443; shut the eyes to, be blind to, wink at, blink at. render blind &c adj.; blind, blindfold; hoodwink, dazzle, put one's eyes out; throw dust into one's eyes, pull the wool over one's eyes;

She'll hoodwink brother.

Knock at the door,which thee mayst be sure is fast,and while one holds thee in parley the rest will set the room in order, and find a plausible tale to hoodwink thee afresh.

Invent some new lie to deceive the curious, and hoodwink our decent friends.

The Moderate party in Turkeythat is to say, the hoodwinking partywere reported to be daily gaining strength, and it was most important that the Allies should give them every assistance, and above all not precipitate matters.

The Colonel and I are blinded by Turns, and you would laugh your Heart out to see what Pains my Dear takes to hoodwink us, so that it is impossible for us to see the least Glimpse of Light.

Gladstone, honourably hoodwinking himself all those years, accepting you as our secret go-betweenand you making no pretence, my dear!

" "Perhaps you think you can hoodwink me!" cried Diamond.

The living, or spitting, image (left) and a dead ringer; The lapidary In a clump of merry-go-round; The hoodwink on a spray of ragamuffin; An upstart rising from a clump of Johnny-come-lately; The <pb id='230.png' /> small rodent (right) is a spouse; A trochee (left) encountering a spondee; Three fresh-water creatures.

The living, or spitting, image (left) and a dead ringer; The lapidary In a clump of merry-go-round; The hoodwink on a spray of ragamuffin; An upstart rising from a clump of Johnny-come-lately; The <pb id='230.png' /> small rodent (right) is a spouse; A trochee (left) encountering a spondee; Three fresh-water creatures.

So successful were the Indian chiefs in hoodwinking the officers at Fort Pitt that some of the latter continued to believe that only three or four hundred Indians had gone on the war path.]

The visible bluish light from the tube is designed, I suppose, to hoodwink the credulous, but the dangerous thing about it is the invisible ray that accompanies that light.

The Colonel and I are blinded by Turns, and you would laugh your Heart out to see what Pains my Dear takes to hoodwink us, so that it is impossible for us to see the least Glimpse of Light.

There was to be one more scene in the brief and cruel drama which he had devised for the hoodwinking and final spoliation of a young and inexperienced girl.

She made this claim very early, however, for the purpose of hoodwinking British blockade advocates.

Whilst he was trying to pacify the dog, the latter bit him severely in the arm, drawing a good deal of bloodthe crimson scar across his face was a last happy inspiration which put the finishing touch to his disguise and to the hoodwinking of the police and of me.

89 examples of  hoodwinking  in sentences