At heart we worship the man who will not lie; who will not use conventions or formulas in which he does not believe; who does not give us a second-hand view of either life or God; who does not play with our conscience because it is not politic to be too direct; who does not juggle with our doubts, nor ignore our hopes and powers; who also frankly acknowledges that he, too, is a man.

Ordinarily the Meacham woman was selfish; but having found an object upon which she could centre her thin, watery affections, she proceeded to be selfish for Johnnie instead of toward her, a spiritual juggle which some mothers perform in regard to their children.

Fate could not juggle thus with human souls and purposes.

And they invent arguments to prove themselves right, such as this: That because God is an infinite being, every sin committed against Him is infinite; and therefore deserves an infinite punishment; which is a juggle of words of which any educated man ought to be ashamed.

I enlisted to fight, not to be chased into a climate that doesn't agree with menot to sweep roads and juggle a wooden gun.

I cannot blame your feats, your juggling tricks, Plague juggle you!

Some very good but ordinary people, by an unwearied perseverance in good offices, put a cheat upon our eyes: juggle our senses out of their natural impressions; and set us upon discovering good indications in a countenance, which at first sight promised nothing less.

He said a hundred thousand pullets when he should have said twenty-five, and he seemed to consider his banked hoard of gold money to be inexhaustible when it was in fact merely a sum slightly greater than he was wont to juggle with in his darkened mind.

By a legal juggle, Catherine was deprived of her reversionary rights; and when every penny was gone, the wretched Hardman ended his days in a debtor's prison.

Thus separated, as this fascination of discourse aims only at amusement, though it be decisive in its momentary effect, it is yet a juggle, and of no lasting power.

Even Hildebrand did not juggle himself into his theocratic chair.

ADELAIDE: Come, come, nowlet's not juggle words.

trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem &c (artifice) 702; confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft &c 791; ballot-box stuffing [U.S.], barney

[Fr.]; finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie &c (untruth) 546; juggle, tour de force; tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers; espieglerie [Fr.]; net, trap &c 545. Ulysses, Machiavel, sly boots, fox, reynard; Scotchman; Jew, Yankee; intriguer, intrigant^; floater [U.S.], Indian giver [U.S.], keener [U.S.], repeater

I am surprised at the credulity which could ever lend itself to that theatrical juggle.

The storm that came screeching after us from way across the Coral Sea was one of those high-powered freak disturbances that juggle with lumps of water like a vaudeville performer juggling with cheap crockery.

"As I watch this, I'm reminded of the iron-moulders in the mining districts, who juggle with fire as if it were perfectly harmless," remarked the boy.

She learned to juggle dates with an ease that brought gasps from her American clients, with their history that went back little more than one hundred years.

She could juggle the history of emperors with one hand and the scandals of half a dozen kings with the other.

"The rascal has seen better days, and is now perverting his knowledge to juggle a foolish woman, to his profit.

To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a jokethat may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

And the Signora meanwhile would juggle with a piece of paper, an egg, and a cannonball.

Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our heart is unquiet until its rests in Thee,this however, as any one may be tempted to fence and juggle with the fact, is the truth on which all the rest depends.

This mischief is so strange, it could not happen, But was the plot and juggle of our fate, To free itself, and cast the blame on us.

This was, however, a mere pretence; for the method proposed for getting at the sense of the people was nothing but a pitiful juggle, according to which no one could vote on the Slavery question who did not at the same time vote for the Constitution.