53 examples of to trick in sentences

To cheat him; to trick him; especially to cheat with dice.

"I warn you first," he said gently, "that I am quite expert with a revolver, and that it will be highly dangerous to attempt to trick me.

"After all, now that you've vowed to protect him, aren't you just a little bit curious as to who he is?" Graham, seeing that he was expected to introduce himself, told the two cats who he was and how he came to be in Oz, how he had tricked the Witch, and how he met Telly, and how they had conspired together to trick her again, et cetera, et cetera.

Trying to trick me will only make it worse on yourself.

"He tried to trick me and trap me.

Behind all this is a clever fellow, who wants to trick you and me for the sake of gain.

It would be an easy matter to trick the three men into the short winding staircase that led up to the rooms Griggs occupied, and if the upper and lower doors were locked and barricaded, the prisoners could not forcibly get out.

That word assures my victorie; I never Heard any wife accuse her husband of Or cold neglect or Jealousie, but she had A confirm'd thought within to trick his forehead It is but Justice, Madam, to reward him For his suspitious thoughts.

Only a short time ago certain confidential documents were offered to the Greek Government, but fortunately they were false ones prepared on purpose to trick any one who had designs upon my business secrets.

He went away in inexorable wrath; threatening every practicable visitation of public and private justice upon the head of the offender, whom he accused of having attempted to trick his daughter into an entanglement which should result in his favor.

I loved the mother, and she deceived me and disgraced me and broke my heart, and I only wish she had killed me; and I was beginning to love her child, and I vowed she should not live to trick me too.

And so that you will be quite convinced that I am not trying to trick you into the confession which I am sure you will make" He crossed the room and flung open the door.

All my sympathy's with them, poor deluded dears, when I see their fallacious little attempt to trick out the leavings tossed them by the preoccupied malethe money and the motors and the clothesand pretend to themselves and each other that THAT'S what really constitutes life!

This is why science fiction magazines try to trick writers into signing over improbable rights for things like theme park rides and action figures based on their work it's also why literary agents are now asking for copyright-long commissions on the books they represent: copyright covers so much ground and takes to long to shake off, who wouldn't want a piece of it?

In serious affairs Carteret desired the approval of his conscience, even if he had to trick that docile organ into acquiescence.

He learnt him how to trick the dogs and tap trees like a coon.

Her intention was to trick him into forgetting her so that she might talk to herself or slip out of the room to the Den, just as her mother had done in the days when it was Grizel who had to be tricked.

Although these two had been spared to raise up a new race, Ninda Chando, the Moon, feared that the Sun would again get angry with the new race and destroy it; and so she made a plan to trick him.

This was the man who had tried to trick him to his death in that affair with the bully, Boucher, at Quebec.

Delany sensed that the old white fox was trying to trick himget him for perjury.

No great literary fire of purpose could be in the mind of a man who spent thought and time on such a plot to trick an editor.

A veil to draw 'twixt God His Law And Man's infirmity; A shadow kind to dumb and blind The shambles where we die; A sum to trick th' arithmetic Too base of leaguing odds; The spur of trust, the curb of lust

It was not now a caressed and pampered home; there was no longer any one there to trick it out in foolish affectionate adornments.

The introductory speech puts the audience in possession of the situation, and informs them how the wood is haunted by Comus and his crew, himself the son of Bacchus and Circe, and how they seek to trick unwary passengers into drinking of the fateful cup which shall transform them to the likeness of beasts and, driving all remembrance of home and friends from their imaginations, leave them content 'to roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.'

She leaned amongst the cushions and closed her eyes, trying to trick herself to drowsiness, but on the instant he was there beside her again, a ruthless, indomitable presence, which would not be ignored.

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