395 examples of trumping in sentences

Sound, sound, the trump of Fame! Let WASHINGTON'S great name Ring through the world with loud applause; Ring through the world with loud applause; Let every clime to Freedom dear, Listen with a joyful ear.

No joys to him pacific sceptres yield War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field; Behold surrounding kings their powers combine, And one capitulate, and one resign: Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain; 'Think nothing gained,' he cries, 'till naught remain!

This must not yet be so, The Babe yet lies in smiling infancy, That on the bitter cross Must redeem our loss; So both himself and us to glorify; Yet first to those ychain'd in sleep, The wakeful trump of doom must thunder through the deep, With such a horrid clang

But I held a high trump.

He then proceeded to waddle down the road making trumping sounds that sounded suspiciously like a trombone playing the bass part to When the Saints go marching in.

"You're a trump anyhow," he affirmed.

"Our trump card at presenta rather small one, I am afraidis the obvious intention of the testator that the bulk of the property should go to his brother.

To prevent a partizan majority from trumping up charges and expelling members of the opposite party, it is a common constitutional provision that the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members elected shall be necessary for expulsion.

Andresen was a trump, and always had been.

But now, what if he played his last court-card, and Fortune, out of her close-hidden hand, laid down a trump thereon with quiet sneering smile?

"The Southern Religious Telegraph" was publishing an impassioned address to Kosciusko; standards were being consecrated for Poland in the larger cities; heroes, like Skrzynecki, Czartoryski, Rozyski, Kaminski, were choking the trump of Fame with their complicated patronymics.

Let us hope he will be the trump card in the pack.

You were a trump to stand by me.

Scarce had the clock sounded its last note, when the lightning flashed vividly around, and a loud peal of thunder roared along the skyGod's pillar of fire, and trump of jubilee!

A fine time of it indeed it would be, if, when gentlemen of six thousand a year take up their servants for robbing them, those servants could trump up such accusations as these, and could get any magistrate or court of justice to listen to them!

And trumping up the necessity of seeing her own family, she left the notary alone in Valencia, going with her boy to spend the summer on the coast of Catalunia near the French frontier.

And the imposing dame, trumping up an insignificant pretext, so as to facilitate their love-making was about to go out when the drapery of the door between the salon and office was raised.

Pt. C. By Ross M. Trump.

Pt. B. By Ross M. Trump.

with real feeling; Frederic jumped up and slapped me on the shoulder, crying, "Gordon, you're the biggest old trump breathing;" while Albert and the captain shook hands with each other, in evident jubilation.

" That's what I call a trump of a girl, worth loving for a lifetime.

If I'd begun by leading a trump it would have been all over with us.

It is admirably suited for the gravestone of any child of very tender years, say four: 'When the Archangel's trump shall blow And souls to bodies join, Many will wish their lives below Had been as short as mine.'

The authorities at home must be assumed to have appreciated this really fine feat of his, for they made the officer commanding the two hundred moral supports a C.B. But Grey, it is needless to say, by thus trumping the trick of his opponent the General, did not improve his own relations with the Home authorities.

"It's them boots," he whispered to himself, softly; "they somehow don't seem 'xactly to trump or follow suit in this yer cabin; they don't hitch into anythin' but jist slosh round loose, and so to speak play it alone.

395 examples of  trumping  in sentences