Which preposition to use with tricking
Having made up my mind to become a novelist, I naturally studied the productions of my predecessors, and found out, I assure you, in a very brief period of time, the little tricks of the trade.
If you have, you are aware that they were the Sea Nymphs of the Ancients, in other words the Old Maids of the Sea, who never got married, and frequently played Scaly tricks on Mariners.
"No," Yagorsha called down the slope; "better no play tricks with him."
One had found that time had merely added poise and self-possession and a certain opulence to the beauty which had caused one's voice to play fantastic tricks in conference with Anne Willoughby,ancient, unforgotten conferences, wherein one had pointed out the many respects in which she differed from all other women, and the perfect feasibility of marrying on nothing a year.
If you have, 'tis but Trick for your Trick, Seignior Scaramouch, and you may spare the Pumping.
Have you already learnt that trick at Court, Both how to practise and secure your sport?
It may be of interest to explain how Lady Studley in her unhealthy condition of mind and body performed the extraordinary trick by which she hoped to undermine her husband's health, and ultimately cause his death.
No whispering, Gentlewomanand putting Tricks into her head; that shall not cheat me of another NightLook on that silly little round Chitty-facelook on those smiling roguish loving Eyes therelooklook how they laugh, twire, and tempthe, RogueI'll buss 'em there, and here, and every whereods bodsaway, this is fooling and spoiling of a Man's Stomach, with a bit here, and a bit thereto Bedto Bed
In other words, rig up a dummy to stand our trick as sentry.
She would try a trick like that just about once with me.
One day my brother described the trick to me, and I asked him to show me how it was done.
'But Miss Honoria,she is not afraid to tell her father the truth?' 'Suppose, sir, when Adam and Eve were in the garden, that all the devils had come up and played their fiends' tricks before them,do you think they'd have seen any shame in it?'
"'Cause a man plays a trick about a girl's ring don't prove he stole her money.
The Austrians had tried this trick without success against the Third Army on the Carso, as had the Germans against us in France.
Dan didn't like to be caught "biting" at a "sell," and he still expected some trick from his roommate.
When Antony found this out, he was naturally angry, but did not kill Monaeses although the latter was still in his power; for he felt sure he could not win the confidence of any other of the barbarians, in case he should do such a thing, and he wanted to try a little trick against them.
It is the trite consolation administered to the easy dupe, when he has been tricked out of his money or estate, that the acquisition of it will do the owner no good.
by Jove, Alcander Has more tricks than a dancing Bear.
His one supreme purpose is to keep affairs in the hands of his own specialized set, to keep the old obscure party game going, to rig his little tricks behind a vast, silly camouflage of sham issues, to keep out able men and disinterested men, the public mind, and the general intelligence, from any effective interference with his disastrous manipulations of the common weal.
"We'll do the trick after this fashion: You shall go ahead, an' I'll keep two or three paces in the rear.
"He belongs to Bill, that works the engine on Gavel's roundabouts; but he larned his tricks off me.
I had known Graeme's crime and Gourlay's self-murder; but the crime was a trick among blacklegs, and the suicide was the madness of a gambler, who had risked his money and was ruined at the moment he wanted to ruin another.
This kind of mystification and surprise was a trick below Shakspere.
Even Lord Ralles said, "Glad we could be of a little service," and didn't refuse my thanks, though the deuce knows they were badly enough expressed, in my consciousness that I had done an ungentlemanly trick over those trousers of his, and that he had been above remembering it when I was in real danger.
It was a cruel deceptionbut I believe the mean trick justifide the end, and saved the Bord of Helth a big bill of expense.