Daniel discovered the imposture of the priests of Bel, who had a private way of getting into the temple, to take away the offered meats, and made the king believe that the idol consumed them.

The other illustrates his precocious delight in detecting imposture.

Nay, even after Warbeck had been taken and confessed his imposture, Tyrell was employed on an important embassy to Maximilian, King of the Romans.

In order to defeat this imposture Henry exhibited the real earl to the people of London.

While the precepts of religion are little regarded, they stand in mortal dread of those who practise this mischievous imposture.

The Egyptian priests hastened to execute Gaumata's orders, with greater zeal from their fear of me, because they were afraid that I would reveal their impostures to the people.

There is a subtle rapprochement between leader and people in all great movements that divines instinctively any imposture.

He is taken with their miracles, but doubts an imposture; he conceives of our doctrine better, but it seems too empty and naked.

Some imagine, that the laws have provided all necessary relief, in common cases, and remit the poor to the care of the publick; some have been deceived by fictitious misery, and are afraid of encouraging imposture; many have observed want to be the effect of vice, and consider casual alms-givers as patrons of idleness.

If literal, it all but indicates wilful imposture.

FROM THE NEW MORALITY [ANTI-PATRIOTISM AND SENTIMENTALITY] With unsparing hand, Oh, lash these vile impostures from the land!

Whether the supreme magistrate, who unites these powers, receives the appellation of prince or prelate, is not material: the superior weight which temporal interests commonly bear in the apprehensions of men above spiritual, renders the civil part of his character most prevalent; and in time prevents those gross impostures and bigoted persecutions, which, in all false religions, are the chief foundation of clerical authority.

Why, then, did Stanhope wait for his death before he proclaimed the imposture?

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labours first to impose upon himself, and then to propagate the imposture.

Quelque grossière que fut cette imposture, Louis ne put pas s'en défendre.

"This argument of Abdallah's had much weight with me, and I the more readily consented to his request as he did not on this occasion require any imposture at my hands, but merely the restitution of his domestic peace.

Or if you are begged piteously to lift a stand-pipe wrapped to the likeness of a bundle, even though you sniff the imposture, seize upon it with a will!

It is called French in the shops in order to soften down its imposture, and to play upon the weakness of our country women who are apt to think that whatever is French must be good.

This, though I had myself suggested an imposture, made it very unlikely to my quiet thoughts.

He re-established the ancient commercial relations with England, to which country Maximilian had given mortal-offence by sustaining the imposture of Perkin Warbeck.

The three companions understood this conventional imposture, and politely claimed the spare half seats from the nearest ladies.

To these you may add the knavish impostures of jugglers, exorcists, mass-priests, and mountebanks, of whom Roger Bacon speaks, &c. de miraculis naturae et artis.

In three memorable instances he shewed his hatred of cruelty and injustice, and unmasked triumphantly ecclesiastical imposture and fanaticism.

The cast in the eyes, as well as a general resemblance of features, also of course greatly aided the imposture.

And it would bring the whole imposture into contempt.