I couldn't see him, but I felt his shoes as he wriggled away into the darkness above me, and I held my breath, I gripped the rope and kept it taut so that Leith and Soma might not discover the ruse.

The company commanders found him with rather a sharp edge to his temper, and Captain Conroy, to whom Riley and Brock had confided the secret of their plans, concluded the moment was not a happy one for explaining the ruse to the O.C. He, therefore, merely took his instructions for the detailing of a working party from his company, and the hour at which they were to commence.

If he had detected her ruse when she first had spoken to him, why had he not admitted it?

But, employing a ruse of the old feudal times, the last gasp of a troubled conscience, Bourbon, whilst promising allegiance to Henry VIII., persisted in refusing to do him homage.

[Note 7: Las Casas (Hist, de las Indias, tom, i., p. 102) relates that Caunaboa never forgave Columbus for his treatment of him, while he had, on the contrary, great respect for Hojeda, the latter's clever ruse, deftly executed, being precisely the kind of trickery he was able to appreciate and admire.

Waring's one chance was to wait until they had given up every ruse to draw his fire.

He journeyed up to Richmond, and, one day, laid these facts before Barney, who instantly saw his friend's dilemma, and at once set about inventing a ruse that should extricate him, without mortifying the kind people who had befriended him.

It was small comfort to tell herself that Onistah was a Blackfoot and knew every ruse of the woods.

When I planned my ruse of the afternoon, I knew perfectly that I should soon find myself in a strait-jacket.

"Sir," rejoined Vieilleville, "to fear that this master sheriff, whose name is Tallanges, might possibly do you a bad turn, is to wrongly estimate his own competence, who never put his nose anywhere but into a bar-parlor to drink himself drunk; and it is also to show distrust of the excellent means you have for preventing all the ruses and artifices that might be invented to throw your service into confusion."

My castle rushed by so shabby a ruse; my name a laughing-stock!

His question instantly suggested to me a ruse, and I replied in the affirmative.

In his own village I think Anazeh would laugh if I talked this ruse over with him afterwards.

" The door was unlocked and opened noiselessly, but I took no chances, thinking this possibly a ruse.

Félicité would invariably thwart their ruses and they held her in great respect.

And Cedric said to himself,"Aye, 'tis a ruse.

" Once outside, Mathieu resolved that he would try no ruses with her.

As the girls naturally hide themselves in their houses on this day, the boys disguise themselves as beggars, or use some other ruse to get them out.

When the real Lord Foppington arrives he is treated as an imposter, but Tom confesses the ruse.

" Roger here observed that the horse might grow restive at the carcase, and Mabel was excused the sight, though Walter continued to relate his exploits, and demand whether he had not won his spurs by so grand a ruse and victory.

When one's enemies are unknown, the feeling of apprehension is always much greater, for in the imagination danger lurks in every corner, and every action of a friend covers the ruse of a suspected enemy.

Le grand homme se rend avec joie à cette demande, et remercie l'auteur de la lettre de la bonne opinion qu'il a de lui; puis, saisi tout à coup de méfiance, il ajoute: j'espère cependant que votre demande n'est pas une ruse pour vous procurer mon autographe.

But once more the viduschaka devises a ruse which puts him in possession of the seal ring.