Keen to anticipate some trickery, Lorry hardened himself to the other's condition.

Therefore, you can tell Mr. X that should this Government attempt any such trickery as he not unreasonably suspects, then his conditions will be met.

It is incredible what impudence these fellows will show, and what literary trickery they will venture to commit, as soon as they know they are safe under the shadow of anonymity.

To support their projects they advance logical arguments, elaborate half-truths, make emotional appeal; employ trickery, deceit, preferment, privilege, flattery, soft living, bribery, coercion, physical and social violenceindividual and collective extermination.

Michelangelo is said to have exposed the architect's trickeries to the Pope; what is more, he complained with just and bitter indignation of the wanton ruthlessness with which Bramante set about his work of destruction.

On shore Kazan was his master because of his swiftness, keener scent, and fighting trickery.

This pleased even the village women, whose minds could not follow the subtle trickeries of legal disputation.

Mine is a perpetual battle with people who imbibe trickery at the same rate as they dissolve their fortunes.

They had been used to mental trickery ever since they cut their first teeth, and were expert at combinazione; they had the illusion of serving their party, cheaply gained by a few compromises here and there!...

Here his quaint, merry little face, his ready laugh, and above all his willingness to perform any trickery that they suggested, made him a favourite among the boys at once.

Are you sure he's real?" On the subject of Art, the Bonnie Lassie is never anything but sincere and direct, however much she may play her trickeries with lesser interests, such as life and love and human fate.

But I suspected trickery of some sort in the transaction, because he proved himself so unprincipled with regard to the sister.