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subterfuge
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  • I'm not new to the ways of subterfuge and secrecy, you know.†   (source)
  • You re involved now, more's the pity, so the time for lies and subterfuge is past.†   (source)
  • His first instinct was to pretend he was still sleeping—he was exhausted, after all, and could have used more time undisturbed in bed— but the thought of her lying there and feeling alone was not a pleasant one, and besides she might have noticed the subterfuge.†   (source)
  • I knew only I was as powerfully drawn to him as before; and to some extent the words I spoke now were a subterfuge.†   (source)
  • Robert Frost PREFACE ALL OUR ATTEMPTS AT SUBTERFUGE HAD BEEN IN VAIN.†   (source)
  • His subterfuge skills were almost as refined as Otis's.†   (source)
  • The woods, Miguel, and love were lost in the deep well of her terror and she resigned herself to facing her fate without subterfuge.†   (source)
  • But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.†   (source)
  • Despite his subterfuge, Arya appeared unconvinced.†   (source)
  • But he was remembering the words of the legend: "The Lisan al-Gaib shall see through all subterfuge."†   (source)
  • The subterfuges people have used to get their parents here—wow, pretty ingenious.†   (source)
  • But I don't bother with any subterfuge—no sunglasses, no cap.†   (source)
  • That is to say, there is no subterfuge implied in such an action, and I for one had no intention of overhearing to the extent I did that evening.†   (source)
  • The subterfuge made him feel bad, knowing what was to come and how the trust he'd built with the horse would now have to be broken before it could be restored.†   (source)
  • McDonald's had used subterfuge not only to find out who'd distributed the leaflets, but also to learn how Morris and Steel planned to defend themselves in court.†   (source)
  • You are shocked that I have proposed a subterfuge.†   (source)
  • No such subterfuge was possible for Stannis.†   (source)
  • It's harmless subterfuge to allow me some much needed rest.†   (source)
  • Subterfuge is much easier.†   (source)
  • Why the subterfuge?†   (source)
  • I was concerned about all this subterfuge.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, with all of Booth's subterfuge, it is not surprising that their lovers' getaway to Newport is turning into a fiasco.†   (source)
  • Inside the building, however, all subterfuge ended.†   (source)
  • What fine handiwork of subterfuge did you create in order that your skin might be saved while the others went up in smoke?†   (source)
  • No subterfuge was necessary: immediately after eating, Raymond had gone back to his study.†   (source)
  • Any poor subterfuge'll do; and welcome to 'em.†   (source)
  • He did not even understand the meaning of the subterfuge.†   (source)
  • As long as Murtagh doesn't get too close, he'll never discover our subterfuge.†   (source)
  • As she conversed with her girl friends every afternoon when they came to embroider on the porch, she tried to think of new subterfuges.†   (source)
  • It was a subterfuge of necessity.†   (source)
  • I didn't mind the subterfuge.†   (source)
  • Faithful to the wishes of Jose Arcadio Segundo, who had forbidden anyone to come in unless there was a clear indication that he had died, Santa Sofia de la Piedad tried all kinds of subterfuges to throw Ursula off the track.†   (source)
  • I think of subterfuges: examining his shirts for perfume, tailing him along the street, hiding in the closet and jumping out, red-hot with discovery.†   (source)
  • But I thought of the Seeker's skeptical face, her bulging eyes bright with suspicion, and knew my inept attempts at subterfuge would fail.†   (source)
  • 'We've been through too much together for such a third-rate subterfuge — I'd never get away with it with you.†   (source)
  • Now I say there is a grinning, there is a subterfuge.†   (source)
  • He had been sitting there for only a few minutes, ferreting about in his mind for some subterfuge, some invulnerable excuse that would prevent his accompanying bis father, when the sound of running feet reached him.†   (source)
  • This was difficult, for Scarlett had not a subtle bone in her body; and Gerald was so much like her he never failed to penetrate her weak subterfuges, even as she penetrated his.†   (source)
  • Thus and thus only the Christian could face the problem squarely and, scorning subterfuge, pierce to the heart of the supreme issue, the essential choice.†   (source)
  • But the harassed and unfeeling teachers assured each other that this was just a subterfuge for a child to get out of the classroom for a little while.†   (source)
  • One hundred and fifty women of the castle, and Scandlach their leader at the head of them, "reduced themselves critically to nature's garb, and without subterfuge of any kind trooped out to meet him.†   (source)
  • She must have taken it almost from under her father's nose (it was a small store and he was his own clerk and from any point in it he could see any other point) with that amoral boldness, that affinity for brigandage of women, but more likely, or so I would like to think, by some subterfuge of such bald and desperate transparence concocted by innocence that its very simplicity fooled him.†   (source)
  • And yet the very fact that Shakespeare had to use these subterfuges shows how widely his thoughts ranged.†   (source)
  • This subterfuge would be assisted by the fact of his staying at Corbin castle, instead of at the actual place of the tournament.†   (source)
  • I remembered Mrs Van Hopper's warning of the night before about putting myself forward and was embarrassed that he might think my talk of Monaco was a subterfuge to win a lift.†   (source)
  • She'd have to put ruffles in her bosom to make them look larger and she had always had contempt for girls who resorted to such subterfuges.†   (source)
  • Why do you force me to idiotic subterfuges?" he exclaimed with sudden warmth.†   (source)
  • Is the subterfuge good enough, Machiavelli?†   (source)
  • The prosecutor positively smiled at the "innocence of this subterfuge."†   (source)
  • We all began to think Mr. Wopsle full of subterfuge.†   (source)
  • I like a straightforward course, and am always reluctant to resort to subterfuges.†   (source)
  • And, after all, there was no need to fall back on Silas Wegg's subterfuge.†   (source)
  • Driven to subterfuge, she stammered— "Your father is a parson, and your mother wouldn' like you to marry such as me.†   (source)
  • He cared little that he was in mortal sin, that his life had grown to be a tissue of subterfuge and falsehood.†   (source)
  • The circumstances in which he had lived during the last two years had taught him several things about the life of the very poor, which it amused them to find he knew; and they were impressed because he was not deceived by their little subterfuges.†   (source)
  • And now, also without so many of the former phases or attempts at subterfuge, which had previously characterized her curiosity in regard to him, she was at times openly seeking him out and making opportunities for social contact.†   (source)
  • She attempted by a subterfuge, if not to eliminate altogether their commercial banality, at least to minimise it, to substitute for the bulk of it what was art still, to introduce, as it might be, several 'thicknesses' of art; instead of photographs of Chartres Cathedral, of the Fountains of Saint-Cloud, or of Vesuvius she would inquire of Swann whether some great painter had not made pictures of them, and preferred to give me photographs of 'Chartres Cathedral' after Corot, of the 'Fountains of Saint-Cloud' after Hubert Robert, and of 'Vesuvius' after Turner, which were a stage higher in the scale of art.†   (source)
  • And suddenly, in the space of two minutes she achieved her victory and justified herself to herself without lie or subterfuge, cut the cord forever.†   (source)
  • I admit that our meeting as strangers prevented a sense of relationship, and that it was a sort of subterfuge to avail myself of it.†   (source)
  • He endeavored to laugh her off, and then tried subterfuge, and lastly he cast off his mask and let her see his naked soul.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the mask was off now; he was wholly sure of what he had only feared; subterfuge and blindness were in vain; and now he could be a man.†   (source)
  • Where was the soul that had hung back from her destiny, to brood alone upon the shame of her wounds and in her house of squalor and subterfuge to queen it in faded cerements and in wreaths that withered at the touch?†   (source)
  • Again, knowing that, unless some hitherto unforeseen aid should eventuate, he was heading straight toward a disaster which could not much longer be obviated, he even allowed himself to dream that, once the fatal hour was at hand and Roberta, no longer to be put off by any form of subterfuge, was about to expose him, he might even flatly deny that he had ever held any such relationship with her as then she would be charging—rather that at all times his relationship with her had been that of a department manager to employee—no more.†   (source)
  • Maggie felt her heart leap at this subterfuge of Philip's, and there passed over her face that almost imperceptible shock which accompanies any relief.†   (source)
  • And I'd got to dance with the other Miss Gunn," said Godfrey, glad of the subterfuge his uncle had suggested to him.†   (source)
  • Chicanery, subterfuge, had hardly a place in the streets of this honest borough to all appearance; and it was said that the lawyers in the Court House hard by occasionally threw in strong arguments for the other side out of pure generosity (though apparently by mischance) when advancing their own.†   (source)
  • Perceiving that no respite, nor reprieve, nor subterfuge was possible, he bravely decided upon his course of action; he wound his right foot round his left leg, raised himself on his left foot, and stretched out his arm: but at the moment when his hand touched the manikin, his body, which was now supported upon one leg only, wavered on the stool which had but three; he made an involuntary effort to support himself by the manikin, lost his balance, and fell heavily to the ground, deafened by the fatal vibration of the thousand bells of the manikin, which, yielding to the impulse imparted by his hand, described first a rotary motion, and then swayed majestically between the two posts.†   (source)
  • "Excuse my little subterfuge," said the countess, in reply to her companion's half-reproachful observation on the subject; "but that horrid man had made me feel quite uncomfortable, and I longed to be alone, that I might compose my startled mind."†   (source)
  • Just now he appeared disburdened of pain, but Ralph could not rid himself of a suspicion that this was a subterfuge of the enemy, who was waiting to take him off his guard.†   (source)
  • "Well, let it be three weeks then," said Morcerf; "but remember, at the expiration of that time no delay or subterfuge will justify you in"— "M. Albert de Morcerf," said Beauchamp, rising in his turn, "I cannot throw you out of window for three weeks—that is to say, for twenty-four days to come—nor have you any right to split my skull open till that time has elapsed.†   (source)
  • Ivan said this in a perfect fury, giving him to understand with obvious intention that he scorned any subterfuge or indirectness and meant to show his cards.†   (source)
  • The Lacedaemonians, to gratify their allies, and yet preserve the semblance of an adherence to their ancient institutions, had recourse to the flimsy subterfuge of investing Lysander with the real power of admiral, under the nominal title of vice-admiral.†   (source)
  • Now stern Aeneas his weighty spear Against his foe, and thus upbraids his fear: "What farther subterfuge can Turnus find?†   (source)
  • And thus I'd have a subterfuge on demand With which my conscience might muddle through In swearing to things that I knew weren't true.†   (source)
  • Thou didst address thyself to my simplicity, thou didst lay siege to my virtue, thou wert not ignorant of my station, well dost thou know how I yielded wholly to thy will; there is no ground or reason for thee to plead deception, and if it be so, as it is, and if thou art a Christian as thou art a gentleman, why dost thou by such subterfuges put off making me as happy at last as thou didst at first?†   (source)
  • It availed me nothing with those charged with our sad expatriation to protest this, nor would my uncles believe it; on the contrary, they treated it as an untruth and a subterfuge set up to enable me to remain behind in the land of my birth; and so, more by force than of my own will, they took me with them.†   (source)
  • To secure the full effect of so fundamental a provision against all evasion and subterfuge, it is necessary that its construction should be committed to that tribunal which, having no local attachments, will be likely to be impartial between the different States and their citizens, and which, owing its official existence to the Union, will never be likely to feel any bias inauspicious to the principles on which it is founded.†   (source)
  • Señor Sancho Panza must know that we too have enchanters here that are well disposed to us, and tell us what goes on in the world, plainly and distinctly, without subterfuge or deception; and believe me, Sancho, that agile country lass was and is Dulcinea del Toboso, who is as much enchanted as the mother that bore her; and when we least expect it, we shall see her in her own proper form, and then Sancho will be disabused of the error he is under at present.†   (source)
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