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Since he had allowed himself to be duped so easily or at least it had seemed easy to Linda; for, much as she knew of Eileen, she could not possibly know the weeks of secret plotting, the plans for unexpected meetings, the trumped-up business problems necessary to discuss, the deliberate flaunting of her physical charms before him, all of which had made his conquest extremely hard for Eileen, but Linda, seeing only results, had thought it contemptibly easy she would not ask John Gilman anything.
If they are Indians, he can easily deprive them of privileges, or even imprison them on trumped-up charges; if employees, he will force them to resign or apply for transfers; and even the missionaries may be compelled, directly or indirectly, to leave the reservation for protesting too openly against official wrongdoing.
Tracy had, unconsciously perhaps, clung to a shadowy hope that Arthur might repudiate his daughter and call it a trumped-up affair; but when she heard how joyfully he had acknowledged and claimed her, she lost all hope, and her face wore a sullen, defiant expression as she walked about the house and through the handsome rooms, the very furniture of which had nearly all been bought with Arthur's money, and consequently was not her own.
I was arrested out of the habeas corpus jurisdiction, without authority, and detained four months in gaol until the Crown could trump up a case against me. Have I not a right to complain that I should be consigned to a dungeon for life in consequence of a trumped-up case?
"Poison snakes assassination jail on trumped-up charges, and disease in jail apparent accidents of all sorts. It doesn't pay to know too much." "Then we're suspected of hunting for this treasure? Is that the idea?" "Not at all, since you've denied it. I believe you implicitly. But I hope your husband doesn't stumble on it." "Why?" "Or if he does, that he'll see his way clear to notify me first."
But that when he has never to this day demanded my punishment, either in the name of the city or in his own, for any public nor, I will add, for any private crime, he should have come here with a trumped-up charge against the grant of a crown and a vote of thanks, and should have spent so many words upon it that is a sign of personal enmity and jealousy and meanness, not of any good quality.
Her. We had better summon the parties, Justice. Just. True. Only look at the crowd, bustling and buzzing about the hilltop like a swarm of wasps! First Ath. I've got you, curse you. Second Ath. Pooh! a trumped-up charge. Third Ath. At last! you shall get your deserts this time. Fourth Ath. Your villany shall be unmasked. Fifth Ath. My jury first, Hermes. Sixth Ath.
"What was he doing out on the lake?" her father asked. "He got lost in the hills, and nearly died. He drifted down the Tasan River on a raft which he built. He was almost starved to death." "And what was he doing in the hills?" "Prospecting, so he told me. He was with Frontier Samson, and, going after a moose, lost his way." "H'm," Weston grunted. "A trumped-up yarn, no doubt.
She moistened her colorless lips before she spoke. "And where is the money coming from to do all this?" She had touched the weak spot in his attack, but he replied with assurance. "It will be ready when needed." "This is persecution a plot to ruin me on the trumped-up charges of irresponsible people."
On a trumped-up suit, and by an order of one of the Tweed judges, a receiver was appointed for the stock owned by foreign stockholders; and when any of it was presented for record in the transfer book of the Erie railroad, the receiver seized it. In this way Gould and Fisk secured practical possesssion of $6,000,000 of the $50,000,000 of stock held abroad.
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