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In an instant the horses dashed round; beast and rider, blinded and stifled by the gushing rain, and gasping for breath. Shelter was nowhere. The quivering beasts reared, and snorted, and sank upon their knees. The horsemen were dismounted. Vivian succeeded in hoodwinking Max, who was still furious: the other horse appeared nearly exhausted.

The evidence in rebuttal will knock you higher than Haman. I've just got hold of it I'll explain in the morning. It seems that your pretty client has been hoodwinking caro sposo for two years all the time looking like a Botticello angel, all pure soul and sublimated thought, dressed always in shades of gray pearl gray, Penn!" laughed Flagg; "a dove with the heart of a There's the bell!

Foreign spies stationed in our country saw no difficulty in completely hoodwinking so stupid a people; they never supposed that the majority of them have all been known to our Secret Service Department, and carefully watched, unknown to themselves.

Thus, if a painter has not tried hard to paint well and has tried hard to hoodwink the public, his offspring is not likely to show hereditary aptitude for painting, but is likely to have an improved power of hoodwinking the public. So it is with music, literature, science or anything else.

Sick and suffering, he did not cease, so long as life was in him, to warn the States-General of the dangers impending over them from the secret negotiations which their royal ally was doing his best to conceal from them, and as to which he had for a time succeeded so dexterously in hoodwinking their envoy himself.

Stalwart arms toss the black goat with accurate aim to an assistant priest, who passes on his clever "catch" to a third expert in the task of hoodwinking Siva and depriving him of his lawful prey.

When they meet an adversary like myself, one who is not to be bounced, it upsets them and they make blunder after blunder, while still believing that they are hoodwinking him like mad. Schoolboys, that's what they are!

If any one slipped in repeating he paid the forfeit. In some of their evening sports theatricals were in vogue. Ventriloquism also was attempted, in which, as they say, "voices spoke to them without bodies." They amused each other also by stories of hoodwinking and trickery, such as the following: A Samoan and a Tongan made friends with each other.

But she wished to defend him strenuously, and as a consequence she had to quit the self-imposed ideal of her daily acting, whereby the case being unwonted, very novel to her the lady's intelligence became confused through the process that quickened it; so sovereign a method of hoodwinking our bright selves is the acting of a part, however naturally it may come to us! and to this will each honest autobiographical member of the animated world bear witness.

He looked into such problems for himself, arriving at the truth, as it appeared to him, by the logic of events, often finding evil where he wished to find good, but never hoodwinking himself or his readers by adapting or distorting the reality of things to suit a preconceived idea. Maupassant was essentially a worshiper of the eternal feminine.

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