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Updated: June 15, 2025
Somebody is tricking us; and while we are going one way they'll run a cargo in another direction." The men dared not murmur, but they grumbled in silence. "Give up your arms again, my men," said the lieutenant, "and we'll be watchful where we are. I'm tired of being tricked." The men were unwillingly giving up their weapons when, as Billy Waters put it, the wind veered round again.
Luzio, who also returns, counsels the people with stinging bitterness to pay no heed to the woman's fury; he points out that she is only tricking them, as she has already tricked him for he still believes in her shameless infidelity.
Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent, when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favourably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life, to alleviate the sense of them.
Miss Calhoun and fate brought me into Edelweiss, but my loyalty to the object espoused by our glorious little army has never wavered. Without me they have succeeded in tricking and trapping Gabriel. It is more than the great army of Graustark could do. Your highness will pardon the boast under the circumstances?"
Not even when Haydon told him that his acceptance of Harlan had been forced by circumstances, and that he was tricking Harlan into a state of fancied security in which he could the more easily bring confusion upon him did Deveny agree. "You're a damned fool, Haydon!" he told the other, his face black with passion. "That guy is slick as greased lightning and faster.
Tom quickly ran over the chain of events, beginning with his abduction on Mars to their appearance on the ship, including the part Barret had played in tricking Roger and Astro into taking the scout. As he spoke, Connel looked more and more amazed, and when Tom finally uttered the name of the man he thought was responsible for all the sabotage, Connel jumped out of his chair.
"No I don't know I think you're tricking me. This isn't the way we came. It doesn't look to me like a road at all I think you're going over the open country. I " The girl paused. It was disheartening to go through so much and then to fail at last. She peered ahead into the dim light, trying to see what lay beyond the bright lights of the car. It did look like open country.
There stood Biddy, as quiet as a mouse, though her heart was beating fast, till, after one or two whispered directions 'That isn't quite straight, 'Put the chairs by the fire, Celestina, and so on came Rough's voice 'Now, Biddy. Open your eyes. And 'open her eyes' she did, though she half shut them again the next minute, and then had to rub them to make sure they were not tricking her.
She not only decides, she thinks; she is the active principle; 'tis mine to submit. A certain presumption was in that girl always. Ha! do you hear me? Her letter may sting, it shall not dupe. Strangers? Poor fool! You see plainly she was nailed down to write the thing. This letter is a flat lie. She can lie Oh! born to the art! born to it! lies like a Saint tricking Satan!
He was thrusting my long sickness back upon me, inveigling me into again pursuing Truth and snatching her veils away from her, tricking me into looking reality stark in the face. But this came on gradually. My thoughts were growing harsh again, though they grew harsh slowly. Sometimes warning thoughts crossed my mind. Where was this steady drinking leading?
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