Tricked

Examples

• Yet the father must be garnished and tricked out, said the old lady, because of his deportment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The socialism of the Fabians soon became a definite legislative program which the various political parties were to be bulldozed, cajoled and tricked into enacting. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I must make him know that I will not be tricked on the south side of Everingham, any more than on the north: that I will be master of my own property. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The grotto was tricked out in the usual tasteless style observable in all the holy places of Palestine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as that which he had told me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Now we must steal our thoats and be well away to the north before these fellows discover how we have tricked them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I have tricked you! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I cannot descend to be tricked out of assurances, that are not really wanted. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.

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