Tricks

Examples

• If she had been in great pain one would have excused it, but she only wanted to bring us all here: I know her naughty tricks. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• You are old enough to leave off boyish tricks, and to behave better, Josephine. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Speak up; none of your brimstone tricks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This is some of your tricks! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• No tricks, now, or-- Oh, you can trust me, you can trust me! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I don't know how scarce you mayn't make the wittles and drink here, by your flopping tricks and your unfeeling conduct. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I know your tricks and your manners, my friend! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You have been doing manly tricks again? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• What tricks Theodore and I used to play on our Miss Wilsons, and Mrs. Greys, and Madame Jouberts! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• His superior intelligence and cunning permitted him to invent a thousand diabolical tricks to add to the burdens of Tublat's life. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Well, it is better so; I am too old to learn new tricks, and, after forty years of Greek life, I cannot turn Englishman in one moment. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He threw out biting remarks on Lydgate's tricks, worthy only of a quack, to get himself a factitious reputation with credulous people. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Come, none of your tricks here, you young vagabond; they won't do. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Now, ye see, you'd better jest settle down comfortable, and not be tryin' no tricks; because nigger's tricks of all sorts I'm up to, and it's no use. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I know your tricks and your manners,' cried Miss Wren. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I know their tricks and their manners. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He uses it in some of his tricks according to her account. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• But what shall we think of a governor playing such pitiful tricks, and imposing so grossly upon a poor ignorant boy! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Mr. Wildeve must not suppose he can play tricks upon me, or any belonging to me. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And at other times they say, “Can it never be done without these tricks, Mr Riah? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Those proceedings resulted in the performance of the following extraordinary tricks. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Why does fate play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I think the young man's tricks and manners make a claim upon his friends for a little pepper? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Oh, my dear, all those fellows with their tricks and their manners do deceive! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I know their tricks and their manners! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We are ready for a familiar thing; it does not catch us napping, or play unexpected tricks with us. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• St. Clare took the same kind of amusement in the child that a man might in the tricks of a parrot or a pointer. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They whizzed out on to the terrace like a couple of skyrockets, wild to see the Indians exhibit their tricks. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I know his tricks and his manners. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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