chouse

Example Sentences

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Obviously, the bishop is a bidone, a small-time swindler, and the camera has just watched him chouse some country chumpkins.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rightly viewed, calf-butchering accounts for Titus Andronicus, the only play—ain’t it?—that the Stratford Shakespeare ever wrote; and yet it is the only one everybody tries to chouse him out of, the Baconians included.

From Is Shakespeare Dead? From my autobiography. by Twain, Mark

What was this your Contrivance, to abuse, trick, and chouse me of my Child!

From The Busie Body by Byrd, Jess

“As plain as a pike-staff,” said Bliss; “and you’re a little brick, Evson; and it’s a chouse if any one suspects Elgood any more.”

From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)

This done, under her unflagging supervision, the model was replaced; fourpence changed hands, and the glazier went his way, saying, as he made his exit:—"That was a chouse, mistress."

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend