cozenage
Example Sentences
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By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is not it a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter to-morrow?
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William
And when I deliver the Yale lectures to young ministers, I shall tell them that there is a blessed guile, a holy cozenage of the heart whereby they may win their people's souls by stealth.
From St. Cuthbert's by Knowles, Robert E.
David suspected this cozenage in himself, when he cries out, Oh!
From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James
Well, if he be in prison, I'll have warrants To 'tach my daughter till the law be tried, For I will sue him upon cozenage.
From The London Prodigal; "by William Shakespeare." as it was played by the King's Majesties servants. by Unknown
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