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 thou art grown expert in this sort of cozenage.
From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
The shrug, the nod, the hem—every motion of the eyes, hands, feet—every air and gesture, look and word—became an expressive, though disguised, language of fraud and cozenage, big with deceit and swollen with ruin.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Steinmetz, Andrew
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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