equivoque
Example Sentences
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Over this equivoque Dobbin shook a baffled head; and Lucinda laughed, glanced carelessly toward the stage to make sure that the act still was young, and offered to rise.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance
He never declared what he knew, though she could not but guess it; did not betray her to the others; seemed to enjoy the equivoque, content to wait.
From The Forest Lovers by Maurice Henry Hewlett
My dear mother's countenance fell, and I could hardly pursue my wicked equivoque any further.
From Satanstoe by James Fenimore Cooper
A tide is always said to run,—but I thought of the tide without attending to the equivoque, which must be altered.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
I tell thee, that if thou intendest an equivoque, the Greek word whereby thou affirmest that Croesus should overthrow a great empire, was ill-chosen; and that it could signify nothing but Croesus conquering Cyrus.
From Thaumaturgia by An Oxonian
