play false
Example Sentences
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And if you'd play false in one thing, you would in another.
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
Did I play false with you when I saved you from the spits of the Minimuls?
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
And so Captain Jones of the Mayflower was bribed by Dutch gold to play false with the band of Pilgrims.
From The Landing of the Pilgrims by Claire Turner Zyve
To release the eagle would be to play false to Shamash.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
"Oh!" he said, "do I behold aright, or do mine eyes play false?"
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
