play false

Example Sentences

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It is as if the eye should conspire to cheat the hand, or the one hand play false to the other.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

"Well, they would not dare to play false."

From Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece by Hemyng, Bracebridge

Now, in return, I make one request of you, that is that you all do as you have agreed to; don’t play false one with the other.

From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by Edmonds, S. Emma E.

Secretly already she was beginning to play false with fate, and, in flat repudiation of her last night's compact, to indulge the hope that her soldier had not been even wounded.

From An Echo Of Antietam 1898 by Bellamy, Edward

Mr. Ellsworth, his scoutmaster, had once said that it is always bad to play false.

From Tom Slade at Temple Camp by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese