1
So he took the serpent for the workshop of his own guile.
2
There was no guile, no malevolence in the working of the city.
3
It was incapable of guile, and perhaps that gave him an advantage.
4
Blessed is the man in whose spirit there is no guile, Psal.
5
Between them they resolved to take the place by strategy and guile.
1
The result is teasingly brilliant and prefigures some of postmodernism's best trickery.
2
His trickery and pace on the flank caused Motherwell problems all game.
3
The speed humps and one-way systems added a new layer of trickery.
4
Beatrice studied the document, and in silence canvassed the possibilities of trickery.
5
This makes the cultivation of the love of trickery the more dangerous.
1
Every wile known to beauty had been employed in a hundred sieges.
2
He possessed a voice that could wile a bird off a bought.
3
You looked for wile, for cunning, for self-seeking,-andthey were not there.
4
Beware Edward's false smile, beware Clarence's fickle faith, beware Gloucester's inscrutable wile!
5
I suppose that he indulged in a flirtation to wile away the time.
1
The suit proceeded with all the languor and chicanery of the period.
2
It was six weeks of chicanery, drinking, prostitution, deal-making, vote-peddling, and corruption.
3
The organized workers not only distrust the politician but detest political chicanery.
4
Or would you say that subtlety, chicanery, trickery, were here at work?
5
Else why this double dealing, this deceit, this chicanery, these hollow professions?
1
That shenanigan was duly hit with a fine from the Federal Communications Commission.
2
Nor did they ever catch anybody else involved in the shenanigan.
3
The change to the euro will be difficult enough without such shenanigans.
4
Forget about the unholy shenanigans up in Omagh a few weeks ago.
5
Welch, however, sometimes goes a bit overboard with the shenanigans and mugging.
1
The new recruit in the army of business chicane nodded his head.
2
But the present extravagant proposition can only lead to chicane and quarrels.
3
You want a field for your remarkable talent for conspiracy and chicane.
4
Roebuck was the keystone of the arch that sustained the structure of chicane.
5
Coming out of the chicane the Frenchman overcooked it and crashed.
6
If capable of respect, he was evidently also capable of chicane.
7
Greed, chicane, hypocrisy, uselessness are the ruling laws of human society.
8
Laws are made to be kept, else we live in a house of chicane.
9
Indeed, he had a talent for chicane, and none knew it better than himself.
10
A revoking side cannot score, except for honors or chicane.
11
Under these conditions, can either side score "except for honors or chicane?"
12
The Italian lost control of his Alfa Romeo at the exit of the Fagnes chicane.
13
Give me but virtuous actions, and I will not quibble and chicane about the motives.
14
He despised the little agent of chicane too much.
15
The whole atmosphere of trade was mephitic with chicane.
16
Their procedure, like that of the seigneurial courts, was simple, free from chicane, and inexpensive.
