1 Being what he was, Rhett would naturally want to torment and insult her as much as possible to pay her back for past slights and for her recent attempted trickery.
2 Honesty and courtesy in business are preferable to boorishness and exposed trickery, but this is not to be taken personally, since all persons in Gopher Prairie are known to be honest and courteous.
3 He was cruel enough to inflict the severest punishment, artful enough to descend to the lowest trickery, and obdurate enough to be insensible to the voice of a reproving conscience.
4 his death is attributed to trickery.
5 "Making profit by dishonest means, by trickery," said Levin, conscious that he could not draw a distinct line between honesty and dishonesty.
6 Now he could only remember that there was some sort of trickery in it, but he was too bored to think what it was exactly.
7 Look at the table too, and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery.
8 I am absolutely certain there was no trickery.
9 But the important point is that there was trickery connected with the legacy, and shameful trickery at that.
10 Lanfrey, a Republican, says it was based on his trickery and deception of the people.
11 He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN... 12 Meantime, new thoughts came to the nation: the inevitable period of moral retrogression and political trickery that ever follows in the wake of war overtook us.