"Subterfuge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... most happy," said the bird, not daring to betray her helpless condition, but anxious by any subterfuge to get the serpent to remove his fascinating regard, "but I am lost in contemplation of yonder green sunset, from which I am unable to look away for more than a minute. I shall turn to ...
— Cobwebs From an Empty Skull • Ambrose Bierce (AKA: Dod Grile)
... qualities to win material success did not hurt as did the knowledge that he was not too brave to lie, too proud to borrow from those he considered his social inferiors and with no notion of repaying the obligation, nor too honest to obtain money by any subterfuge ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... the still dusk of the winter gloaming, Thorne found himself compelled at last to look the situation in the face without disguise or subterfuge; to "take stock" of it all, as it were, and ask himself what should be the result. He had lingered in Virginia, lengthening his stay from week to week, because the old world quaintness of the people, the freshness ...
— Princess • Mary Greenway McClelland
... am incapable of such an unnecessary subterfuge! Besides, Kitty, I could not have made an accomplice of a ...
— A Cathedral Courtship • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... We must procure the key from the prelate by some subterfuge. Let us first possess our swords and armor, then we will get the key ...
— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt
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