King Ninus marked her coming, yet gave no sign, for now he had a part to play, wherein he would befool the craftiest of women to whom the gods had given breath and brain.
Dagas knit his brows in troubled thought, then raised his eyes and asked: "What surety have I that thy words are the words of truth--that thy tidings be not a trick to befool mine ears?
Caesar hath wise discerned that all Who long have on these Islands made their home Are blinded by self-interest, which doth, As colored glass speaks lies unto the eye, Befool their judgment; which may honest be.
But in all truth the point were taken well, For Caesar, rumor saith, disdains the cup Which doth inebriate and thus befool The mind of him who at it tarries long.
I don't know where this false ideal comes from, unless it comes from the novels that befool and debauch almost every intelligence in some degree.
She set her teeth and drew her breath sharply through them when she thought how willingly she had let him befool her, and delude her about that memorandum of payments to Mrs. M.
So that in trifles, as in matters of state, the czarina shall befool Austria, and lead him by the nose.
I would bite out my tongue, and spit it in Hasse's face, sooner than go before him with a mouth full of flattering lies, to befool him with praise of that patchwork he has made, and calls AN OPERA!
He that believeth not this, doth prove it to others, by showing how grossly the devil canbefool him.
Excess of pleasure in any such vanity, doth very much corrupt and befool the mind.
Cunning words may befool many, but they befool not me---- Think not I know nothing of all that is passing in our land.
That such a woman should befool Fiesco and rejoice in her triumph is quite thinkable, but her qualities are those which usually go with a certain amount of discretion.
When thou with flattery canst cajole me, Till I self-satisfied shall be, When thou with pleasure canst befool me, Be that the last of days for me!
For will you not, in honor, to-morrow Befool poor Margery to her sorrow, And all the oaths of true love borrow?
I shall go to my grave now in the certainty that one-half the world is made to wheedle and befool the other half, and that every woman is born to treason as the sparks fly upward.
The master went to the safe, emptied it of its contents, crossed the hall to the bedroom, and closed the door softly behind him, Jones having entered the same room through another door to befool any possible watcher.
She saw this man Paroff's hand; and here was the chance to befool and humiliate him and send him off packing to his cold and miserable country.
Hope of amendment there appears none on the side of the world; for to befool one's-self in relying upon princes, that is labour lost.
Suppose all your hoping and waiting should only befool you?
One thing more thou dost befool thyself with; and that is, in that thou in the first place sayest thou ownest the words in my book, and yet hath spent some four sheets of paper to vent thy thoughts against them.
How long will they allow him to remain there, and befool both bailiff and hangman?
You may be glad that your foolish juvenile betrothment is at an end; it now behoves you no longer to befool yourself with fancies.
They shall have a time, yea time enough hereafter to repent their folly, and to befool themselves, for turning their backs upon the Lord Jesus Christ.
In his keen subtlety and cunning he can outmatch the keenest of us; outwit and befool without doing any extra thinking.
They were so set against what He had to tell that the only way to get anything into them at all was so to veil its form as to befool them into thinking it truer.
Would you befool me, horrible creature, so that some mad deed shall hurl me down into the abyss?
Margaret's trial proceeded: sullen and despairing, she assented to the most monstrous counts: she knew there was no hope, and she seemed to take a bitter pride in suffering her tormentors to befool themselves to the utmost.
He thought to befool me with his ill-thought-out plans--me who learnt wisdom before he was born.
Ask questions without seeming to ask them, and ask them in such a way as to befool those you ask.
It will be good to befool them--and I will befool them.
You know how he tried to befool the mob, first by mocking Jesus as a harmless fool; and second by offering to release him according to the custom of releasing one prisoner at time of the Passover.
You that condemn the yearly observance of Christ's birth-day as heathenish, yet acknowledge this feast to be a constitution of the ancient primitive Church--Do you not befool and mislead the people?
He was of little use while his father and mother lived, for he cared to do naught else than to befool folk, and he was so full of tricks and pranks that no one was left in peace.
Oh, I was going out to see if I could befool anybody," said Peik.
