The songs which I held so high before, sounded toneless and weak, unworthy the feeblest learner; and yet, befooled by a vain presumption, I burned to outvie you all.
Concerning the hydromancy through which Numa was befooledby certain images of demons seen in the water.
One, Befooled by Djabal, even as yourselves, But who hath voluntarily proposed To expiate, by confessing thus, the fault Of having trusted him.
The best that can be said of them is, that they are befooled by their own fancies, and the victims of distempered brains and ill habits of body.
King Ninus had befooled the Arabian Prince, persuading him that the people rose in an unjust cause, till Boabdul harkened and was wroth because of this shameful thing, swearing to give his blood, if need be, in behalf of a brother king.
This Dagas was the same whom her wits befooled in the foot-hills of Hindu-Kush, when she claimed a sisterhood to Oxyartes and sent the Bactrian seeking for an army of phantom warriors.
Now the King bad commanded no such thing, yet, recalling how the Syrian's wits hadbefooled him in the halls at Nineveh, he took council with himself lest it chance again.
Burnbrae was afterwards amazed at the duplicity of Drumtochty, which compassed him with lies and befooled him on every hand, in his local efforts to restock his farm.
When Jamie "slippit awa" and the kirkyard met to pass judgment, it was agreed that he had been a thorough-going imposter and had quite befooled the outer world, but that he had never taken in the Glen.
So great was the error that of old befooled the minds of men.
Then he befooled himself further by thinking himself wise.
Yet men have often been befooled in their leaders.
As Ixtli truly said, such discovery would end in the paba's being slain by his befooled people.
Again did Waldo vow that his eyes had not befooled him.
The dwellers in it were in number great, Till stupid Casalodi[566] was befooled And victimised by Pinamonte's cheat.
Casalodi: Some time in the second half of the thirteenth century Alberto Casalodi was befooled out of the lordship of Mantua by Pinamonte Buonacolsi.
Here the adventurers were inflamed by golden stories of Montezuma,--a myth which befooled Cortez no more egregiously than it has befooled some modern historians, who seem unable to discriminate between what Cortez heard and what he found.
And what was I to tell him,--that I was all befooled and befuddled?
Otherwise it gives no "power"--the clause is mere waste paper, and flouts in the face of a befooled legislature.
Otherwise it gives no "power"--the clause is mere waste paper, and flouts in the face of a mocked and befooled legislature.
Many curses were heaped on the churl who had befooled them, but they could not find him when the went after him to chastise him.
Much laughter was occasioned by this failure of Thorir to take Grettir when he was in his own neighbourhood, and by his being so deceived and befooled by Grettir when he had him in his power.
We had befooled Louis into a betrayal of his associates but how much reliance could be placed on that betrayal?
The villain who had befooled me in the gorge and eluded me in the forest, and now tormented Frances Sutherland, winced under my watchfulness.
These are not the class of men to allow themselves to be befooled with opium.
Thus the benevolent British public is befooled by these ridiculous stories about opium.
At last he had arrived at the uttermost limit of the deference a sane man might pay to other people's folly; nay, rather, he had transgressed it; he had been befooled on a gigantic scale.
What befooled me was to think of it as my property!
An open life, an open hand, open upward, is the pipe line of communication between the heart of God and this poorbefooled old world.
Aye for men's sake: poor befooled men's sake who are being kept out and away because God cannot get at them through us!
But he has become infatuated with his captor, and is befooled regarding his condition.
There was a much fuller working of God's plan for His poor befooled world.
He frequently assumes the form of a simpleton befooled by his short-sighted cunning.
