I knew that Ivan Manuiloff, who was now secretary to Stürmer, had begun his lucrative career as the agent and catspaw of Ratchkovsky in Paris.
Manuiloff, the catspaw of both Stürmer and Rasputin, and who was well paid to do any dirty work allotted to him, did not quite understand.
General Kouropatkine and Boris Stürmer both trusted in my silence, while the rascal monk had found in me a catspaw who had remained dumb.
Yet I remembered that I was the catspaw of Kouropatkine and of Stürmer, either of whom could easily order my release.
Abdul Hamid was not the man to let himself long be the catspaw of Russia, and now invited the Powers to name one or two candidates for the throne of Bulgaria.
But one hope after another faded away, and in his last days he must have come to see that he had been merely the catspaw of the Russian bear.
Pilate's irritation was due, as he explained, to the fact that the Jews were ever intriguing to make him, and through him Rome, the catspaw in the matter of their religious dissensions.
Whereas before he had been disinclined to execute because he would not be made a catspaw to Hanan, he was now disinclined to execute because of regard for the fisherman.
The fisherman counts for nothing; but I shall be no catspaw to their schemes.
Eyjolf jumped up in wrath, and said that no man had any right to think that he could make a catspaw of him, or drag him on if he had no mind to go himself.
He had found men who, in a gentlemen's club to which he had come as a guest, sought to use him as a catspaw and murderer.
I was meant to be your catspaw to put Wilfred Horton out of your way.
He had tried to make James a catspaw in revenging himself on Spain, and he had to take the consequences.
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I was now standing up and watching a catspaw of wind that was running down one of the ridges opposite, turning the light green to dark as it travelled.
Mr. Catspaw listened with a smile of mingled fear and contempt; and when Viola ceased speaking, he asked for permission to put a few questions to the prisoner.
Mr. Catspaw understood the feelings of his patroness.
Mr. Catspaw won't write another sentence to please you.
Mr. Catspaw and the servants hastened to the cell.
Mr. Catspaw had some difficulty to conceal the joy he felt at the effect of his words.
Peti listened with deep anxiety, and his features expressed the greatest despair when she told him that Mr. Catspaw had taken the robber with him to Garatsh.
Mr. Catspaw said so, for he shook his head when I was brought to him; and how was it possible for a weak man like me to kill a strong man like Mr. Catspaw?
Mr. Catspaw knew it would, and, knowing this, he had prudently timed his visit so as not to meet Mr. Tengelyi.
What better catspaw could be selected by Mr. Pitt than this artless apostle in whom was no taint of guile?
The conspirators were making a catspaw of her niece, who hovered between two duties--the one to her Protestant father, the other to her crushed co-religionists.
He was thecatspaw of that half-dozen astute Ministers who terrorised the Emperor and his Court, and by so doing feathered their own nests.
And as the catspaw was beyond the frontier, and the crime a political one, its perpetrator was immune from arrest.
As the catspaw of Markoff, it was not likely that he would tell me the truth.
You sent your own wife to her grave, and you paid your catspaw to kill the Grand Duke Nicholas.
Markoff knows what an astute official he is, and would therefore strive to keep him apart from his catspaw Danilovitch.
Russia was still being betrayed by the Empress, who had fallen so entirely beneath the occult influences of the rascal who, in turn, had become the catspaw of the Kaiser.
Therefore His Majesty could do nothing else than allow the officer to divorce his wife, who, truth to tell, was the catspaw of the poisoner Rasputin, who held her in his grip.
Why have you brought me here, do you want to use me as a catspaw again?
Both horses came well out of their gallops with Catspaw and Bellringer, and the local touts were much impressed with them.
It was not long before two sterling good horses, Catspaw and Bellringer, four and five years old respectively, were purchased to lead the Australians in their work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "catspaw" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
