If bychicane thou fleddest, by chicane Win back thy blotted footprints.
One of the primal instincts of Cowperwood's nature--for all his chicane and subtlety--was to take no rough advantage of a beaten enemy.
In Philadelphia, when he wanted public-franchise control, he sought privily and by chicane to arrange his affairs with a venal city treasurer.
Fine compound of tact and chicane that he was, he had the effrontery to assure her that they could here create a happier social life.
Chicane (one hand void of trumps) is equal in value to simple honors, i.
Double chicane (both hands void of trumps) is equal in value to four honors, and that value must be deducted from the honor score of the adversaries.
His position was undisputed, for the Street believed with the world in the magnitude of that fortune, though there were shrewd operators who said that Mavick had more chicanebut not a tenth part of the ability of Rodney Henderson.
Suffrage once given, cannot be suppressed or denied, perverted by chicane or bribery without incalculable damage to the whole political body.
But the present extravagant proposition can only lead to chicane and quarrels.
The attempts of the Spanish party by chicaneor by force to get possession of the coveted territories continued year after year, and were steadily thwarted by the watchfulness of the States under guidance of Barneveld.
The war of chicane was even more deadly than an actual campaign, for when there was no positive fighting the whole world seemed against the Republic.
Now, enough of your chicane of prudent pauses, Sage provisos, sub-intents and saving-clauses!
This, among other things, proves that all requisite power will still remain in the hands of the people, and any insinuation to the contrary, must be a mere chicane to blind the judgments of the misinformed.
By legal chicane and intimidation of juries he, in defiance of the king's plighted word, confiscated a great part of the land of Connaught.
By legal chicane, the chicane of an alien law, many an Irish Naboth may have been dispossessed.
And she was happiest when she had superimposed chicane upon chicanein complex folds.
She foresaw nearly endless trouble and altercation and chicane before she could achieve her end.
From reading of history he learned that chicane and force had been utilized as the roads to power, of which fact he found ample demonstration in the histories of England and Russia.
He proved himself a true adept by using chicane and force to achieve German unity, after the theorists had failed.
Double Chicane (a player and his partner both void of trumps) is equal in value to four honours, and the value thereof may be deducted from the total honour score of the adversaries.
Chicane (one hand void of trumps) is equal in value to three honours, i.
Chicane scores honours he adds the value of three honours to his honour score, while, if the adversaries score honours, it deducts an equal value from their honour score.
Having exhausted the arts of flattery and chicane to induce the Rajah to relinquish his throne in favor of a fawning creature of its own, it fastened a quarrel upon him in respect to certain revenues arising under the treaty of 1817.
First of all he complained that 'a spirit of business speculation, which has always more of cunning and chicane than of truth and righteousness in it,' was finding its way into the hearts of the people.
If an erroneous score affecting honours, chicane or slam be proven, such mistake may be corrected at any time before the score of the rubber has been made up and agreed upon.
A game consists of thirty points obtained by tricks alone, exclusive of any points counted for honours, chicane or slam.
The value of Chicane is in no way affected by any doubling or re-doubling that may take place under Laws 53 to 56.
