Florian’s mouth curled incredulity; why, these were just the same futile old games as ever, the well-known and innocent little conjuring dodges of the Bishops and the Stuart Cumberlands!
The bank stands always its regular chance to win, no matter what you do, and it dodges you exactly where you think you’ve dodged it.
Again DAVID dodges and runs to a sufficient distance to use his sling.
A most interesting account of the dodges adopted by various criminals in effecting their purposes.
This is no fanciful production, but a clear, dispassionate revelation of the dodges of the professional criminal.
Colonel Baden-Powell, who, alive to all the little dodges of his enemies, knowingly kept the Burgher messenger blindfolded while he formulated his reply.
Again, there are some tricks and dodges which are practised by even the most high-class cheats.
We have already seen how the bottom-dealer dodges it; and now we will look into one or two other systems, most of them equally simple, and all of them equally effective.
Countless are the dodges and devices resorted to with the object of controlling the chances or of removing them altogether.
The 'end-bridge' is a variety we shall have to touch upon later on, and other dodges for attaining the same end as this one will be described in the chapter on 'Prepared Cards.
But at the same time he's afraid that I may have a scent of him; and so he dodges about.
The dodges of women beat all comprehension; and I am sure she wouldn't let the lad off so easily, if she had not some other scheme on hand.
The hero steals the bananas she is roasting, dodges her anger, and restores her sight.
He learns spear throwing from Kanaloakuaana; at the test he dodges 3 times 40 spears at one time.
Those little strengthening dodges can be laid down in no books.
Thus the soldier telegraphist is up to manydodges whereby he can save time or save material, both of which may be precious.
There were other dodgesthat it is not wise to speak of just yet.
Many were the dodges used to gain entrance to the camp.
So I am prepared to bet, heavily, that you have gained the affections of the lady of your choice by means of those wonderfully deep diplomatic dodges of yours.
However, revenue officers must have all their seven senses wide awake to compass the artful dodges of determined smugglers.
But dodges with the white flag and other frauds continued to be practised by the Boers.
These tricks and dodges set aside, the Boers fought more pluckily than was their wont, and they, cheered on by their dauntless Commandant, De Villiers, came to such close quarters that Colonel Hamilton had recourse to his revolver.
Oh, no; my dodges to make him popular would not interest him one little bit.
Father put on one of his old poacher dodges that he had borrowed from the lapwing in his own country, that he used to tell us about when we were boys (our wild duck 'll do just the same), and made himself out a deal worse than he was.
All about riding came natural, but a heap of dodges about harness we never so much as heard of till they came to the country with the gold rush.
Mr. Chauncey that hedodges the Mormon maiden for the rest of the evening.
And here a head, and there a brow half seen, Dodges behind a rock.
Little dodges of this kind were harmless enough in themselves, and perhaps the fellow who paid five dollars a bottle for Catawba and soda was just as well off in the end as though he had drunk genuine Piper Heidsick.
Perhaps one of the most amusing dodges which Hogan originated, was his pulley-weight trick.
Sweden continued to supply almost everything and anything that Germany required, openly when possible, smuggled in by all manner of tricks and dodges should any difficulty of transport be likely to arise.
I tried and tested various simple and ingenious dodges to trap my tormentor, but everything proved in vain.
There is almost a Yankee ingenuity of design in many of the dodges thus registered for our inspection.
These are only a few selected examples of the infinite dodges employed by enlightened herbs and shrubs to propagate their scions in foreign parts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dodges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
