A most ingenious hoax was the "completion" of the Petronius fragment by a scholar able to hoodwink his learned contemporaries by an exhibition of Petronian literary style and a fertile imagination.
Come to examine it, that excuse had been far too clumsy to hoodwink any but a man bewitched by beauty in distress.
I didn't imagine you really meant to wait for me," he parried with double meaning, both to humour De Morbihan and hoodwink the attendant.
We had only to hoodwink the Turkish doctors into recommending our transfer to get everything that Kiazim required, and he would then come with us joyously, of his own free will, instead of nervously and under orders.
The Spook warned him that it would be much harder to hoodwink the Constantinople doctors than it had been to deceive the local men.
Ibraham Pacha's attempt to hoodwink the British, and to land these troops at Patras, was foiled by the vigilance and determination of the English admiral.
But to hoodwink suspicion he must be advised to avoid too abrupt a pardon, such as should set the tongues of busybodies clacking.
It looked like the effort of an anguished soul to fly from memory and hoodwink remorse.
Then, on second thoughts, “Anyhow, I don’t want to hoodwink them.
They delude themselves, it’s true, and they delude themselves at every moment; but one doesn’t hoodwink them.
Well, your interest as well as your duty is to work for them, first of all because they think as you do, and also because you don’t hoodwink the good Fathers, while one does hoodwink fools.
So feeble men hoodwink conscience by conniving at evils which they dare not perpetrate, and then enjoying their fruits, and saying, 'Thou canst not say I did it.
A great many of us try to hoodwink God, and it does not answer.
The one way to hoodwink old Fraser is to humbug him about the great work on Thibet.
He has the friendly entree, and can hoodwink the attendants of the garden, while your own ingenuity will enable you to have stolen interviews in the splendid rambles of the 'Banker's Folly.
It was the only way to hoodwink useless public gossip.
I need his evidence to hoodwink this old cask of grog, Abercromby.
His Excellency evidently wants to hoodwink all the gossips here, and, above all, to blind old Johnstone.
I will hoodwink him, and every British Consul in the continental towns which he visits will secretly watch him for me.
Rather let each side hoodwink judge and jury as best it can, and let truth flash out from collision of defence and accusation.
You soon get wise to the way that people think who make them; and then you'll find they all think alike and all try to hoodwink you along the same lines.
We are all prone to put the best face possible upon such a matter, but Brendon lived too much with hard facts to hoodwink himself on that or any other subject.
He will be flattered, and by seeming to take him into my confidence, I can hoodwink the excellent man to my heart's content, for he annoys me by his odd way of mounting guard over me at all times.
He shall not know that; I can hoodwink him easily, and serve my purpose also.
In short, if you'd kindle The spark of a swindle, Lure simpletons into your clutches, Or hoodwink a debtor, You cannot do better Than trot out a Duke or a Duchess!
He published it under the name of 'John Parver,' so as to hoodwink his father, but now that he has scored a success I have no doubt he will confess.
But the pair managed to hoodwink the world as to their real feelings to one another, and it was only when the trial of Mrs. Larcher came on that the truth was revealed.
Invent some new lie to deceive the curious, and hoodwink our decent friends.
We will bind and hoodwink him so that he shall suppose no other but that he is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries when we bring him to our own tents.
Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to Shall hoodwink this mischance; therefore speak softly.
You will be wise to put me in a place where I cannot hoodwink you further.
How long do you, with all your cleverness, expect to hoodwink him into the belief that you are the princess?
I suppose if they had had an endowed Church with some considerable prizes, they would have found means to hoodwink the public.
Thus, if a painter has not tried hard to paint well and has tried hard to hoodwink the public, his offspring is not likely to show hereditary aptitude for painting, but is likely to have an improved power of hoodwinking the public.
When a woman of brains sets out to hoodwink a man, he usually gets what he deserves, even though he be an absolute king.
She may be playing a deep game," said Gillett, in a tone which indicated that although an attempt might be made to hoodwink them, it was not likely to prove successful.
He had not conceived the possibility of Miss Maynard having taken fright and disappeared from the town, because he deemed it impossible that she could have known that he was aware how she had tried to hoodwink the police.
