His Juvenal is one of the best versions ever made of a classic author, and his satire of the Baviad and Mæviad squabashed at one blow a set of coxcombs who might have humbugged the world long enough.
The so-called Americo-Hispano-Latin races humbugged by Europe, will have found how cursed is any whatever European influence.
Those Congressional wiseacres proved how easily the West Point Engineers humbugged them.
He testified to having visited the prisoner's museum, and of being humbugged by the Feejee mermaid; the nurse of Washington; and by other curiosities, natural and unnatural.
We found that people would pay more money to be humbugged than to learn how some other person might be deluded!
I'm a respectable hard-working woman, as isn't going to be humbugged about any longer by your precious oily snake of a brother.
I'm not to be humbuggedby your cool as a cucumber business.
If the fact could be definitely determined, I think it would be discovered that in this "wide awake" country there are more persons humbugged by believing too little than too much.
Almost his last words were: "Won't Barnum open his eyes when he finds I have humbugged him by being buried in his new hunting-dress?
The humbugged old humbug finally "came down," and bought his man off by paying him several hundred dollars.
And the humbugged divine, with an indistinct sense of something wrong, but not able to tell what, took out forty dollars from his lean wallet and handed it to the clerk.
When he got into the water, lo and behold, the horse vanished, and the humbugged jockey found himself sitting up to his neck in the river on a straw saddle.
Between you and me, it's as clear as a whistle that Stephen Garth committed a murder, and humbugged the whole countryside into thinkin' he had killed himself.
For generations nearly all the pretensions to healing were made by the priests and magicians, who humbugged and "bamboozled" the ignorant and superstitious rabble to their hearts' content.
I saw chivalry and flags of truce in 1805; they humbugged us and wehumbugged them.
And the arch-deceiver who had humbugged them, they knew quite well, was Time.
Humbugged Maria with a lot of stuff--and gave her nothing--and didn't believe a single word she told him.
You see that the Deutch mensch (Dutchmen) cannot be humbugged so easily as you thought.
Now, I would sooner be what is vulgarly called humbugged half a dozen times, by some man relating to me a falsehood, after assuring me he was merely telling the truth, than I would once cast disbelief on a true statement.
I walked round the tree until both birds were nearly in a line, they meanwhile watching all my proceedings most carefully, and I have no doubt flattering themselves that they were not going to be humbugged by me.
Even the Turks could not long behumbugged in such a way.
What a fool I was to let myself be humbugged by the girl in that way!
I showed that it was all a mistake, you know--that I was humbugged by the mails, and all that sort of thing, you know.
I pity him for allowing himself to be humbugged by adventurers, and I shall never abandon his cause, for his cause is the burning question of the near future, and all your politics aren't worth a penny in comparison.
Yes, it looks like Jackson Bird has gone and humbugged you some.
Whatever is this you've humbugged us with, Dutchy?
He was afraid to come to me, because he knew he'd half humbugged me with his other story last night.
I'll not have the girl humbugged any longer, that's all.
Will the time ever come when the medical fraternity will awaken to the fact that it has been humbugged by a great many manufacturing concerns?
When this was discovered, a general laugh followed the exclamation from one of the victims, “Well, Barnum has humbugged us after all!
He testified to having visited the prisoner’s Museum, and of beinghumbugged by the Fejee Mermaid; the nurse of Washington; and by other curiosities, natural and unnatural.
Almost his last words were: “Won’t Barnum open his eyes when he finds I have humbugged him by being buried in his new hunting dress?
That we, whether sage or fool, are humbugged is undeniable.
We are humbugged just to the extent that we are ignorant.
I've been thinking as I come along, and after the first shock was over, wot cursed fools you and me was to be humbugged in this here affair.
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