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Example sentences for "impostors"

Lexicographically close words:
impost; imposter; imposters; imposthume; impostor; imposts; imposture; impostures; impotence; impotency
  1. There are, I know, many Impostors among them.

  2. Impostors in distant localities personated him, or claimed to be near relatives, and obtained favors, sometimes money, in his name.

  3. Thus, the Tartarus and Elysium of the heathen mythology, invented by impostors to awe and seduce mankind, have been transplanted into the system of the Christians, who have given them the new appellation of Heaven and Hell.

  4. Nations pay dearly for these important services, and these pious impostors live in splendour and ease, while real merit, labour, and industry languish in misery.

  5. Impostors alone can pronounce it necessary to discredit experience and reject reason.

  6. Almost all impostors who have fabricated religions, have announced incredibilities to mankind.

  7. And he gave both the impostors much money, so that they might begin their work.

  8. Emperor gave to the impostors the title of Court weavers to the Emperor.

  9. One day two impostors arrived who gave themselves out as weavers, and said that they knew how to manufacture the most beautiful cloth imaginable.

  10. The Emperor took off all his clothes, and the impostors placed themselves before him as if they were putting on each part of his new clothes which was ready, and the Emperor turned and bent himself in front of the mirror.

  11. Now the good old minister went into the hall where the two impostors sat working at the empty weaving-looms.

  12. Throughout the whole of the night before the morning on which the procession was to take place, the impostors were up and were working by the light of over sixteen candles.

  13. The impostors now wanted more money, more silk, and more gold to use in their weaving.

  14. Both the impostors begged him to be so kind as to step closer, and asked him if it were not a beautiful texture and lovely colours.

  15. By holding out this fallacious hope, the impostors deluded sometimes one description of men, and sometimes another, so that no means of resistance were provided against them, when they came to execute in cruelty what they had planned in fraud.

  16. Such impostors have their confederates or partners who join with them, and share in the profit, or in the humor.

  17. It would seem as though a host of ignorant impostors have leagued in hostility against the profession of medicine, wishing to despoil it of its dignity and usefulness, and prostrate its character in the dust.

  18. The senses were called impostors and material phenomena untrue images.

  19. Neither were they much mistaken, for they only judged of these impostors as they found them.

  20. Among those assembled, we cannot omit to mention a pretty numerous sprinkling of that class of strollers, vagabonds, and impostors with which the country, at the period of our tale, was overrun.

  21. When Philosophy announces that they are to be tried as impostors by herself, Virtue and Truth, they all disappear in wild rout.

  22. He wins a unanimous verdict for acquittal by his claim that he auctioned off, not the great philosophers who now prosecute him, but base impostors who imitate them.

  23. Yet how long were these impostors the only persons who attempted to write history!

  24. Impostors are easily detected; as Simnel was.

  25. SALLY By Dorothea Conyers, Author of 'Two Impostors and Tinker.

  26. The deaf themselves demand that such impostors be put out of business, for a real and cruel injury is done to them.

  27. The deaf themselves usually do what they can to prevent this, a certain number indeed going to considerable lengths in this direction, and not infrequently running such impostors down.

  28. Some of these impostors also profess to "charge the crystal" (i.

  29. One of the most celebrated of these impostors was a certain Count de Saint-Germain, who was connected with the court of Louis XV.

  30. These impostors were too well informed to omit any circumstance so advantageous for their designs.

  31. It is too important for these impostors that the people remain in this gross and culpable ignorance than to allow them to be disabused.

  32. To sustain the conjecture that it was to this Otho the Illustrious that this copy of the pamphlet of the Three Impostors was addressed.

  33. What then can we say of these prophets, but that they are impostors and liars?

  34. Scaldrum dodge~, a dodge in use among begging impostors of burning the body with a mixture of acids and gunpowder, so as to suit the hues and complexions of any accident to be deplored by a confiding public.

  35. There are impostors of this kind in higher walks of art.

  36. It is but fair to imagine that cheat ultimately became synonymous with "fraud," when we remember that it was one of the most common words of the greatest class of impostors in the country.

  37. The farmer, after giving the impostors a severe chastisement, let them depart to practise their humbug in some other quarter.

  38. Changing hotels to lead astray the agents of the impostors .

  39. Lapierre: As soon as I could walk a little I began my research for the impostors of the inheritance Tessier.


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