He then left her and joined his friends in the little room that was appropriated for drinking, where, with a great deal of mirth, he related the failure of the plan they had formed for outwitting Peter and Ellish.
It was then that the prompt ingenuity of the people was fully seen, felt, and understood by the baffled exciseman, who too often had just grounds for bitterly cursing their talent at outwitting him.
The outwitting of a woman who must in very truth be the devil's own daughter, so subtle, so appalling are the craft and cunning of her.
You are his only hope of outwitting a diabolical agency which has set out to get at the horse and put it out of commission before Derby Day, and in the most mysterious, the most inscrutable manner ever heard of, my dear chap.
But presently it becomes clear that the outwitting is on the other side.
At first there is a stimulus, and a weird sort of triumphant sense of outwitting Nature, in finding one's self able to read or to write by the sun's light till nearly midnight of the clock.
Himself born with a genius for plotting, the marshal took a keen zest in outwitting the plans of others, and in his view the cardinal's contrivance for safeguarding himself presented some interesting features.
The sight of it suddenly quickened his blood and suggested a plan for outwitting his assassins.
The man was quick, and held himself well in hand, and she felt a certain satisfaction in outwitting him, for it was clear that he had not suspected her of having any motive for jerking the cloth off.
I want to say, however, that when any more plans are made, any schemes hatched for outwitting our rivals, I shall appreciate being made acquainted with such plans before they are put into practice.
He looked for no difficulty, however, in outwitting his young opponent.
By this time every man of the crew was well aware that their young manager seldom was without some shrewd plan for outwitting his competitors, but these plans he ordinarily kept well to himself until he was ready to carry them out.
But Phil was a faster runner than any of them and in a few minutes, darting this way and that, and finally doubling on his tracks in a wide circle, he succeeded in outwitting them.
We have since then, going single-handed, occasionally succeeded in outwitting even the Grey Lag.
A more legitimate method of outwitting the Great Bustard is practised at this--the summer--period.
If Mascola was baiting the Russian to pull off some dirty work he'd---- Blagg paused in his tentative plans for outwitting Mascola as his eye fell on Neilson.
A plan had been formulated in the early morning hours for the outwitting of Mascola at El Diablo, a plan to which Dickie Lang had given her hearty approbation before it was sent to Howard over the radio.
Taking this mental attitude into consideration, Young decided that the best method of outwitting this particular sheep was to take him at his own valuation and proceed as a tenderfoot down the valley.
But what is of greater interest is his outwitting a Rocky Mountain Big Horn.
The wait from that time on was a tedious and trying one, though each felt a certain sense of elation that Tad Butler had succeeded in outwitting the enemy.
He laughed at the manner of my outwitting that miscreant, who had never been taken, but was fled none knew whither, and my master promised to tell the tale to the Maid, and warn her against this enemy.
And so hard pressed of sickness was I, that not even myoutwitting of Brother Thomas was a cause of comfort to me, though to this day I cannot think of it without some mirthful triumph.
Just then the greatest happiness on earth was the outwitting of bright-sided minnows and golden flecked sunfish.
The tale of this tenderfoot outwittingthe buckaroos at their own play will sweep you into the action of this salient western novel.
Now, I think we might bid them defiance, and show how little we care for them, by going in right boldly and outwitting them in their own country, that's the plan.
Mark took his departure soon after that; he set out for camp, revolving in his mind all sorts of impracticable schemes for outwitting the first classmen that night.
Texas had then with recklessness helped Mark in outwitting some hazers among the candidates.
Spin them along as far as you can, on the chance of outwitting them in the end.
In the many years that he has been striving for his glossy pelt, man has evolved numerous clever schemes for outwitting the fox, but in the meantime Reynard has not been an idle observer regarding the ways of the human enemy, says J.
One old trapper tells of a fox that came nearoutwitting him, being not only the most cunning but also possessing a degree of meanness almost satanic.
To get through that heavily guarded barbed and electrically charged barrier was a problem that I hated to think of, even, although the hours I spent endeavoring to devise some way of outwitting the Huns were many.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outwitting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
