This is indeed a question of party, but of a very different character from that which will be attempted to be palmed on the people.
But I do object to its being palmed on the American nation as a true history of British impressments affecting our people and nation.
Hussite writings translated from the Bohemian were also palmed off as genuine Waldensian works of the earlier centuries, and were in addition provided with the corresponding date.
He had long been in the power of Khan Beg, and agreed to assist him the moment a body could be found to be palmed off as Chumbelee's.
I had palmed it, and substituted a plain card for it.
I care little for myself, but regret most to see spurious systems of infant education palmed upon the public by ignorant persons, and thus deprive them of a great benefit which they might possess.
I see,' exclaimed Berenger, 'I am to be palmed off thus that thou mayest be reserved for Narcisse.
The lady who palmed herself off on me as my wife was a mere impostor, the Chevalier's own daughter!
If she knew of his existence, some ruse must have been palmed off upon her, and she must have been led to believe that he too had been killed.
Might it not at any rate be a reckless jest palmed upon him by his comrades?
Place the palmed card face upward on the left hand and cover it with a large white handkerchief, and cause the pack to be placed face down on the handkerchief exactly over the concealed card.
You then show the card held between your thumb and finger, at the same time glancing at the palmed card.
Put both hands behind you and slip the palmed card between the tips of your left first and second fingers; then palm the top card and take the card originally palmed between the right thumb and the forefinger with your thumb on top.
When picking up the pile of ten from the table, while pretending to square it, you add the palmed cards and hand the pile thus increased to person number two.
You require two coins for this trick, one palmed in your left hand.
Each time you have shuffled them you have dropped a piece concealed in your right hand, and extracted and palmed another.
Throw the former on the table, and putting your hand behind your back again, nip the palmed card with the first two fingers of the left hand, and palm the top card as before.
When you rub the coin against your face the second time, drop it inside your collar and produce the palmed coin from your elbow.
The purest and most reliable wines now in our own country are the California and other native wines, although they are not so fashionable as the doctored foreign, and imitation of foreign that are palmed off as genuine.
Many kinds of fruit are sold by weight, and there appears to be a rigid inspection, that poor and damaged articles shall not be palmed off upon purchasers.
One of Coleridge's best points was in calling attention to what constitutes proof; he saw all fallacies and discovered at a glance illusions in logic that had long been palmed off on the world as truth.
It was opportune; for literature at that particular time had reached a point where the sciolist was in full possession, and the dead husks of learning were being palmed off for the living thoughts of living men.
The foundation of it is the most weak and absurd of any delusion ever palmed upon the world.
Thus an historical romance, with the addition of a few pious expressions and extracts from the sacred Scriptures, has been construed into a new Bible, and palmed off upon a company of poor, deluded fanatics as divine.
The author evidently could not have palmed himself off as a companion of Paul even if he would.
If the palmed card is not known by the performer this will give him an opportunity of seeing it.
The mere motion of taking the pack into the hand will give sufficient opportunity to return the palmed card into the pack.
During the execution of this movement, bring the palmed coin immediately above the hollow of the left hand, and secretly let it fall therein.
Push the card to be palmed until it projects beyond the edge of the pack; with the third finger of the left hand press the card upwards into the right hand, which should be half closed over it.
The false ring will, of course before this point of the trick, have been palmed or otherwise got rid of.
The centre of this piece of cambric should be pointed outwards so that it may be readily pulled out at the desired moment, the remainder being neatly rolled up and palmed under the thumb.
He told a friend of ours so in company, and would have palmed himself upon him for a Scotchman, but that his countenance betrayed him.
It is a vile cold-scrag-of-mutton sophism; a lie palmed upon the palate, which knows better things.
What, I wonder, in order that I may repay the favor to that villain who palmed this {fellow} off upon us?
This piece of knavery is being now for the first time palmed upon me by this fellow; they are pretending that she’s in labor, in order that they may alarm Chremes.
A fortnight ago he palmed off his bad wine upon me, I palmedyou upon the Dauphin, and you palmed your bad verses off upon mademoiselle.
Go back whence you set out, and tell us of that other, and still more mysterious Azzageddi; him whom you hinted to have palmed himself off on you for you yourself.
He has blent his tattooing into one mass of blue, and thus disguised, must have palmedhimself off here in Pimminee, for the man he is not.
But while it is true that the results of trickery have often been palmed off as genuine manifestations, there have been, also, marked exhibitions of supernatural power.
For thousands of years this chief of conspiracy has palmed off falsehood for truth.
She goes by the name of Moll White, and has made the Country ring with several imaginary Exploits which are palmed upon her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palmed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
