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Example sentences for "ploys"

Lexicographically close words:
plowmen; plows; plowshare; plowshares; ploy; plu; pluche; pluck; plucke; plucked
  1. He knew piping, the fellow with me, and the tear came to his cheek, thinking of the old days and the old ploys among the dirks and sgians.

  2. Och, the nights like this would not be hindering the ploys when my leg was the talk o' a parish, and my cheeks like the wild red rose.

  3. But I was now growing old, and could go seldomer out among my people than in former days; so that I was less a partaker of their ploys and banquets, either at birth, bridal, or burial.

  4. My sea cloth is not so well accustomed to night ploys as your cloak of grey!

  5. Whether as remembering some of my old ploys with that tricksy lass who was now Robert Harburgh's wife, or partly lest she should have seemed to be over-ready in owning her love for me.

  6. They would be having the fine ploys while he was mewed up in Edinburgh.

  7. On that night, long ago, when his father ordered him to College, his cowardly and too vivid mind thought of the ploys the fellows would be having along the Barbie roads, while he was mewed up in Edinburgh.

  8. As my companion adjusted the wooden stump to his knee, he said: "Ay, sic ploys are terribly sair on a rheumatic knee.

  9. Weel, we cracked and cracked, and I minded him o' mony o' the ploys we had when we were weans thegither.


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