The sinuous young woman became so cold and biting in her tone that I was sure that she believed that I had been fascinated by her own charms and was using a ruse for the pleasure of this brief interview, so I made a hasty retreat.
It came to me then to try an old, old ruse to test the quality of her indifference.
So admirably did this ruse succeed that we find Spartacus writing triumphantly: You cannot imagine what consideration and sensation our Priest's degree is arousing.
Huysmans, however, scoffs at this distinction and says the use of the term "white magic" was a ruse of the Rose-Croix.
This pretence of having discovered some fund of ancient wisdom is the invariable ruse of secret society adepts; the one thing never admitted is the identity of the individuals from whom one is receiving direction.
And in the passages which follow we find him adopting the old ruse of representing Christ as a Communist and as a secret-society adept.
The papal bull, however, demanded obedience, and to overcome that difficulty a ruse was necessary: the governor of Manila agreed to send a party of Franciscans as ambassadors to Hideyoshi.
The men within the town had mounted to the battlements, and, recognising the shields, suppose that they belong to their party, never dreaming of the ruse hidden beneath the shields.
Four of them mount the walls to keep watch lest those outside by any means or ruse should enter the stronghold and fall upon them.
If, as Albert de Chantonnay stated, the failure of Turner's bank was nothing but a ruse to gain time, it had the desired effect.
She explained that theruse was necessary, as she did not wish her visit to be known, either to my cousin or to the servants.
I think, under the circumstances, this little ruse of mine may possibly be forgiven," she answered.
The consequences of the ruse were satisfactory all round.
In dealing with possible subscribers to the Tichborne “stock,” it was a favourite ruse of his to ask the intended victim to try on the Claimant’s gloves.
And Anthony described the ruse that had brought it all about.
This was as a matter of fact a ruse of the authorities.
Now, this was no new trick--the ruse that the Champion's handlers had employed.
His favorite ruse was to dive for Lad's forelegs and attempt to break one of them.
A letter from Berthier to Kutusoff, dated the first day of this flanking march, was at once a last attempt at peace, and perhaps a ruse de guerre.
In other respects, these parleys were not only attempts to preserve peace, but an additional ruse de guerre.
But it is a cruel ruse of a rejected suitor, for when too late she sees the hated brave dash out in his canoe, and the thing she has dimly dreaded from the evil glance of Ka-wis is about to happen.
No sooner was the latter embarked on the return voyage than Watson said: "That was a clever ruseof yours, George.
The next morning according to a plan which you will learn at Marietta, (which is on the Georgia State Railroad) we will put our little ruse into effect--and may providence smile on it.
But the ruse of the wily scoundrel worked well, for the personal protection at once afforded him by order of the Tsar was as complete as the surveillance upon the Emperor himself.
By the clever ruse of establishing his cult of "sister-disciples" he had so secured the ears of the weak-kneed Emperor and his consort, that whatever views he declared to them they at once became law.
Footnote 4: The same man who had been imposed upon by a similar ruse at Ulm by the Archduke Ferdinand.
Coming as Rosemary's ruse did, after the hardest firing yet on the part of the attackers, it rather got on the nerves of the Yaquis if they had such organs, which is doubtful.
Then they got ready for the ruse Rosemary had proposed.
By a ruse it had been taken from her, though she and Floyd fought desperately to retain it.
It expressly assures us that the attitude of death is not the ruse of an insect in danger.
He even went so far as to suggest that perhaps there was a-foot a ruse to get from her those possessions her father had written of.
Now it was plain this was a ruse of Constantine's own making, and had whispered it as she had pretended to read.
After dancing the stately gavotte, it appeared that the whole company became heavy and wished for retirement; it might have been a ruse on the part of beaux, and the fair ones fell into the trap; be it as it may, the ladies retired.
Her plans were now made, and this sudden illness was a ruse to detain the maid.
This was a ruse planned by himself and Monmouth, as the latter had settled where he should take Katherine, and the former, not having had time to examine the contents of the bags, was loath she should see the King ere he had done so.
Akhab Khan, on whom the real leadership devolved when it became known that the King and his sons had fled from the palace, tried a ruse that might well have proved fatal to his adversaries.
In any event he prayed that his ruse might better Chumru's chances, and he promised himself a soldier's death if brought to bay inside the palace.
While he was in these winter quarters also he practised a ruse truly Punic.
Bethel, situated in the vicinity, likewise fell by a ruse into the hands of the Ephraimites.
When David had at length decided on seizing or demanding the surrender of his guilty son (though he had been absent for three years), Joab employed a ruse to turn the king from his resolve.
A section of the 21st Battery, under Lieutenant Rainsford, promptly set to work to silence them, and the ruse failed.
Yes, it was a ruse to get Scott and these boys out of the post.
Breathless with excitement, Dick wondered if Toma's ruse would work.
Love weaves ruse in answer to gaze beseeching;-- Shrill she screams: "O heaven!
There are very few parts of America, if any, in which the antelope has been so little hunted as to allow the oldruse of flagging (i.
As far as my memory serves me, it is not usual for them to hold a horse by the nose with one paw as they do an ox, and this ruse is, I think, employed by them with horned animals in order to prevent them making use of their horns.
To hoodwink the Mullah and the tribes with which we happen to come in contact is, however, a ruse which carries great weight with it, and I think with you that it will be well if you and your friend go dressed as you are.
But now the evidence of a ruse was so clear that there was no fear of making a blunder, and consequently of losing prestige amongst his men.
They were usually against natives, in some part of this continent, and there was always a ruse of this sort, some dodge by which he and his men held the larger numbers of the enemy at bay.
