Bucer doubtless did his utmost to prevent the theologians from having recourse to subterfugeor delay.
These attempts at explanation and subterfuge to which the sadly embarrassed authors of the “testimony” had recourse were keenly criticised by Feige, the Hessian Chancellor, in the sober, legal replies given by him at the Conference.
Four days later the paltry subterfuge was abandoned, as we know, for a more serious indictment.
What was the indictment--some trumpery subterfuge for treason?
The force of this objection, however, is sought to be obviated by the subterfugethat while all bishops were indeed presbyters, all presbyters were not bishops.
Many had recourse to a subterfugeby surrendering heretical writings instead of the sacred books and as such, but the earnest spirit of the age treated these as no better than traditors.
I think that Battista makes a very excellent watchdog," he said, and you would have thought him amused, as if at the foolish subterfuge of some little child.
Garnache, reckless now, disdaining further subterfuge nor seeking to have recourse to subtleties that could avail him nothing, retorted in French with the announcement of his true name.
Even the service that you rendered the arms of Kaol shall avail you naught; it was but a base subterfuge whereby you might win your way into my favor and reach the side of this holy man whose life you craved.
Would he have had recourse to this subterfuge if he had not been sensible how much he should lose in our estimation by confessing himself an accomplice with the assassin?
Confess that by this serpent subterfuge You would mislead me.
Her busy brain missed thesubterfuge to cover her slip of the tongue.
He thought of the Arab who had admitted him--of the entire absence of subterfuge where subterfuge was to be expected.
I heard also a miserablesubterfuge of Guizot's, for which I feel quite sorry and ashamed.
At the same time, although not absolute slaves, the Hottentots were practically in a state of servitude, in which the freedom accorded to them by Government had, by one subterfuge or another, been rendered inoperative.
I have parted with every means of raising more money, and eternal infamy will be the consequence of this last cursed subterfuge of mine transpiring.
This shabby subterfugesucceeded in baffling the English king, who consented to a truce and returned to his own country.
This was a trick he was much addicted to, for he had tried the paltry subterfuge on a previous occasion.
Robert and Iris, without spoken word on the subject, had tactily agreed to avoid the slightest semblance of subterfuge as unworthy alike of their achievements and their love.
Subterfuge and deceit are as much at home in this deserted island as in Mayfair.
She was pale; but no more subterfuge now, no more turning aside from dangerous subjects.
The wickedness of subterfuge vanished now that subterfuge was found to be successful in attaining a desired end.
Did not each subterfuge stretch out arms beckoning on some nameless end?
You have not even the miserable subterfuge of patriotism as a palliation for your crime.
This subterfuge gave me time to do other work--investigate the "discontinued" cases.
She will not stay with him and her vow is worth nothing--is a subterfuge to escape.
Quickly making up his mind that nosubterfuge would hold him, Helmar replied-- "I am not a secret agent, neither do I possess any information whatsoever of the British movements.
There are those in your employ, I know, who would willingly do me harm and resort to any base subterfuge to attain their ends.
Burnaby[83] has made use of what is probably the most notorious and grossest incident in Restoration comedy, Horner’s subterfuge in The Country Wife, but has modified some of the elements of the intrigue.
These additions consist in sections of the dialogue, in the changing of Lady Dainty’s lover into a more impetuous wooer, and in the addition of the lover’s disguise as a Russian, by which subterfuge he wins her.
This subterfuge is more or less remotely suggestive of Shakspere’s All’s Well that Ends Well and Shirley’s Gamester, both of which have been suggested as its source; but it owes nothing to them in the working out of the situation.
I felt a little ashamed of mysubterfuge in the face of his earnest expression of concern.
Is it necessary for Mr. Pless to resort to a subterfuge of this character in order to get a message to me?
Sunday morning in our house has now become a time for low subterfuge on the part of Doris and me in our attempts to be somewhere else when Junior appears dragging the "funnies" (a loathsome term in itself) to be read to him.
No need for subterfuge here, no deceiving one about the other.
But it will readily be seen that this was a subterfuge and evasion, since both trials were had on the same day, whereas the law required them to be held on different days.
This compromise and subterfuge were scornfully rejected by the Jews who had demanded the crucifixion of Jesus.
Observing that at each corner they turned his captors were forcing him into a wider circle, the conviction grew in him that they took this subterfuge to see if they were followed.
Barabant, on the staircase, congratulated himself on his escape from a bad position, little realizing the danger of the present one, and excusing the subterfuge on the light pretext of giving pleasure to the old woman.
I adopted the subterfuge only because I believed that otherwise I never could have reached the prison alive.
In the long months, she had gone resolutely and without subterfuge over the problem of their relations.
In one sense, and that the highest, it certainly is not; but just as certainly Christ never intended those words to be used as a subterfuge by which to escape our responsibilities in the life of business and politics.
I must say that to establish the Land Commission seems to me rather a small subterfuge for the Congress of a great nation to resort to.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subterfuge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
