In detailing the varioussubterfuges practised by the pretended diviners of his day, he reveals the secret principle by which one of them regulated his predictions.
Courtenay had at his command an hundred subterfuges to outwit his fellows, and so manoeuvred that he was the last of them over the side.
Explanations of her presence sprang to her lips, but she put them from her assubterfuges unworthy of him.
I should declare, from this day onward, that the issue of political passes, newspaper passes, and all other subterfuges would be stopped, and that all political hirelings would be dismissed.
I knew that your love of truth would be incapable of the concealments orsubterfuges which might be needed to protect the poor child from the tongue of scandal.
Subterfuges and duplicity mark the petty spirit of diplomacy.
Opinion oscillates between the wish to enforce it more or less, and the disinclination to make the required outlay, and recourse is had to all sorts of subterfuges which may save appearances without giving a good trial to the system.
Thus all the delays, evasions and subterfuges of the Sultan are sanctioned by William II.
No petty pride could help her now, no shallow subterfuges come to her aid.
The subterfuges of the past weeks lay in ruin about them.
Christina understood it all and the breathless subterfuges in which Milly's perturbation concealed itself.
He hated conscientious subterfuges which equalize good and evil.
He is primarily a satirist, dealing as he says with the vices of the human mind and the subterfuges of human self-deception.
La Bruyère was charged, and even by Voltaire, with attacking the progress of civilization, and with preferring the rude subterfuges of Carlovingian times to the comforts of 1688.
So vain and groundless are these and the like evasions and subterfuges of our modern sceptics and unbelievers, and so certainly do thorough inquiries and authentic evidence disprove and confute such evasions and subterfuges upon all occasions.
And yet, if thesesubterfuges proved insufficient, if the attempt miscarried and if, to remedy matters, one had recourse to more efficacious measures, ah!
This he had done in order to be forewarned and on his guard, should his wife perchance use any of the plans or subterfuges chronicled or registered in his book.
The second time he had remained a year and four months, retaining his hold on his commission by subterfuges and irregularities which, though condoned, had strained his relations with the ministry of war in Paris.
She had no fortune, though by the subterfuges of which a clever woman could make use she led Buonaparte to think her in affluent circumstances.
They use all manner of subterfuges to "lift" the "roll" from the pockets of their customers.
We are face to face now, you and I, with all the little subterfuges and lies of life torn from our eyes.
Eileen had practiced subterfuges so long, she was so accomplished, that it would have taken an expert to distinguish reality from subterfuge.
But if he knew not the varioussubterfuges by which such a caution might be baffled, he ought to have taken advice of those who were better informed.
It is meant only for the happy, who need make no subterfuges to fill up hours that are already precious.
The subterfuges by which my husband had kept me from knowing the tragic or the sorrowful in our military life heretofore, were of no avail now.
The old subterfuges of "Damnum emergens" and "Lucrum cessans" are made to do full duty.
In that moment Kate realized that it had been a long programme of subterfuges with her mother--subterfuges designed to protect her from the onslaughts of the irritable man who dominated her.
What stories of bravery in defeat, of faith in the midst of disaster, of family devotion in spite of squalor and subterfuges and all imaginable shiftlessness and shiftiness.
He consulted his attorney, and urged him by every motive he could devise, to employ the whole series of his subterfuges in the present affair.
I had recourse to various disguises; I was innocent, and yet was compelled to as many arts and subterfuges as could have been entailed on the worst of villains.
Such subterfuges were not always successful when a Chaka or a Nebuchadnezzar had to be dealt with, but with kings of a more ordinary type either in Zululand or Mesopotamia they would answer well enough.
A Zulu witch-doctor is quite equal to analogous subterfuges to-day, and no doubt his Babylonian congeners were not less ingenious 3,000 years ago.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subterfuges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
