Frank was much pleased with what he regarded as a cunning trick in his young scholar; but he soon found that it was by no means pleasant to be hugged in that way by a bear.
The trick succeeded; many of the English leaped the stockade and pursued their flying foes.
The bullfinch's cage hung side by side with that of a canary, and after a time the canary caught the trick of whistling too, and although he could not do it so well as the bullfinch, yet he managed one or two lines very well.
At a noted game club in Boston this little trick was introduced by the writer to show how easily the keenest intellects can be puzzled when off their guard.
Perhaps their passion for perfection in detail made them doubly furious at the trick a handful of Russians who had found some ammunition played on them that evening.
It's some trick to sell the paper," was Father Constantine's remark, when he had done.
It would be no trick at all to get it away from him.
Why, he tells me he'd back me to do Milo's trick in a week from the present day.
Now to see Time's full face, it is sometimes necessary to look through keyholes, the veteran having a trick of smiling peace to you on one cheek and grimacing confusion on the other behind the curtain.
I may have forgotten the trick of alighting on my feet.
Lady Judith undertakes to cure the fair Papist of a pretty, modest trick of frowning and blushing when addressed, and his lordship directs the exuberant energies of the original man.
I can put you up to a trick or two--friends should make themselves useful.
But supposing they do, the trick does not seem to me to be so serious as to justify that wretched, miserable, horrible look of yours.
Never, never before did I serve myself such a trick as this in engaging a maid!
What could be Manston's reason for such an astounding trick he could by no stretch of imagination divine.
Just before daylight they started again, and then Rex learned of the trick the Russians had played, and that a messenger had arrived begging Fukushima to send reinforcements.
Angry as the troops were at being deceived, they laughed heartily at the trick that had been played upon them.
The child has a little nervous cough; it is really more a trick than anything else.
Well, it does not much matter, for we couldn't have made the odd trick in any case.
The trick succeeded, for Dogvane was at first asked and then entreated, or rather commanded, to disclose his policy.
As I said before it is just a trick of the other side to shift watches.
For there is little he can't do, and there is not a trick or a dodge that that old fox is not up to.
Somebody did the bush-ranging trick and got away with the opal.
Kinder mean trick to put up on a baby, but we're all baound to make mistakes in aour lives.
By a trick the woman obtained possession of apartments in the very house where your intended lived, whilst Molitaire stopped at the Hoffman, which of course is very near your own hotel.
Even before, she would willingly have testified that it was understood between you, and that it was simply a trick to win a wager.
At Thirty-fourth Street station the trick was repeated, Mr. Mitchel crossing over the bridge and then taking an up-town train.
When he presented it to Cleopatra she cried out at him: 'What fool's trick is this?
To get in, he resorted to a trick often practised by sneak thieves.
I verily believe that, but for my being on the watch and speaking a word to two or three stout yeomen of the king's guard that chanced to be crushing a pot of sack at the Garter, he would have played some villainous trick on us.
I've had to go through every trick and quip I learnt when I was with old Nat Fire-eater.
After creating him court-chaplain, he said to Alexander von Humboldt: "A trick in natural history which you cannot copy!
I have since thought it a peculiarly amusing trick of fate that the palace of the Russian embassy--the property of the autocrat Nicholas--was obliged to celebrate with a brilliant display of lights the movement for liberty in a sister country.
This time the clever trickdid its duty, and my adversary was speedily stretched on the ground.
The trick of the Automaton Chess-Player, so long an incomprehensible marvel, has been repeated, with similar success.
To bring thetrick off properly, mum's the word, absolutely.
He'd done some giddy-goat trick in civil life, when he was drunk.
He lost every trick in life, even with the cards in his own hands.
Twould be a scurvytrick to lay the bloodhounds on his track.
It was pleasant to recognise the well-remembered trickof phrase and gesture, that is not to be caught by imitation, nor purchased second-hand.
If we'd known more about him, we'd never played him such a trick to bring him here!
When John Garnet recovered his senses he thought he must be dreaming, so like a trick of Fancy was the scene to which he awoke.
There's a squad of Tommies going up to help us, and if we don't do thetrick this time I am afraid it will be all up with the whole shooting-match.
I say, Jo Lee," called out a husky voice from this new feature of the giant image, "I think it was a mean trick to go off and leave me shut up in that beastly place.
