At first miserable, sordid economy, passionate greed; then the fierce struggle of trickery and deceit, always flattering your customers, always living in terror of failure.
But it is a piece of commercial trickery that you want from me.
And to think that the book which perpetrates this trickery is entitled Der Luegenfeldzug unserer Feinde ("Our Enemies' Campaign of Lies")!
It seems that trickeryof this kind is believed not to be a German speciality.
All the same, I had no idea of the strange and bewildering acts of trickery in which, contrary to my best efforts, I was destined to become a central figure.
Years before we had all this babble and talk and political trickery about a wise imperialism for England, and a Greater Britain, and the responsibilities of empire and so forth, he saw the eternal mission of our country, and he saw it clearly.
Strong in their self-esteem, they could not be brought to suspect that any artifice could be practised on them, or that the mere trickery and tinsel of high station could be imposed on them as true value.
Like the magpie hiding a silver spoon, Pope took nothing by his trickery but the pleasure of deceiving.
In a long and minute investigation of the circumstances attending the publication of the successive volumes of Pope's letters, he exposes the petty trickery and vanity of the poet.
When we find this "new revelation" heralded by a prodigious outbreak of fraud, and claiming as its most solid foundations to-day a mass of demonstrable trickery and deceit, our sense of humour is pardonably irritated.
Here trickery seemed impossible, and the sitter was greatly impressed at receiving a pious message on the paper.
I have seen them--seen men and women of such social standing that one dare not breathe a suspicion--stoop to trickery more than once in order to get communications of "evidential value.
Because he has not on this occasion discovered certain forms of trickery which are now well known, he concludes that there was no trickery.
The trickery of this class of mediums has been developing for nearly sixty years, and it has to find new forms every few years as the older forms are exposed.
The truth is that the phenomenon known as "clairvoyance" rests just as plainly on trickery as the physical phenomena we have studied.
They reported constanttrickery and evasion of tests.
The whole machinery of her information and trickery was laid bare.
Home's performances, which we will examine in the third chapter, were regarded by the overwhelming majority of the cultivated people of his time as trickery of the most sordid description from beginning to end.
These illustrations will suffice to show the reader what subtle and artful trickery is used in this department of Spiritualism.
His art is nothing but delightful trickery by means of smoothing words and complacent looks.
I was ruined when you flattered me so in my boyhood, telling me so often how clever I was and good at a bargain, instead of checking me: when you praised my trickery instead of punishing it.
Who can guess thetrickery and intrigue that lies hidden in a Spaniard's mind?
There might be murmurs of foul play and a general suspicion that trickery had been practised.
He had straight and strong my version of the vampire history of "Standard Oil," and also in rough, crude terms my opinion of his trickery and double-dealing.
Then you and Mr. Rockefeller will admit I was right when I told you that the public will respond to open and fair treatment when it is deaf and blind to stock trickery and manipulation.
The people had learned a lesson, and a hundred years more of the "System's" trickery and falsehood will not efface its impression.
One day I received word that some trickery was being put up in the district attorney's office in New York.
The old cuttle-fish methods were at once resorted to--a campaign of falsehood, deception, and trickery began.
It will do no good to trick, because some one will get slaughtered when the trickery is discovered, as it surely would be, after we hitched up together.
In it all, I should be left alone to bear the brunt of the storm of ruin, wrath, and denunciation as the result of what must seem base trickery to those who had accepted my representations.
In fact, as I shall demonstrate before my story is ended, forcing the price to extremely high points and the resulting collapse were all a part of the trickery by which the public was plundered.
I would say further that the trickery and frauds that have been practised by the New York Life and the Mutual companies are fully as bad as, if not worse than, those of the Equitable, now publicly confessed.
She was still convinced of his father's trickery toward her own; but Cal Harris's quiet efficiency and his devotion to Three Bar interests had convinced her, against her will, that he had taken no part in it.
We do not know whether the hide-bound brutality of the military authorities or the lying trickery of the civilians is the more repulsive.
Fosdick was as clever at trickery as is the cleverest; but at its best the best trickery is puerile, once the onlooker, or even the intended victim, is on the alert.
She seemed bewildered by the marshy maze of trickery through which his explanation had been taking her.
There was hard fighting over some of these bills, and, what was much more serious, there was effort to get round the law by trickery and by securing its inefficient enforcement.
Having, like Walker, frequently and earnestly assured the people of their ultimate right to ratify or reject the work of the convention, he was personally humiliated by the unfairness and trickery of which that body was guilty.
Neither the North nor the South has the right to gain a sectional advantage by trickery or fraud.
It's a shame that we have to go up against such trickery as that, sir," declared Frank, warmly.
If they can down you boys squarely and fairly, I'll be the last one to knock, but this thing of trickery makes me angry.
Some who professed to have discovered the secret demanded large sums of money to reveal it, and several visited the various courts of Europe to demonstrate it by means of trickery and conjuring.
Men of undoubted ability and genius wasted both their lives and their fortunes over the search for this illusive chimera, and others condescended to fraud and trickery of the meanest description in its pursuit.
He made fun of the several divines engaged in the affair, and accused them of trickery and presumption in their conduct of the case.
By vomiting pins and straws[8] they had convinced many that they were bewitched, but the trickery was soon found out and they were compelled to do public penance at St. Paul's.
The Mompesson case[28] was of no less importance in its time, although it belongs rather in the annals of trickery than in those of witchcraft.
Despite his trickery it may be that he had really a certain hypnotic control over William Somers and perhaps over Katherine Wright.
My conception of the trickery of mankind were very small at that time.
I had come to know the trickeryof the man I was dealing with and was determined to disappoint him.
And when we happen to detect positive dishonesty, it seems to us especially heinous, because the trickery employed is more primitive and awkward than that to which we are accustomed.
