I cannot answer for what my fancy might do if I were alone here, or what tricks my senses might play with me if they had me to themselves.
Juno and the king of the gods often played tricks on each other, and Juno knew well that the king would try to get her cow.
They have often played tricks on me," he said to himself, "and now I will play one on them.
Illustration] Juno had so often played trickson the king that he was happy because he had played this one on her, but Juno was angry, and she said to Argus, "You are a strange watchman.
He had evidently been discharged from prison and was at his old tricks again, with the result that once more his employer was playing the part of Dromio.
Then you turned several tricksin Chicago, St. Louis, Buffalo and Philadelphia, and got away with it every time.
Far out on the ocean tired sailors throw themselves under the lee of the bulwarks and gaze up into its face, while the light plays fantastic tricks among the masts and cordage.
All your dead cats and babies' hands and snakes yonder, are just so many tricks to influence the superstitious.
Why, he can do tricks with all those new things they got on cars, tricks nobody ever did before or even thought about in the old days.
The tricks o' knaves, or fash o'fools, Thou bear'st the gree!
First, I will go and try the old tricks by which I did often in the old time improve the fare at home.
He had not forgotten the tricks of his boyhood, when he would often bring home a rabbit, a hare, or a basket of trout.
He was a strict old gentleman, and woe betide anyone who tried to play tricks with him.
We must have something patriotic in the theatre, something of the good old kind; monkey tricks won't do, when a bloody tragedy is being played outside.
But still he clutched my arm, and gibbered, and pointed back, and now my eyes were playing tricks again: surely there was a shadow!
The tricksof the eldest of these sons, Narayan-Deo I, became so celebrated that his fame reached the ears of the Emperor Alamgir.
Shiva is the patron god of snakes, and the Brahmans teach the bunis to produce all kinds of mesmeric tricks by empirical methods, never explaining to them the theoretical principles, but assuring them that Shiva is behind every phenomenon.
But I bet you anything, a healthy man in perfectly normal conditions is not to be influenced by the tricks of mesmerists.
I will not describe minutely the tricksand wonders that we saw, but will proceed at once to the main fact.
She was not in the Soudan, for I declare, what with the tricks of the officials here, Charity would have had a bad time of it.
Tricks in making ciphers, and using so many languages, are of no avail.
The "Magician's tricks to elude pursuit", so common an incident in our fairy tales, e.
Erik foresaw this, having reconnoitred his means of advancing, and thought he must withdraw for fear, if he advanced along the track he had intended, of being hard-pressed by the tricks of the enemy among the steep windings of the hills.
Yet some were to be found who judged that he was not worthy to approach and resume his rank, because by his stage-tricks and his assumption of a woman's work he had brought the foulest scandal on the name of the gods.
Well, I warn you now and here that it will not be healthy if you try any dirty tricks on me.
Shust keep your eye on me, und I vill learn some tricks vot you don'd know alretty yet.
These tricks of magic are the staple of tales and chapbooks about conjurers, and make a braver showing in plays like Doctor Faustus and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay.
O, I, I warrant ye, Ile have fine tricks to cousen them.
That character, soon to play an important part in comedy, appropriated certain tricks and aspects of the Vice, but the distinctive figure of the moral drama did not proceed from or ape the domestic fool of contemporary life.
In 1872 I heard that he was at his old tricks on Laramie Plains.
The major said: "That's another of thosetricks of Cody's.
Twas your tricks drove me out of Shrewsbury, and seemingly ye're at 'em still.
Finding him thus proficient in all the ordinary tricks of sword play, I saw myself in a difficulty.
Lucy told me what tricks Vetch had been playing, and begged me to help her to get away from him, and burst into tears, and I can't stand a woman's tears.
Accordingly I lost no opportunity of conversing with soldiers of the guard, with whom I ingratiated myself by showing them some of the tricks of fence taught me by Captain Galsworthy.
I know there is much against me, but after that business at the turnpike I told Vetch I would countenance no more tricks of that sort--though I own I helped to arrange your kidnapping at Bristowe.
Then came Joe, watching closely, wondering what new trickshe would see put into execution.
You kin never say what sort o' tricks a half-breed will be up to, so jest look lively.
The kids learn, and ain't got no bad tricks to unlearn.
From which pretty description of tickling love-tricks that of Diogenes's hatching was not very discrepant, when he defined lechery the occupation of folks destitute of all other occupation.
In that there is no harm; for it importeth nothing else but that betwixt my wife and me there will occur some toyish wanton tricks which usually happen to all new-married folks.
I've read plentifully about thetricks of you cowlads.
Brought him up a nice old rope horse that would have been as safe as a supreme-court judge, but the canny Angus says: 'No, none of your tricks now!
If I put any tricks upon 'em, sir, they shall be jades' tricks; which are their own right by the law of nature.
Ay, mistress, and Petruchio is the master; That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long, To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue.
Come, I'll question you 60 Of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys: You were pretty lordings then?
So please your majesty, my master hath been an honourable gentleman: tricks he hath had in him, which gentlemen have.
At every movement of poor Amador, who would find short horse-hair in the sheets, he would bring down cold water on to the bed, and a thousand other tricks were arranged, such are usually practised in castles.
It is as well to relate this fact, in order to cleanse the reputation of this honest girl, who herself once washed dirty things, and who afterwards became famous for her clever tricks and her wit.
You have caused me to love my husband all the more, for from your discourse I learn how much he esteems me by holding me in such respect that he does not dishonour his couch with the tricks of street-walkers and bad women.
There were those who sought her favours by the usual tricks of love and, but others offered large sums of money to the father to give them his daughter in lawful wedlock, the which pleased him not a little.
I always burn like that when I go to bed," replied her companion, "because at that time there comes back to my memory the pretty little tricks that he invented to please me, and which make me burn still more.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tricks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: nonsense; plunder; possession; stuff; thing
