Oh, there was some story trumped up, depend upon it, so that she would not suspect.
If it was the truth, it would make the arrest at New York a little awkward; a formal complaint would have to be made, a charge of some kind trumped up.
Further inquiries were made, not only by Brown, but by a Mrs Worthington, with whom the two girls lived, and then another story was trumped up, to the effect that Mary had gone on the tramp with a packman to Glasgow.
The objections to showing a suit in this way are: 1, that it may be trumped the first round; 2, that partner may have only one card of it.
In the case that you and your partner are both numerically strong, the return of the lowest prevents him from finessing in a suit which must be trumped third round.
If there is a card of re-entry in the hand of the player who has numerical strength, he must bring in the suit, whether the second round is trumpedor not.
In this case it is considered best to begin with the ace, lest it should be trumped on the second round.
B can now lead ace of diamonds, without fear of its beingtrumped (see Remark, Trick 8).
Later in the play the Declarer leads a winning card which is trumped by the adversary who has refused Trumps.
Then at the end if I hadn't trumped your heart, I should have had to lead the losing spade and Diva would have over-trumped; and brought in her club, and we should have gone down two more.
So, little anticipating the tempest he was about to unchain, he answered: "I am familiar with the charges that they have trumped up against him.
Of his perfect innocence there could, of course, be no question: these charges of bribery had simply been trumped up by his enemies to get him off the bench.
He had entertained serious doubts of its being true, thinking it might have been trumpedup by Mrs. Brent to drive him from home, and interfere with his succession to any part of Mr. Brent's property.
Lavinia, however, trumped up stories against her husband, which I am now led to believe were quite destitute of foundation, and did all she could to keep alive the feud.
But this trumped up foolery o’ Glenlyon feasting a fortnicht in the Glen, Jock—that touches us—” The Earl smiled.
Ye are mistaken—the maist deadly of your enemies is the hidden one wha hae trumped up this tale.
I daresay one of those beastly cousins of mine has trumped up some charge that he figures will put me out of the running for ever," he said gloomily.
What if they have trumped up some rotten charge against me?
Then,--then they haven't trumped up some rotten charge against me?
The whole story was probably trumped up by Truelove Brothers, he tried to persuade himself with a juggler-like effort at self-deception.
If any rumour reaches my wife's ear I can squash it by persuading her that the whole thing is a slander trumped up by my enemies.
Last night, at midnight, I was being held at Montfaucon under the trumped up pretext that a staff officer was on his way down to see me and that I was to take off with von Herzmann later in the night.
If they find out he cut formation on a trumped up hokus-pokus, they would think I should ground him.
Henry then arrested him on another trumped up charge, and kept him in close and solitary imprisonment in Windsor Castle until his death in June 1491.
He then trumped up some other charge, threw the Bishop into prison, and that unfortunate prelate never came out alive.
There was no question of Nichols, who had been imprisoned on a charge of theft trumped up by O'Brien.
I did borrow a thousand of Cap'n Elisha Warren; trumped up some excuse or other and got that.
But your sneer at my reasons proves that you believe that I have none and am merely trying to justify myself with trumped up and lying excuses.
All her complaints had been their prompting, tales Trumped up, devices to this very end.
Through the particular vengeance of Lord Bacon, charges of treason were trumped up against Essex, the former benefactor of Bacon, and in due course the head of Essex went to the block in February, 1601.
Many political prisoners had been immured in the Tower and other state prisons on trivial or trumped up charges, preferred by jealous courtiers on personal or religious grounds.
This murder charge he talks about he has trumped up in hopes to frighten me; but I fancy he has found by this time that I am not so easily frightened.
He has trumped up some silly charge against me and tried to frighten me into giving up to him my Queen Mystery or my new mine.
In September 1758, a charge was trumped up in Lisbon in a most tortuous fashion, based on the alleged discovery of a plot to assassinate the king.
The charges against the old missionary had been trumped up by a Mohammedan who claimed to be an astronomer.
Line: 21 trumped on thee = turned thee up like a trump.
Hercules' labours were a baker's dozen, 20 Had he but trumped on thee, whose forked neck Might well have answered at the font for Smec.
He stammered as he answered: 'Why, what else but the scum of the earth can they be, to have trumped up a lying case like this?
The young skunk has trumped up a charge against us of having tapped his brine, and having lived on the property of his estate for twenty years past.
And all the probabilities of the case seem to indicate that the accusation was trumped up merely to justify this change in the Countess' place of confinement.
A week later Colonel Harrington sought out Baker, told him he had trumped up a charge against him that would land him in jail, which Baker later discovered was the truth, and gave him twenty-four hours to leave the country.
The troops were carefully kept below; and to avert the suspicion of the Spaniards, we had trumped up a story of our having just arrived from Cadiz, and being in want of a pilot: upon which they told us to send a boat for one.
It was within a week of my last refusal that his charges against me were trumped up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trumped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
