He was got in by a clique of interested individuals, who usedunderhanded measures for the purpose, and succeeded in their object only by blinding the eyes of the Department to the real character of the man, and the wishes of the people.
He thought that the inhabitants of the village were to be "put down" in an underhanded manner.
He had been attacked in anunderhanded fashion and rather roughly treated, and one button had been torn from his uniform.
Ritter is just the fellow to play us some underhanded trick.
This looks just like Roy Bock's underhanded meanness," he added.
I don't reckon the captain will stand fer any underhanded work.
I won't have any of your dirty underhanded work aboard of my ship," he concluded.
If you bring me before the court I'll have something to say about your underhanded work with Ivan Snokoff.
He must be an underhanded rascal if ever there was one," he mused.
Ralph knew what it was to fight a mean, underhanded foe.
I seem to come high," smiled Ralph, although he experienced a faint uneasiness at mind, as he clearly comprehended that Gasper Farrington was up to some of his old underhanded tricks.
Something underhanded going on at Half Way House," he explained to the corporal.
I won't say they'll resort to open violence if underhandedmethods will avail.
Joe could not set out on that little trip without a good deal of moral cudgeling when it came to the point, although he threw down his scythe with a muttered curse on his lips for the man who was playing such an underhanded game.
In a very short time the whole school knew exactly what had taken place in the doctor's study, and every boy was incensed at the underhanded meanness of this attempted attack on Oaks and Allingford.
It may contain some clew to his doings, and if there is anything underhanded going on we can let the authorities know.
That boy out there, your brother, is an underhanded sharper.
As a matter of fact it was merely an underhanded attempt at assassination.
For my own part I understood very well why they should say nothing of anyunderhanded trickery to one who ashore was so intimately acquainted with Captain Whidden and Roger Hamlin.
Also, he had disclosed an unexpected subtlety, a cat-like craft in eavesdropping and underhanded contrivances.
He was tempted to say nothing concerning it in his next letter to his affianced, but that seemed underhanded and cowardly, so he told her.
Esther," Richard resumed, "you are not to suppose that I have come here to make underhanded charges against John Jarndyce.
The latter was less outspoken than in the early days of her married life, but she was equally as self-willed, only more cunning and underhanded about it.
He wasunderhanded and treacherous, keeping a fair outside to the world, and was counted by many a model youth.
I didn't mind their open warfare; but their underhandedways drove me wild.
I'm honorable and decent, and so's Jacobs; and we don't takeunderhanded advantages.
If this is your idea of getting even for the arithmetic lesson this morning, all I can say is that you've chosen a very underhanded method," declared Miss Mason, evidently determined to believe the worst.
I'd have you up before the class to confess your underhanded scheme if I didn't know that it would embarrass Bobby more than it would you.
A chap who plays an underhanded game like this doesn't mind what he walks over to attain his ends.
There's nothing underhandedabout my determination.
Still, you didn't have to lend yourself to--to underhanded proceedings.
The high aristocracy, indignant at this manoeuvre, worked against her in an underhanded opposition, in which the double character of the Duke de Medina-Coeli was more and more developed.
You know that very well, and you take advantage of my silence in order to associate me in the minds of the people with underhanded swindlers and embezzlers.
He became imbroiled in some underhanded scheme, signed certain papers--.
