Cunning scheme

Usage examples of ruse.

Ready to spring the final ruse, Alec cast a yearning look toward the keep and sighed deeply.

Sometimes the vanquished in battle resort to a curious ruse for the purpose of avenging themselves on the victors by means of a ghost.

The barge and the false rendezvous was the ruse by which we secured the Terran Colonel Bogey fur the sport.

Ce sont de grands enfants qui connaissent les ruses des poissons et ne connaissent point celles des hommes.

Desaguliers studied an individual in London named Thomas Topham, who used no ruse in his feats and was not the skilful equilibrist that the German Samson was, his performances being merely the results of abnormal physical force.

The entire Targan revolution was hatched as a ruse to bait Staffa into range so that Bruen and this Magister Hyde could use Arta Fera to assassinate the Lord Commander?

It was called milk and kept in precious silver vessels called honeypots, yet one more ruse to confound male things.

Roland Ballantyne, the founder and commanding colonel 428 of the Scouts, had tried every ruse to inveigle Sean in as his second-in-command - so far without success.

Reward for your brav- ery, and your nacky ruse to sink or cripple that privateer.

In conclusion, we believe that gunmen employed by Mickey Cohen perpetrated the Nite Owl Massacre, a kill-six-to-get-one ruse undertaken out of his hatred for Duke Cathcart.

In all likelihood, Nunes only meant to add verisimilitude to his ruse, but it was also possible that Parido might want to see Miguel brought before the board.

At Division Headquarters two miles in the rear, a liaison captain with the G3 section boldly concluded that it was just a ruse to get rear echelon soldiers to go to the front lines where they would be greeted by the raucous razzberries of the infantrymen and maybe an unfriendly sniper bullet or two.

He knew that the murder monster would quickly discover the ruse by which he had substituted Linky Teagle for himself in the sack.

While we waited for the finding and unharbouring of the hart, while I held myself in readiness for the chase and listened for the baying of the scent, while we followed the ruses and doublings of the quarry as he ran back on his own tracks to strengthen the scent then bounded sideways to confuse the hounds or entered and left the streamlets that run through the woods so as to break his traces, while I galloped with the others and followed the sound of the horn and shouted with all the power of my lungs and ducked the low branches, amidst all this hullabaloo and headlong career, I still drifted on the dark lake, still heard the words of love and promise she had given me, still felt the ring where it lay threaded against my breastbone.

The ruse of stepping foxlike along the barkless logs, balancing, jumping out and landing on another log, made the boys yip with pleasure.