What is "impostors"

Usage examples of "impostors".

I need not say that I did not comply with his wishes, but I can vouch for the real pleasure I felt in finding that I had succeeded in saving that honest and simple farmer from the impostors who would have ruined him.

However, if Harvard replied that they had never heard of either man, then it was almost certain that they were impostors and involved in the gang that was looting Indian artifacts.

While doing that, Longarm could not help but be reminded of the murdered Horn brothers, and he wondered if this pair of impostors knew of their horrible fate.

The impostors flung more blorash jelly, capturing slaves and Jedi alike, turning the street into a tangle of confusion.

Anakin circled past and first sensed, then saw more impostors, three human and two Duros, shouldering their way out of the crowd.

Despite it all, she was holding two Yuuzhan Vong impostors at bay with a one-handed lightsaber defense.

The last of the Yuuzhan Vong impostors lay on the ground behind them, their masquers and vonduun crab armor hacked into smoking pieces.

The French are undoubtedly the most witty people in Europe, and perhaps in the whole world, but Paris is, all the same, the city for impostors and quacks to make a fortune.

This extraordinary man, intended by nature to be the king of impostors and quacks, would say in an easy, assured manner that he was three hundred years old, that he knew the secret of the Universal Medicine, that he possessed a mastery over nature, that he could melt diamonds, professing himself capable of forming, out of ten or twelve small diamonds, one large one of the finest water without any loss of weight.

She would have given all her goods to attain to such communication, and she had several times been deceived by impostors who made her believe that she attained her aim.

Only, the historian must understand that visionaries are neither impostors nor lunatics.