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Usage examples of "manoeuvers".
He had stepped out of the ranks, and was performing strange manoeuvers about a knothole that looked into the courting-box.
Fitzjohn, watching her manoeuvers with the snuff-box in a good deal of astonishment, said: “Oh no, just a trifling question of a horse he had a mind to purchase.
Marguerite watched him for a little while longer: he was evidently endeavouring to make her think that he had become oblivious of her presence, and his transparent little manoeuvers amused and puzzled her not a little.