cozenage

Example Sentences

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By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company.

From Time Magazine Archive

And when I deliver the Yale lectures to young ministers, I shall tell them that there is a blessed guile, a holy cozenage of the heart whereby they may win their people's souls by stealth.

From St. Cuthbert's by Knowles, Robert E.

David suspected this cozenage in himself, when he cries out, Oh!

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James

Hope never stooped to falser cozenage; we were to be rudely undeceived.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

It falls perpetually into such necessities as drive it into all the meanest and most sordid ways of borrowing, cozenage, and robbery, Mancipiis locopules, eget aris Cappadocum Rex.

From Cowley's Essays by Cowley, Abraham