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 thou art grown expert in this sort of cozenage.
From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage which man can put upon the providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
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
Is not it a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter to-morrow?
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William
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