cozenage

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"They say this town is full of cozenage, As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks, And many such like libertines of sin."

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various

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

By cozenage almost incredible, Benjamin, at the age of eighteen, had been thus lured off to London; the London of Addison, Pope and Sir Isaac Newton.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

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