cozenage

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Their system of cozenage is not only applied to persons outside the profession, from whom they expect material gains; it is always at work to take in and delude the members of the guild.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo

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