cozenage

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"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

And thou art grown expert in this sort of cozenage.

From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)

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