play false
Example Sentences
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Did I play false with you when I saved you from the spits of the Minimuls?
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
I had to tell lies and play false, but’t was to you an’ Mr. Grimbal I’ve been double, not to my husband that is.
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
My ears are strung to-day, And play false airs invented by the wind.
From The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
And so Captain Jones of the Mayflower was bribed by Dutch gold to play false with the band of Pilgrims.
From The Landing of the Pilgrims by Claire Turner Zyve
It would seem that most of them have secret, underhand agreements to play false to their best friends, whenever it suits their purpose.
From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 18, March 11, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various
