SYN: Deception, fraud, artifice, chicanery, knavery, [See ARTIFICE].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Testimony from a County Kerry Seer To another of my fellow students in Oxford, a native Irishman of County Kerry, I am indebted for the following evidence:— A Collective Vision of Spiritual Beings.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Having our self made use of the steerage aforetime, both in the Mauretania and humbler vessels, we feel a certain kindred sympathy for his experiences.
— from Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Christopher Morley

I often, when these temptations have been with force upon me, did compare myself in the case of such a child, whom some gipsy hath by force took up under her apron,[28] and is carrying from friend and country; kick sometimes I did, and also scream and cry; but yet I was as bound in the wings of the temptation, and the wind would carry me away.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

From the latter King he had received more than one letter full of those flattering assurances Charles knew so well how to make.
— from Claverhouse by Mowbray Morris

For answer Captain Keppel smiled at our hero, and then turned to his interrogator.
— from With the Dyaks of Borneo: A Tale of the Head Hunters by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

A remarkable edict of the first or second Agrippa, fragments of which have been found at Canatha (Kanawât), summons the inhabitants to leave off their "animal-conditions" and to exchange their cavern-life for civilised existence.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen

Wooden floors and fireplaces are commonly kept sacred to heads of bureaus and divisions; and so are closets, wardrobes, mahogany tables, sofas and armchairs covered with red or green morocco, silk curtains, and other articles of administrative luxury.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac