Every one commended the
stratagem; and the Emperor commanded the Abyssin to restore all the presents he had received, and delivered them with many more to Peter Leon.
When she saw that she could get no redress and that her words were despised, the Owl attacked the chatterer by a
stratagem. "Since I cannot sleep," she said, "on account of your song which, believe me, is sweet as the lyre of Apollo, I shall indulge myself in drinking some nectar which Pallas lately gave me.
He effected, by
stratagem, the escape of the prisoner.
Gloom at Astoria- An Ingenious
Stratagem.- The Small-Pox Chief.
I bear witness, in the most disinterested manner, to the excellence of the
stratagem by which this unparalleled woman surprised the private interview between Percival and myself-- also to the marvellous accuracy of her report of the whole conversation from its beginning to its end.
A little harmless
stratagem is necessary to forward your views.
Nothing indeed could have happened so very inopportune as this accident; the most wanton malice of fortune could not have contrived such another
stratagem to confound the poor fellow, while he was so triumphantly descanting on the good morals inculcated by his exhibitions.
Sancho fetched him his clothes; and while he was dressing, the curate gave Don Fernando and the others present an account of Don Quixote's madness and of the
stratagem they had made use of to withdraw him from that Pena Pobre where he fancied himself stationed because of his lady's scorn.
The causes of superstition are: pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies; excess of outward and pharisaical holiness; overgreat reverence of traditions, which cannot but load the church; the
stratagems of prelates, for their own ambition and lucre; the favoring too much of good intentions, which openeth the gate to conceits and novelties; the taking an aim at divine matters, by human, which cannot but breed mixture of imaginations: and, lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters.
For want of more exalted adversaries Dominic turned his audacity fertile in impious
stratagems against the powers of the earth, as represented by the institution of Custom-houses and every mortal belonging thereto - scribes, officers, and guardacostas afloat and ashore.
CAPTAIN BONNEVILLE now found himself at the head of a hardy, well-seasoned and well-appointed company of trappers, all benefited by at least one year's experience among the mountains, and capable of protecting themselves from Indian wiles and
stratagems, and of providing for their subsistence wherever game was to be found.
The Marriage-Settlement, the Will, the presence of the family at his country house--all these he believed to be so many
stratagems invented to keep him deceived until the last moment.