1 My faithful friend and noble patron," continued Laurie with a wave of the hand, "who has so flatteringly presented me, is not to be blamed for the base stratagem of tonight.
2 You killed many a man in those days, and it was through your stratagem that Priam's city was taken.
3 The author, by an extraordinary stratagem, prevents an invasion.
4 It now appeared that Snowball had not, as the animals had previously imagined, merely attempted to lose the Battle of the Cowshed by means of a stratagem, but had been openly fighting on Jones's side.
5 That can only be done by stratagem, and by catching him when he is not surrounded by these people.
6 "I wonder that my very simple stratagem could deceive so old a SHIKARI," said Holmes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 7 But as if perceiving this stratagem, Moby Dick, with that malicious intelligence ascribed to him, sidelingly transplanted himself, as it were, in an instant, shooting his pleated head lengthwise beneath the boat.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day. 8 He unhesitatingly refused my request, and told me this was another stratagem by which to escape.
9 My voice had an accent of forced bravery in it and I was ashamed of my paltry stratagem.
10 I am arranging a stratagem of war in his pathway on the wooded slope, to block a gorge on the highroad with armed troops.
11 Assaults were effected either by open force, or by force and stratagem combined.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXXII. 12 The colonel had to resort to all kinds of stratagems to keep his slaves out of the garden.
13 In accomplishing this, I was compelled to resort to various stratagems.
14 They hang, behead, and impale their criminals in the most agreeable possible manner; but some of these, like clever rogues, have contrived to escape human justice, and succeed in their fraudulent enterprises by cunning stratagems.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 15 They want me to marry again at once, and I have to invent stratagems in order to deceive them.