Sentence example with the word 'stratagem'

stratagem

action, chouse, cover, dodge, gambit, jury-rigged expedient, means, protestation, semblance, stroke of policy, working proposition

Definition n. a maneuver in a game or conversation

Last update: May 29, 2016


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Seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.   [noun]

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Catatonia in the infant is not visible because he binds himself to the parent via the stratagem of identification with that parent.   [noun]

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The Fronde had been a time of pleasurable excitement to the high-spirited girl, whose mixed blood ran like quicksilver, and who delighted in danger and party strife, stratagem and intrigue.   [noun]

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"And is it possible to believe, then, that my brother, out of avarice to grasp at my inheritance, would lend himself to such a base and dreadful stratagem."   [noun]

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"A stratagem--a mere trick," said Burley, "an insult over our disappointment, intended to aggravate and embitter our spirits."   [noun]

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As soon as his friends heard this, they resolved to go to Sais and try to rescue him by stratagem.   [noun]

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Whoever takes by force or stratagem that which is not the product of his labor, destroys his social character--he is a brigand.   [noun]

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"He would rejoice in the stratagem, by which an isolated individual tried to escape a superior force."   [noun]

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An opportune failure of breath on his part helped the stratagem.   [noun]

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Nor could the holiest love, by any stratagem, lull me to a rest which conscience would not strangle.   [noun]

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"A stratagem of the Saracens," cried Henry of Champagne.   [noun]

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