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Example sentences for "guile"

Lexicographically close words:
guilder; guilders; guilds; guildsman; guildsmen; guileful; guilefully; guileless; guilelessness; guillemot
  1. So early dost thou surfeit with the wealth, For which thou fearedst not in guile to take The lovely lady, and then mangle her?

  2. And for the traitors shall be noted plain, Command your guard to change the arms they have, So shall their guile be known, in their own net So shall they fall, caught in the snare they set.

  3. Use open force, or secret guile unspied; For craft is virtue gainst a foe defied.

  4. As before, she exhibited a surprising meekness under this rebuke, though I uneasily wondered if there might not be guile beneath it.

  5. It was hard for me to realize that his simple, kindly face could mask the guile he had displayed the night before.

  6. He was being forced to play a deep game with her and was meeting guile with guile.

  7. Did you see Miss Guile after that visit to St. Cloud--and to the police station?

  8. He recognised the car as the one that had taken Miss Guile away from the Gare St. Lazare, and stepped forward instantly to intercept the man.

  9. You must think well, dear Rex, before you ask Bedelia Guile to be your wife.

  10. Robin and Miss Guile emerged from the low, forbidding door and stood side by side on the pavement looking up and down the street in search of the car.

  11. Miss Guile complains of the draft from the door.

  12. And, sure enough, there were the chairs of Miss Guile and her companion snugly stowed away in the corner, standing at right angles to the long row that lined the deck, the foot rests pointed directly at the chair R.

  13. He had no means of knowing that a certain Miss Guile was doing more to shape the destiny of the principality of Graustark than all the millions he had poured into its treasury.

  14. The exquisite features of Miss Guile were barely distinguishable beneath the surface of this filmy barrier.

  15. The beautiful Miss Guile has bewitched our Prince, and my labour is not only lost but I myself am lost.

  16. Now it is necessary to relate that Miss Guile had been particularly firm in her commands to Mrs. Gaston.

  17. We sneak into this Godforsaken hamlet, surrounded on all sides by abominations in the shape of tourists, and at the end of twenty-four hours we discover that the fair Miss Guile has played us a shabby trick.

  18. And there was something in Carrington's manner and appearance that suggested guile and smooth cunning.

  19. The guile is that shown by Boniface in getting his predecessor Celestine v.

  20. And Diomedes: The two are associated in deeds of blood and guile at the siege of Troy.

  21. Tis Jason, who by courage and by guile The Colchians of the ram deprived.

  22. They knew of the ability of some at least of England's generals to match guile against guile, and back up guile with swift, unexpected hammer-strokes.

  23. Prince Philip I betray'd, And now myself fall; guile with guile is paid.

  24. The open affront which the Count of Paris put upon the Emperor, was one which he was likely to avenge, either by secret guile or by open force.

  25. O bull of the Bharata race, in the Krita age, everything was free from deceit and guile and avarice and covetousness; and morality like a bull was among men, with all the four legs complete.

  26. And that one of a graceful countenance, and void of guile worshipped Chyavana, and also ministered unto guests, and the sacred fire.

  27. Although, forsooth, there was guile behind it.

  28. But," said she, "his love lay not so deep but that he would have avenged him for my guile on my very body had he taken us.

  29. For seest thou not that I should have found out all the guile at Utterbol, and owed thy lady hatred rather than love thereafter.

  30. Odin bids us slay our foe by guile or by force; but, in the name of the White Christ, I now tell you to go free.

  31. The day was come--his guests were all assembled; They fancied that some guile Lurked in his ample smile; Each on the other looked, and somewhat trembled.

  32. Was the Saganaw not right, when he said the Ottawa came with guile in his heart, and with a lie upon his lips?

  33. What force or guile could not subdue, Thro' many warlike ages, Is wrought now by a coward few For hireling traitor's wages.

  34. His heart was heavy because of the guile that his tongue must practise, and his face was dark as a winter dawn.

  35. So, as was his nature, he turned to guile for shelter, like a fox to his hole, and spoke to them with the tongue of a lawman; for Gizur had great skill in speech.

  36. I am not minded indeed to do thee such harm, Earl, but this thou knowest: that woman's guile and beauty are swords few shields can brook.

  37. For various reasons he decided to use guile rather than force.

  38. Salicetti and Buonaparte now plan by various artifices to gain the citadel of Ajaccio from the Paolists, but guile is three times foiled by guile equally astute.

  39. Of whose guile were it lawful for me to make as full exposure as were fitting, not a few simple folk should soon be enlightened as to what they cloak within the folds of their voluminous habits.

  40. So Musciatto, having bethought him of this Ser Cepparello, with whose way of life he was very well acquainted, judged him to be the very sort of person to cope with the guile of the Burgundians.

  41. Renier Shall have a letter of her guile and flight.

  42. So much lord Renier who slipt him in Revealed, that I might guile you.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    art; artfulness; artifice; cleverness; craft; cunning; deceit; deception; dexterity; dissemblance; dissimulation; duplicity; falseness; finesse; fraud; guile; hypocrisy; indirection; intrigue; inventiveness; readiness; sharpness; shrewdness; sophistry; stealth; subtlety; trickery; wile; wit