| 单词 | befooling |
| 例句 | According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it referred to "a hoax; a jesting or befooling trick," as well as any "thing which is not really what it pretends to be," like a sham or fraud. What does "Bah, humbug!" actually mean? 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z And now a suspicion flashed upon him that she was merely befooling him, so he came at once and sharply to the point. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z Surely there be small triumph in befooling thee, for thou art too easy hoodwinked withal. A Maid of Many Moods 2011-08-23T02:00:27.517Z Here Mr. Purcell went off into an enormous guffaw of laughter, amused to the last degree, and probably in doubt whether to think of his informant as befooled or befooling. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z I plied him with drink, striving to learn all that I could, hoping against hope that there would be some way of befooling him and securing the antidote without the poison.... Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 I thought at first the lad was befooling me; but on examining the substance, I found that it was animal matter calcined, and had indeed formed part of a human being. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge The watch over the gold is relinquished, and a little amusement sought in tantalizing and befooling the clumsy wooer. The Wagnerian Romances And though they dig deep to hide their counsels, is not this a time of God's overreaching and befooling all plotting wits? The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) Without reading it, but successfully befooling himself into the belief that he was glad to have it, he went whistling up to his room. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life He felt himself to have been trapped, befooled, though he had not yet fully grasped the manner of the befooling. Antony Gray,—Gardener And it was at this juncture that Kenwick had recourse to a curious befooling of himself in which long practice had made him an adept. A Venetian June The Brahmin, now fully persuaded that his eyes were befooling him, threw down the goat and went away without it; whereupon the three companions took possession of it and cooked it. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 “No,” said Mary, who considered the befooling of Miss Butts beneath her. Betty Wales Senior These genial, stout, but sometimes testy Amager wives have it all their own way in the market-place, and are clever in attracting and befooling a customer. Denmark At any time he would have enjoyed befooling and tormenting Othello. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth We're a thousand miles of hell's own winter, and a pretty tough sea, from the politicians who spend their lives befooling a crowd of unthinking muttons. The Man in the Twilight Lawford forgave the latter for befooling him in the matter of her condition in life; indeed, he realized that he had deceived himself. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper The Runenberg gives in a very powerful way the idea of the weird fascination which the subterranean powers were supposed to exert over men, alluring and befooling them, and rousing their thirst for gold. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times It never occurred to him that his young queen was playing a part to hide the truth, befooling him for the better concealment of her misdeeds. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 With this befooling they completed the perversion of a mind which even before was not so strong or sound as it should have been. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans It was as though my memories of all Jonathan's horrid experience were befooling me. Dracula Yesterday, the excitement had buoyed her; she had gained a piquant enjoyment from befooling him, playing her part of the amateur crackswoman in this little comedy of the stolen jewels. The Brass Bowl Harriet there, serious-minded, thinking I was being befooled, and the agent thinking he was befooling me, and I, thinking I was befooling both of them—and all of us wrong. Adventures in Contentment "And you really need me to point out how prettily those turtles were befooling you?" The Westcotes "You wished to know something of the subject with which that lecturer was befooling himself and the audience at the same time." David Elginbrod |
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