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"Chicane" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... our purpose to narrate the details of the campaign in Italy; neither is this war of politics and chicane of any great interest at the present day. To the military minds of their age, the scientific duel which now took place upon a large scale, between two such celebrated captains as the Dukes of Guise and Alva, was no doubt esteemed the most important ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... and adjudging my family to beggary and famine. I am innocent, gentlemen, of the darkness and uncertainty of your science. I never darkened it with absurd and contradictory notions, nor confounded it with chicane and sophistry. You have excluded me from any share in the conduct of my own cause; the science was too deep for me; I acknowledged it; but it was too deep even for yourselves: you have made the way so intricate, that you are yourselves ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) • Edmund Burke |
Words linked to "Chicane" : trounce, shaft, jockey, jugglery, vanquish, shell, trickery, dissembling, dupery, movable barrier, deception, hoax, dissimulation, wile, cheat, beat out, object, carp, deceit, put-on, fraudulence, bridge hand, fraud, crush, humbug, beat |
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