A feint is a great move in the sport of fencing because it fools the opponent. From LearnThat.org.
"The feint a-fear o 'me," says he, the hertless skemp 'at he is. From Wordnik.com. [My Man Sandy] Reference
But there one name that make the left-wing go crazy and feint, which is a good signal. From Wordnik.com. [Pajamas Media] Reference
Bethlehem saw a "feint" on the part of St. Paul in the disputed passage. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Augustin] Reference
Again abusing the in-game voice, you can use it to aid your defense through a move called a "feint". From Wordnik.com. [IGN Complete] Reference
This "feint," however, was only made in order to divert our attention, while Buller was concentrating his troops and guns on Spion Kop. From Wordnik.com. [My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War] Reference
"feint" on Haines's Bluff, but he did not like to order me to do it, because it might be reported at the North that I had again been. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Complete] Reference
Taylor's feint, while two shelled the main column. From Wordnik.com. [The Brigade Commander] Reference
The general plan involved a feint on our left toward. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
But his feint worked because it was grounded in truth. From Wordnik.com. [Try a Little Tenderness] Reference
Do we feint to the right for a bit of the old double bluff?. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Warriors] Reference
A deep flush suffused my face and I felt the futility of my feint. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She caught her companion's hand as Ecciva made a feint of turning away. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
The alarm, however, was false -- only a feint on the part of the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [General Gordon Saint and Soldier] Reference
He made a feint of landing at one point, and actually landed at another. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
He came at me, made a feint with his left and then let drive with his right. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
Charlotte from Knoxville; even a feint in that quarter will be most important. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Tricked by the feint, Louie lurched forward with a sweeping blow of the black-jack. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
As so often with the EU, this row started by Mr. Lewandowski is in some ways a feint. From Wordnik.com. [Future of the EU Is Up for Grabs] Reference
He cuts across his path every now and then, but part of the time he only makes a feint so. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
We're only waiting to know if this is the real push, or only a feint, and then we strike. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
You move slowly through me, and light bounces from one skin to the other, a kind of feint. From Wordnik.com. [Poem with Radiometer] Reference
This was a feint, as they intended, it is thought, to have surprised the town of Newcastle. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
He made a feint to go under the bank as though to land, and then shot suddenly into midstream. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
The better to deceive the enemy, General Foster made feint of rebuilding the bridge under fire. From Wordnik.com. [Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro (North Carolina) expedition, December, 1862] Reference
For this our bookman uses single sheets of paper, eight inches by five, ruled with feint lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
He was young and fit and able; also, he had Milt's cunning brain to direct every feint and punch. From Wordnik.com. [Vital Ingredient] Reference
It was by a feint of this description that the second game was decided in favour of the Navarrese. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
Master of Lovat was a mere feint to save himself at the expense of his son, if affairs went wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
It needed little pressing on our part to break down the feint which had been set up by way of opposition. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Fudge, feint, deny and otherwise try to fake their way out of trouble when they have been caught doing something wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Moi?' Defense] Reference
At worst, it is simply a tactical feint designed to deflect international criticism -- and to keep American aid flowing. From Wordnik.com. [With Friends Like Islamabad, Who Needs Enemies?] Reference
Turner's Ferry, demonstrating as much as possible, thus keeping up the feint below while we were actually crossing above. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Under cover of night our right wing was withdrawn to the north side of the river, Lee being completely deceived by Wilson's feint. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The criminal thought she had suggested was, he knew, only a feint to test him, but it was enough to justify his abandonment of her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Union Square, an island of park, beginning to be succulent at the first false feint of spring, rising as it were from a sea of asphalt. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Stono to be a feint, and the real object at Bull's Bay, supposing, from the number of steamers and boats, that we had several thousand men. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
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