For her own breakfast she will project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem. From LearnThat.org. [Edward Young (1683-1765)]
The famous Duguesclin is said to have taken the town by stratagem from the English. From Wordnik.com. [Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre] Reference
The word "Strategy" is a military term derives from the Greek word "stratagem" which means. From Wordnik.com. [Ministry of Defence - Sri Lanka (MOD)] Reference
This part of the stratagem was the most difficult to accomplish. From Wordnik.com. [The Riflemen of the Miami] Reference
"The stratagem was a good one, Demetrius," observed the grand vizier. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf] Reference
They are using every kind of stratagem to create confusion and misunderstanding. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO INTERVIEW WITH DICK BATE ON 18 APRIL 1960] Reference
Baldulf, so that he came within, with such kind of stratagem Baldulf came within. From Wordnik.com. [Roman de Brut. English] Reference
It had a "stratagem" to terminate his DA membership, and had acted in an irrational and capricious way. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
No kind of stratagem, or malicious device in their power, did they omit. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Madame Guyon] Reference
To use any kind of stratagem would offend the delicate and justly-feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference
Know that this gold must coin a stratagem. From Wordnik.com. [Titus Andronicus] Reference
( "No doubt you were inspired by the fact that 'stratagem' spelled backwards is 'megatarts.'. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
Or was this a bold stratagem, to throw dust in his eyes?. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
He had used the stratagem in order to have a witness at hand. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
Even Gorlois, we remember, only gained admittance by stratagem. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Gedeon, with three hundred men, by stratagem defeateth the Madianites. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference
Second, he would use stratagem in order to obtain an interview with her. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
This childish stratagem had, as might have been expected, no great success. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
We were some time in learning what effect our stratagem had had upon the pirates. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
Then he begins to meditate on a very hazardous venture and on a very wondrous stratagem. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
As if his departure were a signal, a roar of laughter from within followed his stratagem. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
To conceal his intentions from the enemy, Wellington had recourse to an elaborate stratagem. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
His stratagem succeeded, and the family of the millionaire is still in possession of its wealth. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
Certain, at least, it is, that in each pursuit all authorities agree that every stratagem is fair. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Here they found that the Spaniards had tried to burn the ship by rather an extraordinary stratagem. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
Some cynics view the turnaround as a stratagem to boost Al Gore's struggling presidential campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Learning To Love Crypto] Reference
No man puts his brain to more use than he, for his life is a daily invention, and each meal a new stratagem. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Quesada feeling very sure of the fate reserved for them, hit upon a stratagem by which he hoped to save their lives. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
The free baron must have known the emperor was in Spain, and had met the fool's stratagem with a final masterly manoeuver. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Detecting the stratagem, the pirates returned to the port, and a battle at long range commenced, which lasted the entire day. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
Then Death had recourse to a stratagem, and disguised herself like a Jesuit, and went where Godfather Misery lived, and preached. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
Do not allow it to be taken away from thee, either by force or by stratagem; nor give it willingly as a present to any stranger's hand. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Cunning supplied the place of the nobler quality; the object of his warfare was to overcome by wily stratagem, rather than by open combat. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
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