You know I never get or save any Thing by cozening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 - 5 July 1774] Reference

In the end, would all the cozening of Amdijefri be for nothing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

False, smiling, cozening traitor! — and for that unfeminine barbarian!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Count Robert of Paris] Reference

"The lying varlet! the cozening knave!" exclaimed the young man, indignantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference

The point was, I think, that it's often used in wheedling, cozening, suggesting, and complaining.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CHINESE.] Reference

What is going to change about Israel and its apartheid government with Obama cozening up to its leadership?.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: It's Nieve to think Obama means change] Reference

Georgian talents at corruption and cozening occupying powers developed over almost 1,000 years of occupations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Understanding Georgia versus Russia in the Caucasus Crisis] Reference

'Don't you go cozening any more gifts from pirate captains' mates, 'said the widow in a strangely altered voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowfane]

All the Barony's meanness, all its petty (and not so petty) cruelties, all its cozening and ly - ing lay before her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wizard and Glass]

HORSE-COURSER. 0, what a cozening doctor was this!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616] Reference

Why then, teach me no other art But the fine art of cozening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comedies. Translated into English, with notes [by Richard Cumberland and others]] Reference

'Brimstone and gall,' thundered Hook, 'what cozening is here?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Wendy] Reference

What damned cozening, gulling, and coney-catching have we here!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference

I am only glad that he did not succeed in cozening you further than he did.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belton Estate] Reference

I will have no gallivanting, no cozening and smiling and prating and distracting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desert Dust] Reference

I have made a scurvy bargain: art a cozening knave, I doubt, as well as a nincompoop. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference

Struggle forces upon the group the necessity of cozening, beguiling, managing its members.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

The consumption a flattering disease, cozening men into hope of long life at the last gasp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.] Reference

Demonstration I will, if you will banish all your cozening Quacks, and take my wholesome Advice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.] Reference

A real expert in cozening, a master of guile, was wanted to exploit the opportunity to its limit.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Stands Accused] Reference

'For the rest, what you will I will do: submission to the King and such cozening as he will ask of me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference

But even the basest of the yokels and groundlings could not make merry over the cozening of so noble a gentleman!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee] Reference

A fine life thou hast of it with thy silks and thy baubles, cozening the last few shillings from the pouches of dying men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Company] Reference

Then he would have fled from the danger of her presence, but the eyes grew long and cozening, like a gypsy's, and held him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roads of Destiny] Reference

He had brought the art of cozening strange dogs to perfection; and for the exigence of escape, his physical equipment was complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Scoundrels] Reference

Whatever Anne's reason for doing so, it was to this scortatory old scab that she turned for help in cozening the fair young Countess.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Stands Accused] Reference

Prithee, Queen Tittany, no more such cozening possets! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance] Reference

The cozening words of Spaniards are sometimes more deadly than their swords. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Margaret] Reference

"If it do but happen pat, we shall have served the King and punished two cozening faint-hearts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel] Reference

Some time, "said the lady, with eyes long and cozening, like a gypsy's," I will try to thank you for your goodness. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Roads of Destiny] Reference