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Sentences ending with deceive

The prediction of old Tabus, who ruled as mistress over so many demons, could not deceive. [10]
I haven't been long enough in politics to learn how to deceive. [11]
Beck Jolly and Joe Bryan--they probably go to Sunday school now--but it will not deceive. [5]
It would not deceive. [5]
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. [5]
Have not all been sent to deceive? [7]
Others were hypocrites and deliberately meant to deceive. [5]

Short sentences using deceive

Do not deceive yourself. [5]
Who can deceive me? [11]
You wouldn't deceive me, Harry? [5]
I did not deceive you--ever. [11]
No caterpillar can deceive Nature. [5]
You would not deceive me? [12]
Do my eyes deceive me? [10]
Let no man deceive himself! [9]

Sentences containing deceive two or more times

We deceive ourselves as often as we deceive others. [4]

More example sentences with the word deceive in them

To please her, you would deceive her son. [10]
I merely wished you to know, Mr. Flint, that there is no use in attempting to deceive me in regard to the true colour of those practices. [9]
He is deceiving you now in small things, great Caesar, and later he will deceive you in greater ones. [10]
And he deceivin' you like he did the company--" "He didn't deceive me," cried Lise. [9]
In Spain there would always be some woman whom he could cajole; some comrade whom he could betray; some priest whom he could deceive, whose pocket he could empty by the recital of his troubles. [11]
No, gentlemen, I will not deceive you, she is not an orphan. [5]
Mannerisms of course will not deceive us, nor extravagances, eccentricities, affectations, nor the straining after effect by the use of coined or far-fetched words and prodigality in adjectives. [4]
At Tuskeegee they will jump to misleading conclusions from insufficient evidence, along with Doctor Parkhurst, and they will deceive the student with the superstition that no gentleman ever swears. [5]
Her manner, so well-controlled, though her features seemed to shrink all at once, if it did not deceive him, gave him the wish to say an affectionate thing. [11]
Her incurable honesty was the deepest thing in her; she did not know even how to deceive herself. [11]
The motive power was lacking, and no matter how hard I tried, I was only half-hearted, and he realized it instinctively--no amount of feigning could deceive him. [9]
But if he wants to deceive me, he had better remember that where the head of a son of Cyrus is about to fall, a Greek head has but very little chance. [10]
Besides, don't let us deceive ourselves,--the war of the dictionaries is only a disguised rivalry of cities, colleges, and especially of publishers. [6]
If you've come up here at this time of night to try to deceive me on that, you might as well go back and wire Flint it's no use. [9]
Others would be unfaithful; and many would deceive, and lie. [5]
Was it not true, if she had been of that class, that Ditmar would not have dared to use and deceive her? [9]
And now she took courage to look more closely at the man--and it was--yes, even in the peasant's clothes he wore he could not deceive her quick eyes--it was Andreas! [10]
The master had told him so, and his own eye could not deceive him. [6]
That once known to you, his fellow twin could never personate him and deceive you. [5]
He gave orders to prepare for a fresh conflict to finish the enemy and did this not to deceive anyone, but because he knew that the enemy was beaten, as everyone who had taken part in the battle knew it. [2]
I have learned to know him, and he will not deceive me any more...." And the Emperor paused, with a frown. [2]
I expect them to deceive me, Victoria, but I pinned my faith somewhere. [9]
It was useless to deceive herself. [10]
It was calculated to deceive all except thinking men, and to silence all save a merciless logician. [9]
It really pretended to be tea, but there was too much dish-rag, and sand, and old bacon-rind in it to deceive the intelligent traveler. [5]
From time to time Slade received warnings from men that he well knew would not deceive him, of the certain end of his conduct. [5]
I should have thought that your own father was example enough of the shameful way in which those lying priests deceive their best friends. [10]
His reply to this generous offer was almost brusque, but it did not deceive the priest. [9]
I did not think to deceive him. [11]
As a rule they are pretty far-fetched, but that is not an important matter; they surprise, they compel admiration, and I notice by some of the comments which his efforts have called forth that they deceive the unwary. [5]
People so deceive themselves about this. [4]
Whatever I am the world can know, for I deceive no one, and I have no fears. [11]
I've never taken the trouble to deceive any one. [9]
The success of the trick that had placed the Vienna bridge in the hands of the French without a fight led Murat to try to deceive Kutuzov in a similar way. [2]
The report that the men-at-arms had seized him had been a fabrication to deceive, for the artist had given himself up. [10]
Know then, that the man who gives himself out for the son of Cyrus, sent me hither; he promised me rich rewards if I would deceive you by declaring him to be Bartja, the son of the Achaemenidae. [10]
He didn't invent the law; it is merely his business to obey it and keep still; join the universal conspiracy and keep so still that he shall deceive his fellow-conspirators into imagining that he doesn't know that the law exists. [5]
Fear is expressed that men will deceive their keepers and the board which is to pass upon them, and obtain parole when they do not deserve it. [4]
And he must tell these lies too, conceal, deceive, and live in hourly fear of discovery. [11]
But people who talk like that either do not know what they are talking about or deliberately deceive themselves. [2]
By all other swearings he doth deceive freely. [11]
In manner and speech though I was somewhat dull, my fellows thought, I was enough like a peasant soldier to deceive them, and my French was more fluent than their own. [11]
They're so aggravating, so unprincipled, so spiteful--unless there's apoplexy in the family, Fred, you can't calculate upon 'em, and even then they deceive you just as often as not. [12]
Afterwards Guida would sit and think of what Detricand had said, and of the honesty of nature that never allowed him to deceive himself. [11]
Did her keen senses deceive her, or was not what was occurring actually a mysterious transformation? [10]
The thought of sending money home made him break into a scoffing laugh, which he turned into a cough in order to deceive the passers. [8]
Temporarily they may seem to be in harmony, and may deceive themselves into the belief that they are at opposite poles equidistant from the equator, and certain to meet on that imaginary line in matrimonial bliss. [4]
I have to put up with political rascals who rob and deceive me as soon as my back is turned, I have to put up with inefficiency and senility, but I won't have it at home. [9]
Having led a pure and blameless life, I am justified in believing that no man who knows me will reject the suggestions I am about to make, out of fear that I am trying to deceive him. [5]
So the Lady Principal, to save her reputation for discipline, had been forced to deceive the press. [9]
But we deceive ourselves by names, if we suppose the frozen part to be treated by cold, and not by heat. [3]
Whatever she said or may yet say had no other design than to deceive my royal mistress. [10]
The unarmed appearance of these men did not deceive the pioneer folk of Lebanon. [11]
But I will not retreat now; I will condense them and print them, giving my word that I am honest and not trying to deceive any one. [5]
But we do not deceive our neighbor; and when we step into Ceylon we realize that we have not even deceived ourselves. [5]
Jorg's conjecture did not deceive him, for as soon as Ulrich perceived that he had been betrayed into a trap, he had leaped into the open air. [10]
However, let me not deceive any one. [5]
He affords us no excuse to deceive ourselves. [7]
And dye will never deceive such as me. [9]
Then he will never deceive her again, my word on't. [9]
Then you see my memory does not deceive me. [10]
But suppose a man does play the hypocrite so as to deceive the officers, who know him as well as any employer knows his workmen or any teacher knows his scholars, and deceives the independent board so as to get a parole. [4]
That's why they make every State a different color; it ain't to deceive you, it's to keep you from deceiving yourself. [5]
You are always lying to me about these secret benevolences, but you never have managed to deceive me yet. [5]
A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise. [5]
Philip, do not let me deceive myself. [11]
It was the law of her nature that she was never to deceive herself, to pretend anything, nor to forgive pretence. [11]
I happen to know, the Judge's opinion to the contrary notwithstanding, that I have never tried to conceal my opinions, nor tried to deceive any one in reference to them. [7]
Don't we all know we are trying to deceive each other and get the best of each other? [4]
I do that kind of speech (I mean an offhand speech), and do it well, and make no mistake in such a way to deceive the audience completely and make that audience believe it is an impromptu speech--that is art. [5]
You thought me just the brazen roue, who seized what came his way, who ate the fruit within his grasp, who lived to deceive for his own selfish joy. [11]
And each had its special significance, for my uncle named them all by their names and described them; whereas his son could copy them so as to deceive the ear, twittering, singing, whistling and calling, each after his kind. [10]
You could take it to almost any country and deceive people with it. [5]
So long as it exists, the wisest practitioner will be liable to deceive himself about the effect of what he calls and loves to think are his remedies. [6]
Dolgorukov was still insisting that the French had retreated and had only lit fires to deceive us. [2]
For some minutes I stood there, my guards stolidly waiting, Gabord muttering a little and stamping upon the floor as if in anger, though I knew he was merely playing a small part to deceive his comrades. [11]
You, too, know how easy it is for the man who has most to do to spare a leisure hour which the person without occupation does not find, and neither of us is accustomed to deceive the other. [10]
You are an honest man, and I am ashamed to deceive you. [10]
And you, whose honest heart they deceive, are the whistler whom the bird-catcher uses to decoy his feathered victims into the snare. [10]
If you knew him as well as I do, you would rejoice with me, and would tell me I was right to believe that the Nile may dry up and the Pyramids crumble into ruins, before my Bartja can ever deceive me! [10]
Did she deceive herself, or hear rightly? [10]
Always unscrupulous, they have descended to the most despicable of tactics in order to deceive the public. [9]
Yet I must have committed them--you would not deceive a stranger. [5]
The prisoner who had tried to deceive him by the shout of 'jackal! [10]
But I really had no desire to deceive anybody, and no expectation of doing it. [5]
Your thousand pretenses for not getting along better are all nonsense; they deceive nobody but yourself. [7]
When man shall flee and woman fail, And folly mock and hope deceive, Let cowards beat the breast and wail, I'll homeward hie; I will not grieve: I'll curtains draw, I'll there set free My heart's beloved boon company. [11]
He tried to find out what the matter was, so that he could help us out of our trouble or make it lighter by sharing it with us; so we had to tell many lies to deceive him and appease him. [5]
He had the fatuousness of those who deceive with impunity. [11]
They glitter brightly enough to deceive the wisest and most cautious, and we garner them up in the most secret caskets of our hearts; but are they not like the coins which the Dervise gave the merchant in the story? [6]
I suppose it doesn't really deceive people any more than the "Arabian Nights" or "Gulliver's Travels" do. [6]
You are wiser; do not deceive me; you understand, and I do not. [11]
She would gladly do all in her power to satisfy the claim, and so she formed the resolve--which seemed to her to possess an atoning power--no longer to deceive the worthy man who loved her so loyally, and for whom she felt an affection. [10]
So the listener did not hear how the incensed monarch continued with the demand that the woman he loved should neither tell him falsehoods nor deceive him. [10]
But this story did not deceive Major Fairfax, whose business it was to know to a dot the standing of everybody in society, in which he was a sort of oracle and privileged favorite. [4]
And it can deceive, whereas the other can't--as a rule. [5]
All men will deceive thee; if not now, yet in time. [11]
This attempt to deceive the public, these defenders of the public interest would expose. [4]
It would not deceive the janitor. [5]
Paper money may deceive the ignorant, but nobody is deceived by tokens of base metal that have no value but merely jingle. [2]

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