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  • While Redd's forces were occupied with the decoys, Alyss and her companions made it to the outskirts of the Chessboard Desert.†   (source)
  • But Ender began to see how well the buggers used seemingly random flight paths to create confusion, how they used decoys and false retreats to draw the I.F. ships into traps.†   (source)
  • A decoy of sorts.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, the black strip I was watching above the ramp speckled with red—the Iraqis had kicked on anti-aircraft radars and weapons that intel had claimed didn't exist, and the chopper pilots began shooting off decoy flares and chaff to confuse them.†   (source)
  • I had assumed that it was empty, that it went up in the air as a decoy.†   (source)
  • Two nuclear" devices were actually detonated against Ouster staging areas: the first was deflected by energy fields and the second destroyed a single scoutship which may have been a decoy.†   (source)
  • Out there, often in uncharted desert wasteland near the water, we'd see rocket launchers in the distance and drive right onto them, only to find they were just decoys, huge fake missile containers pointing at the sky, made out of scrap metal and old iron bars.†   (source)
  • The pair of mud hens floated like wooden decoys, and the water-skiers looked tanned and athletic, and the high school band was packing up its instruments, and the woman in pedal pushers patiently rebaited her hook for one last try.†   (source)
  • Just like duck decoys in front of a hunter's blind.†   (source)
  • The cello is inside, and the hard case is a decoy.†   (source)
  • The decoy cops were the homeliest hookers I had ever seen—think J. Edgar Hoover in drag—but that didn't stop men from seeking their services.†   (source)
  • Just Black was laid out as the decoy, and I was going to be the fool.†   (source)
  • We'll send out a decoy to the left," Thalia told the team.†   (source)
  • On a shelf opposite the windows lay a random assortment of books that she guessed had been left behind by other visitors, some hunting decoys—ducks—and a stuffed squirrel.†   (source)
  • Your daughter is a decoy?†   (source)
  • Sometimes Miro acted as a decoy in the makeshift marketplaces, while Ariel's swift hands grabbed and clutched whatever was at hand.†   (source)
  • A third, decoyed into hitting a flare, exploded harmlessly.†   (source)
  • During the races he sent Howard over to his box at the main Santa Anita track as a decoy while he led Seabiscuit over to the training track nearby.†   (source)
  • Only needing two trucks, we used a third as a decoy and backup.†   (source)
  • For my decoy project, I wanted to job-shadow a social worker, which the Senior Boards committee approved.†   (source)
  • So he palmed you off on the Lightwoods and hoped you might be of some use to him later, as a decoy.†   (source)
  • "That man up there is a decoy," replied Jason, his soft voice suspended in a cold monotone.†   (source)
  • That it's a decoy?"†   (source)
  • Taking the floor in protest, Adams called Sullivan a decoy duck sent to seduce Congress into renunciation of independence.†   (source)
  • The breath at the door again, the sound of a light footfall headed toward my decoy.†   (source)
  • The carefully erected decoys she was constantly shuffling and changing to fit the situation were of no use here.†   (source)
  • We needed to stay as consistent as possible with the others—those decoys—that preceded you.†   (source)
  • The game went back and forth between us, and I only played on about three snaps, one of which was in the backfield simply as a decoy with Chris as the quarterback.†   (source)
  • In actuality, the armored car is a decoy—for security measures, Oswald will be led to a police car instead.†   (source)
  • He uses them as slaves, decoys, human shields.†   (source)
  • There were old boats, motors, duck decoys, and fishnets littering your front yard.†   (source)
  • She was the decoy, the deception, the pretty clean face.†   (source)
  • Phil guzzles his coffee and then loads up the truck with decoys, shotgun shells, and his favorite gun.†   (source)
  • She would have to fight the ghosts massed at crossroads for the buns a few thoughtful citizens leave to decoy her away from village and home so that the ancestral spirits could feast unharassed.†   (source)
  • After a few miles Randy told Malachai to look for signs of the place where Dan Gunn had been decoyed and beaten.†   (source)
  • He'll imagine he's outsmarting us every time he outmaneuvers one of our decoys.†   (source)
  • But she'll keep him alive as long as he's the only one she's got, because she'll want to use him as a decoy; as bait to catch the rest of you with.†   (source)
  • Crouching down beneath the Cloak, he placed the Decoy Detonator on the ground.†   (source)
  • Harry took a look through it and saw that they were all still gathered around the Decoy Detonator.†   (source)
  • "You will suggest to the Order of the Phoenix," Snape murmured, "that they use decoys.†   (source)
  • However, you must plant the idea of decoys; that, I think, ought to ensure Harry's safety.†   (source)
  • Your decoys were crude and childish— "I get it," said Max quietly, feeling his face burn.†   (source)
  • Marie St. Jacques was expendable, a baited decoy that would die in the trap that caught Cain.†   (source)
  • I still wasn't loving the idea of Alex as a decoy bride, but I figured I'd better move things along.†   (source)
  • In time, the tow rope to the boat captured her attention like a hypnotic decoy.†   (source)
  • Instead, we could send out a decoy to trick the eagles.†   (source)
  • The decoy ran forward at twenty knots for two minutes to clear the Dallas, then slowed.†   (source)
  • As Jase was blowing on both of them, a flight of gad-walls turned and came right down to our decoys.†   (source)
  • The Agents insisted I'd be the best decoy out there," Nigel admitted sheepishly.†   (source)
  • I was an innocent hostage picked up in the streets and used as a shield as well as a decoy.†   (source)
  • During the actual trip, the guards used a decoy that split from us to a different route.†   (source)
  • "Either the dream was wrong," Leo said, "or the giants moved the sword here as a decoy."†   (source)
  • Cooper's conjured decoy dissolved in a billow of black smoke and Max realized he'd been duped.†   (source)
  • You say there's been constant pressure on the decoy to maintain a negative, highly visible profile.†   (source)
  • Either ignored the decoy or flat didn't hear it.†   (source)
  • They've all gone after our decoy, who's probably halfway to Malaysia by now.'†   (source)
  • What kind of decoy are we talking about?†   (source)
  • It was the date when the man whose identity was taken for decoy was killed.†   (source)
  • This American is decoying to try to take us away from him.†   (source)
  • Because the decoy was born there; it's possible.†   (source)
  • Whoever calls will ask for the room they assigned him, certainly not the decoy's, not Wadsworth's.'†   (source)
  • There's also a place where the strategy was, conceived, where the decoy was created.†   (source)
  • He'd kill everything in sight, but the main objective would be the decoy.†   (source)
  • He claims he was never the decoy; it was never him!†   (source)
  • Delta-Bourne became the Cain that was the decoy for Carlos.†   (source)
  • You're telling me your man is three people: himself, decoy and target.†   (source)
  • I don't know why Reich even bothered to decoy Graham to Ganymede with that sale.†   (source)
  • The one that Reich used to decoy Dr. Jordan off the planet.†   (source)
  • Our only chance is to use decoys.†   (source)
  • Forget the decoys!†   (source)
  • True Grail academics agreed that Rosslyn was a decoy—one of the devious dead ends the Priory crafted so convincingly.†   (source)
  • I can't do that!" said Harry, who had already pulled out his money bag to pay for the Decoy Detonators.†   (source)
  • The Temple Church was the perfect location to steal the keystone from Robert and Sophie, and its apparent relevance to the poem made it a plausible decoy.†   (source)
  • The pamphlet-makers were still clustered around the remains of the Decoy Detonator, which continued to hoot feebly as it smoked.†   (source)
  • His mind grappled with possibilities as he crept down them: He still had a couple of Decoy Detonators, but perhaps it would be better to simply knock on the courtroom door, enter as Runcorn, and ask for a quick word with Mafalda?†   (source)
  • "Robes," she said under her breath, acknowledging their presence with a nervous nod and continuing to poke around in her beaded bag, "Polyjuice Potion … Invisibility Cloak … Decoy Detonators … You should each take a couple just in case … Puking Pastilles, Nosebleed Norgat, Extendable Ears …"†   (source)
  • Decoy?†   (source)
  • Who's the decoy?†   (source)
  • He's the decoy and knows nothing.†   (source)
  • Since I wasn't able to go through the normal channels to get my real project approved, I also had to work on a second senior project as a decoy, so no one would question why I hadn't submitted a senior project application and why I wasn't attending meetings with my adviser.†   (source)
  • That has to be a decoy, right?†   (source)
  • It takes camaraderie and a willingness to work with the other hunters in your blind to set up the decoys and call in unison.†   (source)
  • e., let no girl, no gun, no cards, no flutes, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness decoy you from your books.†   (source)
  • And perhaps he had dispatched her to America to act as a decoy, a shiny object that would occupy the Americans' attention while the real terrorists—the men who worked for a moving company in Alexandria, Virginia—engaged in their final preparations unmolested.†   (source)
  • Carlos had mounted a strategy employing not one but seven, conceivably eight, decoys, all expendable, all led to their terrible death by the consummate self-protector.†   (source)
  • It's way more fun trying to get a big group hovering over your decoys—and it looks better on film too.†   (source)
  • The blue-winged teals are a lot of fun to hunt because they fly very fast and make erratic twists and turns as they fly low over your decoy spreads.†   (source)
  • "Let no trifling diversion or amusement or company decoy you from your books," he lectured himself in his diary, "i. e., let no girl, no gun, no cards, no flutes, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness decoy you from your books.†   (source)
  • But the hammer only slammed into the floor as Ronin's decoy dissipated and promptly reformed as though made of magnetized smoke.†   (source)
  • When we got to the shooting porch, ducks that circled to look at the decoys often flew right in front of us.†   (source)
  • Decoys.†   (source)
  • Phil has more than forty duck blinds on his property, and Godwin is the guy who sets up and organizes the decoys and makes sure everything is working properly.†   (source)
  • I turned the flock, and it began to circle, dipping lower as the ducks approached our decoys and blind.†   (source)
  • The Dallas trailed a thousand yards behind the decoy, dropping several hundred feet below its course track.†   (source)
  • And when they do, Phil blows his calls, with Jase calling along beside him, helping to replicate the exact sound of the ducks for the decoys in the spread.†   (source)
  • The Dallas' four torpedo tubes were loaded with three Mark 48s and a decoy, an expensive MOSS (mobile submarine simulator).†   (source)
  • They would not decoy if he was dead.†   (source)
  • An American sub is decoying.†   (source)
  • Do you carry decoys?†   (source)
  • The cover itself is a decoy-very visible, very negative, constant pressure applied to maintain that visibility.†   (source)
  • It's not just your man assuming the role of the decoy, but the decoy himself transferring his identity to the one he's after.†   (source)
  • Say there was a date-a month and a day-that was significant to the mocked dossier-the decoy's dossier.†   (source)
  • The purpose is to draw out a target similar to the decoy by convincing the target that the decoy's a threat, forcing the target into the open.†   (source)
  • Could such a man under these circumstances begin to … believe he's the decoy, assume the characteristics, absorb the mocked dossier to the point where he believes it's him?†   (source)
  • Not as the decoy.†   (source)
  • Beyond the decoy.†   (source)
  • To kill the decoy.†   (source)
  • Dan's first thought was that she had turned her ankle; his second, that she could be a decoy for an ambush.†   (source)
  • While Maria Beaumont was occupying Reich's attention with her squawking flight, a bright young attorney from Monarch's legal department was deftly decoyed to Mars and held there anonymously on a valid, if antiquated, vice charge.†   (source)
  • Francie put two walnuts for decoys in her last year's Easter basket and the children set out.†   (source)
  • Oh, you decoy, you wooden-headed decoy, you let 'em!†   (source)
  • See here: On Wednesday evening, Simpson decoys away the cook.†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, your theory that the people here sent someone vaguely into the world to decoy strangers, and that this fellow deliberately learned flying and bided his time until it happened that a suitable machine was due to leave Baskul with four passengers …. well, I won't say that it's literally impossible, though it does seem to me ridiculously farfetched.†   (source)
  • An enormous eagle-owl who was sometimes used as a decoy, but who was at present standing on a perch in the shade of the cloister, opened his eyes when the bells rang.†   (source)
  • Her gentle efforts to guide the hand of destiny, by decoying her master with feeble tricks or by reticent considerations—these had not been strong enough to be recognized in the despotism of life.†   (source)
  • The old gentleman could not be decoyed outside of his grounds at night.†   (source)
  • How could they have decoyed him down there?†   (source)
  • It seems to be a provision of Nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race.†   (source)
  • You will play decoy whilst I beg.†   (source)
  • It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid some terrible trap for her.†   (source)
  • He's young and inconsiderate, and those Northern rascals decoyed him.†   (source)
  • Sunday mornings Carol heard him trudging up to the attic and there, an hour later, she found him turning over boots, wooden duck-decoys, lunch-boxes, or reflectively squinting at old shells, rubbing their brass caps with his sleeve and shaking his head as he thought about their uselessness.†   (source)
  • I looked over the paper, for I really did not know what he meant, but he took it from me and pointed out a paragraph about children being decoyed away at Hampstead.†   (source)
  • I felt the risk I ran of being circumvented, blinded, decoyed, bullied, perhaps, into taking a definite part in a dispute impossible of decision if one had to be fair to all the phantoms in possession—to the reputable that had its claims and to the disreputable that had its exigencies.†   (source)
  • —and the old one de Tournay—were they the two fugitives who, unconsciously, were used as a decoy, to entrap their fearless and noble rescuer.†   (source)
  • She's the decoy for the pack.†   (source)
  • A philanthropist and friend of labor bishop—a Civic Federation decoy duck for the chloroforming of the wage-working-man!†   (source)
  • In a town, he thought every second person a decoy, and every third house a place in which seamen would be drugged and murdered.†   (source)
  • The idea of using her as a decoy was clearly already in his mind, though he may not have been certain how the details of his plot were to be arranged.†   (source)
  • F. H. M.' Now my theory all along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was responsible for her disappearance.†   (source)
  • Great chasing, fluttering and cackling ensued; but with no success whatever, until my wife recalled her panting sons, and, scattering some handfuls of grain within the open tent, soon decoyed the fowls and pigeons into the enclosure; where, when the curtain was dropped, they were easily caught, tied together, and placed on the cow.†   (source)
  • The very agitation and abruptness of Henchard increased Farfrae's suspicion that this was a ruse to decoy him on to the next wood, where might be effectually compassed what, from policy or want of nerve, Henchard had failed to do earlier in the day.†   (source)
  • 'Do you mean to tell me that your pretty niece was not brought here as a decoy for the drunken boy downstairs?'†   (source)
  • Some asserted that she lost her way among the tangled mazes of the swamp, and sank into some pit or slough; others, more uncharitable, hinted that she had eloped with the household booty, and made off to some other province; while others surmised that the tempter had decoyed her into a dismal quagmire, on the top of which her hat was found lying.†   (source)
  • The anguish he had exhibited on the moor subsided as soon as ever he entered Wuthering Heights; so I guessed he had been menaced with an awful visitation of wrath if he failed in decoying us there; and, that accomplished, he had no further immediate fears.†   (source)
  • He said he had travelled through the Northern States and Canada; and though the abolitionists had tried to decoy him away, they had never succeeded.†   (source)
  • It is now some ten days since Ishmael, pitying the state in which he saw me, a humble lover of science, imparted the fact that the vehicle contained a beast, which he was carrying into the prairies as a decoy, by which he intends to entrap others of the same genus, or perhaps species.†   (source)
  • 'I must get Merdle's doctor to catch and secure him, I suppose,' said Ferdinand; 'and then I must lay hold of my illustrious kinsman, and decoy him if I can—drag him if I can't—to the conference.'†   (source)
  • They want to decoy me there and confound me over everything," he mused, as he went out on to the stairs—"the worst of it is I'm almost light-headed….†   (source)
  • Instead, however, of braving the resentment of his father, of whose fierce nature, when aroused, he had had too frequent evidence to excite it wantonly, he turned upon the cowering person of Abiram, observing with a sneer— "This then is the beast you were bringing into the prairies for a decoy!†   (source)
  • In the course of the afternoon a lad was sent by Mr. Sands to tell grandmother that William did not return with him; that the abolitionists had decoyed him away.†   (source)
  • Do not be decoy'd elsewhere, That is the whistle of the wind, it is not my voice, That is the fluttering, the fluttering of the spray, Those are the shadows of leaves.†   (source)
  • Lenehan's lips over the counter lisped a low whistle of decoy.†   (source)
  • Decoy duck.†   (source)
  • Decoy.†   (source)
  • And that thou mayest clearly see this, say, Anselmo, hast thou not told me that I must force my suit upon a modest woman, decoy one that is virtuous, make overtures to one that is pure-minded, pay court to one that is prudent?†   (source)
  • We now went directly to the gaming-table, where Mr Watson, to my surprize, pulled out a large sum of money and placed it before him, as did many others; all of them, no doubt, considering their own heaps as so many decoy birds, which were to intice and draw over the heaps of their neighbours.†   (source)
  • My opinion was, that nothing could be done till night, when I might use some artifice to get them all out of the boat; but of a sudden they started up, and made to the sea-side; hereupon I ordered Friday and the Captain's mate to go over the creek, and halloo as loud as they could, and so decoying them into the woods, come round to me again.†   (source)
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