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  • I get to park in front now since Miss Celia finally dropped the ruse and told Mister Johnny what he already knew.  (source)
    ruse = deception
  • ...part of some great ruse to get Adam in to see me.  (source)
    ruse = deceptive maneuver
  • Under the ruse of giving an academic lecture, I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children.  (source)
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  • But because he hadn't shown up yet to pick them up from the salon, she guessed she'd been right in thinking that the whole thing had been a ruse to see her again.  (source)
    ruse = an action (such as a trick or lie) that hides the truth
  • His frequent absences from home at night, which were hailed by the Prefect as certain aids to his success, I regarded only as ruses, to afford opportunity for thorough search to the police, and thus the sooner to impress them with the conviction to which G—, in fact, did finally arrive—the conviction that the letter was not upon the premises.  (source)
    ruses = actions (such as a tricks or lies) that hide the truth
  • I found myself not listening, merely looking at his mouth, which moved—or so it seemed to me—independent of the words, as if the body of the stranger were a ruse, a disguise for something infinitely more terrible.  (source)
    ruse = deception
  • With the help of your Red brethren, you deceived us with technological tricks and ruses, infiltrating my own family.†  (source)
    ruses = actions (such as a tricks or lies) that hide the truth
  • Because they were three and the guards facing them were five, Shukhov could try a ruse.  (source)
    ruse = an action (such as a trick or lie) that hides the truth
  • Why the ruses and deceit?†  (source)
    ruses = actions (such as a tricks or lies) that hide the truth
  • Even if they think it's a ruse, I hope they'll decide I'm hidden somewhere near it.†  (source)
    ruse = an action (such as a trick or lie) that hides the truth
  • Simon is alerted: he is familiar with such ruses, he knows the cabals of mothers.†  (source)
    ruses = actions (such as a tricks or lies) that hide the truth
  • It's Lev—and Risa realizes that her little ruse has backfired.†  (source)
    ruse = an action (such as a trick or lie) that hides the truth
  • But by ruses and coercion, his family had taken him away from her—and the lad had probably been repulsed by her illness, too, which by then had begun to evidence itself in various violent eruptions.†  (source)
    ruses = actions (such as a tricks or lies) that hide the truth
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