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deception
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Riders of the Purple Sage
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I ran into five yesterday 'way down near the trail to Deception Pass.†
Chpt 2 *

deception = the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads
Tull has already hinted to your frequent trips into Deception Pass.†
Chpt 2
If you will spend time in Deception Pass try to find the trails.†
Chpt 2
But now he sensed action in the immediate present; the day promised another meeting with Lassiter and Lane, perhaps news of the rustlers; on the morrow he meant to take the trail to Deception Pass.†
Chpt 3
I packed these down into Deception Pass.†
Chpt 3
DECEPTION PASS The rider thundered up and almost threw his foam-flecked horse in the sudden stop.†
Chpt 4
Far across that wide waste began the slow lift of uplands through which Deception Pass cut its tortuous many-canyoned way.†
Chpt 4
The opening into Deception Pass was one of the remarkable natural phenomena in a country remarkable for vast slopes of sage, uplands insulated by gigantic red walls, and deep canyons of mysterious source and outlet.†
Chpt 4
He had sensed it first when Wrangle swung him up to the high saddle, he knew it now when he lay in the gateway of Deception Pass.†
Chpt 4
It related only to what was to happen to him in Deception Pass; and he could no more lift the veil of that mystery than tell where the trails led to in that unexplored canyon.†
Chpt 4
Beyond this point of sudden change in the character of the canyon Venters had never explored, and here was the real door to the intricacies of Deception Pass.†
Chpt 4
For many years Oldring's mysterious entrance and exit to Deception Pass had been all-absorbing topics to sage-riders.†
Chpt 4
What would Tull say to this achievement of the outcast who rode too often to Deception Pass?†
Chpt 5
And, from what he had learned in the last few days, a belief began to form in Venters's mind that Oldring's intimidations of the villages and the mystery of the Masked Rider, with his alleged evil deeds, and the fierce resistance offered any trailing riders, and the rustling of cattle—these things were only the craft of the rustler-chief to conceal his real life and purpose and work in Deception Pass.†
Chpt 5
In his anxiety to keep under cover he must have lost himself in this offshoot of Deception Pass, and thereby in some unaccountable manner, missed the canyon with the trails.†
Chpt 5
He was only proving what the sage-riders had long said of this labyrinthine system of deceitful canyons and valleys—trails led down into Deception Pass, but no rider had ever followed them.†
Chpt 5
She gazed far down the slope to the curved purple lines of Deception Pass and involuntarily shut her eyes with a trembling stir of nameless fear.†
Chpt 6
Crags and pinnacles, splintered cliffs, and leaning shafts and monuments, would have thundered down to block forever the outlet to Deception Pass.†
Chpt 8
He decided that its floor was far higher than the level of Deception Pass and the intersecting canyons.†
Chpt 8
Balancing Rock loomed huge, cold in the gray light of dawn, a thing without life, yet it spoke silently to Venters: "I am waiting to plunge down, to shatter and crash, roar and boom, to bury your trail, and close forever the outlet to Deception Pass!"†
Chpt 9
Little incidents of chance like this had turned him here and there in Deception Pass; and now they had assumed to him the significance and direction of destiny.†
Chpt 9
As long as you can remember—you've lived in Deception Pass?" he went on.†
Chpt 10
Transformed in the shadowy light, it took shape and dimensions of a spectral god waiting—waiting for the moment to hurl himself down upon the tottering walls and close forever the outlet to Deception Pass.†
Chpt 10
We're goin' to drive the herd on the far side of the first break of Deception Pass.†
Chpt 12
Dorn said the riders report another drive by Oldring.... And I trailed the horses miles down the slope toward Deception Pass.†
Chpt 12
Like Balancing Rock, which waited darkly over the steep gorge, ready to close forever the outlet to Deception Pass, that nameless thing, as certain yet intangible as fate, must fall and close forever all doubts and fears of the future.†
Chpt 14
sooner or later I'll kill the man who hid her and kept her in Deception Pass!†
Chpt 14
Then it would fall and bang, and smash that crag, and jar the walls, and close forever the outlet to Deception Pass!†
Chpt 14
As a rider he had taken many chances, and as an adventurer in Deception Pass he had unhesitatingly risked his life, but now he would run no preventable hazard of Bess's safety and happiness, and he was too keen not to see that hazard.†
Chpt 16
One flashing thought tore in hot temptation through his mind—why not climb up into the gorge, roll Balancing Rock down the trail, and close forever the outlet to Deception Pass?†
Chpt 16
To the right, some few rods, Venters saw a break in the sage, and this was the rim of Deception Pass.†
Chpt 17
Following the canyon line, he saw where its rim was broken by other intersecting canyons, and farther down red walls and yellow cliffs leading toward a deep blue cleft that he made sure was Deception Pass.†
Chpt 17
To avoid being seen, to get away, to hide his trail—these were the sole ideas in his mind as he headed for Deception Pass, and he directed all his acuteness of eye and ear, and the keenness of a rider's judgment for distance and ground, to stern accomplishment of the task.†
Chpt 18
She did not seem to think of the past of what she left forever, but of the color and mystery and wildness of the sage-slope leading down to Deception Pass, and of the future.†
Chpt 20
As in a dream when he felt himself falling yet knew he would never fall, so he saw this long-standing thunderbolt of the little stone-men plunge down to close forever the outlet to Deception Pass.†
Chpt 21
That hour at the entrance to Deception Pass had been the climax of her suffering—the flood of her wrath—the last of her sacrifice—the supremity of her love—and the attainment of peace.†
Chpt 23
The outlet to Deception Pass closed forever.†
Chpt 23

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(1) (deception)
the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads
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deception in Riders of the Purple Sage (Auto-generated)

deception
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