I have been an actor in few more entertaining comedies than the Cozening of Ser Ramiro, and a witness of nothing that afforded me at once so much relief and relish as his abrupt departure.
"The Shame of Motley"
Raphael Sabatini
He spoke to the merchants as if he were a merchant himself, beseeching them to lay aside their false weights and measures and deceitful merchandize, with all Cozening and cheating, and to speak truth only to one another.
"A Book of Quaker Saints"
Lucy Violet Hodgkin
And having thus combined themselves together against the commonwealth, the one proposed laws for dividing the lands among the poor people, and the other was present to support the proposals Lucullus, Cicero, and their friends, joined with Bibulus, the other consul, to hinder their passing, and, foremost of them all, Cato, who already looked upon the friendship and alliance of Pompey and Caesar as very dangerous, and declared he did not so much dislike the advantage the people should get by this division of the lands, as he feared the reward these men would gain, by thus courting and Cozening the people.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh