Apparently they have no destination, for after one of their bursts of merriment they are as apt to walk up the street as down it; and believing them to be the town riff-raff out for a lark, the stranger tries to pass them without attracting attention when he comes up to their vicinity; but the one who carries the lantern sees him, and, locking arms with his companion, adroitly heads the traveller off, and puts the lantern so close to his face that he dodges back to avoid it.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
Life is not made up of dodges worthy of cardsharpers-and the whole mechanism becomes silly and disgusting.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
He put him up to all the little tricks of the native customers, and showed him innumerable dodges for lightening his own labour.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford