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Usage examples for Hoodwinks
Pagliaccio is husband to Colombina and Arlecchino is her lover, who hoodwinks Pagliaccio.
"A Second Book of Operas"
It does not occur to them to credit masters with the motive of wishing to protect them against themselves, to minimise temptation, to shelter them from undesirable influences; that perhaps dawns on the minds of sensible and high-minded prefects, but the ordinary boy just regards the master as an opposing power, whom he hoodwinks if he can.
"Where No Fear Was A Book About Fear"
This, together with self-love, which always hoodwinks the mind, and will not suffer a serious impartial examination of a man’s self, these, I say, are the bottom of this vain persuasion, that possesseth the generality of men.
"The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning"
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