These blunders on our part and losses, together with the prowess and boast of the Rebel legions, gave the malcontents of the North, and political tricksters, a coveted opportunity to rail against the Administration, and to weaken, as far as their influence could be felt, the confidence which had been reposed in it.
"Three Years in the Federal Cavalry"
Willard Glazier
Their scope is narrower, but their act the same As his-against whose millions all the tongues Of little tricksters in each corner store Babble and rail and shriek!
"Mr. Faust"
Arthur Davison Ficke
Four guileless, bright little sisters and brothers, residing together under their father's watch, in the twinkling of an eye, flash upon the gaze of the town in which they lived, seemingly as adroit and proficient tricksters as were ever known, and all of them alike competent to their several parts.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam