-
protestations such as "please don't
fling me in dat brier-patch"
refer to
guilefully s****ing
something by
pretending to protest, with a "briar patch" (a thicket...
- crafty, false-hearted; egocentric, insincere, deceitful, calculating,
guileful.
Theatrical histrionic (Variant of "pure" pattern) Affected, mannered,...
- to by
Homer in the Odyssey. The connection, in this case,
between the
guileful tactics of the
Achaeans and the
Trojans in the
Iliad and
those of the later...
- pp 156–158), who
refers to this "ancient story",
which is one of the "tales of
guileful deeds performed by
cunning gods,
mostly at a time when they had not joined...
-
Indians "as p****ive, ignorant, irrational,
outwardly submissive but
inwardly guileful", the
Parsis were seen to have the
traits that the
authorities tended to...
- who
forces him to
state that
Durga Prasad stabbed him. At trial, they
guilefully abscond by
mingling together. As of today, the party's high
command allows...
- goddess-sorceress Circe. "Circe
would fain have held me back in her halls, the
guileful lady of Aeaea,
yearning that I
should be her husband". (Homer, Odyssey...
- Layamon's Brut.
Tolkien 1977, "The Akallabêth", p. 267. "Yet
Sauron was ever
guileful, and it is said that
among those whom he
ensnared with the Nine
Rings three...
-
Tonton (Uncle)
Bouki in
Haitian folklore.
While Ti
Malice is
smart and
guileful,
Uncle Bouki is
hardworking but is also very greedy. It is the mani****tion...
-
retrieved 1 July 2022 Thapa, Hari
Bahadur (6
September 2019). "Ambitious and
guileful Mahendra". The
Annapurna Express.
Archived from the
original on 6 May 2021...
