"Ploy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Here's a ploy, Mart'n!" says he with a round oath. "Here's yon curst lubberly craft carried away our starboard cat-head and six-feet o' the harpings wi't, sink him! And us but waiting for my lady to come aboard to ...
— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol
... his former health that he was permitted to go out into the air, and, a few days later, Lieutenant Lindsay resolved to take him, and his father and mother, on board the 'Firefly,' by way of a little ploy. In pursuance of this plan he set off from the hospital in company with Kambira, followed at a short ...
— Black Ivory • R.M. Ballantyne
... his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle, and a sleep amang the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning. And so, ae morning, siccan a fright as I got! Twa unlucky red-coats were up for black-fishing, or some siccan ploy—for the neb o' them's never out o' mischief—and they just got a glisk o' his Honour as he gaed into the wood, and banged aff a gun at him, I out like a jer-falcon, and cried,—"Wad they shoot an honest woman's poor innocent ...
— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott
... so, there's no mischief done; and maybe ye're wrang, and if so, there will be black trouble. At ony rate, I didna like the story, and I wasna taken wi' the men. No that they're bad-lookin', but they're after some ploy. Weel, they ride by themsel's, and they camp by themsel's, and they eat by themsel's, and they sleep by themsel's. So this midday, when we haltit, they made off to the bank o' the river, and settled themsel's ablow ...
— Graham of Claverhouse • Ian Maclaren
... en joy'ment voice re joice' moist dis joint'ed troy de stroy' broil em ploy'ment poise em ploy' ...
— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey
... since dinner, sir," said. McTurk wearily. One house-match is just like another, and their "ploy" of that week happened to ...
— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling |
