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"I'm really afraid," says Dicky, "that somebody has been hoaxing you this time, Mrs. Blake;" genially.

From April's Lady A Novel by Hungerford, Margaret Wolfe

Evidently some one has been hoaxing you, Lady Castlemain.

From The Touchstone of Fortune by Major, Charles

But we suspect that some one has been hoaxing you about the four Turkeys.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

"Some one has been hoaxing Jacob Hall's friend."

From The Touchstone of Fortune by Major, Charles

"It comes to this, then, that Lackington has been hoaxing me," said Beecher, rising, with an expression of ill-temper on his face.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James