play false
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The greater number of his prisoners were too top-heavy to make their escape, even if they were inclined to play false with their indulgent keeper.
From The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country by Joseph Barry
Secretly already she was beginning to play false with fate, and, in flat repudiation of her last night's compact, to indulge the hope that her soldier had not been even wounded.
From An Echo Of Antietam 1898 by Edward Bellamy
If his own eyes play false with him, these freaks Of fancy shall be quickly tamed by mine; The goal is reached.
From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 by William Knight
Mirabeau could not play false, without losing, not only his income, but an eventual sum of £40,000.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis
Now, in return, I make one request of you, that is that you all do as you have agreed to; don’t play false one with the other.
From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. Edmonds
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