play false
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No woman can play false to her heart and prosper.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
Mr. Ellsworth, his scoutmaster, had once said that it is always bad to play false.
From Tom Slade at Temple Camp by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
That they might be considered a guard of honor rather than spies sent out to see that he did not play false never occurred to him.
From The Thunder Bird by B. M. Bower
She must not play false even with him.
From An Enemy to the King by Robert Neilson Stephens
Now I tell you what will occur if you play false with me.”
From Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Randall Parrish
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