play false
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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 Figgis, John Neville
Always be careful how you play your small cards, and never play false cards.
From The Laws of Euchre As adopted by the Somerset Club of Boston, March 1, 1888 by Leeds, Herbert Corey
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 Bellamy, Edward
And if you'd play false in one thing, you would in another.
From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf
It is as if the eye should conspire to cheat the hand, or the one hand play false to the other.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
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