How To Use Cozen In A Sentence
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This, along with all the arguments against ratification of the EU Constitution, is something which we need to ram home at this moment when our electorate is so alive to the notion that they are being cozened by Labour and the Liberal ‘Democrats’ about the true effect of this Treaty.
Archive 2008-02-03
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A clever lawyer can cozen the prisoner into an admission of guilt.
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There is a foolish country knight, Sir Nicholas Cully, whom two rogues cozen out of £1,000.
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As soon as I realized the possibility might arise to cozen one of his sweet little sisters.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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As soon as I realized the possibility might arise to cozen one of his sweet little sisters.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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It's something and nothing, if you take my point It'd be an amateur or a man who didn't know his own mind who'd do such a stupid thing … Or it could be a wee cozenage. '
The Alamut Ambush
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As soon as I realized the possibility might arise to cozen one of his sweet little sisters.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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These are minds that have come to their own conclusions; they can no longer be cozened with false statistics about how unemployment is falling, or not rising, or "rising more slowly.
Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street and the Scent of Revolution
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So we believed him and he ceased not to cozen us till he cast us into jail and fettered us and tortured us with exceeding sore torments; and we are strangers in the land and have no helper save Almighty Allah and our lord the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A good speech is not full of subtle rhetoric, cozening shifts in vocal tone, and facial nuance.
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The document was a release, given by Mrs. Stiles to the railway company, -- a printed form, with blanks to be filled in as the individual case should demand; a devilish engine of cozen and covin, constructed in cold blood by the railway company, and supplied to them
Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
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There, world domination, monetary and military, is cozened.
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I have a suspicion that McKenna was trying to schmooze Scalia when he made the trust-but-verify comment, and Scalia recognized that attempt and threw back "I like it", replicating the exchange between Reagan and Gorbachev, but probably not swayed by McKenna's cozening.
Conventional Wisdom Says McKenna Won the Day for Public Disclosure. Maybe. Just Maybe Not When it Comes to R-71. « PubliCola
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Among other discourse, my cozen Roger told us a thing certain, that the Archbishop of Canterbury; that now is, do keep a wench, and that he is as very a wencher as can be; and tells us it is
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S.
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Call me cousin, but cozen me out.
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A pamphlet of 1595 described how one Judith Philips ‘cozened’ a rich man.
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Crumwell (though the greatest Dissembler livinge) alwayes made his hypocrisy of singular use and benefitt to him, and never did any thinge, how ungratious or imprudent soever it seemed to be, but what was necessary to the designe; even his roughnesse and unpolishednesse which in the beginninge of the Parliament he affected, contrary to the smoothnesse and complacency which his Cozen and bosome frende
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
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Note his reply and return to me and tell me; for I can no more; I have done my best, by cozening him, to anger him with me and cause him to put me away, but I find him none the less infatuated with me.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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That's where the aformentioned "cozenage" comes in.
Archive 2007-01-01
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Merchandises then hee brought before: made the meanes to borrow a great summe of Money of her, leaving her so base a pawne, as well requited her for her former cozenage.
The Decameron
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He cozened the money out of the old man
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Thou are not dead, but flown afar, up hills of endless light, through blazing corridors of suns, where worlds do swing of good and gentle men, of women strong and free—far from the cozenage, black hypocrisy, and chaste prostitution of this shameful speck of dust!
DARKWATER
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Vane to "cozen" the Scottish Presbyterian Commissioners in the phraseology of the Solemn League and Covenant; with Samuel Vassall, whose name shares with those of Hampden and Lord Say and Sele the renown of the refusal to pay ship-money, and of courting the suit which might ruin them or emancipate England; with John Venn, who, at the head of six thousand citizens, beset the House of Lords during the trial of Lord Strafford, and whom, with three other Londoners, King
Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733
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There is no help for it but that I cozen him into divorcing me.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Fons fraudum et maleficiorum, 'tis the fountain of cozenage and villainy.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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A place, according to [352] Anacharsis, wherein they cozen one another, a trap; nay, what's the world itself?
Anatomy of Melancholy
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And he gave not over improving the occasion to them on this wise, and making a show of piety and cozening them with fine words and false until they put faith in him and accepted him and entered his den and had no suspicion of his deceit.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Time will tell, but the lesson to be learned is not to trust, cozen or praise the denialists.
Slamming the Overton window shut
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The merchant boasted to him: ‘After the war between France and Germany I was a usurer and with extorting, cozening, forfeiting and tricks belonging under brokery, I filled the gaols with bankrupts in a year.’
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This is how the deceivers are deceived, for he who can cozen me is shrewd indeed.
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A clever lawyer can cozen the prisoner into an admission of guilt.
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Page 36 serve for the resort and refuge of masterles men and other idle and evill dispozed persons, and are the cause of cozenages, thefts, and other dishonest conversacion and may also be used to cover dangerous practizes.
Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner
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Her uncle cozened her out of her inheritance.
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And even if there were, I would never be cozened by empty promises.
Secrets of the Tudor Court
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Therewithal she rightly apprehends the danger Bertram is in from the wordy, cozening squirt, the bedizened, scoundrelly dandiprat, who has so beguiled his youth and ignorance.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
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A clever lawyer can cozen the prisoner into an admission of guilt.
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Pledge opponent Michael Newdow fittingly will also appear at this convention of cozenage.
Archive 2004-09-12
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Where was the stash of brandy bottles; the hidden box of dream-smoke herb so beloved of the laboring classes; the stash of gambling winnings or record of debts; the bundle of perfumed love letters from some cozening lowborn female looking to snare a Mageborn son?
Tran Siberian
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Composition rights are subdivided into publishing rights, which record companies often cozen the unsuspecting into signing away.
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To be fair, the book is not a pulp romance, although it cozens its readers with the content of pulp romance.
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A clever lawyer can cozen the prisoner into an admission of guilt.
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I will not forget this — and the current SFWA executive should consider that cozening and lying to their own members is not usually considered best practice for representing the members 'best interests.
Boing Boing
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What is going to change about Israel and its apartheid government with Obama cozening up to its leadership?
OpEdNews - Diary: It's Nieve to think Obama means change
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Bruncker's ugly mistress, whom he calls cozen), and to my trouble she tells me that the fine Mrs. Middleton is noted for carrying about her body
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 39: October 1665
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As soon as I realized the possibility might arise to cozen one of his sweet little sisters.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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Of cozeners, that haunt this occupation, that they cannot well tell how to live one by another, but as he jested in the Comedy of Clocks, they were so many, [2027] major pars populi arida reptant fame, they are almost starved a great part of them, and ready to devour their fellows,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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False, smiling, cozening traitor! — and for that unfeminine barbarian!
Count Robert of Paris
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Georgian talents at corruption and cozening occupying powers developed over almost 1,000 years of occupations.
Understanding Georgia versus Russia in the Caucasus Crisis
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Autolicus, Mercury's son, that dwelt in Parnassus, who got so much treasure by cozenage and stealth.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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All arts (saith [4092] Cardan) admit of cozening, physic, amongst the rest, doth appropriate it to herself; and tells a story of one Curtius, a physician in Venice: because he was
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage which man can put upon the providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
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Is it not better to hear their controversy from their own mouths whilst they are face to face before us, than to read these vile fopperies, which are nothing but trumperies, deceits, diabolical cozenages of Cepola, pernicious slights and subversions of equity?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Mrs. Pierce to the King's Head and there spent a piece upon a supper for her and mighty merry and pretty discourse, she being as pretty as ever, most of our mirth being upon "my Cozen" (meaning my Lord Bruncker's ugly mistress, whom he calls cozen), and to my trouble she tells me that the fine Mrs. Middleton is noted for carrying about her body a continued sour base smell, that is very offensive, especially if she be a little hot.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S.
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Most of the females were girls fresh from the country, young and chaste, who had been cozened or stolen into a life of prostitution with no idea what they were in for.
Shameless
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But if you have money enough for finer clothes and high-toned lodgings, then you might be planning to cozen the rich or insinuate yourself into society or spy on the powerful or throw money around without necessarily making sure some of it goes into the pockets of the powerful.
Pathfinder
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Thy brother is dead;" and quoth he in himself, "The accursed fellow cozeneth me, so he may get all the coin for himself, but I will presently do with him what shall soon requicken him.
Arabian nights. English
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In this way I hoped to pour oil on troubled waters and to trick the accursed loon, so haply I might get quit of him; but he said, Thou art cozening me and thou wouldst go alone to thy appointment and cast thyself into jeopardy, whence there will be no escape for thee.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Sir Hadrian now glowered at George as if the young man himself had been a willing and eager accomplice in the matter of the Tofts's failed cozenage.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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This is another aspect of a feeling that we, who gave the world so much, are being somehow cozened out of our rightful legacy.
England: land of hope and defeat
