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- verb Present participle of
ploy .
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Examples
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Though I am so much puzzled by what occurs on both sides of the ques - tion, that I cannot but abhor the devilish wretch, whose inventions and contrivances are for ever em-ploying an inquisitive head, as mine is, without affording the means of absolute detection.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Massapapu was em-ploying a middle finger to clean one ear.
The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997
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South, I think, didn't it twist and people who were ploying to get the vote as a way to fight with the Negro, as a way to ...
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E.ploying D.E. McCarthy as his agent, Mark gave a number of lectures at various places on the Pacific Coast.
Mark Twain Archibald Henderson 1920
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He expresses the inevitable foppery of the severest soldier, the tease and the taunt of the evolutions, the fierce wish that all this ploying and deploying were in the face of an actual enemy, the mania to reek upon a tangible foe all the joyous energy, the blood-thirst of the warrior.
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E.ploying D.E. McCarthy as his agent, Mark gave a number of lectures at various places on the Pacific Coast.
Mark Twain Henderson, Archibald 1910
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To guard against the danger, in the use of this method, of the troops stopping to fire, instead of ploying into a column of attack, they should commence their advance with pieces unloaded.
A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry 1857
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When a battery must be placed in front of the line, let the infantry in rear of it clear the ground by ploying into double columns.
A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry 1857
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[130] Upon Articles. ploying them in other labours, for three or four years, as they commonly employ their
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Marquez is ploying the reverse mental psychology to Pacman.
East Side Boxing 2009
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