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  • First it's a plastic $1.39 lighter, then maybe a family-sized bag of Maltesers, then a pair of shoes, then a car – the next thing we know Britney Spears will be pulling off elaborate Ocean's Eleven-style heists involving complicated electronic manipulation, confidence trickstering and all kinds of breathtakingly complex logistical work.

    Brace Yourselves, Britney Spears Might Be Pregnant Again 2007

  • The cup of loyal forbearance reached the overflowing point since the trickstering days of Governor Irving, and it is useless now to believe in the possibility of a return of the leading minds of Trinidad to a tame acquiescence as regards the probabilities of their government according to the Crown system.

    West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas

  • I like not this lady's tampering and trickstering with this same Edmund Tressilian.

    Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

  • I like not this lady’s tampering and trickstering with this same Edmund Tressilian.

    Kenilworth 2004

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