Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A loophole; evasion; subterfuge; dodge; refuge.
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Examples
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What trick, what device, what starting-hole canst thou now find out, to hide thee from this open and apparent shame?
American Utility Companies - Everything that is wrong with Corporatism 2006
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What trick, what device, what starting-hole, canst thou now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent shame?
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'What trick, what device, what starting-hole canst thou now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent shame?' concludes the Prince, as he and Poins await Falstaff's answer.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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"Instinct is a great matter," quoth Falstaff, when called upon to find out a device, a "starting-hole," to hide himself from the open and apparent shame of having run away from the fight and hacked his sword like a handsaw with his own dagger.
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What trick, what device, what starting-hole canst thou now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent shame?
Act II. Scene IV. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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There is no starting-hole will hide us from her, she will finde us wheresoever we are, we may as in a suspected countrie start and turne here and there: quæ quasi saxum Tantalo semper impendet.
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What trick, what device, what starting-hole, canst thou now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent shame?
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There is no starting-hole will hide us from her, she will finde us wheresoever we are, we may as in a suspected countrie start and turne here and there: quae quasi saxum Tantalo semper impendet. [
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562
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