trickstress

She asked me how I did and said to me, ‘Haply thou saidst to thyself, What manner of trickstress is this, who hath taken my money and made off?’

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

It was noised abroad in the city that Calamity Ahmad had undertaken to lay hands on Dalilah the Wily, and Zaynab said to her, “O my mother, an thou be indeed a trickstress, do thou befool Ahmad al-Danaf and his company.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then she cried out to the damsels and eunuchs, saying, “Seize this old hag, this accursed trickstress and beat her with your slippers!”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Albertine, was regarded from without, by Françoise, as a life of unmerited pleasures of which full advantage was cunningly taken by that ‘trickstress’ and (as Françoise said, using the feminine form far more often than the masculine, for she was more envious of women) ‘charlatante.’

The Captive 2003

No wonder the trickstress would not be escorted to the station -- she never went to the station.

The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895

I could not see her, I would have sworn that she was present at my side, and what is more, that she was mocking me who had set her down as so impotent a trickstress, which doubtless was part of the dream.

She and Allan Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Then she cried out to the damsels and eunuchs, saying, 'Seize this accursed old trickstress and beat her with your slippers!'

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Anonymous 1879

Out of con-sideration for the distinguished trickstress, the banker wished to pay the stranger as well; but the latter with a blush, exclaimed -- ` Possibly madame won, but as for myself, I am quite sure that I lost. '

The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France 1870

She asked me how I did and said to me, ‘Haply thou saidst to thyself, What manner of trickstress is this, who hath taken my money and made off? '

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Then she cried out to the damsels and eunuchs, saying, "Seize this old hag, this accursed trickstress and beat her with your slippers!"

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855