| 1. | For the most part their enthusiasm is adopted to suit the time and opportunity--to practise imposture upon the British and Austrian _millionaires_. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 2. | We ARE NOT the first men--and have nevertheless to STAND FOR them of this imposture have we at last become weary and disgusted. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3. | the pupils in the seminary, these tender levities errors imputed to newspapers, the imposture which distills its venom through the columns of those organs etc. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | "I should like," said the vicomte, "to ask how monsieur explains the th Brumaire was not that an imposture It was a swindle, and not at all like the conduct of a great man. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | Having embarked, he invoked a favourable wind, and prayed that he might be able to expose the imposture of Thestorides, who, by his breach of hospitality, had drawn down the wrath of Jove the Hospitable. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 6. | The word is probably derived -- in "treget," deceit or imposture -- from the French "trebuchet," a military machine since it is evident that much and elaborate machinery must have been employed to produce the effects afterwards described. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |