Feints [noun]

It increased in volume, this firing, until I feared that what had been started as a feint was being pushed forward to a victory.

On the evening of the 15th his advance made a feint demonstration against Petersburg, and on the 16th made his attack in force.

The boatswain swore with wicked words,Enough to shock a saint, That though she did seem in a fit,'Twas nothing but a feint.

She is jesting: I have it here; Monsieur, the feint is useless.

But Clairon considers that this is a feint on his part, and that he will arrive sooner, in order to surprise her.

But there he was bantered, and a feint was made of shutting him up in the guard-house as a disorderly person.

This was true, for the major had only made a feint of going in to deceive the boy, and had made off when the lad was out of sight.

The Spider's daggers, therefore, make no more than an idle feint; their points do not enter the flesh of the tight-clasped Wasp.

Our orders were to make a feint, and if we found that the Turk meant to stay and fight it out seriously, we were to fall back.

His "J'ai feint que les dieux m'aient parl" opens charmingly.