Search
Old and New London
… this varlet poet might turn out, after all, to be the mere decoy duck of the hostess, paid to draw gulls and fools …
Old and New London
… Gambia. These creatures imitate the human voice, and so decoy negroes out of their huts and plantations to devour …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Nor does he anticipate much from the offer of another decoy-Papist, William Blundell (No. 393). Among miscellaneous …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… them with open arms, hoping that they might serve as decoy-ducks. A rumour seems to have reached the camp that the …