Crossword-Solution: HOAXER 6 letters, 25 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

And while, in referring to the early part of his University career, he omitted all mention of such anecdotes as displayed his own personal credulity in the strongest light - which anecdotes the faithful historian has thought fit to record, - he, nevertheless, dwelt with extreme pleasure on the reminiscences of a few isolated facts, in which he himself appeared in the character of the hoaxer.

Well, do you know what he says? He is such a hoaxer, such a _blagueur_, that I did not believe him, and hardly believe him now, but he swore to me that it was true." "What was it?" asked her three companions simultaneously.

You are mistaken, my son, I assure you." And he gently pushed me toward the door, taking me for a hoaxer or a madman.

This pleasant hoax it was at length judged convenient to practise upon the author of Waverley; the Easter fair offering a favourable opportunity for such an attempt, from the circumstance of there being just then no acknowledged novel in the market from the pen of that writer which was sufficiently recent to gratify the wishes of the fair or to throw suspicion upon the pretensions of the hoaxer.

The German hoaxer was aware that no book could have a chance of passing for Sir Walter Scott's[1] which was not in three volumes octavo.