Crossword-Solution: HOAXING 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Macaulay goes to the University--His love for Trinity College--His contemporaries at Cambridge--Charles Austin-- The Union Debating Society--University studies, successes, and failures--The Mathematical Tripos--The Trinity Fellowship--William the Third--Letters--Prize poems-- Peterloo--Novel-reading--The Queen's Trial--Macaulay's feeling towards his mother--A Reading-party--Hoaxing an editor--Macaulay takes pupils.

There was the Bar, with its roguish practitioners, rascally attorneys, stupid juries, and forsworn judges; there was the Bourse, with all its gambling, swindling, and hoaxing, its cheats and its dupes; the Medical Profession, and the quacks who ruled it, alternately; the Stage, and the cant that was prevalent there; the Fashion, and its thousand follies and extravagances.

Kendricks? If you are hoaxing me, Basil!” “I am not, my dear; indeed I’m not,” said I, beginning to laugh, and this made her doubt me the more.

There is nothing so dangerous to a young writer as to begin with hoaxing; or to begin with the invention, either as reporter or correspondent, of statements put forward as facts, which are untrue.

Here are you, coming to do us all a kindness, and lease that infernal white elephant, and here have I been steadily hoaxing you for the last five minutes.