Bluffs
Plays
Both words in one sentence
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In Hotspur, for instance, he plays the Loire captain's cleverness against him; in Atropos he bluffs the Castilla into thinking that he has allies close at hand by signaling empty ocean.
Source: Literature / Horatio Hornblower
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