The two, abandoning their feints, suddenly rushed together, and the swarthy arms of the monster slipped around the white body of Pierre.
"Riders of the Silences"
Max Brand
While he was awaiting the arrival of pontoons to enable him to recross Bull Run, which was enormously swollen, the enemy, after some daring skirmishes along his front, and some feints of attack, retreated quite rapidly, completely destroying the Orange and Alexandria Railroad from Manassas Junction to the Rappahannock.
"Three Years in the Federal Cavalry"
Willard Glazier
This is an advantage at all times: for the aggressor can generally mislead his adversary by a series of feints until the real blow can be delivered with crushing effect.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose