appliquer

Je l’engageai fréquemment à jouer, et m’appliquai, avec la ruse habituelle du joueur, à lui laisser gagner des sommes considérables, pour l’enlacer plus efficacement dans mes filets.
I frequently engaged him in play, and contrived, with the gambler's usual art, to let him win considerable sums, the more effectually to entangle him in my snares.
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