She held a lamp in one hand; the blast of cold air made the flame flicker and flare, and, as she put up one hand to shade it, the light was thrown sharply across her features, making them stand out like the distorted features of a hideous mask.

Be it known to every northern man who aspires to a seat in Congress, that hereafter it is the destiny of congressional action on this subject, to be a MIGHTY REVELATORmaking secret thoughts public property, and proclaiming on the house-tops what is whispered in the earsmiting off masks, and bursting open sepulchres beautiful outwardly, and heaving up to the sun their dead men's bones.

A mere ugly mask; turn it, and see that it is so.

The Perpendicular work is only a lovely mask, or rather just the sunlight of the fourteenth century which has come into the dark old Norman building.

Grotesque masks, suddenly revealed by the shimmering light, took on the semblance of demon faces that seemed to mow and gibber at us as we passed.

It was a piece of treachery and deceit; under that specious mask, behind that screen, he has worked my ruin!" "Ruin!" said Stafford, in a low voice.

Judith's face, capable of such rare and positive beauty, had now shut down into a hard, repellent little mask of hate.

The people of New Caledonia, on the other hand, went, I should think, naked, confining their attention to the hair, and in this resembling the Fijians, for they seemed to wear an artificial hair made of the fur of some creature like a bat, and also they wore wooden masks, and great ringsfor the ear, no doubtwhich must have fallen to the shoulders: for the earth was in them all, and made them wild, perverse and various like herself.

His impassive mask of a face was incapableapart from the faint query note in the eyesof betraying any of the feelings or emotions which ruffle the countenances of common humanity.

His face, broad-featured, colorless, and beardless as a boy's, was either a blank or an impenetrable mask.

A mere ugly mask; turn it, and see that it is so.

He seemed never to tire of listening, lying back for the most part on the silver-cushioned couch, and wearing an inscrutable mask.

he asked, with the imperturbable facial mask of his race that concealed all emotion.

he asked, with the imperturbable facial mask of his race that concealed all emotion.

These things Socrates properly used to call tragic masks; for as to children masks appear terrible and fearful from inexperience, we also are affected in like manner by events (the things which happen in life) for no other reason than children are by masks.

The man with the yellow mask had gone to the château.

" While Gino stood half stupified and half delighted at this proposition, the ready and wily Annina made some slight change in her outer garments, placed a silken mask before her face, applied a key to the door, and beckoned to the gondolier to follow.

And then, as I still stared at the fat Chinaman, his smooth mask seemed to drop from his face, and treachery, cunning, greed, hatred of the "white devil" were revealed to me.

Yet a power, the power of the girl's life, shook off all outward masks, all surface cloudy fancies, and stood up in her with a terrible passion at the sound; her blood burned fiercely; her soul looked out from her face, her soul as it was, as God knew it,God and this man.

She dressed herself like a dancer, girded her waist with a silver-gilt girdle, from which hung a poniard, and put a handsome mask on her face.

So when she put these on, her glittering eyes never again looked through her pink and white mask, and she was glad of it; for never, never in her life had they so looked for anybody but her dear Monsieur John, and now he was in heavenso

The face he had last seen on the Bench full of wisdom and austerity of the law was now distorted into a livid mask in which it was hard to trace any semblance of the features of the dead judge.

The hollow masks of them will perish.

Stooping merchants, with wrinkled brown masks like the soft shells of those nuts which others sold, could be discerned in dim, tiny offices, poring through huge round spectacles as they wrote with paint brushes, in volumes apparently made of brown paper.

"If I were a scoundrel, I should make a point of exclaiming against atheism, for a religious mask is very convenient to a traitor.