60 collocations for cloak

If such was God's retribution for the oppression of heathen Egypt, of how much sorer punishment shall a Christian people be thought worthy, who cloak with religion a system, in comparison with which the bondage of Egypt dwindles to nothing?

| | | | Have made very large additions to their stock of | | | | CLOAK VELVETS, VELVETEENS, PLUSHES, ASTRAKHANS, MILLINERY | | and TRIMMING VELVETS, Etc.

Then the sailors lighted lanterns and hung them round the ship, and the light flashed out on a sudden and dazzled Yann, and the ducks that fed along his marshy banks all suddenly arose, and made wide circles in the upper air, and saw the distant reaches of the Yann and the white mist that softly cloaked the jungle, before they returned again into their marshes.

would you know your husband if you should see him?Oh, yes, sir, she repliedWhen HE DREW FROM BENEATH HIS CLOAK THE HEAD OF THE SLAVE, at the sight of which the poor woman immediately fainted.

It cloaks its offences against right in a thousand specious forms, and it enlists the support of every man under the pretence of a sacrifice for the common good.

The main concern is with the devices used by the poets to cloak truth under the veil of allegory.

* THE WATCHERS When the great, gray fog comes in, and the damp clouds cloak the shore, And the tossing waves grow dim, and the white sails flash no more, Then, over the shrouded sea, where the winding mist-wreaths creep, The deep-voiced Watchers call, the Watchers who guard the Deep.

"Father MacManus, him all right?" asked Kurilla, politely cloaking his cross-examination.

But no jobbing-firm can thus cloak its deficiencies, or shirk its responsibilities.

But thou, who standest there In glistering raiment, cloaking thy delight, In thy false purity disdaining me, I tell thee, thou wilt wring those soft, white hands In agony, and envy me my lot, Hard though it seemeth now! JASON.

At Philadelphia I was in such a hurry to pass on, that I exhibited what I fear many will consider a symptom of inveterate bachelorship; but truth bids me not attempt to cloak my delinquency.

"To own the truth he did offer to let George Denbigh have it for the next summer, but the Colonel chose to be nearer Eltringham; and I take it, it was only a ruse in the earl to cloak his own designs.

Science is prostituted to deceive the public by cloaking the increasing deterioration in quality of merchandise.

Katherine's lips quivered, but it was a day for smiles, not tears; so she laughed in the nervous fashion with which she was apt to cloak all deep emotion, and said: "I suppose the store may be regarded as the middle way between the cathedral and the dug-out; anyhow, it will be cleaner than the latter by a good long way.

"In this later tract," he says, "Swift makes no attempt to cloak his enmity; and he boldly assumes the character of a Whig as the propounder of those atheistical absurdities, which he wished, as a useful political move, but without any scrupulous regard to fairness, to represent as part and parcel of the tenets of that party."

"Who then?" "The man whose cloak Captain Ephraim there has put round him.

"Father MacManus, him all right?" asked Kurilla, politely cloaking his cross-examination.

[Illustration: INTERIOR OF ONE OF THE LARGEST AND BEST EQUIPPED WAIST AND CLOAK FACTORIES IN NEW YORK CITY]

" "Sergeant Corney has no idea how my knees shook beneath me when, as he believed, I was stout-hearted," I replied, with a careless laugh that served to cloak the feeling of pride which rose in my bosom when he gave good words to the Minute Boys.

The trampling centuries can raise for us no golden dust to cloak the flanks of the starved ranks that press across our horizon.

nor thus seek to cloak the savage force Which triumphs o'er a woman's feebleness.

an almshouse, in spite of its old-fashioned magnificence, and his fine blue cloak only a pauper's garment, with a silver badge on it that perhaps galled his shoulder.

She extended her hand with an assumption of royal graciousness that did not cloak her gratitude.

And when I cry with anguish And seek in song relief, With threats my life is threatened, Till silence cloak my grief.

It is all the manure the stony pastures receive; it cloaks the ground and prevents the frost bursting pipes; it is the bestI had almost written the onlyroad-maker in the States.

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