118 collocations for mask

In fact, direct contact with the unprotected true skin occasions pain, which effectually masks the feeling of touch.

Then he crept out of the oleanders and walked along the river-bank in no haste, masking his face with a fold of his toga.

He had perfectly masked his design, and completely outwitted Marston; and to a person who piqued himself upon his clever diplomacy, and vaunted that he had never yet sustained a defeat in any object which he had seriously proposed to himself, such a combination of successes was for the moment quite intoxicating.

He needed not to mask familiar thoughts in the weeds of unfamiliar phraseology; for the life that was in his mind could transfuse the language of every day with an intelligent vivacity, that makes it seem lambent with fiery purpose, and at each new reading a new creation.

Buckingham's magnanimous conduct at the revel last night was feigned to mask his purposes towards you.

Many of them have been residents here for years, masking their real occupation by engaging in business, utilizing their time as they waited for the war to come by gathering for Germany all of our trade and commercial secrets.

We motored down the line to another trenchthis one along a road with fields in front and, about a couple of hundred yards behind, a clump of trees which masked a Belgian battery.

Thus that, should necessity warrant a resort to lethal weapons, Racey might not mask the latter's fire.

" "It was a mighty house," Koogah said, masking his unbelief with wonder.

Bengal was a girl whose every feeling was written plainly upon her face; she could not mask her emotions under an inscrutable countenance.

It was necessary now to bring Jackson's forces from the Valley without delay, and almost equally important to mask the movement from General McClellan.

Racey had taken the precaution to mask their position with a cedar bush.

"The 19th of January, early in the morning, I sent across the river a number of workmen, supported by a little detachment under M. Gourlade, to cut down a grove of bamboos which masked my guns, and to burn down some houses which were also in their way.

The most salient of the shepherd's domestic erections was an empty sty at the forward corner of his hedgeless garden, for in these latitudes the principle of masking the homelier features of your establishment by a conventional frontage was unknown.

This is akin to the trick of masking your procedure.

His boyishness had utterly disarmed her, and not till later did she realize how completely he had masked his soul therewith.

Every mediocre writer tries to mask his own natural style, because in his heart he knows the truth of what I am saying.

Then came a time when a heavier cloud than usual masked the brightness of the declining sun.

For two miles the river-bank shines with sunlit canvastents, tents everywhere, as far as eye can see, a mushroom growth masking the older cabins.

Mr. Thomasson had much ado to mask his chagrin under a show of contemptuous incredulity.

I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

Then it was that I first felt I was indeed a murdererthen it was that the molten sulphur of remorse was poured into my bosom, rushing, spreading, burning, and devouring; but it changed not the bronze with which hardship had masked my cheek, nor the steel to which danger had tempered my nerves.

Joe could sit still no longer, could mask no longer the combat within him.

For a long while he was content to receive the flattering suggestion with a reticent smile that masked his conviction that there was a difference between criticism and creation.

Latterly, in many ways, Romola had been disappointed in her husband's character; she had found that his handsome face and gay air masked a cowardice, a cunning meanness, a sordid selfishness of disposition that were all at variance with her high ideal of him; but that final unspeakable treachery of the dead man who had trusted him so implicitly shattered her love for Tito utterly.

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