7101 examples of conceals in sentences

Heracles arrives at the castle just at the moment when Alcestis is lying dead in her room; Admetus conceals the death from him and insists on his coming in and enjoying himself.

But his eye suddenly falls on a curtain, in the recess farthest from the doorthe edge of a curtain; for the object which this curtain conceals, is not visible from the chair in which he sits.

Are not men so unjust as to believe that the wisest woman is she who best conceals her weakness; or who, by a forced retreat puts herself beyond the possibility of having any?

Folds together the paper and gives it to him; he conceals it in his pocket.

To the third party the agent is not responsible, except in the following cases: When he specifically assumes responsibility, when he conceals the identity of his principal, when he exceeds his authority, or when he acts fraudulently.

" Which cannot speedier be done, than if he confess his grief and passion to some judicious friend (qui tacitus ardet magis uritur, the more he conceals, the greater is his pain) that by his good advice may happily ease him on a sudden; and withal to avoid occasions, or any circumstance that may aggravate his disease, to remove the object by all means; for who can stand by a fire and not burn?

Properly speaking, a mystery is a dogma which is plainly absurd, but which, nevertheless, conceals in itself a lofty truth, and one which by itself would be completely incomprehensible to the ordinary understanding of the raw multitude.

The producer had failed in the art which conceals art.

I envy not the rich or great, however; for one that has seen as much of life as I, knows the difference between the gay colors of the garment, and that of the shrivelled and diseased skin it conceals.

He conceals, under a rough Air and distant Behaviour, a bleeding Compassion and womanish Tenderness.

I have nothing to do with the Business of this Day, any further than affixing the piece of Latin on the Head of my Paper; which I think a Motto not unsuitable, since if Silence of our Poverty is a Recommendation, still more commendable is his Modesty who conceals it by a decent Dress.

My Orra Moor, where art thou laid? What Wood conceals my sleeping Maid? Fast by the Roots

The veil of metaphor is thin which thus conceals to our mind the picture of the myriad stars quenched every morning by the growing light, but returning every evening to their appointed places.

As Quetzalcoatl cast his shining gold and precious stones into the water where he took his nightly bath, or buried them in underground hiding places, so the sun conceals his glories under the waters, or in the distant hills, into which he seems to sink.

Is it possible then for eloquence to escape notice, or does that which a man conceals cease to exist?

Topography, botany, artistic knowledge are not less parts of the chronicler's equipment than philology, rhetoric, and philosophy; a newspaper is not beneath nor a traveller's gossip beyond his scope; architecture reveals somewhat which diplomacy conceals; an inscription is not more historical than the average temperature or the staple productions.

Under the form of elaborate compliment it conceals the scorn he must have conceived for Aretino and his insolent advice.

This is exquisitely and acutely observed by a wise and prudent wife; who so far conceals her conjugial love, and withdraws it into her bosom, and there hides it so deeply that it does not at all appear in her face, in the tone of her voice, or in her behaviour.

He who has seen only the superficies of life believes every thing to be what it appears, and rarely suspects that external splendour conceals any latent sorrow or vexation.

She had just that amount of self-possession which conceals without conquering the sweet timidity of woman.

The popular belief that he was the inventor of gunpowder had its origin in two passages in his treatise "On the Secret Works of Art and Nature, and on the Nullity of Magic," in one of which he describes some of its qualities, while in the other he apparently conceals its composition under an enigma.

These brambles I will tear apart and see What their thick undergrowth so well conceals.

While he would disconnect me from another, he mysteriously conceals his own intentions and views.

It is only a cloak which conceals it.

Pemberton has told her what he conceals from me.

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