And one finds that, after all, in this world of deceit, we are most of us that which we look like.

All this I.W.W. talk about more wages and shorter hours is deceit.

These deep-laid schemes of the wily savage had hitherto met with full success; and by means of deceit and misrepresentation, he had roused up and irritated the feelings of several Sachems and their dependants, and induced them to agree to coalesce for the destruction of the Wampanoges, and then to turn their arms against the settlers, with the view of expelling them altogether from the country.

In all these cases, deceit is easy, and there is a strong temptation to deceive.

Deceit, like the windings of that subtle animal the fox, often crosses its own path.

The Neapolitan was evidently struck by her beauty, and the simplicity of her air, but his brow was fixed, like that of a man who had steeled his feelings against deceit.

Jacopo was deeply practised in the windings of Venetian deceit.

" At first, Fernando, who hated anything like deceit, opposed secresy; but his Irish friend brought so many excellent arguments to bear, that he virtually carried his point.

11. 'Tis no Deceit to Deceive the Deceiver, by Henry Chettle, September 1598.

Deceit in itself was one form of treachery.

Sometimes she would escape from the perplexity for weeks: chance would so favor her, that no opportunity for what she felt to be deceit would occur; but, in these intervals of relief, her tortured conscience seemed only to renew its voices, and spring upon her all the more fiercely on the next occasion.

So infinitely small are the first beginnings of the course of deceit into which tyranny always drives its victim.

It could not be called a deceit, the simple forbearing to speak of a new object which one observed in a room.

No; but the motive made it a sure seed of a deceit: for when Mrs. White said, "Why, Stephen, you haven't noticed the greens!

The patience and silence with which he sat waiting for her to remember and speak of it were the very essence of deceit again,twice in this one hour an acted lie, of which his dulled conscience took no note or heed.

All this is true, without deceit.

His heart is a puddle of poison, his tongue a sting of iniquity, his brain a distiller of deceit, and his conscience a compass of hell.

Thus his whole conduct was made up of artifice and deceit.

The deceit was easily practised, for as few cared for the griefs as for the happiness of the headsman's family The child had drawn near the end of its first year, when I was called upon to execute my office on a stranger.

The hackneyed lines sprang unbidden, as though to augment my punishment; then suddenly I reflected that it was not in my own interest I had begun to practise my deceit; and the thought of Catherine braced me up, perhaps partly because I felt that it should.

As it was procured by deceit, he was anxious to conceal the means used in getting it; but if the Israelitish servants, like our slaves, could "own nothing, nor acquire any thing," to embark in such an enterprise would have been consummate stupidity.

Let indolence, deceit, and theft, Be of their nourishment bereft, Let cruel wrong now disappear, And decent order crown each year.

Again, contrast the solemnity and deep sense of honour of the Turks, with the vivacity and, we regret to add, the deceit and bad faith of the unfortunate modern Greeks.

At the same time a real deceit was involved in concealing it, and so, tipping his chair back against her wall, he said: "The firm has asked me to go to China for them.

Hence the mutual dealings of the two classes were ofttimes marked by deceit and ofttimes by treachery, so that there was fear of the matter progressing till it became an incurable evil.