3022 examples of disguising in sentences

He had a mania for disguising himself.

He had tried all sorts of physical curesfor there is no disguising the fact that such suffering is physical, and so why should the cure not be, also?

Hastily disguising himself in mother's bonnet and shawl, he boldly walked out of the house and proceeded towards the corn-field.

There is no disguising itthe considerawith them is a sine quâ non.

Disguising herself as Miss Garth and assuming her old governess's voice and manner, she boldly visited the house.

"I have suspected," he said,"I have had a kind of feelingthat sheWell, come, Doctor,I don't know that there's any use in disguising the matter,I have thought Elsie Venner had rather a fancy for somebody else,I mean myself.

It is assumed that they got away by disguising themselves as German prisoners.

Some of them turned their coats wrong side out, and some resorted to other means of disguising themselves.

Passing on to the consideration of form in costume, the lecturer urged that the proper function of dress was to drape the human figure without disguising or burlesquing it.

" "If you particularly wish it, I will," said Marian, not disguising her reluctance.

" The house was surrendered to the King in 1539, the warden and ten brethren being compelled to sign a humiliating document, in which they professed to "profoundly consider that the perfection of Christian living doth not consist in dumb ceremonies, wearing of a grey coat, disguising ourself after strange fashions, ducking, nodding and becking, in girding our selves with a girdle full of knots and other like Papisticall ceremonies.

The Turks are beginning to show a gift for euphemism in disguising their reverses in the Caucasus, which shows that they have nothing to learn from their masters; Austria, badly mauled by the Serbians, addresses awful threats to Roumania; and the United States has issued a warning Note on neutral trading.

But it was merely his way of disguising a pleasant emotion.

They were accustomed to attack treacherously hidden in the water, disguising their long and murderous eyes like the visual antennae of the monsters of the deep.

If I appear to overemphasize this disguising uniform it is because, of all the details of the German outfit, it appealed to me as one of the most remarkable.

We fell in love with each other; and I contrived, by disguising myself as a woman, to enter her private apartments and to have many secret meetings with her; the result of which was the birth of a child.

In 1393, a year after his first outbreak of madness, the king, during an entertainment at court, conceived the idea of disguising as savages himself and five of his courtiers.

It was, in a word, as if the name Skale uttered had summoned to the front, through all disguising barriers of flesh, her true and naked spirit, that which neither ages nor dies, that which the eyes, when they rest upon a human countenance, can never seethe Soul itself!

In Lerwick, the capital of the Shetland Islands, "on Christmas Eve, the fourth of January,for the old style is still observedthe children go a guizing, that is to say, they disguising themselves in the most fantastic and gaudy costumes, parade the streets, and infest the houses and shops, begging for the wherewithal to carry on their Christmas amusements.

After all, the Saints are only one particular class of the Souls of the Dead; so that the change which the Church effected, no doubt for the purpose of disguising the heathen character of the festival, is less great than appears at first sight.

The grampus, or sea-wolf, was another article of food which bears testimony to the coarse palate of the early Englishman, and at the same time may afford a clue to the partiality for disguising condiments and spices.

"Notwithstanding," he remarks, "the partiality of our countrymen to French cookery, yet that mode of disguising meat in this kingdom (except perhaps in the hottest part of the hottest season of the year) is an absurdity.

When the thing to be denoted is familiar, we require an identifying, not a descriptive word for it; and we obey a sound instinct in disguising by a contracted pronunciation the disturbing fact that forehead is a compound.

"Goody Dearlove says they stole a little boy, and his name was Penny Grim." "Goody Dearlove is a silly old body to tell my boy such stories," said Anne, disguising how much she was startled.

He was with a friend, and it was not the moment to have to bother over disguising his feelings.

3022 examples of  disguising  in sentences