The garment of duplicity was gossamer, he felt, after all, in such atmosphere of loyalty and trust as surrounded him at Rosedale.

" CHAPTER XIX. DUPLICITY.

Her recent questionings had prepared him for some act of duplicity, but he had by no means understood her present object, nor did she mean that he should.

My luckless Play, that sad instance of my duplicity, was never once mentioned to me afterwards, not even by any one of the children who had acted in it, and I must also tell you how considerate an old lady was at the time about our dresses.

Such a compound of shrewdness, impudence, common-sense, pretension, humility, cleverness, vulgarity, kind-heartedness, duplicity, selfishness, law- honesty, moral fraud and mother wit, mixed up with a smattering of learning and much penetration in practical things, can hardly be described, as any one of his prominent qualities is certain to be met by another quite as obvious that is almost its converse.

" His associates bowed in courteous acknowledgment of the justice of what he said, and of the loyalty of his conduct, but it was in the manner of men too long accustomed to duplicity to be easily duped.

Her character, in spite of her fascinations and accomplishments, was full of follies, infidelities, and duplicities.

Power was his master-passion, and consumed all other passions; and he resolved to gain it in any way he could,unscrupulously, by flatteries, by duplicities, by sycophancies, by tricks, by lies, even by services.

with a calm and natural earnestness, which frightened Hilda, indicating as it did that he must be capable of astounding duplicities.

" Convinced of the duplicity of the zamorin, De Gama made no answer to the message; but sent back all the nayres whom he had detained, desired them to tell the king he should return the others who were in custody, on receiving back his merchandize.

"You're quite right, Jim," he said, putting down his glass, "but I'mergetting oldandsomehowI am missing poor Stryker damnably!" THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES By O. Henry (1862-1910)

There was subterfuge about it, and something of duplicity.

It is wonderful how much virtue and plain-dealing a man may be guilty of with impunity, if he has no vanity, or ill-nature, or duplicity to provoke the contempt or resentment of others, and to make them impatient of the superiority he sets up over them.

Chianocquot was roused to anger by this duplicity and dispatched him.

Mr. BONAR LAW assured the House that on this occasion at least Mr. HENDERSON went purely as a Cabinet Minister, guiltless of any duplicity.

He doubts whether a true form of Christianity would have answered the purposes of liberty and civilization half so well as the acknowledged duplicities of the Church of Rome.

The great schools for the Moorish gentry are the chanceries of the Bashaws, where the young men learn the arts of dissimulation and duplicity in the greatest perfection, and become, very, early such great adepts in these valuable acquirements, that in my opinion they are fully able to cope with Monsieur Talleyrand, and the best politicians at the court of St. Cloud.

They possess an unbounded degree of duplicity and flattery; are perfectly strangers to the notions of truth and honour, promising a thing one day which they utterly deny the next.

The first words of the count were an abrupt accusation of duplicity in the affair of Lady Lucretia, and a challenge.

Emily, on her part, though grieved at the absence of her protector and counsellor at so interesting a crisis, was unable to suspect Mr. Tyrrel of such a degree either of malice or duplicity as could afford ground for serious alarm.

He took his color from the king he served; hence under the tortuous, deceitful Victor, his policy was marked with crude rascality and duplicity; but under the truthful, single-minded Charles Emmanuel, he became straightforward and honest.

Inheriting opposite, even conflicting, traits from father and mother, they assume, as either element predominates, diverse characters; and that which is the result of temperament (in fact, congenital inconsistency) is set down by the unthinking world as moral weakness or duplicity.

There is doubtless a dense labyrinth of duplicity in the East, and perhaps more guile in the individual Asiatic than in the individual German.

He waited impatiently for the hour when he could present himself before Marcia, own his duplicity, and take leave of her.

to the old, how estimated by BROWN his doctrine of a duplicity of the vocal elements, perstringed his strange division of the vowels "into two parts," and conversion of most of them into diphthongs; his enumeration and specification of the alphabetic elements S. S, its name and plur.