Do we say liar or lier

liar 686 occurrences

" "Here, don't give me any of your cheek," said Grundy, sidling up to his antagonist in a threatening manner; "you mean to say I'm a liar, eh?" The advent of three Fifth Form boysone of whom took Grundy by the shoulders and pushed him away, with the command to "Get out and lie on the mat"put an end, for the time being, to the altercation.

"Yes; you called me a liar, didn't you?"

Liar..........................Eklu ten.

"If you make such pretense in either case," tittered Dave Darrin, "then you're a liar!

" "He called me a liar," protested Pennington.

O my lord Beltane" "Liar!" spake Beltane again.

"Liar!" said he, "thou art methinks one of her many wooers, so art thou greater fool.

But Helen the Beautiful hath lovers a-plenty, and being what she is shall nothing miss thee: howbeit thou art surely liar, and surely will I slay thee!"

According to the decisions of judges of this latter class, there would not be a liar, a swindler, a cheat, or a mercenary scoundrel living; but the earth would be filled with so many suffering saints that are persecuted for their virtues.

Unless history is as great a liar as Talleyrand said it was, when he declared that it was founded on a general conspiracy against truth,and who could suppose an English historian capable of lying?shameful exhibitions of fear, flights of whole bodies of troops, and displays of panic terror were very common things with our English ancestors who fought and flourished tempore Caroli Primi.

"You dirty liar; I'll slap yer face if yer say that again!"

"You're a pretty poor pickpocket, old chap," reflected Kittredge, "but you're an awful good liar!

I will write liar on you with my sword-point!" He sprang forward, and sent in a thrust which might have found its way to Dalbert's heart had the heavy sabre of a dragoon not descended from the side and shorn his more delicate weapon short off close to the hilt.

"If I did not have all kinds of respect for you I would call you a liar" remarked Mr. Miller.

To have supposed that Nature could have been untrue to such promises as had been made then, would have been to suppose Nature a liar.

Think of the wild liar who first put that fearful thought into the mind of Europe!

Statement and proof were one, and how ready, and indeed eager, human nature was to believe the wildest nonsense told by witless fool or unscrupulous liar, the records of such manias as the famous Salem trials appallingly evidence.

To no liar would it seem possible.

(Later this liar swore that he made the fire smoke with green twigs to guide the pursuit,a foolish lie, for he knew not what Ibrahim had done, nor anything but that his master hastened.)

" The character of a liar is at once so hateful and contemptible, that even of those who have lost their virtue it might be expected that from the violation of truth they should be restrained by their pride.

The liar, and only the liar, is invariably and universally despised, abandoned, and disowned: he has no domestick consolations, which he can oppose to the censure of mankind; he can retire to no fraternity, where his crimes may stand in the place of virtues; but is given up to the hisses of the multitude, without friend and without apologist.

The liar, and only the liar, is invariably and universally despised, abandoned, and disowned: he has no domestick consolations, which he can oppose to the censure of mankind; he can retire to no fraternity, where his crimes may stand in the place of virtues; but is given up to the hisses of the multitude, without friend and without apologist.

This kind of falsehood is generally successful for a time, because it is practised at first with timidity and caution: but the prosperity of the liar is of short duration; the reception of one story is always an incitement to the forgery of another less probable; and he goes on to triumph over tacit credulity, till pride or reason rises up against him, and his companions will no longer endure to see him wiser than themselves.

After the fracas of this night Richard Lambert forsooth could never show his face within two hundred miles of London, the ugly story of his having cheated at cards and been publicly branded as a liar and a thief by a party of gentlemen would of a surety penetrate even within the fastnesses of Thanet.

But as I crossed the threshold of the library I formulated this note: Bates is a liar, for one thing, and a person with active enemies for another; watch him.

lier 15 occurrences

" "My ward has spent lier leisure with the doctors of Padua!

Doubt, that the Sunne doth moue; Doubt Truth to be a Lier, But neuer Doubt, I loue.

LE BAVARD Un jeune fat tenta un jour de lier conversation avec Aristote.

ENGAGER, lier par une promesse; inviter; faire entrer.

copulative, qui sert à lier les parties du discours.

LIER, attacher; entrer en (conversation).

SEE LIEBLING, A. J. LIER, ALFRED, ed.

SEE LIEBLING, A. J. LIER, ALFRED, ed.

Enfin le marié en fit lier ensemble deux, qui à la vérité n'étoient pas trop fortes, et il les brisa encore sans se blesser.

J'ai eu occasion de me lier, pendant mon séjour à

A sprinkling of the Words Faction, Frenchman, Papist, Plunderer, and the like significant Terms, in an Italick Character, have also a very good Effect upon the Eye of the [Purchaser; ] not to mention Scribler, Lier, Rogue, Rascal, Knave, and Villain, without which it is impossible to carry on a Modern Controversie.

Pupil of Adolf Lier in Munich, and Jules Dupré and Alfred Stevens in Paris.

I have had such a struggle to obtain mamma's promise to go with me to-night, that I really feel exhausted," and the young lady threw herself in a most graceful attitude of listlessness on a sofa that stood invitingly beside lier.

Had he so soon conquered his affections, that he could associate with lier on terms of friendly intimacy?

#lier#, bind, tie.

Do we say   liar   or  lier