Do we say liar or lyre

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.

lyre 420 occurrences

O singer sublime of Beeyah-byyah-bunniga-nelliga-jong, It isn't envy, the green and yellow, That makes me take up my lyre, old fellow, And burst with a fierce cacophonous bellow Across the path of your song.

[Stringed instruments], monochord^, polychord^; harp, lyre, lute, archlute^; mandola^, mandolin, mandoline^; guitar; zither; cither^, cithern^; gittern^, rebeck^, bandurria^, bandura, banjo; bina^, vina^; xanorphica^. viol, violin, fiddle, kit; viola, viola d'amore

From him they have beginning of their race: meet is it that Ainesidamos receive our hymn of triumph, on the lyre.

For crowns entwined about his hair demand from me this god-appointed debt, that for Ainesidamos' son I join in seemly sort the lyre of various tones with the flute's cry and ordering of words.

probably a new combination of lyre and flute to accompany the singing.]

Happy is he whom good report encompasseth; now on one man, now on another doth the Grace that quickeneth look favourably, and tune for him the lyre and the pipe's stops of music manifold.

And shoot a feathered arrow of sweet song Pythoward, for thy words shall not fall to the ground when thou tunest the throbbing lyre to the praise of the wrestlings of a man from famous Opous, and celebratest her and her son.

On thee the pleasant lyre and the sweet pipe shed their grace, and the Pierian daughters of Zeus foster thy wide-spread fame.

He strikes but one chord at a time on his lyre, but he leaves you thrilled.

Sound, sound the charge, when the wassel bowl Is lifted with songs, let the trumpets shrill blast Awaken like fire in the warrior's soul, The bright recollections of chivalry past; Let the lute or the lyre the soft stripling rejoice, No music on earth is so sweet as thy voice.

Thus, in the year 1515, he became Orpheus, and, while adorned with the plectrum and the lyre of the poet, Marforio addressed a distich to him in his new character, which hints at the popular appreciation of the Pope.

"In the midst of war and slaughter and the sound of trumpets," said Marforio, "you sing and strike your lyre: this is to understand the temper of your Lord.

O might a transient spark of genius fire The fond effusions of her fearful youth; Then should thy virtues live upon her lyre, And give to harmony the charm of truth.

She loves to breathe her hallow'd flame, where art 5 Has never veil'd the soul, or warp'd the heart; Where fancy glows with all her native fire, And passion lives on the exulting lyre.

Peru, the muse that vainly mourn'd thy woes, Whom pity robb'd so long of dear repose; The muse, whose pensive soul with anguish wrung Her early lyre for thee has trembling strung; 350 Shed the weak tear, and breath'd the powerless sigh, Which soon in cold oblivion's shade must die; Pants with the wish thy deeds may rise to fame, Bright on some living harp's immortal frame!

I fondly trace Thy strong enchantments, when the poet's lyre, The painter's pencil catch thy sacred fire, And beauty wakes for thee her touching grace

When harvest is almost ripe, they go dancing to the sound of the lyre, and visit the fields, whence they return with their heads ornamented with wheat ears, interwoven with the hair.

Felicia Hemans, her lyre musically blending the song of sounding streams with the spontaneous melody of the "feathered choir" composing an epicedium to the memory of departed days, and proving her glorious claims to the poetic character, "creation's heir.

Their Magnus Apollo no longer we follow, He's routed and flouted and laid on the shelf, And no poet's address will now reach him unless He can play his own lyre and flatter himself.

Jupiter gave him a pair of swans and a golden chariot, which bore him over sea and land wherever he wanted to go; and he gave him a lyre on which he played the sweetest music that was ever heard, and a silver bow with sharp arrows which never missed the mark.

Some one was playing on a lyre, and some one was singing.

They wondered how it was that he was so wise; for it seemed to them that he did nothing but stroll about, playing on his wonderful lyre and looking at the trees and blossoms and birds and bees.

Then the mountains and the woods were filled with the music of Apollo's lyre, and even the Mighty Folk on the mountain top were glad.

He took away his bow and arrows and his wonderful lyre and all his beauty of form and feature; and after that Jupiter clothed him in the rags of a beggar and drove him down from the mountain, and told him that he should never come back nor be himself again until he had served some man a whole year as a slave.

Upon his shoulder was a silver bow, from his belt hung a quiver of sharp arrows, and in his hands was a golden lyre.

Do we say   liar   or  lyre