Oh, the mendacity and vanity of these Orientals!"

The processes were pressed with that strange blend of industry, stupidity, mendacity and cunning which characterize the Prussian and all his acts.

Whatever their motives may have been, one thing is certain, they have produced most convincing proof of German mendacity.

In a word Mr. Tutt rolled Bibby up and threw him away, while his master shuddered at the open disclosure of his trusted major-domo's vulgarity, mendacity and general lack of sportsmanship.

A shameless blend of petty larceny, mendacity, fleas, gourmandism, dirt and unequalled plausibility.

For these hideous creatures, however visionary, have a real traditionary ground in medieval beliefsincere and partly reasonable, though adulterating with mendacity, blundering, credulity, and intense superstition.

Fitly underlined and sufficiently spaced, it was a statement calculated to awe, if only by its mendacity.

The unlimited impudence and the astounding mendacity of the youth amused the cowboys very much, and they allowed him to narrate a whole list of terrible acts he had committed in the East.

[Sidenote: Sulla's mendacity.]

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the whole edifice of mendacity and perjury fell to pieces.

Whoever had committed the charitable act of mendacity it couldn't have been Jean.

The way in which it finally disappeared is involved in some obscurity, owing to Vasari's spite and mendacity.

Germany, however, does not only export pigs; her trade in "canards" with neutrals grows and grows, chiefly with the United States, thanks to the untiring mendacity of Bernstorff and Wolff.

From the Mussulmans of the island I had less hostility to endure than from the more influential of the Christian Cretans, with whom the dominant passion of life seemed to be that of intrigue, and with whose mendacity and unscrupulousness I could not contend.

" "No, I do not deny that this glowing mendacity adds to the hall's appearance.

It was our old waiter of all those years ago, who, with an almost paternal gladness, was telling me how good it was to see me again, and, with consolatory mendacity, was assuring me that I had hardly changed a bit.

"One of the most remarkable phenomena connected with the practice of mendacity is the vast number of deliberate lies we tell ourselves, whom, of all persons, we can least expect to deceive.

" The convicts have not broken out; but an epidemic of gratuitous mendacity has done so, it appears.

Pringle's shameless mendacity shocked him.

There is many a man, moving in good society, who would rather be guilty of, and even detected in, an act of unkindness or mendacity, than be seen in an unfashionable dress or commit a grammatical solecism or a broach of social etiquette.

"Now, in the special case under consideration, the guilty man, I will assume, lies hard and fast, but, when he fancies that all that is left him will be to reap the reward of his mendacity, behold, he will succumb in the very place where such an accident is likely to be most closely analyzed.

What he has read becomes, in the end, what he has done, and thus, in time, the Spurious Sportsman is sent forth into the world equipped in a dazzling armour of sporting mendacity.

And yet mendacity is, perhaps, too harsh a word; for it is of the essence of true falsehood that it should hope to be believed, in order that it may deceive.

"It's only an old family keepsake," she added, with easy mendacity; and affecting to recognize in Mr. Brace's curiosity a not unnatural excuse for toying with her charming fingers, she hid them in chaste and virginal seclusion in her lap, until she could recover the ring and resume her glove.

Why, the moment I stepped foot" "And I said coming along," interrupted Union Mills, with equally reviving mendacity, 'Like as not he's hangin' round yer and lyin' low just to give us a surprise.'