No, she had never told him as much as one white lie, but had always been frank, open and ingenuous as if she and her husband were not husband and wife, or indeed of opposite sexes.

" "No," murmured Susie, desperately, telling a white lie.

Mrs. White lay for a long time with her eyes fixed on the wall.

Can we make out the so-called 'white lie' to be morally permissible?"

And in speaking of Sister Simplice, as never having told even "a white lie," Victor Hugo quotes a letter from the Abbé Sicard, to his deaf-mute pupil Massieu, on this point: "Can there be such a thing as a white lie, an innocent lie?

And in speaking of Sister Simplice, as never having told even "a white lie," Victor Hugo quotes a letter from the Abbé Sicard, to his deaf-mute pupil Massieu, on this point: "Can there be such a thing as a white lie, an innocent lie?

equivocation &c (duplicity) 544; white lie, mental reservation &c (concealment) 528; paltering.

irony; half truth, white lie, pious fraud; mental reservation &c (concealment) 528. pretense, pretext; false plea &c 617; subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe; sham &c (deception) 545. profession, empty words; Judas kiss &c (hypocrisy) 544; disguise &c (mask) 530.

[Fr.], cue. pretense &c (untruth) 546; put off, dust thrown in the eyes; blind; moonshine; mere pretext, shallow pretext; lame excuse, lame apology; tub to a whale; false plea, sour grapes; makeshift, shift, white lie; special pleading &c (sophistry) 477; soft sawder &c (flattery)

[Fr.]; finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie &c (untruth) 546; juggle, tour de force; tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers; espieglerie [Fr.]; net, trap &c 545. Ulysses, Machiavel, sly boots, fox, reynard; Scotchman; Jew, Yankee; intriguer, intrigant^; floater [U.S.], Indian giver [U.S.], keener [U.S.], repeater

" They went to the giant; and, after cordial salutations, Tom propounded his question carelessly, with something like a white lie.

I will not say that she had told a falsehood, or that Elsley had forsworn himself when he got the licence: but certainly both of them were guilty of something very like a white lie, when they declared that Lucia had the consent of her sole surviving guardian, on the strength of an half-angry, half-jesting expression of Scoutbush's that she might marry whom she chose, provided she did not plague him.

In the midst of all this white lay numerous little islets, absolutely coal black.

Then, with man's usual consistency, he outlines the white lie by which he is going to break off the association with the Wendlings; and goes on to say that he wishes to form a similar connection with the Weber family.

Tom did not disturb him: but went away, sorely perplexed, and very much minded to tell a white lie to Armsworth, in whose eyes this would be an offencenot unpardonable, for nothing with him was unpardonable, save lying or crueltybut very grievous.

And thus Snow-White lay for a long, long time, and still only looked as though she were asleep; for she was even now as white as snow, and as red as blood, and as black as ebony.

By CHARLES READE, Author of "It is Never too Late to Mend," "White Lies," etc.

The British army was full of men who had told a white lie to don the King's uniform.

I affected belief, but, rightly or wrongly, it was my strong impression that the portrait thus labelled was that of a well-known Irish lady prominently identified with Home Rule politics, and I smiled to myself at the audacious white lie.

She had meantime paid Dave Sheldon, a neighbour's boy, encountered by his gate, to stay with Duncan during her absence which she explained with a white lie.

Two widely distributed rodents; The barefaced lie and the white lie; The common carrier; A scone and a crumpet, peering out of the tiffin.

Two widely distributed rodents: the barefaced lie (left) and the white lie; The common carrier; A scone (left) and a crumpet peering out of the tiffin.

Two widely distributed rodents; The barefaced lie and the white lie; The common carrier; A scone and a crumpet, peering out of the tiffin.

Two widely distributed rodents: the barefaced lie (left) and the white lie; The common carrier; A scone (left) and a crumpet peering out of the tiffin.

"Three times," said Chiffield, telling a white lie; for he had seen them at morning, noon, and evening on the same day.