"Mr. Donnegan," she said, "I wish I knew whether you are the most chivalrous, self-sacrificing of men, or simply the most gorgeous liar in the desert."

He looked up as he spoke, and his face was for the moment as pure as the face of a childDonnegan, the thief, the beggar, the liar by gift, and the man-killer by trade and artistry.

But these two, who pretended they'd dragged a sled all the way from Holy Cross, they were the biggest liars of all.

"Kemp is a liar from first to last," said Inspector Chippenfield decisively.

It is great injustice to brand him with the foul epithet of liar for any little discrepancies, if such there were, in statements made under such circumstances.

Nay, himself, with long and continued counterfeiting, and with oft telling a lie, was turned by habit almost into the thing he seemed to be, and from a liar to a believer.

Yo're as poor a liar as yore side-kicker McFluke.

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.

La Couteau began by assuming a dignified air: "Say that I'm a liar at once.

For these Moors are not honest liars like plain Englishmen, who do generally give you some hint of their business by shifting of their eyes this way and that, hawking, stammering, etc., but they will ever look you calmly and straight in the face, never at a loss for the right word, or over-anxious to convince you, so that 'twill plague a conjurer to tell if they speak truth or falsehood.

If you will review the list of the most famous diplomats of Europe for the last thousand years, you will find that a considerable portion of them won their fame and reputation by being a little more shrewd and successful liars than the diplomats with whom they had to deal in other lands.

and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

You may call an Indian a liar without arousing his anger, but to call him a woman is to bring on a quarrel at once.

They are the pathological liars with little or no initiative or conscienceamoral, not merely theoretically, but instinctively and unconsciously, with all the certitude and perfection of the unconscious accomplishment.

But the person who pretends to say so has the reputation to be a notorious liar among persons whom I know to be of undoubted credit.