289 Verbs to Use for the Word lie

If I find that you have told me a lie, I will kill him.

You see he swore in the Senate that he beheld Drusilla mounting heavenwards, and all he got for his good news was that everybody gave him the lie: since when he solemnly swears he will never bear witness again to what he has seen, not even if he had seen a man murdered in open market.

Lots of people go crazy in Alaska every yearvarious causes, but it's chiefly from believing their own lies.

For, "The king," saith the psalmist, "shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by Him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped."

I've been an ass and an idiot, but I'm done with living a lie.

I saw her lie, and stayed this chariot; And raiment wrapt on her dead limbs, and beat My breast for her.

The country where you may have sight and touch of that which is written lies between the high Sierras south from Yosemiteeast and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert.

And therefore it is not allowable to utter a lie with this view, that we may deliver one from some peril.

And clouds are between him and the Father, and he is deceived with false gods and false teachers, who make him to love a lie."

These travellers, to get raiment or a meal, will not stick to invent any lie.

"Well, Beth?" "Perhaps it will be worth while; but if I go into that woman's house I'll be acting a living lie.

Because, I presume, pride is begotten and born of a lie, and God hates a lie, because all lies lead to ruin, and this lie of pride above all.

"So oftenI knowthat you were, against your will and reason, by dint of the very iteration of it, coming to accept that lie as a truth whose power there was no contesting.

And I added a lie, saying: "I am trying, on behalf of an aunt of hers, to discover her.

" "Verily, youth, methinks dost lie, for I have heard this outlaw is beyond all men wild and fierce and weaveth him demoniac spells and enchantments most accurst, whereby he maketh gate and door and mighty portcullis to ope and yield before his pointed finger, and bolt and bar and massy wall to give him passage when he will, as witness the great keep of Garthlaxton that he did burn with hellish fire.

Their sons are sacrificed to a lie, for if you assert what you doubt, it is a falsehood, and they offer up their own children to prove this lie to themselves; and now that our beloved have died for it, far from confessing it, we hide our heads still deeper not to see what we have done.

No personal or social emergency can justify a lie, whatever may be its apparent gain, or whatever harm may seem to be involved in a refusal to speak it.

"I am not interested in hearing your lies!

As to his account of himself, I read a lie in those tell-tale eyes all the time that he was talking.

While, to th' exclusion of the rest, This single art you ply, Your nobler studies are supprest, Your books neglected lie.

In his arm-chair, warmly cushioned, In the quiet earned by labor, Life's reposeful Indian summer, Grandpa sits; and lets the paper Lie upon his knee unheeded.

They scorned a lie and looked down on anyone who would cheat or deceive.

In 1589, on the marriage of his heir with Judge Gawdy's daughter, "the Lord Chancellor danced the measures at the solemnity, and left his gown on the chair, saying Lie there, Chancellor."

She threw their lies in my face.

"'Tis a lie from beginning to end!" cried the Colonel.

289 Verbs to Use for the Word  lie