But thou hast bound her fast to
Falseness. Meed is gently born.
(which is this last degree) is a vice, using either of a natural
falseness or fearfulness, or of a mind that hath some main faults, which because a man must needs disguise, it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of use.
All memory of the past, all thought of the future, all sense of the
falseness and hopelessness of my own position, lay hushed within me into deceitful rest.
He was treated with a solemn respect accorded in the irreverent West only to the monarchs of the stage, and he accepted the profound homage with a sustained dignity seen nowhere else but behind the footlights and in the condensed
falseness of some grossly tragic situation.
Whenever Hayward said something which was illogical, Weeks in a few words would show the
falseness of his reasoning, pause for a moment to enjoy his triumph, and then hurry on to another subject as though Christian charity impelled him to spare the vanquished foe.
Do not will anything beyond your power: there is a bad
falseness in those who will beyond their power.
I believe that if I am doing what seems so bad, it is not mere weakness and
falseness. Mr.
Brought up as a Corsican, Ginevra was, in some sense, a child of Nature;
falseness was a thing unknown to her; she gave herself up without reserve to her impressions; she acknowledged them, or, rather, allowed them to be seen without the affectations of petty and calculating coquetry, characteristic of Parisian girlhood.
'This is the hend, is it?' continued Miss Squeers, who, being excited, aspirated her h's strongly; 'this is the hend, is it, of all my forbearance and friendship for that double-faced thing--that viper, that--that--mermaid?' (Miss Squeers hesitated a long time for this last epithet, and brought it out triumphantly as last, as if it quite clinched the business.) 'This is the hend, is it, of all my bearing with her deceitfulness, her lowness, her
falseness, her laying herself out to catch the admiration of vulgar minds, in a way which made me blush for my--for my--'
Vanborough was tall and dark--a dashing, handsome man; with an energy in his face which all the world saw; with an inbred
falseness under it which only a special observer could detect.
The thorough
falseness of the position weighed on them both.
After that proof of your horrible
falseness and cunning, I tore up my letter.