So he told the Constable to seize False and to cut off
Guile's head, "and let not Liar escape." But Dread was at the door and heard the doom.
But the other, crafty and unmoved, nursing his shaven chin between the thumb and forefinger of his slim and treacherous hand, thinks deep within his heart full of
guile: "Aha!
To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deifie his power Who from the terrour of this Arm so late Doubted his Empire, that were low indeed, That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall; since by Fate the strength of Gods And this Empyreal substance cannot fail, Since through experience of this great event In Arms not worse, in foresight much advanc't, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or
guile eternal Warr Irreconcileable, to our grand Foe, Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy Sole reigning holds the Tyranny of Heav'n.
Dare devil that you are, full of
guile, unwearying in deceit, can you not drop your tricks and your instinctive falsehood, even now that you are in your own country again?
And then plucking off a glove he threw it down in the middle of the hall, and the duke picked it up, saying, as he had said before, that he accepted the challenge in the name of his vassal, and fixed six days thence as the time, the courtyard of the castle as the place, and for arms the customary ones of knights, lance and shield and full armour, with all the other accessories, without trickery,
guile, or charms of any sort, and examined and passed by the judges of the field.
Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive
guile. And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.
Rather was the
guile on my side as I drew back and watched Rattray lift the young girl tenderly, and slowly carry her to the door by which she had entered and left the hall just twenty-four hours before.
The Colonel stared into vacancy, and I wondered whether anyone could be quite so innocent of
guile as he looked.
He remembered all his hunting
guile, the long patience of shooting meat in famine when a hit or a miss meant life or death.
There was a look of
guile and subtlety in her face, a sound of it in her voice.
He accuses such idealists of hypocrisy and
guile; he says they lack innocence in their desires and therefore slander all desiring.
I should have some," said Levin, not without some
guile, hoping Veslovsky would be tempted by the vodka, and would go away to them.