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Then her miniature features joined to finish the extreme sweetness of it, which was not belied by that of a temper turned to indolence, languor, and the pleasures of love.
"My dear; I have no control over your actions." "Have you made any other plans for me to-morrow morning?" inquired Miss Welland in a prim and social tone, belied by the dancing light in her eyes. "I've told you that he was romantic," warned the other. "What higher recommendation could there be? I shall sit in the boat with him and talk nautical language. Has he a yachting cap?
The expression of his face was not bad. The decided droop of the corners of the mouth, and hardness of his grey-brown eyes indicated, it is true, a measure of irritability, but on the whole, the objectionable element of the expression was only that of a man who was accustomed to measure all things on the scale of common-place personal advantage. His life was not belied by his appearance.
Somerville, drily. "It is all I wish," exclaimed Mr. Cox, "that I could find out and light upon the man that has belied me to your honour." "No man has belied you, Mr. Cox, but your nose belies you much, if you do not love drinking a little, and your black eye and cut chin belie you much if you do not love quarrelling a little." "Quarrel! I quarrel, please your honour!
It would be idiotic to reassert the old fallacy, belied by the experience of centuries, that one volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
Then she put upon her the white frock that Tess had worn at the club-walking, the airy fulness of which, supplementing her enlarged coiffure, imparted to her developing figure an amplitude which belied her age, and might cause her to be estimated as a woman when she was not much more than a child. "I declare there's a hole in my stocking-heel!" said Tess.
"You'll do no such thing, Jess Bancroft," she said sharply, although the pity in her eyes belied the harshness of the words, "if you do I'll I'll never speak to you again!" The words had their calculated effect, and Jess made a brave rally.
"It is too warm to walk in all that crowd, child." "You are so indolent! Tell me who people are as they pass. I know no one here." "Nor I." But his act belied the words, for as they passed his lips he rose erect, with a smothered exclamation and startled face, as if a ghost had suddenly confronted him.
There was a sudden quiver in the question that belied the studied calm of the speaker. Max took up his glass and drank again. "She can't stand me at any price," he said. "Then what have you been doing?" There was no attempt to disguise the fierceness of the query. Noel started forward in his chair with hands clenched, and his dog slid to the ground. "Take it easy!" said Max.
So satin smooth was her hair that even the fresh wind could not ruffle it, and in such straight lines of maiden modesty hung her green gown always she wore green, and it became her well, and 'twas a colour I always fancied that it but fluttered a little around her feet in the marsh grass, but her face looked out from a green gauze hood with an expression that belied all this steadfastness of primness and decorum.
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