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Aennchen drew up in triumph: "And now will you pretend that you didn't come up here to go in there to listen to what they say?" Beppo clapped hands at her cleverness in trapping him. "Hush," said all her limbs and features, belying the previous formal "good-evening." He refused to be silent, thinking it a way of getting to the little antechamber.
The countenance changing suddenly from red to white the bloodshot, restless eye, belying the composed majesty of mien the muttering lips the broken slumber the secret corselet; these to both were the rewards of Power! The elasticity of youth had left the Tribune!
That was what it said an hour ago; and now it is shrunk away you know not where, you cannot rally it, and you are there confounded, self-abandoned, self-annulled, a forgery, belying the identity which your visible form which your human form, was made to promise, a slave, a pipe for fortune's finger.
The play was drawing near to its climax an attempt to capture the deputy sheriff, tie him to a tree, and leave him bound and gagged alone in the waste. There was a glitter in Terry's eyes, belying the lips which smiled in keeping with the character he presented.
"No, but I should be glad if your countenance did not, at such a moment, expand like a sunflower; I should like you, at the risk of somewhat belying yourself, to have the strength to moderate and restrain that vein of talk and conversation of which you have given yourself the supremacy and monopoly; I wish you had the generosity to show, now and again, less wit.
He spoke knowingly, notwithstanding the Sekt and the smile with which he seemed to be belying his remarks. Thus, the Majority Socialists were traitors. Scheidemann had sold the revolution for a kiss from Graf Rantzau. The masses.... "Ah, m'sieur, they are arming. There will be an overthrow." And then, Ludendorff had framed the revolution actually manufactured it. All the old officers were back.
But of Gower or Vivian, what could I say without not indeed betraying his confidence, for that he had never given me but without belying the professions of friendship that I myself had lavishly made to him? Perhaps, after all, he might have disclosed whatever were his real secrets to Trevanion; and, if not, I might indeed ruin his prospects by revealing the aliases he assumed.
The master of the station was standing by, so I was obliged to give the name of Gyges in order not to excite his suspicions by belying my pass, as it was only through this that I could obtain fresh horses.
We are not so weak as to hope to get at the truth by shutting either our left ear or our right." "And so you would listen to Satan belying the saints!" "Ta! ta! The law meddles but with men and women, and these cannot utter a story all lies, let them try ever so. Only having taken it in, we do winnow and sift it. And who told you I had swallowed the thief's story whole like fair water? Not so.
He was on his guard directly, and said coldly, "You have been belying me to my very clerk." "No, sir: you are mistaken; I have never mentioned your name to your clerk." Mr. Hardie reflected on what Skinner had told him, and found he had made another false move. He tried again: "Nor to the Dodds?" with an incredulous sneer. "Nor to the Dodds," replied Alfred calmly. "What, not to Miss Julia Dodd?"
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