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He had his plan prepared, and proposed to Effie, who had no means of her own, to take a loan of the sum out of her father's cash-box words very properly chosen according to the euphemistic policy of the devil; but Effie's genuine spirit was roused and alarmed. "Dreadful!" she whispered, as if afraid that the night wind would carry her words to honest ears.
We wonder that the hand that wrote the lie was not palsied. It would be, if the same Creator that filled every muscle, nerve, bone, and tissue of the sacrilegious hand, with numberless proofs of design, were not a long-suffering and merciful God. Prof. Translated into plain English, this euphemistic expression means that Darwinism excludes all design and control by a Creator.
A fear of that which is high, or mental or physical inertia, or, to be less euphemistic and more exact, laziness should not deter us. This object is not to be accomplished by adopting juvenile dress and kittenish ways. We should beautify old age, not accentuate it by artificial means.
The ball was held in the Opera House, a rather euphemistic title for the large hall above Barstow's cotton warehouse, where third-class theatrical companies played one-night stands several times during the winter, and where an occasional lecturer or conjurer held forth. An amateur performance of "Pinafore" had once been given there.
The motivation in the case shifts from the ground of material interest to the spiritual ground of the moral sentiments. In this connection "honour" is of course to be taken in the euphemistic sense which the term has under the code duello governing "affairs of honour." It carries no connotation of honesty, veracity, equity, liberality, or unselfishness.
The man nodded his head. "Where is the fat lord?" asked Sanders. This was no time for ceremony or for polite euphemistic descriptions even of Cabinet Ministers. "Master, he is in the forest, less than the length of the village from here, I have tied him to a tree."
I do not happen to possess a copy of the poem, but the writer, if I am not mistaken, says that "few could know when Lucy ceased to be." "Ceased to be" is a suspiciously euphemistic expression, and the words "few could know" are not applicable to the ordinary peaceful death of a domestic servant such as Lucy appears to have been.
Yet, instead of candidly avowing this root-defect and remedying it, they were content to stretch the euphemistic terms until these covered conflicting conceptions and gratified the ears of every hearer. Thus, "open covenants openly arrived at" came to mean arbitrary ukases issued by a secret conclave, and "the self-determination of peoples" connoted implicit obedience to dictatorial decrees.
They are so clever that they have even cast a false glamour of beauty about their worst defect their harsh and gaudy hair. They give it euphemistic and deceitful names auburn, bronze, Titian. They overcome by their hellish arts that deep-seated dread of red which is inborn in all of God's creatures. They charm men with what would even alarm bulls.
Sir Timothy and the minister kept up the conversation very much between them, Sir Timothy flattering everything that was American, and the minister finding fault with very many things that were English. Now and then Mr. Boncassen would put in a word to soften the severe honesty of his countryman, or to correct the euphemistic falsehoods of Sir Timothy. The poet seemed always to be biding his time.
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