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Updated: June 19, 2025
They also tell common tales in such enormous phrases, with such gigantic structure of rhetorical flourish, that the mere disproportion amounts to false-hood; and, the diseased appetite in listeners growing more and more diseased, feeding on such diseased food, it is impossible to predict what it will not be necessary for story-mongers to invent at the end of a century or so more of this.
At first he declined to tell me anything, but somehow I melted the mood with which he seemed enwrapped, and he talked freely. He swears to me that he did not murder your mother. He declares it so earnestly that I cannot doubt his veracity. To-morrow I intend plying him closely with questions, and by a rigid system of cross examination will detect the false-hood, if there is one, in his statement.
"Who is Tommy Howard?" "He lives on the other side of the court." "Very probable that a dirty, ragged boy gave her the money! This is another false-hood, Mrs. Redburn. I lament that a person in your situation should have no higher views of Christian morality than to lie yourself, and teach your child to lie, which is much worse."
He has reproduced the diplomatic methods which have made Germany unpopular throughout the world. He has tried bullying, cajolery, and false-hood, and last of all he has plunged into crime. No German-American will henceforth ever have weight in the counsels of this country. I do not mind confessing," Mr.
Until she was seventeen, she was precisely like any other rather stupid girl; never given to novel-reading or fancies; never, frightened by the dark or ghost-stories; proving herself warmly attached to us, after a while, and rousing in us, in return, the kindly interest naturally felt for a faithful servant; but she was not in any respect uncommon, quite far from it, except in the circumstance that she never told a false-hood.
"Lawyers!" gasped her husband. "You're not arranging to lock me in a private madhouse, are you?" "No," laughed Dolly; "but when I told them how I intended to invest the money they came near putting me there." "Didn't they want to know how you suddenly got so rich?" asked Carter. "They did. I told them it came from my husband's 'books'! It was a very 'near' false-hood."
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