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There never was anything better looking than Eddie Houghton in his white duck coat. He was one of those misleadingly gold and pink and white men. I say misleadingly because you usually associate pink-and-whiteness with such words as sissy and mollycoddle. Eddie was neither.
In this connection it will not be amiss to draw attention to the symbol of the conquerors of the city founded by Constantine. For though misleadingly called "the Crescent," that symbol is, as the reader cannot very well fail to be aware, not a mere crescent; but one which has within its horns what we consider to be a star-like form and therefore call a star.
He remained just average-plus to the end, with something more than a knack at things mechanical; a good deal of grease beneath his nails; and, generally, a smudge under one eye or a swipe of black across a cheek that gave him a misleadingly sinister and piratical look.
There is a double modification of this phrase. We hear of 'the gospel of the grace of God' and 'the gospel of the glory of God, which latter expression, rendered in the English version misleadingly 'the glorious gospel, is given in its true shape in the Revised Version. The great theme of the message is further defined in these two noteworthy forms.
At least they pretended to go on with their dinner, while Andy glared at them with amazed reproach in his misleadingly honest gray eyes. "When you've got plenty of time," he said at last in a choked tone, "maybe one of you obliging cusses will untie this damned rope." "Why, sure!" Pink threw a leg over the bench and got up with cheerful alacrity.
With the encroaching fat Flora's small, delicate features seemed, somehow, to disappear in her face, so that you saw it as a large white surface bearing indentations, ridges, and hollows like one of those enlarged photographs of the moon's surface as seen through a telescope. A self-centred face, and misleadingly placid.
Until that moment she had not realized that through all her waverings her one fixed intention had been not to betray him. Harry had risen and was buttoning his overcoat. "You know you're never at home if you don't want to be," he said. She stood misleadingly drooping before him.
Since modern democracy is a new thing under the sun, so its menaces are new, or, if old, they take misleadingly new forms. For instance, the greatest danger in the path of our democracy is the world-old evil of selfishness, but it does take surprisingly new form. It is not aggressive selfishness that we have primarily to dread.
If we could have followed the Jewish priest as he passed in his daily ministrations into the Inner Court, we should have seen that he first piled the incense on the altar which stood in its centre, and then turned to trim the lamps of the golden candlestick which flanked it on one side. Of course it was not a candlestick, as our versions misleadingly render the word.
But the tale-tellers of Poictesme have been long used to say of a fine action, not falsely, but misleadingly, "Thus it was in Count Manuel's time," and the tribute by and by has been accepted as a dating. So has chronology been hacked to make loftier his fame, and the glory of Dom Manuel has been a magnet that has drawn to itself the magnanimities of other days and years.
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