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Not that I think it was deceitfulness in the girl, but a sort of fondness that always kept her from noticing really important things. 'And does he ask you to have him? says I. 'Of course he does, she says; 'I never thought any different. I never thought but what he would come back for me, just as he said he would just as he has. By that I knew well enough that she had often had her doubts.
Having finished her task, which was a short one and easily performed, the woman now waited to watch the minister as he selected cedar boughs and wove them into wreaths, and suspended them from the walls and rafters of the little room; and it comforted the simple soul when, standing in the doorway, the good man lifted his eyes toward heaven and said in the words of the church litany: From error and misunderstanding, From the loss of our glory in Thee, From self-complacency, From untimely projects, From needless perplexity, From the murdering spirit and devices of Satan, From the influence of the spirit of this world, From hypocrisy and fanaticism, From the deceitfulness of sin, From all sin, Preserve us, gracious Lord and God
He read the sea as a landsman reads a book; he knew all its moods and its deceitfulness, and the more placid it was the more David mistrusted its intentions; he was always watching it. The men of Uig had been wont to say that David Borson would not turn his back on the sea, lest it should get some advantage over him.
"And suppose I had died first? Or suppose you had died sudden? This is what comes of deceitfulness and keeping things from your husband. Now somebody has stole it." Mrs. Teak bent her head and sobbed again. "I I had just been out for for an hour," she gasped. "When I came back I fou fou found the washhouse window smashed, and " Sobs choked her utterance. Mr. Teak, lost in admiration of Mr.
Danger of confounding Deceitfulness and Falsehood. Do not confound the criminality of deceitfulness by acts with falsehood by words, by telling the child, when he resorts to any artifice or deception in order to gain his ends, that it is as bad to deceive as to lie. It is not as bad, by any means.
Waving away her jhampannis, she sank into an adjacent cane chair that creaked and swayed ominously under the assault. "It was at Mrs Tait's. My dear would you believe it? That fine fiancé of yours after worming himself into our good graces turns out to be practically a half-caste. A superior one, it seems. But still the deceitfulness of the man! Going about looking like everybody else too!
Indeed, all Traders here are able to maintain their position only by revolvers and rifles; but we hope a better state of affairs is at hand for Tanna." The novelty of our being among them soon passed away, and they began to show their avarice and deceitfulness in every possible way.
All your winning or losing of a good conscience, is in your first buying; for such is the deceitfulness of sin, and the cunning conveyance of that old serpent, that if his head be once entering in, his whole body will easily follow after; and if he make you handsomely to swallow gnats at first, he will make you swallow camels ere all be done.
All the things that thou seest to-day, wherein thou gloriest, pomp, luxury, riches, and all the deceitfulness of life, quickly pass away; and they shall cast thee hence whether thou wilt or no. And thy body will be imprisoned in a tiny grave, left in utter loneliness, and bereft of all company of kith and kin.
Then he read further, "How hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God," and that seemed to make the matter plain. "Ah," he thought, "may I be saved from ever trusting in my riches!" He plucked an ear of wholesome admonition from the parable of the Sower. "The deceitfulness of riches!" he murmured. "How true!"
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