Misrepresentation, falsehood and deceit were the chief weapons of attack; and by such methods the name of the Church was maligned and its officers placed in a false light before the world.
In his History of Illinois, Governor Ford admitted that he had resorted to deceit to make the "Mormons" believe that they would be prevented from going west, in order to hasten their departure.
But he was now embarked upondeceit and must crowd all sail.
These knights are Deceit and his brother, who have been brought hither by the old man Archimago, to slay Sir Guyon whom they hate.
But she hated herself for thedeceit she was practising.
She thinks that everything remains about the same as it was in her day, and we are careful not to disturb her opinion; for in this case a little deceit seems wise, or, at least, necessary.
Besides, if Jesus had really and miraculously made Wine, which no Power or Art of Man could do, he should, to prevent all suspicion of deceit in the Miracle, have done it without the use of Water.
But Jesus declining this Test of his Power, the whole Multitude of Believers as well as of Unbelievers before, question'd the Resurrection of Lazarus; and were highly incens'd against both him and Jesus for the Deceit in it.
And then we are back again on the old abandoned ground of deceit and imposture.
Conscious of the weak ground on which he stands, he is obliged to have recourse to these artifices to mislead the judgment, and support for a time his unjustifiable measures by deceit and imposition.
As one who listens to some great deceit that has been practiced on him, and then chafes at it, such became Phlegyas in his stifled anger.
Deidamia was the wife of Achilles, who slew herself for grief at his desertion and departure for Troy, which had been brought about by the deceit of Ulysses and Diomed.
But when Saul was determined to have David brought to him even if he were sick in bed, how was the deceit discovered?
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; throughdeceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
In an age when conflicts were always hand to hand, and the man who could best deceive his enemy as to his next blow was the one to carry off his head, the development of suspicion, strategy, and deceit was inevitable.
The West conceives of business deceit as concerned not only with the integrity of the community, but also with the rights of the individual.
But for those whose deceit and wickedness he beheld, and perceived that they would not truly return unto him; to them he denied any return unto repentance, lest they should again blaspheme his law with wicked words.
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Above all things his anxiety was increased by the example of his brother Gallus, who had been betrayed by his own want of caution and the perjured deceit of certain individuals.
And he used often to send his officers, Mucianus and Barbarus, men fit for any deceit or treachery, secretly out of his house.
You gave me a lesson in deceit once, so don't complain if I turned the tables and made your heart ache for a minute, as you've made mine for a year.
And a sort of greed and deceit seized Minos as he gazed, and for his sacrifice to Posidon he resolved to use another bull.
There must be some good reason for her deceit of them.
Her reproaches for his deceit about his wife had really hurt him, and the shock he had experienced when he believed himself to have been the cause of her death had been the one terrible experience of his shallow life.
It was not so easy, however, for Lola to forget Dick Fenway's deceitas her father fancied.
She felt that after this conspicuous example of her love he could never again bring forward against her those old charges of deceit which he had once uttered.
But perhaps, on the other hand, he might feel softened and accept her explanation readily, without giving any though to the strange deceit which had been practiced for so long a time.
It was very considerate in Zillah, but at the same time it is very embarrassing to me, and I am looking eagerly forward to the time when this deceit can be over, and I can rejoin my friend once more.
Would not his clear, open, honest eyes see through and through the mask of deceit with which she concealed her true nature?
O that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous Pallace Nur.
He is my sonne, I, and therein my shame, Yet from my dugges, he drew not this deceit Boy.
No, no, my Soueraigne, Glouster is a man Vnsounded yet, and full of deepe deceit Card.
The Maid will I frame, and make fit for his attempt: if you thinke well to carry this as you may, the doublenes of the benefit defends the deceit from reproofe.
Deceit should steale such gentle shape, And with a vertuous Vizor hide deepe vice.
I am the only one who has been terribly deceived, beyond the possibility of a doubt, and the consequences of thatdeceit are irreparable.
But Gill gave little thought to the deceit that had placed Jim Harker in the office of Justice of the Peace, for he had a weightier matter on his mind--theft.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deceit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
