She knew him too well now, to suspect anything else than that in some way he too was tangled in deceptive webs.
Little did she realize what she was contemplating in this deceptive face, what a perfect practitioner he was in the art of seeming and appearing, commanding his outside as he did, with an ease that did him credit!
No man's face can forever remain an entirelydeceptive mask.
Then she looked at herself in the glass and wondered if her appearance were deceptive enough to trick the sharp eyes of the patients.
They found in it a curious climax of misunderstanding, a culmination of all deceptive things.
This is so in the deceptive seeming, but in fact you have many more, but you do not understand the subtle laws governing in their formation and diversity.
Truth can not dissemble nor assume deceptive garbs, and all seeing the same things differently, proves that neither could be relied upon, for if they had been true and genuine verities, all would have seen and reported them alike.
But it was also a deceptive method because what could not be explained was omitted.
There are more built-in checks in the visual than in the verbal, although the deceptive power of an image can be exploited probably much more than the power of the word.
To the eye that looks only upon the surface, how deceptive is the picture.
Washington, with the deceptive hopefulness of responsibility, had, even when it seemed that the people were as one man against the treaty, "doubted much whether the great body of the yeomanry have formed any opinions on the subject.
All that remained of it was a deceptive inscription on the gates of the Palace.
The moment for leaving the Luxembourg having arrived, Bonaparte still used many deceptive precautions.
I recollect that immediately after the creation of the Legion of Honour, it being summer, the young men of Paris indulged in the whim of wearing a carnation in a button-hole, which at a distance had rather a deceptive effect.
Outside, the country was flooded with a deceptive golden radiance; and he remembered, suddenly, that Alice Lucian had told him to bring Fanny to the Club and a tea that afternoon, which she was giving for Mina Raff.
This, from her manner, her deceptivelook of fragility everywhere drooping with regret, was patent.
Mythology is the deceptive substitute for this, employed when we arbitrarily project forms of our present experience into the unknown futurity, and then hold the resultant fancies as a rigid belief, or regard them as actual knowledge.
We must not suppose that fraudulent trading, that deceptive and imperfect workmanship, that adulteration of everything that could be adulterated, are peculiar to modern times.
He next inquired how long he should hold the papacy, but Satan returned an equivocal and deceptive answer, for Borgia understood that he was to be pope fifteen years, whereas he died at the end of eleven.
The beggar, who appears to be only a deceptive cripple, leads his donkey laden with children, whom he is bringing up in the same profession, while his wife lingers behind to indulge in her bibulous propensities.
In other cases, the deceptive power of the art is really felt to be a source of interest and amusement.
The winter, the real winter, extended itself by degrees over the Basque land, after the few days of frost that had come to annihilate the annual plants, to change the deceptive aspect of the fields, to prepare the following spring.
All these are so tainted with creatureship, so limited and conditioned, that it is hardly too much to say that they are, at their best, deceptive endowments.
Well, if that were true, and not a very deceptive statement, as it really is, you might fairly ask whether this average reduction does not sacrifice some American industry or the wages of our workingmen and working-women.
But I only suggest what has already occurred to your own minds when I say that is a very deceptive statement.
They will make choice of the substantial advantages they have in hand and the deceptive promises and forecasts of these theorizing reformers.
Their anxious and eager looks were baffled by the deceptive light, or rested only on naked rocks, and straight and immovable trees.
The Polyporus sulphureus having been boiled and allowed to cool might furnish a deceptive "chicken" salad.
He was a deceptive running back owing to the difficulty of gauging his pace.
Holden's deceptive pace was nearly too much for even such a star as Cowan, whose hands slipped from the Harvard captain's waist down to below his knees until the ankles were touched.
As gunpowder is now manufactured, it is highly necessary in all comparative trials to weigh, and not to measure the charge, or the results will be deceptive and worthless.
He attributed all his ability in deceptive arts to the agency of the Evil Spirit; and he spoke of it with the same settled tone that he had manifested in reciting other points in his personal experience.
With respect to the opinion steadfastly maintained by this venerable subject of Indian reformation, that his deceptive arts were rendered effectual in the way he designed, by satanic agency, we leave the reader to form his own conclusions.
