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Example sentences for "disguises"

Lexicographically close words:
disgracing; disgracious; disgruntled; disguise; disguised; disguising; disguisings; disgust; disgusted; disgustedly
  1. Juvenal cautiously disguises his attacks on his own time.

  2. The thought of eternity compels us to think of God as witness of every act, to remember that "decisive hour" when, with all veils and disguises removed, the verdict on our life will be pronounced.

  3. Tell him what he has to do before you bring him in, then we can see the disguises on you both; and it's better for you to start from an inn, where people are going in and out, than from one of the houses where you are quartered.

  4. The landlord returned with the disguises almost immediately after the sergeant had gone out, and in a few minutes the latter came in with Hogan.

  5. Me and Shermlock, when we had on tramp disguises we were tramps.

  6. With the money he will receive for capturing the Hard-Boiled Egg, Mr. Gubb intends to purchase eighteen complete disguises from the Supply Department of the Rising Sun Detective Agency, Slocum, Ohio.

  7. Mr. Gubb, in the three weeks during which the search went on, exhausted all his disguises and every page of the twelve lessons of the Rising Sun Detective Agency's Correspondence School of Detecting.

  8. In the deteckative profession the assuming of disguises is often necessary to the completion of the clarification of a mystery plot.

  9. Mr. Gubb wishes us to announce that until the disguises arrive he will continue to do paper-hanging, decorating, and interior painting at reasonable rates.

  10. A deteckative gent is obliged to keep up a set of disguises hitherto unsuspected by the mortal world.

  11. True, He eludes her, and disguises Himself; she sleeps, and her griefs are but as the phantoms which come with night and sleep.

  12. In like manner, a life of faith is but a continual pursuit of God through all which disguises and disfigures Him; through all which, so to speak, destroys and annihilates Him.

  13. The brigands themselves were strictly enjoined not to attract attention; to keep disguises close at hand, to change their abode frequently, and to be prepared to assume quickly a different character.

  14. He was clever at disguises and used a variety of costumes, wearing false beards of different hues; he possessed the complete uniform of a Bavarian railway guard, in which he once got as far as Bingen without a ticket.

  15. What will all the excuses or disguises or glosses he can devise avail before Him who "sets our iniquities before Him, our secret sins in the light of His countenance"?

  16. All of these notions, most of all belief in a supreme arbitrary Will, are modern disguises of Fate; and belief in Fate is the one thing fatal to human culture and energy.

  17. The actual dangers would mask themselves in the endless disguises of illusion, the wold and wave be peopled with cruel and treacherous seducers.

  18. He loves to touch with the spear of logic the follies and self-deceptions of mankind, and make them appear in their natural form, stripped of the disguises of language and custom.

  19. Had he not seen the Scarlet Pimpernel, that exquisite Sir Percy Blakeney, under disguises that were so grimy and so loathsome that they would have repelled the most abject, suborned spy?

  20. Here fresh disguises were assumed, and soon a squad of Republican Guards looked as like the real thing as possible.

  21. The longing to go would come upon me without any warning in the dead of night sometimes, stealing into my consciousness under varying disguises as the years went by and the passion required fresh incentives to become active and alert.

  22. My friend never had any of this affectation; life was not a masquerade to him, and his disguises were the most serious part of his life.

  23. Stella had observed that her mother looked unusually worn and haggard, through the disguises of paint and powder.

  24. Father Benwell was an adept at moral disguises of all kinds.

  25. Jehane disguises herself as a man, joins him on his journey, supports him with her own means for a time, and enters into partnership with him in merchandise at Marseilles, he remaining ignorant of her sex and relation to him.

  26. The present writer is not far from agreeing with B, while he has for A a respect which disguises no shadow of a sneer.

  27. The impossibilities of place, the unlikelihood of circumstances, the most incredible disguises will not lead him astray.

  28. And, while he sees through all disguises worn by others, he hides his penetration carefully under a mask of cheerful good nature and jovialness.

  29. In the seventh story of the first book she disguises herself as a man, and mocks the Tzar three times.

  30. He disguises himself as a poor man, puts a sack of peas on his shoulders, and goes into the forest where his father was lost eighteen years before.

  31. Ivan takes his master's clothes, disguises himself as a gentleman, and, imitating his voice, orders the grooms to bring him his favourite horse.

  32. He was rather a splendid figure now that he had sloughed all disguises and was on the threshold of his triumph.

  33. Remember those names don't belong to the Ivery part, but to the big game behind all the different disguises .

  34. That was the house where Percy was staying all last week, where he kept disguises and so on for us all, and where some of our meetings were held.

  35. All the way between Paris and Calais we have places of refuge, places where any of us can hide at a given moment; where we can find disguises when we want them, or horses in an emergency.

  36. But small men use lying artifices and disguises to protect themselves.

  37. Ipomedon, aware of her plight, disguises himself as a fool, and goes to her uncle's court, knowing that she will send thither for aid.

  38. Here the conflict generally lasts three days, the three disguises are employed, and the tournament is often absent.

  39. Mr. Hartland also draws attention to the parallel between the three disguises of the hero and the three dresses of the heroine in certain variants of the Cinderella story.

  40. Sliding panels, secret doors, and many disguises were the modus operandi of the occult phenomena.

  41. These shades of meaning are not likely to be detected under the disguises in which river-names come down to our time.

  42. The rarer animal disguises are the deer and the bear.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disguises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.