He dissembled till the moment of revenge; invited the chiefs to a friendly conference; and punished the innocent and guilty by imprisonment, confiscation, and baptism.
The indolence or policy of the caliphs dissembled the injury and loss, and pursued only with poison the founder of the Edrisites, who erected the kingdom and city of Fez on the shores of the Western ocean.
The emperor maintained his silence, dissembled his indignation, and questioned his interpreter concerning the meaning of the words, which he partly suspected from the universal language of gesture and countenance.
Yet they dissembled till they had obtained, or stolen, a safe passage to the Italian continent: their brethren of Aversa sympathized in their indignation, and the province of Apulia was invaded as the forfeit of the debt.
The worship of images was triumphantly restored: the patriarch renounced his dissimulation, or dissembled his sentiments and the righteous claims of the usurper was acknowledged, both in the new, and in ancient, Rome.
The meaning is that hedissembled his satisfaction at the princess's proposal and made a show of refusal, so he might hoodwink her the more effectually.
The emperor dissembled his anger at that time; but soon sending for the bishop, he sharply reproved him for his insolence, and then ordered him to sacrifice to the pagan deities as an expiation for his offence.
I dissembled tolerably well when she came to bring our dinners, but could not help remarking, in my own mind, the difference between this repast, and those I had before partook of.
Here he is in marked contrast with Descartes, who dissembled his opinion about Copernicus and Galileo for peace' sake, [331] and was the close friend of the apologist Mersenne down to his death.
Madame de Bearn saw clearly that chance was not the sole cause of this meeting: she dissembled as well as she could.
He was moved by them, it is true; but fearing on his own account, lest they should disturb his ease if offended, he dissembled his feelings.
Agrippi'na, however, dissembled her suspicions, and informed the emperor of her wonderful escape.
Such an outrage might have exasperated the patience of the most peaceful sovereign; yet the conqueror of Gaul dissembled the injury, released the tribute, and accepted the alliance, and military service, of the king of Burgundy.
Whether he really misunderstood me, or dissembled the appearance of misunderstanding me, I know not.
Though, as a true and honest man, I knew that every word he pronounced was a vile and deceitful lie, yet such is the power of the oppressor, I swallowed my rising words, and dissembled a sort of satisfaction.
Come, you both love him, and both have equally dissembled your aversion.
Had you dissembled better, things might have continued in the state of nature.
The very possibility of failure was painful to him, but when the Chamberlain announced the Duke's arrival, he dissembled his agitation and advanced cordially to meet him.
Even the conquerors were moved to pity, and although those nearest to the sovereign prudently dissembled their emotion, the tears coursed down the bronzed cheeks of more than one rude soldier.
What she heard immensely enhanced the already great dread which her own dream had inspired in the girl; but, not to vex Gabriotto, she dissembled her terror as best she might.
The monarch dissembled his suspicions; but, after the close of the campaign, Andronicus was arrested and strictly confined in a tower of the palace of Constantinople.
Footnote 12: The avarice of Bessas is not dissembledby Procopius, (l.
The chagan was encamped in the plains of Thrace; but he dissembled his perfidious designs, and solicited an interview with the emperor near the town of Heraclea.
From thence the king of Persia was conducted to the more honorable residence of Hierapolis; and Maurice dissembled his pride, and displayed his benevolence, at the reception of the letters and ambassadors of the grandson of Nushirvan.
Till he had secured the passage of the Po on the bridge of Pavia, the grandson of Clovis dissembled his intentions, which he at length declared, by assaulting, almost at the same instant, the hostile camps of the Romans and Goths.
They dissembled the provocations which might excuse or justify his rigor, but even these provocations must gradually inflame his resentment and harden his temper in the use or the abuse of despotism.
And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him [Peter]; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
Still would I not believe his words, thinking that he dissembled with me and kept secret from me the main virtue of the unguent.
I dissembled my annoyance and forbore for this late coming to find fault with her which I soon had ample reason to do.
In this predicament, he judiciously allowed himself sometimes to be beaten; and when it became prudent to put forth all his skill, a well dissembled humility and carelessness subdued the mortification and envy of the defeated competitor.
Boone dissembled indifference whether they took him with them, or left him behind, with so much success, that, to his extreme joy, they determined that he should accompany them.
He was soon made aware, by demonstrations that could not bedissembled or mistaken, that he was actually loved, and trusted, as if he really were, what his adoption purported to make him.
He dissembled his theological opinions in his larger historical works, and it is only in his last apologetic composition that he asserts confidently a Jewish point of view.
Domitian indeed vented his indignation on the people which he had not had the honor of conquering, and instituted a kind of inquisition, to ferret out the early Maranos, who dissembled their Judaism and sought to evade the tax.
But I dissembled my concern with him, Because the nature of the man is such, To pacify, I must oppose and thwart him; And even thus I scarce can teach him patience.
Put me not off with these delays; rather say you but dissembled love all this while, than now 'tis born, to die again with a poor fright of nonsense.
I so forlorn, so despicable, I am not worth the pains of being well dissembled with?
Learning that Madame de Montalais would drive, Duchemin dissembled a sigh of relief and, standing beside the car, doffed his cap to say good-bye.
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