His burning fancy showed him creeping night-wanderers upon the roofs, and the windmill threw up its arms threatening to crush him, and a mask left behind in the dead-house assumed by degrees his own feature.
This mask I wore, not with a view to escape responsibility, for I was ready to answer for all I said, but to baffle the curious and the inquisitive.
Man's interceding representative: In Sleep's white realm fell off his mask of blame, And he was sacred, for that he did live.
Children make the distinction very shrewdly, and are quite willing to pore carefully over their school-lessons, but are very impatient of lessons that are sugared over with pleasantry, and detect the pedagogue under the mask of the playmate.
His mask had fallen from him, and his face was the face of Ravaillac!
My nag went on, but turned on its haunches to the reins, and before he could well recover himself I was at him again, and discovered that he wore a demi-mask on his face.
What with the mist, the mask on his face, and the roquelaure that enveloped him to the ears, I could make out nothing of the stranger, who did not even answer my salutation except by a slight inclination of his head.
Monsieur, shall I prick your mask off before killing you?
As we trotted along, I could not help wondering to myself at my own outward gaiety, and whether the same bright mask covered thoughts as dark as mine in my companions' hearts.
We are alone," the young officer whispered, "so why this mask of innocence?
I love you, but I am obliged to conceal my passion under the mask of coldness because of my social position.
He quaffs the wine of life, and quaffs his fill, And sees Creation through its mask terrene.
Wild guesses spring from the mask of a 'Violinist'--who can he be?
Their physiognomy dropped a mask the face still wore.
Below the mask of ordinary surface-conduct all agreed to wear, the deeper, inevitable intercourse proceeded, a Play within a Play, a tragedy concealed thinly by general consent under the most commonplace comedy imaginable.
It seemed she tore a mask from one side of his face--the face beneath was disfigured.
The excitement had been a mask assumed by something deeper in him he had wished--and tried--to hide.
An historian often quoted in these pages is not safe in suggesting that we may find behind the mask of Lord Downshire's visitor the betrayer of Lord Edward Fitzgerald.
It related to his pension, and it was necessary to lay the mask aside for once.
But when men read Livy, for the sake of discovering what degree of private crime might be committed under the mask of public virtue, the affair became more serious.
A mask taken from that dreadful head was long exhibited in different nations of Europe, and appalled the spectator by its ugliness, and the mixture of fiendish expression with that of bodily agony.
No one could have read his suspicions, hidden under the mask of perfect calmness.
On his side, the Spanish noble concealed his passion under the maskof silence.
Pepe, on his side, endeavoured to conceal under an impenetrable mask the tumultuous feeling resulting from his now satisfied vengeance.
And most uncanny was the contrast between this skeleton hung with clothes, this rigid death-mask of a face, and the twitching, over-excited nervousness with which the lieutenant greeted their liberator.
He was as ashamed as though some one had torn a mask from his face.
Among this circle of people the war wore the mask of a Santa Claus with a bag full of wonderful gifts on his back and assignments for brilliant careers in his hand.
Mary Louise, in a casual tone that was meant to mask her curiosity.
I begin by showing Émile the mask of a pleasant face.
By and by some one puts the mask upon his own face, so that the child can see it.
A cool head, an unfeeling heart, and a cowardly disposition, prompted him at the age of nineteen to assume the mask of hypocrisy, which he never afterwards laid aside.
But it was grave enough, as was Dollar himself behind the sparkling mask that he wore unawares in all times of stress.
There she lay, a repulsive looking woman, with the beauty of her youth corrupted into a hateful mask of vice.
I don't know why I came here unless it was to tell you so," said Sydney, with an odd abruptness which seemed to be assumed in order to mask some unusually strong feeling.
But, none the less, he was sentenced to a lifer, and, the mask of John Ward being torn from him, he was sent to Sheffield to stand his trial as Charles Peace.
And I knew what a fever of fear throbbed behind his mask of happy contempt.
Startlingly rigid, startlingly white, his face was like the death-mask of a pirate.
And again in hismask of "The Gipsies Metamorphosed"-- Bless the sovereign and his seeing.
The stern writer in the iron mask went down into the grave shrouded in his own mystery, and that grave no inquisitive eyes will ever find.
It was cleaned and copied by Spiridione Roma, for Boydell's print, who took off a mask of dirt from it, and is certainly a very interesting picture.
It was as though he wore a mask completely eclipsing every natural human feeling.
Torn off the mask of unimpeachable virtue, have I?
The man leaped impulsively to his feet, his cheeks burning with sudden animation, his previous mask of reckless indifference entirely torn away.
A medley of acquiescence rose, lacking enthusiasm perhaps, but with sincerity accentuated by the feel of the silent woods behind them which might mask creeping ebony devils with red eyes and dripping talons.
Marian's eyes held his own with their remarkably candid gaze, making no effort to mask their misery.
Meanwhile he maintained hismask before the world so admirably that even Miss Wildmere little guessed the depth of his revolt.
Unknown to her, he had caught a glimpse of what the mask concealed, and his soul was shuddering at the deformities to which he had so nearly allied himself.
