As if he were the silly, senseless sentimental sort of idiot to go mooning about his work because of a girl--and a girl from a harem with a taste for secretmasquerades and Turkish marriages!
Pasha's daughters and sheik's daughters, stolen horses and Djinns and Afrits and palaces and masquerades at wedding receptions appeared upon the same plane of feasibility.
He had never taken Jack for the gallivanting kind, either, yet here he was going to masquerades with one girl and coming home with another.
Not a topic was broached by Mr. Walpole or Mr. Fox, from the remonstrance of the Archbishop against masquerades and the coming marriage of my Lord Albemarle to the rights and wrongs of Mr. Wilkes, but my lady had her say.
Why do you suppose we are all in das Land im Gebirge, if not to pursue a certain imperial eagle to his eyrie, where he masquerades as a common bird?
Dances, parties, excursions, picnics, andmasquerades were also in high favor.
As to the masqueradesperformed and the taboos observed at the sowing season by the Kayans of the Mendalam river, see above, pp.
When soldier seeks Utopian glades In charge of Youth and Beauty, Then pleasure merely masquerades As Regimental Duty!
Rumours were spread abroad that Matilda was largely responsible for these extravagancies; and in proof of the assertion it was pointed out that the introduction of masquerades followed upon the arrival of the English princess.
She refused with tears and agitation, so the King made him court marshal, and gave him the management of all the festivities at court, where comedies, balls and masquerades succeeded one another without interruption.
These regarded many of the court festivities with disapproval, and the masquerades with horror.
The point was fiercely debated whether the Queen should appear at the masquerades or not; the Dowager-Queens and Madame de Plessen being wholly against it, and the King insisting upon it.
It was thought that he would succeed Sperling as the King's first favourite, but Christian quickly tired of his friends, and as soon as the masquerades were over Brandt found himself eclipsed in the royal favour by Holck.
The introduction of masquerades was a still more startling innovation, and gave great offence to the two Dowager-Queens.
The King and his friends anticipated too many gallant adventures to forego the opportunities which a masked ball offered, and they wished to imitate at Copenhagen those masqueradesheld at the opera in Paris.
O my lady, thesemasquerades are abominable things!
From these wicked masquerades springs all the unhappiness; my Spaniard was too amiable, and met with a lady who was no Nun, but in habit.
The words are not very satisfactory because the deathward tendency masquerades as the lifeward tendency, and the lifeward tendency, before fruition, looks like the deathward one.
The terms are not very satisfactory, because the deathward tendency usually masquerades as the lifeward, and the lifeward often looks like the deathward.
Eysn, Mrs., on the processions and masquerades of the Perchten, ix.
Grisons, masquerades to benefit the crops in the, ix.
Her balls, concerts, and masquerades soon gained great celebrity, being carried on in a most glaring and extravagant style.
And this was not all: her masquerades were characterised, not only by indecency, but also by mockery of the most solemn feelings and principles.
Masquerades and masked balls prohibited by the authorities in the city of Philadelphia.
Masquerades and masked balls prohibited in the city of New York.
More than ever before in his life he realized to himself the abject hollowness of that conventional code which masquerades in our midst as a system of morals.
Patriotism is the one of these lowest vices which most often masquerades in false garb as a virtue.
But the hunting parties, balls, and masquerades were not the only pleasures enjoyed by the pope and his family: from time to time strange spectacles were exhibited.
Plays and Masquerades are free for any People of Fashion; there's nothing to pay, and all divert themselves as they like best.
In Carnival-time he makes great Entertainments twice or thrice a week for all the Nobility of Wurtzbourg, and there is sometimes a Ball and even Masquerades at Court.
Masquerades are more in fashion here than elsewhere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "masquerades" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
