The helpless little creature is surrounded on all sides by brutality and superior force; they seemingly overcome him, but in the end they are defeated and always by force of superior cunning and skilful mendacity at the supreme moment.
There has, I sometimes think, been an exceptional display of mendacityat my expense.
Never in my life have I read of, much less experienced, such a carnival of mendacity as that which accompanied the pro-Boer agitation in this Colony at the end of last year.
There were many good men at the south-men whose care of their slaves constituted a bond of good faith; but they failed to carry out means for protecting the slave against the mendacity of the tyrant.
Behind this curtain of mendacity are concealed nearly a hundred thousand persons who are poor without being idle, and who labor hard for a scanty supply of {326} daily bread.
Then again, habits of mendacity and a constant disregard of truth lead to inaccuracy of observation.
His mendacity and his effrontery passed into proverbs.
The mystery, which from the first overhung the story of Marlborough's disgrace, was darkened, after the lapse of fifty years, by the shameless mendacity of his widow.
The habitual mendacity of the Jacobite libellers had brought on them an appropriate punishment.
I will say for the Government of to-day, that in any attempt to beat its predecessor in mendacity it had a hard task, but it has worked with a will, and completely succeeded.
In unblushingmendacity they have equalled, if not surpassed, their immediate predecessor, the virtuous Palikao.
The Republic, like the Empire, has made mendacity the great system of government.
My private opinion is that the malice of Puck's mendacity is equalled only by its awkwardness.
If so, the opportunity afforded you for mendacityhas been lost you, thanks to a certain habit of mine which comes in most opportunely.
As to my hair, which they with unblushing mendacity declare I have allowed to grow long as an enhancement to my personal attractions, you can judge of its elegance and beauty.
Yet McKinley escaped the charge of mendacity and Roosevelt, who deserved it far less, did not.
We know the judgment formed in advance by him and his colleagues on the mendacity of Ralegh's account of the motive of his enterprise.
Mendacity is a thing so perfectly understood that no one is abashed by detection.
Mendacity then becomes an intellectual exercise, such as the poet's sonneteering to an imaginary lady-love.
To which the father replied with the popular mendacity which is taught in all American histories, "Of course, Americans have never been defeated.
He pursued mendacity with an ardour which few persons have manifested in the quest of truth.
There, for eight years, he lived in the midst of all that treason and mendacity and cowardice and rapacity and dishonor which as raw materials are ground together to produce laws for a commonwealth.
Truth was a pearl, and Mr. Harley felt strongly against casting it before the swine of every common occurrence, when mendacity would do as well or better.
There had been enough in her questioners' manner to make her suspect that her guardian was being attacked, and to his defense she brought themendacity and imagination of a clever child.
We have already exposed the shameless mendacity with which, in these Memoirs, he attempts to throw the blame of his own guilt on the guiltless.
