Yet no sooner had she fallen in love with Alessandro Stradella than she found herself telling the most glaring untruths every day, with a readiness and self-possession that were nothing short of terrifying.
He could tell the most amazing untruths with perfect coolness, but just now he was so very near the truth that his worst enemy would have believed him.
To teach untruths is a greater wrong to a man's soul than merely to keep him in ignorance.
How much more pitifully wicked is it, then, to teach such untruths only or mainly as must advance the pecuniary interest of the oppressor!
O charge not such untruths on God; and invent not falsehoods of his word, while you cry down man's inventions.
Hard though it be, you must not care for it; remembering that moreuntruths were told of our Saviour and His Apostles than can possibly be told of you.
Christ's ministers are called names, untruths are told of them, they are ridiculed; and men encourage each other to oppose them, and to deceive them.
And they appeal to former untruths of similar absurdity, which had their effect, and when found false were overlooked by the indulgent public.
Accustomed to speak untruths themselves, they would also have me give, under my hand, that I am a liar and a scoundrel!
Each of the copies so sent forth by the author was commended to the careful consideration of its recipient by several falsehoods,--the untruths of the printed advertisement, and the untruths of the letter accompanying the work.
Some of his friends called attention to the poetical verity, underlying the least veracious statements; others persuaded themselves that the speaker of untruths was the victim of an inordinately powerful imagination.
It may be said that other young men in 1810 told the same untruths for their convenience and advantage.
She answered coldly: 'Oh, yes: those untruths are always counted as men's honour.
They themselves have attempted to analyze the nature of the girl's characteristics, and say it is quite evident that the telling of untruths with this girl is the result of quick reaction on her part.
Even after the girl confessed herself a confirmed liar she told more untruths which were peculiarly hard to unravel.
But must untruths be presupposed in the place of justice, where right and truth stand to be tried from faults and falsehood, as gold and brass distinguished by the touchstone?
She told foul untruths concerning him," his companion cried angrily.
She was in no way given to flirtation; not even her bitterest enemies, those jealous women who were always ready to create scandal and invent untruths about her, could charge her with that.
He justly regretted that amongst the Legends of the Saints current amongst the people there were many historical untruths and impossibilities.
All these untruthsconcerning the ancient Church were purely the outcome of Luther’s personal polemics.
And not only the lawful motive of personal advantage justifies, according to him, such untruths as do not injure others, but much more the love of God or of our neighbour, i.
In other words, according to Peacock's view, Shelley was in these affairs a victim of delusion at bottom, and a wilful utterer of untruths on the surface.
Having loved his father in his childhood, he was only at manhood's threshold when he began to write monstrous untruths to his discredit.
For these untruths the power and liveliness of his imagination can be held in no degree accountable.
And, again, if all killing be not murder, nor all taking from another stealing, why must all untruths be lies?
The gentleman has told us it is no crime to publish the doings of this body; agreed, but is it nothing to publish untruths respecting the official conduct of the members of this body?
His sermon was founded upon wrong suppositions, not to say that there were many direct untruths in it.
But the chiefest pleasure was, some one had thought me considerable enough to write a letter in the Weekly Miscellany against me, and containing several untruths about my preaching at St. Margaret's, Westminster.
He is so careless with the facts that, under the influence of his notorious envy and enmity for his father, he tells absolute untruths about him and definitely slanders him, though perhaps without meaning to do so.
Never, in fact, do we remember upon any subject so many untruths as were uttered upon this by our own journals, English and Indian; not untruths of evil intention, but untruths of inconsideration or of perfect ignorance.
He began to suspect that" the stories which Catesby and Percy had told him of the assistance which Talbot and the Littletons would bring, were not so much mistakes as untruths "devised to engage him in theyr desperate cases.
That Father Garnet believed Catesby to have deceived him and to have told untruths about him is evident from one of his letters written in orange juice in the Tower.
For this reason children who told untruths were often brought to him, so that he might cure them of their fault.
Merlin fault necklace clasp habit wizard untruths shame There was once a little girl named Pearl, who had a bad habit of telling untruths.
But how are they to know what kind of untruths are right, and what kind are wrong, until they are taught what the distinction is and upon what it depends.
But the reader should try to bear in mind the state I was in--a state of mind which made me see as proofs the untruths he had told me about his past, and the letters he had stolen.
A few untruths spoken by my valet did not prove that he was a murderer, but I was not in a normal state of mind, and M.
From such partial untruths the way is easy to complete ones, as when a naughty little boy who is shut up in his room and kept without food, is asked: "Are you hungry?
Such remorse, in certain cases prolonged beyond the first lie, comes to the little offender as he or she lies in bed and recalls the untruths of the day.
In all such cases of propagated untruths the impulse of imitation and the tendency of the child's mind to accept statements uncritically are of course at work.
I have no intention of telling any untruths concerning her," was my quick response, as I faced him unflinchingly.
A new Descartes should arise and teach the men to doubt the untruths of the sciences.
A Descartes ought to return and teach men to doubt the untruths of the sciences.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "untruths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
