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Some orchids look to imaginative eyes as if they were masquerading in the disguise of bees, moths, frogs, birds, butterflies.
These are they who have answered that question in the negative; pessimists masquerading to an unsuspecting public as optimists.
Because of the existing relationship, it was very easy for this infatuation to masquerade under the guise of harmless tenderness.
It is such crude mechanics masquerading under the name of science that has brought voice training into general disrepute.
Some were ladies of the French courts, some were garbed in Colonial costumes and some were masquerading as bears or as wolves.
They are pathetic, crippled and deformed humans, half or quarter men and women, fractional organisms masquerading as people.
Still more dangerous is the activity of some underground workers who masquerade as correspondents of English newspapers in the Balkans.
Even the metatarsals were girdled in righteous indignation committed against their person by a maverick masquerading in pelvic insubordination.
Between adversity cheerfully borne and a masquerade of scanty means there is a gulf which no imagination is able to span.
Others, suave, attractive, agreeable, seductive, often masquerade as respectability, or constitute the perfumed, the romantic, the elegant carriers of disease.
Robbins, it seemed, had employed the squeaky voice so familiar at masquerade parties and had thus rendered her disguise complete.
It needed only three performers and led up to the introduction of an elaborate masquerade and of certain suggestive French songs.
Times have been when these shepherds themselves masqueraded as wolves, acting the part with every convincing circumstance of ferocity.
Masquerades and fireworks appeared later in the history of the gardens, which usually were open three nights of the week.
Propaganda machines, masquerading as organizations designed to promote better relationships between a fascist and an American nation, are set up.
It looks like a mere masquerade of nineteenth-century men in eighteenth-century clothes, and with many of its practitioners it is no more.
As many of their former amusements were worn threadbare, he proposed a masquerade, in which officers and men alike took part.
The idea of the masquerade pleased her immensely, and without waiting for Esther's acquiescence she began to put it in execution.
In a way accidentals were pathetic, patchwork humans, half or quarter men and women, fractional organisms which masqueraded as people.
After all, did any theory as ridiculously untrue as evolution ever masquerade as science, or ask to be accepted by thoughtful men?
In many cases this expression was given some indirect or symbolic form, as in gesture, ritual, tableau, masquerade, and imitative portrayal.
He was able to follow unobserved in that crowded assembly; moreover it was a legitimate action to follow any woman at a masquerade.
Any image, then, suggestive of the notion of a society disguising itself, or of a social masquerade, so to speak, will be laughable.
And I am as relieved as you will be to be able to tell you that your masquerade is at an end, successful and unsuspected.
And so to assimilate those remaining we must descend from the heights of poetry to the cool sequestered vale of literal masquerade.
The Kaiser lacks the democratic gift of humor, and does not seem to be aware of the incongruity of the Lohengrin masquerade.
No, it is all masquerade; and the motley is that same easy conventionality by which we hope to escape undetected and unknown!
Such are many of our midnight assemblies, midnight balls, lewd and profane comedies, masquerades, public gaming tables, and deep play.
What does one understand of it, if one does not understand the delight in the masque, the good conscience of all masquerade!
Honestly now, Doctor, have you not stirred up the sober brains of some of your countrymen to enact a scene in our masquerade?
Haunting one's premises unseen, and stealing one's books unsuspected; dreaming one half the day and masquerading the other half.
Certainly those impotent little bulges of flesh that masqueraded as ears couldn't have had anything to do with supporting the glasses.
There will be the old-time masks wherein we masqueraded, and the flimsy veils of deceit behind which we hid our individuality.
And from time to time he was drawn unwillingly into the universal discussion on costumes for the coming dance and masquerade.
Trumpets were sounding, flags were flying, drums were beating, all the jingle of the masquerade of court life was at its noisiest.
You take little interest in the frivolities of a masquerade, and are possibly unaware that the two ladies' dresses were exactly similar.
There was something in that ghastly masquerade so horrible, so unspeakably revolting, that a shiver of pure fear touched me in every nerve.
If they changed clothes, and the poor man could be persuaded to wash himself, they might successfully masquerade, one for another.
I have acquainted myself with his movements, his intention, and his preparations; I have even counterfeited his masquerade and stolen his car.
The sweetly, sober, English landscape seemed to have run mad and decked itself, as for a masquerade, in extravagant splendors of color.
Masquerade and hyperbole were the stage and scenery on which the poet's sweetness, or tenderness, or strength was to be put forth.
It was too late this winter for the public balls, at which mysterious women who have lost caste masquerade in silken dominoes.
It's only that his office has received an anonymous charge accusing you of having kidnapped Winnie Tompkins and masquerading in his place.
The great statesman, with the somber brow and masquerade attire of Roderick Borgia, no longer sat in the seat of the criminal.
Again, the marriage problem was complicated by the arrival of insinuating strangers, who turned out to be married men masquerading as bachelors.
Upon my word, I'd forgotten; one grows so accustomed to living the parts in these masquerades, after a time, that one forgets.
He would have deserted the gayest masquerade, had he ever strayed into so light a frivolity, for the chance of lightening a pocket.
Music and masquerades delighted the young King, and were a fitting background to his florid beauty, brilliant talents and sanguine temperament.
Banger was struck with its peculiarity, the curious hint in it of another man beneath this one, masquerading as an aid of justice.
Of all the unique figures of a masquerading age this small and ambitious princess was perhaps the most striking, the most pervading.
Cried Pete, recoiling in sudden distrust, for there was something revolting to him about a metal machine masquerading as a human form.
Following the masquerade by only a few days came the excitement of the first game between the new team and the sophomores.
Every inch of ground is thronged with moving forms, presenting a wild masquerade of extravagant dress and of the most perfect undress.
To insist on them afterwards as literal obligations, would be to betray an ignorance of this kind of interlude, or masquerading in real life.
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?
The present bailiff and his wife, now returned from the masquerade, deposed to have locked both gates before leaving the pavilion.
Ribbons fluttered from the throat and shoulder of this demure, fair-skinned, and blue-eyed creature, who was so palpably playing at masquerade.
How long before our masquerade will end its noise of tambourines, laughter, and shouting, and we shall find it was a solitary performance?
Because, my dear young lady, anyone with half an eye in their head could see that you are a girl masquerading in a man's clothes.
What though the monarch masquerade as an anarchist in Temporal Power and sign his name in the red letters of a woman's blood?
It is only since the masquerade that Aglaia, who is quite a little queen in her ways, has deigned to take any notice of me.
All kinds of festivities were given in his honor; there were wonderful dances, masquerades, picnics, and theatricals going on all the time.
Elizabeth, harassed, anxious, dreaming dreams, and enacting a horrible masquerade, was in the worst possible temper to be approached by the envoys.
It's not wise to rush to the aid of every fair damsel in distress, especially when you're masquerading in the uniform of the enemy.
The masquerading post-boy threw himself down to rest in the stable while the gentleman in the chaise attended to the essential business.
Her jealousy masqueraded as pure motherly zeal, and its very bitterness was masked from her own sight by the disguise of duty.
Here, too (for this is a sort of bachelor nook), is the grave of a man whom we unconsciously thrust into a permanent masquerade.
And furthermore, every one of our imprisoned leaders was in contact with brave comrades who masqueraded in the livery of the Iron Heel.
And now he was dead, and she was held up to the world as the conceited plaything of a fine gentleman's masquerading sport.
They looked just like boys masquerading in women's clothes; for the eldest was quite young looking and may have been an elder sister.
It is time to say now, that by the "truth" I don't mean the objectionable stuff that so often masquerades under the name.
Well, it's none of my business if a lady chooses to be masquerading round the streets at night with a porter and a lackey.
The wretched man leaned forward, bit his nether-lip, and then with a sudden splurge of speech informed her of the sorry masquerade.
The day of the great masquerade arrived; and, from an early hour, the whole household was astir in preparing for the occasion.
The shoddy dress struck her as a temporary masquerade; and nothing in the world would have induced her to wear it outside the house.
If we are spotted, then there's an end to it and us; otherwise we stand a better chance by masquerading in these fellows' clothes.
And even then this ironic inspection of the false seemed but a gruesome masquerade of Jim's lying in state, when his turn really came.
It is as if the religious world were a masquerade, where you cease to feel surprise at finding some familiar acquaintance disguised in the most fantastical costume.
I will take Patriotism first, because it is the most specious of them all, and has still a self-satisfied way of masquerading as a virtue.
The masque, originally only a masquerade, soon acquired some dramatic accompaniment, and in the court of James I developed into an elaborate form of entertainment.
To slavery and to the destruction of the Rational Potential, all for the slippery dream of orderliness and efficiency which masqueraded as progress.
I must confess that nothing ever appeared to me so odd and fantastical as his figure and appearance, which I merely considered as a masquerade.
After so brilliant a career, what could she care for the applause which her dexterous disguises excited in the drowsy masquerades of Nantes.
Charles Lovely who was sitting cross-legged on his azure cushion and, in contrast to the rest of the masquerade, was plainly a man.
Staunch Liberals paraded their independence of precedent and prejudice by adopting a masquerade style which set the traditions of the language at defiance.
A young man present asked Jemmy to procure him a suit of clothes like his own, as he wanted them to attend a masquerade in.
During this interval, life on board the masquerading destroyer was one long round of practice drills in the American loading and firing methods.
Indeed, masquerading as a stalwart foe of inhibitions, he starts right out, at the very head of the parade, with a vehement advocacy of prohibition.
And so her delicate and restrained gaiety in masquerade interprets perfectly, satisfies every requirement, of what for the moment is whimsical in Shakespeare's art.
They are the very innocent but natural enemies of originality, for an original work is the touchstone that exposes educated taste masquerading as sensibility.
Another characteristic dictum, "Society is one vast masquerade of manners," is remembered, as having been probably at the time a new idea to ourselves in particular.
He exposed, perhaps with too little finesse, the nakedness of Naturalism, and tore off that mantle of idealism under which it had been masquerading.
I sprung away in search of Miss Arnold, that I might retract my promise of concealing from Miss Mortimer the affair of the masquerade.
I replied in fluent but unequal French, and began to have the keenest desire to know what the mischief all this masquerade might mean.
For not only is the average observatory not equipped by nature for the task, but what is not good air often masquerades as such.
Her tastes were for masquerades, dances, fireworks, illuminations and other forms of tinseled show, not for concerts of orchestral and chamber music.
At last, the strange motley figures which she had seen at the masquerade flitted before her eyes, and she sunk into an uneasy slumber.
These balls took place twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays, at the French theater, where the masquerade had been, which I mentioned before.
At these feasts which are set out with all the magnificence their fare allows of, the masquerades begin at night and not before.
An artist pleased or displeased by the exhibition of his personality in masquerade, and his creation of a shade of difference for some known type.