Betrayed

Examples

• I took off my silk gown to begin with, because the slightest noise from it on that still night might have betrayed me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It occurred to us, after a while, that if we wanted to get home before daylight betrayed us, we had better be moving. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• His look and manner unmistakably betrayed that he knew who I was, and that he wanted to irritate me into quarrelling with him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When I ventured to raise my head again, my eyes and my husband's eyes met, and I knew, by his look, that my face had betrayed me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine, and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The innocent suffers; but she whom I thought amiable and good has not betrayed the trust I reposed in her, and I am consoled. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• A vain concession; his demeanour quickly betrayed his secret to the quick eyes of the ex-queen. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• One gathers that Pericles was superior in his demeanour; he betrayed at times a contempt for the citizens he served. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If, at that time, I had been much with her, I should, in the weakness of my desolation, have betrayed this. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• We made him talkative by exhibiting an interest we never betrayed to guides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She had betrayed herself, however, by a look and a blush, for though an absent man, the Professor saw a good deal more than people fancied. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Lydia's thoughtlessness first betrayed to me that you had been concerned in the matter; and, of course, I could not rest till I knew the particulars. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• There was an involuntary tremour on Rebecca's voice, and a tenderness of accent, which perhaps betrayed more than she would willingly have expressed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Both were shocked at their mutual situation--that each should have betrayed anger towards the other. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It became a question whether he had fallen among the unrecognized; but no broken ornament or stained trapping betrayed his fate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Would he believe that I was both imp and hound in treacherous earnest, and had betrayed him? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• His face betrayed his thoughts—perhaps without betraying him, for it might have been according to its instructions so to do. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• There was among the twelve apostles one traitor, who betrayed with a kiss. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Marianne remained perfectly silent, though her countenance betrayed her interest in what was said. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I am ashamed to have been betrayed into this warmth of feeling. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• On rejoining my companions, I knew they all looked at me--my heart seemed discovered to them: I believed myself self-betrayed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Yes, she replied, but he does not know me for what I am, nor does he know who betrayed my mother to Tal Hajus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Her bonnet wasn't big enough to hide her face, and she feared he might think the joy it betrayed unmaidenly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Just as Hermione now betrayed herself as a woman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We have both been betrayed by Pablo. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Her words, few as they were, betrayed a desperate clinging to the past which boded ill for the future. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He was conveyed home, and the anguish that was visible in my countenance betrayed the secret to Elizabeth. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Lily's inward start betrayed itself in a quick blush: was it possible that this was really the sense of Carry Fisher's adumbrations? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I've made such quantities it would be hard to choose which I'd have, said Laurie, lying flat and throwing cones at the squirrel who had betrayed him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I was betrayed into it by another. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Typist: Osborn