Disguised

Examples

• Why no,--I think--you had better--better say nothing about it, said Sophia, with ill-disguised anxiety and evident confusion. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It cannot be disguised. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He was a ready man, and he saw, and seized, an opportunity here of presenting her own image to her, slightly disguised as her brother. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The more we censor it, the more likely it is to appear disguised, to fool us subtly and perhaps dangerously. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Now, he continued, again addressing me, I have received the pilgrim--a disguised deity, as I verily believe. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Disguised, but the same man. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• His clothes, hung above him, showed that he had been himself conscious of his danger--they were clothes that had disguised him as a French artisan. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Their influence on my own character I disguised from my recognition as much as possible, but I knew very well that it was not all good. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The dress of this person was that of a soldier, but the bared neck and arms, and the continued shrieks discovered a female thus disguised. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• All glances went through the window, and nobody noticed that Wildeve disguised a brief, telltale look. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It was, I believe, an array of idols disguised as ideals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This time it was to confirm our worst fears--half the guards at the gate that night had been therns disguised as red men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He snatched off the dark beard which had disguised him and threw it on the ground, disclosing a long, sallow, clean-shaven face below it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then ostriches disguised as judges cannot deal with them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I charged them with being disguised, and you saw how it told on them, clever as the Hindoo people are in concealing their feelings. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The medical aversion to Lydgate was hardly disguised now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This she would always do with a serene contempt for our limited sphere of action, not to be disguised. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It was addressed in an unknown, and I fancied, disguised hand. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• So disguised she had no fear of being recognized when she followed up the railroad steps, and paid her money in the small office. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• So did Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74); his _Deserted Village_ (1770) is a pamphlet on enclosures disguised as a poem. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When the disguised Queen of Love appeared before Aeneas a preternatural perfume accompanied her presence and betrayed her quality. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The greater part of the apparent profit is real wages disguised in the garb of profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was neither dated nor signed, and the handwriting was palpably disguised. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Nature's handiwork never was disguised with such extraordinary artificial carving, as the man had overlaid his countenance with in one moment. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She was, if I remember rightly, a young rake of fashion thus disguised. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The significance of this reply was not so well disguised by Mr. Pickwick but that Arabella understood it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I am pretty well disguised, I fancy, said the young man, with a smile. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• His arms and legs were like great pincushions of those shapes, and his attire disguised him absurdly; but I knew his half-closed eye at one glance. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The commander of a Venetian expedition disguised himself, stole the bones, separated them, and packed them in vessels filled with lard. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Edited by Kelsey