1 Trenor was in truth in an unmanageable mood.
2 In truth, he had never liked her as well as at that moment.
3 Perhaps, had it not been for Lily, her fond imagining might have become truth.
4 The truth is that she was conscious of a somewhat keen shock of disappointment.
5 She was in truth grateful for the refuge offered her: Mrs. Peniston's opulent interior was at least not externally dingy.
6 And I'm sure there is no truth in the horrid things people say; but she HAS been spending a great deal of money this winter.
7 The truth was, she had attended too many brides to the altar: when next seen there she meant to be the chief figure in the ceremony.
8 IF YOU WOULD FORGIVE YOUR ENEMY, says the Malay proverb, FIRST INFLICT A HURT ON HIM; and Lily was experiencing the truth of the apothegm.
9 He had the dull man's unexpected flashes of astuteness, and Lily could not help joining in the laugh with which he had pounced on the truth.
10 She had no immediate intention of repeating to Lily what she had heard, or even of trying to ascertain its truth by means of discreet interrogation.
11 It was not, indeed, anything specific that he feared: there had been a literal truth in his declaration that he did not think anything would happen.
12 The truth was that her funds, as usual, were inconveniently low; and to neither Dorset nor his wife could this vulgar embarrassment be safely hinted.
13 She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her.
14 His craving was for the companionship of one whose point of view should justify his own, who should confirm, by deliberate observation, the truth to which his intuitions had leaped.
15 In truth, however, she was fast wearying of her solitary existence with Mrs. Peniston, and only the excitement of spending her newly-acquired money lightened the dulness of the days.
16 But under her angry sense of the perverseness of things, and the light surface of her talk with Rosedale, a third idea persisted: she did not mean to leave without an attempt to discover the truth about Percy Gryce.
17 There had been a germ of truth in his declaration to Gerty Farish that he had never wanted to marry a "nice" girl: the adjective connoting, in his cousin's vocabulary, certain utilitarian qualities which are apt to preclude the luxury of charm.
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