1 Hear the truth, then," said the Templar; "I care not for your blue-eyed beauty.
2 "Thou speakest the truth, Malvoisin," said Brian de Bois-Guilbert, after a moment's reflection.
3 He had, in truth, gone too far to recede; and yet, in Rowena's present condition, she could not be acted on either by argument or threats.
4 I almost think yon besotted skeleton spoke truth, and that the reluctance with which I part from thee hath something in it more than is natural.
5 Waldemar brought the rumour to Prince John, announcing, that he feared its truth the more that they had set out with a small attendance, for the purpose of committing an assault on the Saxon Cedric and his attendants.
6 By St Dunstan," answered Gurth, "thou speakest but sad truths; little is left to us but the air we breathe, and that appears to have been reserved with much hesitation, solely for the purpose of enabling us to endure the tasks they lay upon our shoulders.
7 Nay, then, Valour and Folly are once more boon companions," said the Jester, coming up frankly to the Knight's side; "but, in truth, I love not such buffets as that you bestowed on the burly Friar, when his holiness rolled on the green like a king of the nine-pins.
8 Such an expression is often mistaken for manly frankness, when in truth it arises from the reckless indifference of a libertine disposition, conscious of superiority of birth, of wealth, or of some other adventitious advantage, totally unconnected with personal merit.