1 He had previously communicated his plan to the former, who aided the deceit by quitting his house, under the pretence of a journey and concealed himself, with his daughter, in an obscure part of Paris.
2 He revolved a thousand plans by which he should be enabled to prolong the deceit until it might be no longer necessary, and secretly to take his daughter with him when he departed.
3 The greater the accumulation of deceit and trouble in the world, the brighter and the purer shone the star of Dora high above the world.
4 Except deceit and lying nothing could come of it now; and deceit and lying were opposed to his nature.
5 He vividly recalled all the constantly recurring instances of inevitable necessity for lying and deceit, which were so against his natural bent.
6 He recalled particularly vividly the shame he had more than once detected in her at this necessity for lying and deceit.
7 Vronsky could not understand how she, with her strong and truthful nature, could endure this state of deceit, and not long to get out of it.
8 There is no deceit she would stick at.
9 He felt that the husband was magnanimous even in his sorrow, while he had been base and petty in his deceit.
10 All this was falsehood, disgusting, irreverent deceit.
11 And owing to the bent of his character, and because he loved the dying man more than anyone else did, Levin was most painfully conscious of this deceit.
12 On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, one thing only, innocence.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 13 But the clerks were not the dupes of this deceit, and their lugubrious looks settled down into resigned countenances.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER 14 There was no longer any deceit or bravado in the manner of the accused.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 110. The Indictment. 15 Similar to the above was the deceit practised by Pontius the Samnite commander to inveigle the Roman army into the Caudine Forks.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XL.