"Betray" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... liked Mrs. Boyd or the girl either," began Mrs. Dane. "There seemed something to conceal, some secret between them. I had a fancy Lilian was on the watch all the time lest her mother should betray it." ...
— The Girls at Mount Morris • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... not know anything about them, beyond the fact that they were places where fellows went for sport, and that he hoped people would think he went for sport also. His wading boots and his rod and creel would, he hoped, account for any haste he might betray in losing himself somewhere. ...
— The Lookout Man • B. M. Bower
... bribes, prevailed on Sir Robert Clifford to betray his employers; and he denouncing several famous English noblemen as being secretly the friends of Perkin Warbeck, the King had three of the foremost executed at once. Whether he pardoned the remainder because they were poor, I do not know; but it is only too probable that he refused to pardon one ...
— A Child's History of England • Charles Dickens
... own, and that the fact that the commander-in-chief was making sack-time would be much better for morale than the spectacle of him running around in circles. He shaved carefully; a stubble of beard on his chin might betray the fact that he was worried. Then he dressed, put his monocle in his eye, and called the headquarters that had been set up in Sid Harrington's—now his—office. A girl at the switchboard appeared on his screen, and gave place ...
— Ullr Uprising • Henry Beam Piper
... does, and would betray our coming miles away of a moonlit night. We'll drop all those things at Laramie. ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
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