"Lie about" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... retorted Ernest. "I'm not that kind, thank you, to spend the kids' money and then lie about it! Nope, we're up against it and we'll have to take our medicine," Ernest marched straight to the door and ...
— Chicken Little Jane • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... I should think? You must send me your paper, Felix; I want one I can trust to lie about ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge
... to get him to admit how much he had told to his employers—then there was laughter inside Peter, and he broke down and wept tears of scalding shame, and said that it had all been because McCormick had told that cruel lie about him and little Jennie Todd. He had resisted the temptation for a year, but then he had been out of a job, and the Goober Defense Committee had refused him any work; he had actually been starving, and so at last he ...
— 100%: The Story of a Patriot • Upton Sinclair
... princes, which, as it is more majestic than that which becomes the rabble, so takes a freer compass, and thus lawful and unlawful are only measured by pleasure and interest. These practices of the princes that lie about Utopia, who make so little account of their faith, seem to be the reasons that determine them to engage in no confederacy. Perhaps they would change their mind if they lived among us; but yet, though treaties were more religiously observed, they would still dislike ...
— Utopia • Thomas More
... little children lie about their home training pretending that "My mother makes me do this or that" when they know that the mother has failed to make a strong ...
— The Colored Girl Beautiful • E. Azalia Hackley
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