"Fraudful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... under the weak sovereignty of Queen Joan. On which side of a quarrel a Condottiere fought mattered but little: so great was the confusion of Italian politics, and so complete was the egotism of these fraudful, violent, and treacherous party leaders. Yet it may be mentioned that Braccio had espoused Alfonso's cause. Bartolommeo Colleoni early distinguished himself among the ranks of the Bracceschi. But he soon perceived that he could better his position by deserting to another ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... are! With quirk and twist, And fraudful arts directed; (Save Grandpapa's dear stiff old "fist," Through all disguise detected;) But which is his,—her young Lothair's,— Who wooed her on the school-room stairs With three sweet cakes, and two ripe pears, In ...
— Collected Poems - In Two Volumes, Vol. II • Austin Dobson
... were seen, by the blessing of such a holy guest, to thicken and to flourish with so great abundance of trees that in no future time could they be entirely destroyed. And in the rivers, where the deceivers, fraudful both in heart and word, had shown unto the saint a deep abyss instead of a safe ford, passed he over safely, having first blessed the passage, and changed the abyss into a ford; and the ford which before was pervious unto all changed ...
— The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick - Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings • Various
... by those sweet eyes That stain the sun in shine, the morn in clear, By those sweet cheeks where Love encamped lies To kiss the roses of the springing year. I tempt thee, Rosalynde, by ruthful plaints, Not seasoned with deceit or fraudful guile, But firm in pain, far more than tongue depaints, Sweet nymph, be kind, and grace me with a smile. So may the heavens preserve from hurtful food Thy harmless flocks; so may the summer yield The pride of all her riches and her good, To fat thy sheep, ...
— Rosalynde - or, Euphues' Golden Legacy • Thomas Lodge
... Harold, "this is not the first time that the Prelate of Bayeux hath hinted at compulsion, nor that you (no doubt kindly) have warned me of purpose hostile or fraudful. As plain man to plain man, I ask you, on your knightly honour, to tell me if you know aught to make you believe that William the Duke will, under any pretext, detain me here ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... matchless might and fearless soul, with powers of song sublime, I spread afar my name and fame in every Gothic clime; Those godlike gifts were treasured long from blot and blemish clear, But one dark act of fraudful guilt bedimmed ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. • Various
... mercy left for me! Words were but vain, and colours all too faint, That awful moment of despair to paint. She knew me; her exhausted breath, with pain, Drawing, she pressed my hand, and spoke again: By a false guardian's cruel wiles deceived, The tale of fraudful falsehood I believed, And thought thee dead; he gave the stern command, And bade me take the rich Antonio's hand. 160 I knelt, implored, embraced my guardian's knees; Ruthless inquisitor, he held the keys Of the dark torture-house.[216] Trembling for life, Yes, I became a sad, ...
— The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 • William Lisle Bowles
... republicanism, which else had been partially effaced by the manners and conduct of his comrades. To him the bishop (and not the bishop only, but many of my own informants, to whom Truc had been familiarly known) ascribes "a front of brass, an incessant fraudful smile, manners altogether vulgar, and in his dress and person a neglect of cleanliness, even beyond the affected ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey |
