"Bewray" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... resolution, we set sail presently for the said Sound; which within five days [21st August], we recovered: abstaining of purpose from all such occasion, as might hinder our determination, or bewray [betray] our being upon ...
— Sir Francis Drake Revived • Philip Nichols
... is my petition, noble lord: For though he seem with forged quaint conceit To set a gloss upon his bold intent, Yet know, my lord, I was provoked by him; And he first took exceptions at this badge, Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower Bewray'd the faintness of ...
— King Henry VI, First Part • William Shakespeare [Aldus edition]
... thee for thy selfish disregard of the common weal?" persisted Winslow, his own smile a little forced. "Nay, then, must I bewray confidence and tell thee that one who knows assures me that Priscilla Molines would not say thee nay wert thou ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin
... we sometimes in the looks may see Th' affection mark'd, when that its sway hath ta'en The spirit wholly; thus the hallow'd light, To whom I turn'd, flashing, bewray'd its will To talk yet further with me, and began: "On this fifth lodgment of the tree, whose life Is from its top, whose fruit is ever fair And leaf unwith'ring, blessed spirits abide, That were below, ere they arriv'd in heav'n, So mighty ...
— The Divine Comedy, Complete - The Vision of Paradise, Purgatory and Hell • Dante Alighieri
... my petition (Noble Lord:) For though he seeme with forged queint conceite To set a glosse vpon his bold intent, Yet know (my Lord) I was prouok'd by him, And he first tooke exceptions at this badge, Pronouncing that the palenesse of this Flower, Bewray'd the faintnesse of my ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... the high noises! and thyself bewray, When false opinion, whose wrong thought defiles thee, In thy just ...
— Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies • Samuel Johnson
... wager a kilderkin of chaney oranges at four pence each and a dozen cordial juleps with pearls that thy conscience is about to bewray thee." ...
— Mistress Penwick • Dutton Payne
... Philomene again Can watch and sing when others sleep; And taketh pleasure in her pain, To wray the woe that makes her weep; So sing I now for to bewray The ...
— Tudor and Stuart Love Songs • Various
... note that the maid to us committed (assert they) Was but a fraud: her mate never a touch of her had, 20 * * * * * * * * But that a father durst dishonour the bed of his firstborn, Folk all swear, and the house hapless with incest bewray; Or that his impious mind was blunt with fiery passion 25 Or that his impotent son sprang from incapable seed. And to be sought was one with nerve more nervous endowed, Who could better avail zone of the ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... thee tell the cause to me, Behold these empty dugs, and head all gray, These hands that pain haue took in rocking thee Let some, or all these, cause thee to bewray What cruel means haue broght thee in this case. At which the ...
— Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) • Dunstan Gale
... so dear,—quivered Cupid, fly!— That my chief wish should be so oft to die. Minding thy fault, with death I wish to revel; Alas! a wench is a perpetual evil. No intercepted lines thy deeds display, No gifts given secretly thy crime bewray. O would my proofs as vain might be withstood! Ay me, poor soul, why is my cause so good? He's happy, that his love dares boldly credit; To whom his wench can say, "I never did it." 10 He's cruel, and too much his grief doth favour, That seeks the conquest by her loose behaviour. ...
— The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Christopher Marlowe |
