"False name" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... instant, however, all was plain, and together with the discovery there came the pangs of remorse and terror and anguish. She could understand all. He, the escaped convict, had come to England, and was supposed to be dead. He had lived, under a false name, a life of constant and vigilant terror. He kept his secret from all the world. Oh, if he had only told her! Now the letter of Miss Plympton was all plain, and she wondered how she had ...
— The Living Link • James De Mille
... trial was a cause celebre, and hence the false name he gave me at first: the moment I heard you say 'O'Hara' I knew the man. He had committed an assault upon ...
— The Lord of the Sea • M. P. Shiel
... religion, morality, loyalty, and subordination, while it delights and improves the wise and the good, will, I trust, prove an effectual antidote to that detestable sophistry which has been lately imported from France, under the false name of Philosophy, and with a malignant industry has been employed against the peace, good order, and happiness of society, in our free and prosperous country; but thanks be to GOD, without producing the pernicious effects which were hoped for by ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... herbs, and a neat apparatus for smoking opium, with a liberal provision of the drug. Plainly, then, the cook had been a Chinaman; and, if so, who was Jos. Amalu? Or had Jos. stolen the chest before he proceeded to ship under a false name and domicile? It was possible, as anything was possible in such a welter; but, regarded as a solution, it only led and left me deeper in the bog. For why should this chest have been deserted and neglected, when the others were rummaged or removed? and where ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... any place in the district. Or, for that matter, in any place in the United States unless I gave a false name. Steel workin' is my trade, an' I don't know any other; the men that run that trade in the United States refuse to let me work at it; very well, then, if the country won't let me earn my livin' by working for it, it'll have ...
— The Boy With the U.S. Census • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... registered under a false name, hoping thus to escape notoriety. Now she saw the folly of any such hope. From the first, no detail of her ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
... felt that everything was to come out all right some day, and that he would find Farnsworth, or Frederic Caruthers, to be more exact, and Ted always reproached himself when he thought of the young fellow by his false name. ...
— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor |
