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Tom was whistling in the dark to belie how terrified he was to be alone in the house which was rumoured to be haunted.
Thou do’ſt bely him Percy, thou doſt bely him; / He never did encounter with Glendower:
Her smooth complexion and dark hair belie her actual age.
Should I do ſo I ſhould bely my thoughts, / Comfort's in heauen, and we are on the earth[…]
Pand. Lady, you vtter madneſſe, and not ſorrow. Con. Thou art [not] holy to belye me ſo, I am not mad: This haire I teare is mine
He found it by experience, and made good uſe of it in his owne perſon, if Plutarch bely him not[…].
Cambodia's apparent relative insignificance belied its geopolitical importance.
Opposite, the Loram site contains a real ragbag of yellow, blue or rust-streaked kit whose appearance belies their importance in keeping the railways running.
Her obvious nervousness belied what she said.
Their trembling Hearts bely their boaſting Tongues.
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Early Chinese Buddhist travellers like O'Kong (AD 759-763) mention the use of kesar in Buddhist Viharas for various rituals, and also in making paint for Buddhist scrolls and thankas. This fact belies the earlier myth that would have us believe that kesar was not known prior to Lalitaditya's reign.
In smooth RP tones that belie his German parentage, he explains that none of his hachet jobs were written out of personal animosity.
They haue belyed the Lord, and ſaid; It is not he, neither ſhall euill come vpon vs, neither ſhal we ſee ſwoꝛd noꝛ famine.
No, ’tis Slander, / Whoſe edge is ſharper then the Sword, whoſe tongue / Out-venomes all the Wormes of Nyle, whoſe breath / Rides on the poſting windes, / and doth belye All corners of the World.
Three belied you, three betrayed you! One you betrayed was three times true! Lord Voryn Dagoth, Dagoth Ur, steadfast liegeman, faithful friend, bids you come and climb Red Mountain!
His calm demeanor belied his inner sense of guilt.
The rosy outlook belies a struggle to achieve statewide eradication that has persisted since the insect first crossed the border from Mexico around 1892.
At NIE the virtually monolingual linguistic landscape basically belies a quite different multilingual reality.
A host of evidence is adduced by the accused, evidence whose sometimes self-contradictory nature belies a certain desperation
[…] a low, flat, boring building that belies its past as an IRS facility […]
Which durſt with horſes hoofs that beat the ground / And Martial brass bely the thunders ſound.
The Shape of Man, and imitated beſt; / The Walk, the Words, the Gesture cou'd ſupply, / The Habit mimick, and the Mien bely[…]
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