Example Sentences

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What rapture glistened in their eager eyes, When, with kind voice, we bade these children take A precious store of well-dissembled flies, To use with caution for the strangers' sake!

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by Wilson, John Lyde

The well-dissembled fly,   The rod fine tapering with elastic spring,   Snatched from the hoary steed the floating line,   And all thy slender wat'ry stores prepare.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10 Poetical Quotations by Carman, Bliss

At last, sublime, his stately growth he rears A tree, and well-dissembled foliage wears.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

It chanced that as the friends left the bazaar they ran full against their Greek enemy, who raised his hat with well-dissembled rage, and stalked on.

From An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) by Murray, David Christie

By the treachery of a servant, my comrades were admitted into Count Rudolpho's grounds, whilst I attended the nuptial rites with the well-dissembled face of friendship.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various