Use deceived in a sentence
Sentences starting with deceived
- Deceived by a vision, provoked and annoyed by my brother, I caused him to be murdered in my wrath. [10]
- Deceived by the placid appearance of the dying year, the softness of the sky, and the warm color of the foliage, we have been shivering about for days without exactly comprehending what was the matter. [4]
- Deceived even when a betrothed lover! [10]
Sentences ending with deceived
- And so you will be deceived. [5]
- She must know whether she had been betrayed or deceived. [10]
- I cannot bear to doubt my friends, and trustfulness is so dear, so essential to me, that I must indulge in it even if my confidence results in my being deceived. [10]
- If from all these causes you shall escape and go through triumphantly, without another "twinge of the soul," I shall be most happily but most egregiously deceived. [7]
- For the moment the world waited in the belief of the rising of new stars, and as suddenly realized that it had been deceived. [4]
- Men, unaided by the finer feminine instincts of choice, are so apt to be deceived. [4]
- I have thought"--he paused, then went on bravely--"that there might be--there might be unwelcomed love, or love deceived. [11]
- But he was not deceived. [11]
- One doesn't expect it of them, and, unlikely as it is, one isn't often deceived. [11]
- Gaston was not in the least deceived. [11]
Short sentences using deceived
- I never deceived you--never. [11]
- He had deceived himself. [6]
- She had deceived him. [11]
- Do not be deceived. [6]
- We were not deceived. [5]
- The Duchess was deceived. [11]
- I was nearly deceived myself. [9]
- My ears have deceived me. [9]
- If you have deceived me! [10]
- Why had he deceived her? [11]
Sentences containing deceived two or more times
- I confess I was enjoying the thing, because--because, you see he had deceived me, actually deceived me, his best friend. [11]
- The doctors of the University had to see those creatures in order to know; and if Joan was deceived, it is argument that they in their turn could also be deceived, for their insight and judgment were surely not clearer than hers. [5]
More example sentences with the word deceived in them
- Do not allow yourselves to be deceived by him. [10]
- An oracle deceived your father and plunged him into ruin, but the oracle is miraculous, and so you too, in perfect confidence, allow it to rob you of happiness! [10]
- It was the work of the faro-bank man, whose sleight of hand deceived the man that carried the gun. [11]
- And it was wonderful to see what these new ingenuities did for a time, and how each generation was deceived into the belief that its products would sail on forever. [4]
- Now the young woman of today should not be deceived into the notion of a preferable Realistic development because the novelist of today gets her to sit to him as his model. [4]
- He deceived her with a mock marriage; after some months he brutally, abandoned her, and spurned her as if she were a contemptible thing; all the time he had a wife in New Orleans. [5]
- So both those who knew and those who did not know deceived themselves, and pushed on to Smolensk as to a promised land. [2]
- They never knew whether they had deceived the janitor or not; as they came in a coupe, they hoped they had. [8]
- Now, I thought, when this horrible woman represented the transformation into the spider with such repulsive accuracy, Hermon will believe that this is the true, and therefore the right, ideal; nay, I was deceived myself while gazing. [10]
- What a master was the man who had deceived her trusting heart! [10]
- What angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about which he always deceived himself. [2]
- Was she deceived, was she dreaming or was she tricked by some evil spirit? [10]
- Mr. Braham, who was in something of a pet, remarked to Mr. O'Toole that they must have been deceived, that juryman with the broken nose could read! [5]
- The sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, goes up to Auersperg and says: 'Prince, you are being deceived, here are the French! [2]
- The preliminary sparring was an exchange of compliments, and deceived neither party. [9]
- I am a vessel of wrath," replied Paulus, with a deep, rich; sonorous voice, and his peculiarly kind blue eyes were raised to heaven as if to attest how greatly men were deceived in him. [10]
- Like a mistress upon whom we have lavished the days of our youth and the strength of our days, she has deceived us; she has stricken us while we slept. [11]
- I never rightly understood how it was that Mr. Carvel was deceived in Mr. Allen; perchance the secret lay in his bold manner and in the appearance of dignity and piety he wore as a cloak when on his guard. [9]
- They stood close together in a great circle all around the rim of a massive low tower--waiting; stood as motionless as sculptured ornaments, and indeed almost deceived one into the belief that that was what they were. [5]
- To restore unity to the Church, to make the crowns which he wore the hereditary possessions of his house, were two aims worthy of the hardest struggles, but, unless he deceived himself, he could not hope to attain them. [10]
- It was necessary to take her hand to help her over the bad spots, and either the bad spots increased as they went on, or Irene was deceived about it. [4]
- He had intended to send Wolf, the friend and housemate of his victim, to Spain to become the instructor of his deceived wife. [10]
- She was not to be deceived by the face value of the ladies' praises, nor rebuffed unmercifully by my Aunt Caroline, who had held the sceptre in the absence of a younger aspirant. [9]
- In truth, all three of these gentlemen wore, when questioned, such a sorrowful and injured air as would have deceived a more experienced politician than the new member from Leith. [9]
- I suspect that this was the same place the gardener's son deceived the Lady of Lyons with, but I do not know. [5]
- He was by this time fully aware that Bartja had been murdered by Prexaspes at his own command, but in this moment he began to suspect that the envoy had deceived him and spared his brother's life. [10]
- In looking at this prospect for good work in the cause of civilisation, he was not deceived, he was not allured. [11]
- Barbara knew that this expectation deceived him. [10]
- The winter, he thinks (if there is a difference), is sharper and longer; but yet he may be deceived by the want of the comforts he enjoyed at home. [3]
- I can believe the young; the old have deceived me," interposed the beggar again. [11]
- If I deceived the whole world, if I was as the thief upon the cross, I should still be truthful to you. [11]
- Her presentiment at the time had not deceived her--that that state of freedom and readiness for any enjoyment would not return again. [2]
- Had I steered the straight course of my impulse I need never have deceived that dear gentleman whom I loved and honoured above any in this world, and with whom I had always lived and dealt openly. [9]
- It is only the misled, deceived, abused Cleopatra whom I fear; for she herself is matchless in divine goodness. [10]
- Another illusion of the disease was his: that he succeeded perfectly in deceiving everybody round him with his pathetic make-believe; and, unlike most deceivers, he deceived himself as well. [11]
- Did he hope that Mr. Carvel, in a fit of anger, would disinherit me when he found I had deceived him? [9]
- I should deserve that if I deceived you, Guida. [11]
- I should deserve that if I deceived you, Guida!.... [11]
- I should deserve that if ever I deceived you, Guida. [11]
- I can't claim that I was deceived, that I thought my marriage was made in heaven. [9]
- Can it be that I am deceived in my conclusions? [5]
- The ill-disposed insisted that Hermon had only done what duty commanded the meanest man, and the fact that he had deceived all Alexandria still remained. [10]
- Was it not that he loves me, and that he wanted to be deceived, wanted to be forced to do what he has done? [11]
- Besides this the terror which he had gone through, as well as the consciousness that he had been guilty of a lie and had daringly deceived his kind master, had upset a soul hitherto untainted by any subterfuge and had thrown him off his balance. [10]
- It is the terrible one to whom I was delivered by hate and the deceived love which is now dragging me by the hair, and will rob and torture me till I despair of life. [10]
- I forbore to tell him lies, for that would have been wrong; but if my truths deceived him, perhaps that made them lies, and I am to blame. [5]
- He was not sure that he deceived Abdalla by his simple manner, yet that made little difference. [11]
- He was after summat big in experiment for explosives, so the papers said, and so he said himself before he died, to Miss Claridge--ay, 'twas her he deceived and treated cruel, that come to him when he was shattered by his experimenting. [11]
- It gave a strange brilliancy to her beauty, and might have deceived an unpractised observer. [6]
- He deceived and stole; he was a liar and a thief, and no pretty ways could hide the fact. [4]
- To-morrow I shall stand in the palaestra before my comrades, and explain to them what a malicious accident deceived me, and with me this whole great city. [10]
- When Rockwell came, soon after Jim and the nurse left him, he simulated sleep, for he had no mind to talk; and the doctor, deceived by his even breathing, had left, contented. [11]
- The expedition, as Smith predicted, was fruitless: the Indians deceived them and refused to trade, and the company got back to Jamestown, half of them sick, all grumbling, and worn out with toil, famine, and discontent. [4]
- He had the sly air of a man who could not be deceived, and he went about with his mouth in a pucker of incredulity. [4]
- Wolff Eysvogel's herald should challenge the Swiss, not him, who meant to open the deceived lover's eyes concerning his betrothed bride. [10]
- My mistress, when she was young, knew how to love truly and faithfully, but she was shamefully deceived, and now rancor, not against an individual, but against life, has taken possession of her, and her noble loyalty has become tenacious adherence to bad wishes. [10]
- Then, controlling herself, she added in an explanatory tone: "In this case, Baron, your far-famed penetration deceived you. [10]
- Her mother's calm self-control had not deceived her. [4]
- I fancied I saw your brother in the moonlight then, as clearly as I see him now; but I believe we must have been deceived by some remarkable likeness. [10]
- But her mother saw clearly enough her struggle with infirmity, and was not deceived by either her gaiety or by the cheerful composure which she carried into all the ordinary duties that fell to her. [5]
- The longer he sat there gazing into vacancy, the firmer became his conviction that Nitetis had deceived him,--that she had pretended to love him while her heart really belonged to Bartja. [10]
- Why had she said that--she who had deceived, betrayed him? [11]
- Were I as rich as formerly I would gladly undertake the entire cost; notwithstanding that your malicious god so cruelly deceived me, after all my offerings at his shrine. [10]
- If the bird-catcher really--what was your comparison--if the bird-catcher really made me his whistler, deceived and misled me, he might learn from you, ay, from you! [10]
- His mother had read him through and through-- he had not deceived her even; and she had given evidence against him to Hylda, who, he had ever thought, believed in him completely. [11]
- Then the duchess reached once more for the mirror to assure herself that her eyes had not been deceived, but her fingers trembled so with excitement that the glass slipped from her hand and fell to the floor where it broke in a thousand pieces. [10]
- In aiding these poor people Jane thought she deceived her keen churchmen, but it was a kind of deceit for which she did not pray to be forgiven. [13]
- One thing seemed plain: we must start down the river the next day, if people who could not be deceived were going to crop up at this rate: an unpalatable disappointment, for we had hoped to have a week in St. Louis. [5]
- In the first place, you deceived the stockholders of these railways into believing their property was worthless, and in the second place, you intend to sell it to the public for much more than it is worth. [9]
- But Hadrian was physician enough to see that he was well, and even if he should allow himself to be deceived, he, Antinous, was a deceiver. [10]
- He knew, through Philippus, what duty still detained the deceived artist, but he learned, at the same time, that his own imprisonment had been determined, and it would be advisable for him to leave the city behind him as quickly as possible. [10]
- Possibly no intelligent person was deceived, but in the estimation of the mass of the people the Spectrum increased its reputation for enterprise and smartness and gave also an impression of its fairness. [4]
- Inside the house once more, Madelinette laid her hand upon Louis' arm with a smile that wholly deceived him for a moment. [11]
- In the mass of white globes and colored lanterns of paper the eye was deceived as to distances. [4]
- The noble inspector of sacrifices of the temple of Anion has not been deceived in his judgment; a ram's heart was in fact found in the pious breast of Rui. [10]
- If the spirit of prophecy had not deceived Miriam, and the Lord had indeed commanded Hosea to wield His sword, how dared he resist, what higher position could earth offer? [10]
- Why were thousands of inhabitants deceived into believing that Moscow would not be given up--and thereby ruined? [2]
- It seemed incredible, now, that she had ever deceived herself into thinking that Ditmar meant to marry her, that he loved her enough to make her his wife. [9]
- But, though she noticed it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself as young people often do. [2]
- But he was not deceived, he knew her well enough to understand, to feel the indomitable spirit of resistance in her. [9]
- Lysias eyes had not deceived him. [10]
- But we do not deceive our neighbor; and when we step into Ceylon we realize that we have not even deceived ourselves. [5]
- Yet it was no illusion that deceived him. [10]
- In dress and manner his appearance was that of the shrewd city capitalist--quiet and determined, who is neither to be deceived nor bullied. [4]
- Once more he lived through the dreadful hour when he had deceived his beloved master and had been an incendiary. [10]
- If he should live a thousand years, he would be deceived every year. [4]
- Say what you like,--only don't be too peremptory and dogmatic; we know that wiser men than you have been notoriously deceived in their predictions in this very matter. [6]
- She had never lied, she had never deceived, she had never done aught that might not have been written down and published to all the world. [11]
- Oropastes, whom I left in Persia as my vicegerent and his brother Gaumata, who resembles Bartja so nearly that even Croesus, Intaphernes and my uncle, the noble Hystaspes, were once deceived by the likeness, have placed themselves at their head. [10]
- I know the king, he is too proud to be distrustful, and so conceited that he can never believe himself deceived in any man, either friend or foe. [10]
- He departed; and Katharina, to whom every word in praise of her behavior to her mother, whom her sin had brought to her death-bed, was a torturing mockery, felt that she had deceived one more worthy soul. [10]
- But as he journeyed onward, he was mindful of the advice of his father, who had often looked sadly on the ground, when tears of cruelly deceived hope moistened his eyes. [5]
- But as he journeyed onward, he was mindful of the advice of his father, who had often looked sadly on the ground when tears of cruelly deceived hope moistened his eye. [5]
- The tongue--she remembered its insinuating and adroit power, and how it had deceived the man she had come to try and save. [11]
- The Queen noticed it, threw her arm aloft as if she were hurling a hunting spear, and exclaimed "I'm not easily deceived, Luis. [10]
- Yet what mattered it, even if these miserable people considered themselves deceived and pointed the finger of scorn at him? [10]
- A father's eye is not easily deceived, and so I tell you--that the emperor has been forced to shed blood do insure the safety of the throne; but, in personal intercourse with him, I learned to know your future husband as a noble-hearted man. [10]
- And the public is going to be deceived this time, sure, expecting a fake. [4]
- Not for an instant did she think that her ear had deceived her--was he waiting now at the door for the conclusion of the meal? [10]
- For Joan asked in a voice and manner which almost deceived even me, so innocent it seemed: "Are there two? [5]
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