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Sentences starting with false

False facts, false reasoning, bad rhetoric, bad grammar, stale images, borrowed passages, if not borrowed sermons, are listened to without a word of comment or a look of disapprobation. [6]

Sentences ending with false

That is the worst fault in a gentleman, for flattery makes false friends and the flatterer himself false. [11]
You see, it wasn't what Faddo said about himself that made Laney wild, but that about his brother Tom; and a man doesn't like his brother spoken ill of by dirt like Faddo, be it true or false. [11]
Even then it was not love I felt but an unnamed sentiment for one whom I clothed with gifts and attributes I admired: constancy, an ability to suffer and to hide, decision, wit, refuge for the weak, scorn for the false. [9]
Did he ring true, and it false? [9]
This is both true and false. [10]
The universe was tottering because a woman had played him false. [11]
He only desired to utilize for improvement what he recognised as false. [10]
I do dare to say forgery when it is true, and don't dare to say forgery when it is false. [7]
I keep repeating this, in the hope that I may impress it upon you that you will be interested to observe and examine for yourself and see whether it is true or false. [5]
I'll put the thing in another shape (and then pointing to the paper); don't you know those charges to be false? [5]

Short sentences using false

Under False Colours X. [9]
No false embarrassment troubled Kansas. [9]
My standards were false. [9]
His life is false. [11]
I hate that false name. [5]
It is false! [11]
Distinctly false. [5]

Sentences containing false two or more times

And if the standard were false, it followed inevitably that the life was false also. [9]
It is the lot of my life that I must be false to some one always, and even now I am false to your uncle. [9]
So I succeeded in having the decision of the conflict left to the fleet, but the prediction was false, false, false!--how utterly, was to be proved only too soon. [10]
May it please his worship, I will withdraw it when it is proven false on me as that was proven false on him. [7]
I wish I had been born with false teeth and a false liver and false carbuncles. [5]

More example sentences with the word false in them

You're false to your womanhood an' true to your religion. [13]
The false witness you bore will cost poor Hiram his life: but the merciful Saviour may forgive you at last. [10]
The woman may yield to overwhelming circumstances, she may even by her own consent be false to herself, but the love lives, however hidden and smothered, so long as the vital force is capable of responding to a true emotion. [4]
So it is written; and you could actually declare before the judges a thing that was false, and that you knew would bring others to ruin? [10]
You, a false witness, may accuse Hiram, but I will proclaim you, you the son of this house, as the thief! [10]
Barbara had witnessed with very different feelings from Dona Magdalena and her brother how the former regarded every false step of Don John, and especially that of his expedition to England, as a heavy misfortune, and as such bewailed it. [10]
The streets swarmed with people, waiting impatiently to see the strange spectacle which the punishment of one of the king's wives, who had proved false and faithless, promised to afford. [10]
Aye, and I will give my best Iceland Gerfalcon for a lame crow if every word she spoke concerning the death of Junker Herdegen was not false knavery. [10]
He was wondering whether, in this primitive place, such a mind and nature would be the wiser for reading; whether it were not better to be without a mental aspiration, which might set up false standards. [11]
And as to what you, a slanderer, can say about false witness. [10]
Do you know what that false worship has been in our midst? [10]
The United States were rescued from the false predicament in which they had been from the beginning, and the great popular heart leaped with new enthusiasm for "Liberty and Union, henceforth and forever, one and inseparable. [7]
The genuine as well as the false paper money which flooded Moscow lost its value. [2]
How often have we seen it in our public prints, that woman occupies a false station in the world! [5]
Twice or thrice we seemed to get the signal, and a shout was just ready to break from the men's lips when they perceived it was a false alarm. [5]
The declaration that we have always opposed the war is true or false, according as one may understand the term "oppose the war. [7]
Fool that he was to have yielded to a swift and false ebullition of feeling! [10]
Skillfully with this was insinuated the notion of the false and contemptible social pride and exclusiveness of Stanhope's relations, which Mrs. Bartlett Glow represented as implacable while she condemned it as absurd. [4]
The other harbour was devoted to commerce, but, in order to prevent the spread of false reports, newly arrived ships were forbidden to enter. [10]
If the drawing was bad, Margaret knew it; if a false note was struck, she saw it. [4]
He is a very knowing young man, but I can't think he is foolish enough, to say nothing of his honesty, to make any false step of the kind you seem to hint. [6]
A thief, an unjust judge, a false witness,--and the only descendant of Menas! [10]
Now, if you undertake to disprove that proposition, and to show that it is erroneous, would you prove it to be false by calling Euclid a liar? [7]
Put then thy trust in those who love; In no false heart may Love abide. [10]
Let none list to this false and foolish matter, upon pain of death, nor discuss the same, nor carry it abroad. [5]
She had yet to learn in what manner they come to the finish who make a false start. [11]
It was only to divert her suspicions that the false woman had been so affectionate at parting. [10]
She really deserves to be punished for bearing false witness, and her punishment cannot, at any rate, be so heavy as yours. [10]
She had bitter thoughts sometimes of the world, and bitter thoughts of the false system that controlled his conduct, but never of him. [4]
He thought and thought, but he could not devise a fitting punishment for this false woman. [10]
And Katharina, too, thought better of it, and confessed to me just now that she had committed a great sin and had borne false witness before the judges to please her dear Orion. [10]
There they are, those false images that agitated, enraptured, and tormented me," said he to himself, passing in review the principal pictures of the magic lantern of life and regarding them now in the cold white daylight of his clear perception of death. [2]
But he thought this false thought because he did not know the immortal strength of human curiosity. [5]
Yet no such thing has been done; and the strong presumption is, that the insinuation is false and groundless. [7]
One may attack them on the false side and perhaps gain a conversational victory. [6]
Look, he holds them in his hands without mixing them, and shows the false construction of its secret parts. [9]
She was on the verge of tears as she looked helplessly about her for a defender; but she had not long to wait, for Orion instantly gave orders that Perpetua should be imprisoned for bearing false witness. [10]
And this is the reason why extreme, unrelieved realism is apt to give a false impression of persons and scenes. [4]
Facts always yield the place of honor, in conversation, to thoughts about facts; but if a false note is uttered, down comes the finger on the key and the man of facts asserts his true dignity. [6]
Now suppose that the physician publishes these cases, will they not have a plausible appearance of proving that which, as we granted at the outset, was entirely false? [3]
The maxim that the more we have the less we need desire, is also false, though in this world there are only a certain number of desirable things. [10]
So, to cut the matter short, I am unwilling to see Barbara again and awaken false hopes in her mind! [10]
Several times during the march false alarms had been given and the soldiers of the escort had raised their muskets, fired, and run headlong, crushing one another, but had afterwards reassembled and abused each other for their causeless panic. [2]
Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle anything as true or false. [6]
The report that the jury have brought her in guilty is false and premature. [5]
The source of the false tidings is discovered later. [10]
I'll be sworn the false hair this good staymaker has on cost a guinea. [9]
Not altogether, for the false beard he had worn the night before lay beside the clothes. [11]
The long tramping, the everlasting trail on false scents, the mental battling with troubles past and present, had given a fortitude and vigour to the body beyond what it had ever known. [11]
It has reached the bottom, smashed into a thousand pieces, and I am thankful that you preferred to follow me rather than that false support. [10]
Victory hangs in the balance, and a false move will throw it to either side. [9]
It is true that the steward's false pride had roused his indignation, and who can listen calmly to any comment on a stain on his birth? [10]
Do you see that stump on the false point? [5]
Orion must believe that she had done him a wrong; still, could that make him so far forget himself as to carry out his threats, and sacrifice an innocent man--to divert suspicion from himself, while he branded her as a false witness? [10]
I don't say that it is not her business to vote, but I do say that a woman who does not please is a false note in the harmonies of nature. [6]
I have concluded that it is better for me to submit, for the time, to the consequences of the false position in which I consider he has placed me, than to subject the country to the consequences of publishing these discouraging and injurious parts. [7]
If, in arraying that evidence I had stated anything which was false or erroneous, it needed but that Judge Douglas should point it out, and I would have taken it back, with all the kindness in the world. [7]
Nobody talks much that does n't say unwise things,--things he did not mean to say; as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes. [6]
They are worse than failures now, because the public mind is lulled into a false security by them, and efforts at genuine prison reform are defeated. [4]
He had already taken care that the false renown should not follow him to the grave, and Myrtilus should have his just due, and he would do whatever else lay in his power to further this object. [10]
Search for the supposed father had been continued by Lackland, Hawkins and himself for several years, but Laura was not informed of it till after the death of Hawkins, for fear of raising false hopes in her mind. [5]
Much of his substance he had lent to false friends never to see it more, and it would scarce be believed how many times knavish rogues had beguiled this learned man of his goods. [10]
Speranski's high-pitched voice struck him unpleasantly, and the incessant laughter grated on him like a false note. [2]
So he steered straight for the false opening, mistaking it for the true one. [5]
At last he stood still, with his arms crossed, and looked defiantly at the holy images; like a traveller who drives away a false guide, and thinks to find the road by himself. [10]
Each, with his steady, unmoved gaze, his stiffly-curled false wig and beard, and his solemn, deliberate manner, resembled the two huge statues, which, the one precisely similar to the other, stood also motionless in their respective places, gazing calmly into the stream. [10]
Why didn't he speak out, defend his faith, denounce her views as prejudiced and false? [9]
As Jim did so, he saw lying on a chair a suit of clothes on top of which were a wig and false beard and moustache. [11]
He has no small vices, and no false feelings. [11]
Every prophecy, every Sibylline text, every oracle must be false if the overthrow of that image could remain unpunished--if the destruction of the universe failed to follow, as surely as a, flood ensues from a breach in a dyke. [10]
Though twenty nations should unite to judge, where might proof be found--inside the palace, where all men lie and bear false witness? [11]
The appearance, in short, of this false philosopher was not calculated to subdue the rash tongues of the Alexandrians. [10]
No, it is she, it is she," Orion again asserted; but, before he could say more, Paula declared with a flashing glance that it was a poor sort of love which sacrificed itself out of false generosity. [10]
Or were his senses playing him false? [10]
Perhaps a false sense of pride restrained me, but my duties held me all day in the field, and often into the night when there was curing to be done, or some other matters of necessity. [9]
Then, on making search in his wallet, it was discovered that he had entered there under a false name, and that it was Sir Franz von Welemisl who had taken such terrible vengeance on Ursula for her sins against himself and Herdegen. [10]
If he does say they are false and forged, I will then look further into it, and presume I can procure the certificates of the proper officers that they are genuine copies. [7]
Doesn't Sydney Smith say that a public man in England never gets over a false quantity uttered in early life? [6]
Straight off you said, 'Oh, false citizen, to have fed a tramp! [5]
She had tacitly said herself that under the bitter pains of the rack they would be able to extort a false confession from her. [5]
Volumes of report Run with these false and most contrarious quests Upon thy doings! [6]
A false start robs us of our natural strength, and a misplaced or unrighteous love deadens the soul and shipwrecks just conceptions of life. [11]
Yet he, also, recognised in philosophy, first of all, the bond which unites the widely sundered acquisitions of the intellect, the vital breath which pervades them, the touchstone which proves each true or false. [10]
If I have reasoned to a false conclusion, it is the vocation of an able debater to show by argument that I have wandered to an erroneous conclusion. [7]
Which was the real, and which the false? [9]
And, as I reached the door, the North Wind spied me, grinned, rubbed his stomach, made a false dash at me that frightened me out of my wits, and finally went through the pantomime of scalping me. [9]
It has the rare fire of aggression; is ever more upon the offence than upon the defence; has, withal, the false lure of freedom from restraint, the throbbing force of sympathy. [11]
A strange stir ran through the assembled group, nearly all whose members belonged to the King's train, and the low whispers and murmurs around him revealed to Hermon that the false wreaths he wore had by no means been forgotten in this circle. [10]
The king's blood ran cold as Mena, a second time, ventured the frightful leap; one false step, and he must meet with the same fearful death as his enemy Paaker. [10]
On the other question, how the battle of Borodino and the preceding battle of Shevardino were fought, there also exists a definite and well-known, but quite false, conception. [2]
Perhaps it is pride that tells me not to put myself in a false position; perhaps it is something else. [4]
Then all these pretty stories I hear of him are false. [9]
Up to the present she felt that suffering had refined her, and a great love had burned away all that was false. [9]
It is a phenomenon known to all of us that we may for the moment be carried away by a book which upon cool reflection we find is false in ethics and weak in construction. [4]
F. Oh, false, perjured woman, thou didst chill my blood, and makest me a demon like thyself. [5]
Long chains of pearls and glittering gems hung on the sallow skin displayed by the open neck of her dress, and on the false, reddish-yellow curls rested a roll of light-blue velvet decked with ostrich plumes. [10]
It was primly painted now, its posts crowned with the carved pineapples; behind the fence old-fashioned flowers were in bloom, lupins and false indigo; and the retaining wall of blue-grey slaty stone, which he had laid that spring, was finished. [9]
We should find ourselves in a very false position, if it should prove that Anglo-Saxons can't live here, but die out, if not kept up by fresh supplies, as Dr. Knox and other more or less wise persons have maintained. [6]
Something has played our eyes false, or we're brought here to do work different from buffalo-hunting. [11]
I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride; The which in every, language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. [5]

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