The zealous Christian is never to seeke for a proofe of his salvation: what makes one Christian differ from another in grace, as starrs doe in glory; but zeale?
I never saw you before in all my life," said the fellow, though his countenance seemed tobelie his words.
I had experienced such beneficial effects from the ale I had drunk on that occasion, that I wished to put its virtue to a frequent test; nor did the ale on subsequent trials belie the good opinion which I had at first formed of it.
Being holy men, I trust that ye would not belie your word so pledged, therefore I know the good Saint Dunstan hath sent this in answer to my prayers.
However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the apparently cheerless prospect before us.
They are then driven to a desperate alternative, either to belie their conscience, or to do violence to their hearts.
Such tears are childish tears, I know, and belie a deeper wisdom.
And those who knew him best, are, I believe, unanimous in testifying that his character did in no respect belie the evidence borne by his manly and truthful countenance, to its warmth and its sincerity.
He may be untruthful in his comments on his characters, if the charactersbelie the comments in their actions and their words.
But the eternal truth is that Prince Hamlet is a slender man; and Shakespeare has here been forced to belie the truth in order to subserve the fact.
In actual life, of course, there are no very ends: life exhibits a continuous sequence of causation stretching on: and since a story has to have an end, its conclusion must in any case belie a law of nature.
In its commoner and less exaggerative phases it is very useful for purposes of suggestion; and only when it becomes blatant through abuse may it be said to belie the laws of life.
The new King, directed by wise counsels, did not belie the happy anticipation of his subjects in his favour.
The appearance of the young stranger did not belie the favourable character which the chief of the eunuchs had given of him.
Formal and conventional though it is, however, it was never wholly possible to Miss Edgeworth to belie her genius.
She was neither a Utopian purist nor a sentimental innocent; nor can she belie a natural tendency to make her ethics rather a code of high-minded expediency than of high principle for its own sake only.
Modern church music, by virtue of its variety, splendor, and dramatic pathos, seems to be tinged with the hues of earthliness which belie the strictest conception of ecclesiastical art.
Moreover, the song of the Church had at times become so artificial and sophisticated as to belie the true purpose of worship music.
Simplicity alone gives it this character, and it cannot belie in the moral order what it is in the intellectual and aesthetical order.
Issuing from the humble sphere of literary men to rise to this eminent position, he did not belie at that elevation the primitive simplicity of his character.
The ministers of religion in their daily conduct, often belie the rigorous principles which they teach to others, so that the unbelievers in their turn think they have a right to accuse them of bad faith.
If some unbelievers contradict, in sight of death or during sickness, the opinions which they entertained in health, do not the priests in healthbelie opinions of the religion which they hold?
Cornets grow quick to be captains in these woful days, if they be but brave, which surely this young man is, unless his looks belie him.
No, not at all," was her smiling answer, and her appearance did not belie the words.
Great Wind did not beliehis name, and dashed into the night like a tempest.
Again she laughed, revealing now a girlish freshness in the small mouth, that had somehow lingered to belie the deeper, graver lines about her dark eyes.
A Perfect Snuggery" did not belie its name, but in size and ventilation forcibly suggested a chicken coop.
They seem so full of lazy joy, or unutterable rapture, that they belie her belief in the falseness of all things.
He would not belie his own taste so far as so admit that she was more desirable in any way now, in her prosperity, than when first he saw her, and paid her the immense compliment of admiring her.
