But there was an odd sinking at her heart which belied her words.
Kate, but the look that swept over her face at Rosemary's remark belied her words.
They have belied or confirmed various forecasts, fulfilled some few hopes, blasted many others, and obliged the allied peoples to carry forward most of their cherished anticipations to another year's account.
But one after another these anticipations were belied by events.
In such cases, where Napoleon's diplomatic assurances are belied by his secret military instructions, no one who has carefully studied his career can doubt which course would be adopted.
Thus the result of Napoleon's incursion on the rear of the allies signally belied his expectations.
After protesting their inability to help them, Ministers belied their own words by the energy with which they acted against a small State.
Who was the Sicilian dancer, whose manners and golden language belied her demeaning attire, whose strange eyes had penetrated into the darkness of his soul, whose voice had thrilled him with the echoes of one long silent and forever?
His message has not been preserved, but fears were never more strangely belied than when the pair crossed their Rubicon.
Only her smile retained its old charm and sweetness, and belied the weariness that rested upon her brow.
Our horses were fairly good, and the man who constituted our guard, an Albanian, seemed a pleasant fellow, which much belied his appearance.
Such was the power that superstition had weaved around his person that he was commonly believed to be invulnerable, which belief was afterwards belied by the fact that he carried two bullets with him to the grave.
And though he spoke quietly, there was in his eyes a hunger which belied his tones, and though he stood quietly, there was a tension in his attitude which betrayed extreme suspense.
He asked the question almost carelessly, but his eyes rather belied his tone, for they watched her intently.
In the abrupt descent their massive shoulders and haunches worked conspicuously under the tawny and supple hide, in a loose-jointed way that belied their enormous strength.
They were without tusks, of course, but the huge development of their muzzles, in preparation for the sprouting of the tusks, gave them a truculent air that was ludicrously beliedby the mildness of their baby eyes.
The meaning that she put into her words belied their harsh face-value.
Would it not have been madness to appeal to eye-witnesses of transactions which never happened, which witnesses were then alive, and could easily have belied such an impudent and furtive attempt at imposture?
He had the warm blood of the Italian in his veins, being descended from an ancient family of Sienna; and his rich brown cheek and darkly-speaking eye belied not the land of his origin.
The event belied the prediction, and the proposed minor operation against granaries and bakeries became the first act of a decisive campaign.
I am willing to try it, sir," said Nevers, though his words belied his feelings.
No, sir," replied Nevers; but his looks and his tones belied his words.
Homosoto wore a smile that belied little of his true thoughts.
