And after he died and confessed, we found a paper of imitation diamonds in his pocket that Larch had ready to use in deceiving his wife if she had agreed to sign the papers he wanted her to, so he could bolster up his failing business.
She was fond of a cigarette, and joined me, laughing merrily at the manner in which we were so completely deceiving the gay world of Leghorn.
You have offended by deceiving them, and that is an offence which your repentance will not extenuate.
At least, now I can satisfactorily assert that I am deceiving nobody, and can deservedly receive no contumely.
It'll meandeceiving Captain Jenks, helping you steal the boat, but I will do it.
A single branch stood upright at that deceiving angle; a heavier one submerged must have been overbalancing it.
Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Veronica--for the love of God--you are not deceiving me, to save my life?
Vaguely, she wondered whether they were not deceiving her and whether it were really the home she dimly remembered.
The spirit tells me that you will remember this and understand it, and know that he is not a deceiving spirit.
We are forever deceiving ourselves with names and theories.
Did he not With violent handlings stigmatize the cheek Of the deceiving wife, who had entail'd Shame on their innocent babe?
So far as Bolsec himself was concerned, they were inclined to treat him with indulgence, deceiving thereby the hopes of the Reformer, who desired a triumphant condemnation of his adversary.
It is too well known with what mad actions Osiander is deceiving himself and deluding certain others.
If he is skilful, as well as cowardly, he will often succeed in deceiving brave men, who are the least suspicious, into the belief that he is as fearless as they.
But it is not easy, for you are clever at deceiving me, and I wonder that you cannot deceive the woman you wish to marry.
You persist in deceiving yourself, monsieur, and will never accept of me the only thing I am willing to give you--devotion.
Dear Marie, is it then to-day only that you have discovered we are surrounded by people interested indeceiving us?
A sense of guilt almost choked him; he could not banish the thought that the assessor was to be deceived, and that he was to aid in deceiving him.
You are deceiving us; do not resort to such ignoble subterfuges!
The savages assured me that there had not—but I was inclined to believe that by deceiving me in this particular they sought to allay the violence of my grief.
The Americans will never listen to any propositions until the present Ministers resign their places to men, who have not lost the confidence of America by deceiving them, and the confidence of the nation by imposing upon Parliament.
The mirza and the mudbake make no false pretence of taking him at his word, but openly accuse him of deceiving them.
You told him candidly, I suppose, that La Valliere was deceiving him?
To leave another in ignorance that you are deceiving him, is loyal; but to deceive him--it seems that would be very wrong, and that you would not do it.
Deceiving me' is Thisby's cue: she is to enter now, and I am to spy her through the wall.
I would have you simply beware of deceivingyourself in imagining that you considered any one but yourself in acting as you did.
Upon one his negress sits, chatting with a French bonne; on a second there is also something female and slender, something with its little white profile--how white it looks in this deceiving light!
Is it possible that she can imagine that she is deceiving him by this miserable pretence of indifference?
You are deceiving me; I suspect you; and Porthos is fast asleep.
I am yours entirely: but believe me, my dear D'Herblay, you are deceiving yourself.
The object of never deceiving one's self, monseigneur, nor being wanting in the respect which a subaltern owes to his superior officers, nor infringing the duties of that service which one has voluntarily accepted.
To leave another in ignorance that you are deceiving him is loyal; but to deceive him--it seems that that would be very wrong, and that you would not do it.
That is where you have been wrong," continued he, "in deceiving me; for that promised duchy I reckoned upon.
Personality was not a unit, but an aggregate, liable to disassociation, and the hysterical girl was capable of deceiving the very elect.
If she is deceiving us in any way he will discover it," the son forecasted, with a feeling of fear at his heart.
Those deceiving spirits must be hunted out and driven away.
Of course I don't accuse you of wilfullydeceiving anybody.
The truth is, Victor, Pettus and his friends called into our circle a throng of wicked, deceiving spirits.
I cannot tell you which of the two was the better pleased, he at the thought that he was deceiving his wife, or she at really deceiving her husband.
Not at all," would such a philosopher answer; "you are ingenious in deceiving yourself.
A man must be ingenious in deceiving himself who looks for and thinks to find what never existed.
And here was she married to a man who, even in the days of his most ardent wooing, had been deceiving her.
Nevertheless, they had been there on occasions--this with the double effect of deceiving her mother and entertaining Eugene.
I blame you, you utterly deceiving villain and myself for being so silly.
That would show her positively what he was doing and whether he was deliberately deceiving her.
After these years of marriage and close companionship he was deceiving her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deceiving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
