I marvel to see how men can be cajoled and call the vizard virtue. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference
But he merely said -- "Pray, Monsieur, what is a vizard?". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
No sooner had he taken off his vizard, but every one knew him to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
I defy the Old Enemy to unmask me when I choose to keep my vizard on. From Wordnik.com. [The Abbot] Reference
I never like myself worse than when faced with a vizard of disputing in controversies. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Death in the Death of Christ] Reference
His eyes shone through a black vizard with one unwinking, glittering, ceaseless threat. From Wordnik.com. [Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
The metal vizard that was his face provided no clues to his feelings, his harsh voice hardly more. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
MUMMING, in a masquing pied suit, with a vizard; his torch-bearer carrying the box, and ringing it. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
Those who could procure nothing else have worn a pasty vizard kneaded of common clay, to effect in some degree. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
He was used to go into battle always with his vizard raised: that is why the lance passed right out on the other side. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
“Mask” and “Mascarade,” for persona, larva or vizard, also derive, I have noticed, from an Arabic word — Maskharah. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
No such crabb'd vizard: thou hast learnt thy train. From Wordnik.com. [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
His green cassock and vizard were now flung aside. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
Not only to make him your shield, but your vizard. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2] Reference
And the glance you mistook was the vizard which Pride. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile] Reference
The Spaniards seemed to cast off even the vizard of humanity. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
And I assenting, she went to fetch her cloak, hat, and vizard. From Wordnik.com. [The Touchstone of Fortune] Reference
Who was he that he should yield in courtesy to the man in the vizard?. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Scoundrels] Reference
'My fair cousin,' he said, opening his black vizard, 'do you not see me?. From Wordnik.com. [The Chaplet of Pearls] Reference
Truth -- strange that in festivals it should only speak behind a vizard!. From Wordnik.com. [Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes] Reference
So to the Exchange, to buy things with my wife; among others, a vizard for herself. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
"Mask" and "Mascarade," for persona, larva or vizard, also derive, I have noticed, from an. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
In this shifting and impersonal vizard, he broke houses, picked pockets, robbed on the pad. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Scoundrels] Reference
She wore a long dark cloak, a small bonnet, and a full vizard which covered her entire face. From Wordnik.com. [The Touchstone of Fortune] Reference
It was none other than the Rusty Knight; I knew him by his battered vizard, which was closed. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard] Reference
I knew her the moment I saw her, despite the fact that she wore a full vizard and a long cloak. From Wordnik.com. [The Touchstone of Fortune] Reference
Was it possible that her intuition had been keen enough to pierce his disguise, vizard and all?. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Days An Extravaganza] Reference
The door closed on us, and when Frances had put on her vizard, she followed me upstairs to see Betty. From Wordnik.com. [The Touchstone of Fortune] Reference
Caspar Goodwood raised his eyes to her own again; they seemed to shine through the vizard of a helmet. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1] Reference
Rusty Knight, with drooping head and body, regarding them through the vizard he was too weary to raise. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard] Reference
He had a vizard over his face, but his hair came down from under his helm like the tail of a red horse. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men] Reference
Five other men were surrounding her, but they all wore white masks of vizard shape, revealing chin and mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaming Jewel] Reference
Bettina, for, despite her full vizard and an enveloping cloak, she was far too attractive not to rivet his attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Touchstone of Fortune] Reference
When Frances came out to Betty and me, she was holding her handkerchief to her eyes and her vizard was hanging by its chain. From Wordnik.com. [The Touchstone of Fortune] Reference
He dressed the part in black; his respectability grinned behind a vizard; and all the while he trifled nonchalantly with a pistol. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Scoundrels] Reference
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