"Cloaked" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was against me, It seemed to these village Daniels barely possible that I was honest, and quite certain that I cloaked some base designs under an innocent inquiry for empty cottages. The little black bag in which I carried my lunch on these excursions was the object of extraordinary hypotheses. At one time I was believed to be selling tracts, at another time, tea; once I was suspected of being an ...
— The Quest of the Simple Life • William J. Dawson
... I knew that there were two Dominoes pink, and one Had cloaked the spouse of Sir Julian House, ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... the cloaked men fell in behind them. Neither Johnston nor Thorndyke had ever seen anything like the peculiar boat that was moored to the rocky shore. It was about forty feet in length, had a hull shaped like a racing ...
— The Land of the Changing Sun • William N. Harben
... philtre he swallowed that revivified his passion. Then a torrent of words rose flooding to his lips. The plays he had seen, Cinna, Bajazet, the stern beauty of Emilie, the sweet ferocity of Roxana, the sight of the actress cloaked in velvet, her face shining so pale and clear in the darkness, his longings, his hopes, his undying love, he recounted ...
— The Aspirations of Jean Servien • Anatole France
... race has been America's constant curse. And each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction are no different. These forces have nearly destroyed our nation in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. And they torment the lives of millions in fractured ...
— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various
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