disguisement

Example Sentences

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They seem rather like figures on a Greek vase—a man and two women whom no one but myself could distinguish in their disguisement.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil

Hardship and neglect had so far altered my appearance that, even had I cared for it, any artificial disguisement was unnecessary.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James

God has taken such care that he need take none; none, that is, which consists in disguisement, insincerity, painful hushing-up of his true, grand, initiating nature.

From The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Gilchrist, Anne Burrows

And go back in what disguisement I might, there was no selling a bootlace, nor begging a crust of bread there—there, where he lived.

From Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

In spring this picture is transformed—suddenly as by the shifting of a panoramic view; or, as upon the stage, the Harlequin and brilliant Columbine emerge from the sober disguisement of their dominoes.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne