Sentence examples for play false from inspiring English sources
We swore we would never play false or squander.
Or for however much time is left to ponder What it was We swore we would never play false or squander.
The resounding success of Kelly's first play, False Delicacy, staged with the patronage of David Garrick, cost him Goldsmith's friendship and earned the enduring resentment of Samuel Johnson, who had written the prologue for Goldsmith's play.
For the uniting of all of Greek stock is the mustering of a mighty host, able to meet our invaders in the field; but if some of us play false, and others will not come to our aid, and the sound part of Hellas be but small, then it is to be feared that all Greek lands alike will be undone.
Curie is the subject of the play False Assumptions by Lawrence Aronovitch, in which the ghosts of three other female scientists observe events in her life.
But, he said: "I began to fear he was playing false — that he did not want to hurt the enemy.
Her work has been published in the edited collection Playing False: Representations of Betrayal (Cultural History & Literary Imagination), and she has worked as an editorial assistant to the edited volume Readings in the Theory of Religion.
And it plays false with what proved to be Surrealism's most useful insight: that the mind possesses a deep formality that may assert itself when conscious control is suspended.
Four of the top seven played false shots which defied the policy of putting a high price on their wicket, instead making them knockdown bargains in a job lot.
For he not only played false with the Gauls, and sent them away, but also, after alluring Genthius, King of the Illyrians, by the hopes of three hundred talents, to assist him in the war, he caused the money to be counted out in the presence of his messengers, and to be sealed up.
Begob, and the truth would not be played false were a frank man to say that Flann O'Brien, born Brian O'Nolan in Strabane, Ulster, in 1911, and known as Myles na gCopaleen to the readers of his long-standing column "Cruiskeen Lawn" in the Irish Times, when acting as a novelist proffered a mixed bag of blessings and their opposite.
