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Definition of Bewrays
1. bewray [v] - See also: bewray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bewrays
Literary usage of Bewrays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"... conscience flies the light or presence of men;" and the face commonly bewrays
the heart; as he said, Heu quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu? ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Ah, that bewrays their baseness, Lancaster! Were all the earls and barons of my
mind, ... His countenance bewrays" he is displeas'd. A. OF CANT. ..."
3. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"Ah, that bewrays* their baseness, Lancaster ! Were all the earls and barons of
my mind, We '11 hale him ... His countenance bewrays he is dis- A. of Cant. ..."
4. Representative English Plays: From the Middle Ages to the End of the by John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"Ah. that bewrays their baseness, Lancaster! Were all the earls and barons of my
mind, ... His countenance bewrays he is dis- pleas'd. A. of Cant. ..."
5. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes ; with Additional Notes by Isaac Reed, Robert Dodsley, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"Ah, that bewrays their baseness, Lancaster. Were all the earls and barons of my
mind, ... His countenance bewrays he is displeas'd. Archbishop. ..."
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