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Usage examples of masquerade.

It will be a question as to whether they can hypocritically masquerade as a political party, and strike hands with every agency of force and revolution, and still make simple American people understand they are not sworn enemies of their country and ready to overthrow it.

Was he referring to the way Helse had masqueraded as a boy, hiding her gender identity?

He told her that his friend Helse was not a boy but a girl masquerading as a boy.

But as Spirit understood, she was accustomed to masquerading as a man, and felt uncomfortable in a dress.

If he were to learn his betrothed was masquerading about London as her twin, and with Saxford, it would cause quite a scandal.

The question was, would Nicholas forgive her for masquerading as Angelica?

It was because she was an alien creature masquerading as an android of the opposite sex.

Then Mach understood: this was a self-willed machine masquerading as a mindless one.

The effect was of a Hollywood version of a gangster masquerading as a Suit.

Ralfs of various degrees of obesity they snake-danced, past a 300 pound weakling in a leopard-skin bathing suit masquerading as Charles Atlas they shoved, between the guy in the tinfoil robot suit and a girl in long brown flasher raincoat that looked like it had served as a kleenex for a herd of elephants with eyes looked like she bit the heads off live kittens, through an assortment of ninjas, monsters, Martian drag queens and whatever, and down the stairs to the basement.

The masquerading on the part of the footman was to ensure a way of retreat in case of emergencies.

Headhad been to tell Sachs that he now believed the Ghost was masquerading as John Sung.

There was no way I was going to escape from the beach without masquerading as Sung.

The one whose name is not spoken is Antakh, a Moru who once masqueraded as a Kana and is hated for this.

The lightness of heart which had dressed them in masquerade habits, had decorated their tents, and assembled them in fantastic groups, appeared a sin against, and a provocative to, the awful destiny that had laid its palsying hand upon hope and life.