Was there ever seen such a Paper; one end of it contradicting the other? Payment TO M. de Voltaire, and payment BY M. de Voltaire;-- with other blottings and foistings, which print and italics will not represent! Hirsch denies he ever signed this Paper. Is not that your writing, then: "APROUVE, A. Hirschel"?--"No!" and they convict him of falsity in that respect: the signature IS his, but the Paper has been altered since he signed it. That is what the poor dark mortal meant to express; and in his mulish way, he has expressed into a falsity what was in itself a truth.英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 16》
"Here is one," thought Tarzan, "who, knowing more of his religion than any of his fellows, realizes fully the falsity of my claims as he does the falsity of the faith he preaches."英文原著 · 《Tarzan the Terrible》
"To prove the falsity of these rumours, doctor, I may mention, as a secret, that I am moving to Kislovodsk to-morrow" . "And Princess Mary, too?"
"No, she remains here another week" . "So you are not going to get married?" . "Doctor, doctor! Look at me! Am I in the least like a bridegroom, or any such thing?"
"I am not saying so. But you know there are occasions . ." he added, with a crafty smile -- "in which an honourable man is obliged to marry, and there are mothers who, to say the least, do not prevent such occasions.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
This has very largely happened to modern English religion; I have been in many churches, chapels, and halls where a confident pride in having got beyond creeds was coupled with quite a paralysed incapacity to get beyond catchwords. But wherever the falsity appears it comes from neglect of the same truth: that men should agree on a principle, that they may differ on everything else; that God gave men a law that they might turn it into liberties.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
But the truth is that such small, but real, element of vulgarity as there is indeed in the tripper, is part of a certain folly and falsity which is characteristic of much modernity, and especially of the very people who persecute the poor tripper most. There is something in the whole society, and even especially in the cultured part of it, that does things in a clumsy and unbeautiful way.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
"Phyllis!" It had a particular ring, that voice, as if coming from beautifully formed red lips, of which the lower one must curve the least bit over; it had, too, a caressing vitality, and a kind of warm falsity.英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
In the interim, we will begin declassifying documents to prove the falsity of ACN's claims."美剧 · 《The News Room》