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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bewray.

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Examples

  • “I dare say you are long breathed — long winded; at least your speech bewrays —”

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • It is most true, stylus virum arguit, our style bewrays us, and as

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The other, called Wierus, a German physician, sets out a public apology for all these crafts-folks, whereby procuring for their impunity, he plainly bewrays himself to have been one of that profession.

    The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

  • QUOTATION: It is most true, stylus virum arguit, —our style bewrays us.

    Quotations 1919

  • Robert Burton. (1577–1640) (continued) 2107It is most true, stylus virum arguit, —our style bewrays us.

    Quotations 1919

  • The Anatomy of Melancholy, "stylus virum arguit, our style bewrays us."

    Style Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

  • In doing so Solon sanctioned an old custom, and that Ionian custom, described by the author of Book XXIV., bewrays him, says Helbig, for a late Ionian

    Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

  • A cotton tidy over the rocking-chair bewrays, wrought into its crocheted gorgeousness, the name of Uncle Tom.

    Gala-days Gail Hamilton 1864

  • Style bewrays us, our, 186. is the dress of thoughts, 353. is the man himself, 811. of man, highest, 308. refines, how the, 324. to attain an English, 369.

    Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

  • "I dare say you are long breathed -- long winded; at least your speech bewrays --"

    The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

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