She tried to forget it and for a moment she smiled to herself deceivingly, and then-the smile was gone and by the determined set of her lips Jerry was her father's own resolute child again.
"The Reclaimers"
Margaret Hill McCarter
It is admitted that if one goes into a new place he estimates the agreeableness of it according to the number of people it contains with whom it is a pleasure to converse, who have either the ability to talk well or the intelligence to listen appreciatingly even if deceivingly, whose society has the beguiling charm that makes even natural scenery satisfactory.
"The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner"
Charles Dudley Warner
deceivingly near to the shallow rock-based ford before the Corral, so near that only the wise ones knew how to miss it, Nature placed the cruelest whirlpool that ever swung an even surface up stream, its gentle motion telling nothing of the fatal suction underneath that level stretch of steady, slow moving, irresistible water.
"A Master's Degree"
Margaret Hill McCarter