The immense seriousness, not to say solicitude, with which these inquiries were addressed to me eventually led me into the most enterprising Mendacities.
"Leaves from a Field Note-Book"
J. H. Morgan
In 1525 the Town-populations, in the Culmbach region, big Nurnberg in the van, had gone quite ahead in the new Doctrine; and were becoming irrepressibly impatient to clear out the old Mendacities, and have the Gospel preached freely to them.
"History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) Frederick The Great--The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg--1412-1718"
Thomas Carlyle
His audacious Mendacities and subterfuges did not strike him as in any way criminal; for he was perfectly sure that the winning and securing of Lucy would in the end be boisterously approved of, and in that case, were not the means justified?
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith