betraying

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He that desires to have a loving wife, Must bridle all the show of that desire: Be kind, not amorous; nor bewraying kindness, As if love wrought it, but considerate duty.

From Every Man out of His Humour by Jonson, Ben

How well he speakes, yet in the sence bewraying A sence distracted: sure his captivity, His wounds, & hard entreaty make him franticke!

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Wounded with Arrowes from thy lightning eyes, My tongue in payne my harts counsels bewraying, My rebell thought for me in Ambushe lyes, To my lyues foe her Chieftaine still betraying.

From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Brett, Cyril

The second speaker was as clearly a Scot who was struggling against the danger there might be of his speech bewraying him.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

Upon the right path there was none; From it they all were straying; Each followed fancies of his own, Them to ill deeds bewraying.

From Rampolli by MacDonald, George