All 3 Uses of
guise
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- He looked such an extraordinary object in this guise that, flurried as she was, she could not avoid laughing outright.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- The disturbed earth was washed over the grass and pathway in the guise of the brown mud he had already seen, and it spotted the marble tombstone with the same stains.†
Chpt 46-48
- Bathsheba having at last been persuaded to wear mourning, her appearance as she entered the church in that guise was in itself a weekly addition to his faith that a time was coming—very far off perhaps, yet surely nearing—when his waiting on events should have its reward.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(guise) a deceptive outward appearance
or more rarely:
any outward appearance -- especially one that is new or clever