All 4 Uses of
deception
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.†
Chpt 9 *deceptive = misleading
- I was still rather raw over the deception which had been practised upon me, but the warmth of Holmes's praise drove my anger from my mind.†
Chpt 12deception = the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads
- But why this elaborate deception?†
Chpt 12
- I could endure it all, ill-usage, solitude, a life of deception, everything, as long as I could still cling to the hope that I had his love, but now I know that in this also I have been his dupe and his tool.†
Chpt 14