Most versions of her story describe her as a talented and learned woman who disguises herself as a man, often at the behest of a lover.

A jealous husband disguises himself as a priest, and hears his own wife's confession: she tells him that she loves a priest, who comes to her every night.

The Chinese legend of Hua Mulan centers on a young woman who disguises herself as a man to take the place of her elderly father in the army.

After he deserts her, and she bears their illegitimate child, Lady Isabel disguises herself and takes the position of governess in the household of her former husband and his new wife.

Both Joe and Jerry become enamored of Sugar, and compete for her affection while maintaining their disguises.

* The Trojan War tapestry referred to by Homer in Book III of the Iliad, where Iris disguises herself as Laodice and finds Helen " working at a great web of purple linen, on which she was embroidering the battles between Trojans and Achaeans, that Ares had made them fight for her sake.

The husband disguises himself as a guardsman with a thick accent, woos his wife under his false identity, and ends up seducing her.

In the night, Leah disguises herself as Molly and tries to sleep with Tim: he sees through the deception but tells her that if she had come to him as herself, he wasn't sure what he would have done.

Queenrid, consort of Offa, a cruel, ambitious, and blood-thirsty woman, who envied the retinue and splendor of the unsuspicious king, resolved in some manner to have him murdered, before he left their court, hoping by that to gain his immense riches ; for this purpose she, with her malicious and fascinating arts, overcame the king – her husband, which she most cunningly effected, and, under deep disguises, laid open to him her portentous design ; a villain was therefore hired, named Gimberd, who was to murder the innocent prince.

Florian realises that their disguises won't fool his sister, Lady Psyche ( one of the professors ), and they take her into their confidence.

Meanwhile, the goddess Athena, who sneaks into the palace, disguises herself as a sea-captain's daughter and instructs princess Nausikaa, the daughter of King Alkinoös in her sleep to go to the seashore to wash her clothes.

However, Don Raymond discovers her location and disguises himself as a gardener to get in and see her.

Kang returns, attempting to win the hand of Princess Ravonna of a puppet kingdom, by demonstrating his power to her father by battling the Avengers, who he kidnaps using a time machine he disguises as part of their mansion.

Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters-the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world.

The supervillain Mysterio disguises himself as a doctor, performs the blood test, and tells her that she is HIV positive as part of his plan to destroy Daredevil before he himself dies of a brain tumor.

In the letter, Adler tells Holmes that he did very well in finding the photograph and fooling her with his disguises.

He disguises her as an invalid patient in a wheelchair and takes her to his home for a month-long stay.

The title character draws on her talent as a fashion designer, ingenuity, psychic powers and a variety of disguises to get into and out of amusing adolescent and pre-adolescent situations.

The film Sylvia Scarlett starred Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne, and Edmund Gwenn ; it was the comic story of a widower, his daughter Sylvia who disguises herself as a boy, and a con man ; Collier's collaborators on the script were Gladys Unger and Mortimer Offner.

Shakespeare's love interest in the film, " Viola " ( Gwyneth Paltrow ), is the daughter of a wealthy merchant who disguises herself as a boy to become an actor ; while Shakespeare, a financially struggling playwright suffering from writer's block is trying to write Romeo and Juliet.

Alexis disguises herself as a man named Dobson and begins working at the Quartermaine mansion to be closer to her daughter.

In several stories, he adopts disguises to gather evidence while ' under cover ' so convincing that even Watson fails to penetrate them, such as in " The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton ", " The Man with the Twisted Lip ", " The Adventure of the Empty House " and " A Scandal in Bohemia ".

Whilst this is, strictly speaking, true, it also disguises the fact that the decline had several different causes.

It has three plots, the subplots being in the swift Latin or Italianate style with several disguises.

The wing offers a more homogeneous style but this unity is only on the surface and disguises several rebuildings.

Many critics considered the plot sophomoric, compounding the fact that there were several " disguises " that would clearly not be recognized by youngsters ( Tony Montana from Scarface, for example ).

After Mancuso makes several improper arrests, the sergeant in charge is angry with him, and he must somehow make a major bust to avoid being kicked off the force ; he is reduced to wearing ridiculous disguises and spending time in the bus station toilets in order to arrest " suspicious characters.

Members of the group, wearing disguises meant to evoke the appearance of Native American Indians, poured several tons of tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea Act.

Kennedy dons one of several disguises and assumed a character of his own creation to be part of the gag, often using a different voice.

He appears in several disguises to spy on Deeds.

Perhaps even more impressive is her talent for disguises and acting ; she has fooled Ken into thinking she was a boy for several months, blushed and wept on command, imitated the police chief's voice on the phone so well she fools one of his officers, and impersonated a child actress well enough to fool an entire film crew.

While in the city, Kuros assumes several disguises of wizard, knight, and thief, in order to travel through town undetected and build strength and skill, rescue damsels, and prepare for his battle with Malkil.

Lanfear assumed several other disguises throughout the series, including a novice, Else ; and an obese peddler, Keille.

Joscelin disguises himself as a Skaldic warrior, killing several guards so that he and Phèdre may escape from the camps.

Goemon, like all the Lupin gang, is also talented at disguises and impersonation, speaks several languages, and is a trained driver and pilot, although he prefers being a passenger rather than taking the driver seat.

" She's in Fashion " has been described as ' the most summery-sounding pop song Suede have recorded ,' yet its light feel disguises what proved to be months of heavy production work, several re-recordings and a lot of experimentation.

Ernie takes on several comic disguises to throw off his pursuers.

Lancelot or Lancelin may have instead been the hero of an independent folk-tale which had contact with and was ultimately absorbed into the Arthurian tradition: the theft of an infant by a water-fairy, the appearance of the hero at a tournament on three consecutive days in three different disguises, and the rescue of a queen or princess from an Other-World prison are all features of a well-known and widespread tale, variants of which are found in almost every land, and numerous examples of which have been collected by Theodore Hersart de la Villemarqué in his Barzaz Breiz, by Emmanuel Cosquin in his Contes Lorrains, and by J. F. Campbell in his Tales of the West Highlands.

One of the things that Raffles has in common with Holmes is a mastery of disguiseduring his days as an ostensible man-about-town, he maintains a studio apartment in another name in which he keeps the components of various disguises.

A few days later, Brome disguises himself as one of the rats to get inside and get the other slaves through the prison pit's tunnel.

In the story " The Old Castle's Secret ", the villain Diamond Dick disguises himself as Quackly's ghost to scare Scrooge McDuck away, while in the later " The Last of the Clan McDuck ", Quackly's ghost appears in person, advising a young Scrooge McDuck without revealing his true identity.

The Rani then injects the Doctor with an amnesia drug, and disguises herself as the Doctor's companion, Mel ( Bonnie Langford ); she later uses a hologram of Mel to get the Doctor to return a vital piece of machinery.

* Legionnaires Dream Girl and Star Boy also served with the Substitute Heroes, after being expelled from the Legion for killing Dream Girl's ex-boyfriend, but later rejoined the main Legion under the disguises of " Miss Terious " and " Sir Prize ".

He later disguises himself as Vettaiyan to trick Chandramukhi and curing Ganga.

In his first appearance in the book, he looks like he has before, but later he disguises himself as an epileptic man in a wheelchair.