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Sentences starting with pretence

Pretence it is which drives the Other Self away with wailing on its lips. [11]

Sentences ending with pretence

The prosperity they would seem to indicate is a pretence. [5]
But sometimes we only hear It, our own soul's oracle, while yet our years are few, and we have not passed that frontier between innocence and experience, reality and pretence. [11]
It was the law of her nature that she was never to deceive herself, to pretend anything, nor to forgive pretence. [11]
Mr. Holt's nightly bezique, which he played with Susan, did not seem to be going as well as usual, and elsewhere conversation was a palpable pretence. [9]

More example sentences with the word pretence in them

She was a woman, and therefore the daughter of pretence even when most real. [11]
I followed them with the pretence of picking up what was left of the ornaments. [9]
But as the very essence of genius is truthfulness, contact with realities, (which are always ideas behind shows of form or language,) nothing is so contemptible as falsehood and pretence in its eyes. [6]
Master Peter himself, under pretence of exercising himself in the Italian tongue, would often wait upon Dame Giovanna. [10]
The look was troubled, and the pipe he held was not alight, though he made a pretence of smoking. [11]
I am going to purge myself of the last vestiges of artificiality and pretence, and then start fair on your own honest level and be worthy mate to you thenceforth. [5]
So she traveled to Harding on the pretence we have mentioned, and was married. [5]
They have drawing-rooms to foster social pretence, and they have dining-rooms and bedrooms; but they have no room where the family can all come together and feel the sweetness of being a family. [8]
I knew that there must be no pretence in that speech. [9]
The meeting of the Council, which would soon begin, served as a pretence for leaving them. [10]
Yet she knew that no subterfuge or pretence would avail her to hide why she had come. [9]
He crossed the street, made a pretence of going into Mr. Goldthwaite's drug store, and hurried back again. [9]
The flat means society life; that is, the pretence of social life. [8]
Of course, I shall make a decent pretence of talking in my sleep. [8]
A good many said it was all nonsense, and a mere excuse to get away from meeting and have a sort of frolic on pretence that it was a work of necessity and mercy, one or both. [6]
My father seemed puzzled as he went downstairs.... A long interval elapsed, during which I did not make even a pretence of looking at my arithmetic. [9]
Doubtless there may prove to be wrongs which demand righting, but the pretence of any plan for changing the essential principle of our self-governing system is a figment which its contrivers laugh over among themselves. [6]
He made no pretence, but came straight to the point. [11]
After all, every people must have its own forms of ostentation, pretence, and vulgarity. [6]
I am tired of sham and pretence, of cynical wit, of mocking at the real things of life, of pride, vain-glory, and hypocrisy. [9]
In the height of his boisterous merriment, Mr Quilp, having on some pretence dismissed his attendant sprite for the moment, resumed his usual manner all at once, dismounted from his cask, and laid his hand upon the lawyer's sleeve. [12]
After the pretence of breakfast was gone through Janet sought relief in housework, making her bed, tidying her room. [9]
He did not notice that one of his crew abaft near the wheel was watching him closely, while creeping along the railing on the pretence of cleaning it. [11]
Then the listener must be alert, for in many cases the teller will divert attention from that nub by dropping it in a carefully casual and indifferent way, with the pretence that he does not know it is a nub. [5]
We made a mere pretence of eating, and I remember having my attention arrested by the sight of a strange, pitying expression on the face of Mrs. Olsen, who waited on us. [9]
I do not make any pretence that I dislike compliments. [5]
At midday she made but the pretence of a meal. [9]
As for Monsieur le Vicomte, he admired his wife, as well he might, respected her for the way she served the gallants, but he made no pretence of loving her. [9]
I sometimes think it is all pretence, and that he is all vanity--or almost so. [11]
Cyriax raved as if he had really been seized with the lunacy whose pretence helped him to beg his bread. [10]
Fielding Bey, however, had never made pretence of understanding the Oriental mind, so he discreetly took his seat and made no remarks. [11]
If he had ever heard of it, he would have made no pretence of being anything else. [9]
She had no element of pretence in her. [11]
Leaning with her elbows on the bar and her chin in her hands, she fixed her eyes on him as he opened and made a pretence of reading La Nouvelle Caledonie. [11]
O'Meara was handsomely dressed, and his necktie made but a faint pretence of concealing the gorgeous diamond in his shirt-front. [9]
When the three desperadoes closed in on O'Ryan, and, with a blow from the shoulder which was not a pretence, he sent Holden into a far corner gasping for breath and moaning with pain, the audience broke out into wild cheering. [11]
It was a cold night, so under pretence of warming myself, but in reality to have light for his seizure by the guards, I lighted some straw and made a blaze. [5]
He stammered some awkward, profane sentences about the-----Willis and Morgan business having escaped his memory, but that he "remembered it now," and then, under pretence of giving Fan some medicine for an imaginary cough, drew out of the battle and went away, a vanquished man. [5]
With no attempt at ornament or rhetoric, without parade or pretence, he spoke straight to the point. [7]
That she was able to breathe, to move, to talk, to go through the pretence of eating, was to her in the nature of a mild surprise. [9]
One "course," in a two-horse carriage, costs a franc--that is law--but the hackman always demands more, on some pretence or other, and if he gets it he makes a new demand. [5]

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