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Sentences ending with pretended

And you must trust me, for I have never pretended. [9]
We hadn't robbed nobody, hadn't killed any people, but only just pretended. [5]
I have hid all that has been between us, because of things that have nothing to do with fear or courage, and for your sake; but I haven't acted, or pretended. [11]

Short sentences using pretended

We pretended to be asleep. [5]

More example sentences with the word pretended in them

Myra was too young not to look wistful at my news, but the others pretended indifference, seeking to lessen my triumph. [9]
And Tikhon, purposely writhing and making faces, pretended to be angry and swore at the French with the funniest curses. [2]
Verus at once withdrew into the window and pretended to be absorbed in looking out on the harbor. [10]
I've knowed Mormons who pretended to be Gentiles. [13]
The ground upon which he is attacked is thus stated in his own words:-- "People have often pretended to find in my writings the deplorable influence of an extreme Calvinism. [6]
He knew it when he pretended that his head ached--knew it as he lay by her side all night. [11]
And at last, when he knew his time was come, he pretended to think a new visitor had entered, and so, with the rattle in his throat emphasised for dramatic effect, he said to the servant, "Shin around, John, and get the gentleman a chair. [5]
On another occasion, when Bynner had written a poem to Clara Clemens, her father pretended great indignation that the first poem written by Bynner to any one in his household should not be to him, and threatened revenge. [5]
Well, that is what sermons always had been,--and even now pretended to be,--educational and stirring, appealing to the emotions through the intellect. [9]
I know it was scampish; but I never pretended to be good. [11]
Within there was very little that pretended to be attractive. [6]
Words were now uttered, that brought the blood to Ulrich's cheeks, yet he intentionally pretended not to hear them, because he dared not contradict tales that might be true. [10]
He thought the United States would admire both his economy and his honesty in getting the work done at half price and not putting a pretended Indian's signature to the voucher, but the United States did not see it in that light. [5]
Then Laforce pretended to ventriloquise, and mocked Marcey's slight stutter. [11]
The padrona refused to see him and pretended to be ill, but she was as well as only she could be during these last few years. [10]
Tom pretended not to see her. [5]
People coolly pretend to read it who would think themselves presumptuous if they pretended to interpret the hieroglyphics on the obelisks of Luxor--yet they are fully as competent to do the one thing as the other. [5]
She pretended not to notice the tears in Janet's eyes, and strove to keep back her own. [9]
I pretended not to notice it--but I was sorry I'd said anything about it. [9]
He pretended not to notice it, but Aunt Mary's eyes were too quick. [9]
I trotted up to meet him, and pretended to find him by the sound of his horse's hoofs. [5]
Only a determination to make out a case could, as it seems to me, have framed such an indictment as that which the secretary constructed by stringing together a slender list of pretended peccadillos. [6]
Thackeray never pretended to make ideals, and if the best novel is an idealization of human nature, then he was not the best novelist. [4]
He was admitted to Joan's prison by night, disguised as a cobbler; he pretended to be from her own country; he professed to be secretly a patriot; he revealed the fact that he was a priest. [5]
So I whispered to Hilton, and then pretended that I was a great man in the Company. [11]
Wibisma pretended not to hear the provoking words, and, as the fencing-master left the room, walked calmly, with head erect, towards the musician, bowed courteously, and thanked him for the kindness he had shown his son the day before. [10]
While she pretended to drink it, she poured the whole contents of the phial into the wine, and then let Bent-Anat's bountiful present be carried to the thirsty drivers. [10]
It really pretended to be tea, but there was too much dish-rag, and sand, and old bacon-rind in it to deceive the intelligent traveler. [5]
Uncle Tom, relegated to a corner, pretended to read his newspaper, while Honora flitted from Peter's knees to his, or sat cross-legged on the hearth-rug investigating a bottomless stocking. [9]
And more than this, read nine of these cases, which he has published, as I have just done, and observe the absolute nullity of aconite, belladonna, and bryonia, against the symptoms over which they are pretended to exert such palpable, such obvious, such astonishing influences. [3]
Surreptitious smiles, at this, passed from one rascal to another, and they filled all the glasses, and whilst Backus honestly drained his to the bottom they pretended to do the same, but threw the wine over their shoulders. [5]
But this time they should see--the hypocrites, who pretended to so much humanity, and then set ferocious dogs on peaceful folk!--they should learn that they could not fall on a Macedonian citizen without paying for it. [10]
Miss Catherwood, when they met on the street, pretended not to see him, and Eugenie Renault gave him but a timid nod. [9]
We suspected that they had headed for the great Debil-devil Waterhole, where, it was said, the Bunyip appeared: that mysterious animal, or devil, or thing, which nobody has ever seen, but many have pretended to see. [11]
I never heard the young fellow apply the name of the odious pretended fish to the little man from that day forward. [6]
I took up the wash-list, as if to see that it was all right, and then tossed it on the table, with pretended forgetfulness. [5]
It is to the organism what cotton is pretended to be to our Southern States. [3]
The conductor said the most outrageous things, and Georgie pretended to be very indignant, too, and gave him the tickets under protest. [9]
Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle anything as true or false. [6]
She returned to the group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to listen, while waiting till it would be time to leave. [2]
It was not the first time that Mr. Somers Duncan had spoken, but Bob either had not heard him or pretended not to. [9]
Edward picked up the Banner and pretended to read it, while Janet collected the salt and put it back into the shaker. [9]
It may be that I shall not catch all the men to whom I mailed the pretended test-secret, but I shall catch the most of them, if I know Hadleyburg nature. [5]
Amasis pretended much surprise at his son's conduct, assured his friend that Gyges should be released at once, and indulged in some ironical jokes at the discomfiture of Psamtik's attempt to revenge himself. [10]
Away across the sunny waves one saw a faint dark stripe stretched along under the horizon-or pretended to see it, for the credit of his eyesight. [5]
This spite increased still more when, on calling over the roll of prisoners, it was found that in the bustle of leaving Moscow one Russian soldier, who had pretended to suffer from colic, had escaped. [2]
These pretended inflammatory speeches, so reported as to seem full of combustibles, even if they were as threatening as they have been represented, would do no harm if read or declaimed in a man's study to his books, or by the sea-shore to the waves. [6]
Some of his sentences have been rounded off for him, and the whole brought into a more rhetorical form than it could have pretended to, if taken as it fell from his lips. [6]
It did not seem possible that this could be, for surely his manners and speech would betray him if he pretended to be the Prince of Wales--then he would be driven out, and search made for the true prince. [5]
Whenever, hereafter, I see the cross-legged Grand Turk smoking his narghili, in pretended bliss, on the outside of a paper of Connecticut tobacco, I shall know him for the shameless humbug he is. [5]
Speakers, leaders in science, clergymen better than famous, and famous too, poets by the half-dozen, singers with voices like angels, financiers, wits, three of the best laughers in the Commonwealth, engineers, agriculturists,--all forms of talent and knowledge he pretended were represented in that meeting. [6]
I venture to say the monarch was a great deal more humble than the follower, who pretended that his master was superior to such trifling facts as the revolution of the planet. [6]
I was soon satisfied that the knowledge of who these three prisoners were had somehow changed the atmosphere; that our hosts' continued eagerness to go and spread the news was now only pretended and not real. [5]
The longer he sat there gazing into vacancy, the firmer became his conviction that Nitetis had deceived him,--that she had pretended to love him while her heart really belonged to Bartja. [10]
Next ballot the remaining Nebraska man and one pretended Anti went over to him, giving him 46. [7]
Mr. Worthington merely pretended to work as he waited for the answer to come back. [9]
At this she pretended to look shocked, and straightway demanded to hear the words, so that she could pronounce judgment on her spiritual pastor and master. [11]
I have never pretended to know whether Dred Scott's owners were Democrats, or Abolitionists, or Freesoilers or Border Ruffians. [7]
And if theology pretended to be the science of religion, surely it must submit to the test of the new science! [9]
And though they pretended to be concerned about the army, each was thinking only of himself and of how to get away quickly and save himself. [2]
The old count pretended to be angry. [2]
At first we pretended that there was no arrangement in this, and we both feigned surprise when we encountered one another. [9]
It is not pretended that the disease is always, or even, it may be, in the majority of cases, carried about by attendants; only that it is so carried in certain cases. [3]
It is not pretended that the contagion of puerperal fever must always be followed by the disease. [3]
Can it be pretended that it is any longer the Government of the United States--any government of constitution and laws wherein a general or a president may make permanent rules of property by proclamation? [7]
Such is the pretended science of Homoeopathy, to which you are asked to trust your lives and the lives of those dearest to you. [3]
Is it not possible that your pretended saints and angles are but those fairies? [5]
The leading English physicians appear to have looked on with singular apathy or contempt at the miracles which it was pretended were enacting in the hands of the apostles of the new practice. [6]
There was a pause, then another gesture, which he pretended not to understand. [11]
He called upon Parpon to endorse his words, and Parpon nodded to all he said, but, catching Julie's eye, went off into gurgles of laughter, which he pretended were tears, by smothering his face in his capote. [11]
Boys of his own size pretended not to know he had been away at all; but they were consuming with envy, nevertheless. [5]
He and several others took the drug in every kind of dose for four months, and the fever it is pretended by Hahnemann to excite never was produced. [3]
But let no one be frightened away from his pages by the terrible names of Plotinus and Proclus and Porphyry, of Behmen or Spinoza, or of those modern German philosophers with whom it is not pretended that he had any intimate acquaintance. [6]
The true character of the pretended new State is at once revealed. [7]
That was honest of him, and like him; another would have pretended he had thought of it earlier, and was keeping it back for a surprise. [5]
In the bottom of a deep swale between two of the biggest of the ice-waves, we found a fraud who pretended to be cutting steps to insure the safety of tourists. [5]
He pretended to nothing; he confessed ignorance here and there with great simplicity; but he had the gift of reducing things, as it were, to their original elements. [11]
Iberville had pretended not to notice the fingers which had fluttered towards him. [11]
She had pretended not to care. [9]
Either Jasmine did not hear the servant announce Byng, or she pretended not to do so, and the words were said so distinctly that Byng heard them as he came forward. [11]
But it warn't no use; he stormed right along, and said any man that pretended to be an Englishman and couldn't imitate the lingo no better than what he did was a fraud and a liar. [5]
They entered the new capital unassailed, and finding that the majority of the people seemed content with the new government, they also pretended to acknowledge the king as the son of Cyrus, to whom they were prepared to do homage. [10]
He spoke to me, but I pretended not to understand, hastily took the change from the toll-keeper, and, raising my hat, shouted, "Drive on! [10]
This doctrine, like many others of its kind, seemed at first sight to be the balm it pretended, instead of an irritant, as it really was. [9]
Some of them looked at her intently, she thought too intently, and at such times she pretended to read. [9]
She was a little uncomfortable, and pretended not to see Mr. Brent's wink. [9]
But since the Lecompton Bill no Democrat, within my experience, has ever pretended that he could see the end. [7]
Marya Dmitrievna, who knew how the prince had received the Rostovs, pretended not to notice how upset Natasha was and jested resolutely and loudly at table with the count and the other guests. [2]
He said he knew he was a thief from that fact, for it was exactly the sum he had lost and which Father Peter pretended he had "found. [5]
When he came in to tea, silent, morose, and with tear-stained face, everybody pretended not to notice anything. [2]
Rostov felt so ill at ease and uncomfortable with Boris that, when the latter looked in after supper, he pretended to be asleep, and early next morning went away, avoiding Boris. [2]
A dirty modern house, just built, a house smelling of poor whiskey and vile tobacco, its white paint grimy, its floors unclean, is ever so much worse than an old inn that never pretended to be anything but a rookery. [4]
Bagration called to him from the hill not to go beyond the stream, but Rostov pretended not to hear him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. [2]
If everybody about here was so honestly and sincerely afraid of Merlin's pretended magic as Clarence was, certainly a superior man like me ought to be shrewd enough to contrive some way to take advantage of such a state of things. [5]
Barbara now closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep, yet she tortured her mind with the same question which she had vainly tried to decide in the chapel of Wolf's house. [10]
He frequently accompanied Henry part way down town to what the latter called his office in Broad Street, to which he went, or pretended to go, with regularity every day. [5]
Then came the heir to the throne, in rich robes of state, as priest and prince; and behind him four young priests in white carrying Tachot, (the daughter of Amasis and Ladice and the pretended sister of Nitetis,) in an open litter. [10]
So, feigning that he had noticed nothing, he pretended to be much amused by Biberli's nimble flight. [10]
By and by he came back and pretended that that was what he had gone behind there for. [5]
So much ridicule has been thrown upon the pretended powers of the minute doses that I shall only touch upon this point for the purpose of conveying, by illustrations, some shadow of ideas far transcending the powers of the imagination to realize. [3]

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