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Sentences ending with pretensions

Whatever else he was, he made few pretensions. [4]
We have got used to their pretensions. [6]
Rockland was a town of no inconsiderable pretensions. [6]
My grandfather was the only father I ever knew, and Faith, who was born a year before me, became like a sister to me, though she soon made other pretensions! [11]
These reminiscences from surrounding objects came up unexpectedly, of themselves: and have a right here, as showing how wide is the range of intelligence in the clerical body thus accidentally represented in a single library making no special pretensions. [6]
Her voice is strident, her laugh too much like a giggle, and she has that foolish way of dancing and bobbing like a quill-float with a "minnum" biting the hook below it, which one sees and weeps over sometimes in persons of more pretensions. [6]
The honest mansion makes no pretensions. [6]
The capital abounded in comfortable homes and boasted not a dwellings of larger pretensions. [9]
That fact sufficiently defines our modest pretensions. [6]
I therefore lean but very slightly on the extravagance and extreme apparent singularity of their pretensions. [3]

More example sentences with the word pretensions in them

Contrasting its failure with its high pretensions, it is fair to call it an imposition; whether an expressly fraudulent contrivance or not, some might be ready to question. [6]
That I can voluntarily postpone my pretensions, when they are no more than equal to those to which they are postponed, you have yourself seen. [7]
But it comforts us to let on that we think otherwise, and these pretensions help to keep hope alive in her. [5]
In those days 'twas far better for a young gentleman of any pretensions to remain at home than go to London and be denied that inner sanctuary,--the younger club at Almack's. [9]
His pretensions as to brothership with his prosecutor, and rightful heirship to the Hendon honours and estates, were left contemptuously unnoticed, as being not even worth examination. [5]
The pretensions of the ultramontane clergy are, indeed, remarkable enough to attract the attention of others besides the liberals of Bavaria. [4]
Everybody who saw the march, saw that the Champion of the Teetotalers was half seas over, and noted also that his brother, who made no hypocritical pretensions to extra temperance virtues, was dignified and sober. [5]
In walking along the main street, Mr. Bernard had noticed a large house of some pretensions to architectural display, namely, unnecessarily projecting eaves, giving it a mushroomy aspect, wooden mouldings at various available points, and a grandiose arched portico. [6]
The Church of the Galileans, as it is called, is even humbler in outside pretensions than the Church of Saint Polycarp. [6]
It is believed that it stands upon the site of what must have been, ages ago, a city of considerable architectural pretensions, judging by the fine porphyry pillars that are scattered through Tiberias and down the lake shore southward. [5]
She was a tall woman of noble demeanor, whose sharp but delicately-cut features and sparkling eyes could still assert some pretensions to feminine beauty. [10]
I consider that she is both morbid and weak at times; her character sets up no pretensions to unmixed strength, and anybody living her life would necessarily become morbid. [14]
And yet it seemed at times to Honora as though this higher life were the gift the fates would most begrudge: a gift reserved for others, the pretensions to which were a kind of knavery. [9]
They proceed to resolve "that these safeguards of the rights of the citizen against the pretensions of arbitrary power were intended more especially for his protection in times of civil commotion. [7]
It is without pretensions, but not without an air of quiet dignity. [6]
We make no pretensions to what is called "style. [6]
Nothing could be pleasanter than the way in which Mr. and Mrs. Kirkwood received their plain country neighbors; that is, just as they did the others of more pretensions, as if they were really glad to see them, as I am sure they were. [6]
She is full of palaces, certainly, and the palaces are sumptuous inside, but they are very rusty without and make no pretensions to architectural magnificence. [5]
But he could not resist the solemn assertions respecting its efficacy; he gave way before the outcry of facts, and therefore, instead of denying all their pretensions, he admitted and tried to account for them upon supernatural grounds. [6]
The farm-house makes no pretensions, but it has a good warm kitchen, at any rate, and one can be comfortable there with the rest of the family, without fear and without reproach. [6]
Though it has no pretensions to be considered as belonging among the sciences, it may be looked upon by a scientific man as a curious object of study among the vagaries of the human mind. [6]
He regarded with no favor the pretensions of Spain toward Kentucky. [9]
True, it could make no pretensions to beauty--the thin, hooked nose was far too large and long; the corners of the mouth drooped downward too much; perhaps it was this latter peculiarity which gave the whole face so sorrowful an aspect. [10]
He was fiercely loyal to Shakespeare and cordially scornful of Bacon and of all the pretensions of the Baconians. [5]
My mother heard him say it; and he said those skeletons were two million years old, which astonished her and made her Kentucky pretensions look small and pretty antiphonal, not to say oblique. [5]
The Widow shall have the credit of her well-ordered tea-table, also of her bountiful cream-pitchers; for it is well known that city-people find cream a very scarce luxury in a good many country-houses of more pretensions than Hyacinth Cottage. [6]
The name of Harvey, whose great discovery was the legitimate result of his severe training and patient study, should be mentioned only to check the pretensions of presumptuous ignorance. [3]
They claimed more for each other than was reasonable,--so much occasionally that their pretensions became ridiculous. [6]
His spirits invariably fell when he thought of submitting his pretensions to the great man of Wall Street or to his worldly wife. [4]
I saw their failings and pretensions, but I ignored my own. [9]
So of other doctrines, each new Avatar strips them of some of their old pretensions, until they take their fitting place at last, if they have any truth in them, or disappear, if they were mere phantasms of the imagination. [3]
Some of these Captains whom Smith had sent home, now returned with new pretensions, and had on the voyage prejudiced the company against him. [4]
Besides, there is a very curious sense of satisfaction in getting a fair chance to sneer at ourselves and scoff at our own pretensions. [6]
I once made a similar mistake in addressing a young fellow-citizen of some social pretensions. [6]
Your pretensions are a menace to his title and possessions; you have assaulted him in his own house: you are ruined if you stay. [5]

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