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Sentences ending with sham

But it has no mercy for any sham. [4]
Those particular ants may be all that the naturalist paints them, but I am persuaded that the average ant is a sham. [5]
The memory of Mark Twain remains to us a living and intimate presence that today, even more than in life, constitutes a stately moral bulwark reared against hypocrisy and superstition--a mighty national menace to sham. [5]
It duped itself from cradle to grave with shams and delusions which it mistook for realities, and this made its entire life a sham. [5]
Still, he might be shamming: bears often sham. [4]

Short sentences using sham

This was no sham German! [10]

More example sentences with the word sham in them

I am going to be myself--my genuine self, my honest self, my natural self, clear and clean of sham and folly and fraud, and worthy of you. [5]
And he and they liked me, and respected my office; but as an animal, without birth or sham title, they looked down upon me--and were not particularly private about it, either. [5]
They are insincere, they are the ugly and appropriate outward exposure of an inward sham and a moral decay. [5]
If this is the way you fellows get scared because a sham reformer gets up and hollers against the road, then I want to serve notice on you that I'm not made of that kind of stuff. [9]
He could get the shadow, the sham, the base counterfeit of that meal; but it would do him no good, and money could not buy the reality. [5]
Isn't human nature the most consummate sham and lie that was ever invented? [5]
The disuse of the apprentice system is not made good by the present system of education, because no one learns a trade well, and the consequence is poor work, and a sham civilization generally. [4]
The sham and swindle of all this is apparent the moment one reflects that he is himself the only legitimately qualified judge of what is entitled to reverence and what is not. [5]
Well, I exaggerated some of these truths a little--but only a little--but my idea was to kill his sham sentimentality once and forever, and so make a good fellow of him again. [5]
It has been since supposed, with some reason, that this slumber was a sham or feint, as she contrived to slip away unobserved in the dusk of the afternoon. [12]
It's a hollow sham, this pantheism, I said; being "one with Nature" is all humbug: I should like to see somebody. [4]
Dr. Alderson employed sham Tractors made of wood, and produced such effects upon five patients that they returned solemn thanks in church for their cures. [3]
She said: "There--that sham belongs to the past; I will not be called by it any more. [5]
Next, the butter--the sham and tasteless butter; no salt in it, and made of goodness knows what. [5]
You have unwittingly revealed--oh, for the twentieth time, though I could not believe it, would not believe it!--that it is not me you love, but that foolish sham my father's imitation earldom; and you have broken my heart! [5]
I resolved to retire from this avocation of sham soldiership while I could save some remnant of my self-respect. [5]
Mrs. Eddy's unlimited personal reservations make the Board's ostensible supremacy, during her life, a sham, and the Board itself a shadow. [5]
We all have our shams--I suppose there is a sham somewhere about every individual, if we could manage to ferret it out. [5]
I'm not one of your sham meerschaums that you can color in a week. [5]
The universal conspiracy of the silent-assertion lie is hard at work always and everywhere, and always in the interest of a stupidity or a sham, never in the interest of a thing fine or respectable. [5]
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]
This elephant is not indigenous, and he stands alone in the sand, a wooden sham without an explanation. [4]
You see, a new Embassy had just come from the Duke of Burgundy, and another sham private trade of some sort was on foot. [5]
She was a more rabid and devoted Methodist than ever, and her piety was no sham, but was strong and sincere. [5]
The sham old man, however, was so clever at making way for the damsel, whose face and form were effectually screened by her kerchief from the passers-by, that Alexander had no opportunity for offering her his aid, or proving his devotion by some gallant act. [10]
But Mastor's anxious looks were not without a cause, for the gentleman who was talking to him was no less a person than Verus, the praetor, who was called by the Alexandrians the sham Eros. [10]
Oh, dear no--but I've thrown aside our sham one for good. [5]
My mother had it; but it's all sham mostly. [11]
Does anybody regard it as anything but a sham and a burden? [4]
Sir Walter Scott is probably responsible for the Capitol building; for it is not conceivable that this little sham castle would ever have been built if he had not run the people mad, a couple of generations ago, with his medieval romances. [5]
Mr. Burrows indulges in slight but effective sarcasm of sham reformers and so-called business men who perform the arduous task of cutting coupons and live in rarefied regions where they can only be seen by the common people when the light is turned on. [9]
Now he dragged himself and his new load onward, swearing vehemently, for Ratz had remained with the cart in Miltenberg, where the sham lunatic no longer found it safe to stay. [10]
Her prayer for him, the sympathy she said she felt, the maidenly sensibility which had charmed him in her--all, all had been lies, deceit, sham, in order to attain an object. [10]
When the orator had gotten back his composure he did a wise thing; for he followed Joan's advice: he made no more attempts at sham impromptu oratory, but read his speech straight from his "book. [5]
The lion-heads of gold attached to each corner of the short cloak he wore over the sham coat of mail, were exquisite works of art, and sandals embroidered with gold and gems covered his feet and ankles. [10]
Even the plushed flunkey, that walking symbol of a sham inequality, had not been unpleasant to his dreaming view. [5]
As we rowed close to the precipice in returning, I saw many similar openings, not so deep, and perhaps only sham openings; and the water-line was fretted to honeycomb by the eating waves. [4]
She considered herself cheated, as if she had been fooled by sham suffering into giving excessively large alms to an artful beggar. [10]
She was amazed at his ability to strip a sham and leave it grotesquely naked; shams the risible aspect of which she had never observed in spite of the familiarity four years had given her. [9]
While their respect and their deference--if it is deference--is pleasant, a deference based upon a sham, a shadow, does really seem pleasanter still. [5]
As I started across, the captain glanced aloft at me and said, with a sham uneasiness in his voice-- 'Where is Mr. [5]
But this is a sham, and pretty shallow. [5]
Yet Higli had a conviction that Nahoum's alliance with David was a sham, and that David would pay the price of misplaced confidence one day. [11]

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