But she exclaimed, 'Ah, worse to feign forgetfulness!
Now he'll at first feign not to understand thee, dense of wit that he is!
All these the painter drew with such command, That Nature snatch'd the pencil from his hand, Ashamed and angry that his art could feign And mend the tortures of a mother's pain.
So the old woman gave him the amulet, and then went to the queen and explained what she had done, and said, "Do thou feign to be asleep, and relate the whole of thy story faithfully.
At first she tried to feign astonishment and reply that she had heard nothing.
In vain did it feign a return to the people, in vain did it seek to appear all soul; there was no room in the midst of the world's democracies for any such total and universal sovereignty as that which it claimed to hold from God.
I had just sufficient command of my faculties left tofeign ignorance of the true situation.
To do so, it was necessary to run the blockade of Port Arthur, or rather to feign to do so, for the Japanese Minister of Marine had been asked by my friend Katahashi to give secret instructions to Admiral Togo on my behalf.
And then his business--his correspondence--but perhaps you are able to feign handwriting?
If, in truth, thou art dry, then feign that thou hast it, and differ in thy prices.
Now, shall we see A wretch who is indeed more impotent Than this can feign to be; yet hopes to hop Over his grave.
My father is no holy innocent as you and your like feign to believe.
I am not surprised at all at his loving Sophie, but I cannot at all understand how the simple and single-hearted Meeta can feign so long and so well, as on your supposition she has done.
The best means of accomplishing his purpose that occurred to the poor boy was to feign the utmost degree of terror at the lonely and unprotected situation of this man during the absence of his comrades.
The Poets feign that being in love with a Bull, she employed Daedalus, a famous Artist, to make her a wooden Cow, into which she conveyed herself, in order to enjoy her monstrous Desires.
The Poets feign she was afterwards turned into a Fountain.
So he chose to feign dulness, and pretend an utter lack of wits.
So he thought that the King of Britain should be employed to slay him, so that another could do the deed, and he be able to feign innocence.
Harald's sons had no help for it but to feign madness.
Hwitserk received him hospitably, but Daxo had prepared an army with weapons, who were to feign to be trading, ride into the city in carriages, and break with a night-attack into the house of their host.
When they departed, Ebb, suspecting the contrivance slung overhead, told his men to feign slumber and shift their bodies, saying that it would be very wholesome for them to change their place.
Erik said: "Uncouthness claims no place in the manners of Gotar, neither does any disorderly habitfeign there.
Close lips that keep the secret in, Half spoken by the stealthy eyes, Is there indeed no word to win, No secret, from the vague replies Of lips and lids that feign to hide That which they feign to render up?
A player who is thus carried beyond his imaginary stopping-place must feign a violent passion, and imitate angry gesticulations.
He may, in addition, feign a great age or a painful infirmity, which will be found to occasion the most convulsive fun for the other players in the game.
If, however, the beast is still alive when the hunter arrives, the prisoner will in most cases feign death in the hope of getting free.
It only remained for me to feign conversion, or to root out the opinions of my friend and win her consent to a secret marriage.
Here I was not equally frank; yet I did not feign any thing, but merely dealt in generals.
They are gods and goddesses feasting, and in happier moments we feign ourselves possible Ixions to be admitted to the celestial banquet.
There is nothing that poets feign of women that was not justified by her.
Kennaston presently took heart of grace and crossed to pay his duty to Lady Diana, who, 'twas plain to be seen by every other than this bashful swain, was by no means the indifferent to him she would feign play off.
Her Ladyship's feign to smile in the midst of the snuff, which she abhors, and has only taken because she had to.
Then he smiled and said, 'No need, Micah, tofeign death.
Tis better to feign death than to meet it at their hands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feign" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
