The sovereign pontiff, feigning that he is a prisoner, is fulminating from the Vatican his anathemas, and, in the midst of the most convincing proofs of his manifold errors, asserting his own infallibility.
I was one of the few who, by God's grace and by feigning death, lived.
But Qutuz could be feigning a retreat to lure the Tartars into spreading themselves too thin.
But this feigning other natures of subjects must perhaps be pardoned them; for there appears no other invention by which they can maintain and uphold the augmentations of which they are so fond.
Thus they adore by word and mouth, only naming and feigning that which by their principles they totally take away and abolish.
What do you mean byfeigning and dissembling in this work?
Therefore let us assault them in all pretended fairness, covering of our intentions with all manner of lies, flatteries, delusive words; feigning of things that never will be, and promising of that to them that they shall never find.
Amnon purposed to ravish Tamar, and the means that he invented to do it were by feigninghimself sick.
David knew what he did by all this; he knew that his making the worst of his case, was the way to speedy help, and that a feigning and dissembling the matter with God, was the next way to a demur as to his forgiveness.
He stood awhile motionless, astonished, or through politeness feigning astonishment at Krysia; at last he moved from the door, and waving his hat downward began to sweep the floor with its plumes.
The others were sunk in silence, not knowing what to say; but Zagloba closed his eyes, feigningsleep this time.
And for what," cried the lady, feigning astonishment, "would they have used you so cruelly?
Whilst she thought me asleep, although I was really awake, she stole from me with a great deal of precaution, which made me suspect her intention, and therefore I resolved to watch her, still feigning myself asleep.
Animal catchers tell many interesting tales of elephants feigning weakness from which they fall to the earth and later apparently die.
This has greatly puzzled me, since, if death-feigning is simply a cunning habit, the animal could not suffer itself to be mutilated without wincing.
The death-feigning instinct is possessed in a very marked degree by the spotted tinamou or common partridge of the pampas (Nothura maculosa).
Now, when in this condition of feigning death, I am quite sure that the animal does not altogether lose consciousness.
Skeleton, feigning to believe the well-meant fiction of Pique-Vinaigre, as well as to feel gratified by the deep admiration he was reported to have excited in the breast of Germain.
One spring day Sigurd and Frithiof had ridden away on a hunting expedition and the old king being tired from the chase lay down on the ground to rest, feigning sleep.
Now the device was this: he made a great horse of wood, feigning it to be a peace-offering to Minerva, that the Greeks might have a safe return to their homes.
And he called for his horse, feigning that he would depart because of what had been said.
I am disposed to think that this feigning of injury is a purely instinctive act.
All the plover family have this injury-feigning instinct, but in none is it so well developed as in the pratincoles.
Therefore the poet is right in feigning to find her in the sphere of Venus.
He had sold the fortress of Casale to the French in 1681, feigning that they had taken it from him by fraud: and now he declared that he was forced to admit eight thousand French and Spanish troops into Mantua.
Then she turned her eyes towards the travellers, and feigning to behold them for the first time, shrunk within herself.
Armida reconciled them all in appearance, by feigning to be devoted to each in secret; and thus she rode on with them many a mile, till she came to a castle on the Dead Sea, where she was accustomed to practise her unfriendliest arts.
Feigning blindness to these signs and tokens of trouble, I moved with easy gait to my place at the table, cast my hat upon it, and inquired of the Burgomaster what was the news of the day.
I took the piece at the end of my fingers, so that the assembly might all see it, then, feigning to throw it at the Marabout, it disappeared at the word "Pass!
Feigning the utmost astonishment, Pondevèz rushes forward to meet his visitors.
Whereupon it appeared that the old man had no money at all, and had lived on a small annuity which died with him, though always feigning to be rich.
That the honest fellow had not been feigning emotion, was abundantly demonstrated by the very red eyes with which he regarded the young gentleman, when he turned round and addressed him.
Hints for the speeches of Edgar when feigning madness were drawn from Harsnet's 'Declaration of Popish Impostures,' 1603.
There was I, hypocrite, with silent lips and silent heart, feigning to share in the simple fervour around me, denying my own faith, insulting that of another.
To give the better credence to his words, he amused Eumæus with a forged story of his life, feigning of himself that he was a Cretan born, and one that went with Idomeneus to the wars of Troy.
Iago, feigning indignation that his honesty should be taken for a vice, asked Othello, if he had not sometimes seen a handkerchief spotted with strawberries in his wife's hand.
I found my knife where I had placed it, under my pillow, and while feigning to sleep, my hand grasped the handle of it convulsively.
Feigning cordiality while plotting their ruin, he offered them a pilot to Quiloa, where, he assured them, they would find a Christian colony.
Feigning sympathy and a desire to restore his mind, he had the unfortunate poet confined in a mad-house.
Him at this moment spies a Saracen Who lies among the corpses, feigning death, His face and body all besmeared with blood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feigning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
