Christian hypocrites who pretend to hate life and love death Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor Faith is the true Herb of Grace.
The card you draw, you may call the confederate, and pretend it is by the aid of that card you discover the amount of the others.
We do not pretend that the subject is not environed with difficulties.
To the objection likely to be made, that they cover only a part of the ground, it can only be replied that they do not pretend to be systematic or complete.
When your daughter comes among those women, theypretend to be the happiest set of beings upon earth.
My wife goes also, and so does my daughter, and I suppose nobody will pretend to say that a priest could do anything wrong to them.
He gave away kingdoms and crowns, as did all preceding and successive popes; and yet your lordship will not pretend to say that they did wrong.
I do not pretend to explain this familiarity with the new--it is a great mystery still, just as it was a great mystery to the Roman Cicero.
He did not realize that he was bereft of his enormous strength, and those about him humored him: the doctor and the nurses would pretend that he hurt them when he grasped their hands.
Close the lips firmly, which will extinguish the flame, then chew andpretend to swallow the brimstone, which can afterwards be removed under cover of a handkerchief.
Lord Wolseley was not prominent before the world as a man of letters, and I shall not pretend that he could claim that particular distinction, though he wrote easily and well.
It is pure snobisme to pretend to admire Prose pour Des Esseintes when you are unable to construe Montaigne.
He licked me all over my face, and then began to pretend that my coat pocket had got a rat in it which he must catch.
I cannot pretend that Lord Wolseley was a cautious speaker, and I think his company would have been much less entertaining than it was if he had minced his words or hedged his opinions.
He did not deny the charm of Rousseau's writing, or pretend to depreciate his incomparable talents, but he pronounced him to be deranged and eccentric, and to have gloried in the illumination of the obscure and vulgar vices.
To pretend to admire these peevish outbursts, however much we may be stimulated by the better sides of Butler's intelligence, is abject.
And accordingly they condemn with all imaginable fury the Professors of it, who pretend to follow Ali, as Sectaries and Apostates, and entertain worse Opinions of them, than of Christians, or Jews or Infidels.
They pretend to have some Rags of Mahomet's Vest, to which they ascribe great Virtue.
This they say is a Remedy against Cold likewise, and pretend to take it medicinally; tho' Rob of Grapes is lawful according to their[20]Law.
The Emperor and the Queen Mother pretend moreover by this Journey, to avoid the excessive Heats which are in Pekin, in the Summer during the Dog-days.
Oh, how many men I know among my friends who must have burned such proofs, and who pretend to know nothing, and yet who would have fought madly had they found them when she was still alive!
I would pretend to notice nothing, to guess nothing; I would set the table, bring on the soup and sit down opposite him.
On those evenings he wouldpretend to be tired and wish to go to bed after supper.
The young woman did not appear to be surprised or moved and resumed: "No, really, some people are so stupid and they pretend they know everything.
And he would go over them and tell his story over again from beginning to end, so pleased with himself that I would pretend to laugh so that he would not get angry with me.
Obliged to concentrate his action to a limited number of personages, the novelist can not pretend to incarnate in them the confused whole of characters which the vague word race sums up.
It was one of the pleasantries of the novelist topretend to have cured his dyspepsia in Italy, thanks to the wise and wholesome cooking of the said Egiste.
I pretend not to have suggested any new matter upon the subject, or to have urged the whole that might have been said upon it.
But I pretend not to judge, since I have not the advantage of seeing from the same ground.
I pretend not to be certain about this particular information, but I give it to you as what appears to me not to be improbable.
With what face can they now pretend to claim any dominion over that country, or to require the neutral powers to forbear the acknowledgment of our independence, till they themselves shall have acknowledged it?
I am sensible this is a matter of calculation, and that no one but a thorough merchant, should pretend to decide upon it.
From these and the following facts you will, when you have compared them with those within your own knowledge, draw your inferences with more judgment than I can pretend to do without those you possess.
They who pretend to an ability of this kind, may, in a few solitary instances, strike the point; but repeated failures will show that there is no positive principle in operation to guide the judgment.
On all discoveries there are persons who, without descending to any inquiry into the truth, pretend to know, as it were by intuition, that newly asserted facts are founded in the grossest errors.
You cannot pretend to lecture chiefly for men like that,--a Mississippi raft might as well take an ocean-steamer in tow.
I do not pretend to hoist up the Bibliotheca Anatomica of Mangetus and spread it on my table every day.
This is the place, if anywhere, to mention any observations I could pretend to have made in the course of my teaching the structure of the human body.
If she comes to Willoughby, I am going to bury my head in the sand, like an ostrich, and pretend I'm somebody else.
If I could only dissemble and pretend not to see her maybe she would not recognize me!
To pretend that Christianity was intended to stereotype existing forms of government and society, and protect them against change, is to reduce it to the level of Islamism or of Brahminism.
Another method was to pretend to be carrying the bones of dead relatives to the Ganges.
They pretend to be able to produce rain in a drought or stop excessive rainfall when it is injuring the crops.
Sometimes they pretend to be Banias and hawk about sweets and groceries, or one of the gang opens a shop, which serves as a rendezvous and centre for collecting information.
At the Akti festival [478] they make pairs of little clay dolls, dressing them as male and female, and sell them in red lacquered bamboo baskets, and the girls take them to the jungle and pretend that they are married.
They practise cupping with buffalo horns, pretend to extract worms from decayed teeth and are commonly employed as tattooers.
They also paint the bodies of the men who pretend to be tigers at the Muharram festival, for which they charge a rupee.
But it is found among other castes also that they like to pretend that they came from Benares, the most sacred centre of Hinduism.
But I am not trying topretend to you that I am actually being forced into this marriage, since in the end in spite of my pretence of bravery it will be my own cowardice which will condemn me to it.
My father is very bitter over the result of the war, even if he may be forced to pretend otherwise.
Gentlemen, certainly; for they often pretend to feel what they do not, but ladies conceal what they do.
The whole world has been pulling caps for you all winter, and you pretend to have limited yourself to three or four victims!
And you pretend to say to this court that by the moonlight that you got through the beech-trees in August you could even see that it was a pistol that Tom had?
Well, now, I'm not going to pretend I'm soft on you.
As for their coin, every one knows the couplet-- How can the rogues pretend to sense?
When that was over, Macdonald endeavored to dry his socks by the lamp, and then the three lay down under my plaid to pretend to sleep.
Bubbling over with fun, he would pretend to make a great mystery as to the Kama Shastra Society at Benares, where he declared the Nights were being printed.
This guide could tell us nothing more about it, and was too stupidly honest to pretend to know more.
Indeed," I heard an Italian lady once remark, "why should men pretend to deny us the privilege of smoking?
What I had already said about my loss of clothing had only caused a sharp rebuke; no one would hear my story and pretend to believe it; so I was dumb.
But it is a base deception to pretend that patients are not obliged to work in the asylum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
