The Pretender escaped with difficulty to France, made no succeeding attempt, lived in comparative obscurity, and died in Rome fifty years {55} later.
This was followed by another cart, containing the Pope and Pretender seated together, and Bolingbroke as the secretary of the latter.
We have heard that the Pretender had abandoned the siege of Fort William, but nothing more; and how far the report is true, it is hard to say.
The Rebellion of '45 had commenced, and the young Pretender had gained some signal victories.
Coke did not forget the pretender to law, as he would think him, who had dared so long to dispute his claims; and Bacon was deeply wounded.
Let the pretender to Geological skill,--(I say not the true Geologist, for he never offends!
The pretender led off his horde to meet the relieving force, but when he reached Taunton he found that his followers were so dispirited that disaster was certain.
The fatal precedent soon bore fruit: the invaders came back in larger numbers, headed by Olaf Tryggveson, the celebrated adventurer who afterwards made himself king of Norway, and who was already a pretender to its throne.
It took a year or two to satisfy him that Portugal was really his; not until 1583 was the fleet of the pretender Don Antonio destroyed in the Azores.
But a pretenderbacked by Scottish spears did not appeal to the sympathies of the English borderers.
He engaged in an intrigue for bringing over the Pretender to succeed the queen upon her death.
Pretender a new claim upon the government, and that in future years it might lead to renewed domestic strife.
This was possible, because the Bourbon pretender had, in accordance with Mehee's letter, issued a proclamation promising constitutional government and the sale of the public lands in case of his restoration.
Having toyed with their offers, it is claimed that he gave the pretender to understand that his own highest ambition was an Italian principality.
The pretender himself wrote to me in his halting, florid style.
The Persians believe him; this second pretender finds many adherents.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretender" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
