Such action, however, would have been distasteful to the Shan chiefs and might have rendered it more difficult to dispose of other pretendersstill remaining in the Northern States.
Two pretenders had appeared with a considerable following.
Especially in the Eastern Division, where large bands of men under various pretenders had been most troublesome, the stern energy of General Lockhart produced a rapid and wholesome change.
Pretenders had become convinced that they could not succeed against the chiefs who had been confirmed in possession by the Sovereign Power, and they settled down to make the best of things.
But they did not share the weakness of their ward, and promptly settled the right of succession by assassinating all troublesome pretenders to the throne.
But, to return to the merepretenders in society, of which, of course, there are not a few here, as elsewhere.
I do not wonder at all that the public support a whole community of pretenders who show the portraits of the patients they have "cured.
She makes short work with all the pretenders whose only excuse for appealing to the public is that they "want to be famous.
A crowd of princes then started up as pretenders to the empire thus held out by the popes, and the greater the number of these, the more rapidly the empire declined.
Jerusalem, three pretenders to the throne of, iii.
He convokes the council of Lyons for reviving a new crusade—Curious document issued by Humbert de Romanis—Three pretenders to the throne of Jerusalem—The continued victories of Bibars—His death and character—Death of Gregory X.
On one side, Germany, still without an emperor, though with three pretenders to the empire, could spare no warriors for the Holy Land.
In the competition of the pretenders to the throne, in a competition which was almost always decided by fortune, intrigue, or victory, it may easily be supposed that ambition was often more successful than moderation and virtue.
It was against the above-named pretenders that Louis Philippe (now nearly a hundred years old), a prince amongst sovereigns, was called upon to defend his crown.
On the next day, the Government journals began to write in rather a despondent tone regarding the progress of the pretenders to the throne.
The proclamations of the several pretenders had had their effect.
It was manifest, then, that the troubles in the departments were of a serious nature, and that the forces gathered round the two pretenders to the crown were considerable.
It must wait yet a little longer, until, restored at last in character and in strength, it can do all the duties of a State, and with master-hand grasp that Ulyssean bow which pretenders strive in vain to bend.
If merriment sometimes ran riot, it never exhibited itself in those deep-laid villanies so rife among the pretenders to sanctity and mortification.
But this pretence of Covenant with God, is so evident a lye, even in the pretenders own consciences, that it is not onely an act of an unjust, but also of a vile, and unmanly disposition.
I would assume the Irish crown over my coat-of-arms, but that there are so many silly pretenders to that distinction who bear it and render it common.
Is it true that proposals have actually been made, by these pretenders to liberty, to appoint commissioners to act as arbitrators between the landlords and tenants, and to decide points that no one has any right to raise?
And accordingly Lucian, [98] a more judicious author than Pliny, expressly cites Democritus as the strenuous opposer of all the pretenders to miracles.
He proclaimed himself the monarch of medicine, and publicly burned the writings of Galen and Avicenna as pretenders and impostors.
Pretenders to royal honours seldom acquire the grace of genuine royalty, and the Cardinal pursued with vindictive ferocity those who offended his sensitive dignity.
Few households have ripened a growth of womanhood without witnessing some of its manifestations, and its phenomena are largely traded in by scientific pretenders and religious fanatics.
How many pretenders to learning expose themselves, by choosing to discourse on those very parts of science wherewith they are least acquainted!
But that quackery and graft are rampant among those who pose as healers has become so apparent that we believe every influence to expose and weed out the pretenders is timely.
Not only do shysters and pretendersabuse the confidence of the masses in matters of diagnosis and medication, but of late years they are working another species of graft that is beginning to react against the profession.
As it is, the scholarly, competent physician knows (and intelligent laymen often know) that the pretenders too often are the fellows who get the reputations of being the "big doctors.
There were several pretenders to the regency of the young prince after the intended deposition of Mary.
They are often so anxious to be guided by some 'eminent' person who will be to them an 'authority,' that they practically invite spirit pretenders to fool them to the top of their bent.
If they were pretenders they would succeed in doing something under any circumstances and in spite of such adverse psychic conditions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretenders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
