Sedgely shrugged his shoulders with a pretenseof utter bewilderment.
The decorous pretense of his observant calm could not make us forget the bursts of mirth and vigorous abandon which now and then revealed the flame of unstinted life in his heart.
Caroline tore herself out of Billy's arms just in time to exchange greetings with the incoming guest with some pretense of composure.
And he knew the nature; there was no need of any pretense or fooling about it.
But, of course, after the disturbance, I knew that it was nonsense to try and keep up a pretense any longer.
When she had been with him hitherto, there had always been the excitement of feeling that the claim was temporary, to hold or not, at will, a mere pretense of a claim.
Footnote 7: Transmitting correspondence with Great Britain relative to the seizure of American vessels by British armed cruisers under the pretense that they were engaged in the slave trade; also correspondence with N.
There is, in my view of the subject, no pretense whatever for the claim to power which the bill now returned substantially sets up.
The Raines people make a pretensethat the high license fee promotes temperance.
In England, for example, they make a pretense of givin' the Irish some self-government In this State the Republican government makes no pretense at all.
Helen herself was so far from suspecting the truth that Bower would be compelled to keep up the pretenseof a casual rencontre.
He looked from Millicent's pallid face to the faces of the listeners, some of whom made pretense of polite indifference, while others did not scruple to exhibit their eager delight.
So he obeyed, with cunning pretenseof grief, trying to veil the malevolence in his heart.
At last the pretense ended, and we went to our separate rooms to dress for dinner.
Not even a little pretenseof loving me thou showest!
It is an agreeable circumstance in this adjustment that the terms are in conformity with the previously ascertained views of the claimants themselves, thus removing all pretense for a future agitation of the subject in any form.
We believe that we have done better, but we make no pretenseof having been successful or doing as well as we wished.
It originated in the usurpation of Victoriano Huerta, who, after a brief attempt to play the part of constitutional President, has at last cast aside even the pretense of legal right and declared himself dictator.
Every power which it has granted is to be exercised for the public good; but no pretense of utility, no honest conviction, even, of what might be expedient, can justify the assumption of any power not granted.
Douglas, on this outrage, sent to the monastery at Aberbrothick, and under the pretense of making a religious confession before he sailed, begged a visit from the sub-prior.
It was an easy pretense for she could glimpse the dark waters of the bay and the silent ships drifting on the tide.
Here is the key to the secret chamber--" but Felicia instead of playing back with some mocking pretense as she usually did when any of them made melodramatic speeches to her, clasped her hands.
Then the girl's heart leaped and clogged her throat with terror, for, as Cyrus turned, the pretense fell from the face of his opponent and it changed to a mask of murder.
My mind went back to certain black-and-scarlet tragedies which Our Square makes brave pretense of having forgotten; tragedies of its unforgotten daughters.
They had reached the stables, where two or three old men and half a dozen negro boys were making a pretense of being busy, but they rushed to welcome the squire.
Any pretense of austerity sat oddly enough on the squire's round, humorous countenance.
Finding that Henry had intrusted the $500 to Vivalla, to keep it from the sheriff, Barnum secured it from Vivalla on Henry's order, under pretense of securing bail for the prisoner.
We made no pretense of religion, but we were not the worst people in the world, and we thought ourselves entitled to at least decent treatment when we went to hear the preaching of the Gospel.
But diplomacy had failed, and it would have been the hollowest pretense to maintain relations.
Actors act off the stage as well as on, falling victims to their trade: their lives are stained by pretense and affectation, just as the dyer's hand is subdued to the medium in which it works.
For shams, hypocrisy and pretense Jean Paul had a cyclone of sarcasm, and the blows he struck were such as only a son of Anak could give; but in his heart there was no hate.
Nietzsche was an honest man of marked intellect, whose nerves were worn to the quick by the pretense of the times--the mad race for place and power--the hypocrisy and phariseeism that he saw sitting in high places.
And a good time to laugh is when you see a mighty bundle of pretense and affectation coming down the street.
Mr. Lee of Betty in a teasing pretense of not understanding.
There were pleasing mysteries at home, packages whisked out of the way and a pretense of not knowing what was perfectly obvious.
Naomi Holland looked at her with the contempt she had never made any pretense of concealing.
Next day Frank went to Glenby without even making the poor pretense of asking me to accompany him.
This pretense for secession would not have been concurred in by any of the states north of South Carolina, but for the previous agitation of slavery, which had welded nearly all the slaveholding states into a compact confederacy.
In fact, this pretensefor secession was abandoned by South Carolina, and the only ground taken for attempting it was the election of Mr. Lincoln as President of the United States.
It has established the true theory of national authority over every citizen of the republic, without regard to state lines, and has forever put at rest the pretense of the right of secession by a state or any portion of our people.
The pretense that the Democratic party, as represented in the next House, would have favored any bill for specie payments is utterly false.
In order to make a pretense of right to vote, some persons of the company kept a pretended register of squatter claims, on which anyone could enter his name, and then assert he had a claim in the territory.
The pretense made that Republican Senators would sacrifice the public interests for a mere political scheme is without foundation, and I feel like denouncing it.
Beason monotonously, dropping the flimsy pretense that they had any knowledge of the fugitive's hiding place.
Her father had slipped through a back door under pretense of seeing to the horse.
Mechanically he went through the pretense of eating until a burst of laughter recalled him to himself.
He still kept up the pretense of eating and drinking; and Lady Bell, kneeling opposite him, seemed never to grow weary in supplying his wants.
He made an excuse to go to his seat on the pretense of getting something, but really to try and speak to Nellie.
On some pretense the young hypocrite excused himself from playing a game of billiards as he had at first proposed, and induced Fred to follow him into the street, knowing it was not safe for him to remain longer in the heated saloon.
