Then I will go," Amaryllis said with amusement in her eyes, "if you are actingpretenses for my sake.
With each of thesepretenses the Maccabee's conviction grew that the girl had something to do with the altered behavior of his cousin.
These fellows have got so used to making pretensesthat they actually deceive themselves.
We never made any pretenses in Nibelheim; and when I first met you, your talk about virtue and morality and self-sacrifice was simply incomprehensible to me.
You know, Gerald, pretenses are the greatest device that your civilization had to teach me.
Daubach were found guilty of obtaining money under falsepretenses by a jury in Judge Ball's court.
A chain of stores in various cities for no other purpose than the obtaining of goods under false pretenses from wholesale merchants is the latest novelty in the swindling line.
The money wrung by the basest of false pretenses from his poor unfortunate blind victims, does not disturb his slumbers.
He was arrested a great many times for obtaining money by false pretensesfrom poor and ignorant people, who gave him $2 to get them a job, but he failed to do so.
Some of them were notoriously dissolute; and still others hid their ways under a veil of hypocrisy--just as in their editorials they hid their class-interests under pretenses of principle.
And the elaborate set of pretenses and illusions that she had invented for them!
He did understand her; that was the trouble: for she acted as if he did, and as if all pretenses were unnecessary between them, and free breathing a relief to both after a burdensome atmosphere.
Don't be deceived by their delicate exterior, by their pretenses of super-refinement.
It is evidence of the shrewdness of the old fellow at character-reading that he wasted none of his silk and velvet pretenses upon me, and so saved his time and mine.
And he knew whether they were of sour temper, whether they were rich or poor, and if poor, what shifts and pretenses they practiced.
And it was undeniable that Dick's pretense of sympathy had been rather more offhand than such pretenses usually are.
Yes, I'm simply part of his property, and the pretenses that gloze it over only make it the more revolting.
It has always seemed to me that you see me exactly as I am, with all the pretenses and meannesses--yet not unkindly, either.
She therefore thought Arthur as unpractical as he so fashionably professed, thought he accepted without reservation "our set's" pretenses of aristocracy for appearance's sake.
Janet protested, suddenly prudent and rushing into the pretenses our transplanted and acclimatized sisters are careful to make when talking with us of the land whence comes their sole claim to foreign aristocratic consideration--their income.
Marius's pretensesfor this action of his seemed very ridiculous; for he said he wanted to go and teach his son to be a general.
In thesepretenses he openly took their part, and fomented seditious movements amongst the Achaeans in general against Megalopolis.
The object of these pretenses was merely the overthrow of Phocion's influence, as the event manifested.
They would each choose to have some counterpoise, and pretenses could easily be contrived.
Projects of usurpation cannot be masked under pretenses so likely to escape the penetration of select bodies of men, as of the people at large.
Should this at any time happen, how easy would it be to fabricate pretenses of approaching danger!
Can you tolerate, without serious irritation, anger, or hurt, being pushed to confront some of the pretenses or distortions or illusions you may have lived by?
Their experience has given them the opportunity to dispense with social masks, to become more authentic, to see the lies and pretenses of others more clearly.
The profligate pretenses upon which he was perpetually soliciting an increase of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation.
All kinds of dishonesty destroy our pretenses to an honest principle of mind.
Pretenses go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.
The ingenious methods resorted to in order to continue these trespasses and the hardihood of the pretenses by which in some cases such inclosures are justified are fully detailed in the report of the Secretary of the Interior.
Pretenses go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.
All kinds of dishonesty destroy our pretenses to an honest principle of mind.
False pretenses (Law), false representations concerning past or present facts and events, for the purpose of defrauding another.
The profligate pretenses upon which he was perpetually soliciting an increase of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation.
Your thousand pretenses for not getting along better are all nonsense; they deceive nobody but yourself.
The right of suffrage has often been assumed and exercised by aliens under pretenses of naturalization, which they have disavowed when drafted into the military service.
She was not fooled by these pretenses in other girls, though they often did fool each other.
The human animal, for all its pretenses of inflexibility, is almost infinitely adaptable--that is why it has risen in several million years of evolution from about the humblest rank in the mammalian family to overlordship of the universe.
As she was not in the mood to make pretenses about herself to herself, she smiled at this cynical self-measuring.
For what crime can be more deserving of punishment than the holding out of false hopes and pretenses to the unfortunate?
The pay masters of our Army and the pursers of our Navy may under like pretenses apply to their own use moneys appropriated to set in motion the public force, and in time of war leave the country without defense.
I have been deceived by his specious pretenses and now feel to warn every one over whom I may have any influence to beware of him, and his pretended visions and revelations.
But the people who lack in discernment may be deceived through the pretenses of men and accept for facts and revelations that which the Lord has not commanded.
The woman cult was an aggregation of poses and pretenses to enact a comedy of love, but not to satisfy erotic passion.
Indeed the Dennings have some pretenses to good lineage, and Bryce spoke of his sister 'disgracing his family by her contemplated marriage.
Placid as he looked when he entered his house, he threw off all pretenses as soon as he reached his room.
Pretenses of reform are all that, so far, have followed each bi-ennial election of a Mayor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretenses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
