Thou write Pindaricks and be damned Write epigrams for cutlers, None with thy lyricks can be shammed But chambermaids and butlers.
Why I am sure you joked upon me, and shammed me all night long.
You shammed dead at first, then you made believe as you was hurt, when there was nothing the matter with yer but a little bit of a hole through one arm.
There are fourteen altogether, sir; ten of them were wounded in the first attack, and four have been wounded since by some of the slavers who shammed death.
She was vaguely ill at ease; but the other shammed stupid.
Petruccio, who had some sense, shammed to have none; but Andrea, less happy, was a real fool.
It was just through my simplicity, and I never have shammed a fit on purpose in my life.
Flossie has told me that it was she who shammed ghost.
Vivian thought it was she who shammed ghost that night when I played a trick upon Evelyn Fletcher.
I've had patients who shammed ill before," she declared, "but never such a scandalous case of imposition as this.
I had just spent up her as the street-door bell rang, buttoned up my trowsers, turned on my side on the sofa, andshammed sleep.
Then Martha shammed ill two days to stay from the mill and let me have her, and I spent a good many hours with her.
Now she shammed anger, boxed my ears, and we make it up.
A day or two afterwards I went to see her and shammed a knock.
I thought I liked to feel, but I shammedthat I did not.
The third day he set off to quarry stones again, and took with him the third meal of food; but he laid down behind it, and shammed sleep.
So when they got into the bridal bed at even, the lad shammed as though he had given himself up to sleep.
You've shammed to me, mocked me, just to amuse yourself!
He thowt t' owd chap mebbe would let un lig a while if he shammed sleep.
It was my opinion that he shammed a good deal for a sulk.
I shammed ill at dinner; and so secured the whole of the interval from then till tea-time to my own use.
He was found there, making his observations--and he shammed drunk, as the easiest way of getting out of the difficulty.
I am quite sure that, once the Bear was gone, the comrade who had shammed dead under the animal's nose did not think of wasting time in stretching himself or rubbing his eyes.
One of them stumbled, fell, held his breath and shammed dead.
But the Queen shammed sick, and took to her bed, and paid the doctor a great fee to get him to say she could never be well again unless she had some of the Dun Bull's flesh to eat.
So she told him how the King had come home again, and how the Queen had shammed sick and got the doctor to say she could never be well and sound again unless she got some of the Dun Bull's flesh to eat, and so now he was to be slaughtered.
So when the girl had been there a good while longer, the Man o' the Hill made up his mind to go out for the day; then the girl shammed to be sick and sorry, and pouted and fretted.
He never could have shammed ignorance so naturally when we all consulted together, though I must say he seemed the least anxious of the party.
I shammed a good cry, and sobbed out 'Sir Henry, I am not fit to be your wife.
I'd be shammed to think as any lass o' mine had suchlike ways.
Lucinda shammed deadly illness, her mother having previously changed her red complexion to yellow; her husband sat every day and night by her bedside, while the little deer still spent all his time by the well.
The witch shammed death, and the robbers left the wicked old wretch behind, carrying off the pretty girl (who had fainted in her fright) with them.
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