We are all dealing in shams and equivalents; even the outside landscape which charms us so greatly is not reality--it is only a combination of light and optical illusion.
His untimely death was a distinctive loss to the march of civilization and a gain to the shams of hypocrisy which takes now a new grip on the English language to batter down the shackles Brann had welded about them with public opinion.
He was a hater of shams and defied every form of fraud, hypocrisy and deceit.
It is the ranks of the Workers for Humanity with voice and pen, with wealth and influence, the haters of hate, lovers of love, breakers of shams and cruelties in creeds, political and social life and customs.
You know how fair his face is, and how his clear gray eyes seem to look right through you, and through shams and shames of every kind.
When they heard it, they said, 'And is this young man Ali Bakkar-son and this lady Shams al-Nahar?
When Shams Al-Nahar heard this recital from the damsel, she sighed heavily and the song pleased her.
Then Shams al-Nahar chose out ten handmaids to attend on them and ten singing women; and, dismissing the rest to their apartments, bade some of those who remained strike the lute.
And they rowed on till they reached the shore when the woman landed, and I looked at her, and behold, it was Shams al-Nahar.
Then Shams al-Nahar signed to a slave-girl, who arose and presently returned with handmaids bearing a table, whose dishes of silver were full of various rich viands.
Then the Captain embarked us in one of them (and he with us) whilst the rest of his men put off in the other, and rowed on with us till we arrived at the palace of the Caliphate where Shams al-Nahar landed.
Then Shams al-Nahar sat gazing upon the charms of Ali bin Bakkar and he upon hers, till both were engrossed with love for each other.
I have more than once heard him say that this was one half of the debt he owed to Carlyle, the other half being an intense hatred of shams of every sort and kind.
At their deaths let those who love shams and pretences appoint other Brothers and Sisters who will have all the dignity of the position without the houses or the salaries.
The house of Shams and Shadows in Regent's Park has got nothing whatever to do with it.
Can we afford any longer to keep up, at a yearly loss of all the power represented by ten thousand pounds a year, that house of Shams and Shadows which we call by the name of the ancient and venerable Hospital of St. Katherine's by the Tower?
The exposer of shams and quackeries should be, in his own person, very far indeed above suspicion of resembling those whom he describes, or tries to describe, in language more or less intelligible.
No: at all costs, it is to be prayed by all men that Shams may cease.
The gentlemen of the present age, however, are all either shams or shamming.
It is to be prayed for by all men that Shams may cease--more especially Sham Kings.
A vision of ruffled pillow-shams where she was soon to sleep came to her in strong contrast.
The learning of German was one half of the debt he owed to Carlyle, the other being an intense hatred of shams of every sort and kind.
The lightnings of his mockery attacked with an incessant play the social, political, and religiousshams of the period.
Gluck himself was badly bitten, in spite of his hatred of shams and shallowness, with the pretenses of the time, which professed to dote on nature and simplicity.
There is joy in your heart, intelligence in your mind; and, as I thought, the vision that pierces husks and shams to claim the core of reality for its own.
The following lines, which he addressed to his cousin, Shams b.
The sage in velvet chair here lolls at ease, To promise future health for present fees; Then, as from tripod, solemn shams reveals, And what the stars know nothing of foretells.
When emancipated and transformed into small farmers, these laborious men will increase and ameliorate the culture of the land; and they will produce by far more when the white shams and drones shall be taken out of their way.
But, as thorough a hater of shams as Carlyle, she was disgusted with herself once the passing excitement was over.
A Fox knows no escape from the shams of society, save flight to the woods and an exchange of linen and cloth covering for a suit of leather.
It is strange that Rousseau, who would have had men return to a state of nature that they might be freed from shams and conventionalities, did not see that the sacrifice of reality to appearances was quite as bad for women.
He directs that considerations of wealth shall control our careers, our friendships, and our manners; and this is perhaps the greatest sham of all the shams he has set up: that money is an expression of happiness and a means to it.
The British philosopher dips into idealism in order to reform belief, to get rid of dangerous shams or uncongenial dogmas, not for the sake of pure intuition or instant assurance.
He exposed all the shams and lies to which ministers had resorted.
It may be safely stated, however, that Shams met with a violent death, the exact nature of which it is impossible to say definitely.
The scholars of Jalal looked upon the whole affair as an unworthy infatuation on the part of their Master, and on the part of Shams a shameful seduction.
Another disturbance, however, caused the departure ofShams to Damascus.
Pillow-shams should never be used, as ornamentation on a bed is not necessary, and if it were a sham is never an ornament.
More boldly than any other dramatist Frank Wedekind has laid bare the shamsof morality in reference to sex, especially attacking the ignorance surrounding the sex life of the child and its resultant tragedies.
Uncompromising demolisher of all false idols and dynamiter of all social shams and hypocrisy, Ibsen consistently strove to uproot every stone of our social structure.
He was a preacher of righteousness to his generation, and a rebuker of its shams and irreverences, and as such he cut deep, cut to the bone, and to the marrow of the bone.
He made all shallownesses and shamswear such a face as they never before wore.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shams" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
