He wore as few clothes as decency permitted and had only the pretence of a hat.
Tellwright made no pretence of concealing his satisfaction.
Conscience pricked, accusing her of a continual pretence.
She was calm, too calm; my mood scarce endured the pretence; driven beyond common range, two hours since I had left behind me wonted respects and fears.
" said he to me, in a low, furious voice, as he thus outraged, under pretence of arranging the fire.
The snug comfort of the close carriage on a cold though fine night, the pleasure of setting out with companions so cheerful and friendly, the sight of the stars glinting fitfully through the trees as we rolled along the avenue; then the freer burst of the night-sky when we issued forth to the open chaussée, the passage through the city gates, the lights there burning, the guards there posted, the pretence of inspection, to which we there submitted, and which amused us so much—all these small mat
This would not do at all; I could not stand it: I made no pretence of capacity to wage war on this footing.
Hareton, and the whole set of you, will be good enough to understand that I reject any pretence at kindness you have the hypocrisy to offer!
I, who had determined to hold myself independent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that, at length, I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable—I, weak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and solitude, was finally compelled to strike my colours; and under pretence of gaining information concerning the necessities of my establishment, I desired Mrs.
"I could not be expected to give her up," he said, after a moment's hesitation: it was not a case for any pretence of generosity.
Farebrother—his effort after the cynical pretence that all ways of getting money are essentially the same, and that chance has an empire which reduces choice to a fool's illusion—was but the symptom of a wavering resolve, a benumbed response to the old stimuli of enthusiasm.
It's all a pretence, if the truth was known, about their being forced to take one way.
But now he may be no better than a Dissenter, and want to push aside my son on pretence of doctrine.
" "But Fred gives me his honor that he has never borrowed money on the pretence of any understanding about his uncle's land.
To Dorothea this was adorable genuineness, and religious abstinence from that artificiality which uses up the soul in the efforts of pretence.
The pretence was bravely made, but it wasn't very successful.
Miss Tilney, understanding in part her friend's curiosity to see the house, soon revived the subject; and her father being, contrary to Catherine's expectations, unprovided with any pretence for further delay, beyond that of stopping five minutes to order refreshments to be in the room by their return, was at last ready to escort them.
Setting her own inclination apart, to have failed a second time in her engagement to Miss Tilney, to have retracted a promise voluntarily made only five minutes before, and on a false pretence too, must have been wrong.
Otherwise we can never really know them and any pretence we may make to the contrary will never impose on them.
Nevertheles I drew closer to her and made the pretence of buying some fish.
