The window was open and I faced it, making a pretense of studying the landscape.
It just makes you neurotic to keep up the pretense of manufactured perfection.
I make no pretense to having rid myself freed from certain prejudices, but at times when I have discovered myself freed from certain prejudices, I have felt rare exhilaration.
The window was open and I faced it, making a pretense of studying the landscape.
The Frog, on pretense of great affection, and of keeping his companion out of harm's way, tied the Rat's foot to his own hind-leg, and thus they proceeded for some distance by land.
A Fox entered into partnership with a Lion, on the pretense of becoming his servant.
