Pretends

Examples

• It's a different thing altogether,--of course, it is,--and yet St. Clare pretends not to see it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The science which pretends to investigate and explain those connecting principles, is what is properly called Moral Philosophy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Still looking at the fire, he said-- And who pretends to say Fred Vincy hasn't got expectations? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mortimer pretends, at great leisure, to consider. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Its ultimate object, however, it pretends, is always the same, to enrich the country by an advantageous balance of trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But she doesn't dare lose her hold of him on account of the money, and so when HE isn't jealous she pretends to be. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I look at my mother, but she pretends not to see me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He is a professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I think he knows it, though he pretends he don't. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She pretends I am not. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She says--she pretends that Count Olenski has asked her to persuade you to go back to him. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• This, Vholes gives the desk one hollow blow again, is your rock; it pretends to be nothing more. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You've a right to get in your debts, if you're determined to do it, but don't pretend what every one in your line regularly pretends. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Typed by Kate