...I determined, therefore, to go to the garden and tryif I could speak to her; and the day before my departure I went thereunder the pretence of gathering herbs... 
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, Complete」
..."Excellent thought, not one of them shall escape! Oh,my cleverness is well worth the two hundred gold marks!Night is now coming on; I must try to get, on some pretence,to Carrion...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
...He was well-conditioned, quiet andtractable, if not irritated by some annoying matter, or if falsefriends, under the pretence of doing him a service, did notdeceive him...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
... As I had ridden publicly in Zenda, and had talked there with Rupert Hentzau, of course all pretence of illness was at an end...
Anthony Hope 「The Prisoner of Zenda」
... Thus they made pretence...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...” And then, finding the part beyond his power, he abruptly threw it up, utterly abandoned all pretence...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...I had to keep up my pretence of lameness in thedaytime, so I used to take my exercise at night...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
... “H’m!” said Chauvelin, who made pretence to ponder over this difficult problem; “like you, citizen St...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
... Loyer affirms that "the King of Sain, on the least pretence, sells his subjects for European goods...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...At one time three young men, Corpro, Banna, and Marbrour, were decoyed on board a Danish slave-ship, under pretence of buying something, and were taken away...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...Then, in due time, came the marriage, which may be dismissed with the mere mention of the fact, since this makes no pretence to being a love story...
Harry Collingwood 「The Adventures of Dick Maitland」
...I understood at once from that expressive “Ah!” that Leroy knew and had recognised the vessel, and that my pretence of ignorance would no longer serve any good purpose...
Harry Collingwood 「A Middy of the Slave Squadron」
...Eighty or ninety miserable hovels, constructed of small, loose stones, in the manner of our stone-fences, stand in rows, with some pretence of regularity...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...In concluding this chapter, let it be noted as an unalterabledoctrine, that no white-breasted birds, sea birds especially,are, under any pretence whatever, to be cut on their breasts...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
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