...After breakfast the farmer fed his flocks and attendedto his general chores, while I stayed inand chatted by a sickly pretence of fire madeof bad coal and green kindling-wood... 
James W. Donovan 「Don't Marry」
...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」
...Brogard had also produced a bottle of wine and some bread, and Marguerite madean effort to draw her chair to the table and to make some pretence at eating...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
...He detected a pretence adopted by the Seigneur so as to enable him to retreat in good order...
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」
...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」
...The dusty bare boards, cracked and loose in places, had no pretence to any acquaintance with a scrubbing-brush, and very little with a broom...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...—The man who contrived the murder of James camehere, drawn by the pretence that he was needed to lead a party againstthe villages, which he led to commit the outrage...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...Also, with the aid of my telescope, I was able to discern, above the blatant pretence of the painted ports, six closed ports of a side, which I had no doubt concealed as many cannon...
Harry Collingwood 「A Middy of the Slave Squadron」
...There was no further pretence of treating me as a prisoner, but, on the contrary, I was loaded with honours...
Harry Collingwood 「A Middy of the Slave Squadron」
...By the time that the attendants reached me I was so near to swooning that very little pretence was necessary, and when at length they released me I sank to the ground in a heap with a low groan...
Harry Collingwood 「A Middy of the Slave Squadron」
..., on the pretence of being sick, a mulatto man, named ELIJAH, the property of Maj...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...The men who convey the flesh to the women pretend tobe strangers bringing presents from a foreign land; the women keepup the pretence and promise to tie red threads round the legs ofthe strangers...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...” We sawthat sometimes the farmer’s wife is thrust, together with thelast sheaf, under the threshing-machine, as if to thresh her, andthat afterwards a pretence is made of winnowing her...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In the canton of Putanges, inNormandy, a pretence of tying up the owner of the land in the lastsheaf of wheat is still practised, or at least was still practisedsome quarter of a century ago...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Similarly inmodern harvest-customs the pretence of killing appears to becarried out quite as often on the person of the master (farmer orsquire) as on that of strangers...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
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