...“A fraud, a sham, a pretext,”said another...
James W. Donovan 「Don't Marry」
...My true justification lies in the insincerity of those who intended that the convocation of the States General should be a sham, mere dust in the eyes of the nation...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
..."They call Seldona castle! But you and I know very well, Sey, it was built in 1860,with sham antique stones, for Macpherson of Seldon, at market rates,by Cubitt and Co...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...The whistling wings that seemed a hawk were a sham, madeby a racquet thrown through the air by the fowler, through a slot inhis tower...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The mistress or master should never be present; for thecunning brute will take advantage of their fondness, and sham so artfullythat it will be useless to attempt to proceed...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...At about this time a couple of those sham sailors who sell striped rugs,handkerchiefs of pine-apple fibre and other exotic products, happened topass through the Rue de Longchamps, where I was living...
Theophile Gautier F. C. de Sumichrast 「My Private Menagerie」
...The Purple Gallinule is known to build as many as fiveor six sham nests, a trait which is not confined to the Wren family...
Various 「Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph [April, 1897]」
...Several of themeven obstinately refuse to sham death...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...Some curious sinuous brick walls which appear to act as dividing lines form a remarkable feature of this sham cemetery...
L.W. King and H.R. Hall 「History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery」
...One can listen and be entranced; one sees the dancer's "interpretations" or "translations" and the music is degraded to a series of sham classic postures...
Anonymous 「The Dance (by An Antiquary)」
...The vaulting ambition of thelittle colony has somewhat o'erleaped itself; but by a federationwith Melbourne there would undoubtedly be practical benefitgained, and little but sham glory lost...
R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny 「Town Life in Australia」
...His life there reminded him of a gaudy drop-scene, let downbefore an empty stage; a painted sham, with darkness and vacuitybehind...
Henry Handel Richardson 「Australia Felix」
...See how much better off you would be, now that nearlyall your sham coat is gone, if that useless fur had been chopped intolittle, short lengths, and spread all over your poor bare body...
Ethel C. Pedley 「Dot and the Kangaroo」
..."But it's all sham," said Dot; "the Black man couldn't be a realkangaroo...
Ethel C. Pedley 「Dot and the Kangaroo」
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