Sentence example with the word 'pretences'

pretences

Last update: October 25, 2015


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Public sittings are apt to be means of obtaining money by false pretences, and the great scandal of spiritualism is undoubtedly the encouragement it gives to the immoral trade of fraudulent mediumship.   [Please select]

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On pretences of business, of pleasure, of God knows what folly and nonsense, he began to scour the island.   [Please select]

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He was a man divided against himself; failing to carry through his rich pretences, dismayed.   [Please select]

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Kloster says they're anachronisms, that the world is too old for them, too grown-up for pretences and decorations.'   [Please select]

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You have stolen my hospitality--you have obtained access to my house under false pretences.   [Please select]

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He was here under false pretences; they had bared to him secrets not rightly his, with which he might arm himself.   [Please select]

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"Betting is a mean, shabby, contemptible way of obtaining money for nothing on false pretences."   [Please select]

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There is even a feeling that otherwise she is showing herself to be something of a fraud, and that she has then been admitted to the hospital on false pretences.   [Please select]

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"You know as well as I do that though you obtained her love on false pretences, still you obtained it."   [Please select]

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