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Using all right, and for a pretence finally, I just want you stay with me, before you abandon me before I won't let go of your.

Arthur believed that this was just a pretence.

But the fact is that this situation is only sustainable as long as additional amounts of money are available to continue the pretence.

Thus I got over the fraud of passing for a fortune without money, and cheating a man into marrying me on pretence of a fortune.

When they spoke before the screening, Guy apparently said he'd had enough of the pretence and that they should admit the marriage was over.

There can be no more pretence that monetary union respects the premise on which it was sold to European citizens, Germans in particular.

If you want a pretence to whip a dog, it is enough to say he ate up the frying-pan .

She got a considerable sum of money out of the unsuspecting people under the pretence of collecting for the blind.

To remedy which, there was a sort of people bred up among us in the profession, or pretence, of curing the sick.

Only, the cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and a pretence of reluctance.

and most of these funds have no use for the western pretence of separating commerce from politics.

He made a pretence of being happy at the party .

He met up with her subsequently and all pretence went and a relationship has happened.

i would ask for six months in advance , under pretence of being able to purchase a farm , then with my six months i would decamp .

Knowing all this, participants make little pretence towards value investing.

On her advice, I've dropped the pretence that my husband is always working.

Now his own poor health and the looming succession make even the pretence of a negotiated process too risky.

In a coruscating note entitled "The night they killed Santa" , he fretted that any pretence of fiscal probity had been discarded.

I dropped my pretence, even if it was just for me.

Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

He made a pretence of enjoying the food.

he made an elaborate pretence of yawning.

They were so thrilled and delighted that they flung away any pretence of being demure young ladies and rushed out of the house.

He made a pretence of ignorance.

test pilots are killed all the time. But the pretence was maintained that the shuttle was a workaday craft.

The prosperity would seem to indicate a pretence.

Canada is making little pretence of presuming the suspects' innocence of these vague allegations.

Happy, he will not read books, and hold a pretence of, this can be used to sit there all escape my amiable breeze ear.

rather, they are themselves and as such do not use their energy putting on a performance, maintaining pretence, and manipulating others.

Wealth is concentrated in the hands of a privileged few, corruption remains endemic, and the rule of law is a flimsy pretence.

If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say that he ate up the frying-pan .

So far the euro zone's response has relied too much on two things: austerity and pretence.

You should not scold him on the slightest pretence .

I love in heart grow slowly, but I just don't know it taken so deep roots. Until a pretence that really losing my cry. . .

So perhaps they should be grateful that the Venezuelan president is increasingly abandoning the pretence.

This is only a pretence and a false image of love; for at bottom it is only hate.

These make no pretence to making banking safer, but reflect politicians' anger at banks and suspicions of those who run them.

Keiko Arimoto While studying in London, she was lured to Copenhagen on the pretence of a job interview in July 1983.

That very morning, not having received the letter she awaited, she had resolved to throw off all pretence of resentment and come home.

The French and German public understand deep down that the pretence of national solutions to an international crisis is fake.

With this solid wall of defensiveness and pretence how can we truly meet ourselves, not to mention another person?

His followers pressed him, telling him his magic was all a pretence.

Its pretence to be a computer company was going badly: sales of the Pixar Image Computer were slow.

You shouldn't scold him on the slightest pretence.

she is always herself, and carries without pretence, under her crown or her wide-brimmed hats, the same snowy solitary face.

Essjay (or Ryan Jordan in real life), got away with his pretence because Wikipedians jealously preserve their anonymity.

Any such pretence on his part would have been simply ridiculous.

Most fundamentally, we need an end to the pretence that the US and EU are masters of the universe.

But the pretence was maintained that the shuttle was a workaday craft.

Many maintain that Britain should give up the pretence of being a busy power.

We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.

What you give-you get, but pretence. what you send out-comes back but pretence.

Affection and passion come from truth and not pretence. Everyone can find themselves in their nudity and can stop pretending.

I belongs to Pisces, which represents the ideals, imagination, unconcentration, hesitation and pretence.

They beguiled him of his right by false pretence.

If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say that he ate the frying-pan.

This pretence of learning Latin lasted as long as I was at these lodgings.

Davis asked , making a playful pretence at seizing Castle 's briefcase .

Even so this is an advance on the earlier pretence that Labour, unlike the Tories, was not poised to slam the brakes on spending.

If Dr Rangel is right, though, pretence may not be the true explanation.

Finally the parent bird gives up its pretence and leaps into the air just in time to escape the fox's jaws.

Whatever the parties are saying, it's pretence. It appears that they are merely following the orders of Washington.

Certainly, the party makes no pretence of transparency.

I dislike people that act on false pretence and that our self centered.

Instead of austerity and pretence, a credible rescue should start with growth and, where it is unavoidable, a serious restructuring of debt.

1, Under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear!

TheFrench and German public understand deep down that the pretence of national solutions toaninternational crisis is fake.

There is no longer any need for pretence between us.

There's an enormous pretence of intellectual torment, but in fact it's facile despair . . .

It isn't just poison that protects, but even the pretence of having poison.

I have NO pretence to being an expert on the subject.

The diplomacy should therefore not be built on the pretence that Israel won a war it didn't.

You can't keep up the pretence any longer.

The employer often scolded his men on the slightest pretence.

Freedom is not a reaction: freedom is not choice. It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free.

What you sow--you reap but pretence.

Now, the LDP has abandoned nearly all pretence at reform.

We both know he isn't called Ben Lopez, but we maintain the pretence.

It raises my spleen more than anything to make the pretence of being asked.

40Who devour the houses of widows under the pretence of long prayer: these shall receive greater judgment.

Our story finally comes end, though it's pretence.

Cherish what you have now, needs't any pretence and face it directly.

But that may follow a lengthy pretence.

He cheated me under the pretence of friendship.

A pretence is the cloak of secret.

But its members yesterday tore up any pretence that people have a right to know what they are eating.

The boy didn't take the exam under the pretence of sickness.

One who harms company by accepting bribes or swindling by false pretence in the name of company;

he was a fool to attempt to make a pretence that way

he was a fool to attempt to make a pretence that way

and that others, under pretence of religion, may not seek impunity for their libertinism and licentiousness;

believe impossibilities in times of bittersweet to shed this false pretence as love begins to mend

On Punitive Compensation for Product's Partial False Pretence

The failure of austerity and pretence

Food she refused and raiment; no pretence

every day he came home early , and at last made no pretence of going anywhere