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YingolNeerie! Let's pretend that you made up your own involvement, just what you've told me about it and what its powers are is thrilling
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"Let's just pretend we've had the conversation already, eh? I've threatened to reveal your kiddy fiddler porn addiction, you've begged me not to, blah, blah, fuckin' blah, init?"
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"There's wizardry in the Kassikan that I don't pretend to understand," Tahlmute said
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"Pretend Juleel is here enjoying the fire instead of preaching about this asteroid
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let us pretend that your spirit is ill
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‘Probably, but we pretend that he doesn’t
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Just pretend that you are pitching batting practice
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’ She said, exchanging a smile with Stephen while I pretend I don’t notice
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While he might look, feel and smell the same, there was no way to pretend a bunch of logic and some rendering routines were wrapping a human soul when they weren't, they were wrapping the 'conversational preferences' thru 'lovemaking preference' you had dialed in
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“To pretend to please everyone is mad, but to pretend to please everyone in a time of
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I have to pretend steer the stupid ship, too, because Staas Company only wanted three, non-union bridge officers
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Comforting myself that I can cope with a pretend kiss, I take my place
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The emotional strain of the last month is taking its toll of me now that I don’t have to pretend any more; I feel I could sleep for a year
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’ He said in a matter of fact tone of voice which stops me in my tracks ‘I don’t pretend to have any answers at the moment, but that certainly won’t solve anything
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"Like I just said, you've got the skill with this, I'd rather pretend they didn't have control panels
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He had to put it aside, figure on losing another week and just relax, or at least pretend to
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“To pretend to please everyone is mad, but to pretend to please everyone in a time of revolution is treason
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Children, high chairs and pretend cats,
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who pretend to be something that they are not
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She had hated it, but knew that she needed to pretend she was on it here
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Berndt appears for lunch and the three of us pretend that nothing has occurred, spending a pleasant afternoon taking it in turns to play the board game Berndt taught me on the barge … as then, he thrashes both Joris and I mercilessly
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If necessary, I could concentrate on the bald spot on the head of the lady in front of me and pretend it was a new planet
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But then this is the vision she would take Axiospeengya to see wasn't it? She tried to pretend she was spaced on it and it almost worked
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When losing the signal I would start to lose control and pretend I was going to jump out of the car, but my father screaming my name at me usually slugged me back into present time reality for a short period anyway
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"But I'm not your mother!" Desa yelled, "and I shouldn't have to change your diapers! Now get your sorry little slut ass up and stand your shift like the adult you pretend you are!" Desa yanked the covers off her
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If Elmore wasn't going to discuss the proceedings, Alan was going to pretend Ava had never told him
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I began to love the music, any kind, and sometimes when Apollo grabbed me, I'd imitate the impassioned dancers I'd seen on TV and Nikos would pretend to be impressed, 'Hey, Godfrey
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Ava tried to pretend she was sure it was him, but Alan wasn't so sure she really believed that
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Pretend we're close and smile but do not face him
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At home in Cornwall, whenever things were quiet in the library, I'd pretend to busy myself in the Reference Section because from there I could see the waters of the harbour and if I raised my head a little I could just about see past the lighthouse to the distant horizon with its line of silver light
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If we pretend to be someone we're not, how the hell are they to know? On the other hand, if we can just be ourselves, win or lose, then OK, we reflect on some and not on others - but at least we are true to our real self with no pretending
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support in her stellar career, she has to pretend to be happily
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‘Come on Sally, tell all!’ she said as Sally, her face quite as red as the paintwork in my kitchen, tries to pretend she is busy doing something in the sink
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Should you pretend to
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if you should pretend not to
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It’s not that I go out of my way to impress or appear intellectual, but I really can’t pretend that watching reality TV is my one passion in life
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Think of this as a Kassidorian sex club and the guys as cherubs and she could even pretend she was having fun couldn’t she?
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I pretend to consider this …
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‘Bunty wrote about his proposal in her diary … he was quite offensive when he proposed, didn’t even pretend that he cared about her, and he was considerably older than she was as well, so goodness only knows what he thought he was offering her
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He liked to pretend they all had souls behind them
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What could he say? Enough so you’ll remember who you were? He’d tried that too many times to pretend it was humorous any more
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At first she and Ozzie had tried to pretend that all was normal, that the man had overslept or something
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“Oh, Bram,” Tom interjected, “Let’s not pretend that it’s
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She really wished she could take him up on his interest, pretend her interest was social and see what happened
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She could see he was going to pretend he had just happened by and deny she was under surveillance
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“What you see before you, if you pretend the numbers we used to construct it aren't there, is the one fragment left to us, which was in the depths of time, condensed into the symbol of all things existing
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'I advise you to at least pretend to treat that fool with
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Jorma made him formally repeat what had happened to pretend they weren’t listening
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circumstances to pretend to be Christian
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"It's senseless to pretend that place is ever going to be anything but a bottomless pit to drop money into
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But how would he report in with her around? Maybe they could get separated now and then, he could pretend to get lost or something
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‘Then I’ll pretend to be sick
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She wouldn't have chosen it, but she was still trying to pretend theirs was a real marriage, so she felt obligated to wear it
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She had to cut off, but she was frozen, how could she answer these questions? Should she pretend she was sitting in one of the buildings nearby in Zhlindu? Controlling the probe from there? She was just using the asteroid pinball with Narrulla as a convenient prop for a story she wanted to sell? But before she could start to blurt that out, he continued his own line of questioning
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to pretend that conditions were at all tolerable
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Where wages are not regulated by law, all that we can pretend to determine is, what are the most usual; and experience seems to shew that law can never regulate them properly, though it has often pretended to do so
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Now he will pretend, no doubt, that I have said anything which he may invent which will confirm his insane suspicions
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Meanwhile he tried to pretend he was used to dealing on this level until he could discreetly get some backup
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I'm sorry I tried to pretend this was all about the case
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this purpose, which draw many more people into those trades than could otherwise pretend to
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He tries to pretend she's too dull for him now, but actually I think she's too exotic
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If this be true, for I pretend not to affirm it, it is as if a corn farmer expected to defray the expense of his cultivation with the chaff and the straw, and that the grain should be all clear profit
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I want to help you, but must pretend to work for my officers
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The prices, indeed, which Fleetwood has been able to collect, seem to have been those chiefly which were remarkable for extraordinary dearness or cheapness ; and I do not pretend that any very certain conclusion can be drawn from them
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pretend to counter it, they’ll destroy the flock
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He continued on, enhancing his speed to catch up with the elves, all the while doing his best to pretend he hadn’t almost crashed into the Elder Goddess, Dona’Cora
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There are no more germs, that was only pretend
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I certainly do not pretend that the knowledge of this distinction will enable him to buy cheaper
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Whether the trade, either of Scotland in general, or of the city of Glasgow in particular, has really increased in so great a proportion, during so short a period, I do not pretend to know
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Perfect awareness—having passed the swell of time, I remain in history—looked at as an ass for assuming To communicate what I might—repressing some saving Grace from myself, not knowing if I deserve it—“I would Have it as it is, rather than not have it at all?”—Should A saving grace be given to thieves, tress-passers, Law-breakers—a solution is pain reduction, and life sustenance, Not pride games and social repression—the endorphins Replete of all respect find endurance through pompous Wanderings of the ego in control—the ego who would Take the blame and ends up being the only one to know Its great reward—to hide this scar, to pretend it did not 68
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Indirectly through words and actions—to pretend,
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I do not, however, pretend to warrant either the greatness of the sum, or the shortness of the time
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If asked later, he’d just pretend that he never saw her on the lane
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Some people account in this manner for what is called the agio of the bank of Amsterdam, or for the superiority of bank money over current money, though this bank money, as they pretend, cannot be taken out of the bank at the will of the owner
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It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries
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Though it was actually skirting an ancient burial ground of block-shaped crypts, she’d pretend it was the crossroads
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They chose to come to the School of Magnetic Response, or the house of pain to some, Earth to others, to pretend to be separate from the All so that when they returned to source they could maintain the imprint of individuality whilst still being connected to all
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“Let’s pretend we’re happy to stay inside with Polyphemus
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where I can pretend to "suspend" judgment about
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I’ll have to cook and eat the meat, myself, pretend that it’s delicious
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All you have to do is pretend – that way you’ll preserve yourselves
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headboard even louder and pretend that we don’t hear him
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When the necessaries of life have been taxed in any country, it becomes proper, they pretend, to tax not only the like necessaries of life imported from other countries, but all sorts of foreign goods which can come into competition with any thing that is the produce of domestic industry
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We are all bound by the same code, do not pretend that the Oculatus is at liberty to run wild in this province without my knowledge
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jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity, and the traders of both countries have announced, with all the passionate confidence of interested falsehood, the certain ruin of each, in consequence of that unfavourable balance of trade, which, they pretend, would be the infallible effect of an unrestrained commerce with the other
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And once more pretend to listen to him DRAFT
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Of the former extent, however, of this now ruined and abandoned fishery, I must acknowledge that I cannot pretend to speak with much precision
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proxy server (this allows you to pretend you’re searching from the USA), so that your search results emulate theirs exactly
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That this union, however, could be easily effectuated, or that difficulties, and great difficulties, might not occur in the execution, I do not pretend
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In the single article of linen alone, the consumption of those colonies amounts, it is said (but I do not pretend to warrant the quantity ), to more than three millions sterling a-year
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A Prophet was born into the royal family, and the King used that Mage in his wars, only to pretend to have been oblivious to the boy’s talents once the people found out
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I won’t pretend it’s not going to be difficult, we’ve a great distance to cover over harsh, mostly unknown terrain and there’s no guarantee that anyone will survive it, but it’s our best, if not only, chance for survival
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As the time for the loading and sailing of those general ships depended altogether upon the directors, they could easily fill them with their own goods, and those of their particular friends, to the exclusion of others, who, they might pretend, had made their proposals too late
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But the greater part of these proprietors seldom pretend to understand any thing of the business of the company; and when the spirit of faction happens not to prevail among them, give themselves no trouble about it, but receive contentedly such halfyearly or yearly dividend as the directors think proper to make to them
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Whether the trade which those companies carry on, is reducible to such strict rule and method as to render it fit for the management of a joint-stock company, or whether they have any reason to boast of their extraordinary profits, I do not pretend to know
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In the schools, the youth are taught, or at least may be taught, Greek and Latin; that is, everything which the masters pretend to teach, or which it is expected they should teach
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Their salaries, too, put the private teacher, who would pretend to come into competition with them, in the same state with a merchant who attempts to trade without a bounty, in competition with those who trade with a considerable one
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Actually, it gave us a few moments to pretend we were childless
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fruquently, too, by cultivating all those arts which best deserve, and which are therefore most likely to gain them, the esteem of people of rank and fortune; by their knowledge in all the different branches of useful and ornamental learning, by the decent liberality of their manners, by the social good humour of their conversation, and by their avowed contempt of those absurd and hypocritical austerities which fanatics inculcate and pretend to practise, in order to draw upon themselves the veneration, and upon the greater part of men of rank and fortune, who avow that they do not practise them, the abhorrence of the common people
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Tahlmute and doostEr pretended to fall for it just to be polite until some of the local's started teasing them
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Thru most of his life he had never been as devout as he pretended
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Creditors were furious, they even went so far as to knock on their door and the couple pretended to be absent! So, Alice finally got sick and tired of this all and decided to ask for a divorce
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He pretended he was hiding a 'child of the streets' past but Bahkmar felt Jaseem knew less of the streets than he did and all Bahkmar knew of the streets was which ones to stay off of
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I pretended not to have taken the hint
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He pretended to stumble and fall down and threw his clothes all over
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It was a fantail nyobba, she saw that as she slowly approached the branch it pretended it was part of
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My old self would have pretended to be busy but the newer me smiled and tried to help
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She pretended to be annoyed and I asked her what he'd said but by then he was drowning our conversation and already out of control
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The file was disguised as toiletry experiments, but was way too big to be what it pretended
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The old lady pretended to put some in her mouth then pulled a face and held her stomach as though she was going to be sick
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She pretended to know more than he did about the subject and he jumped in and debated her about methods and theories
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He pretended he thought he didn’t know it was her at first
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'Oh, I am so scared of the bat ball,' Mama said and pretended to shiver in jest
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If she lied and actually did know Tdeshi, how would she find out? If she remembered Tdeshi, she would probably jump when she saw Ava, especially if Ava pretended to be Tdeshi
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Xavier said he had pretended to be Captain Cheung's friend, so that he could work for him, and then turned the tables after Cheung had left
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He pretended he was looking for something or someone else
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Or pretended you had a stone in your boot
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I pretended to ignore her
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The story, what he told of it, jived with what he told Desa except that he pretended he believed it really was a bad RNAcid trip, at least he thought he was pretending
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probably pretended to be buying him off with it
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"He pretended that I'd lost it," remembers Vikki, still disgusted by her then-husband's actions
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The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy
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pretended to film her
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People were frightened at the time, but on looking back they rather liked it; it was exciting for country folk, and there was even a group of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog" and a "real old salt" and such and saying there was the sort of man that made England great at sea
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Where wages are not regulated by law, all that we can pretend to determine is, what are the most usual; and experience seems to shew that law can never regulate them properly, though it has often pretended to do so
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In cheap years it is pretended, workmen are generally more idle, and in dear times more industrious than ordinary
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The trade of Holland, it has been pretended by some people, is decaying, and it may perhaps be true that some particular branches of it are so; but these symptoms seem to indicate sufficiently that there is no general decay
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" The voice was gruff but pretended to be soft for the elderly woman's sake
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which they pretended to pay, but did not always really pay, in goods
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Those remoter counties, they pretended, from the cheapness of labour, would be able to sell their grass and corn cheaper in the London market than themselves, and would thereby reduce their rents, and ruin their cultivation
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Even in the caricature of native cold-weather costume that he was dressed in, there was no mistaking the machine that had pretended to be his father thru his childhood
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He gave the machine that pretended to be his mother no mercy
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In some parts of Lancashire, it is pretended, I have been told, that bread of oatmeal is a heartier food for labouring people than wheaten bread, and 1 have frequently heard the same doctrine held in Scotland
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"You don't need to tell me, I was part of that, maybe not as recently as I pretended, but still only a few years ago, dealing with a flesh life inside that habitat
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his part, pretended he was looking at something else the
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For the time being at least, she pretended to believe in starships
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But Nerissa didn’t want to ask him to say nothing, so she pretended that the purpose was to catch a cricket for him
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After the boy fell asleep, she pretended that she was tired, too
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, To oblige a creditor, therefore, to accept of this as full payment for a debt of £100, actually paid down in ready money, was an act of such violent injustice, as has scarce, perhaps, been attempted by the government of any other country which pretended to be free
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The government of Pennsylvania, indeed, pretended, upon their first emission of paper money, in 1722, to render their paper of equal value with gold and silver, by enacting penalties against all those who made any difference in the price of their goods when they sold them for a colony paper, and when they sold them for gold and silver, a regulation equally tyrannical, but much less, effectual, than that which it was meant to support
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I pretended to be drunk like usual, but the moly had blocked the tonic’s power
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Among all the absurd speculations that have been propagated concerning the balance of trade, it has never been pretended that either the country loses by its commerce with the town, or the town by that with the country which maintains it
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Nothing, therefore, it is pretended, can be more disadvantageous to any country, than the trade which consists in the exchange of such lasting for such perishable commodities
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Then Tragus would realize she’d only pretended to enjoy coupling with him and that it still was rape
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She pretended to be engrossed in her bathing to cover her reaction
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“Zarko!” She pretended to be shocked, but she wasn’t surprised
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As they give us their custom, it is pretended we should give them ours
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He grinned and pretended to think deeply for a moment
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There is no commercial country in Europe, of which the approaching ruin has not frequently been foretold by the pretended doctors of this system, from all unfavourably balance of trade
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By means of them, our merchants and manufacturers, it is pretended, will be enabled to sell their goods as cheap or cheaper than their rivals in the foreign market
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Zarko pretended to think for a moment about her words
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The far greater part, almost the whole, they pretended, of this annual importation of gold, was not on account of Great Britain, but of other European nations; the fruits and wines of Portugal annually imported into Great Britain nearly compensating the value of the British goods sent thither
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The mother city, though she considered the colony as a child, at all times entitled to great favour and assistance, and owing in return much gratitude and respect, yet considered it as an emancipated child, over whom she pretended to claim no direct authority or jurisdiction
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Gemel i Carreri, a pretended traveller, it is said, indeed, but who seems everywhere to have written upon extreme good information, represents the city of Mexico as containing a hundred thousand inhabitants ; a number which, in spite of all the exaggerations of the Spanish writers, is
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“Oh, you mean like this?” Anna asked with pretended innocence
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The pretended purpose of it was to encourage the manufactures, and to increase the commerce of Great Britain
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The interest of this debt alone is not only greater than the whole extraordinary profit which, it never could be pretended, was made by the monopoly of the colony trade, but than the whole value of that trade, or than the whole value of the goods which, at an average, have been annually exported to the colonies
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A great revenue, half a million, perbaps {Since publishing the two first editions of this book, I have got good reasons to believe that all the turnpike tolls levied in Great Britain do not procduce a neat revenue that amounts to half a million ; a sum which, under the management of government, would not be sufficient to keep, in repair five of the principal roads in the kingdom}, it has been pretended, might in this manner be gained, without laying any new burden upon the people; and the turnpike roads might be made to contribute to the general expense of the state, in the same manner as the post-office does at present
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This branch of public police, accordingly, is said to be very much attended to in all those countries, but particularly in China, where the high-roads, and still more the navigable canals, it is pretended, exceed very much every thing of the same kind which is known in Europe
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Whatever human reason could either conclude or conjecture concerning them, made, as it were, two chapters, though no doubt two very important ones, of the science which pretended to give an account of the origin and revolutions of the great system of the universe
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Everything belonging or related to so popular an order, its possessions, its privileges, its doctrines, necessarily appeared sacred in the eyes of the common people; and every violation of them, whether real or pretended, the highest act of sacrilegious wickedness and profaneness
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Government, it is pretended, could borrow this capital at three per cent
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Doc got on to his hands and knees and pretended to grovel
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pretended, though in general, perhaps, they do their duty fully as well as those of the customs ; yet, as that duty obliges them to be frequently very troublesome to some of their neighbours, commonly contract a certain hardness of character, which the others frequently have not
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She pretended that her values had changed and that their
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But she pretended not to notice
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pretended I was doing my utmost best to catch every word he said when in reality he could be
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The raising of the denomination of the coin has been the most usual expedient by which a real public bankruptcy has been disguised under the appearance of a pretended payment
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It would, indeed, be a pretended payment only, and the creditors of the public would really be defrauded of ten shillings in the pound of what was due to them
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pretended payment of this kind, therefore, instead of
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The car roared all the way because he pretended that he didn’t
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More than once Adem was sure he caught Del making eyes at Jean! She seemed not to notice, or at least she pretended not to
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He murdered my brother in cold blood – if he had played on that, the public would have hated him, but he pretended that it hurt him and now everybody loves him
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He left the sales office and pretended to make a phone call
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The suits pretended not to notice anything, trying to look cool and unfazed, but they ate faster
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I pretended astonishment, then sat down, as it was obviously show time
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Either her team's stealth technology was so effective no one had any awareness of them, or the station’s staff pretended not to
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But he pretended they were not even there
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As he left the bar, with drink in hand and a pen-like communicator budded to his ear, he pretended to be in conversation
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He could feel Hollowcrest’s eyes boring into his back, so he pretended to peruse the papers
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Sespian pretended to take a sip
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Lokdon claims to have pretended to join forces with him to unearth his plans and feed the information back to Hollowcrest, but something went badly between them, and now she wants to share all her information with you
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Of course, Hamlet went crazy in the end, or pretended he was crazy until there really was no difference
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Maybe the boss wasn’t quite so casual as he pretended to be
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But I couldn’t sit back while he shaped me, slowly, and pretended that he’d done nothing
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The maid pretended to not hear my nervousness
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Even though he hurried by without eye contact, and pretended to be zipping up his fly
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Carefully, bending under and forward, I unlatched the gun, and with some beef to it; pulled the gun into the loading position, and pretended to switch magazines
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Dave pretended not to be listening too intently
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In fact, I pretended that I had never heard your name
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Pretended she was sleeping, she says
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I affected my best upper crust British accent and pretended to be Mia"s cousin, Reginald, visiting from England
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The two sergeants smoked cigars and sipped beer, exchanging stories and recollections, while Colling listened and pretended to work at his desk in the next office
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The museum was everything it pretended to be, and less
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” He pretended to study the papers in his hand
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The man was everything he pretended to be
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” She wipes the counter, pretending not to care
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She wondered if Herndon was only pretending to be asleep and listening in
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‘Kate, no point pretending I don’t find you exciting, is there?’ he said, looking at me in such a way that my heart starts pounding
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"And…" Parker said, pretending to casually wander between him and Timms, "That means exactly what, Lt
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It was a whole culture of pretending to be hard-line while being secretly sybaritic
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It was all shown out of scale, of course, and the Lancers’ fighters were the size of pigeons as they spread out around the breaching ship, pretending they couldn’t see the stealthed alien stalking them
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He's torn between whom to believe, the friends who are pretending to be his enemies, or the enemies acting as his friends
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‘Yes, I think you do, Karalintze … you can’t spend the rest of your life pretending to the world that you and Joris were not partnered
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‘You had a pleasant ride, Lintze?’ Wiesse asked as we begin our meal, his attempt at pretending an interest nearly oversetting me it is so forced
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I looked out to sea, pretending to be calm although inside I was a quivering wreck
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Wiesse struggles with himself while I, pretending a calm I do not feel, help myself to more salad
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The dipsticks from the terminus had arrived and moved to a table in the corner, sitting in silence and pretending to watch the view through their shades
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We have to know the truth, are these state changes conducting information or just random noise like energy produces? Or was Thom doing just what he had done, generating a false universe and pretending it is real data? Or was he generating a false universe and believing it was real data? Without understanding how those signals actually originated, there was no way to tell
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their own problems are no less ill pretending that they are fine
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"Right, of course you will", said the soldier pretending to be interested
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Together with Sir John and his cabinet colleagues, the great politician swept through the corridors of power and into the office where the two doctors of spin were pretending to type away furiously at blank computer screens
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‘After the birth I just could not carry on pretending that our marriage was anything but a sham … so I told him the whole story
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“Out here, superconductivity is free, rivers of liquid helium might flow deep in that iceworld we just passed,” Thom pointed somewhere, pretending there was an 'out there' going by them in some sense
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If we pretend to be someone we're not, how the hell are they to know? On the other hand, if we can just be ourselves, win or lose, then OK, we reflect on some and not on others - but at least we are true to our real self with no pretending
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A lot of the remaining crew were pretending to follow it, with Delos Alverez trying especially hard to look like he was not only following, but grading it
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Kelvin was afraid he already knew and was only pretending he figured it out from Kelvin’s questions
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I had a toy crossbow, I was pretending I was going after theirops
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Pretending to savour it, she stood sipping the water, her back to the sink, surveying the room
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He grins as Bex looks away, pretending to examine a picture of Ernest Hemmingway on the back of a boat holding up what looks like a reef shark
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He ought to have told her, instead of just pretending that nothing was wrong, getting up and going to work as usual … spending the day lounging around the job centre praying that something would come up, but the closure of the works had thrown a lot of men onto the dole
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There was no sense in pretending the other didn’t know what was going on, was there? “So you’re admitting that I am under suspicion?”
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Not much point pretending I don’t know what she is talking about!
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If that was so, what could he believe? Maybe Ava is Tdeshi all along, playing an elaborate hoax on him, pretending not to remember anything, laying a guilt trip on him for not investigating what happened to her? Maybe all she did when she said she O
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The guy who they spoke of was still there, pretending he was just leaning on the rail consulting his map
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… how little I know her … shut the door … what now? What are the kidse doing? Ah … they’re in the lounge … watching TV or pretending to at least
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Maybe she was pretending Lapnar was actually here when she put them in
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what's her name, was supposed to be there sometime around ten, to discuss the preparations for the Summer Fair, but before then she had to do all that she’d let laps, while pretending to keep up with Jim
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were all still pretending that he only came on business
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The three of us separated, pretending to
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The story, what he told of it, jived with what he told Desa except that he pretended he believed it really was a bad RNAcid trip, at least he thought he was pretending
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Pretending I wasn’t there
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It was clear to me, however, that by pretending that I was really dying I might get him to confess
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Helen of Troy guessed the plot and tried to get the men to show themselves by pretending to be one of their wives
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idols used to be pitiless and pretending immolation in
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the Inn, but they were pretending not to notice
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courtyard, she paused for a few seconds, pretending that her sandal had slipped loose
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She lingered for a moment longer, pretending to wipe up crumbs she’d noticed on the
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Though at present few people, I believe, doubt of this, yet during this period five years have seldom passed away, in which some book or pamphlet has not been published, written, too, with such abilities as to gain some authority with the public, and pretending to demonstrate that the wealth of the nation was fast declining; that the country was depopulated, agriculture neglected, manufactures decaying, and trade undone
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Pretending they hadn’t heard Father, the youths continued carousing
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She sat down on the couch and opened her well of tears, pretending to be hurt by his rejection
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Stop pretending that you need to think things through
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pretending? Nerissa much preferred this interpretation
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Why are they here? Why are they pretending to give a fuck about his death?
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” she stopped suddenly, pretending to only just notice the three grimacing faces confronting them
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It was upon this silly notion, however, that England could not subsist without the Portugal trade, that, towards the end of the late war, France and Spain, without pretending either offence or provocation, required the king of Portugal to exclude all British ships from his ports, and, for the security of this exclusion, to receive into them French or Spanish garrisons
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Chase said, pretending to pick something up from the floor
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Without pretending, therefore, that they had paid any part, either of the original purchase money, or of the subsequent expense of improvement, they petitioned the parliament, that the cultivators of America might for the future be confined to their shop; first, for buying all the goods which they wanted from Europe; and, secondly, for selling all such parts of their own produce as those traders might find it convenient to buy
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Grace closed her eyes and lay back, pretending in her mind that her mouth was her cunt and that she was being fucked
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The court of king's bench, instituted for the trial of criminal causes only, took cognizance of civil suits; the plaintiff pretending that the defendant, in not doing him justice, had been guilty of some trespass or misdemeanour
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Looking at Him happily pretending His Father was a donkey, I wondered how I could ever give Him up
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pretending, I suppose, we were still 14 years old
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pretending not to be Angela Maybury
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Rosemary sat with eyes closed pretending to be sleeping
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It's former rural setting was slowly being gobbled up by rows of semi-detached middle income estates of two storied houses, pretending to blend into the countryside behind clumps of trees, that the developers in their wisdom had not obliterated, completely
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He sat for a few minutes, pretending to search for something in the glove compartment, but really, waiting for his hands to stop shaking
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It had been an awkward moment then, both pretending that it was only a birthday party
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The three of them were smiling and pretending to be extremely interested in what the other had to say
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Without, however, pretending to determine whether such a union be practicable or
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” She kept her head down, pretending she had a sliver in her finger
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It's no good pretending any more
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Nobody could be as stupid as he’s pretending to be
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Two hours of pretending he wasn’t afraid, of trying to convince himself
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A few steps later, she glanced in a storefront window, pretending interest in a strop-and-razor kit
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the way by pretending to hire me
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Always having airs, pretending you’re something better
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Hoover wore his food bowl on his head, pretending to be a bloodthirsty pirate
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Ajax was brandishing a stick, pretending to be Captain Crook
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It is easy enough, I suppose, for café latte types earning above average salaries to criticize the company from the vantage point of high-rise corporate towers and sprawling industrial parks where office workers, comfortably ensconced in the privacy of their cubicles, routinely shop on their Internets or indulge in a casual game of solitaire while pretending to look busy
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The power of Pretending cannot be overstated
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If you are a student of the many metaphysical Masters offering all types of courses these days, you will realize that Imagining clearly what you want and pretending it has already come to pass, is a vital step in the manifesting process
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At some point, then, as I continued this Pretending, Imagining the trip together, which is surprisingly easy to do, suddenly someone approached us
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“But then, nothing lasts forever, does it; so, what happened?” He laughed again at her – something she would normally not tolerate for one instant; instead she managed a chuckle pretending she understood perfectly whatever the joke might be
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“Let’s stop pretending
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So, how does that help you? You said the driver stopped talking: did he tell them where he got it or who was supposed to receive it before he shut up?” Truman asked, pretending he cared
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I wanted to shout, “You hypocrite, pretending we’ve not
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The downwind grew into a real gale, and the stands around us were upturned, and some were even swept away, while the few folks who had been sitting behind them just kept on pretending everything was in place
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He worked it into the small of his back by pretending to scratch himself, the big bag with colourful lettering acting as blind cover
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The amount of barge traffic on the Vistula had increased steadily as they moved closer to the Baltic, and they were forced to move ever more slowly, pretending to be carrying out survey work, as they wended their way northward
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“Argyl, there is no shame in pretending
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Harry pretending to be hurt, "What you on about?"
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But just going on pretending they’re stronger than they really are…”
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She barely glanced back at the lieutenant with an uncertain grin, pretending to feel awkward
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'Where do you want it?' while pretending you have a mouthful of vanilla milkshake
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“Henceforth, he considered the institution of the papacy (as) the enemy of Christ, confound(ing) Christianity by pretending to rule it
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They were feigning a straight up street fight and pretending to use weapons against each other and shiznit like that but it was all a part of their up rock
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She continued looking all around, pretending as if my words didn’t bother her much
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“You aren’t helping me by pretending it isn’t
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But the same reasons Tobias gave for pretending we aren’t together hold me back
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“To me that means either you’re falsely accused or good at pretending
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Milne’s Winnie the Pooh books as “textbooks,” pretending to be very serious as I changed into a silly voice to read aloud the zany passages
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As I shut the door, I see Christina pretending to vomit, and Cara laughing, and Tris’s hands hanging at her sides
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"You know you're only pretending," protested Mary Vance, "and I wish you wouldn't
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She might not have been trying to listen in, but if Stefan had been a second earlier, Nick was certain she’d have gone flying into his office, landing on the floor instead of pretending to be coming after his signature
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From having heard the others talking, I am aware that when ‘kissing’ people on stage, one merely pretends and makes it look as real as one can
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Jock pretends to kill the call and dial again
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He looks away and pretends to read about Charlton Athletic
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He pretends to sleep as Helen plants gentle kisses on his back and slowly moves her hand up and down his penis
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The child pretends to be someone else
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The directors of the bank, however, would probably be unwilling to agree to the impositon of a seignorage upon the authority of a speculation which promises them no gain, but only pretends to insure them from any loss
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Its ultimate object, however, it pretends, is always the same, to enrich the country by an advantageous balance of trade
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The science which pretends to investigate and explain those connecting principles, is what is properly called Moral Philosophy
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That’s when a website pretends to be a legitimate online store or even your bank, but all it does is steal your personal information
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He’s probably everything he pretends to be
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I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself—when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve
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Under such a regime the Supreme Court pretends that what it says is constitutional law, and the American people, from law professors to the man in the street, must pretend to believe it
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(A familiar spirit is a necromancer that pretends to bring up the dead
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” He yells as she pretends to hang up
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I saw the movie with Edward Norton where he pretends to have
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“Why don’t you…?” she pretends to hesitate and he’s caught as firmly as bird in a trap
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She pretends to sleep, and pretends to wake when she hears a mistake
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So, she pretends that that she’s been
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"Focusing on the mission," Gianni interjected, "Well, these people in this social club, the one that pretends to be that, anyway, so they would lean more toward the Islam side
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Barry? Well, she's after him, and he pretends he's interested—but he isn't, I'll bet
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And Saipele she pretends to play up to lately but you can see it's an act… Her heart isn't in it
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She pretends, even to herself, that she is acting altruistically and purely for the good of
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Some people call them the Fake Right because the Yakuza Right pretends they’re a politically-oriented, right-wing organization
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He waves his medicine-stick at it, he sings to it, he asks it questions and pretends to hear answers
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`Gorham is more powerful than he pretends to be
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No one even pretends to know how consciousness is
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He is now known as Nigel De Jong and pretends to be Afrikaans
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Put very simply, a human adult in the back of the movie theatre can never get all its ducks in a row at one time, no matter what it does or believes or pretends
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But Pallantides is back from exile in Ophir, swearing that the king was ill in his tent that day, and that a man-at-arms wore his harness, and a squire who but recently recovered from the stroke of a mace received at Valkia confirms his tale—or pretends to
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Parking the car a bit further along than last time, but where he can still see who comes in and out, he picks up a newspaper and pretends to read
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Taking a handkerchief from his pocket he pretends to blow his nose as he enters the building
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Noël pretends he needs to think about it and then shakes his head
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Inside the car a man pretends to read a newspaper which is unfolded in front of him
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Slowing down as he reaches the first lay-by Malcolm pretends to look up into the trees
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Better a man, that is honest with himself than someone who constantly pretends
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things and which Toto pretends he knows lots about but is just being really foney again
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between his legs and pretends that he’s a girl, well he’s hiding out and there’s this other girl in like a big pit (Dad said it was a geek pit, cos people used to put geeks in pits and throw chicken heads at them before they had computers and got rich and cool
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And our government pretends to have a solution with the new legislation, while Uncle Sam is digging like crazy to keep up with the over spending
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A cross-site request forgery is where an attacker pretends to be a user that the website recognizes (such as a logged-in user), and the attacker is then able to access a logged-in user's profile as though they were the genuine user
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� She pretends that she was attacked and was just defending herself
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Now when God plays hide and pretends that he is you and I, he does it so well that it takes him a long time to remember where and how he hid himself…
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He pretends to be you or someone with authorized access to your
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pretends to be you or someone with authorized access to your account
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Nevertheless, the longer one pretends they don’t exist, is to the extent core fears drive life and reality
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A person doesn’t have to have an expanded knowledge of the things of God, nor does he have to hear from Him daily to be prepared ‘good ground’, but he does have to turn loose of this world and the smokescreen of what it pretends to offer, and have an inward yearning for the things of God; His seed
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He teases me, pretends he doesn’t
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Jason leans in and pretends to be pointing out words in the
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pretends he distracted with probing the pig
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take this,” she says as she pretends to move the stick shift, “and put it-
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“Sure, why not?” Shane looks back down at his ipod and pretends to use it again
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Shane pretends to use his ipod again
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He pretends to be conducting the
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He bows his head and pretends to eat, despite the fact that his plate is almost empty and the chefs have since removed the dinner platters
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Twice I catch her looking at me, but she pretends to be watching the asteroids
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When confronted with phenomena which don’t fit its presuppositions, it closes its eyes and pretends that such phenomena don’t exist
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wrestling with his body, as a small child pretends to struggle with a toy
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since he gets nothing, what is there for him to enjoy? But he pretends all
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Just as the poorest writing is often lionized and some of the very finest overlooked—if one pretends and the other reveals
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It pretends to be good while it has no bit of good; and even if it renders a good action, it does it as a kind of dissemblance
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“She likes it when he pretends to be a mysterious specter
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Ulysses pretends he is crazy to avoid having to leave, but Palamedes figures out what he’s doing by putting his baby son Telemachus before his plow
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He pretends otherwise in order to have influence and power over the spirits of the people that he wants to cheat, and then he achieves his malicious and evil wishes by destroying them
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In the exact moment when Rachel is receiving the Oscar, the killer pretends he is using a video camera and he shoots
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Is it then possible for a person who pretends to know about astronomy – and who holds a glass ball with a diameter of mere centimeters – to observe the stars and the planets, and to watch the changing of their locations, even when they inside a closed room?!
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Wood Smith who pretends to invoke spirits
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Kenneth walks to the sink and pretends he is washing his
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Anyone who pretends anything that is in conflict with the open Holy Qur’an – such as making claims to have this ability to foretell the future – is nothing but a fabricator of falsehood against Al’lah, unless they are a prophet, or they take their knowledge from the prophets
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“Maybe the good reverend isn’t what he pretends to be
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Eugene pretends to listen until a hand falls on his shoulder and he looks up to see the king smiling at him
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And the biggest problem is that he pretends that he does
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Alex turns and pretends to be studying the map when he is trying to think of something to say to her, but is unable to think of a single thing
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Necromancer: One who pretends to inquire of the dead, by the means of devils
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On the way down the frog then pretends he drives the truck and
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Anna buys him all his clothes and he pretends he is upset whenever she has something new for him
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Pretends he doesn't 28
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It does not make or show any movement and pretends to hounds that it is a non-living creature
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Science pretends that this slight mismatch is not important
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Then; when he returns his unfaithful wife pretends to welcome him home in a royal Triumph
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It pretends this Universal Dynamic exists for everything else in the Universe… with the exception of humans
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� When the child lies, she/he pretends to be someone else, someone other than the person who actually did the action in question
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� When the child pretends to such a state, the child has already enacted the rejection of the self she/he fears so deeply
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Then the cunning Kaiser pretends he is not in contact with his own war office and does a mad dash: a calculated, orchestrated public rush back to Berlin upon reading about the Austrian attack on Sarajevo in a Norwegian newspaper
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He pretends to fall into a slumber, hoping that this will encourage the others to tell the truth
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not as shallow as he pretends to be
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mild to severe, everyone pretends that they don’t experience these
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man gets obsessed, in another — a woman pretends that she is alright
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out by their means, that she pretends before the servants great uneasiness as to
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In private statements to the press, she pretends to be fine with the outcome, whatever it might be
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Child pretends to care about psychologist’s cold and then beats up toys
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There are only two possibilities: either he wants whatever goal he will achieve by altering that person, or, unfathomable as it is, he cares about the world he pretends to scorn, and the people in it
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`Oh, for many reasons: to begin with, the vicar doesn't believe it himself: he only pretends to
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For instance, he pretends to believe the Bible, but if we read the Bible we find that Jesus said that God is our father and that all the people in the world are His children, all brothers and sisters
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He pushes open her cloak, closes his hands on her waist, and transports them through space and time to another location where he swiftly erects barricades and walls and seals off the prison in which he will leave her while he pretends to try to save a world beyond saving
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"If the white man is the warrior he pretends," said the aged chief, "let him strike
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The count pretends I have not him to thank;—so be it—I will erect an altar Deo ignoto
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"He pretends the air of the Faubourg St
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"Why the devil does that foolish girl, who pretends to wish to speak to me, not come into my study? and why on earth does she want to speak to me at all?"