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Pretends he is ill and that his doctor has ordered a complete rest.”

From The Intriguers by Le Queux, William

Pretends he will bring the youngest Miss —— to drink tea with me soon.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Johnson, Samuel

Pretends he's been all over creation, but the truth is he lives down here by the lighthouse and is poorer than the last pullet in Job's coop.

From Galusha the Magnificent by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

Lesbia the fair, to fire her jealous lord, Pretends, the fop she laughs at, is ador'd.

From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Young, Edward

Pretends himself to be a former Kings Son.

From An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape by Knox, Robert