Meanwhile, the pretender is huddling with Meathead. From Wordnik.com. [Balloon Juice » 2002 » September] Reference
The consequence is unavoidable -- such a pretender is a blasphemous impostor. From Wordnik.com. [Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity] Reference
Abandonment of the pretender was the first provision of peace between the two countries. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540] Reference
The pretender was the cassette tape, introduced in the 1960s and popularized during the 1970s. From Wordnik.com. [Second Life] Reference
To bait such a pretender was a welcome diversion in the idle night, and soon they were all in full cry after the quarry. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion] Reference
To divert his ambition into another channel he had fathered -- if he had not invented -- this fiction that the pretender was the dead Demetrius. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series] Reference
The Portuguese residents in Italy entertained no doubt that the pretender was their countryman and their monarch, and made most strenuous exertions to procure his release. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
Dragland points out that Smallwood is a "pretender" 195, just like everyone else in the Condensed History. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
This "pretender" has undermined and/or dismantled many principles of the Constitution and of international law. From Wordnik.com. [New Government] Reference
I wonder if the Christianist gentleman who harangued him believes Rudy Giuliani is also a "pretender" rather than protector of the faith. From Wordnik.com. [Heckler To Romney: "You Do Not Know The Lord"] Reference
In this mini war on nerves - we have now seen how the "pretender" will behave. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Because without that, you’re a pretender, which is what comics have been for the last 20 years. From Wordnik.com. [Where’s that confounded bridge?] Reference
However, despite that 8-0 start to Big East play, there are those out there who think Marquette is a "pretender" team. From Wordnik.com. [Cute Sports] Reference
Let me see, who is pretender to the throne these days?. From Wordnik.com. [Revolution] Reference
The female pretender is sweet and canny as Cleopatra VII. From Wordnik.com. [Flax] Reference
Do you ask if any will be led away by such a false pretender?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
He reigned only four months (in 294), and was succeeded by the pretender. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
I regarded him as a deceiver, and a vile, unscrupulous, hypocritical pretender. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
I didn't want to hang out with my freegan mentors because I feel like a pretender. From Wordnik.com. [Freegan Ride] Reference
In turn, Khatami's allies say that Karrubi is a pretender and not a real reformist. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting for Moderation] Reference
GIFFORD: The second pretender to Winehouse's throne is not quite from the same mold. From Wordnik.com. [Winehouse Blazes Trail for U.K. Female Singers] Reference
But Charles Dudley is not the only English pretender who figures among the papers at the Frari. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Dave, who was hampered all last year by a knee injury, was consigned to the status of pretender. From Wordnik.com. [For God And For Reebok] Reference
In the rôle of a medical pretender, however, he deserves no more sympathy than any other quack. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
Shibboleth, by which you can at once distinguish the true minstrel from mere impostor or pretender. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
This shall be left in my hands by him for thirty days, during which the pretender shall leave France. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
He was the new crowned prince of the British stage, pretender to the throne of the king-Laurence Olivier. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel Byrne: A Review of Furious Love by Sam Kashner and Nancy Shoenberg] Reference
But the dullest pretender could discourse a jumble of pious bigotry, natural rights, and driveling philanthropy. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Firmus, an Egyptian pretender to the empire in the time of Aurelian, 273 A.D., once rode on the back of a hippopotamus. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850] Reference
Charles Dudley was probably some pretender to the honours of the Dudley family who once held the dukedom of Northumberland. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
I have no doubt who will win: The Empire State, floating like a butterfly, will deal the flat-footed pretender a knockout blow. From Wordnik.com. [Duking It Out at 1,200 Feet] Reference
Parson's corollary remark, "That this was a delicacy which could not be expected from every English pretender to the lady's hand.". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
I had even left on foot, trusting to excite less suspicion, and hoping to find a horse on the way, but fortune was with the pretender. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Take another example, nearer home, and of which some of you are cognizant, having known the pretender and many of his duped followers. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
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