Thus she had but little pretension to beauty, save in one prominent particular-herhair.

The authors had little pretension to literary skill, but they knew their business thoroughly.

They have but little pretension to genius, none to consistency, and their honesty equals their capacity.

You know I make little pretension to your favorite erotetic method: and if I did, oh!

She is a poetess, a mathematician, a metaphysician; yet, withal, very kind, generous, and gentle, with very little pretension.

At R-was their old family home, a place of very little pretension, but to which they were much attached.

To the name of poet, as it implies the possession of an inventive faculty, Sir William Jones has but little pretension.

If you knew what a thing constitutional economy is!-Moreover ,youwill see a 'my lord,' who has almost as little pretension as his furniture.

The government house was at one time a building of some little pretension, and from its style it bore the name of the "Doric."

He knows where to flatter them in those little pretensions which no man avows.

"You," he says, "who have done such incomparable services for the country with so much modesty and so little pretension," etc.