May I assure him I have no pretensions whatever to that office?

But why do I mention modesty, who have no pretensions to it?

I have no pretensions to your blue blood, or yellow.

We have no pretensions to being the paramount leader or the crowned prince in Brussels.

But I have no pretensions whatsoever to pleasing her.

Merit and talents, with which I can have no pretensions of rivalship, have ever been subject to it.

If courage in life were confined solely to military exploits, the Quakers would have no pretensions to this character.

Why, one might just as well have no pretensions to good looks when talking to a man like that!

His buildings have no pretensions to architectural merit, being merely rough piles of adobe scattered irregularly all over the grounds.

This gives to his narrative a value to which it could have no pretensions on the score of its literary execution.

I have no pretensions to ask it, and you know It has long been my fixed resolution not to accept it.

I do assure you, sir, that I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

The contracts between a nation and individuals are only binding on the conscience of the sovereign, and have no pretensions to a compulsive force.

I thus find myself in public and avowed controversy with one who is endowed with talents, accomplishments, and genius, to which I have no pretensions.

If that be possible, the Count Sobieski has no pretensions of modesty.

But Lady Harriet systematically neglected everyone who had no pretensions to smartness.