I have no pretext, and I cannot invent one.

I have no pretext.

You have no pretext.

I wish him to be admitted; and I forbid you to go out, so that you can have no pretext to refuse him the door.

The third was for a purely friendly week-end, and had no pretext.

Thus we had no pretext for going to war with her.

He was obliged to remain there, although he had no pretext.

As it is I had no pretext for arresting him.

Frequently they had no pretext for resistance, for Catharine was right and they were wrong.

The Kelpie looked suspicious as he left the room, but she had no pretext for interference.

Helene had no pretext ready to her tongue.

They had no pretext for interfering openly.

I had no pretext to offer for desiring to leave the seminary, not knowing any person in the city.

But when Britain and France agreed to give him what he purportedly wanted without war, he had no pretext to fight.

We have , of course, like every serious people, our share of hypocrites; in a frivolous nation hypocrisy has no pretext for existence.

"He can have no pretext, otherwise, to stay!"