1
You seem to make pretenses of being cultivated, captain.
2
She had the inability to make pretenses, either to others or to herself, which characterizes stupid people and also the large, simple natures.
3
But nobody thinks less of a man for that in the world; the most one can ask is that he does not make pretenses.
4
These fellows have got so used to making pretenses that they actually deceive themselves.
5
Of course we-some of us-makepretenses-all sorts of silly pretenses.
6
"You think me a weak, clinging creature, not able to do anything but make pretenses."