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Meanings of great pretensions in inglês

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Usage of great pretensions in inglês
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We continued it even yet, in spite of all our great pretensions.
The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abol...
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The interior of the building, however, had no great pretensions to architectural grandeur.
On the Banks of the Amazon
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More for instance, in reality, than the Bargello, though the Bargello makes great pretensions.
Italian Hours
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It was only fools, who made great pretensions, that he despised and treated with contempt.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13: Great Writers / Dr Lord's U...
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He had already spent upwards of two thousand pounds, and his great pretensions were hitherto unfulfilled.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
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There is in it no account of miracles or of great pretensions to godhood and the like.
Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning
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A short while since, a certain Reviewer announced that I gave myself great pretensions as a philosopher.
Roundabout Papers
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At this time my little friend was fast losing ground, in spite of his grandmother's great pretensions.
Indian Boyhood
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One evening I spun Glenn Millers "String of Pearls," an amiable piece with no great pretensions.
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?
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And yet at this dilapidated old inn there were a number of guests who made great pretensions at style.
British Highways and Byways from a Motor Car / Being a Record of...
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She had some shrewdness, much cunning, and made great pretensions to musical and theatrical taste, and the belles lettres.
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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SOCRATES: Well, my friend, but what do you think of swimming; is that an art of any great pretensions?
Gorgias
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They were given to the room at large; and the room at large, acknowledging her great pretensions, accepted them as sufficient.
The Small House at Allington
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The penultimate chapter contains a list of the high priests, about whom the historian had throughout made great pretensions of accuracy.
Josephus
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It had no great pretensions to architectural beauty, being about as handsome for a house as Abner Holden was for a man.
Try and Trust; Or, Abner Holden's Bound Boy
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We women are able to accomplish a great many things if we go about them wisely and do not make too great pretensions.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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