1
Roseberry was a straggling little place, without much pretension to gentility.
2
It has no edifice of much pretension, and yet it is not badly built.
3
Thwaite Hall was not a place of much pretension.
4
We scarcely know how to answer a man who unites so much pretension to so much ignorance.
5
His wife hath, I believe, had much pretension to beauty, and is still a very fine woman.
6
It was square and heavy-looking, with just that much pretension to ornament necessary to distinguish it from the mere farm-house.
7
In our larger American cities, where they have much pretension but little character, a leg must not be spoken of as such.
8
It is situated at the foot of the Taragarh mountain, and consists of a block of white marble buildings without much pretension to architectural beauty.
9
While it does not make so much pretension as some other companies, it must be distinctly announced that this is a safe and permanent investment.