Meaningless ceremonies and flattery.
1 Any mummery will cure if the patient's faith is strong in it.
2 But your hypocrisy and your mummery shall serve you to little purpose.
3 That's fine mummery in days like these when everybody is getting educated.
4 They too recognized him now, and realized that here was no mummery .
5 We have had enough, too, of Spanish etiquette and Italian mummery here.
6 Don Felipe shrugged his shoulders carelessly, saying, A truce to your mummery !
7 It sounds like the fee-faw-fum and mummery of a voodoo man.
8 It was better than a mummery , and I was glad to see it.
9 I might be entering the Hierarchy, in view of all this supernatural mummery !
10 Your papists keep these outlandish hours for their masses and mummery .
11 After the death of Mary this silly mummery was totally discontinued.
12 Some of the feiticeiras, however, play more dangerous tricks than this harmless mummery .
13 But William was fully determined to bring this mummery to a speedy close.
14 To say Mass, believing the Mass to be but a mummery , was detestable.
15 His religion is a mummery , and his Gospel-walkings nothing but dancing a masquerade.
16 His angry old eyes jerked Peter out of his slight mummery .
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