| 1. | What nonsense to pretend there isn't. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 2. | I say, let us pretend that it is the end.. - from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie |
| 3. | Don't pretend to be in raptures about mine. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 4. | You are much better than you pretend to be.. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 5. | I cannot pretend to describe what I then felt. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 6. | You pretend to be shocked by what I have said. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 7. | Why did you pretend to be my guardian's brothe. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 8. | "But why should this man pretend to be his own brother. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 9. | "How near it may be to _mine_, I cannot pretend to say. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 10. | And pretends that yesterday, Atal. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 11. | "He pretends the air of the Faubourg St. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 12. | She crawls forward and pretends to frighten them. - from A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
| 13. | He pretends to do one thing, and does something else. - from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana |
| 14. | "She's actually delighted when anyone writes her name up in a take-notice for all she pretends to be so mad. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 15. | He is a professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 16. | Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 17. | He pretends to fall into a swoon and says senseless things that should have ruined him. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 18. | The count pretends I have not him to thank--so be it--I will erect an altar Deo ignoto.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |