false show
Example Sentences
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But the false show of bravado helped propel Wallace into the governorship in 1962.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the robbery was not gilded with this false show.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Stewart, Aubrey
On his arrival he found there assembled the senate and people of this perfidious nation, who, conformably to his orders, had repaired thither, seeking to deceive him by a false show of submission and devotion....
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
Wouldst thou have me to believe, O wise and pious friend, that a false show can be better—can be more for God's glory, or man's welfare—than God's own truth?
From The Scarlet Letter by Foote, Mary Hallock
The Venetian Republic, now in its last days of power, made a brave if false show upon London streets in those times.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.
