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
I could not choose but think that the Evil One had deceived me with a false show, yet, however hard I rubbed my eyes, rye it was and rye it remained.
From Mary Schweidler, the amber witch : the most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known, printed from an imperfect manuscript by her father, Abraham Schweidler, the pastor of Coserow in the island of Usedom / edited by W. Meinhold ; translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon. by Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady
How, and by what memorable feature, did last June differ from this October? and what followed, by its false show of subtlety, discredited the whole explanation.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
He told them that if he were ruler over the land every man should have all that he wanted, and deceived many by a false show of friendship.
From Child's Story of the Bible by Lathbury, Mary A. (Mary Artemisia)
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)
