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

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)

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

It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out for sacrifice to Jupiter, to chalk the dark spots and give the offering a false show of unblemished whiteness.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

There is no pretence so difficult to maintain as the false show of genial and benevolent feeling.

From A Manual of Moral Philosophy by Peabody, Andrew P. (Andrew Preston)