semblant

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In semblant points all eyes may read The fact.

From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Curzon, Sarah Anne

Lorsque je veux, sans y faire semblant, me livrer aux méditations d'une douce philosophie, je vais à la pêche.

From Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters also, Miseries of Fishing by Penn, Richard

Sir Tristram made semblant as if he were sorry, and yet better knew he how it was than the king.

From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by Cutler, U. Waldo

Then took he again his sword and put it up in his sheath, and made a cross in his forehead, and came to the lions, and they made semblant to do him harm.

From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

She humbled herself much among them and crouched on the ground and made semblant as though she would have cried them mercy, and gat herself as nigh the cross as she might.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian