semblant

Example Sentences

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Sy luy fait moult beau semblant & dit en riant. and now he must tell her who he is.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

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

Je vous conterai ce que c'est, lorsque je vous reverrai; cependant je ne ferai semblant de rien, car j'en ai besoin pour l'étude de l'élocution française.

From Books and Characters French and English by Strachey, Giles Lytton

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

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