Read full poem →The eldest of its young lets drop.
As if it stork-ltke did pretend
That tribute to ita Lord to send.
Dictionary Entry
To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “pretend”
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Read full poem →But Ben, who knew not neither foe nor friend,
Sworn Enemy to all that do pretend,
Rose more then ever he was seen severe,
Read full poem →The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance;
Or crafty malice might pretend this praise,
And think to ruin, where it seemed to raise.
Read full poem →And hearts of all, if I be sad for show,
And judge me after; if I dare pretend
To ought but grace or aim at other end.
To The Memory Of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left UsbyBen Jonson
Read full poem →The truth, but gropes, and urges all by chance;
Or crafty malice might pretend this praise,
And think to ruin where it seemed to raise.
Read full poem →as that in MS. Addit. (or Sloane) 5141, the painting upon wood in the
Bodleian Library, and the like, are of much later date, and cannot pretend
to any authenticity.
Read full poem →I leave to be guessed,
For I cannot pretend to say.
Read full poem →Sir Robert, a soldier, no speech would pretend,
But he ne’er turn’d his back on his foe, or his friend;
Read full poem →He wad na hecht them courtly gifts,
Nor meikle speech pretend;
But he wad hecht an honest heart,
Read full poem →As often as I've seen it done before
I can't pretend to tell the way it's done.
It looks as if some magic of the sun