Pretender

The word Pretender, without adjectives, may seem somewhat weak as applied to the Prince President, the head of the band, but those who have heard Gambetta alone know the contempt which he could throw into his voice in the pronunciation of such a word.

The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

In 1909 she met Prince Miguel de Braganza, whose father was referred to as the Pretender to the Portuguese throne, and three months later, they were engaged.

The American Heiress | Edwardian Promenade 2008

He also wrote an unproduced play entitled The Pretender, set in seventeenth-century Russia, as well as Son of the Winds, about a mythical Indian civilization.

Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

Amongst other conditions, the Regent agreed to send the so-called Pretender out of the realm, and to force him to seek an asylum in Italy.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

I hope our manifesto's being disperced at London, will have good effect; and I long to see what the prints call the Pretender's declaration, and the declaration of the people of England.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

And though I have joined with some that have taken arms, of that persuasion, no other motive but that of exercising to the person called the Pretender, whom I firmly believe to be the son of the late King James the Second, and in defence of whose title I am now going to be a sacrifice, has induced me to it.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

They came, but soon it was seen that it was not deer they meant to hunt, and a large army gathered round Lord Mar and the standard of James VIII., which was the title the Pretender took.

An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls Henrietta Elizabeth 1920

Mr. Waverton, the world is full of gentlemen who know where the Pretender was the other day.

The Highwayman 1919

The dethroned King James II died in 1701, being succeeded in his rights and claims by his son, the so-called Pretender, who as King James III conferred upon Caryll the empty title of Baron Caryll of Dunford and the office of one of his secretaries of state.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Esmond did not appreciate Henry Esmond; for the Pretender was her measure of soul.

A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892