make-believes

When Fred met Jimmy she struggled at first with his past-tense misses and nominative make-believes, but he won her over quickly with his courtesy.

The Sitzer Ann Bogle 2011

What girl could live for a moment before the world if she were to tell the whole truth about the get-up of her wardrobe — the patchings and make-believes, the chipped ribbons and turned silks, the little bills here, and the little bills there?

The Three Clerks 2004

About losing the big, wild make-believes that keep you going.

The White Rose Cook, Glen 1985

The child is an adept at make-believe, but his make-believes are, as a rule, practical and serious.

How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Sara Cone Bryant

In our days a soldier hated feints and make-believes.

In Those Days The Story of an Old Man Jehudah Steinberg

Yet though I knew them to be in fact thoroughly useless, they contributed sensibly to my comfort, for they were most excellent make-believes.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

Entertain him for a few mornings so brilliantly that he won't know what he is drinking, then ---- But I'll tell you how we will cheat him admirably; and it isn't very cruel either, for merely to gratify the taste make-believes are as good as realities.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

But there is a differ bechune the make-believes of the young and the make-believes of the old.

The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City Amy Bell Marlowe

"Ah! well, go on, you make-believes; mind and be home by sundown, and don't lose yourselves."

Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Various

She was a thorough hater of shams, hypocrisies, and make-believes.

Catherine Booth — a Sketch Colonel Mildred Duff