pretendest

King, but if thou summon thy slaves and thy soldiers and they fall upon me and slay me, as thou pretendest, thou wouldst but publish thine own disgrace, and the folk would be divided between belief in thee and disbelief in thee.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Why say this, if, as thou pretendest, thy lips are free from blame?

Hippolytus 2008

But after, O thou who pretendest thyself a mighty King and art but a

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Why say this, if, as thou pretendest, thy lips are free from blame?

Hippolytus 2008

Thou pretendest to compare thyself to a cock, but a cock never has his pullets whipped by a capon.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Thy habitual aversion to wedlock too well I knew; and indeed thou avowest thy hope to bring her to cohabitation, in that very letter in which thou pretendest trial to be thy principal view.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Hadst thou a mind to make thyself a good title to the merit to which thou now pretendest to lay claim, thou shouldest, like a true knight-errant, have sought to set the lady free from the enchanted castle.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Thou pretendest much pittie and care of me, but all to no other end: but what mischeefes thou dreamest happening unto mee, so wouldest thou see them effected on me.

The Decameron 2004

If what I have done be so criminal as thou pretendest, there remains not for me a moment of grace; I have traversed a sea of blood to acquire a power which will make thy equals tremble; deem not that I shall retire when in view of the port, or that I will relinquish her who is dearer to me than either my life or thy mercy.

The History of the Caliph Vathek 2004

But now these are reckoned by thee disgraceful, and thou pretendest to be full of modesty, thou spirit of fornication, not knowing that then only anything becomes disgraceful when it is polluted by wickedness.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001