They were to the full as ridiculous as his philosophical pretensions.
The girl was a graceful paddler, and had some well-founded pretensions to beauty.
To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.
It is only in the latter light that it can be admitted to have any pretensions to fairness.
Like nations of higher pretensions, the American Indian gives a very different account of his own tribe or race from that which is given by other people.
What pretensions has a man to our generous assistance or good offices, who has dissipated his wealth in profuse expenses, idle vanities, chimerical projects, dissolute pleasures or extravagant gaming?
The Independents, who had at first taken shelter and concealed themselves under the wings of the Presbyterians, now evidently appeared a distinct party, and betrayed very different views and pretensions.
Thus, however justly we may reject the extravagant pretensions of magicians and condemn the deceptions which they have practised on mankind, the original institution of this class of men has, take it all in all, been productive of incalculable good to humanity.
Numerous buildings stood in irregular array, for the most part of no great height, nor with many pretensions towards architectural beauty or grace of outline; but in the centre of the valley upreared its head a massive structure, pyramidal in shape, consisting of five comparatively narrow terraces, connected one with another only at each of the four corners, where stood a wide-stepped flight of stones.