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    1. YingolNeerie! Let's pretend that you made up your own involvement, just what you've told me about it and what its powers are is thrilling


    2. "Let's just pretend we've had the conversation already, eh? I've threatened to reveal your kiddy fiddler porn addiction, you've begged me not to, blah, blah, fuckin' blah, init?"


    3. "There's wizardry in the Kassikan that I don't pretend to understand," Tahlmute said


    4. "Pretend Juleel is here enjoying the fire instead of preaching about this asteroid


    5. let us pretend that your spirit is ill


    6. ‘Probably, but we pretend that he doesn’t


    7. Just pretend that you are pitching batting practice


    8. ’ She said, exchanging a smile with Stephen while I pretend I don’t notice


    9. While he might look, feel and smell the same, there was no way to pretend a bunch of logic and some rendering routines were wrapping a human soul when they weren't, they were wrapping the 'conversational preferences' thru 'lovemaking preference' you had dialed in


    10. “To pretend to please everyone is mad, but to pretend to please everyone in a time of

    11. I have to pretend steer the stupid ship, too, because Staas Company only wanted three, non-union bridge officers


    12. Comforting myself that I can cope with a pretend kiss, I take my place


    13. The emotional strain of the last month is taking its toll of me now that I don’t have to pretend any more; I feel I could sleep for a year


    14. ’ He said in a matter of fact tone of voice which stops me in my tracks ‘I don’t pretend to have any answers at the moment, but that certainly won’t solve anything


    15. "Like I just said, you've got the skill with this, I'd rather pretend they didn't have control panels


    16. He had to put it aside, figure on losing another week and just relax, or at least pretend to


    17. “To pretend to please everyone is mad, but to pretend to please everyone in a time of revolution is treason


    18. Children, high chairs and pretend cats,


    19. who pretend to be something that they are not


    20. She had hated it, but knew that she needed to pretend she was on it here

    21. Berndt appears for lunch and the three of us pretend that nothing has occurred, spending a pleasant afternoon taking it in turns to play the board game Berndt taught me on the barge … as then, he thrashes both Joris and I mercilessly


    22. If necessary, I could concentrate on the bald spot on the head of the lady in front of me and pretend it was a new planet


    23. But then this is the vision she would take Axiospeengya to see wasn't it? She tried to pretend she was spaced on it and it almost worked


    24. When losing the signal I would start to lose control and pretend I was going to jump out of the car, but my father screaming my name at me usually slugged me back into present time reality for a short period anyway


    25. "But I'm not your mother!" Desa yelled, "and I shouldn't have to change your diapers! Now get your sorry little slut ass up and stand your shift like the adult you pretend you are!" Desa yanked the covers off her


    26. If Elmore wasn't going to discuss the proceedings, Alan was going to pretend Ava had never told him


    27. I began to love the music, any kind, and sometimes when Apollo grabbed me, I'd imitate the impassioned dancers I'd seen on TV and Nikos would pretend to be impressed, 'Hey, Godfrey


    28. Ava tried to pretend she was sure it was him, but Alan wasn't so sure she really believed that


    29. Pretend we're close and smile but do not face him


    30. At home in Cornwall, whenever things were quiet in the library, I'd pretend to busy myself in the Reference Section because from there I could see the waters of the harbour and if I raised my head a little I could just about see past the lighthouse to the distant horizon with its line of silver light

    31. If we pretend to be someone we're not, how the hell are they to know? On the other hand, if we can just be ourselves, win or lose, then OK, we reflect on some and not on others - but at least we are true to our real self with no pretending


    32. support in her stellar career, she has to pretend to be happily


    33. ‘Come on Sally, tell all!’ she said as Sally, her face quite as red as the paintwork in my kitchen, tries to pretend she is busy doing something in the sink


    34. Should you pretend to


    35. if you should pretend not to


    36. It’s not that I go out of my way to impress or appear intellectual, but I really can’t pretend that watching reality TV is my one passion in life


    37. Think of this as a Kassidorian sex club and the guys as cherubs and she could even pretend she was having fun couldn’t she?


    38. I pretend to consider this …


    39. ‘Bunty wrote about his proposal in her diary … he was quite offensive when he proposed, didn’t even pretend that he cared about her, and he was considerably older than she was as well, so goodness only knows what he thought he was offering her


    40. He liked to pretend they all had souls behind them

    41. What could he say? Enough so you’ll remember who you were? He’d tried that too many times to pretend it was humorous any more


    42. At first she and Ozzie had tried to pretend that all was normal, that the man had overslept or something


    43. “Oh, Bram,” Tom interjected, “Let’s not pretend that it’s


    44. She really wished she could take him up on his interest, pretend her interest was social and see what happened


    45. She could see he was going to pretend he had just happened by and deny she was under surveillance


    46. “What you see before you, if you pretend the numbers we used to construct it aren't there, is the one fragment left to us, which was in the depths of time, condensed into the symbol of all things existing


    47. 'I advise you to at least pretend to treat that fool with


    48. Jorma made him formally repeat what had happened to pretend they weren’t listening


    49. circumstances to pretend to be Christian


    50. "It's senseless to pretend that place is ever going to be anything but a bottomless pit to drop money into














































    1. Tahlmute and doostEr pretended to fall for it just to be polite until some of the local's started teasing them


    2. Thru most of his life he had never been as devout as he pretended


    3. Creditors were furious, they even went so far as to knock on their door and the couple pretended to be absent! So, Alice finally got sick and tired of this all and decided to ask for a divorce


    4. He pretended he was hiding a 'child of the streets' past but Bahkmar felt Jaseem knew less of the streets than he did and all Bahkmar knew of the streets was which ones to stay off of


    5. I pretended not to have taken the hint


    6. He pretended to stumble and fall down and threw his clothes all over


    7. It was a fantail nyobba, she saw that as she slowly approached the branch it pretended it was part of


    8. My old self would have pretended to be busy but the newer me smiled and tried to help


    9. She pretended to be annoyed and I asked her what he'd said but by then he was drowning our conversation and already out of control


    10. The file was disguised as toiletry experiments, but was way too big to be what it pretended

    11. The old lady pretended to put some in her mouth then pulled a face and held her stomach as though she was going to be sick


    12. She pretended to know more than he did about the subject and he jumped in and debated her about methods and theories


    13. He pretended he thought he didn’t know it was her at first


    14. 'Oh, I am so scared of the bat ball,' Mama said and pretended to shiver in jest


    15. If she lied and actually did know Tdeshi, how would she find out? If she remembered Tdeshi, she would probably jump when she saw Ava, especially if Ava pretended to be Tdeshi


    16. Xavier said he had pretended to be Captain Cheung's friend, so that he could work for him, and then turned the tables after Cheung had left


    17. He pretended he was looking for something or someone else


    18. Or pretended you had a stone in your boot


    19. I pretended to ignore her


    20. The story, what he told of it, jived with what he told Desa except that he pretended he believed it really was a bad RNAcid trip, at least he thought he was pretending

    21. probably pretended to be buying him off with it


    22. "He pretended that I'd lost it," remembers Vikki, still disgusted by her then-husband's actions


    23. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy


    24. pretended to film her


    25. People were frightened at the time, but on looking back they rather liked it; it was exciting for country folk, and there was even a group of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog" and a "real old salt" and such and saying there was the sort of man that made England great at sea


    26. Where wages are not regulated by law, all that we can pretend to determine is, what are the most usual; and experience seems to shew that law can never regulate them properly, though it has often pretended to do so


    27. In cheap years it is pretended, workmen are generally more idle, and in dear times more industrious than ordinary


    28. The trade of Holland, it has been pretended by some people, is decaying, and it may perhaps be true that some particular branches of it are so; but these symptoms seem to indicate sufficiently that there is no general decay


    29. " The voice was gruff but pretended to be soft for the elderly woman's sake


    30. which they pretended to pay, but did not always really pay, in goods

    31. Those remoter counties, they pretended, from the cheapness of labour, would be able to sell their grass and corn cheaper in the London market than themselves, and would thereby reduce their rents, and ruin their cultivation


    32. Even in the caricature of native cold-weather costume that he was dressed in, there was no mistaking the machine that had pretended to be his father thru his childhood


    33. He gave the machine that pretended to be his mother no mercy


    34. In some parts of Lancashire, it is pretended, I have been told, that bread of oatmeal is a heartier food for labouring people than wheaten bread, and 1 have frequently heard the same doctrine held in Scotland


    35. "You don't need to tell me, I was part of that, maybe not as recently as I pretended, but still only a few years ago, dealing with a flesh life inside that habitat


    36. his part, pretended he was looking at something else the


    37. For the time being at least, she pretended to believe in starships


    38. But Nerissa didn’t want to ask him to say nothing, so she pretended that the purpose was to catch a cricket for him


    39. After the boy fell asleep, she pretended that she was tired, too


    40. , To oblige a creditor, therefore, to accept of this as full payment for a debt of £100, actually paid down in ready money, was an act of such violent injustice, as has scarce, perhaps, been attempted by the government of any other country which pretended to be free

    41. The government of Pennsylvania, indeed, pretended, upon their first emission of paper money, in 1722, to render their paper of equal value with gold and silver, by enacting penalties against all those who made any difference in the price of their goods when they sold them for a colony paper, and when they sold them for gold and silver, a regulation equally tyrannical, but much less, effectual, than that which it was meant to support


    42. I pretended to be drunk like usual, but the moly had blocked the tonic’s power


    43. Among all the absurd speculations that have been propagated concerning the balance of trade, it has never been pretended that either the country loses by its commerce with the town, or the town by that with the country which maintains it


    44. Nothing, therefore, it is pretended, can be more disadvantageous to any country, than the trade which consists in the exchange of such lasting for such perishable commodities


    45. Then Tragus would realize she’d only pretended to enjoy coupling with him and that it still was rape


    46. She pretended to be engrossed in her bathing to cover her reaction


    47. “Zarko!” She pretended to be shocked, but she wasn’t surprised


    48. As they give us their custom, it is pretended we should give them ours


    49. He grinned and pretended to think deeply for a moment


    50. There is no commercial country in Europe, of which the approaching ruin has not frequently been foretold by the pretended doctors of this system, from all unfavourably balance of trade












































    1. ” She wipes the counter, pretending not to care


    2. She wondered if Herndon was only pretending to be asleep and listening in


    3. ‘Kate, no point pretending I don’t find you exciting, is there?’ he said, looking at me in such a way that my heart starts pounding


    4. "And…" Parker said, pretending to casually wander between him and Timms, "That means exactly what, Lt


    5. It was a whole culture of pretending to be hard-line while being secretly sybaritic


    6. It was all shown out of scale, of course, and the Lancers’ fighters were the size of pigeons as they spread out around the breaching ship, pretending they couldn’t see the stealthed alien stalking them


    7. He's torn between whom to believe, the friends who are pretending to be his enemies, or the enemies acting as his friends


    8. ‘Yes, I think you do, Karalintze … you can’t spend the rest of your life pretending to the world that you and Joris were not partnered


    9. ‘You had a pleasant ride, Lintze?’ Wiesse asked as we begin our meal, his attempt at pretending an interest nearly oversetting me it is so forced


    10. I looked out to sea, pretending to be calm although inside I was a quivering wreck

    11. Wiesse struggles with himself while I, pretending a calm I do not feel, help myself to more salad


    12. The dipsticks from the terminus had arrived and moved to a table in the corner, sitting in silence and pretending to watch the view through their shades


    13. We have to know the truth, are these state changes conducting information or just random noise like energy produces? Or was Thom doing just what he had done, generating a false universe and pretending it is real data? Or was he generating a false universe and believing it was real data? Without understanding how those signals actually originated, there was no way to tell


    14. their own problems are no less ill pretending that they are fine


    15. "Right, of course you will", said the soldier pretending to be interested


    16. Together with Sir John and his cabinet colleagues, the great politician swept through the corridors of power and into the office where the two doctors of spin were pretending to type away furiously at blank computer screens


    17. ‘After the birth I just could not carry on pretending that our marriage was anything but a sham … so I told him the whole story


    18. “Out here, superconductivity is free, rivers of liquid helium might flow deep in that iceworld we just passed,” Thom pointed somewhere, pretending there was an 'out there' going by them in some sense


    19. If we pretend to be someone we're not, how the hell are they to know? On the other hand, if we can just be ourselves, win or lose, then OK, we reflect on some and not on others - but at least we are true to our real self with no pretending


    20. A lot of the remaining crew were pretending to follow it, with Delos Alverez trying especially hard to look like he was not only following, but grading it

    21. Kelvin was afraid he already knew and was only pretending he figured it out from Kelvin’s questions


    22. I had a toy crossbow, I was pretending I was going after theirops


    23. Pretending to savour it, she stood sipping the water, her back to the sink, surveying the room


    24. He grins as Bex looks away, pretending to examine a picture of Ernest Hemmingway on the back of a boat holding up what looks like a reef shark


    25. He ought to have told her, instead of just pretending that nothing was wrong, getting up and going to work as usual … spending the day lounging around the job centre praying that something would come up, but the closure of the works had thrown a lot of men onto the dole


    26. There was no sense in pretending the other didn’t know what was going on, was there? “So you’re admitting that I am under suspicion?”


    27. Not much point pretending I don’t know what she is talking about!


    28. If that was so, what could he believe? Maybe Ava is Tdeshi all along, playing an elaborate hoax on him, pretending not to remember anything, laying a guilt trip on him for not investigating what happened to her? Maybe all she did when she said she O


    29. The guy who they spoke of was still there, pretending he was just leaning on the rail consulting his map


    30. … how little I know her … shut the door … what now? What are the kidse doing? Ah … they’re in the lounge … watching TV or pretending to at least

    31. Maybe she was pretending Lapnar was actually here when she put them in


    32. what's her name, was supposed to be there sometime around ten, to discuss the preparations for the Summer Fair, but before then she had to do all that she’d let laps, while pretending to keep up with Jim


    33. were all still pretending that he only came on business


    34. The three of us separated, pretending to


    35. The story, what he told of it, jived with what he told Desa except that he pretended he believed it really was a bad RNAcid trip, at least he thought he was pretending


    36. Pretending I wasn’t there


    37. It was clear to me, however, that by pretending that I was really dying I might get him to confess


    38. Helen of Troy guessed the plot and tried to get the men to show themselves by pretending to be one of their wives


    39. idols used to be pitiless and pretending immolation in


    40. the Inn, but they were pretending not to notice

    41. courtyard, she paused for a few seconds, pretending that her sandal had slipped loose


    42. She lingered for a moment longer, pretending to wipe up crumbs she’d noticed on the


    43. Though at present few people, I believe, doubt of this, yet during this period five years have seldom passed away, in which some book or pamphlet has not been published, written, too, with such abilities as to gain some authority with the public, and pretending to demonstrate that the wealth of the nation was fast declining; that the country was depopulated, agriculture neglected, manufactures decaying, and trade undone


    44. Pretending they hadn’t heard Father, the youths continued carousing


    45. She sat down on the couch and opened her well of tears, pretending to be hurt by his rejection


    46. Stop pretending that you need to think things through


    47. pretending? Nerissa much preferred this interpretation


    48. Why are they here? Why are they pretending to give a fuck about his death?


    49. ” she stopped suddenly, pretending to only just notice the three grimacing faces confronting them


    50. It was upon this silly notion, however, that England could not subsist without the Portugal trade, that, towards the end of the late war, France and Spain, without pretending either offence or provocation, required the king of Portugal to exclude all British ships from his ports, and, for the security of this exclusion, to receive into them French or Spanish garrisons













































    1. From having heard the others talking, I am aware that when ‘kissing’ people on stage, one merely pretends and makes it look as real as one can


    2. Jock pretends to kill the call and dial again


    3. He looks away and pretends to read about Charlton Athletic


    4. He pretends to sleep as Helen plants gentle kisses on his back and slowly moves her hand up and down his penis


    5. The child pretends to be someone else


    6. The directors of the bank, however, would probably be unwilling to agree to the impositon of a seignorage upon the authority of a speculation which promises them no gain, but only pretends to insure them from any loss


    7. Its ultimate object, however, it pretends, is always the same, to enrich the country by an advantageous balance of trade


    8. The science which pretends to investigate and explain those connecting principles, is what is properly called Moral Philosophy


    9. That’s when a website pretends to be a legitimate online store or even your bank, but all it does is steal your personal information


    10. He’s probably everything he pretends to be

    11. I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself—when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve


    12. Under such a regime the Supreme Court pretends that what it says is constitutional law, and the American people, from law professors to the man in the street, must pretend to believe it


    13. (A familiar spirit is a necromancer that pretends to bring up the dead


    14. ” He yells as she pretends to hang up


    15. I saw the movie with Edward Norton where he pretends to have


    16. “Why don’t you…?” she pretends to hesitate and he’s caught as firmly as bird in a trap


    17. She pretends to sleep, and pretends to wake when she hears a mistake


    18. So, she pretends that that she’s been


    19. "Focusing on the mission," Gianni interjected, "Well, these people in this social club, the one that pretends to be that, anyway, so they would lean more toward the Islam side


    20. Barry? Well, she's after him, and he pretends he's interested—but he isn't, I'll bet

    21. And Saipele she pretends to play up to lately but you can see it's an act… Her heart isn't in it


    22. She pretends, even to herself, that she is acting altruistically and purely for the good of


    23. Some people call them the Fake Right because the Yakuza Right pretends they’re a politically-oriented, right-wing organization


    24. He waves his medicine-stick at it, he sings to it, he asks it questions and pretends to hear answers


    25. `Gorham is more powerful than he pretends to be


    26. No one even pretends to know how consciousness is


    27. He is now known as Nigel De Jong and pretends to be Afrikaans


    28. Put very simply, a human adult in the back of the movie theatre can never get all its ducks in a row at one time, no matter what it does or believes or pretends


    29. But Pallantides is back from exile in Ophir, swearing that the king was ill in his tent that day, and that a man-at-arms wore his harness, and a squire who but recently recovered from the stroke of a mace received at Valkia confirms his tale—or pretends to


    30. Parking the car a bit further along than last time, but where he can still see who comes in and out, he picks up a newspaper and pretends to read

    31. Taking a handkerchief from his pocket he pretends to blow his nose as he enters the building


    32. Noël pretends he needs to think about it and then shakes his head


    33. Inside the car a man pretends to read a newspaper which is unfolded in front of him


    34. Slowing down as he reaches the first lay-by Malcolm pretends to look up into the trees


    35. Better a man, that is honest with himself than someone who constantly pretends


    36. things and which Toto pretends he knows lots about but is just being really foney again


    37. between his legs and pretends that he’s a girl, well he’s hiding out and there’s this other girl in like a big pit (Dad said it was a geek pit, cos people used to put geeks in pits and throw chicken heads at them before they had computers and got rich and cool


    38. And our government pretends to have a solution with the new legislation, while Uncle Sam is digging like crazy to keep up with the over spending


    39. A cross-site request forgery is where an attacker pretends to be a user that the website recognizes (such as a logged-in user), and the attacker is then able to access a logged-in user's profile as though they were the genuine user


    40. � She pretends that she was attacked and was just defending herself

    41. Now when God plays hide and pretends that he is you and I, he does it so well that it takes him a long time to remember where and how he hid himself…


    42. He pretends to be you or someone with authorized access to your


    43. pretends to be you or someone with authorized access to your account


    44. Nevertheless, the longer one pretends they don’t exist, is to the extent core fears drive life and reality


    45. A person doesn’t have to have an expanded knowledge of the things of God, nor does he have to hear from Him daily to be prepared ‘good ground’, but he does have to turn loose of this world and the smokescreen of what it pretends to offer, and have an inward yearning for the things of God; His seed


    46. He teases me, pretends he doesn’t


    47. Jason leans in and pretends to be pointing out words in the


    48. pretends he distracted with probing the pig


    49. take this,” she says as she pretends to move the stick shift, “and put it-


    50. “Sure, why not?” Shane looks back down at his ipod and pretends to use it again












































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