How To Use Pretender In A Sentence
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It also means the expert deception of the senses by the tricks of a conjurer, so-called hocus-pocus and fraud, and a magician is either an evil-minded, superstitious mortal, fool enough to believe in charms, or an expert pretender and imposter of the first water, who cheats and deceives the people.
The light of Egypt; or, The science of the soul and the stars
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Sometimes the country has to take precedence over a do-nothing imposter and pretender to the throne.
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He isn't thinking of returning full-time to a career in interviewing and he wasn't keen to offer advice to the latest pretender to his throne.
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Third, the world sees no near-term pretender to the throne because neither the divergent economies within the Euro zone nor the undemocratic Chinese regime command sufficient confidence in their respective currencies.
NYT > Opinion
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She has establshied good will with many people across the aisle. did you miss that Steve Clemons found that your belove pretender was negligent with the only job he could have learned something about foreign policy?
Bill Clinton: Hillary Will Call Upon Bush 41
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The real contest, champions v pretenders, begins.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such changes towards a commercialized society destabilized Scottish society, leading to support for the Stuart pretender across the seas in France.
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Suddenly, the hurdling landscape is vibrant, young pretenders jostling for prominence in a fascinatingly fluid cast.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wonder if pretender is going to do that dumb ass Bruce Springsteen crap today.
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This one consideration, I say, well weighed and applied, will retund the edge and dint of all the Socinian assaults against this great article; whom I have still observed to assert boldly, when they conclude weakly, and in all their arguments to prove nothing more than this, that the greatest pretenders to, are not always the greatest masters of reason.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
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This account of seemingly genuine claimants, reckless pretenders, daffy charlatans and patently mad pretenders to the French crown is the stuff of high farce.
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It was Don King's first major promotion and set the then 32 year old Ali, against the younger pretender to his throne, George Foreman, seven years younger at 25.
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Plus, I am not even Chinese, so I am not a China girl per se, just a pretender to the throne.
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I believe this to be the true king of the jungle and not that overrated pretender, the lion.
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I class him among what are popularly known as humbugs, however, for he is a pretender to more wisdom than he possesses.
The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages
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With a week remaining in the schedule, all but four of the league's teams were within two games of first place - and not one of them was a pretender to the throne.
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When you're looking for great pretenders, splurge a little for high-end pieces with multifaceted crystal, semiprecious stones and sharp styling.
Rebuilding a Jewelry Collection
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Contenders, crooners and pretenders - they're all here.
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He will certainly be looking to clip the young pretender's wings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pretender was proclaimed in Edinburgh, when the Highland army was on its march to London, and when all the hopes of hollow courtiership and inveterate Jacobitism were turned to the triumph of the ancient dynasty.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
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It was well, too, that under a new dynasty, with its title disputed, England should not encourage France to continue the friendly policy of Louis XIV towards James, the deposed Stuart Pretender.
The Conquest of New France A chronicle of the colonial wars
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In the 1988 these “Pretenders” were a subline within the Transformers toy line.
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Is he the great socialist pretender, taking his place amongst the regal, instead of the people?
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The movie is convicted of being an unworthy pretender to the throne.
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All of these great pretenders do a disservice to genuine sufferers.
The Sun
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Britain had long been a bolt-hole for pretenders to the imperial purple, and in times of crisis it had a history of seceding from the empire and looking after its own affairs.
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Alas, I cannot find it in my eleemosynary nature to weep a solitary tear for this haut bourgeois pretender and his gewgaw-bearing mate.
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Everyone thought I knew what I was doing, but I felt like a fraud, an impostor, the Great Pretender!
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The pretenders to his crown have arrived at Cheltenham each year full of hope that they could be the one to topple the champ.
The Sun
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Many pretenders are only pretending that they want to be champions.
Times, Sunday Times
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The film was excellently soundtracked with hits from Van Morrison, the Pretenders, the Pogues, Fine Young Cannibals, and The Who.
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A vendetta soon removes the young pretender, but the next maid the family hire is not so easy to dislodge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today there are two pretenders to the title of headmaster, each self-appointed.
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Master and pupil, young pretender and the man who once wore golf's crown.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's as empty as a drum, a conscious attitudinizer, a hollow pretender, a mere humbug.
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Groom a pretender (for lack of a better word), build a coalition, and wait for your CEO to screw up, which he will if he is a short-termer. Then pounce.
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Now the workout method of pretender is a norm and practical method.
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A more violent end meets an earlier pretender to verse, suitably violent as befits the rebel Jack Cade.
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Perhaps KB the wise old bird saw through the manipulation and the scheming of the pretenders, fakes, and exploiters, and was determined to keep the wolves away.
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As a fake, a fraud, a pretender.
The Sun
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He'll continue to have a hard time convincing voters he isn't a dangerous and phoney pretender with no business shooting higher than, say, the Sports Ministry.
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MGM has quietly put out a Special Edition of It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World on DVD in the shadow of the recent theatrical pretender to the throne, Rat Race.
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As praetor 148, he was sent to Macedonia, probably with proconsular status, and remained until 146, defeating Andriscus and perhaps another pretender.
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She becomes a pretender to the place of the hero.
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All the better, so it would seem, to throw into relief Schelling's philosophical manliness, his sturdy willingness to embrace what the aesthetes and mere pretenders to philosophy would deny, namely the irreducibility of ardent affective life.
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
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Charles's three sisters had married into the royal families of Bavaria, Austria, and France, and each had a son who was a pretender to the Spanish throne.
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She was neither very brilliant, nor altogether a pretender, but might be described as a showy woman, of slight but popular accomplishments.
Autobiographical Sketches
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As a fake, a fraud, a pretender.
The Sun
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In matters cultural he may have been a great pretender.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is he not a little irked at the success and the seemingly perpetual limelight that the young pretender is enjoying?
Times, Sunday Times
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As a fake, a fraud, a pretender.
The Sun
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The pretender to the title crown has spent a frantic week constructing new contracts for his players but Sir Alex Ferguson yesterday demonstrated the benefits of a taking a loftier position than Rafael Benitez, emerging emboldened and invigorated from a week in southern France, and armed with a rationalisation of why it all fell apart in the previous two weeks of Premier League competition.
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Do NOT get me started on those pretenders to the semicolonial throne!
I'm This Many
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The young pretenders have scant regard for reputations.
Times, Sunday Times
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To refuse to blame the system is to assume a certain power, the way a pretender assumes a royal title or titular duchy or two.
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Some have been too fat, too bulky, too clunky, or too inaccurate to be a successful pretender to the throne.
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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
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But while they and the other title pretenders have stuttered and stalled, the Reds have come storming back to take 18 points from 18, the best run by any Premiership side this season.
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Now they look more like contenders than pretenders, especially following this convincing hammering.
The Sun
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At last the whackos were exposed, the pretenders unmasked.
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To help make your decision-making a little easier, here are 25 capsule reviews that separate the essential cinema from the pretenders to the throne.
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James Francis Edward, who called himself James the Third, and whom his opponents called the Pretender, by a translation which gave an injurious signification to the French word "pretendant.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)
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_Boswell's conversation with the King about the title proper to be given to the Young Pretender.
Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.
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THE old master showed the young pretender he still has a bit to learn.
The Sun
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While rock offers a chosen few access to the very gates of paradise, a million more pretenders to stardom in every generation have to suck it up and get on with their unextraordinary, unprivileged lives.
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With this he would regain his freedom from enslavement to the wicked Asurimus, to that pretender to godhood.
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Telling tall tales Some pretenders to glory spin wondrous yarns.
Bill Burke 12/2001
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As a result, attempts to dethrone Henry were poorly supported in England and the Yorkist pretenders (such as Lambert Simnel in 1487) failed to carry conviction.
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Proves that a serious pretender to the throne of pop music refinement need not settle for a mere band when the London Philharmonic will do just as well.
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Also if you click the swap link above you'll see I beat some pretender to the inflatable throne by a minute.
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Too many pretenders have been the trouble for Spurs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Groom a pretender (for lack of a better word), build a coalition, and wait for your CEO to screw up, which he will if he is a short-termer. Then pounce.
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The pretender to the crown is back in the picture.
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The person and cause of the Pretender were become contemptible; his title disowned throughout Europe; his party disbanded in England.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
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The young pretenders have scant regard for reputations.
Times, Sunday Times
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The foreigner gained time to anarchize by gold the government he could not overthrow by arms, to crush in their own councils the genuine republicans, by the fraternal embraces of exaggerated and hired pretenders, and to turn the machine of Jacobinism from the change to the destruction of order: and, in the end, the limited monarchy they had secured was exchanged for the unprincipled and bloody tyranny of Robespierre, and the equally unprincipled and maniac tyranny of Bonaparte.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
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We are looking for contenders, not pretenders.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such terms as "falsifier," "upstart," "pretender," were freely used, and poor Newton for a time was almost in despair.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
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The young pretender has taken his crown and the king wants it back.
Times, Sunday Times
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He can be forgiven that lapse and should recover losses at the expense of the Gold Cup pretender.
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These pretenders offer new notions of the Deity, new doctrines, commands, ceremonies and modes of worship.
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Is he not a little irked at the success and the seemingly perpetual limelight that the young pretender is enjoying?
Times, Sunday Times
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But Caron, like Ginger Rogers and Cyd Charisse before her, was dancing her way into the hearts of millions years before these young pretenders ever put on top hat and tails.
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The foreigner gained time to anarchise by gold the government he could not overthrow by arms, to crush in their own councils the genuine republicans, by the fraternal embraces of exaggerated and hired pretenders, and to turn the machine of Jacobinism from the change to the destruction of order; and, in the end, the limited monarchy they had secured was exchanged for the unprincipled and bloody tyranny of Robespierre, and the equally unprincipled and maniac tyranny of Bonaparte.
Letters
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But there's one new pretender who is really causing a stir at the oche.
The Sun
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Meanwhile, the pretender is huddling with Meathead.
Balloon Juice » 2002 » September
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The young pretender has taken his crown and the king wants it back.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anastasius fought the pretender Vitalian, commander of the Bulgarian foederati.
493, Feb. 27
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The European Union has a lot of pretenders and contenders for that position, but they don't have it yet, as evidenced by the debates they had over the constitution last week.
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Second, your so-called bride, the pretender Andromeda, will be sold off-island into prostitution.
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The head of the family and pretender to the throne, Otto von Habsburg, was also promised Muerzsteg Castle, which is today the summer seat of the Austrian head of state.
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The young pretenders have scant regard for reputations.
Times, Sunday Times
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Can't we just get rid of the young pretenders and instal him as King of England?
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The Duke's name disperses armies, as the Pretender's raised them.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
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The one thing most people are likely to have heard about the young pretender is his refusal to say whether he has used illegal drugs.
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But his last-minute equaliser showed he can still be just as effective as any of his young pretenders in the air.
The Sun
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Many will be pretenders, consciously or unconsciously, because traditionalistic and idealistic models of the world serve their sexual interests.
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Now there may be a new pretender.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are all dilettantes and pretenders by comparison.
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The pretender to the throne left the country before the police could question him about the incident.
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Then came the pretenders, men who from vanity, or the impulse of growing wealth, or from that enterprize which is natural to talents, sought to detach themselves from the plebeian ranks, to which they properly belonged, and imitated, at some distance, the manners and habits of the great.
Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry
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You were to learn what you could of the Pretender's movements, and incidentally you were to intromit with certain of our settled agents at Versailles.
Doom Castle
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The media once feasted on such stories, although they never quite delved deeply enough into the phenomenon to increase the public's understanding of the subtle ways cynical and power-hungry people use phony spiritualism, alienation, and communes run by guru pretenders for power and profit.
Warren Adler: Martha Marcy May Marlene: A Brave Movie
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For if thou shouldst import new learning amongst dullards, thou wilt be thought a useless trifler, void of knowledge; while if thy fame in the city o'ertops that of the pretenders to cunning knowledge, thou wilt win their dislike.
Medea
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He'll continue to have a hard time convincing voters he isn't a dangerous and phoney pretender with no business shooting higher than, say, the Sports Ministry.
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Beatrix and her brother Frank, now the fifth viscount, are ardent Jacobites, and Esmond becomes involved with them in a plot to restore James Edward Stuart, the old pretender, to the throne on the death of Queen Anne.
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Rambo may well be an action hero of yesteryear but Sly reckons he would be more than a match for modern-day pretenders.
The Sun
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P6 doesn't seem impressive, but given fellow title pretender Hamilton's struggles, Felipe Massa is quite happy after he managed to scrape through in the difficult Q2 session and then qualify sixth.
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I saw myself protecting poetry against the pretenders, the charlatans, the fakers.
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The first arrest was made in September when an officer in the Guards was arrested for enlisting men for the Pretender.
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Boswell's conversation with the King about the title proper to be given to the Young Pretender.
Life of Johnson
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With England also heavily present in the ICC Test match team of the year, where Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann and James Anderson were also selected, the evening represented something of a coronation for Andy Flower, whose transformation of the muddled and occasionally timid collection of talented individuals he inherited into the current blockbusting Test match force and one-day pretenders has been remarkable.
England's Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook hit sixes at ICC awards
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The person and cause of the Pretender were become contemptible; his title disowned throughout Europe, his party disbanded in England.
Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc.
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By European standards, the British standing army was tiny; even the small and ill-assorted force which the Young Pretender brought into the heart of the English Midlands in December 1745 plainly stretched the defenders to the limit.
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Happy Go Unlucky, even in a musical world chock full of Lennon/McCartney pretenders, is a full-on ‘Penny Lane’ styled mini-me.
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James Edward (the Old Pretender, son of James II, d. 1701) landed in Scotland, but the French fleet assisting him was beaten and he returned to France.
1706
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Then came the pretenders, men who from vanity, or the impulse of growing wealth, or from that enterprize which is natural to talents,
Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry
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Sure, three sexy women are in it, but the only way I'll see this pretender to feminism is for free.
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The few pretenders who remained were a disappointing assortment of dim, second-class felons and impotent thugs.
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Yet, they keep winning, whilst certain pretenders have experienced a few slips.
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The pretenders to his crown have arrived at Cheltenham each year full of hope that they could be the one to topple the champ.
The Sun
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James goes off to fight with the Pretender, and is reported to have been killed at Culloden.
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He was a candler, and not like a pretender, the kind of people who claimed to be, who took comfort in the illusion of belief.
Fishers of Hope
