Example Sentences

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All that meant she did not love him;—she might have shammed the love.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

Look you, all have been talking, and I have shammed dead like a stink-cat when dogs are about; now I am going to begin.

From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Haggard, Henry Rider

He would have shammed illness if there had been the slightest chance of being believed.

From The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life by Brazil, Angela

It was a more useful blind than his cobbling, or he would have shammed illness and got quit of it.

From Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

A little rap would start the blood, and he might have shammed a great deal of that staggering-around business.

From The Black Star A Detective Story by McCulley, Johnston