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And she followed him through another 209 tour of the room, turning her averted head from side to side in pretendedly ranging the floor with her eyes.

From The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 by Stephens, Robert Neilson

She fingered the length of ravelled bordering that drooped from the hair-cloth cushion of her chair and ran an eye, pretendedly speculative, up and down the pink and green stripes of Mrs. Bates's wall-paper.

From With the Procession by Fuller, Henry Blake

One day Mistress Bridget brought in a tall beggar woman, dumb, or pretendedly so, and apparently deaf.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John

This will the wife notices; but she does not conjoin herself with it, except pretendedly or in the way of sport.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

Whenever a victory of his was reported, they rejoiced, and whenever a reverse, they grieved,—some really, some pretendedly in each case.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Foster, Herbert Baldwin