Example Sentences

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"Carambo! so I have," he said, with a well-simulated astonishment.

From Long Live the King by Boothby, Guy

I exclaimed, with I hope well-simulated horror; "you don't mean to suspect Miss Holland of that surely!"

From The Spy in Black by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)

The Rat was standing with his back to the secret door, and Billy Kane’s eyes swept past the other now in a well-simulated vacant, wavering way—and fell again upon the Rat.

From Doors of the Night by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)

He looked over at them with well-simulated indifference.

From The Bartlett Mystery by Tracy, Louis

With an expression of well-simulated surprise, he made the other stereotyped motions.

From Mortmain by Train, Arthur Cheny