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Some of them were shamming, lying in two senses and groaning when the physicians were present, but able to sit up and play euchre the rest of the day and half the night.

From Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5 by Sprague, Homer B. (Homer Baxter)

Then when they brought you up out of the engine room—" "We were shamming, that's all.

From The Rover Boys in Southern Waters or The Deserted Steam Yacht by Stratemeyer, Edward

I knew you were shamming, and not ill at all.

From Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor by Schonberg, John

We thought that they were shamming, and treated them like the rest.

From Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days by Kingston, William Henry Giles

If on the other hand, she were shamming, and were in 19 reality endowed with a measure of the Howe shrewdness, that was another matter.

From The Wall Between by Bassett, Sara Ware