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Some types of frogs pretend to be dead when captured, but quickly hop away when let go.

Some kinds of frogs will pretend to be dead when captured, but quickly hop away when let go.

If you are approached by a black bear, it is sometimes best to pretend to be dead so that the animal loses interest in you.

It was not difficult to pretend to be my mother.

If you should meet a bear, pretend to be dead.

An architect should not pretend to be an artist.

Children like to pretend to be adults when they play.

They pretend to be man and wife.

And therefore I think it no way agreeable to a true natural Historian, to pretend to be so sharp-sighted, as to see what a pre-conceiv'd Hypothesis tells them should be there, where another man, though perhaps as seeing, but not forestall'd, can discover no such matter.

He did not pretend to be ‘bien placé’ when he was not, nor avow a power of holding which he knew he did not possess.

I care only that they shall know who I am; I will not, for my part, pretend to be what I am not.

Many ladies, in many tales of chivalry, have demanded strange services from their lovers: none so strange as that asked by Angela when she ordered her lover not only to pretend to be a cabinet-maker, and a joiner, but to work at his trade and to live by it.

Some are wholly superstitious, others are purely empirical, and yet others are based upon ideas that their promoters suppose or pretend to be scientific, but that are actually fallacious.

This is not absolute, for I have witnessed the table call itself the devil, or even pretend to be a man still alive.

Certainly they did not pretend to be sleepy, they were sleepy; and that was a danger, for the moment they popped off, down they fell.

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