"Looking back on my conduct from the moment I first set foot on your beach, I can see no
false pretence that I have made about myself or my intentions.
Setting her own inclination apart, to have failed a second time in her engagement to Miss Tilney, to have retracted a promise voluntarily made only five minutes before, and on a
false pretence too, must have been wrong.
What were we to do with the frail little creature we had lured back to life by
false pretences? I offered my pockets, but Tony shook her head and carefully put the green insect in her hair, tying her big handkerchief down loosely over her curls.
In the next place, no credit ought to be given to those who endeavour to deceive the people with
false pretences; for they will be [1308a] confuted by facts.
Can you with honour be guilty of having under
false pretences deceived a young woman and her family, and of having by these means treacherously robbed her of her innocence?
He as good as told him that he'd come out under
false pretences, that the whole affair was a swindle and that the road could not be made.
How was I to know that it was obtaining money under
false pretences? It simply seemed to me a darned good way of collecting a few dollars.
Had he any prescience of the day, five years to come, when Josiah Bounderby of Coketown was to die of a fit in the Coketown street, and this same precious will was to begin its long career of quibble, plunder,
false pretences, vile example, little service and much law?
In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under
false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
to tell me that the first night he had brought you with him on
false pretences. He had to tell me a great deal more before I could quite believe him.
He looks upon Kit as an intruder, as one who has obtained admission to that place on
false pretences, who has enjoyed a privilege without being duly qualified.
Tom consulted a lawyer about a divorce, on the ground of "
false pretences." He was even ready to make an affidavit that he had been slaughtered.