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The champion death-feigner of the vegetable kingdom is a South American plant, _Mimosa pudica_.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

States is the most accomplished death-feigner that I have ever seen; its make-believe death struggles, in which it writhes and twists in seeming agony and finally turns upon its back and assumes _rigor mortis_, cannot be surpassed by any actor "on the boards" in point of pantomimic excellence.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

(_Canthon lævis_), which may be seen any day in August rolling its ball of manure, in which are its eggs, to some suitable place of interment, is a remarkable death-feigner.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

For instance, the "fever worm," the larva of one of our common moths, -- the Isabella tiger-moth, -- is a noted death-feigner, and will

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

This miraculously healed individual was a feigner, who had eventually been recognised at the Medical Verification Office.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

This miraculously healed individual was a feigner, who had eventually been recognised at the Medical Verification Office.

The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

This miraculously healed individual was a feigner, who had eventually been recognised at the Medical Verification Office.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5 ��mile Zola 1871

And these three voices differ, as the thing done, the doing, and the doer; the thing feigned, the feigning, and the feigner; so the poem, the poesy, and the poet.

Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems Ben Jonson 1605

-- A poet is that which by the Greeks is called [Greek text], a maker, or a feigner: his art, an art of imitation or feigning; expressing the life of man in fit measure, numbers, and harmony, according to Aristotle; from the word [Greek text], which signifies to make or feign.

Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems Ben Jonson 1605

Once he came out in support for Scuzzifaker, and attacked Hoffman, he showed himself to be a man without principles, and certainly no more than a feigner to conservative values, that he is obviouysly willing to toss in the dirt for the mere hope at the Pyrrhic victory a Scuzzifaker win would bring.

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