pretendin

"You got no call pretendin 'that you're all goody-good."

The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

That very afternoon there comes a swell into the wax-works, an 'as soon as Joe sets eyes on him, he knows it's the chap he first see Polly with in the race-week, and there he is a-saunterin' 'round an' pretendin 'to be unconcerned, an' yet keepin 'a sharp look-out around him.

Smethurstses 1995

Actin 'up just like they was boys, sleepin' out in the woods an 'pretendin' they're as brave as anythin '.

A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire The Camp Fire Girls In the Woods Jane L. Stewart

Actin 'up just like they was boys, sleepin' out in the woods an 'pretendin' they're as brave as anythin '.

The Camp Fire Girls in the Woods, or Bessie King's First Council Fire 1914

I think he was kind of pretendin 'he was talkin' to Miss Pratt, or at a party, maybe.

Seventeen 1915

I think he was kind of pretendin 'he was talkin' to Miss Pratt, or at a party, maybe.

Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907

I was a-'pretendin ',' miss, "she answered a little sheepishly;" I was tryin 'to see it like you do.

A Little Princess 1905

But you make me laugh, puttin 'on airs an' pretendin 'to do it for spoort -- "Wimmen ha'n't got no sense o' spoort, "says you, all solemn as owls.

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Well, there he was comin 'across the stubble -- at a fine pace, too, with his coat' pon his arm -- when as I guess he spied me down in the road below and stopped short, danderin 'about an' pretendin 'to poke up weeds with his stick.

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

o 'me, "continued Captain Bunker with a tentative chuckle," sort o' pretendin 'to hand yo'r auntie to Kernel Marion for -- for his lady love!

Sally Dows Bret Harte 1869