...If the Chateau de Vaux possessed a single fault with which it could be reproached, it was its grand, pretentious character... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...Suddenly the mare drew up on her haunches, under the porch of a pretentious residence...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... This was the first time that I had ever heard anything about any kind of school or college that was more pretentious than the little coloured school in our town...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
...It was the day of the greatest expansion oftwo of the world's most pretentious religions and of the beginningsof the modern organization of industry...
W.E.B. Du Bois 「The Negro」
... The name given me by my dear mother was noless pretentious and long than Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey...
Frederick Douglass 「Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass」
... The house was one of the most pretentious in that region, and was a year and a half in building...
Louis Hughes 「Thirty Years a Slave」
...Horses! That is a pretentious word to be written down by a manof letters! Musa pedestris, says Horace; that is, the Muse goes onfoot, and Parnassus itself has but one horse in its stable, Pegasus...
Theophile Gautier F. C. de Sumichrast 「My Private Menagerie」
...His nursery and living-room is quite pretentious, but hislateral storeroom is a marvel! He is a miser indeed, and stores up everyacorn and nut he can find, even many times more than he can ever eat...
Royal Dixon 「The Human Side of Animals」
...There is nothing pretentious in his appearance; nothing ecclesiasticalin his general framework; and in the street he looks almost as muchlike anybody else as like a parson...
Atticus 「Our Churches and Chapels」
...There were flowers in all the more pretentious private gardens...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930」
..."Not exactly pretentious," Chet had admitted, "but we'll do better lateron...
Charles Willard Diffin 「Brood of the Dark Moon」
...On the highest point of the knoll, some few weeks later, a house wasbeing built—a more pretentious structure, this, than the other littlehuts...
Charles Willard Diffin 「Brood of the Dark Moon」
...The description of electricunits, the volt, the ohm, and especially the ampere, is better thanwe have found in more pretentious works...
Cecil G. Dolmage 「Astronomy of To-day」
...Theother clubs, though less pretentious, are all comfortable...
R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny 「Town Life in Australia」
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