67 collocations for counterfeit

He then told Afrásiyáb how he had saved his life by counterfeiting death, and assured him that it was useless to contend against Rustem.

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States.

Mary, however, hearing that some letters were intended to be produced against her, directed her commissioners to require them for her inspection, and, in the mean time, to declare them false and feigned, forged and invented, observing, that there were many that could counterfeit her hand.

Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm.

[6080]Neptune saw by chance that Thessalian Tyro, Eunippius' wife, he forthwith, in the fury of his lust, counterfeited her husband's habit, and made him cuckold.

When Stalin counterfeited dollars.

He made a shocking gesture in the air with his raised right hand, and put out his tongue and threw his head on one side, so as to counterfeit the appearance of one who has been hanged.

Others, that the army separated without victory on either side; and that Postumius, counterfeiting fear, withdrew his forces privately by night, and marched away to the mountains; whither the enemy also followed, and took possession of a stronghold two miles distant.

A great temptation to all mischief, it compels some miserable wretches to counterfeit several diseases, to dismember, make themselves blind, lame, to have a more plausible cause to beg, and lose their limbs to recover their present wants.

But while love was thus stealing into the hearts of Aliena and Oliver, he was no less busy with Ganimed, who hearing of the danger Orlando had been in, and that he was wounded by the lioness, fainted; and when he recovered, he pretended that he had counterfeited the swoon in the imaginary character of Rosalind, and Ganimed said to Oliver, "Tell your brother Orlando how well I counterfeited a swoon."

Accordingly she forced herself to a gaiety, she was far from feeling, vainly imagining that by counterfeiting a chearfulness, she should in time be able to resume it; but du Plessis hung too heavy at her heart, and when she affected the greatest shew of mirth, it was often interrupted with sighs, which she was not always sensible of herself.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a report from the Secretary of State, suggesting the propriety of passing a law making it criminal within the limits of the United States to counterfeit the current coin of any foreign nation.

The unnatural parent, as those warning cries break the silence, may counterfeit Death's counterfeit, and may even be guilty of the surpassing iniquity of simulating a snore.

he has killed me; kill him!' At which cry running quickly up, the guards and others, such as happened to be nearest, massacred this assassin of a Jacobin who, as D'Aubigne says, stretched out his two arms against the wall, counterfeiting the crucifix, whilst the blows were dealt him.

It is shocking indeed to be fastened speechless upon a rack, and to be charged by uncomprehending souls with counterfeiting emotion.

Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellencies which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment.

I no longer saw the room nor my friends, but I heard one of them saying, "It must be real; he could not counterfeit such an expression as that.

where couldst thou find Shades to counterfeit that face? Colours of this glorious kind Come not from any mortal place.

I will counterfeit a fall.

Why did I think we should find the real clew to that Bordeaux counterfeiting gang in a Passy wine shop?

Not taking rank among the great masters of English poetry, he yet possesses a genuine poetic faculty which distinguishes him from "the small harpers with their glees" who counterfeit the true gift of Nature.

172; counterfeiting happiness, ii. 169, n. 3; despised, not to be, i. 144, n. 2; Johnson's knowledge of it, i. 215; likes the society of a man of the world, iii. 21, n. 3; judgment must be accepted, i. 200; knowledge not strained through books, i. 105; peevishly represented as very unjust, iii. 237, n. 1; running about it, i. 215; running from it, iv.

[5088]Peter Aretine's Lucretia telleth as much and more of herself, "I counterfeited honesty, as if I had been virgo virginissima, more than a vestal virgin, I looked like a wife, I was so demure and chaste, I did add such gestures, tunes, speeches, signs and motions upon all occasions, that my spectators and auditors were stupefied, enchanted, fastened all to their places, like so many stocks and stones."

Charlotta will be here immediately;she has counterfeited an indisposition to avoid going to vespers, and obtained permission for me to stay with her;so that every thing is right, and as soon as the choir is gone into chapel you will see her.

She counterfeited chronic invalidism and she performed competently.

67 collocations for  counterfeit