An Anti-Corn-Law association was formed in London, It began pretentiously enough, but it brought about no result.

He was pretentiously moral and exemplary of life and pen, and so suited the Queen.

Soaring massively and pretentiously into the sky it dwarfed everything around; and thus, in his opinion, utterly spoilt that part of the Embankment.

Manifestly Greek must be dropped as a part of the general curriculum for a highly educated man, for the simple reason that now there are scarcely any competent teachers, and because the sham of teaching it partially and pretentiously demoralises student and school alike.

They are the living spirits of feudalism, which have survived its human retainers by several hundred years, and now represent the defunct institution as pretentiously as in King Stephen's day.

Less than an hour later we drew up at Gex outside the little inn, pretentiously called Le Roi de Rome.