Wycherley's The Plain Dealer (1674), iii, I, where the Lawyer says to Manly: 'You ... shammed me all night long.' 'Shammed!' cries Manley, 'prithee what barbarous law-term is that?' 'Shamming ...' answers the lawyer, ''tis all our way of wit, Sir.'

And Freeman explains 'Shamming is telling you an insipid dull lie with a dull face, which the sly wag the author only laughs at himself; and making himself believe 'tis a good jest, puts the sham only upon himself.'

Can you confidently say that he is not in a sound sleep, or in a dead faint, or shamming and ready at the first touch of the knife to leap up and seize his assailantI mean his carverby the throat and perhaps murder him as he once murdered a spoonbill?"

Indeed it was some hours before this poor silly gentleman began to suspect the truth, which was that his vixen had practised a deception upon him, and all the time he was bemoaning his loss in such heartrending terms, she was only shamming death to run away directly she was able.

I added that he was undoubtedly shamming, but that at the same time it might be as well to take a few simple precautions.

Miss Caroline said that of course he was shamming, in order to get out of work, and that she would soon drive that nonsense out of his head if she had to wear the black wretch out to do it.

" I was appealed to, and stated my opinion honestly: that I had closely watched the man at the trial, and was satisfied that he was shamming insanity.

Upon hearing the explosion, the wretched and the oppressed, those who wander about pursued by force, will sally forth armed to join Cabesang Tales in Santa Mesa, whence they will fall upon the city, [70] while the soldiers, whom I have made to believe that the General is shamming an insurrection in order to remain, will issue from their barracks ready to fire upon whomsoever I may designate.

"She's shamming, the little monkey.

"Don't be shamming," returned the dacoits contemptuously, "thou knowest well whom we mean.

And in the month of May, 1852, the magistrates of Wakefield were insulted by a boy 15 years old, who had been taken up as an impostor, with his arm doubled in a sling, and shamming to be deaf and dumb,a healthy strong youth, able and fit for workand when asked why he did not work, answered, because he could get more by his own method!

It is altogether likely that Prussia was, as is usual with her at every European crisis, shamming.

ah, jamais! jamais!" "Pa's dead, eh? or shamming?

The cynical young man is probably shamming; he is a humbug, not a cynic.

"If he's shamming I don't mind.

He was shamming!' roared Roy, darting off in pursuit, regardless of the bullets.

The Grecians, he said, like the Greeks, were wily folk and capable of shamming dead while they were all the while scheming and plotting to restore their imperilled supremacy.

But after a moment she knew that he was shamming no longeror she knew it and yet could not quite believe it; for, hurrying out of the room for water, she had no sooner passed the door than she swiftly put back her head as if to catch him unawares; but he lay motionless.

" That set me whistling to myself, and I laughed to think how near I had come to giving nitroglycerin to a fellow who was only shamming heart-failure; for that it was Frederic Cullen who had climbed on the car I hadn't the slightest doubt, the resemblance between the two brothers being quite strong enough to deceive any one who had never seen them together.

" "Come, sir, this shamming will only increase your punishment;" but the imperturbable Duncan stretched himself lazily, gave a great yawn, and then awoke with such an admirably feigned start at seeing Dr. Rowlands, that Eric, who had been peeping at the scene from over his bed-clothes, burst into an irresistible explosion of laughter.

"You unsuspecting little idiot," she said, giving me a tender little shake that robbed the words of their harshness, "can't you see that that girl is shamming?" For a moment I could not comprehend what she meant; then the full truth burst upon me.

"You are simply shamming this delirium, and you are lessening your chances for life every minute you persist in it.

"He's shamming, that's wot 'e is," ses Peter Russet.

Thou art shamming!" "I mean every word; 'tis my Lord en masque, for to-night there is to be a great and magnificent spectacle.

He and the Second Nurse talked apart for quite a long while, and paid no attention to the child, who lay shamming a doze, but with her ears open.