741 examples of shams in sentences

"Hypocrites and shams!" "Evadne!"

There would be fewer despicable shams among them.

But of all the Persian lyric poets, Shams al-Din Mohammed Háfiz has been declared by all to be the greatest.

He sought to expose ignorance, when it was pretentious; he made all the quacks and shams appear ridiculous.

He sees into all shams and all hypocrisies, and denounces lies.

They abhor the same class of defects which disgust us,hypocrisies, shams, lies.

He was the incarnation of a fervid, living, active piety amid forms and formulas, a fearless exposer of all shams, an uncompromising enemy to the blended atheism and idolatry of his ungodly age.

No use in trying to pass off shams upon him.

Like Carlyle, he dislikes shams, and protests against what he calls the barbarisms of society; but he writes with a light touch, using satire and banter as the better part of his argument.

Jefferson's manners were simple, his dress was plain, he was accessible to everybody, he was boundless in his hospitalities, he cared little for money, his opinions were liberal and progressive, he avoided quarrels, he had but few prejudices, he was kind and generous to the poor and unfortunate, he exalted agricultural life, he hated artificial splendor, and all shams and lies.

Is it a good way to help reformers like Lord Minto and myself, in carrying through political reform, to inflame the minds of those who listen to such teachers, to inflame their minds with the idea that our proposals and projects are shams?

Let them know all, as long as I can have done with shams and affectations, dreams, and vain ambitions, and he just my own self once more, for one day, and then die!"

"Call me John Briggs, and let us have done with shams for ever.

I have found favour in the poor dear thing's eyes, I suppose: and the good old fellow knows it, and won't betray her, and so shams tyrant.

Whatsoever else, in their crusade against shams, they were too hasty in sweeping away, they were right, at least, in sweeping away such a sham as that.

But once enter the charmed gate of the gymnasium, and you leave shams behind.

The othersall the others had been shams and make-believes and counterfeits.

He was a man far ahead of his times, broad-minded, spiritual in its best sense, and with a winning personality, just the man to attract a clear-sighted, keen-witted boy who quickly saw through shams and despised affectations.

Her children played in the quick-passing columns of the periodicalsambidextrous, untamable, shockingly rough in their games, these children, but shams slunk away from their shrill laughter.

Utterly unawed by the splendid company in which he found himself, he valued it at its true worth and was keenly and amusingly observant of its pretensions, its shams, its flippancy, its instability, its charm.

It had taken him but a short time to realize what shams, what hollowness, what corruption existed beneath the brilliant and gay surface.

No pampered royal heiress, either, for whom the world of hard facts had no reality, and the silken shams of a Court constituted the only standpoint, but one who had already with steady eyes looked danger and disaster in the face and knew them for what they were.

"From false ambitions and base luxuries; From puny aims and indolent self-ends; From cant of faith, and shams of liberties, And mist of ill that Truth's pure daybeam bends: Out, from all darkness of the Egypt-land, Into My sun-blaze on the desert sand!

This age has been called an Age of Progress, an Age of Reform, an Age of Intellect, an Age of Shams; everything in fact except an Age of Prizes.

The most devoted reader of Ruskin can tolerate shams here.

741 examples of  shams  in sentences