"Pretext" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it's quite clear to Hermione that these people will use my refusal as a pretext for backing out ...
— The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... parents coming, loaded down With dainties for the child, she for a while Her woe forgot, and ate and drank with joy. The little bird with which she talked upheld Her courage with its soothing voice. So ran The days away. Upon pretext he gave Of hunting ...
— Malayan Literature • Various Authors
... that," said the demon. "You must have an excuse up your sleeve, a pretext. A true excuse is a fine thing in its way; but when you come to a serious emergency, an alternative false excuse ...
— The Cardinal's Snuff-Box • Henry Harland
... back again in a quarter of an hour, and as a man may dine with perfect comfort to himself in a frock-coat, it did not occur to me to be particularly squeamish, or to decline an old friend's invitation upon a pretext so trivial. ...
— Men's Wives • William Makepeace Thackeray
... characters of his own devising, and brought it to him, saying, 'Know, Calandrino, that, if thou touch her with this script, she will incontinent follow thee and do what thou wilt. Wherefore, if Filippo should go abroad anywhither to-day, do thou contrive to accost her on some pretext or other and touch her; then betake thyself to the barn yonder, which is the best place here for thy purpose, for that no one ever frequenteth there. Thou wilt find she will come thither, and when ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio
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