"Simulated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dead-and-gone relatives, in heavy gold frames, while in other frames were fearfully and wonderfully made wreaths of flowers—wax in some cases, and cloth in the remainder, being the medium in which nature was rather mocked than simulated. ...
— The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale • Laura Lee Hope
... herself the while, as with anxiety she saw the Indians drawing closer and closer in from the gate. Faster and faster she turned, and at last the Indian lifted his knife from the stone. She reached out her hand with simulated interest, felt the edge with her thumb, the Indian looking darkly at her the while. Presently, after feeling the edge himself, he bent over the stone again, and she went on turning the wheel, still singing softly. At last he stopped again and felt the edge. With a smile which showed ...
— Northern Lights • Gilbert Parker
... which is altogether imaginary. So far is this from being rare that my experience coincides entirely with that of the French physician M. Roger, who has had larger opportunities than anyone else in France for observing the diseases of children, and who says, 'It must be borne in mind that simulated ailments are much more common in the children's hospital than in a ...
— The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases • Charles West, M.D.
... it with English money, we may as well tolerate it in London, where nobody need go to see it except those who are not offended by it. When Wagner's Parsifal becomes available for representation in London, many people will be sincerely horrified when the miracle of the Mass is simulated on the stage of Covent Garden, and the Holy Ghost descends in the form of a dove. But if the Committee of the Privy Council, or the Lord Chamberlain, or anyone else, were to attempt to keep Parsifal from us to spare the feelings of these people, ...
— The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet • George Bernard Shaw
... a simulated curiosity, about one of the flower-beds. "Speaking of women and religion"—he began, in as casual a tone as he could command—"I notice curiously enough in my own case, that as I develop in what you may call the—the other direction, my wife, who formerly ...
— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic
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