1 It'll be no sham frightening, mind you.
2 There were lockers all round, and Wilson, the sham chaplain, knocked one of them in, and pulled out a dozen of brown sherry.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 3 The shade of the original Kurtz frequented the bedside of the hollow sham, whose fate it was to be buried presently in the mold of primeval earth.
4 To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in which I had always played.
5 It serves me right, because it was all sham; because it was all done on purpose, and not from the heart.
6 It was a sham and a loathsome mockery.
7 In spite of superficial, fantastic and sham notions of honour and dignity, all but very few of us positively grovelled before Zverkov, and the more so the more he swaggered.
8 "A sham wedding," retorted another.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 9 It was no sham sorrow, but real.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter I. 10 He cried out bitterly that their crowns were stolen and their robes of glorious memories were shams.
11 'I knew he was shamming,' said Fang, as if this were incontestable proof of the fact.