There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out of the window, ...
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But old folks—many feign as they were dead, Unwieldy, slow, heavy, and pale as lead.
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As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.
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His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes -- cats -- I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate.
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