...We can not conceive how it is possible to undertake the defense of an impostor, who dared to fabricate inscriptions of a date anterior to the Trojan war ....

...If them varlets have passed a minute, they have spent hours in striving to fabricate a lying end to their trail !...

...You seek your recreations in public, by the light of the evening chandelier : this school and yonder college are your workshops, where you fabricate the ware called pupils ....

...Tito had never had occasion to fabricate au ingenious lie before : the occasion was come now--the occasion which circumstance never fails to beget on tacit falsity; and his ingenuity was ready ....

...Now, in regard to credulousness, note that it is hardly ever to the interest of any one to draw attention to cruelty--certainly not to fabricate such a charge; very much the contrary ....

...Yet, by implication, we may understand that the arts of sorcery were in old times practiced successfully, otherwise there would not have been promulgated commandments so express against those who work hidden arts, practice divination, inquire of a familiar spirit, consult the dead, or fabricate charms ....

...Mr. Magnus Morrison was not " so quick, " as it is called, as his sister Sarah, and in the present emergency felt totally unable to fabricate an epistle, or even to invent a plausible excuse for an absence, which he nevertheless finally determined should be eternal ....

...Dutton was a little embarrassed, for St. James had left anything but a godly savor behind him; and he was about to fabricate a tolerably bold assertion to the contrary, rather than incur the risk of offending the lord of the...

...Would that, with her words, I could also bring before you her animated gesture, her expressive countenance, the solemn and thrilling air and accent with which she related the dark passages in her strange story; aud, above all, that I could communicate the impressive consciousness that the narrator had seen with her own eyes, and personally acted in the scenes which she described; these accompaniments, taken with the additional circumstance that she who told the tale was one far too deeply and sadly impressed with religious principle to misrepresent or fabricate what she repeated as fact, gave to the tale a depth of interest which the events, recorded could hardly, themselves, have produced ....

...To the newspaper office, ' said I, ' and fabricate falsehoods out of flint stones '; then, touching the horse with my heels, I trotted off, and coming to the place where I had seen the old man, I found him there, risen from the ground, and embracing his ass ....

...In one of the finest houses of the rue Neuve-des-Mathurins, at half-past eleven at night, two young women were sitting before the fireplace of a boudoir hung with blue velvet of that tender shade, with shimmering reflections, which French industry has lately learned to fabricate ....

...Oh, I am not like your beautiful duchesses who deny their origin; nor like your dukes and peers who fabricate genealogies for themselves ....

...It requires an artist to construct one; and not every bungler can take a bit of red fianuel, a peacock 's feather, a flash of tinsel thread, a cock 's plume, a section of a hen 's wing, and fabricate a tiny object that will not look like any fly, but still will suggest the universal conventional fly ....

...Without stopping to fabricate any moral reflections on the event or to calculate the extent of his loss, he made a very rapid pair of legs down the street ....

...So he set to work to fabricate wings for himself and his young son Icarus ....