As though

I felt sick, as though I'd just eaten a dozen bad oysters.

She reached out, as though to touch my face.

It always seemed as though we'd get married.

You spend as though you were filthy rich, when you hardly make ends meet.

But the tall tower, with its four- faced clock, rose as majestically and uncompromisingly as though the land had never been subjugated.

"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day.[…]A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.

By that stage Townsend, playing again as though immune to any form of nerves, had curled a lovely, left-footed effort against the crossbar and Welbeck had slashed a shot wide from a position when he really should have done better.