" "You may be surprised, Eve, at hearing so frank avowals of the weakness; but, as for the weakness itself, you are now in a country for which England does all the thinking, except on subjects that touch the current interests of the day.

It was evident that the working people were so accustomed to expect equivocation and evasion from those who sought their suffrages, that when they found, instead of that, a direct avowal of what was likely to be disagreeable to them, instead of being affronted, they concluded at once that this was a person whom they could trust.

But the thing is past, and a candid avowal of your heedless conduct would have made me at once overlook it; and, allow me to say, if you will not be offended, my dearest friend, will still make me do so.

Piero made light of this chargehe was well used to that sort of thing, but, with rare effrontery, he held the infant at the font, whilst Panciatichi absented himself, and Eleanora made a tacit avowal of his parentage.

it themselves by too explicit an avowal before they could see their way plainly before them.

I understand by effusions of the heart, those mutual confidences; those ingenuities, those unexpected avowals, and those transports which excite in us the certainty of creating an absolute happiness, and meriting all the esteem of the person we love.

The matter of the act consists mainly of a debate as to whether Grace Insole ought, or ought not, to make a certain painful avowal to her husband.

asseveration, adjuration, swearing, oath, affidavit; deposition &c (record) 551; avouchment; assurance; protest, protestation; profession; acknowledgment &c (assent) 488; legal pledge, pronouncement; solemn averment, solemn avowal, solemn declaration.

For this manly avowal the assembly ignobly refused him the usual marks of respect and honor at his departure.

hadst thou possessed 'offspring of thine own to dally with,' thou wouldst never have made the melancholy avowal that thou hast 'almost ceased to hope!'"

The king, from his experience of the dispositions of the people, was become sensible that his enterprise had been too bold in establishing the constitutions of Clarendon, in defining all the branches of royal power, and in endeavouring to extort from the Church of England, as well as from the pope, an express avowal of these disputed prerogatives.

But the extraordinary avowal does mark what was most peculiar in the position.

And by the time they were within an easy hour of Fifty Island Water he had let slip the further facta foolish avowal of his own hysterical condition, as he felt afterwardsthat he had heard the vanished guide call "for help."

The recognition in writing need not be a formal avowal.

If they had not at once entirely extinguished his sister's taste for the practices which he condemned, they had evidently weakened it; even though, as the first impression wore off, and her fear of being overwhelmed with ennui resumed its empire, she relapsed for a while into her old habits, it was no longer with the same eagerness as before, and not without frequent avowals that they had lost their attraction.

It is an honest avowal that the picture is not composed altogether of light.

This avowal, humiliating as it is, cannot be evaded.

so wholly absorbed was she in her love for this man, once she was in his presence, that alreadywomanlikeshe had forgotten the young student's impassioned avowal, his jealousy, his very existence.

What had I done by the short, indistinct, most inconsiderate avowal, and how was it possible now to avert its consequences?

And there were solemn sermons, ingenious avowals, projects without end.

" This involuntary avowal made Clotilde start, and she looked from one to the other, as if, by the force of circumstances, she compared them with each otherRamond, with his smiling and superb facethe face of the handsome physician adored by the womenhis luxuriant black hair and beard, in all the splendor of his young manhood; and Pascal, with his white hair and his white beard.

"But what are you two doing?" Cynthia broke away from her lover, and ran to her friend with joyous avowals.

Then, on one occasion, Frederick makes a little avowal, which reads oddly in the light of future events.

"Beloved one," he murmurs, in a rich voice, "I find that I cannot induce you to make the first advance toward the mutual avowal we are both longing for, and must therefore precipitate our happiness myself.

Not that she did not season the odd avowals of Donnegan with a grain of salt, but even when she had discounted all that he said, she retained a quivering interest.