39 adjectives to describe sake

Even men, let us venture the suggestion, like change for the mere sake of change.

But why shouldst thou not take the head Of this bold youth, as of The Red, His sire, in other days?" Goll spake "O noble Finn, for thy sweet sake Mine arms I'd seize with ready hand, Although to answer thy command My blood to its last drop were spilled By Crom!

Bob whistled, and Bumble exclaimed: "Well, for goodness gracious sakes!

" "'Ravens,'" echoed Evadne bewildered, "what do you mean, Penelope?" "Sakes alive, child!

That, thenher trinket, the crowning ornament of her Holy Cross holiday attire, that was what she was offering the old ogre of the Yukonfor his unworthy sake.

For the Gods' sake, desert me not, For thine own desolate children's sake.

No Sir no, by a rule that will not slip so I warrant you, which for her honours sake I will let slip unto you.

Whase life is like a weel-gaun mill, Supplied wi' store o' water, The heapet happer's ebbing still, And still the clap plays clatter, Hear me, ye venerable core, As counsel for poor mortals That frequent pass douce Wisdom's door For glaikit Folly's portals; I for their thoughtless, careless sakes Would here propone defences Their donsie tricks, their black mistakes, Their failings and mischances.

And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living ever, him ador'd: Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope, which in his helpe he had,

Whase life is like a weel-gaun mill, Supplied wi' store o' water, The heapet happer's ebbing still, And still the clap plays clatter, Hear me, ye venerable core, As counsel for poor mortals That frequent pass douce Wisdom's door For glaikit Folly's portals; I for their thoughtless, careless sakes Would here propone defences Their donsie tricks, their black mistakes, Their failings and mischances.

This antique, melancholy, and neglected place, we shall call, for distinctness sake, Gray Forest.

4 But what assurance can I take, When thou, foreknowing this abuse, For some more worthy lover's sake, Mayst leave me with so just excuse?

Oh! if pheasants had but understanding, how they would split their sides with chuckling and crowing at the follies which civilised Christian men perpetrate for their precious sake!

May thy pretty name-sake be In all things a type of thee, And image thee in all.

If Truth is not loved for her own pure sake, if to lead a noble life, if to make men happier, if to spread brightness around us, if to leave the world better than we found itif these aims have no attraction for us, if these thoughts do not inspire us, then we are not worthy to be Secularists, we have no right to the proud title of Freethinkers.

On condition you'll take it for a courtesy to be rid of an ass, I care not if I marry him: the old fool, your father, would be so importunate to match you with a young fool, that, partly for quietness sake, I am content to take him.

He took it kindly, for her sake,and not alone for that, but for its own respectable sake.

I remember an Italian verse that ran thus Word for Word, 'And turned my Rage, into Pity;' which the English for Rhime sake translated, 'And into Pity turn'd my Rage.'

Sir even for Heaven sake, And sacred truth sake, tell me how ye found her. Ant.

My father's of Valentia King, my mother Queen: who, for thy secret sake, Took this hard task in hand. AMADINE.

Then, for the sheer sake of doing something, Charlton drove down the stream to a point opposite where the bluff seemed of easy ascent.

Adv. concisely &c adj.; briefly, summarily; in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words; for shortness sake; to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief; it comes to this, the long and the short of it is.

It may be found that a man has, for the sole sake of self-abnegation, yielded homage, where, if his object had been personal aggrandizement, he might have wielded authority.

and then, all of a sudden, land sakes flopsy dub!

We concluded to equip ourselves in male attire, for the sake of varietybeing heartily tired of frocks and petticoats; and Ellen's pretty curls having been tucked up under a round cap, she looked so fascinating that I felt quite ambitious to rival herbut in attempting to draw on one of Charles' jackets, I found that it would not meet round my waist.

39 adjectives to describe  sake