1208 collocations for admits

" I could not but admit the truth of this, and said as much.

The prudent always have some means of admitting fresh air, or some way for the foul air to escape, by an open window, or an opening into the chimney, or both.

"I do not for a moment admit your right to interfere," he retorted with an assumption of calm superiority.

We often saw the bones and heads of those who had been eaten, and they who had made the repast admitted the fact, and said that their enemies always stood in much greater fear on that account.

They consisted of openings in the wall, sloping so much upwards, that while they freely admitted the light and air, the sun was completely excluded: and although those who were within could readily see what was passing in the streets, they were concealed from the gaze of the curious.

He reasons back to a beginning of the present state of things; he admits the possibility of an end.

In the demand for the democratization of German public life our legislators do not seem even to admit the existence of women.

'But, Sir, every tavern does not admit women.'

He appeared to admit the justice of things as he found them; betrayed his foreign enemies into a confidential reliance upon his acquiescence in their exactions; and even yielded, without a murmur, to an abuse of those pretensions to which he affected to submit, but which he was secretly resolved to annihilate.

He made a cleft, and went down into it, though the place where he entered would not now admit a man.

I am sure they have no right to pretend to be our betters, and I feel no disposition to admit the impudent claim.

He was also delegated with the power of admitting members into the order, subject to the control and direction of the master, and was to provide means of transport for such newly-admitted brethren to the Far East, to enable them to fulfil the duties of their profession.

Your passion for Carmel, while not generally known, has not passed unsuspected by your or her intimates; and this in itself is enough to give colour to these suspicions, even if you had not gone so far as to admit its power over you and the extremes to which you were willing to go to secure the wife you wished.

The place was awesome, and I would willingly have retraced my steps, and left the mysteries of its solitudes unsolved; only, to do so, meant admitting defeat.

Kate instantly divined that he had been warning the landlady against admitting strangers to the sick man's room.

Is congress bound to admit new states?

Nothing that any German can ever say or write will efface from the memory of the world the uncontrovertible fact that your Chancellor officially admitted your country's guilt in this matter.

It was in the visits to the school, where some lady attended every day, that the dreadful misconduct of most of the women in the female side of the prison was witnessed, swearing, gaming, fighting, singing, dancing; scenes so bad that it was thought right never to admit young persons with them in going to the school.

The guardians were often ignorant men, and were very slow to admit visitors, perhaps from a foreshadowing suspicion of the exposure which was in store for them, and the consequent necessity and expense of change, so that we need not wonder that the opposition which was called forth when first the evils of the workhouse system were exposed was tremendous, and that the task of awakening real interest seemed well nigh hopeless.

They ceased to admit the importation of English goods, in December, 1774, and determine to permit the exportation of their own no longer than to November, 1775.

The extreme reluctance of Englishmen to admit the necessity for military interference by the Government told strongly in favor of the rioters.

" I was obliged to admit the force of this reasoning; and, when he proceeded to descant on the former glories and achievements of Asiatic nations, and their sad reverses of fortunewhile he freely spoke of the present degradation and imbecility of his countrymen, he promptly resisted every censure of mine.

The law does not at this day admit the ancient principle of allowing moderate correction by a husband upon the person of his wife.

Mr. Madison thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

Animals had no votes, although he admitted a partial exception, in that every bull, it had its ballot.

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