154 examples of alienations in sentences

Thus he lived secluded from publick business, in contention with his father, in alienation from his wife.

Every addition to our troops, I consider as some approach towards the establishment of arbitrary power, as it is an alienation of part of the British people, by which they are deprived of the benefits of the constitution, and subjected to rigorous laws, from which every other individual is exempt.

The unhappy terms on which she found Marston living with his wife, suggested, in their mutual alienation, the idea of founding a double influence in the household; and to conceive the idea, and to act upon it, were, in her active mind, the same.

I need not describe his memorable career,his successive elections to all the highest offices of state, his detection of Catiline's conspiracy, his opposition to turbulent and ambitious partisans, his alienations and friendships, his brilliant career as a statesman, his misfortunes and sorrows, his exile and recall, his splendid services to the State, his greatness and his defects, his virtues and weaknesses, his triumphs and martyrdom.

That which filled the soul of Hildebrand with especial grief was the alienation of the clergy from their highest duties, their worldly lives, and their frail support in his efforts to elevate the spiritual power.

We read of few divorces in the Middle Ages, or of separations, or desertions, or even alienations; these things are a modern improvement, borrowed from the customs of the Romans.

This is probably an allusion to the frequent alienations of the lands and manors of bishoprics in Elizabeth's time.

'The arrangement,' wrote Lord Grey in 1852, 'by which the seat of Government and the sittings of the Legislature were fixed alternately at Toronto and Quebec, has contributed not a little towards removing the feelings of alienation from each other of the inhabitants of French and of British descent.

'Yes;' but you may say 'this is purchased by the alienation of the British.'

With such conflicting views between these great undoubted patriots and statesmen, there were increasing alienations, ripening into bitter hostilities.

4,000 Fines on alienations . . . . . . . . . . . . .

To meet emergencies, which were now becoming chronic, extraordinary taxes were established, the non-payment of which involved the immediate imprisonment of the defaulter; and the debasement of the coinage, and the alienation of certain parts of the kingdom, were authorised in the name of the King, who had been insane for more than fifteen years.

With what astonishment and disgust should we behold an earthly parent exciting feuds and animosities among his own children; yet we are assured, and that too by professing Christians, that our heavenly Father has implanted a principle of hatred, repulsion and alienation between certain portions of his family on earth, and then commanded them, as if in mockery, to "love one another.

That the mode of alienating their lands, the main source of discontent and war, should be so defined and regulated as to obviate imposition and as far as may be practicable controversy concerning the reality and extent of the alienations which are made.

It was an instantaneous impulse, a short-lived and passing alienation of mind; but what must Mr. Falkland think of that alienation?

It was an instantaneous impulse, a short-lived and passing alienation of mind; but what must Mr. Falkland think of that alienation?

England has but to read the record of her own strifes and battles and infuriated passages with Scotland and Ireland,between whom and herself alienations of tradition, prejudice, and religion seemed to make harmony as impossible as the promise of it is to these warring States,England has only to refresh her memory on these points, in order to relieve us of the charge of folly in attempting an impossibility.

An edict of the king's had revoked all the graces and alienations of domains granted by his father.

I am every day convinced, that this and the assignats are the great causes of the alienation visible in many who were once the warmest patriots.

But these domestic alienations are not confined to those who once moved in the higher orders of societythe monthly registers announce almost as many divorces as marriages, and the facility of separation has rendered the one little more than a licentious compact, which the other is considered as a means of dissolving.

But these domestic alienations are not confined to those who once moved in the higher orders of societythe monthly registers announce almost as many divorces as marriages, and the facility of separation has rendered the one little more than a licentious compact, which the other is considered as a means of dissolving.

This trade held on for many years after the bishops became Protestants; and some of their names are still remembered with infamy, on account of enriching their families by such sacrilegious alienations.

About the middle of King Charles the First's reign, the legislature here thought fit to put a stop, at least, to any farther alienations; and so a law was enacted, prohibiting all bishops, and other ecclesiastical corporations, from setting their lands for above the term of twenty-one years; the rent reserved to be one half of the real value of such lands at the time they were set, without which condition the lease to be void.

Could his inmost soul have been read by those who condemned his harshness, they would have sincerely pitied the keen and agonized sensitiveness with which he felt the alienation of their affections.

I refer to the state of our divisions and alienations of spirit on account of religion.

154 examples of  alienations  in sentences