310 examples of avowal in sentences
The significant thing, however, is the fact of the desire and the avowal; if we have this I think we may leave it to God to see that the desire is satisfied in the end by heavenly food and not by the nostrums of ingenuity.
Yes, that was an avowal of unequalled magnanimity, until it met its parallel in his own grander self-negation in assuming the sole responsibility for the defeat at Gettysburg.
" 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.
On the morning after her avowal it was ten o'clock before Clotilde left her room.
It was an avowal, this terrified silence which had fallen between the mother, the son, and the granddaughterthe shuddering silence in which families bury their domestic tragedies.
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.
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."
But she was obliged to dismiss this idea instantly; for to suppose John Hammond's avowal of his love an accident, the mere impulse of a weak moment, would be despair.
This avowal he had never expected to make.
Fellow Citizens: The practice of all my predecessors imposes on me an obligation I cheerfully fulfillto accompany the first and solemn act of my public trust with an avowal of the principles that will guide me in performing it and an expression of my feelings on assuming a charge so responsible and vast.
[Footnote 1: A caution which Gideon Spicker (Lessings Weltanschauung, 1883) counsels us not to forget, even in view of the oft cited avowal of determinism, "I thank God that I must, and that I must the best."
Those six executioners were successively employed in cutting up the bodies of these defenceless slaves, who persisted to the last in the avowal of their innocence.
To which declaration she replied, 'So do I.' Where there is in that any avowal that she loves you I fail to see.
" The decisive moment had come, not only because Coquenil's anger was stirred by this cynical avowal, but because just then there shot around the corner from the Avenue Montaigne a large red automobile which crossed the Champs Elysées slowly, past the fountain and the tulip beds, and, turning into the Avenue Gabrielle, stopped under the chestnut trees, its engines throbbing.
Sir,Since my last communication to you on the subject of the works, so commonly spoken of as by the "Great Unknown""the Wizard of the North," and other equally novel cognomina, the veil has been withdrawn; we now have the open avowal, both from his own lips, and under his own hand, of the authorship from the individual himself, who has so long, and, as it now appears, so justly, enjoyed the reputation of having written them.
She was saying to herself: 'If he has thick and heavy lips, it is because he is an Englishman; if he walks like a duck, it is because he is a sailor; if he has taken me to be thirty years old, that proves simply that he is a good physiognomist, and I shall have one painful avowal the less to make after marriage.
So strong and clear is Dr. Palfrey's avowal of fealty to the honorable and unsullied fame of the founders of Massachusetts, that he will not be likely, on any later page, to qualify what he has already written.
This done, he suddenly turned the discourse upon the numerous reasons for displeasure which the recent acts of Biron had given him (being careful, nevertheless, not to betray the extent of his knowledge), and earnestly urged him to confess the real amount of the imprudence of which he had been guilty, pledging his royal word, that should he do so with frankness and sincerity, the avowal would ensure his pardon.
Instead, therefore, of throwing himself upon the clemency of the King by an undisguised avowal of his treason, he merely replied to the appeal by again demanding to know who were his accusers; upon which Henry rose from his seat, and exclaiming: "Come, we will play a match at tennis," hastily left the room, followed by the culprit.
Thereupon, the governor replied that the laws of God were nothing but the great principles which ought to govern human conduct, and that his concession was an avowal that there was a power to which majorities should defer.
They have not evidence To attaint him legally, and they avoid The avowal of an arbitrary power.
Oh, don't you think the men could get to my room and save it?" "Money!" exclaimed Mrs. Tadman, sharply, aroused from the contemplation of her own woes by this avowal; "you must be cleverer than I took you for, Sarah Batts, to be able to save money, and yet be always bedizened with some new bit of finery, as you've been.
What had I done by the short, indistinct, most inconsiderate avowal, and how was it possible now to avert its consequences?
As she thought over the avowal she would make to him, and conned the words she would speak to him, the girl's cheeks, though she believed herself alone, burned with happy blushes; her breath came more quickly, her body swayed involuntarily in the direction whence he, who had chosen and honoured her, would come!
A man who, upon his own avowal, is guilty of affiliating with the Yankees.