2302 examples of combated in sentences

Shelley sent for his wife, who had gone for a while to Bath (perhaps in a fit of pettishness, but this is not clear), and explained to her in June that they must separatea resolve which she combated as far as seemed possible, but finally she returned to Bath, staying there with her father and sister.

But mad I was!" Charles, thanks to the resolution with which he combated the tendency, and to the steadying influence of his work at the desk,despite his occasional murmurs, his best friend and sheet-anchor in life,never again succumbed to the family malady; but from that moment, over his small household, Madnesslike Death in Milton's visioncontinually "shook its dart," and at best only "delayed to strike."

The old hermits thought to overcome their impulses by retiring from the world: our Platonist has discovered for himself that the world of duty is the only sphere in which they can be combated.

When the coup d'état broke out at Donjon, Préveraud had taken up arms and fulfilled his duty, had combated the outrage and defended the law.

The error to be combated is not the belief that, in its own way, medicine is capable of doing good, but the belief that there is no higher or better way.

He who supposes that his vices may be more successfully combated in Palestine will, perhaps, find himself mistaken, yet he may go thither without folly; he who thinks they will be more freely pardoned dishonours at once his reason and religion.' 'Sir Allan went to the headman of the island, whom fame, but fame delights in amplifying, represents as worth no less than fifty pounds.

" She looked up at him with shining eyes; their trouble, combated and borne together, had brought them very near to one another.

Her caress and passionate forgiveness were always ready for the paroxysm in which she was violently pushed away and combated with struggling feet and hands, before came the period of exhaustion in which he nestled close, panting from weakness.

Negative, inasmuch as he avoided all vain discussions; combated mere speculative reasoning on substantial grounds; and had the wisdom to acknowledge ignorance when necessary, but without attempting to determine accurately what is capable and what is not of being accurately known.

It was no doubt an important element in the growth of their relation, this interval of unacknowledged and combated curiosity about each other.

The poem is introduced with a very satirical epistle to the Whigs, in which the author says, 'I have one favour to desire you at parting, that when you think of answering this poem, you would employ the same pens against it, who have combated with so much success against Absalom and Achitophel, for then you may assure yourselves of a clear victory without the least reply.

He combated the argument, that the abolition would ruin the West Indian islands.

An odor of musk combated for an instant with the whiskey reek diffused by Mr. Plickaman and his companions.

I have only one favour to desire of you at parting, that when you think of answering this poem, you would employ the same pens against it, who have combated with so much success against Absalom and Achitophel: for then you may assure yourselves of a clear victory, without the least reply.

Sillery alone combated this resolution, declaring that as the protection of the Princes who had appealed to him for aid had been one of the last projects of the late King, his will should be held sacred and his intentions fully carried out.

In vain I combated it; it grew upon me; and I had almost risen from my seat to try to make myself heard, and obtain, if possible, assistance.

Pope's translation of the Homeric poems, with all its faults, helped to dispel the mists of ignorance, and in 1775 appeared Robert Wood's book, On the Original Genius and Writings of Homer, which combated the foolish prejudice against the poet, due to the coarseness of the manners he depicts.

I know such an opinion, if publicly avowed, would be combated as false and singular; yet I appeal to those who have at all studied the French character, not as travellers, but by a residence amongst them, for the support of my opinion.

She felt that there were certain accusations against which to even undertake defence is to admit their possibility, and which, therefore, could only be combated by silence.

The resumption of her maiden name had been stoutly combated by both Mrs. Cliff and Ralph.

This misbelief involved very shocking consequences, for it necessitated the idea that so diabolical an act could only be combated by diabolical cruelty.

It is, undoubtedly, the special economical event of the day, upon which the commercial, and scarcely less the political, diplomacy of the Government may be most justly complimented for its mastery of prejudices and impediments, which, under the circumstances, and in view of the peculiar system to be combated, appeared almost insurmountable.

This statement has been combated by Morelli, but although historical evidence is wanting that the two men ever actually met, there is nothing improbable in Vasari's account.

Nights and days he combated his love; nights and days he suffered inexpressible torment; but at lastone dew-drop or one sunbeam alone is necessary for the ripe rose to open its leaveshe must tell it to Agda.

He was therefore not a little annoyed at the persistency of the doctor's questioning, but, being a courteous man, and under endless obligation to him for the very child's sake as well as his own, he combated disinclination, and with success, acquainting the doctor with every point he knew concerning Amanda.

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