1636 examples of cons in sentences

When the meadowlark sings on a fence-rail she but cons her lesson from the stars.

The masculine brain, on the contrary, takes time for calm deliberation and weighs the pros and cons in the scale of a well balanced judgment before arriving at any definite decision.

He waylays the reports of services, and cons them without book, damning himself he came new from them, when all the while he was taking the diet in the bawdy-house, or lay pawned in his chamber for rent and victuals.

And indeed as Rodericus a Fons. cons.

2. Mercurialis, cons.

Austin. cons.

3. de cons.

Trincavelius, Tom. 2. cons.

Julio Alexandrino cons.

3. de cons. 3837.

You must rouse their minds to think, and let them fairly grasp the purport of your inquiry, for they are very suspicious, often pondering over your object, carefully considering all the pros and cons as to your motive, inclination, or your position.

After hearing all the pros and cons, the captain generally succeeds in awarding the tiger to the right man.

There may be something to be said for these contentions, but to my mind the pros materially outweigh the cons.

He professes historical fidelity; but his vein is not dramatic; nor does he give us the pros and cons of that versatile gipsey, Nature.

On the whole, after weighing all the pros and cons, we decided that our pronounced aversion to being shot had purely an altruistic origin.

As everything has two sides, the Herald experiment (if one could call it that) too had its pros and cons.

When the High Court gave an order banning loud music after 10 pm based on a complaint by the environmentalists, Choppy and me wrote a series of articles for Insight analysing in depth, the pros and cons.

You weighed the pros and cons very carefully, no doubt.

"Helen is a girl who'll take a long time to make up her mind, and who will weigh all the pros and cons.

But here, "proes and cons," would have been more accurate.

R107767, 20Feb53, Laura Baker Cobb (W) Prose and cons.

SEE Cobb, Irvin S. Prose and cons.

'To have all the soft secrets of your life revealed to the coarse wonder of the gloating multitude; to find yourself the object of the world's curiosity, still worse, their pity, their sympathy; to have the sacred conduct of your hearth canvassed in every circle, and be the grand subject of the pros and cons of every paltry journal, ah, Venetia!

" While his thoughts were busy with the pros and cons of the soul-shaking adventure now coming to its climax, his eyes were busy with the city wall and towers every moment closer, closer still.

Your letter, likewise, had its weight; and I was candidly summoning up the pros and cons in the garden, whither I had walked, (General Richman and lady having rode out,) when I was informed that he was waiting in the parlor.

1636 examples of  cons  in sentences