796 examples of indefinite in sentences

See entire populations, who, under the eye of God, and invoking his support, devote themselves, body, soul, and goods, to the holy cause of slavery, its conquests, its indefinite extension, its inter-State and African trade.

Who prepared the well-known lists of slave States with which the South counted on enriching itself: four States some day to be carved out of Texas, (the South had caused this to be authorized in advance,) three States to be created in the Island of Cuba, an indefinite number of States to be detached one after another from Central America and Mexico?

In the face of such a power, nothing is left standing; no more rights, no more principles, no more of those solid and resisting blocks which serve to stem the popular current; the province of the State becomes indefinite.

Such was this precursor of revolutions, this agitator, this hypocrite, this egotist, this lying prophet,a man admired and despised, brilliant but indefinite, original but not true, acute but not wise; logical, but reasoning on false premises; advancing some great truths, but spoiling their legitimate effect by sophistries and falsehoods.

There is nothing indefinite in what he advances.

It is a novel in which he paints all the aspirations of the soul, all its unrest, all its indefinite longings, its raptures, and its despair; in which he unfetters the imagination and sanctifies every impulse, not only of affection, but of passion.

Carlyle, too, despised everything visionary and indefinite, and had more respect for what is brought about by revolution than by evolution.

Even in that tropical country he presented a strong contrast to the sallow, bilious officials with whom he was surrounded, and in due time returned to England in perfect health, one of the most robust of men, capable of indefinite work, which never seemed to weary him.

The growth in this case is said to be indefinite.

The only one I anticipate is that of fixing the amount in such way that, at the same time this resource is made to produce an increased income of some moment, it may act as a moderate tax on an indefinite property, the amount of which, augmented in the same price, may be reimbursed to the proprietor by the great body of consumers.

It is not in fact easy to foresee or estimate, by any means of approximation, the alteration in the current price of the bonga, that would result from the indefinite freedom of its cultivation and sale, especially during the first years.

At that hour it was still in motion, which probably meant forced marching for an indefinite time.

His promises are made indefinite to all believers, generally spoken to all touching remission of sins that are truly penitent, grieved for their offences, and desire to be reconciled, Matt.

And the national feeling is always in favor of the strictly defined authority of the courts of law, rather than of the somewhat indefinite claims of Parliament to interpret, and even to make, privilege.

indecible, unspeakable, ineffable. indeciso, -a, uncertain, indefinite.

He had eighteen wives and an indefinite number of children, estimates concerning the number of which vary so much that it is best not to give any of them.

We say seems, for he is carefully indefinite in his specifications, and hedges his opinions with a thicket of ambiguous phrases, which renders it hard to get at them, and leaves opportunity for future evasion.

And all this has been done, not for the security of Slavery where it exists, but to serve the truculent purposes of its indefinite extension.

No more than an indefinite radiance thrust back the obscurity and outlined the bed.

That the purposes of the meeting are somewhat indefinite, far from being an objection to it is among the cogent reasons for its adoption.

Poor Billy stared at her; and his heart gave a great bound and then appeared to stop for an indefinite time.

It was the latter's request which kept the wedding a matter of the indefinite future.

These appeared to be lodged for an indefinite period.

But the mind was now obliged to traverse the unbeaten paths of the Christian universe; it was overwhelmed by the extent of its range, the richness and delicacy of its materials; it could with difficulty poise itself amid the indefinite heights and depths which encompassed it, and with greater difficulty could wield the magician's rod which should sway the driving elements into artistic reconstruction.

we are all condamnés, as Victor Hugo says; we are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieveles hommes sont tous condamnés à mort avec des sursis indéfinis: we have an interval,

796 examples of  indefinite  in sentences