369 examples of remits in sentences

The distress in Spain is relieved by Abderrahman, who remits the taxes and constructs aqueducts and fountains.

He will find, that we are about not only to remit yearly into a foreign country more than a million and a half of money, but to hazard the lives of multitudes of our fellow-subjects, in a quarrel which at most affects us but remotely; that we are about to incur as auxiliaries an expense greater than that which the principals sustain.

But, though our case was a strong one, there still remained a serious obstacle in the way, in the idea that, because half the fines was to go to the owners of the slaves, the President could not remit that half.

The king seemed even disposed to remit this last part of the punishment, had not Roger, by a fresh insolence, provoked him to render his confinement perpetual.

A man quickly fired, and quickly laid down with satisfaction, but remits any injury sooner than words: only to himself he is irreconcileable, whom he never forgives a disgrace, but is still stabbing himself with the thought of it, and no disease that he dies of sooner.

Other sins last but for awhile; the gut may be satisfied, anger remits, hatred hath an end, envy never ceaseth."

But, now our Turkish conquerors have quench'd Their rage, and pall'd their appetite of murder, No more the glutted sabre thirsts for blood; And weary cruelty remits her tortures.

Caius had imposed a yearly tax on those to whom he gave land; Drusus proposed to remit it.

Dr. Strong refers to me in public as a promising young scholar, and my aunt remits me a guinea by next post.

Doctor Strong refers to me publicly as a promising young scholar, at which my aunt remits me a guinea by the next post.

An elevated genius employed in little things, appears, to use the simile of Longinus, like the sun in his evening declination: he remits his splendour but retains his magnitude, and pleases more though he dazzles less.

At length fame is observed to be uncertain, and power to be dangerous; the man whose vigour and alacrity begin to forsake him, by degrees contracts his designs, remits his former multiplicity of pursuits, and extends no longer his regard to any other honour than the reputation of wealth, or any other influence than his power.

He remits one of those bills to his London agent, and desires him to purchase, with the proceeds thereof, a superb landau.

We balance inconveniences; we give and take;we remit some rights that we may enjoy others....

Returns of spleen his slacken'd speed remit, And crump his loose careers with intervals of wit: While, without stop at sense, or ebb of spite, Breaking all bars, bounding o'er wrong and right, Contented Roger gallops out of sight.

But, as Monsignor knew privately, an urgent appeal had been made by Rome to remit the penalty in this instance, as in others.

Commoners, however, are hanged before the head is cut off, and nobles also, unless the king remits that part of the punishment.

The last section repeals a former provision limiting the President's action to cases of insurrection of which United States judges shall have given him notice, and thereby remits him to any and all of his official sources of information.

He, therefore, remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented.

The landlord, in view of unfavourable seasons, remits a percentage of rent.

It is that moderation which remits something of an incurred penalty; it is the opposite of cruelty, which is an habitual disposition to rigour.

"And therewith she laid her head on my shoulder, and sighed, "'Life remits his tortures cruel, Love illumes his fairest fuel, When the hearts that once were dual Meet as one, in sweet renewal!' "'Miss Ringtop!'

It is only for expediency that it remits the examination of the merits of any case to a subordinate lodge as a quasi committee.

It has been the practice for each small bank to keep a part of its legal reserves in correspondent banks in one or more of the larger cities on which it draws bills of exchange for its customers and to which in turn it remits for collection drafts and checks which it has received.

When the weather changes from warm to cold, Birch ceases to bleed, and upon the next warmth begins again: but the contrary obtains in the Walnut-tree, and frequently in the Sycamore, which upon a fit of cold will bleed plentifully, and, as that remits, stop.

369 examples of  remits  in sentences