Sentence Examples

1. But if twenty came and sat in my house there was nothing said about dinner, though there might be bread enough for two, more than if eating were a forsaken habit but we naturally practised abstinence and this was never felt to be an offence against hospitality, but the most proper and considerate course.
2. This abstinence, so remarkable in an Indian, when he possessed the means of satisfying hunger, at length attracted the notice of Heyward.
3. He was one of the few, very few, translators that have shown any apprehension of the unsmiling gravity which is the essence of Quixotic humour it seemed to him a crime to bring Cervantes forward smirking and grinning at his own good things, and to this may be attributed in a great measure the ascetic abstinence from everything savouring of liveliness which is the characteristic of his translation.
4. So many loathsome animals inhabited the prison, that their noise did not, in general, awake him but whether abstinence had quickened his faculties, or whether the noise was really louder than usual, Edmond raised his head and listened.
5. But the success has not hitherto been answerable, partly by some error in the quantum or composition, and partly by the perverseness of lads, to whom this bolus is so nauseous that they generally steal aside and discharge it upwards before it can operate neither have they been yet persuaded to use so long an abstinence as the prescription requires.
6. His certainty that only a few inches higher and he would touch her two mounds, at the top of which the two nip-ples stood erect from the excitement like a couple of lightning rods, seemed, due to an extended period of erotic abstinence relatively groundless.