Sentence Examples

1. Now one of the instances in which this knight most conspicuously showed his prudence, worth, valour, endurance, fortitude, and love, was when he withdrew, rejected by the Lady Oriana, to do penance upon the Peña Pobre, changing his name into that of Beltenebros, a name assuredly significant and appropriate to the life which he had voluntarily adopted.
2. But as I know that it is a mark of prudence not to do by foul means what may be done by fair, I will ask these gentlemen, the guards and commissary, to be so good as to release you and let you go in peace, as there will be no lack of others to serve the king under more favourable circumstances for it seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.
3. Men of prudence and discretion, Courtiers gay and gallant knights, With the wanton damsels dally, But the modest take to wife.
4. The first is, by knowing how, with prudence, to dispose of a wife, a daughter, or a sister the second, by betraying or undermining his predecessor and the third is by a furious zeal in public assemblies against the corruptions of the court.
5. But I thought it more consistent with prudence and justice to pass the remainder of my days with my wife and family.
6. Common prudence urged them to retire, and they did so, followed by Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis.
7. Yet before we could even attempt to leave the Kanris and begin the journey, other matters forced us to linger far longer than prudence dictated we should.
8. I say, too, that when a painter desires to become famous in his art he endeavours to copy the originals of the rarest painters that he knows and the same rule holds good for all the most important crafts and callings that serve to adorn a state thus must he who would be esteemed prudent and patient imitate Ulysses, in whose person and labours Homer presents to us a lively picture of prudence and patience as Virgil, too, shows us in the person of Æneas the virtue of a pious son and the sagacity of a brave and skilful captain not representing or describing them as they were, but as they ought to be, so as to leave the example of their virtues to posterity.
9. Knightley saw no such passion, and of course thought nothing of its effects but she saw too much of it to feel a doubt of its overcoming any hesitations that a reasonable prudence might originally suggest and more than a reasonable, becoming degree of prudence, she was very sure did not belong to Mr.