Willie, abandoninghis thumb to seek the protection of the friendly linsey-woolsey petticoat.
Even such men as had begun in the forties and fifties as folk-poets, were abandoning their homely dialect for the literary language of the country.
Now, without abandoning entirely the social and political ideals, the writers are combining to popularize science and to produce a pure literature.
Lefin chose to remedy that by abandoning entirely the tradition, and by writing exactly as the people spoke.
More than once he felt like abandoning some of their goods, but he hardened his resolution with the reflection that all were precious, and not a single thing was abandoned.
I found myself in such embarrassment as the result of this that I was almost on the point of abandoning the enterprise at that time.
They followed the stream for a dozen miles, abandoningit when it trended to the west and heading directly eastward up a narrow tributary.
Again and again he was nearly seduced by the thought of abandoning the sack of beans in the brush and of sneaking around the camp to the beach and catching a steamer for civilization.
But it was, seemingly, a fact that in some villages outside of Amiens regrettable incidents arose from the fleeing civilians abandoning stores of wine or disposing of them to the troops at sacrifice prices.
In most cases it meant abandoningtheir positions and all their future prospects.
At the Villa Lujan, a country town some fourteen leagues west of Buenos Aires, he was overtaken by a detachment sent by Beresford in pursuit, and fled without any attempt at resistance, abandoning the greater part of the treasure.
Said he to my sire, 'O rebel, O idolater, how long wilt thou take pride in worshipping idols and abandoningthe service of the All-knowing King?
The poor valet never stopped to replace the ladder; but, terrified as well as hurt by his rapid descent, scrambled off as well as he could, abandoning his master in his present critical situation.
He soon, however, became weary of his new allies; and, once more abandoning himself to the guidance of interest, he rejoined our party.
In abandoning the design, however, of shaping it to the form of narrative poetry, I may, at least, submit to the reader such portions of the verse as are already written.
Meantime Gebizo, after abandoning his lovely wife, had gone astray in the darkening night, and horse and rider had fallen into a chasm, where his head was dashed against a stone so that he promptly departed this life.
They exclaimed that, if he were guilty, God's judgement would not be backward, no more than they were backward in abandoning him there and then to the secular arm!
For nowe thou art come as thou mayest euidently perceiue, and plainely see, into a place of pleasure and delight, abandoning strife and discontent.
For the marshal and his generals could not yet resolve on abandoning to the enemy so many trophies; nor did they make up their minds to it until after fruitless exertions, and in the last extremity.
As to what regards yourself, I approve altogether of your abandoning what you justly call vanities.
My father now completely acquiesces in my abandoning the prospect of any profession or trade.
It afforded him, as similar proposals had so often done before, a plausible excuse for abandoning an enterprise in which he began to despair of being able to succeed.
The senate yielded to this appeal, and, abandoning the design which they had entertained of sending the women away, turned their attention immediately to plans of defense.
They did not even return to their camp, but, after recrossing the river in confusion, they fled in all directions, abandoning the whole country to their conqueror.
There may be a sort of seeking for the word, which seeks in the wrong places and in the wrong ways, and without abandoning sins.
First, it is not what it is often taken to be, a threatening of God's abandoning of the idolatrous nation.
To delay obedience, and still more to delay abandoning disobedience, is madness, in view of the storm that may at any moment burst on the heads of the rebels.
He accused his hack writer of idleness; of abandoning his writing-desk and literary workshop at an early hour of the day; and of assuming a tone and manner above his situation.
He had no inclination to push the joke to such an extreme, but abandoning the ground, sneaked off with his brother wag amid the hootings of the spectators.
Abandoning prudence in this arch affair of life, Audley still preserved his customary caution in minor details.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abandoning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
