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Example sentences for "advice"

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advertisers; advertises; advertising; advertized; adverts; advices; advis; advisability; advisable; advisableness
  1. The boys had been crouching low, but now all followed the advice of the senator's son and fell back, as if in slumber.

  2. I wouldn't sign for any stock until I had some outside advice about it," cautioned Mr. Passmore.

  3. This advice was, however, unnecessary for Dave was already recharging the empty chambers of the pistol.

  4. Never hearing of Batiscombe, he supposed he had left the neighbourhood for parts unknown, and though he regretted not having had an opportunity of shooting him, he knew in his heart that Diana's advice had been good, and that it was best so.

  5. But I cannot quite believe that Machiavelli believed in it himself, nor that any one ever acted on the advice he gives.

  6. If any one asked my advice about adopting literature as a career, I would certainly tell him to have nothing to do with it; I should be quite sure that if he were born to it nothing would keep him from it for long.

  7. She had hated her mistress, and would have liked to make a scandal before all the other servants, but Temistocle's advice would be more profitable.

  8. He certainly did give Opie the opportunity of copying his pictures, some of which were very good; adding the sound advice to study hard from the life.

  9. Murchison, Sir Roderick, Davy's advice to him, i.

  10. It was not for her, moreover, to give unasked her advice to such a man as she knew Grant Herman to be.

  11. It would be no disloyalty to go to her; there had been no words spoken between husband and wife which could not be told a friend, and Edith felt that she needed the advice of a woman more versed in the intricacies of life than herself.

  12. Perhaps we can give you some good advice for your sick child.

  13. All the blessing of the pledge and that marriage, and that good advice you gave us.

  14. Then said Baviaan, 'The aboriginal Fauna has joined the aboriginal Flora because it was high time for a change; and my advice to you, Ethiopian, is to change as soon as you can.

  15. Then said Baviaan, 'The game has gone into other spots; and my advice to you, Leopard, is to go into other spots as soon as you can.

  16. Because of the great loss thus inflicted on our church, with the advice of our faithful subjects, we have made the following laws in order to put an end to such murders.

  17. All who associate with him in any way, who give him advice or aid, or hold converse with him, unless it be to advise him to do penance and to leave the bishopric, shall be under excommunication until they have made satisfaction.

  18. Nevertheless, if they ask the advice of the brothers, the provincial ministers may send them to God-fearing men, at whose advice they may give their possessions to the poor.

  19. All these things have been done with the consent and advice of the princes whose names are written below: Adelbert, archbishop of Mainz; Frederick, archbishop of Cologne, etc.

  20. He also wrote that he wished to conduct the whole matter in accordance with the advice of the church.

  21. We ask, warn, exhort, and for the forgiveness of your sins command you to receive them kindly and render them assistance against the heretics by giving them advice and aid.

  22. Carolingian king or emperor, drawn up with advice of Frankish assembly.

  23. With the advice and consent of our chapter we have granted that the said count shall be bound to appear only in our court in matters pertaining to that fief.

  24. But he refused to undertake the burden of ruling, on the ground that he was too old, and by his advice Conrad, duke of Franconia, was anointed king.

  25. On this account, with the advice of the bishops whom the pope sent me, I anathematized them a week after Pentecost.

  26. The whole onus of work here is on my shoulders; every one comes to me for advice and assistance, which is purely absurd.

  27. With the Commissioner for Europe was to be directly affiliated an advisory council, a bureau of legal advice and general policy, and various administrative bureaus and standing committees.

  28. At the beginning of the war he had advised that the Duke of Milan should not be followed into the Romagna, but should be waited for on this side of the Apennines, but his advice was overruled.

  29. Had his advice been followed when he wished directly to give battle, his party would not perhaps have had to submit, but Messer Luca, either cowardly or bribed, betrayed his party and himself.

  30. Piero was struck, and answered that he would willingly follow the good advice if Niccolò would procure him a suitable teacher.

  31. Soderini said to him, bitterly, that they would both be ruined; he, because he had relied too much on Luca, Luca because he had heeded his advice too little.

  32. At Fogo's advice they carried food and drink with them, for the morning was very cold and laden with promise of snow.

  33. Take my advice and try to feel like I do--like a man about it.

  34. Bartley sat on Mr. Shillabeer's knee, while Mr. Fogo polished him up and poured advice into his ear.

  35. Fogo kept speaking, but when he stood at the scratch Crocker quite forgot the last advice he had received.

  36. Follow my advice and have a good talk with David.

  37. And I believe, come to think of it, that might be good advice to myself too.

  38. Crocker left his old antagonist very full of thought and, when the younger was out of sight, Bowden, at a sudden whim, took his advice literally, dismounted again and tethered his horse.

  39. Somehow he can't bring himself to ask my advice over anything bigger than his own clothes.

  40. I shall carry the bottle and offer advice as it's called for, and Reuben will pick him up and give him a knee," he declared.

  41. She returned to her husband, but subsequently left him again and sent for advice to her brother who was bishop of Bordeaux.

  42. Granted that the practice in the past served a good purpose, the advice given in this book for recluses appears dictated by a strong sense of fitness and moderation.

  43. If it brought advice which led to the composition of the other plays, we must commend the judgment of those who counselled her.

  44. Abbesses of many convents, convinced of Hildegard's being divinely inspired, wrote to her for advice concerning personal matters.

  45. There are further injunctions about tending the infirm, and stern advice about the hatefulness of quarrels.

  46. Against the advice of the bishop she appealed to the authority of King Childebert, who admitted her claim to the property.

  47. Blunt considers it probable[954] that it was by the advice of Fitzhugh that Henry V about this time devoted manors at Sheen and Isleworth to religious purposes.

  48. On the other points she sought the advice of learned men outside, but they advised compromise, for, to give her own words (p.

  49. The marchesa knew of Cornelie's original opposition, of her former advice to Urania; and she was certain that Cornelie had acted in this way because she herself had had views on Gilio.

  50. At her advice Duco went to see his mother again, but she remained cool and sent him away.

  51. Urania will be glad to have his advice on some artistic questions, concerning the 'doing up' of San Stefano.

  52. The driver is distracted, by the advice of some twenty persons, pointing with sticks and umbrellas, in every direction, and all vociferating together.

  53. A German, who had been very intemperate, joined a total abstinence society, by the advice of a temperance physician.

  54. This is our advice to both the country and the city wife.

  55. Is it possible that, unmindful of the proverb, that he who is his own lawyer has got a fool for his client, she can be in search of legal advice gratis?

  56. On the contrary, my advice is, 'Put the Pot on.

  57. They consult you, they ask your advice upon the best way of concealing the stem of a rose, of giving a graceful fall to a bunch of briar, or a happy turn to a scarf.

  58. No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

  59. This was largely due to the advice of Gugy, if we are to believe {83} the account which Gugy has left us.

  60. They'll take their alms, but they'll hardly take their schooling, and their advice they won't take at all.

  61. In our holy church he would have been compelled to discriminate his faults by methodic self-examination, and lay them one by one before his priest for advice and pardon, and so start a new and free man once more.

  62. Perfectly, and doubly delighted at your presence to-day, for your advice will come in a providential moment for my friend here.

  63. His favourite in the family had been the Lady Emily, his eldest sister, who, contrary to the advice of her other brothers and sisters, had yielded her hand to his not wealthy friend, Colonel Richard Beauchamp.

  64. This proved persuasive, and as the hour was late Nevil had to act on her advice in a hurry.

  65. Pray give her some better advice than that.

  66. Thank you very much, Mr Trevithick, for all that you have done; and now, pray, give me some advice as to what to do with this money.

  67. I might be called upon to give advice some day.

  68. When he had regained his seat he told the old man in detail all that had happened at the dance at the hotel, ending with the advice he had received from Rayburn Miller.

  69. My advice to you is to go to Dole an' tell 'im you are sorry.

  70. Now, ef you-uns kin be helped by this advice you are welcome to it free o' charge.

  71. You'd' a' saved a thousand dollars by taking her advice the other day about that cotton sale.

  72. At this juncture one of the floor-managers with a white rosette on his lapel called Miller away to ask his advice about some details, and Alan turned out of the parlor into the wide corridor which ran through the house.

  73. The mere thought that Adele Bishop was under the same roof with him, and on the morrow was going to people who liked him, and leaned on his advice and experience, gave him a sweet content that thrilled him from head to foot.

  74. It was hard work to keep from running every step of the way; but her mother's advice must be heeded, and to some extent she succeeded in controlling her violent impulses.

  75. You are but a child, as she is, and she will not listen to such advice from you.

  76. I was compelled to decline the advice of men honestly given for a good purpose, because in my judgment that advice would not promote the public good.

  77. I was reckless, and, against the advice of others, went out on a temporary foot-bridge which fell and I dropped into the raging waters.

  78. Any advice or aid I can give will be freely rendered on call, but not tendered until needed.

  79. It was soon developed that the gravamen of the charges was not the removal of Stanton, but was the attempt of the President to force General Lorenzo Thomas into a high office without the advice and consent of the Senate.

  80. His advice to keep out of politics was easy to follow, as no one could then dream of the possibility of a Whig being elected to office in Richland county, then called "the Berks of Ohio.

  81. Advice in this matter is an impertinence.

  82. The military committees of the two Houses, under the advice of accomplished officers, formulated the laws passed by Congress for the enlistment, equipment and organization of the Union armies.

  83. Still, I had a good deal of intercourse with him, mainly in the way of advice on his part.


  84. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "advice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.