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Example sentences for "avail themselves"

  • The announcement gave great joy to the debauchees, and numbers of persons prepared to avail themselves of the re-enactment of the law.

  • They sometimes serve as concubines, in which case the law renders them free, but many refuse to avail themselves of this advantage.

  • They did not scruple to avail themselves of popular violence, nor, in the last extremity, of armed resistance to British authority.

  • If land companies were disposed to avail themselves of the doubt as to what tribe of Indians had a right to sell land, so the British government itself had treated the question of their shadowy allegiance to suit its convenience.

  • A year's interest was becoming due on this, and they wished to avail themselves of our want of money for the foreign interest, to obtain payment of the domestic.

  • These same lenders became purchasers of our domestic debt, and they were disposed to avail themselves of the power they had thus acquired over us as to our foreign demands, to make us pay the domestic one.

  • Bourrienne was disgraced; his enemies took care to avail themselves of it; they blackened his character with M.

  • During the negotiations with the Holy Father Bonaparte one day said to me, "In every country religion is useful to the Government, and those who govern ought to avail themselves of it to influence mankind.

  • The Dutch and Danes will, I doubt not, avail themselves of every error, that may be committed by France or England.

  • Too many of them were incapable of profiting by their opportunities, and others neglected to avail themselves of the instructions of the professors of mathematics, and became the victims of dissipation.

  • Staff officers who may wish to avail themselves of the instruction given at the Survey Office, or in the field, may attend at such hours as the nature of the duties they have to perform will admit.

  • This is frequently done at the sumptuous tables of the rich, and is thought a great delicacy; while the Poor, who have so few enjoyments, have not been taught to avail themselves of this, which is so much within their reach.

  • To enable them to avail themselves of their gardens as early in the spring as possible, in supplying their tables with green vegetables, each company is furnished with a hot-bed for raising early plants.

  • That Mary's calumniators should have insisted upon this circumstance at all, only shows how eager they were to avail themselves of everything which they could pervert to their own purposes.

  • There were, besides, two circumstances which afforded them peculiar facilities, and of which they were no doubt glad to avail themselves.


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