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Example sentences for "avouched"

Lexicographically close words:
avois; avoit; avons; avore; avouch; avouches; avoucheth; avouching; avoue; avow
  1. The story 's plausible, Avouched for by a martyrologist, And why should good men sup on cheese and leeks On such a saint's day, if there were no saint?

  2. I said nor choose repeat, And must have so avouched himself, in fact, In hearing of this very Lazarus Who saith--but why all this of what he saith?

  3. Fortunate indeed is that man who by such as they is avouched unto posterity.

  4. They avouched Scripture; both the priests had Scriptum est: perverting and ignorantly mistaking the Scriptures; 3.

  5. They avouched the Common Law, to prove that he was no king until he was crowned; alledging a Statute of 13 Elizabeth.

  6. You have agreed that a book-revelation is impossible, and not to be believed, even if avouched by miracles.

  7. None of its practical claims were avouched either by reason or experience; and the imagination grew weary of sustaining them in despite of both.

  8. Besides, it is avouched by Solomon that infinite is the number of fools.

  9. And are they not aware that they so avouched just one short month before both invasion and usurpation were consummated by burglary and breach?

  10. They could not hide him in the ground Though hand and heart were chill, For round his lips the smile avouched The soul was in him still.

  11. They were heretics, and avouched that on a certain day I had dined with their mistress and her sister, while they, among others, waited at table.

  12. Verily, the old man whom I bought avouched that he knew the quintessence of jewels and that he was skilled in cookery.

  13. Awhile after this, there came two merchants to the king with two pearls of price and each of them avouched that his pearl was worth a thousand dinars, but there was none who availed to value them.

  14. Dismounting before it, each knight avouched the justice of his cause by a solemn oath on the Evangelists, and prayed that his success might be according to the truth or falsehood of what he then swore.

  15. He, of course, avouched his innocence, and offered his body for battle.

  16. Conrade arose boldly to answer, and in despite, as he expressed himself, of man and brute, king or dog, avouched his innocence of the crime charged.

  17. Now I never lose the remembrance of a face once seen, and at the first glance I could have avouched that this young man was the same that did me service two days before.

  18. I upbraided him, mildly, yet with earnestness, for that his imprudence had well-nigh undone all my cure, and avouched that it was high time to attempt the experimentum I had formerly suggested.

  19. As you heard, she avouched that she had not a single gossip who had come to her husband a maid and added that she knew right well how many and what manner tricks married women yet played their husbands.

  20. The physician, who had been born and bred at Bologna, understood not their canting terms and accordingly avouched himself well pleased with the lady in question.

  21. The man avouched again and again that he had, but, getting none other answer, returned to Messer Geri and reported it to him.

  22. She avouched that she gave birth to me one night of the nights of the winter and despatched a hired man, who was with us, in quest of fire for her.

  23. She avouched that thou wouldst play the harlot with a hundied men and that I should after take thee to wife.

  24. Shew me a scripture to confirm such a doctrine as this, which hath been avouched over and over by the Quakers.

  25. Yea there, after whatever manner, He avouched them to be His people.


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