His disheartening avowal is not disowned by later experience.
So, with consternation, the father and mother heard the avowal of Elizabeth to adopt the extreme customs of the Friends.
One-third of all marriages in the United States occur in just this way: the bib and tucker being sprung on the young man as a surprise, dazzles and hypnotizes him into an avowal and an engagement.
It was with difficulty that I could bring him to listen, for a few minutes, while I repeated principles before declared, and required an avowal of how far he thought them an impediment to future happiness.
I am almost certain that a silly thing which I said, with a very different intention, would have produced an avowal of his passion, had I not added something to prevent it, and hurried away.
I would send them back unopened, but that it would be an avowal of a knowledge of their contents; and I have no need to increase suspicion, whose broad eyes are already glaring at me.
Cecilia was thunderstruck by this speech, which not only expressed an open avowal of his pretensions, but a confident security of his success.
Philip, even more agitated, paced nervously to and fro, seeking an opportunity to utter the avowal that was eager to leave his lips.
And this is the avowal you have refused to make for five long years!
Mr. Grahame was too shrewd, and in this case too interested an observer to be unprepared for his son's avowal of his past feelings and present perplexities.
The mental agony I have suffered, during the last two days, wrings from me the avowal to you of a passion which, as you well know, is not one of yesterday, nor one I have lightly formed.
The Baronet attempts by Falsehood to urge his Daughter into an Avowal of her Lover's Name.
The Baronet attempts by Falsehood The Baronet attempts by Falsehood to urge his Daughter into an Avowal of her Lover's Name.
I make public avowal that my only aim has been to represent the life of mankind as it is.
Nor were it gracious to invite an avowal of love and offer none in return.
For the first time since his avowal of his love for her, Zuleika found herself genuinely interested in him.
Andre with a sudden explosion of passion, "this, then, is the secret of your resistance and the avowal of your shame.
The king did not need the avowal of the faculty to prove that he knows no superior in temporal matters, this avowal being much more advantageous to the popes themselves, who have recognized it, as does Pope Innocent III.
Could I repeat that avowal a million times, in as many varied forms, I should find no better phrase to express the dream I have cherished since a happy fate permitted me to snatch you from death.
Her words rung like a tocsin of the bright romance conjured up by the avowal of their love.
It will be said that you loved him once, but that this tragedy has changed the feeling, and you will be called noble in coming forward of your own accord to acknowledge an avowal which must be now painful to you in the extreme.
I told him with all the power, all the eloquence, I possessed, that his repentance would never be accepted, that he himself would never be forgiven, unless he rescued by a public avowal the innocent man who was suffering in his place.
Fifth (and most remarkable of all), that this stranger made a strong and open avowal of her own love for the dead man, the extraordinary words of which are given in another column.
She told him that her own avowal should lift from him all the weight of wrong-doing; she had first gone astray.
There was a strange dulled look in his eyes; she missed the expression which had lain there since the avowal of the day before.
A succession of categorical enquiries, forced, at length, an avowal from Ellis, that her commission had been given to her in a letter.
Monstrous confessions would very likely be hinted at, a criminal's last avowal of his crime on his deathbed.
Her avowalof being led captive by human love would be a national catastrophe.
Her acquittal in the law court would be as nothing to her if it must be followed by an avowal of her guilt to her own son!
And now we must go back a little and endeavour to explain how it was that Lady Mason had made thisavowal of her guilt.
Let your very soul be witness to my avowal when I tell you that I love you!
I do not venture upon this avowal without safeguarding myself.
Barbara's avowal to the cabinet of her real faith had been a great triumph for Ravenna over his Greek rival Mosco, and he looked forward to additional triumphs.
Ravenna could not suppose that Zabern had come for anything else; nevertheless, the cool, frank avowalsent the blood to his heart with a rush.
What had provoked his avowal had been the most innocent, in a sense the most beautiful, feeling of which a woman is capable--love for her child.
General Jackson was deeply mortified and irritated by Mr. Clay's preference of Mr. Adams, and still more by his avowal of the motives on which it was founded.
If I followed out my avowalto its just issue, I should be a traitor to Julia; and all my life up to the present moment would be lost to me.
