While the critics were still diagnosing over the pamphlet as a theory, a small band of men, avowing the same convictions as Desjardins, proceeded to test it as a practical truth.
Dekker tried in vain to get some influence in Holland, but he had killed himself politically by avowing that 'Max Havelaar' was not written in the interests of either party, but was the utterance of a champion of humanity.
He could not avoid avowing some of his predecessor’s military errors; but he has not touched at any length on the political, further than that we lost our name and an army by neglect on the part of our agents.
While avowing his personal dislike to slavery, he demonstrated that the Bible sanctioned it.
The priest at Morzine attempted to quiet the matter by avowing his disbelief in such cases of possession; but immediately a great outcry was raised against him, especially by the possessed themselves.
Fox, on the other hand, while avowing that hitherto he had always opposed similar motions, declared his wish now to see not only triennial but annual Parliaments, as the sole means of lessening the influence of the crown.
His idea was to punish men for stating facts which he happened to disbelieve, or for enacting andavowing opinions, not criminal, but perhaps erroneous.
It is byavowing and maintaining this stern principle of honor, that peace can be preserved.
My dear girl," said Philippa, "who ever talks of simple and feeling ways of avowing a passion in these days of sophistication?
This must be Heathcote's simple and feeling way of avowing his passion," said Janet, with a half-suppressed sigh.
Can any one conceive such a spectacle as these gorgeous men of scarlet and purple cringing before this poor pretender, and openly avowing before Europe that there is no peace for them till he consents to cross the Tiber?
Geraldine suffered in silence, for a word from her was always put down by some tender jest, avowing as much inferiority in goodness as superiority in intellect.
But so well aware is the despot of his precarious footing, that he relies entirely upon the tact displayed by his mother, avowing her northern subjects to be his own flesh and blood, upon whom he could not impose a heavy taxation.
When told to advance, he made one more appeal to the captain, avowing that he was an American.
Nothing but the strongest self-control had restrained Mrs. Chattaway from avowing all when she heard this.
You tell me a stranger has made his appearance at Barbrook, avowing an intention of displacing you from Trevlyn Hold.
What Miss Martineau relates of a young man's purchasing a colored concubine from a lady, and avowing his designs, is too absurd even for contradiction.
From Norfolk, Mr. Clifford received a brief note written by his son, upbraiding him for having defeated the application to the department, andavowing the fact that he had gone to sea in the government service, as a common sailor.
She made an early reply, avowing her own attachment, but urging him; for her sake, to do all in his power to overcome her father's prejudices.
Harangues of this kind, listened to with approbation, induced some persons to stand for the military tribuneship, each avowing that if in office he would propose something to the advantage of the commons.
Fawkes, who was a hardened and intrepid villain, made no hesitation of avowing the design, and that it was to have been executed on the morrow.
He was credited, you may well believe, with calumnies against King George, and once my Uncle Grafton and Mr. Dulany were for clapping him in jail, avowing that he taught treason to the young.
The colonel bade me proceed, avowing that Captain Carvel's son should have his best assistance.
He was too thorough a courtier to profess any grief over Miss Manners's match, and went about avowing that he had always predicted a duke for Miss Dorothy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avowing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
