From ocular inspection, he avows that they had no temples, etc.
She claps her arms akimbo, and avows the offence; and our Secretary, in his long and beautiful letter, finds no place to insert a demand for the assumed outrage.
Well then, tell me now: when he sends mercenaries into Chersonesus, which the king and all the Greeks have acknowledged to be yours, when he avows himself an auxiliary and writes us word so, what are such proceedings?
If we really wait until he avows that he is at war with us, we are the simplest of mortals: for he would not declare that, though he marched even against Attica and Piræus; at least if we may judge from his conduct to others.
Newman explicitly avows in the most eloquent pages of his "Apologia.
As surely as a man may be known by his choice in a friend, so is the nature of the artist betrayed when heavows his partiality for one alone among all the creations of his genius.
This, again, he might well expect, as he avows that he had correspondents in Germany who applauded his attitude towards the Papacy.
While he is thus protesting to Eulalia, his friend's betrothed, to whom for the first time he avows his own love, a trial is at hand, and nearer than he or we expect.
Without shame the man I like knows and avows the deliciousness of his sex; without shame the woman I like knows and avows hers.
He who avows these ideas, and is willing to contend for their advancement, is our beloved brother.
He plainly avows his object in writing: "These signs are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through His name.
But He advances to meet the party, avows Himself to be the man they sought, will not suffer Peter to use his sword, in every way shows that His surrender is voluntary.
Comte explicitly avows this doctrine, and Mr. Mill and Mr. Lewes give it their implied sanction.
The Secretary avows his conviction that unless this coinage and the issuance of silver certificates be suspended silver is likely at no distant day to become our sole metallic standard.
When the President recommends measures to Congress, he avows in the most solemn form his opinions, gives his voice in their favor, and pledges himself in advance to approve them if passed by Congress.
Le Loyer, in his Book of Spectres,[265] avows that all those things appear to him much to be doubted.
A letter from O'Leary, written a year before the Convention, and to be found later on, avowsthat he was the friend and political correspondent of Roche.
Moylan's character, which it was agreed by all those who had the pleasure of meeting him here, was as engaging as his person, which avows and bespeaks as much goodwill as can be well imagined in a human countenance.
It is as follows: "It is not sufficient for anyone who avows distress to say that he avows the taking, &c.
Kant avowsthat man has no right to affirm that there are out of him real causes, time, or space, or that he himself has a spiritual and free soul.
He avows himself to be in great doubt about the truth of the story, and ends by warning his readers not wholly to slight such impressions.
For so he avowshimself to be not only an eye-witness and a hearer, but also a recorder, of all the wonderful things of the Lord in order.
Magnus avows that he was the ninth, who stayed when eight rode away.
She avows her love, but adds that it was a fixed idea in her mind that he would deceive her.
Alesha avows that he has seen Dobrynya's corpse lying on the steppe, and sues for her hand.
The queen gives Hilde her youngest son for a husband, and Hilde avows that she is consoled.
Rimild offers Horn a ring when she firstavows her love.
The host's daughter avows her love to her father, and desires to detain the young pilgrim.
So, to make short tale, they packed up, and paid all that would ask them, and wholly an hundred knights departed with Sir Launcelot at once, and made avows they would never leave him for weal nor for woe.
When they of the Table Round heard Sir Gawaine say so, the most part of them arose, and made such avowsas Sir Gawaine had made.
Fides, in order to save his life, avows that she was mistaken and she is led to prison.
Mignon at last openly avows her passion for Wilhelm.
Baculus avows at last, that the latter is a disguised student.
In one of his subsequent letters he avows a design which would have led to the massacre of a whole clan.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
