Why then does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the other; and why does he further feel that he ought to regret his conduct?
Banish the pain and fear of my heart; pale fear we give to the thrushes and parrots.
Capture and pillage of Rome, already weakened by famine, and horrible massacre of the inhabitants; after which Marius and Cinna name themselves consuls and banish Sylla.
M'Crie {253a} says that Mary "wrote to a nobleman in the west country with whom Knox resided, to banish him from his house.
She would banish the preachers (not execute them), "albeit they preached as truly as ever did St. Paul.
He became even more gloomy and silent than before, and his incessant application to business proved his anxiety to banish painful reflections.
Again I say, let us banish gloom, and let us be filled with mirth!
For they may ravish me o' my life, But they canna banish me fro Heavin hie.
But, being strangers in the country, sojourners according to their own account, the king would naturally enough banish them, as they seem always to have been saying that they were about leaving for "their own country.
It was a pleasant picture, and I did not try to banish it.
Now I would relax, and suffer my feelings to assume predominance again, for I was weary of the constant battle to banish this girl from my brain, and anyway, the game was about played.
To renounce everything was enough to banish all patience.
To me who see you preoccupied and distressed, when I wish, I swear to you, to banish all your sadness.
To banish all arch-heretics at once (that is the most zealous witnesses of Christ) or at least with all expedition by degrees.
We must also banish from our ideas of heaven all the carnal pleasures of this world, as they are now understood.
If, therefore, you have hitherto looked upon it as a presumption to aim at a high degree of glory, because you were neither a consecrated virgin nor a religious, banish such a thought from your mind.
No friend nor neighbour comes to give that joy, Which all things here must banish or destroy: Where is the promised coach?
Just banish that rueful expression and read your letter.
It seemed as though nothing could banish her chronic weariness, her ineffable lassitude.
Helen gave herself up to it--permitted sensation to rule and banish for the moment her tire and trouble.
And if they find them bad, to banish us straightways; if good, to give us further time.
It either leads us to "remember God," or to banish and forget Him.
I am not come o sic low kin, Nor yet sic low degree, That you needed to banish me frae your sight, That ye left nae woman wi me.
The cheerful smile no more is mine; I sorrow and regret; I strive in vain to banish love, But still I can't forget.
With night we banish sorrow; Sweet air, blow soft, Sunshine aloft, To give my love good morrow!
Let us, therefore, banish every painful experiment the object of which is purely didactic.
Those most sincere persons who wish to banish experimentation from Science are consequently, I do not fear to say it, standing in the position of direct contradiction to true morality.
Be packing, therefore, thou that wast a knight; Henceforth we banish thee on pain of death.
And you, good uncle, banish all offence: If you do censure me by what you were, Not what you are, I know it will excuse This sudden execution of my will.
This letter is miserably written, and I write it now, that I may for a time banish the whole subject; and I am worn out with musing.
Oh, good heavens, the relief to my head and body to banish the whole subject from my mind!
We must add an inquisition, and as it will not be sufficient for our views of having immaculate citizens, we should add censors, and banish the immoral from amongst us.
A small burden only in foreign ports on American vessels, and a perfect equality of foreign vessels with our own in our own ports, would gradually banish the latter altogether.
Whereas, to banish all doubt, we go to the top of the scale for the tonnage, we take what we know to be the utmost.
But when I had fed my passion to the full, And all my pleasure was to live at home, Then 'twas thy cue to expel and banish me, Nor was this name of kindred then so dear.
Further, I bid the horror breathing gloom Tartarean, of the vault that holds my sire, To banish thee from that last home: I invoke The Spirits who haunt this ground, and the fierce God Who hath filled you both with this unnatural hate.
But by-and-by ambition prevailed with Eteocles, the younger- born, and he persuaded Creon and the citizens to banish his elder brother.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "banish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
