But as he is a Sikh, and therefore believes that the prophet of El-Islam was a liar and impostor, with a beard as fit to be dishonored as his fiery creed, perhaps his perjury was scarcely technical.
She believes I am helping someone she seems really to care for.
There is a girl he loves and who believes she loves him," she said.
Another believes in having as many wives as they can support--the Mormons.
One sect believes that no one can be saved unless immersed in water; others believe in sprinkling.
The American woman believesthat a narrow waist enhances her beauty, and the corset-maker works upon the national weakness and builds creations that put to shame and ridicule the bound feet of the aristocratic Chinese woman.
This young woman, a graduate of a large college, wore an amulet, which she believes protects her from accident.
The feeling is general that a man who believes in God will not lie unto God under the solemnity of an oath.
And he swears that they're in a conspiracy to freeze him and a few others like him out; he believes there's actually a paper in existence that would prove it.
Consumptives cannot be cured by any drug now known, and any person who believes it is mistaken.
The Sportsman believes [that] there is Good in his Chace [chase.
No man believes but that there is some order in the universe.
No man believes but what there is some order in the universe.
Because the Duke Believes he has secured us--means to lure us Still further on by splendid promises.
Deep Love, the godlike in us, still believes Its objects as immortal as itself!
I know he believes his sister perished with her father; Mother Jenks didn't know where he was and couldn't communicate with him--and there you are.
In some mysterious manner you and your brother lost track of each other, and at the present moment he believes you perished in the flames that gutted the government palace.
But even granting[38] it to be in some sense true that a man's volition is always directed to the attainment of his own happiness, it does not follow that a man always does what he believes will be conducive to his own greatest happiness.
For a Utilitarian must hold that it is always wrong for a man knowingly to do anything other than what he believes to be most conducive to Universal Happiness.
No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness.
Yet continual power produces arrogance, and the soul unchecked finally believes in its own omniscience.
Aucassin believes his father; goes and captures the count.
The company would grub that up too, but the proprietor will not sell, as he believes the tradition that an incalculable treasure is hidden somewhere among these tombs.
What I says is just the truth, but no one believes tales like that.
None believes them stories, but they make one seem more respectable like, and I am sure Mr. Parsons will appreciate the intention.
It is clear that Artsybashev believes that for some time to come women will not accept the gospel of uncompromising egoism.
In reading that masterpiece "La Debacle," and every one who believes in war ought to read it, one feels that Zola must have learned something from Tolstoi.
Their heroines would regard Elena as timid and conventional, for with all her self-assertion, she still believes in God and marriage, two ideas that to our contemporary emancipated females are the symbols of slavery.
What he believesin is something with a very bad taste, and lots of it.
He believes that there is only one road to national prosperity--the road by which Western Europe has travelled--and along this road he tried to drive his country as rapidly as possible.
The Author either gravely believes what no other man alive believes, or he has, of malice prepense, committed so great an offence against good taste as to build his story on what he must know to be a contemptible absurdity.
White believes that they were purposely omitted, but only on account of their disparagement of the prologue-speakers on the stage.
Warton believes she was so called because she steals new-born infants, and leaves "changelings" (see M.
Often these phrases are used to avoid what the writer believes to be annoying repetition.
In fourteen instances, however, he believesit "quite apparent that the lines of statistics are curved in accordance with laws enacted just previous to the curves.
There's that curate of his now believes every thing, and would humbug the whole world if he could!
But, as one who believes with his whole soul, and strives with his whole will, I attribute their betterness to the growing influences of God upon the race through them that have believed.
Christianity is not a failure; for to it mainly is the fact owing that here is a class of men which, believing in no God, yet believes in duty toward men.
Argure quite as fully as some less sceptical members of his congregation do, Deacon Goodsole believes in him most implicitly.
Theodore Parker believes in prayer as much as Professor Strait.
But he ridicules the idea of the miracles; says he does not believe them any more than he believes in the mythical legends of Greek and Roman literature.
And as to Christianity he believes its a very good sort of thing, better for America than any other religion; but he rather thinks Buddhism is very likely better for India.
As for Jack, when Jill stumbles upon his secret, he curses his luck: now that he believes it inviolate, he is in despair.
Upon what he believes to be his deathbed, the old fellow repents his harshness.
Against the remaining seven not a syllable of reproach is breathed; but if there had been any evil thing in them, who believes it would not have been learned and conned by rote and cast into our teeth?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "believes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
