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Example sentences for "can never"

  • I can never be made to understand that the woman who, in presence of her father and brother, promised to be unto me a faithful wife, is not my true and lawful spouse.

  • You seem to intimate that I can never desire to speak with you, except to ask a favor.

  • I can never consent to such a disgraceful marriage for my son," cried Elizabeth-Charlotte to her husband.

  • He can never reproach me with weakness, for he, like myself, believes in the holiness of our union.

  • And if this is true, I can never assent to the doctrine that the rich man will be happy: he must be good as well as rich.

  • It may be made to bloom like the cabbage; it may spread out like an umbrella--it can never be large enough nor showy enough to suit us.

  • Certainly, it is so by its results, and these effects, whatever they may be, can never fail.

  • But it is very difficult, and, in fact, can never be completely done with regard to things really essential.

  • And by the time they left the tables, the emperor had drunk so much of the pleasing drink that he can never escape it influence.

  • To be sure, he is my son; but feel no concern, for unless he defeats you in battle, he can never do you the slightest harm against my will.

  • But you need not be concerned with that, for it can never do you any good; you will never see inside of it; for it would require seven strong men to raise the lid of stone, if any one wished to open it.

  • He can never be going to dig up the pole!

  • Why do you take me,' said Mr Sampson, 'to the glittering halls with which I can never compete, and then taunt me with my moderate salary?

  • I can never be thankful enough to you, and I can never forget you.

  • But it's well known to water-side characters like myself, that him as has been brought out o drowning, can never be drowned.

  • He can never forgive me; it's all over, everything is over.

  • But there is no doubt that the chief pleasure of their life in New York was from its quality of foreignness: the flavor of olives, which, once tasted, can never be forgotten.

  • When I reflect what a complex and sophisticated being I am, I'm afraid I can never come to anything in art.

  • If it be cut money, it is thrown to the bottom of deep water, or where it can never be found.

  • Such an inference, in default of direct evidence as to how the priesthood did actually arise, can never amount to demonstration.

  • We onlookers held our breath, for in an instant was such a scene as we can never hope to see again.

  • I tell you, Your Honour, that it was a lesson in self-respect which anyone who saw it can never forget.

  • And this is precisely one of those devotions that we can never repay.

  • These two conflicts I have suffered have so subdued my strength that I can never endure a third.

  • Nay more; a foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man of pleasure too.

  • On the other hand, a company consisting entirely of people of very low condition, whatever their merit or parts may be, can never be called good company; and consequently should not be much frequented, though by no means despised.

  • For certainly it can never belong to any Athenian to be in such enmity and hostility with the Muses.

  • For that is not always true which Sophocles saith, that From evil acts good words can never come.

  • But because the Law of Nature is eternall, Violation of Covenants, Ingratitude, Arrogance, and all Facts contrary to any Morall vertue, can never cease to be Sinne.

  • And therefore he which performeth first, does but betray himselfe to his enemy; contrary to the Right (he can never abandon) of defending his life, and means of living.

  • For it can never be that Warre shall preserve life, and Peace destroy it.

  • Because I can never keep my gravity at you five minutes on end, you must not dream I do not love you very well: I am all love and laughter, every time I cast an eye on you!

  • Well, she was a widow; and I can never be thinking a widow a good woman.

  • There's few people that has had more experience than Alan Breck: and I can never call to mind to have heard tell of a lassie like this one of yours.

  • The imprecatory expressions which he made use of can never be copied by a feminine pen.

  • And now ensued a combat so terrible, that a weak female hand, like that of her who pens this tale of chivalry, can never hope to do justice to the terrific theme.

  • No, my king, this idea of a Pantheon, a universal house of worship, can never be realized.

  • I have no use for these lights; I can never hope to profit by them.

  • Do you mean to intimate that my strength and power are broken, and that I can never recover my realm?

  • No, sire, I will tell you of an injury, the bitterest I ever experienced, and which I can never forget.

  • The Muses demand solitude and rest for the soul, and that I can never consecrate to them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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