Our object is the delineation of national characteristics, and individual propensities or delinquenciesare unimportant except so far as they illustrate national character.
Many of her delinquencies with persons of the opposite sex were notorious, although perhaps difficult of proof.
At all events, such a conclusion would be fully justified by the very frequent discoveries of similar delinquencies in our cities and large towns.
Let past delinquencies become an incentive, stimulating your will to energetic action.
We do charge him with these acts of delinquencies and omissions, we declare him responsible for them; and we call for your Lordships' judgment upon these outrages against humanity, as cruel perhaps as ever were suffered in any country.
This distinguished statesman moved forty-five resolutions, the major part of them directly condemning these very acts which Mr. Hastings has pleaded as his merits, as being delinquencies and crimes.
His mother moved away and took up her interrupted conversation with Mr. Cathcart regarding the delinquencies of Lord Fallowfeild.
Verily thedelinquencies of so delectable a piece of womanhood were easily comprehensible!
States will have recourse to reprisals for such international delinquencies as they think insufficiently important for a declaration of war, but too important to be entirely overlooked.
The assertion that whereas all wars waged for political causes are unjust, all wars waged for international delinquencies are just, if there be no other way of getting reparation and satisfaction, is certainly incorrect because too sweeping.
Reprisals are admissible in the case of international delinquencies only and exclusively.
International delinquencies committed intentionally by belligerents through violation of the rules of legitimate warfare are considered condoned.
The only two people supremely unconscious of delinquencies were the causes of all the trouble--Lord Luffton and Miss Trumpet.
The delinquencies of the house-maids are discussed at dinner, the smallest piece of gossip in Tilchester society.
Fines also, and all legal amercements for delinquencies against such laws must be paid, Deut.
But in a civil case, in which inquiry is made about juridical faults, the witness should testify even to the existence of delinquencies in which there was no element of theological fault.
He breathed harder than ever, in a succession of low growls, and wagged his venerable head at his own delinquencies without intermission.
The only interruptions to the weary uniformity of the life at St. Crux were caused by the characteristic delinquencies of old Mazey and the dogs.
Tod talked of sending the police after her, and wrote an account of her delinquencies to Captain Copperas, addressing the letter to the captain's brokers in Liverpool.
Ignoring the offer, he sat down by the window, threw his yellow silk handkerchief across his head, as a shade against the sun and the air, and opened upon our delinquencies in his thinnest tones.
It is therefore considered expedient to give to official delinquencies as little publicity as possible.
When delinquencies occur in very high places the Tsar is almost sure to display a leniency approaching to tenderness.
Furthermore, it would be most injudicious to make the whole race suffer for the delinquencies of a few individuals, to visit upon thousands who are innocent that punishment and chastisement which should be meted out to the guilty alone.
Petty thefts, deceits and delinquencies of the slave were excused because it was all in the family.
In commenting upon the delinquencies of public officials he did not mince matters, though I search in vain throughout his voluminous writings for any evidence that he was ever guilty of a misstatement, or even an exaggeration.
To the serious grounds of complaint which had unquestionably been given were added numerous delinquencies of the most petty and trifling nature.
Twenty more years of work were to be lived by Latimer before they were to burn him, and their own delinquencies were for the present of a more pressing nature.
Hans tells us he did not get as many whippings as his companion, because he slipped his money-allowance into the tutor's palm, and so his delinquencies were passed over.
Neither his name nor his delinquencies are forgotten to this day.
Happily they were working that dissolution themselves, and producing that disconnection by their delinquencies which they were able to prevent Congress from decreeing.
There is obviously no need, on the present occasion at least, to extend this catalogue of the political delinquencies of this would-be demagogue, whom we may accordingly leave gibbeted and swinging in the winds of the fools' paradise!
Neither you nor your brother Ferdinand, notwithstanding his delinquenciesrespecting women, has given the lie to the proud blood which flows through your veins.
Therese, I know that your austere virtue makes no capitulation to what you would call the sentimental delinquencies of the heart.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delinquencies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
