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Example sentences for "estranging"

Lexicographically close words:
estrade; estranged; estrangement; estrangements; estranges; estray; estre; estrecho; estrellas; estro
  1. In this matter he could rely on the support of the Prince, who, without estranging himself from his father, still appeared to be less dependent on his will than before.

  2. She should reflect that many of the lords by whom she was now supported, a part of the Privy Council, and the people of London, were Protestants, and guard against estranging them.

  3. From this estranging mood he was roused by the innocent laughter of the Beaver.

  4. After the first few hours, despite the estranging circumstances, there did seem to be some sort of a bond between her and this girl who attended her father.

  5. Feeling the coldness in his own voice he realized how he was at the very start getting away from the thing he wanted to do, was estranging Amy by his resentment of her feeling about a thing she did not understand.

  6. The estranging mists cleared, and, in truth, she put self aside.

  7. Past the anguish that lay between them like a two-edged sword, and through the mists of the estranging years, Evelina had come back to claim her own.

  8. Nothing could be more ill-judged upon the part of Marie than this violence, as by estranging the King from herself she gave ample opportunity to the Marquise to resume her empire over his mind.

  9. Sinister they became, but with the helplessness of those in whom the under-spirit of life has been working, estranging them, even against their will, from the rest of the world.

  10. Ian Stafford came to her after the estranging and scornful years, and she had watched Rudyard leave her--to her fate and to her folly.

  11. The destruction of that desire, or the estranging of oneself from it; 4.

  12. The destruction of that desire, or the estranging of one's self from it.

  13. Polignac and her set of intriguers succeeded in estranging them and usurping all the favors of the queen.

  14. Adelaïde and Sophie—succeeded in partially estranging her from Louis XV.

  15. Though this fresh extension of the Labour unrest was happily checked, the Suffragist militancy which was gradually estranging public sympathy did not abate.

  16. The Estranging Sea "God bless the narrow sea which keeps her off, And keeps our Britain whole within itself.

  17. And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.

  18. What can there be But everlasting horror 'twixt us two, Gulfs of estranging blood?

  19. Wholly absorbed in estranging her from him, he had done nothing to estrange himself from her.

  20. And yet he did not dare to multiply startling strokes, for fear of bewildering instead of estranging her, and, possibly, of suggesting suspicion.

  21. He was soon induced by reflection to hold in contempt the things of this world, and consequently to seek with ardour some means of estranging himself from all visible and material objects.

  22. The estranging oneself from that desire and that craving, the complete destruction of both, constitutes the third great truth.

  23. He began by winning and ended by estranging almost every class in both Provinces of Canada, and returned to England to all appearances a spent and extinguished meteor.

  24. The embarrassed Pope (throughout it must be remembered that there was a formidable Antipope), afraid at once of estranging Henry, and unwilling to abandon Becket, granted the legation to the Archbishop of York.

  25. Chièvres followed his advantage by estranging Maximilian from his daughter and by urging the States General to demand the emancipation of Charles, which was finally granted by the Emperor for a money consideration.

  26. No, they do in all things contrary: estranging of their children what they can, from the love of God and all good men, so soon as they are born.

  27. He must have an eye for the "humanities" which underlie the estranging barriers of social demarcation, and in relation to which the influence of those barriers can alone be rightly appreciated.

  28. It may indeed be truly said that, after all, human selfishness is much the same as it ever was; that luxury still drowns sympathy; that riches and poverty have still their old estranging influence.

  29. She was greatly displeased at the injury inflicted upon her valued friend by De Lauzun, in estranging the affection of the Duc d'Orleans from his wife by introducing him to depraved society.

  30. Why should a man hope to prosper by estranging his best Friend, his Emancipator and Guide?

  31. God bade betwixt 'our' shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.


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