Can they go and come in their burying-grounds and choose places for the graves of their kindred?
I may oppose slavery, on the grounds of political economy or for national reasons.
Arriving thus far, he chanced to behold Gower and Madge walking over the grounds near the western plantation, and he regretted the disappearance of them, with the fellow talking hard into the girl's ear.
Notwithstanding a dislike of the Dowager Countess of Fleetwood, Lady Arpington paid Livia an afternoon visit; and added thereby to the stock of her knowledge and the grounds of her disapprobation.
Reperuse the above--you will see we have grounds for hope.
There was a look of gentle intimacy, expressive of common grounds between them, accompanying the dead words.
The grounds of your coming, my lord, are not seen; my time is short.
They were insensible to it, as they are not--they are never insensible to noble grounds of strife.
Pleading on the earl's behalf was a vain effort, but she had her grounds for painting Lord Fleetwood's present mood to his countess in warm colours.
He was about to be astonished, and reflected that she had grounds for her sagacity.
The party walked round the Gardens unmolested nor have we grounds for supposing they assumed airs of state in the style of a previous generation.
Anne Douglas and Rast went through the fort grounds and down the hill path, instead of going round by the road.
They have come back to their old haunts from the happy hunting grounds for these few golden days.
It must be, then, it must be, that there were grounds for his belief.
The first grounds of complaint were the deaths of Hus, Jerom, and Krasa, and the encouragement which Sigismund had given to the Crusaders against Bohemia.
The most plausible grounds for this deposition were mainly of a negative kind.
He had never admitted the legality of his deposition from the Imperial throne; and, since only a part of the Electors had sanctioned that step, he had plausible grounds for disputing its validity.
Bruno undoubtedly stood high in the opinion of Gregory; and, even apart from his advice, there were obvious grounds for inquiry in the circumstances of Rudolf’s election.
The grounds of Ottakar’s refusal have been variously given; and it is highly probable that both of the explanations offered were parts of the truth.
But, unfortunately, there were other grounds of opposition to George which were not so easily put aside as mere suspicions of heresy might be.
I have not met with any grounds for suspecting that the average Englishmen of to-day are sensibly different from those that Shakespeare knew and drew.
No one but a bigot would deny that a mediaeval philosopher might accept on perfectly reasonable grounds the dogmas of the Catholic Church.
The French Revolution, according to one familiar statement, was due to the freethinkers who had set about prying into the ultimate grounds of the old faith, and had succeeded in shaking the convictions necessary to social welfare.
Their feeding-grounds embraced the meadow valleys where the choicest grazing was to be found.
Being in bad groundsfor our Horses we moved 7 miles along the Indian Road, to Clover Creek.
East of the Rocky mountains the feeding-grounds embraced all the area drained by the Ohio river and its tributaries, extending southward beyond the Rio Grande and northward to the Great Lakes as far as the eastern extremity of Lake Erie.
I blazed several trees four ways on the outside of the low Grounds by a Buffaloe Road, and marked my Name on Several Beech Trees.
Is it not then extraordinary that such limitations and menaces on false grounds should originate with persons whose high official situations would seem to sanction imputation under their signatures?
In the grounds of the Admiralty House curious instances of unconformable strata are laid bare in old quarries.
Then they turned their attention to the grounds These were extensive, and it seemed probable that somewhere among the groves or swamps the remains might be found.
It was a large room, and it looked out upon the grounds in front of the house.
He has good grounds for declining to revisit Dalton Hall.
By coming into these grounds at all times; by having privileges equal in all respects to your own; by handing over those privileges to his spy and emissary--the one who took the name of Lieutenant Dudleigh.
The aspect of the grounds below and of the drawing-room had struck a chill to her heart.
He never went out of the groundson those occasional rides, and if any one in the neighborhood noticed this, the recent sad events might have been considered an excuse.
Why did you steal into these grounds like a thief, and do this infamous thing?
He must have some personal regard for her, she was sure, for on what other grounds would he come to see her so incessantly, and spend so much time with her?
Having so successfully shut her within the grounds for so long a time, he would now be able to carry out any mode of confinement which might be desirable to him.
The grounds were extensive and beautiful, but confinement within the park inclosure was attended with unpleasant memories, and so, in the ordinary course of things, they naturally sought the wider, freer world outside.
The grounds about were stiff and formal and forbidding.
She sent Hugo off to scour the grounds to see if he could find any trace of either of the fugitives.
She occupied a large apartment within the grounds of the first king's palace, and not far off, in an elevated position, was placed a golden chair for the king to occupy when he should come to visit her.
The whole of the grounds belonging to the adjoining temple contained nothing but tents, under which Siamese plays were performed by dancing-girls during the day.
Second, Paul deals the false apostles a stout blow when he shows them to be ignorant of the grounds in which a true Christian seeks his glory.
When they played about the mountain grounds of her home at Valperga, Castruccio learnt the secret paths to the Castle, which knowledge later helped him to take the fortress when Euthanasia refused to yield it to him.
They drove into the grounds of Villa Eden, where the air was laden with the fragrance of roses, for all the roses in Sonnenkamp's garden were in fresh bloom.
To Wolfsgarten," was the direction upon the guide-board at the edge of the well-kept forest where they were now driving, on the grounds and territory of the nobleman.
And why should there not be just as good grounds for this form, as for an inward thought and wish for another, on whom one would invoke every blessing, unexpressed in words?
She had two sons in the army, and one invalid daughter; rooms were also designated for her grandchildren, and when she was looking for a choice spot for herself, Sonnenkamp promised to have the grounds laid out anew.
We have found that a new sort of printer's ink can be prepared from the skins and grounds of grapes.
So far differently was I circumstanced of old, that I used rather to go about for a subject of offence to people; writing ugly things in order to warn the ungenial and timorous off my grounds at once.
Therefore it is advisable to hurry on nothing--on these grounds it is advisable.
The savage was watching, with malignant vigilance, to grasp every opportunity to harass the intruder into the hunting grounds of his fathers.
They always mistrusted our counsels, and went from the trail of the red men, where there were no hunting grounds nor friends.
That submissively surrendered stream showed the Chinaman in a new light; for not much of the blood of the Execution Grounds was criminal.
Before turning back into the church grounds he paused a moment at the gate, and Julie saw a portentous shadow cross his face.
The buildings were high and roomy, overlooking charming scenery of jungle and sea, and were surrounded by the overgrowngrounds that children love.
She waded through the lush growth along the old stone walls, wormed herself through Chiquito's egress, and hurried across the grounds toward the house.
Emperors have sat in it, and the devil himself; and because of it execution grounds have run red.
Prince Andrew, depressed and preoccupied with the business about which he had to speak to the Marshal, was driving up the avenue in the grounds of the Rostovs' house at Otradnoe.
And Kutuzov smiled in a way that seemed to say, "You are quite at liberty not to believe me and I don't even care whether you do or not, but you have no grounds for telling me so.
These conditions, however, are good grounds for repeating the test; 10 per cent or even less may be detected by this test.
The next great work of Collins was his "Discourse on theGrounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion," in two parts.
His habits were simple; he rose early in the morning, took a long walk through the groundsof Chatsworth, and cultivated healthful recreation.
It is clear that the grounds for accepting the letter are too strong for Mr. Gairdner to be able to reject them.
He even gives the true grounds on which Richard's claim to the crown rested, which are falsified by Morton and by Polydore Virgil, and which were forbidden by Henry VII.
On these grounds alone he urged that the accusation is not to be rejected.
The attendance of a Woodville bishop and a Grey viscount gave grounds for the hope that even faction was at an end.
But my present belief is, that not a single man or woman will be found able to account on any ordinary grounds for such an extraordinary instance of "unconscious cerebration.
And his words were so much the echo of my own grounds for belief, that I quite sympathized with them.
In man, ethical action has a greater value for life, simply because, unlike the beast, he is able to question its groundsand to forgo it if he chooses.
If nature is capable of producing such effects as this without the agency of Lamarck’s principle, are there not excellent grounds for seeking for some other agency which will cover all the phenomena alike?
Whoever may deny this possibility, and on whatever grounds, it certainly cannot be denied on any grounds that physics or biology are aware of.
My readers, after perusing the foregoing remarks, will agree with me that from the lack of actual observation on the part of the authors, who describe the cocoa-nut eating habit of this crab, there has been fair grounds for scepticism.
Yet, credulous persons had fairgrounds to retain their doubts, although in various works on natural history, popular and otherwise, this habit of the Birgus was described as an undoubted fact.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grounds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
