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Example sentences for "humane"

Lexicographically close words:
human; humana; humanae; humanam; humanarum; humanely; humaneness; humaner; humani; humanis
  1. An Indian has his own sense of obligation; and then it is a good asset to be humane all along the line anyhow, although I never dreamed I was saving the man who was to save my boy.

  2. Life for one of us meant death for the other, and I lost every humane instinct in that terrible struggle except the instinct to save Marjie first, and my own life after hers.

  3. A year or two later there was incorporated at Washington the National Society for the Humane Regulation of Vivisection, the objects of which were identical with those of the earlier societies.

  4. It is noot the assertion of the opponents of vivisection, that itis always useless, but that it has been carried much beyond the demands of any desirable and humane purpose.

  5. The book begins with a history of vivisection in which the reader's chief suprise will be in finding that medical opinion a generation ago was much more humane than now.

  6. The decadence of humane sentiment in the laboratory can hardly be more strikingly illustrated than by a comparison of this editorial utterance of the Lancet with some of the present-day expressions of opinion in medical journals.

  7. A week later the Lancet again discusses the subject always, it should be remembered, as the advocate of vivisection, provided the practice be carried on under humane restrictions.

  8. In a word, all experiments which are painless and harmless, are, as I assume the most humane would admit, free from any charge of error.

  9. The student who found entertainment in the unnecessary torture of animals, learned something besides physiology; his humane nature was perverted.

  10. The humane protests of the last generation seem incredible to-day, when the profession almost to a man stands for the secvret and unlimited exploitation of animals.

  11. We surround it with as humane conditions as the object sought will permit.

  12. From letter to The American Humane Association.

  13. Can you dare to question the purity of our motives, the unselfishness of our aims, the mild and humane methods of our experimentation?

  14. Therefore, most humane sir, I entreat you to interfere.

  15. With this injunction they were too humane to comply.

  16. I think that anyone who contributes to putting down this rebellion fulfils a humane task, and I also think tends a great deal to open China to civilization.

  17. His personal safety was entirely due to Gordon's humane efforts, and to the impression that officer had made on the Taepings as a chivalrous opponent.

  18. He pleaded that many of the planters were humane men, and defended also the honor of his relatives connected with the traffic so much denounced, when it was assailed.

  19. This shows the purity of his mind, but there is another illustrating the humane feeling in his heart.

  20. When diplomatic relations are suspended, England should inform the Sultan that she should consider the means of enforcing her just and humane demands.

  21. This bill, which contained many humane provisions, was very favorably received.

  22. The matters discussed by him were, however, rather national than municipal, rather humane than partisan.

  23. By this wise and humane provision thousands of lives were doubtless saved that would otherwise have been lost--the victims of reckless seamanship and commercial greed.

  24. There seemed to be no other alternative, and he accepted the situation, and tried, by being a humane master, to conciliate his wounded conscience for being a master at all.

  25. The one with cool Northern blood and kindly feelings, advocating a humane mode of ruling the helpless being in his power.

  26. He appeared to be a gloomy, austere man, and very different in his address from the humane and friendly manner of Dr.

  27. The good spirits the inhabitants are in, and the harmony that exists in the colony, is mostly owing to his good management, and his humane and friendly deportment towards them.

  28. The successor of Calleja, Apodaca, by his conciliatory and humane conduct, did much to tranquillize society near the capital, but ideas of independence were still working all over the country.

  29. He can make a good trap, a scientific and humane trap, and he knows the ways of the two-or four-or six-footed enemies he is at war with.

  30. I encourage trapping but urge the use of humane traps to avoid cruelty.

  31. Nevertheless any trap is humane which kills the animal instantly.

  32. It would be a mistake to say that Mississippian planters were all of this class; as it would be also erroneous to suppose that Southern masters in general were less humane than other men.

  33. The same "humane civilization" at present praises the abolition of capital punishment as a "liberal measure!

  34. Don Garcia had brought with him to Chili the good licentiate Gonzalez Marmolejo, afterwards first bishop of Santiago, who prepared rules for the humane treatment of the peaceful natives.

  35. Humane treatment of the people was incompatible with the annual despatch of vast treasure to Spain.

  36. A distinction was soon recognized, and allowed even by the humane and pious Isabella.

  37. He allowed a tenth of the Indians to be employed on forced labor in the mines, thus reversing the humane legislation advocated by Las Casas.

  38. He was a man of some education; and his humane treatment of the Indians entitles his name to honorable mention.

  39. It was therefore in the power of the Council to overrule or qualify in many ways the will or purpose or measures of the sovereigns, which were really in favor of right or justice or humane proceedings in the affairs of the colonies.

  40. Oh let me live no longer, shame of Nature, Bastard to Honor: Traytor, Murderer, Devil in a humane shape.

  41. As we are men Thus should we doe, being sensually subdu'd We loose our humane Title; good cheer Ladies.

  42. Sure something more than humane keeps residence here, For I have past the Stygian gulph, And touch upon the blessed shore?

  43. Her kind friend Nanny Nivison attended her in her last illness, and the guidman of Barmoor paid every humane attention.

  44. Everywhere, in the whole system of human life, improvements, alleviations, ingenious appliances and humane inventions are being introduced to lessen the great burden of suffering.

  45. He was in an unusually humane mood himself.

  46. I believe we are better, for the American people are a kind, a feeling, and a humane race.

  47. We found from the very first that the arrow was more humane than the gun.

  48. And those who think the bullet is more certain and humane than the arrow have no accurate knowledge on which to base their comparison.

  49. The cat, the coyote, and the bear come for no such humane motive; they are thinking of food, of joining the feast.

  50. It was just as if she had seen a case that needed the attention of a Humane officer, and had stopped in off the street to report it.

  51. His simple countrymen, the fishers and shepherds of Galilee, on hearing his wise and humane teachings and seeing his miraculous cures, considered him a prophet and a conqueror of the hosts of demons, the workers of disease.

  52. As doctrine it impressed its ethical and humane idealism upon the people, lifting them far above the narrow confines of nationality, and making them a nation of thinkers.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "humane" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accepting; affectionate; altruistic; benevolent; benign; brotherly; charitable; compassionate; decent; easy; easygoing; eleemosynary; forbearing; forgiving; fraternal; generous; gentle; good; gracious; human; humane; humanitarian; kind; kindhearted; kindly; lax; lenient; loving; melting; merciful; mild; moderate; nice; patient; philanthropic; pitying; ruthful; soft; sympathetic; tender; tenderhearted; tolerant; understanding; warm; warmhearted