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Example sentences for "inveigh"

Lexicographically close words:
invasion; invasions; invasive; invective; invectives; inveighed; inveighing; inveighs; inveigle; inveigled
  1. For nothing makes rebuke less painful or more beneficial than to refrain from anger, and to inveigh against wrong-doing mildly and kindly.

  2. Several German writers inveigh against this work as full of seditious principles, inimical to every government.

  3. He some time afterwards ceased to frequent the Protestant worship, but long kept his middle path, and thought it enough to inveigh against the Jesuits and the exorbitancies of the see of Rome.

  4. Sometimes a deep feeling of his wrongs induced Evellin to inveigh against courts and kings with great animosity; but this was the ebullition of a warm temper, not the cold enmity of a corroded heart.

  5. Upon this, he digressed to the question of equivocation, and began to inveigh against Father Southwell," whose conduct I defended by several arguments.

  6. Upon this, he digressed to the question of equivocation, and began to inveigh against Father Southwell, because on his trial he denied that he knew the woman who was brought forward to accuse him.

  7. Juvenal, who had begun his Satires several years before, continued to inveigh against the flagrant vices of the times; but the only author whose writings we have to notice in the present reign, is a poet of a different class.

  8. It is usual for protestant writers to inveigh against the Tridentine fathers.

  9. La Boetie died young in 1561; and his Discourse was written some years before; he might have lived to perceive how much more easy it is to inveigh against the abuses of government, than to bring about anything better by rebellion.

  10. But, in the name of common sense, why do we inveigh against monasteries and nunneries?

  11. To what end inveigh against the luxuries of a court, its wasteful splendours, or its costly extravagance, with such an example?

  12. Actors talk of art, and of unconventionality; they inveigh against commercialism and pose most picturesquely.

  13. To what purpose was the Statute of Repeal made in the last Parliament, where I heard some of you here present, and several others of the Queen's learned counsel, grievously inveigh against the cruel and bloody laws of Henry VIII.

  14. The Lollards were now making way, and Archbishop Courtenay had a great barefooted procession to St. Paul's to hear a famous Carmelite preacher inveigh against the Wycliffe doctrines.

  15. Let it not be inferred that to inveigh against the question-and-answer type of recitation is to advocate any abatement of thoroughness.

  16. The number of the first type is still very large in spite of all the books that inveigh against this conception.

  17. Certain it is that school inspectors inveigh against the practice mightily as militating against the effectiveness of the teaching.

  18. If the salary of this thirty-minute teacher should be reduced to one third its present amount, she would inveigh against the reduction.

  19. It was an undoubted proof of his good sense and good disposition, that he was never querulous, never prone to inveigh against the present times, as is so common when superficial minds are on the fret.

  20. Against this pampering of their carcasses doth Hector Boethius in his description of the country very sharply inveigh in the first chapter of that treatise.

  21. He do mightily inveigh against the folly of the King to bring his matters to wrack thus, and that we must all be undone without help.

  22. Here I find them mighty hot in their answer to the Council-board about our Treasurer's threepences of the Victualling, and also against the present farm of the Customes, which they do most highly inveigh against.

  23. I do not inveigh against higher education; I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of is elementary and industrial.

  24. This is the self-same Faust who invented printing,[11] and who lived at a time when people began to inveigh against the strictness of church authority, and to make independent researches.

  25. Justly, I fancy, would she reason thus, Justly inveigh and gird: since ever the old Outcrowded by the new gives way, and ever The one thing from the others is repaired.

  26. Once more, if Nature Should of a sudden send a voice abroad, And her own self inveigh against us so: "Mortal, what hast thou of such grave concern That thou indulgest in too sickly plaints?

  27. He proceeds with a touch of sarcasm: “Would to God that you and your like would inveigh against and punish those in whom you see such things daily, i.

  28. Were I in good health, I should inveigh against him.

  29. Wild greatly felicitated him on the lucky accident of preserving his note, and then proceeded, with much acrimony, to inveigh against the barbarity of people of fashion, who kept tradesmen out of their money.

  30. It has often disturbed my feelings to hear some people inveigh reproachfully against the Southern country, as comparing unfavorably with neighboring free states.

  31. Do not incline your ear to those who systematically inveigh against slavery, making it their principal business.

  32. Against this error the present writer has endeavoured to inveigh for many years past, and it is always retorted that insistence upon the ignorance of mothers is a very unwarrantable piece of discourtesy.


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    Other words:
    bait; kick; kidnap