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Example sentences for "jealousies"

Lexicographically close words:
jazz; jealous; jealoused; jealousie; jealously; jealousy; jeans; jearim; ject
  1. The mutual jealousies of each party assisted the views of our negotiator; they would side with him against each other.

  2. Montluc procured a clever Frenchman to be the bearer of his first despatch, in Latin, to the diet; which had hardly assembled, ere suspicions and jealousies were already breaking out.

  3. The envy of rival workmen is as justly described by a reference to the humble manufacturers of earthenware as by the elevated jealousies of the literati and the artists of a more polished age.

  4. It may be a question, whether this magnificent monument of glory did not rather originate in the spirit of party, in the urgent desire of the queen to allay the pride and jealousies of the Marlboroughs.

  5. Italy, like Greece, opens a moving picture of the hatreds and jealousies of small republics; her Bianchi and her Neri, her Guelphs and her Ghibellines!

  6. Differing with England on the policy which led the latter to weaken and humiliate France, jealousies sprung up between the two countries, and Dutch commerce became the object of the most vexatious and injurious efforts on the part of England.

  7. With respect to the state of manners in the republic, it is clear that the jealousies and emulation of commerce were not likely to lessen the vice of avarice with which the natives have been reproached.

  8. The mutual jealousies of the nations with respect to the destiny of Cuba became, at this time, entangled with the greater question of the intervention of the Holy Alliance in the New World.

  9. Sectional jealousies delayed the work, and piled up a debt incurred partly for branch canals in various parts of the state; but by 1830 over four hundred miles of canal had been built in Pennsylvania and five hundred more projected.

  10. Obstacles speedily developed in the jealousies of the various sections of the state.

  11. These jealousies furnish issues for the politics of the state during the rest of the decade.

  12. Your British neighbors have long known these truths, and will not fail by their emissaries to seminate such jealousies as favor their own designs.

  13. Men of much self importance and supposed skill in politics, who are not of sufficient consequence to obtain public employment, but can spread jealousies in the little districts of country where they are placed.

  14. Was it conceivable the boys' silly rivalries and jealousies concerning her took their rise in this?

  15. Or, to be accurate, bred in her an intemperate heat, putting a match to jealousies which, till this instant, she had no knowledge of.

  16. He declares jealousies between nations of being drained of their produce and money to be quite irrational; that could never happen as long as the people and industry remained.

  17. It was his impressions of Simson that first gave Smith the idea that mathematicians possessed a specific amiability and happiness of disposition which placed them above the jealousies and vanities and intrigues of the lower world.

  18. And this method of procedure creates jealousies and heart-burnings innumerable.

  19. Do not impute to me quixotic notions with regard to the duties of men and women of culture, or think that I undervalue the difficulties in the way, the fastidiousness on the one side, or the jealousies on the other.

  20. The dangers of a bitter family feud, or of the mutual jealousies of the heirs to the several kingdoms as to their respective portions, when these grew to any considerable extent, were early enough perceived.

  21. You can not shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.

  22. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection.

  23. Upon the many Jealousies raised, and Scandals cast upon the King, to stirre up the people against Him.

  24. I see Jealousies are not so easily allayed, as they are raised: Some men are more afraid to retreat from violent Engagements, then to Engage: what is wanting in Equity, must be made up in Pertinacie.

  25. Vpon the many Jealousies raised, and Scandals cast upon the KING, to stirre up the People against him.

  26. I have offered Acts of Indemnity and Oblivion to so great a latitude, as may include all, that can but suspect themselves to be any way obnoxious to the Laws; and which might serve to exclude al future jealousies and insecurities.

  27. It filled indifferent men with great jealousies and fears; yea, and many of my Friends resented it, as a motion rising rather from Passion then Reason, and not guided with such discretion as the touchiness of those times required.

  28. The children were generally particularly pleasant to deal with, bright and intelligent, and with a natural amiability of disposition that rendered quarrels and jealousies rare.

  29. The bickerings and jealousies between the inhabitants and soldiers, which had been frequent before, now became serious.

  30. The action takes place at Parma; and as a picture of court life in a small Italian principality, with all its jealousies and intrigues, the book is certainly a masterpiece.

  31. It was a fault, A fault, Bellario, though thy other deeds Of truth outweighed it: all these jealousies Had flown to nothing, if thou hadst discovered What now we know.

  32. La Pucelle dictated a letter to him, conjuring him to renounce his petty jealousies for the love of Christ and St. Mary, to make his peace complete with King Charles of France, and to turn his hand against the common enemy.

  33. She stood for the expulsion of the English invaders of her native soil, and for the composure of the feuds and jealousies of the French Sovereigns and nobles.

  34. Thus the difficulties and jealousies that would have arisen at every vacancy were avoided.

  35. This has given one more vote to the smaller langues, and has so balanced the power that of late the jealousies between us have greatly subsided, and all are working well together in face of the common danger.

  36. But this amicable intercourse quickly cooled, and the mutual jealousies of the parties, arising from complicated causes, became aggravated by various concurrent grudges.

  37. But ere long there broke out those jealousies which chronically afflicted all Italian confederacies.

  38. Private jealousies were lost in this need to defend Lathom for the King.

  39. He is still in Oxford--I can confirm your news on that head--lighting small jealousies and worries.

  40. They did not know, these Metcalfs, what jealousies and slanders and pin-pricks of women's tongues were keeping Rupert here in Oxford.

  41. The old state patriotisms were revived and with them the rivalries and jealousies of political sections.

  42. From our own knowledge this was very bad, what with the mutinous character of many of the men, the total absence of subordination, and the bitter jealousies which existed among the rival officers.

  43. Dutch fashion you must needs go aloof, and worry your heart sore by all sorts of suspicions and jealousies and fears that you have been supplanted--until, see for yourself what a melancholy pass you have brought us all to!

  44. The government of the Dutch West India Company was very complicated, reflecting the political arrangements of the Netherlands and the jealousies of a merchant aristocracy distributed in provinces and cities.


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