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Example sentences for "laid aside"

  • But as the idea of daily public worship became in the popular mind more and more obsolete, these also were gradually neglected and laid aside.

  • Sympathy and affection, thought and will, are matters of spirit; and why may not spirit feel for spirit and minister to spirit, when the body is laid aside?

  • Who does not have to compel himself to believe, and that with difficulty, that death determines forever the fate of all, and that there is neither possibility of progress nor of going backward after the body is laid aside?

  • He laid aside, then, those wild notions which had been so fatal to him through the whole course of his days, and so remarkably unfortunate to him in this last age of life.

  • In the large manufactories of this country, the ignition of the above mixture in pots is laid aside, as too operose and expensive.

  • The piece of biscuit is laid aside for a little, in order that the colour may take fast hold; it is then plunged into water, and the paper is washed away with a sponge.

  • It is so if Christ's death is regarded from the point of view of sacrifice; whereas, if that is laid aside like a worn-out garment, it can never have been anything anywhere but an excrescence and a superstition.

  • We wish, therefore, that idea to be laid aside, and that no further mention may be made to us of England in this business.

  • An expedition intended to dispossess them of that place, on account of some mistakes and neglect of those who were to make the proper preparations for it, was obliged to be laid aside, but we expect it will sometime hence be resumed.

  • By this time sir George Rooke was laid aside, and the command of the fleet bestowed upon sir Cloudesley Shovel, now declared rear-admiral of England.

  • The king had determined to visit Hanover, and actually settled a regency, in which the prince of Wales was not included: but now this intended journey was laid aside; the court was removed to Kensington, and the prince retired to Richmond.

  • Morals were deteriorated everywhere, and public worship was, in a great measure, laid aside, in many places the churches being bereft of their priests.

  • It would be wantonly violating probability and the unity of a great life to suppose that this purpose, though transformed, was ever forgotten or laid aside.

  • On these occasions some very gross indecencies take place, and the gravity and sense of decorum of a Turk is laid aside.

  • For when he comes, but not till then, shall these things be laid aside.

  • They are then made into three packs by dealing one to the left, one to the middle, and one to the right; a fourth is laid aside to form "a surprise.

  • Then it is divided into three equal parcels of seventeen cards each, and one over for "the surprise," which is to be laid aside.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute power; are told; brought against; came alongside; deal table; entreat thee; existing things; intellectual activity; its distance from the; laid aside; laid bare; laid before the house; laid down; laid down his life; laid eggs; laid his; laid hold; laid rope; laid siege; laid upon; laid waste; perfectly fresh; recollect right; upper surface; volcanic agency; water bottles