Some planters refused to leave their slaves in the full charge of deputies of any kind, even for short periods.
This action prompted the negroes generally to leave their masters, though some were deterred "on account of their age and infirmities, or because they did not know how to provide for themselves, or for some pecuniary consideration.
But the women always make resistance, for they do not like to leave their tribe, and in many instances they have the best of reasons for kicking their lovers.
After marriage they became free, for sufficient cause, to leave their husbands, who were thus put on their good behavior.
For the next three centuries Councils and Bishops struggled manfully to put into force the Bull Periculoso, but without success; the constant repetition of the order that nuns should not leave their convents is the measure of its failure.
In these injunctions he laid down with great exactness the conditions to be observed in granting nuns permission to leave their convents.
In the present state of affairs, it would be well to forbid the Filipinos to leave their country, and not to teach them how to read.
The Governor General had himself ordered these people to leave their possessions, for he had not thought it fitting that they should remain in them during the great danger.
Those who carried San Juan, tired of waiting, squatted down in the characteristic Filipino manner, and found it convenient to leave their burden on the ground.
They are obliged, as it were, to leave their sex, and to dress themselves in female apparel.
The belief that the bloodless shades leave their graves at night and seek renewed life by drawing the blood of the living, is prevalent in many parts of the world.
Among the Fuegians a son becomes independent of his parents at a very early age, being allowed to leave their wigwam if he pleases.
The negroes are loth to leave their homes, and they very seldom do so unless forced away by ill treatment.
If slaveholders will not trade with us, unless we consent to be slaves ourselves, then let us leave their money, and their sugar, and their cotton, to perish with them.
The estate is situated so near the town; that his people are assailed by a variety of temptations to leave their work; from which those on other estates are exempt.
The two brothers agreed to leave their retirement.
For these reasons the Cingalese, when obliged to leave their houses in the dark, carry a stick with a loose ring, the noise of which, as they strike it on the ground, is sufficient to warn the Snakes to leave their path.
They would have to leave their homes, taking whatever a corrupted board of condemnation would grant for them.
They had decided in the beginning to leave their horses in the rear, and so use them only at the last.
An element adding to the difficulty of the situation was the refusal of hundreds to leave their homes in the submerged district.
At midnight they had been on duty continuously for forty-eight hours, and, although there was no prospect of their being relieved, they gave not the slightest indication of any inclination to leave their posts.
Hundreds of people living in upper stories and practically without food or water since Tuesday morning refused to leave their homes, believing they would have a better chance for safety there than elsewhere.
The boat which had carried Tom and Gerald's party on shore had returned to the ship, so that even could they have ventured to leave their post, they would not have been able to get off to satisfy their curiosity.
The larger part of the recruits are substitutes who, through the attraction of a large sum, have concluded to leave their homes.
Some may urge that the names man servant and maid-servant, only mean hired persons, who were at liberty to leave their masters or employers at any time.
Amongst the families and tribes that bore with least patience this long repose and immobility, those of Canub, and of Tlocab may be cited, for they were the first who determined to leave their country.
VIII-11] He thereupon asked the people to leave their home, which they accordingly did.
We have seen that Huitziton commanded the Aztecs to leave their home; according to another account of Acosta, this was done on the persuasion of Huitzilopochtli.
There are always some who will not believe things can be as bad as they seem to their neighbors; or who hate to leave their property so much that they take the risk of staying.
Why, with the coming of its genial warmth and glow, the look of woful anxiety began to leave their faces.
He is a very godless person, and his wife, by her wickedness, has compelled all these children to leave their father's house and live elsewhere.
All his children have been compelled on her account to leave their father's house.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leave their" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
