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Example sentences for "levities"

Lexicographically close words:
levirate; levitated; levitation; levitations; leviter; levity; levius; levulose; levy; levying
  1. These patriotic levities have now entirely vanished, and the business proceeds with languor and difficulty.

  2. I have not passed the hours, truly, in the games and levities of my years.

  3. The levities of life always puts me on that thrack, just as too bright a day reminds me to take out an umbrella with me.

  4. Besides all this, the untravelled Englishman--and such was Glencore when he married--never can be brought to understand the harmless levities of foreign life.

  5. And indeed there were levities in the behaviour of that young lady, which she could not so far pass over as to wish an intimacy with her.

  6. In Germany the vices were mediaeval and monkish, not the unblushing infidelity and levities of the Renaissance, which made a radical reformation in Italy impossible.

  7. Hence, with all Edward's abilities, the astonishing levities and indiscretions of his younger years.

  8. The heart can never utterly and long be dormant: trifles may not charm it any more, nor levities delight; but its pulse has not yet ceased to beat.

  9. Her slightest levities were tortured into proofs of guilt: her generosity towards Bergami was branded as an illicit passion.

  10. Why need I mention the levities and impertinences in comedies, or the ranting distractions of tragedy?

  11. When Mr. Britling did reappear every trace of his vexation with the levities of British politics and the British ruling class had vanished altogether, and he was no longer thinking of all that might be happening in Germany or India.

  12. The aunt-like lady with the noble nose stood out amidst these levities in a black silk costume with a gold chain.

  13. And my kind friend and hospitable landlord, Mr. Alexander Fairford, may also, and with justice, have spoken of my levities to this man.

  14. Only when such levities fitted into each other so accurately as to show plan and contrivance.

  15. Are the mere levities with which I amused an hour to be recorded against me as principles?

  16. His court was simple and decorous; he gave no countenance to levities and follies, and his own private life was pure and religious,--so that there was general admiration of his conduct as well as of his government.

  17. But Mary was a Catholic, to say nothing of her levities or crimes, and had been excluded by the nation for that very reason.


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