You shall risk nothing: give me only the licence and I will run and find one.
Say you mean no harm to me--you will get this licence soon.
When the licence is obtained in the country through a clerical surrogate the cost varies, according to the diocese, from L1 15s.
When a marriage is solemnised by licence the cost, with fees and stamps, amounts to L2.
The fees for a special marriage licence average L29 5s.
In a licence of alienation to the Friars Carmelites of London, of certain premises in the parish of St Dunstan, Fleet Street, "Hospitium vocatum le Boltenton" is mentioned as a boundary.
He delighted in sociality and conviviality, but recoiled from aught savouring oflicence or excess.
Any doctrine which turns the grace of God into licence incurs this doom.
A respectable citizen would hardly have permitted at his own table the licence and excess visible at the Table of the Lord.
A licence to kernel and embattle shows the date of its erection, or rather rebuilding, to be in the fourth year of Henry IV.
But since these evil days have o'ershadowed the land, every braggart has licence to do as he list; and the monks and the friars, with their whole crew of dubs and deputies, are the worst of all.
The compiler had mistaken the date of the Pope's licence for the time when the book was printed.
The parish priest received a licenceto hear confession only in his own parish, while the Friars received a general licence to hear confession everywhere.
That the pope has no authority to grant a general licence to hear confession.
That all those who confess their sins to Friars who have only a general licence to hear confession are bound to confess the same sins again to their own priest.
Amongst the calamities of the times, were informers and their agents; a tribe of miscreants who had grown up under the licence of former reigns.
He forbad the revels of the charioteers, who had long assumed a licence to stroll about, and established for themselves a kind of prescriptive right to cheat and thieve, making a jest of it.
Lust and luxury, from the licence which had long prevailed, had also grown to an enormous height.
Having taken upon himself the reformation of the public manners, he restrained the licence of the populace in sitting promiscuously with the knights in the theatre.
Printed with Licence for John Martyn, and James Allestry, Printers to the Royal-Society.
London, Printed with Licencefor John Martyn, and James Allestry, Printers to the Royal Society.
Printed with Licence for John Martyn, and James Allestry, Printers to the Royal Society.
Howbeit it seemed too much to Clement the Eighth, that there should be any licence granted to have them in the vulgar tongue, and therefore he overruleth and frustrateth the grant of Pius the Fourth.
Finally the parson's scruples gave way, the licence was overlooked, and the lack of the traditional gold ring was supplied by the ring of a bed curtain!
I held, and I still hold, that the ceremony of marriage may be performed by any person who has been ordained--that the question of a licence is not one that should come forward upon any occasion.
The more difficulties are to be encountered the more licence is given to the plant in dealing with them, and we shall hardly ever find a rhododendron shoot fulfilling its splendid spiral as an oak does its simple one.
Rebuffed by the Bishop of Honolulu, to whom the Bishop of London has delegated his authority over this part of the globe, he had persuaded the Bishop of Dunedin to give him a licence as lay reader.
A gun- licence would be, it seems, both unpopular and easily evaded in a wild forest country.
It must be remembered that this is a seaport town; and one in which the licence usual in such places on both sides of the Atlantic is aggravated by the superabundant animal vigour and the perfect independence of the younger women.
Bonaparte's counsellors led him to commit the folly of requiring that a ship which had obtained a licence should export merchandise equivalent to that of the colonial produce to be imported under the authority of the licence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "licence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
