The conduct of your leading merchants fills me with rage and disgust, and how they can reconcile it with the pledges they have given his royal highness of support, I cannot conceive.
I shall come away heart-whole, and bound by no pledges stronger than those I have already given.
Six Vestals devoted their virginity to the guard of the sacred fire, and of the unknown pledges of the duration of Rome; which no mortal had been suffered to behold with impunity.
Before the Austrasian army retreated from Auvergne, Theodoric exacted some pledges of the future loyalty of a people, whose just hatred could be restrained only by their fear.
What happiness has life to offer to the man robbed of those precious pledges of affection--how was he to face the world, stripped of every attribute that cherished hope and fed ambition?
You seem to forget, my lord, that affections may be engaged, and pledges interchanged.
But though Tippoo had delivered his sons into the hands of Lord Cornwallis as pledges of his good faith, he still reluctantly fulfilled the articles of the treaty.
The honourable member quoted the injunction of Scripture against separating those whom God had joined together, and called on members on the ministerial side to redeem the pledgesthey had given to their constituents.
Some few places, it is true, proposed tests to the candidates, including pledges to stop hostilities with America, but the great majority were in favour of coercive measures if the Americans did not lay down their arms of rebellion.
This house pledges itself at the same time to make good any deficiency of revenue which may be occasioned by such an alteration in the rates of the existing duties.
I have a great esteem for your charming friend, her discretion is beyond her years, and the pledges of love you will obtain of her will doubtless increase your passion and your esteem.
The next day at dinner, at the ambassador's, Madame gave me a thousand proofs of grateful friendship, which my heart interpreted as pledges of love.
It was summer time and I had only two hours before me, so I did not lose a moment, and thinking I held between my arms the woman I had so long sighed for I renewed again and again the pledges of my ardent love.
Similar pledges were obtained from the Congress of the United States, but, quite in line with former precedents, by a majority of only one in the Senate.
Terror and always terror, that is what I repeated from morning till night; but Pan Sadovski threatened resignation, and the priests went unharmed.
The pledges I have made were made to the people, and to them I am responsible for the manner in which they have been redeemed.
Entering into power under pledges to stay the financial crisis and save all that could be rescued from the wreck of the South Sea Company, they executed their task with success.
The zealous Covenanters of the North, before consenting to give armed support to the Roundheads, insisted on receiving pledges from their allies.
When the English Government gave pledges for the security of the Kirk, and for the perpetuation of the Scottish law courts and universities, the majority yielded, and the bill passed (1707).
They will organize Bands of Hope and circulate the pledges (triple, if possible), in the Sunday Schools.
Many thousands of pledges have been taken, and benefit societies have been formed under the guidance and supervision of this society.
In spite of pledges to the priest, the meeting was celebrated by torturing the Huron women to entertain the newcomers.
Casting one belt of wampum at the Onondaga chief's feet, the priest demanded pledges that the massacre cease.
Sir Charles set out in an article in the Speaker all the pledges to evacuate which had been given by the Liberal Government and repeated by Lord Salisbury.
The same confidence could hardly have been given by them to Lord Hartington, who held that "equalization of the franchise was pressing mainly on account of the pledges that had been given, and not much for any other reason.
He was compelled either to break his pledges to the Democratic voters of Illinois, or to lead a revolt against President Buchanan and the Democratic leaders in Congress.
Now therefore, I pray thee, givepledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.
We have known a thousandpledges taken in this way, within a few weeks, in a country village of twenty-five hundred population.
The pledgesexclude not only other intoxicating liquors, but beer, cider, and also tobacco and profanity.
Footnote 142: The senators were obliged to attend the meeting of the senate when convened by the magistrate; otherwise a fine was imposed, to insure the payment of which pledges were exacted, which were sold in case of non-payment.
It was true that he had mistaken the mood of the moment, misread it rather, superficially, as an impulse to look the other way--the other way from where his pledges had accumulated.
Something now again became possible for these communicants, under the intensity of their pressure, something that took up that tale and that might have been a redemption of pledges then exchanged.
It pledges and promises little and seldom; exchanges only so far as exchange is necessary for life.
St. Bartholomew-- making formal engagements with heretics to protect heresy everywhere, if by such pledges the crown of the Jagellons and the hand of Elizabeth can be secured.
It signifies and seals her forgiveness, and pledges her in all her members to await the Bridegroom in garments unspotted from the world, with the pure and faithful love which will not be ashamed before Him at His coming.
If we love Christ, we shall love the work He has laid upon us, and the word He has taught us, and the sacramental pledges He has given us in remembrance of Him and assurance of His coming.
Mr. Bonar Law now determined to accompany Sir Edward Carson to Belfast to renew and to amplify under these circumstances the pledges of British Unionists to Ulster.
Society protects its members; they are assured against the state of outlawry--on condition that they do not break their pledges to the community.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pledges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
