I'm going to practisewith the late General Gabler's pistol!
Forced by circumstances to practise the most rigid economy, he had yet looked confidently to the future for his reward in material as well as spiritual gifts.
I'll begin to practise with this gun to-morrow if I get out of this scrape safely.
If you will practise every day you will be able to handle it as well as the average cowboy in less than a week.
Every tribe has a priest-doctor; he neither knows nor attempts to practise the healing art, but is a pure exorcist; all bodily ailments being deemed the operations of devils, who are cast out by prayers and invocations.
And we must practise ourselves in small matters, and exercise ourselves in little things, with a view to refusing people who importune us, or would receive from us when inconvenient, that we may be able to avoid great miscarriages.
And I have myself noticed that those who practise to speak acceptably and to the gratification of the masses promiscuously, for the most part become also profligate and lovers of pleasure in their lives.
But they are jugglers, and by slight Of art the sight Of faith delude: and in their schoole They onely practise how to make A mistery of each mistake, And teach strange words, credulity to foole.
The Stoike, who all easie passion flies, Could he but heare the language of their eyes, As heresies would from his faith remove The tenets of his sect, and practise love.
It is a kind of Christian duty in every one to practise it as far as his means and his knowledge enable him.
Mergy, I have not the honour to be intimate with you: but your brother is my particular friend, and he will tell you that I practise as much as possible the divine precept of forgiveness of injuries.
But while we deal like pedlars, we shall practise like pedlars; and sacrifice all honesty to the present urging advantage.
Already he had begun to practise that stoicism which, on the whole, was the keynote of his life at St. Helena.
Not only did he study with Las Cases, but he tried to practise the language with Betsy and her sister.
It is indeed a fact worth remembering, that Napoleon's suite, in spite of the fact that to a great extent Napoleon obliged them to practise the rigid etiquette of a court, were all devoted to him.
If women are to practise as physicians, some means should be taken to protect society against those who are imperfectly educated.
She then turned to the Minister of Public Instruction, who granted it, on condition that she should pledge herself to practise only in Algeria, where the Arabs, like the Cossacks, refuse the attendance of male physicians.
The object of this practise is to attain facility in manipulating the elements while maintaining the smooth quality of the tone.
If it remains mellow one may venture upon the next step, which is to practise various vowel sounds and elements of speech with concentrated energy.
FORCE For the development of increased vital power in the voice the student should practise the nares exercise and also the elements of speech in a sustained and even manner, continuing tones as long as it is possible to keep control of them.
Practise the scale gliding from one note to another while maintaining the pure tone.
Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
In America and in England when men talk of 'religious freedom,' they mean the freedom of a man to profess and practise his own religion.
There he encountered the hostility of the local corporation of St. Luke, that guild of painters refusing to allow him to practise his art without regularly passing through his apprenticeship, and taking his 'master's degree.
What Luther teaches in this book he has given his life to reduce to practise in himself and others.
But did not Luther in the plainest terms advise his friends Weller and Melanchthon to practise immoralities as a means for overcoming their despondency?
They were cowed into silence, they were afraid to tell him to his face that he ought to practise what he preached.
By this time the practise had grown up of regarding an indulgence as a remission not only of penance, but of the pains of purgatory.
The practise of substituting for penances some good work or contribution to a pious purpose had arisen in the Church at a very early time.
This was, by the way, a common practise in those days among the learned professors at universities.
What we teach is, indeed, the truth; however, it amounts to nothing if we do not practise what we preach.
Serious references to this matter occur in Luther's remarks on thepractise of polygamy among the Israelites.
The early fathers and the councils of the Church referred to them in defining the true doctrine and prescribing the correct practise of the Church.
The papal system of teaching and government was so thoroughly exposed by Luther, and has since been so completely disavowed by a great part of professing Christians that Rome cannot practise its old frauds any longer.
Last, not least, the Theses, while contradicting the prevailing practise of selling indulgences, breathe loyalty to the Catholic Church.
In the beginning the struggle is grievous, but by practise it becomes more easy.
D'you think I'm not going to practisefor the next hundred years?
Besides, all religions accord with the character of the people that practise them and the climate in which they live.
Many great landlords continued to defend and practise paganism, probably from motives similar to those of Patricius himself.
The Templars do indeed practise the observance of a stern religion, living in humble obedience to their Master, without property, and spending nearly all the days of their lives under tents in the open fields.
Early in the reign of Henry the Third, episcopal constitutions were published by the bishop of Salisbury, forbidding clerks and priests to practise as advocates in the common law courts.
It never ensures, or professes to ensure, that you shall practise with success to yourself, or even that you shall practise at all.
An examining board has but one point to look to--it must see that you can practise with safety to the public.
Within a less period still, you will practise what you are now taught.
He had often had to practise it for the behoof of his fellows, and he suspected that they too had had reason to use it for his.
He never had had opportunity to practise the craft, or doubtless his pen would have grown as glib as his tongue.
World, Thy Language is not what we practise here; Speak on, thou Harmony to every Sense, Ravish my Ear as well as Sight and Touch.
Why, 'twill be restor'd again, 'tis but to practise by.
Enough; I am resolv'd upon this Design; let's in and practise the northern Dialect.
I'll home--and practiseall their Art to prove, That nothing is so cheaply gain'd as Love.
No, since Men are grown so cunning in their Trade of Love, the necessary Vice I'll practise too, And chaffer with Love-Merchants for my Heart.
That mother had by long practise found the exactly right way to manage that complicated piece of human industry, the "doing up" of a mass of long and wavy hair.
For twelve miles about any village or town center the people come walking in every Sunday evening, to attend rehearsals for practise in sacred music, hymns and chorals being their mainstay.
The Country Girl may practise for efficiency while she is waiting for her perfect kitchen to materialize, by doing all in her power to make herself save steps.
Learn some systematic exercises and practise them every day.
Her mind lacks swift response because she has had no chance to practise swiftness of response in conversation and repartee.
Those who wish to redirect young human life may find a practise lesson in this example of nature.
The most part live in an implicit faith, and practise that in themselves which they condemn in the papists.
This is the grand disease of the time, a study to know many things, and no study to love what we know, or practise any thing.
As if you were ashamed to be Christians, you maintain gross ignorance, and practise manifest rebellion against his known will in the very light of the gospel.
Now I say, till Christians learn to practise these things that are without all controversy, you may make it your account never to want controversy, and never to get clearness.
But I would fain know, if there be as much ardour and endeavour topractise that which we have already.
But because there is no change in his nature, he is inwardly stirred by his old principles to lick up that vomit, to commit and practise what he professed repentance for, yea, and to profess the same he pretended sorrow for.
But how few learn and practise what the gospel teacheth, to mortify and deny your corrupt lusts, and live daily in the practice of sobriety, equity, and piety!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "practise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
