He had already succeeded in overcoming the prejudices of the regular trade, and fixed a scale of prices which disarmed their antagonism.
But the same unconscious indifference to the prejudices of others could be seen when, among strangers at a public hotel or on the ocean, he would ask a blessing before dinner with the same earnest reverence as at his own table.
The prejudices we were prepared to encounter were numerous, but they were propounded chiefly by Manuela's aunt, she herself agreeing without hesitation to every thing Antonio suggested.
It bears most resemblance to the incurable prejudices of a woman.
This is, as my own often-repeated experiments have shown, one of the deep-rooted, groundless prejudices to which the Peruvians obstinately cling.
The Peruvians have some very singular prejudices on the subject of eating and drinking.
Little by little the mind frees itself from the {464}prejudices in which it was reared; light dawns; it thinks for itself; thus it is that I have attained to the true explanation of things.
Whatever prejudices he had taken up had been only caught from others, and lasted only till he had got rid of the impression of certain 'untoward circumstances.
Let us consider this matter rationally, and put our hopes, and our fears, and our prejudices out of the question, if possible.
Put absolutely out of your head all that you may have heard or imagined about Miss Clarendon, or her brother's prejudices on her account.
We must not, because of our personal tastes, our prejudices perhaps, set ourselves to oppose the action of our time.
Many of the early saints excited his strongest prejudices because of their disregard of cleanliness, their scant education, and their lack of common sense.
He was preserved in a wonderful degree from the prejudicesof his own past, the passions of the present, and the exaggerations of those who look forward to the future.
And was not Robert Cecil moreover bound to seize an opportunity of calming the prejudices of the King of Scotland against himself and his house, which dated from his father's participation in the fate of Queen Mary?
But in proportion as he now gave intimation of a retrograde tendency in favour of the Catholic lords, he roused the prejudices of the Protestants against himself.
He flies at the heels of the worthy carpenter, merely because that workman wears a blouse and carries tools; he is steeped in all the old prejudices of the feudal age.
He has ideas upon every subject, criticises everything--not only humanprejudices and institutions, but nature herself.
Most of these emigrants come here with preconceived prejudices toward the institutions of their native lands.
He was a stranger, and the prejudices of the court and the people of Louisville were so manifest that he demanded and obtained a change of venire.
Blinded by his prejudices and the hatred natural toward those who had accomplished his political ruin, he could not calmly and dispassionately weigh the influence of his acts upon the future of his country.
He was naturally a man of great mind, and but for the bigoted character of his religion, narrowing his mind to certain contemptible prejudices and opinions, might have been a great man.
Time had given opportunity for the prejudices and hatreds of youth to wear out with the passions of youth.
He combined very many most estimable traits in his character; open and frank, without concealment; cheerful and mild, without bitterness, and with as few prejudices as any public man.
In the country parishes these prejudicesof race had never been so strong as in the city, and were fast giving way; intermarriages and family relations were beginning to identify the people, and this to some extent was true in the city.
His knowledge of men enabled him to determine the character of every juror, and his versatility to adapt his argument or address to their feelings and prejudices so effectually as to secure a verdict in mere compliment to the advocate.
An improper appreciation of this fact has gone far to create with those unacquainted with negro character the prejudices against the institution of African slavery, and which have culminated in its abolition in the Southern States.
They elected the mayor, and two-thirds of the council, and these came into office with all the prejudices of that people against the Americans, whom a majority of them did not hesitate to denominate intruders.
His neighbor respects his prejudices and feelings, and appreciates him according to his conduct toward his fellow-man, and the discharge of his duties to society.
He was extremely considerate of the feelings and prejudices of other people--had a large stock of charity for the foibles and follies of his friends and political antagonists.
It is no mere vague persuasion taken up without examination, as a common prepossession to which we are always accustomed; on the contrary, all common prejudices and associations are against it.
Those into whose minds such formulas have been instilled in childhood have acquired overwhelming prejudiceswhich they are rarely, if ever, able to shake off, prejudices which weigh heavily upon contemporary society.
Truth only do we honour; truth that is free, frontierless, limitless; truth that knows nought of the prejudices of race or caste.
This new nomenclature very soon made its way into every part of Europe, and became the common language of chemists, in spite of the prejudices entertained against it, and the opposition which it every where met with.
It is a speculation of so very agreeable a nature, so congenial to our warmest wishes, and so flattering to the prejudices of humanity, that one feels much pain at being obliged to give it up.
The national prejudicesof the Germans were naturally enlisted on the side of Stahl, who was their countryman, and whose reputation would be materially injured by the refutation of his theory.
But the feebleness of the controversy which ensued, affords a striking proof how much chemistry had advanced since the days of Lavoisier, and how free from prejudices chemists had become.
Though he approved of a republic in the abstract; yet, considering the prejudices and habits of the people of Great Britain, he laid it down as a principle that their present form of government was best suited to them.
He, deliberately, swore in his thoughts; he meditated sneers; he shaped in profound silence words of cynical unbelief, and his most cherished convictions stood revealed finally as the narrow prejudices of fools.
It must be patent to all but the dullest prejudices of our day as it was to all but the fiercest passions of his own.
It is only by the attentive study of their origins that we can detach ourselves from the prejudices and immediate ideas of the particular class to which we may belong, and begin to understand the social and political questions of our own time.
Presently the dissensions of the schools let in the superstitions and prejudices of the city mob to scholastic affairs.
Many authors have discovered unreasonable prejudices against them, and shewn that they either wanted judgment to distinguish, or candour to make due allowances for, the failings peculiar to all nations in the same rude and uncultivated state.
Their former prejudices they had not yet thrown aside; their hardships in England they had not yet forgot.
He believed that he was dissipating the prejudices of the daughter; that she was ceasing to dislike him personally.
Marian's prejudices against him had become too deeply rooted, and her woman's honor for the knightly men her friends had proved too controlling a principle, ever to give him a chance for anything better than polite tolerance.
I thought my little prejudices were the boundaries of the world.
The tendency of her mature purposes and prejudices was to crystallize into a few distinct forms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prejudices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
