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Example sentences for "redound"

Lexicographically close words:
redoubling; redoubt; redoubtable; redoubted; redoubts; redounded; redounds; redoutable; redoute; redowa
  1. The second motive, is from the great profit and benefit that will redound to our respective Congregations, from this practice, prudently and faithfully undertaken, and universally submitted unto.

  2. God delights to convey grace by contemptible Elements; as Water, Bread, and Wine, and to manifest his great power in mans great weakness, that so all the glory may redound to him alone.

  3. And the calamities of their own disparities will redound to you; and their fallings-out may turn to the bewraying of your secrets, or to some other greater wrong.

  4. And between those damages which fall upon myself only, and those that by me redound to others, (as wife or children, &c.

  5. The instant ruin of his country may redound to the hero's glory; yet, had he balanced the consequences of submission and resistance, a patriot perhaps would have declined the unequal contest which must depend on the life and genius of one man.

  6. The abbé de Sade calls aloud for a new edition of Petrarch's Latin works; but I much doubt whether it would redound to the profit of the bookseller, or the amusement of the public.

  7. Doubtless this legislative monument will redound to Napoleon's honour in history; but was it to be supposed that the same laws would be equally applicable throughout so vast an extent as that comprised within the French Empire?

  8. That each of them proposes that degree of restraint, restriction and control, that will redound to the general good.

  9. Earnest efforts are being made to purify the Indian service, so that every dollar appropriated by Congress shall redound to the benefit of the Indians, as intended.

  10. This happy result may be expected to redound to the benefit of the foreign commerce of that Republic, as well as to the development of its vast interior resources.

  11. It will redound to the eternal honor of Judaism that it raised the dissemination of knowledge to the height of a religious precept.

  12. If it be known this repulse I sustain, It will redound to my ignomy and shame.

  13. In the meantime live quietly, do not with him deal; So shall it redound much to your weal.

  14. You will see conversion upon conversion following the train of this affair, a thousand falling on the left hand and ten thousand on the right, God is wont at all times to make our infamy redound to His honour.

  15. He seemed to have no thought of himself, so absorbed was he in performing a work which, he had every reason to believe, would redound to the honor of the land he was born in and the sovereigns he served.

  16. He goes on my account, and with a great desire to do something which may redound to my advantage, if it is in his power.

  17. Any improvement of this sort must necessarily redound to the advantage of every one in the nation and to every one's advantage equally.

  18. The greater and all the better part of the capitalists joined with the people in completing the installation of the new order which all had now come to see was to redound to the benefit of all alike.

  19. He affirmed that they should not be delivered by such means, but that God would so work in the deliverance of them, that the praise thereof should redound to His glory only.

  20. It will have objects which cannot fail to redound to the lasting fame of our negotiators, if they should be accomplished, as I think there is much reason to believe they may be.

  21. I wish, on the contrary, that it may redound to his honor and be beneficial to his country.

  22. The execution of which decree he commanded to the friers preachers and minors: but the king would not suffer it to take place, bicause he saw that it should redound to the preiudice of him and his kingdome.

  23. But," says I, "has not the same thing often happened from oracular presages, where the glory must redound to the false deity?

  24. On the contrary, they believe that the much desired modifications of our slave code will redound to the welfare of all classes, and to the honor and character of the State throughout the civilized world.

  25. But conditions there did not at first redound to the education of the colored children.

  26. I mean it is not the mere command of a small vessel," said Marion, haughtily; for she was always eager that every incident that befell the family should redound to their distinction, and subserve their onward march to greatness.


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