It was possible in some cases for a negro to refrain from taking an active part in political affairs.
He promised never to vote for any except a white man, and never to refrain from voting at any election in which a negro candidate should oppose a white.
And he continued to refrain from seeking a conception of it, not any longer now from laziness of mind, but from fear of suffering.
Therefore it is a graver sin not to refrain from an evil deed, i.
Even so, if a man were condemned to die of hunger, he does not sin if he partakes of food brought to him secretly, because to refrain from taking it would be to kill himself.
I must not, however, neglect the duties of my station, or refrain from declaring my amazement, at hearing that you received the young couple into your house as soon as they were married.
On the whole, the situation delighted Honora, who bit her lip to refrain from smiling at M.
I repeat, I am glad that your good sense led you to refrain from coming as a candidate before that Convention.
I could not help seeing the hardness of it all, or refrain from contrasting my situation with that of the penniless outcast I had been but a little time before.
And to save his soul Edward could not refrain from answering, "You don't say so!
The viceroy and the great personages around him had much ado to refrain from laughter, for Nina was really in the right, and a serious discussion of the violated law would have been ridiculous.
Although I had much ado to refrain from laughing at the vexation and disappointment which appeared on all their faces, I succeeded in preserving my serious air.
I did not think proper to tell them her story, and they had the delicacy to refrain from questioning me on the subject.
That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.
To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.
To refrain from killing or eating a friendly animal or plant is a simple mark of respect.
Considering the obscurity of the subject, it is doubtless wise to refrain from offering a universal theory of the origin of domestication of animals and plants.
Lady Mary bit her lip; but long experience had taught her that it was wiser to refrain from reproof, even when it was so urgently needed.
Charles, hoarsely, hating himself for being such a hypocrite, but unable to refrain fromputting a leading question.
This Law animates the heart of him who receives it with the invigorating truth that character is formed rather by what we do than by what we refrain from doing.
The injunction was then laid upon us not to refrain from doing, but to do.
As I did the other day," said Elizabeth with a conscious smile: "very true, it will be wise in me to refrain from that.
I must not, however, neglect the duties of my station, or refrain from declaring my amazement at hearing that you received the young couple into your house as soon as they were married.
That he counseled moderation and appealed to the men to refrain from acts of violence from the start, was a well known fact.
The Times emphatically does not believe that any court whatever has a right to order men to refrain from attempting by persuasion to induce others to leave the employment they are engaged in.
Yet let us, here at the outset at least, refrain from lamentation.
She was unable to reconcile herself to the bigamy or to refrain from complaining to others.
To refrain from intercepting an enemy whose banners are in perfect order, to refrain from attacking an army drawn up in calm and confident array:--this is the art of studying circumstances.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "refrain from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
