The King quietly replied, "If the Great Spirit desires that Bria Rocca's people should leave their kingdom, Bria Rocca refrains from shedding tears.
The King himself replied quickly, "If the Great Spirit desires that Bria Rocca should bathe his feet in blood, and should warm himself at his town's flame, Bria Rocca is silent and refrains from shedding tears.
With gentle boldness he replaces the offending arm in its old position, and wisely refrains from further speech.
Miss Chesney, not being just then prepared with a crushing retort, wisely refrains from speech altogether, although it is by a superhuman effort she does so.
Nevertheless she refrains from outward mirth, which is wisdom on her part, as ridicule is his bete noir.
Of her first two meetings with the lovely widow Lilian speaks openly to Lady Chetwoode; but with such an utter want of interest is her news received that instinctively she refrains from making any further mention of her new acquaintance.
The Queen, upon her massive curtained bed of state, heard the refrains and felt the vibration of the lilting measures, and smiled pleasantly as she laid awake expectantly.
The green rolling hills of Languedoc gave back in sweetly echoing refrains the tuneful music of the shell-sown shores of the rolling sea, the sun-kissed Mediterranean: all sang the “Loves of Louis and Yolanda.
Aware of her father's interest in her every wish and aspiration, Esther refrains from any suggestion which may cause additional care.
Here Sir Donald's curiosity is quickened, but he refrains from question or comment.
While the formerrefrains from all references to the literature of the subject and the latter includes far too many, at least for purposes of instruction, and J.
The shrewd old woman sees how needless is her interference; and, being kind as well as shrewd, refrainsfrom giving the last unnecessary shove to the tottering card-house of poor Prue's felicity.
The hero refrains from asking who is served by the Grail.
Margaret tells herself that she could fancy it very easily, but refrains from saying so.
Others, and these, as has been said, among the refrains of most ancient and honourable lineage, bear the appearance of words whose meaning has been forgotten.
All the children have repeated the refrains after a few readings with evident enjoyment.
It is interesting that the children to whom these stories have been read, have seized upon the rhyme refrains as their own and after a few readings have joined in saying them as though this were their natural portion.
The refrains act like sign-posts to help the child to mark the progress.
THE FOG BOAT STORY The refrains must be intoned if not sung to get the proper effect.
The little verse refrains are the type of thing almost anyone can improvise.
The refrains are definite corner posts in the story and are recognized as such by the children.
MARNI TAKES A RIDE IN A WAGON The refrains in this story were first made up during the actual ride.
It is with this hope that I have tried to make therefrains not mere interludes in the story, as they usually are, but the real skeleton, the intrinsic thought pattern, the fundamental design.
Uniquely, among English writers whose work is of unquestionable literary quality, he refrains from the publication of plays; a very regrettable matter to countless who appreciate his rare quality.
Carlstadt in his “De canonicis scripturis” objected in the strongest terms to the attacks on the Epistle, though he refrains from naming Luther.
In a letter of 1535 to Johann Sturm he finds fault with the harshness of Luther’s doctrine and with his manner of defending it, though, from motives of caution, he refrains from mentioning Luther by name.
Different refrains are often employed, and the ballad is frequently given under title of The Cruel Brother.
One of the vexed questions of criticism regarding these refrains is whether they were rendered in alternation with the narrative verses or as a continuous under-song.
Kissing in our time still plays an important part in France in the refrains of dance songs.
But the lamentation does not have refrains and at the end the style approaches nearly that of a prayer.
This part of the song service contains refrains characteristic of public worship.
For him who refrains from performing an obligatory act, though adverting to it, "negligent" is certainly too mild an epithet, and he who knows that mischief will probably result from his deed is certainly worse than heedless.
Man's interior is purified only as he refrains from evils, in accordance with the commandments of the Decalogue.
So far as man refrains from evils and shuns and turns away from them as sins, good flows in from the Lord.
He who refrains from thefts, understood in a broad sense, and even shuns them from any other cause than religion and for the sake of eternal life, is not cleansed of them; for only by such refraining is heaven opened.
In a word, so long as man does not refrain from evils because they are sins the spiritual mind is shut; but as soon as he refrains from evils because they are sins the spiritual mind is opened, and with that mind heaven also.
The biblical narrative, too, depicts a few essential traits of human nature, and refrains from multiplying minor traits which might interfere with the main effect.
Much he marvelled when the hour would bring these welcome words, and often he forgot to mark the newest refrains of the minstrel, because his thoughts were otherwhere.
But to him who refrains from words, straightway shall be given twice as much as is bestowed upon his fellow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "refrains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
