Loyal League, 237; Sumner and Wilson acknowledge indebtedness, only old arm-chair as reminder of League, humiliated at refusal of govt.
Refusal to comply with the prescribed laws and ordinances of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is to permit or invite capture by the arch-enemy of souls.
Refusal to hear and heed the word of God is no physical deafness, but a manifestation of spiritual disease resulting from sin.
There is a good deal of natural bitterness in reference to the long refusal by the publishers of his first original work--an idyll like Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, and our finest prose poem in philosophy.
His biographer informs us that he rarely gave an absolute refusal to any of these various classes of beggars.
In 1870 he writes: "I begin to think religion again possible for whoever will piously struggle upwards and sacredly refuse to tell lies: which indeed will mostly mean refusal to speak at all on that topic.
For the convent accepted the dislike women felt to domestic subjection and countenanced them in their refusal to undertake the duties of married life.
The refusal of the church to prescribe a proper age condition for those entering matrimony led, as might be expected, to child marriages; and in this case the rules of the English common law only tended to magnify the evil.
It was the revolt of the individual Ego, the unaltruistic refusal of the one to make himself a sacrifice for the benefit of the species.
My refusal of you is purely an imaginary grievance.
The performance opened with no further delay than was occasioned by the customary refusal of the curtain at these times to rise more than two feet six inches; but this hitch was remedied, and the play began.
But the fact of her having again become the arbitrator, though it had made acceptance of his plans all the more probable, made refusal of them, should it happen, all the more crushing.
No difficulty whatever has been experienced by the refusal of the apprentices to work.
A few months ago, the Southern newspapers brought us copies of the document, containing the refusal of Governor Butler of South Carolina to pardon a man, who had been convicted of the murder of a slave.
The insanity, which has been known to follow the exhibition of the claims of Christianity, is to be charged on the refusal to fall in with those claims, and not on our holy religion.
Hence it may turn out that the refusal to labor, so far as there has been any, only serves to prove the more clearly the fitness of the laborers of freedom.
He was back again in London in 1833, but was out of favour, and was advised to postpone his concerts until the public anger, caused by his refusal to play for the distressed English actors in Paris, had subsided.
He kept his word; gave the promised concert, and the poor profited by a refusal that was attributed to him as a crime.
He made the letter of Morehead the pretext for his abuse, but the real cause was the Governor's refusal to pardon his cousin.
His refusal had no doubt hardened a mere caprice into a strong desire.
And any refusal always made her greedy and obstinate.
Perhaps to prove that he was not, he rescinded his refusal and came to the première with the Mansfields.
And she knew that it was a refusal which she could not persuade him to cancel unless she called someone to her assistance.
And Charmian would rather have died than have given up going after Claude Heath's refusal to go.
But almost immediately the light had vanished and the quickrefusal had come.
Charmian expected an instant stern refusal from her husband.
On the point of the English language, however, and the refusal to give any facilities for the education of Uitlander children, the Boer legislature is practically unanimous.
The real reply then was known only to three men; it was simply, point blank refusal to accept the petition.
To appeal to him on Arithelli's behalf would only be to give him a chance for refusal and a jeer at female conspirators.
He repeated it, and after a minute's sullen refusal to speak, Estelle stamped her foot savagely upon the floor, and collapsed into a state of hysterical volubility.
Winny, since the little episode respecting her refusalof Tom Murdock, and his subsequent departure, had led a very quiet, meditative life.
A striking evidence of his sense of justice and his unselfishness may be seen in his refusal to accept the commission of a major-general in the regular army which was offered him previous to the fall of Atlanta.
Here is the communication from the solicitor threatening me with bankruptcy; here is his receipt dated the twenty-sixth; here is the refusal of the wine merchant, and here is his receipt for the money.
Since the last refusal of the courts to allow him further relief, as he termed it, which was some seven years ago, he had quite evidently been disposing of books and furniture by a private sale, in defiance of the law.
This was practically an ultimatum, and a refusal on the part of the Argentine government to comply with the terms of the 1896 agreement meant a declaration of war by Chile.
His theological sensitiveness appears in his refusal of a preferment offered to him in 1635 by Sir Thomas Coventry, lord keeper of the great seal.
Vague rumour had reached Caligula of the praefect's strange sayings, his refusal to enter the temples and to sacrifice to the gods.
Her refusal to obey him was no longer pride, it was disloyalty--almost sacrilege.
It was the refusal of Napoleon to adopt the compromise of ceding this district to Switzerland which caused the breach between him and the British ministry.
It has been said that the Sardinian Government, in tendering similar advice, hoped for its refusal and contemplated the eventuality hinted at with the reverse of apprehension.
Austria's final refusal to adhere to the Congress scheme meant, of course, war, and Cavour called the Chamber and demanded a vote conferring upon Government the power to take such prompt measures as the situation required.
Austria gave a peremptory refusal to have anything to do with it.
I draw others at sixty days' sight for specie, especially after my refusal to draw on them except for specie, which refusal was, as you will perceive, a necessary part of my plan.
You will observe, by my letter to the Governor, that he is to have the refusal of this bill; you will therefore offer it to him in the first instance.
Refusal to accede to the mediation, unless the American Ministers were acknowledged.
In fact, if, as appears from the strongest evidence to be probable, the Americans should persist in their refusal to return to their obedience to the British crown, the war between Britain and her former colonies would still continue.
We might raise a force, and liberate those of the prisoners who are victims of the harsh laws of violence and the refusal to take a husband's evidence when accused by a wife.
I was much chagrined at being thus compelled to owe even the shadow of an obligation to so forward a young man; but I determined that nothing should prevail upon me to dance with him, however my refusal might give offence.
You will not, I am sure, send a refusal without reasons unanswerable, and therefore I shall cheerfully acquiesce.
You may express your desire for the work and obtain the refusal of it from the artist.
It is not always necessary to take a lady's first refusal as absolute.
You should show others, as well as be convinced of it yourself, that the refusal to oblige is altogether irrespective of any effect produced on your temper by the studies in which you are engaged.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "refusal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
