They were therefore worsted, and the loss of their bravest warriors constrained them to sue for peace.
In a little time after the signal was answered in the same manner; and confirmed by the arrival of two Frenchmen, who had orders given them to make the signals.
This village consisted of an hundred and forty huts, containing about eight hundred warriors, fifteen hundred women, and at least two thousand children, some Padoucas having four wives.
This the Governor granted, on condition that they brought him the head of the assassin; which they accordingly did, and concluded a peace by the ceremony of the Calumet, hereafter described.
The Maids Vindication: OR, THE Fifteen Comforts of living a Single Life.
Well may you choose to be a Wife, I'll still retain a Single Life.
Though I once happy in a single Life, Yet Shipwrack'd all upon that Rock a Wife.
But found a single Life as calm and gay, As the delightful Month of blooming May, Not chill'd with Cold, or scorch'd with too much heat.
Therefore, those that are not fit to lead a single life ought to contract matrimony.
All men cannot receive this saying,' where He teaches that not all men are fit to lead a single life; for God created man for procreation (Gen.
Your wants in a married state are hardlier supplied, than in a single life.
As if I had some more lustful thoughts or instigations and irritations in a single life than I should have if I married.
He that by lawful means can overcome his lust, to the measure before mentioned, is under no necessity of violating his vow of single life.
Consider how desirous I am to oblige them, if a single life, and breaking all correspondence with the man they hate, because my brother hates him, will do it.
I repeat my offers of a single life; and appeal to him, whether I have ever given him cause to doubt my word.
At length she found herself in London--in the house of her guardian--and that guardian no longer bound to a single life, but enjoined to marry.
While he was Mr. Dorriforth, and confined to a single life, his indifference to her charms was rather an honourable than a reproachful trait in his character, and in reality, she admired him for the insensibility.
Tis the sweetest thing in the world, I would I had a wife saith he, "For fain would I leave a single life, If I could get me a good wife.
The state of single life, however we may be tempted to think lightly of it, is a state that has peculiar opportunities of deep blessedness.
Now it is well known, that it was the tendency of Judaism highly to venerate the marriage state, and just in the same proportion to disparage that of celibacy, and to place those who led a single life under a stigma and disgrace.
The ancient records of the exchequer afford many instances where some women purchased, by heavy fines, the privilege of a single life; some the free choice of a husband; others the liberty of rejecting some person particularly disagreeable.
Is it not better for the unmarried to cultivate the contented state of mind of that old Scotch lady who said, "I wadna gie my single life for a' the double anes I ever saw"?
Nothing gives more content than solitariness, no solitariness like this of a single life.
Single life is certainly to be preferred to a connection with a person who will diminish instead of increase your happiness.
And then do but consider the Benefits of a single Life: There are some People in the World, who will be for making the worst of every Thing; such a one Crates seemed to be, or an Epigram under his Name, summing up the Evils of human Life.
The Conveniency of a single Life, to be at Leisure for Reading and Meditation.
That Wedlock is to be preferr'd before a single Life, and is not, as it is vulgarly called, a Halter.
A single life is not without its advantages, while a married one that fails of accomplishing its true end is the acme of earthly wretchedness.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
