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Example sentences for "take counsel"

  • Take counsel of a friend, true, though unknown and humble!

  • A mind free to take counsel, unbiassed by crime or passion.

  • And for this reason, moreover, we have said that all ought to be called to take counsel; because it is often to a younger person that the Lord reveals what is best.

  • We believe in one and only Catholic and Apostolic Church, which can never be destroyed even though all the world were to take counsel to fight against it, and which gains the victory over all the impious attacks of the heterodox.

  • Take counsel, King, for if you will make no terms I will take back Iseult to Ireland, and she shall be Queen in her own land.

  • And gathering together with Indra in their midst they began, from fear, to take counsel of one another.

  • Hearing these words of his, we rose up quickly and began, O chastiser of foes, to take counsel of one another for crossing the ocean!

  • And at this, the gods, the Gandharvas and the Danavas quickly assembled to take counsel as to how they should be born on earth according to their respective parts.

  • But let us take counsel, how these things may best be done, if wit may do aught: but into the war I counsel not that we should go down, for in no wise may a wounded man do battle.

  • Nay follow, that we may arouse others too, even all that it behoveth to take counsel, whether we should fly, or fight.

  • How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily?

  • Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.

  • Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

  • Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

  • In dealing with the guilty leaders and instigators of the rebellion we should beware how we take counsel of passion.

  • Happily we are not called upon to take counsel of our fears.

  • Gravely they turned to take counsel, to cast for excuses.

  • I cannot receive therefore any one in my own chamber, but must leave the palace and take counsel with my servants in a safe place.

  • He was able to read documents, take counsel, and even sleep.

  • They did so, for they needed to take counsel.

  • Further, the chief act of prudence is to command, while its secondary act is to judge and to take counsel.

  • But the words of these men did not have much effect; because when the wills of men are eager for such deeds as these, they do not often wait to take counsel.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    provide for the more efficient government; take action; take away; take chances; take cognizance; take from; take hede; take measures; take measures for the; take notice; take part; take pleasure; take post; take refuge; take service; take shelter; take stock; take thee; take their; take this; taken aback; taken down from the; taken over; taken prisoner; taken prisoners; taken together