I own, indeed, that I was arrogant enough to suppose that the tenourof the rest of the book would sufficiently guard me against such a strange imputation.
To examine the tenour of my life, and particularly the last week; and to mark my advances in religion, or recession from it.
The utter absurdity of applying such a definition to African slavery in America, appears from this: that it is contrary to the whole tenour of the legislation which establishes and regulates the institution among us.
They say, Christ could not have intended to authorize slavery, because the tenour and spirit of His moral teachings are opposed to it.
Restoration or restitution, if we may judge by the tenour of other property laws among the Hebrews, would have surely been enjoined.
The even and cheerful tenour of his mind is evinced in many points of our past narrative, and confirmed by witnesses.
They returned to Cherbury, they resumed the accustomed tenourof their lives, as if nothing had occurred to disturb it.
The tenourof this quiet life was one day broken by an accident that happened to the child Emilio.
It is fair to observe, that the tenour of this ambassador's report seems to acquit Lucrezia of having been her brother's accomplice in the murder of her husband, Don Alphonso of Aragon.
The whole tenour of the legends, attributing to them deeds requiring strength and endurance, certainly suggests that the heroes were considered in later days to have been above the average in stature.
The pack now reached the scene of Puss's frolics, and the music very soon descended from a towering tenour to an insignificant whimper, which at length died out altogether.
Miss's horse heard footsteps coming and looked round, but she pursued the even tenour of her way apparently indifferent to everything--even to a garotting.
The tenour of which letters then sent to king Pyrrhus, the said Cl.
Staple, put him in prison and detained him for a long time contrary to the tenour of the letters aforesaid to the prejudice of our lord the King and the great damage and loss of the said Hugh and Thomas Ketyll.
And by the tenour of these presents we signify that for no other cause were the aforesaid 24l.
And this is thetenour of the letter before mentioned, which I haue here set downe to giue intelligence of another voyage that M.
The adventurous tone and tenour of the Odyssey, and its wide range over the world, and over the sea, are as little in keeping with what we can see of Pelasgic habits in the heroic age.
But this assumption seems quite gratuitous in connection with the passage in the Catalogue, and utterly in contradiction to the tenour of the history of the Pylian raid in B.
Minerva, not bulls: (3) the tenour of the sentence directs us to Erechtheus, and it involves worship offered to a local hero.
Heaven goeth about in one tenour perpetually, keeping still the same distance.
The tenour of the charter concerning the turnements before remembred.
The tenour of the emperours letters to the States of England touching king Richard, and the day of his deliuerance, &c.
Thus we see how king Richard was cleared of that crime concerning the marques his death by the tenour of this letter.
The tenour of king Richards letters to the said archbishop.
And now, for somuch as it should be well knowne through all the citie, that these lords had nothing offended him with their comming, the king caused a proclamation to be made, the tenour whereof was as followeth.
When the Marquis had read the letter a second time and had digested it he perceived that its whole tenour was bad, that the writer was evil-minded, and that no request made by him should be granted.
Nothing could be more truly tragical than the utterly purposeless tenour of her day,--and of her whole life.
Be it your charge, my lord, To see perform'd the tenour of our word.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
