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Example sentences for "the vice"

  • Huxley suggested a possible bar in his precarious health; but subject to this possibility, if the Vice-Chancellor did not regard it as a complete disability, was willing to accept a formal invitation.

  • I think the state of affairs ought to be clear to the Vice-Chancellor.

  • The Vice-President of the Committee of Council, Mr. Acland.

  • My dear Donnelly, The Vice-President's letter has brought home to me one thing very clearly, and that is, that I had no business to sign the Report.

  • The Vice-Chamberlain told me several particulars of it last night at Lord Masham's.

  • But the cunning cripple--the vice-president--had provided for this too.

  • The former was handed over to the treasurer of the Brotherhood; the latter were taken possession of by the vice-president.

  • I have been seeing a good deal of late of the Vice-Prefect's son: an amiable young man with a love-sick face and a languid interest in Urbanian history and archaeology, of which he is profoundly ignorant.

  • There have been great contests in the Privy Council about the trial of the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford: the Duke of' Bedford and Lord Gower pressed it extremely.

  • The Vice-Presidency was then the limit of his ambition.

  • When Nana saw her mother sometimes as she passed the window, seated among a crowd of men, she turned livid with rage, because youth has little patience with the vice of intemperance.

  • Tom is the bell that you hear at nine each night; the Vice has to see that he is in proper condition, and, as you have seen, goes out with his pokers for that purpose.

  • Under the continued leadership of the vice president, we propose to triple the number of empowerment zones to give business incentives to invest in those areas.

  • Today, with the help of the Vice President's E-rate program, more than half of them are; and 90 percent of our schools have at least one connection to the Internet.

  • Led by the vice president, we've launched a campaign to reinvent government.

  • It will balance the budget and build on the vice president's efforts to make our government work better--even as it costs less.

  • The Vice-Regal party almost immediately afterwards regained the Druid, which swiftly conveyed the members thereof to terra firma, the police yacht Dolphin being in attendance.

  • There was something oriental in the vice- regal pageantry.

  • The vice-queen (Augusta Amelia of Bavaria) was handsome and good as an angel.

  • The vice-king and vice-queen had never met before their marriage, but were soon as much attached to each other as if they had been acquainted for years, for never were two persons more perfectly congenial.

  • The vice-king only learned of the arrival of his step-father when he was half a league from the town, but came in haste to meet us escorted only by a few persons.

  • I was a partaker of the vice, and my astonishment at it was by no means so great then as it is now.

  • The persons assembled, I am sorry to say it, were several of them gluttons; and encouraged and countenanced each other in the vice to which they were addicted.

  • The moment I saw it advertised, not sufficiently habituated to the vice of indolence myself to recollect that I had an idle footman below, I hurried to the publisher's, purchased it, and returned with a greyhound speed to devour its contents.

  • The vice of Ireland was exactly the other way, so that in this respect also, the patriot was the liberator.

  • He was not wholly unacquainted with the kingdom against which he cherished these ulterior views; for he had been, nearly thirty years before, when he fell under the lash of Junius, one of the Vice-Treasurers of Ireland.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    the evening; the eyes; the government; the mountains; the name; the place; the plain; then back; then bake; then bishop; then carried; then drain; then glanced; then know; then look; then put; then rode; then stir; theological seminary; there being; these books; these countries; these islands; these parts; these places; they shall