Though my right to your obedience was expired, yet I should think nothing could release me from theties of nature and humanity.
The ties of blood, and your being so much united in one common interest, form an additional bond of union to your friendship.
Kings Chappell, and one of his | Majeſties Private Muſick.
Although membership of a tribe is thus loosely determined, tribesmen feel themselves bound by ties of some kind to their fellow-tribesmen, as we shall see below, but in this they do not differ from the members of any modern state.
The Chepara appear to have had no organisation, and among the Narrangga tiesof consanguinity constituted the sole bar to marriage.
The "intellectual" is bound by more solid ties to the status quo; his intellectual preoccupations predispose him to a calmer view of things, to regard society as a slow evolutionary process.
By this very economic situation, the members of a syndicat are bound by ties of common interest with the rest of their fellow-workingmen.
Ties of tradition, of a common intellectual and moral heritage do not exist for him.
Love, restrained, greater and nobler than the ties that were made and unmade so easily in those days, was consecrated coldly by the hands of death.
The so-powerful ties that bind young hearts to home, and a first friendship, and all early affections, were to be severed at one ruthless blow.
The ties of a school friendship thus renewed were soon drawn closer than ever by the similarity of their lot in life and the dissimilarity of their characters.
You have only two fine shirts, the other six are coarse linen; and three of your white ties are just common muslin, there are only two lawn cravats, and your pocket-handkerchiefs are not good ones.
But God has not made us for selfishness and isolation, and some mysteries would be cleared up if we had love enough to see the ties by which our life is indissolubly linked to others.
That was what Menon himself wished, being, as he was, a friend and intimate of Ariaeus, and bound by mutual ties of hospitality.
Get right down to the facts; we're not cutting cross-ties in this court.
One o' the new Gov'ment dep'ties was sittin' in my room at the time.
The dep'ties had a circus 'fore they got the irons on him.
Luke Shanders and his boys had been drawin' out cross-ties for the new railroad; thought I knowed it.
We have a comfortable subsistence and health to relish it; but, more than this, we, as a family, are bound together by the strongest ties of affection that seem daily to grow stronger.
For the last decade they had been separated only by a dooryard, they had shared each other's every joy and sorrow, and the severing of these ties of over a half-century seemed more than she could endure.
These are the ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
But what we really can do is to build up, especially with the nearer republics, real ties of common interest and good neighborhood, and with the distant ones ties of commerce and esteem.
A lonely, disenchanted woman, without any ties or hold on life, she found herself now on the verge of forty.
The man chafed more and more under the ties that bound him.
Prances, the bolder only, on and on: The ties of love will tie us so much closer, If the world attempt to tear thee from me.
After the ordeal through which she had passed, Lola sighed for some enduring ties and an established position.
A law framed by bigots and administered by idiots condemned a woman to lose her conjugal rights; and when she attempted to contract new ties and create for herself a home, it threatened her with the punishment of a felon.
To bind anew the tieswhich slavery had broken and gather together the remnants of his scattered family became the earnest purpose of Robert's life.
All the ties which bound him to his home were as ropes of sand, now that freedom had come so near.
Altogether it has been deeply impressed upon us that the ties of language and blood bring the British and ourselves together completely and inseparably.
It is for this reason that Belgium, bound as she is to you by ties of commerce and increasing friendship, turns to the American people at this time to let you know the real truth of the present situation.
The Forestry Service under the Engineer Corps has cut the greater part of the timber and railway ties required.
The Declaration of Independence and the severance of political ties had left them still dependent upon Britain in the higher aspects of life.
We were bound by no ties of gratitude to yield to her pique at the Jay Treaty.
For it is evident that it was their merit, far more than the ties of kinship, that she rewarded; and one could hardly pay her a higher compliment than that.
The most enthusiastic of his followers were, in virtue of their ties of kinship, the Franks and Saxons, the most warlike of the tribes who live beyond the Rhine and on the shores of the western sea.
He ties the animal to the hedge, throws it a handful of hay, and a minute later stands in the maids' quarters, shifting from one foot to another.
She completely forgot that in the counting-house, in close proximity to her, there lived a human being bound to her by ties of blood, who perhaps was pining away in the yearning for life.
He who sets at naught the ties of kinship must always await such an end.
They have no ties of friendship, for friendship presupposes the existence of common interests; nor do they have any business connections.
I survive the shock of telling you I am bound, by ties that can never be dissevered, to one abandoned alike of God and man--who has devoted herself to the Fiend!
The situation of these children is not only pathetic but strange in the entire isolation from the ordinary ties and obligations of humanity.
But, after all, it is his duty to acknowledge the ties of nature.
By ties of constant fellowship will they be interwoven together, no sudden trumpet waking to arms, no sharp summons disturbing the uniform repose.
Commerce and business were quickened infinitely, while the ties of social life were brightened and the heart was rejoiced.
The track, in the broad sense in which we are now considering it, consists of far more than two steel rails set upon wooden ties or sleepers which, in turn, are set in a graded roadway.
It would seem as if social ties could not exist without entailing obligations, susceptibilities, and a certain amount of subserviency.
They broke asunder the holy ties that unite earth with heaven—the soul in the flesh with the soul released from the flesh.
A union not bound by the strong ties of religion is easily dissolved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
