Many of these are single lines, preserved by grammarians in illustration of old forms and usages of words, and thus are of little value in the way of illustrating his poetical or dramatic power.
Foreign hotelkeepers must immigrate and give the example; suitable houses must be built; servants must be properly trained; and, above all, the native travellers must learn the usages of civilised society.
For my own part, I confess to having been conscious of a certain disagreeable feeling on returning in this respect to the usages of so-called civilised Europe.
In many of the northern villages, where ancient usages happen to be preserved, the tedium of the long winter evenings is relieved by so-called Besedy, a word which signifies literally conversazioni.
He touches in it on the funeral usages of different times and peoples, with here and there an episodic allusion to the fate of heroes and poets, and disquisitions on the aesthetic and spiritual significance of posthumous honors.
It is apparent, indeed, from the writings of the fourth and fifth century, that many corrupt and unwarranted usages were introduced in connection with this Christian ordinance that greatly marred its beauty and simplicity.
Thus amid pagan 482 usagesand unspeakable moral degradation the Christians lived: a holy nation, a peculiar people.
He had the immense advantage, too, through his being the son of a former British Ambassador, of understanding the common usages and ways of diplomacy as also of speaking French fluently, a very necessary qualification at Cairo.
All provisions of Laws, Decrees, Superior Orders, Regulations, or Usages contrary to the present Law are and shall remain revoked.
But Le Sage supposed that every one addressed as señor, might also be spoken of by the term señoria; a mistake against which a very moderate knowledge of Spanish usages would have guarded him.
Even in matters of detail the old usageslingered far into the seventeenth century.
Between the two a host of makeshift usages grew up, which in their origin were inspired by nothing more lofty than the convenience of the officials.
As he is well versed in all the forms andusages of diplomacy, he is very useful to me in such points.
Arthur Delancy is a blond young man of five or six and twenty, well looking, well dressed, and up in all the usages of "the best society.
Her education is fairly good in the accomplishments, and she will never shame him by any ignorance, unless in some of the little usages of society that he knows no more about than she.
Footnote 1: It is but fair to state that Fraser's Highlanders showed no more ferocity than the usages of war justified.
The early Christian Church wished to wean the masses from Paganism, and very wisely, instead of attacking old-established usages in front, turned their flank by assigning them to different days.
It is singular, considering the almost total absence of genuine historical traditions, how certain myths and usages have been universally diffused, and come down to the present day from a very remote antiquity.
So also the civil and social legislation was not a code promulgated, like the Code Napoleon, by any one monarch or high priest, but a compilation from usages and precedents which had come to be received as having an established authority.
The population had long been partly German, and Roman provincial usages can hardly have been altogether supplanted in the fifth century.
There is yet another point in which the correspondence between British and Continental usages is worth remarking.
On the contrary, I am bound, by all the laws and usages of the world in general, to hate him cordially.
Nonsense and folly gilded over with good breeding and les usages du monde produce often more agreeable results than a collection of rude, awkward intellectual powers.
They were comfortable, prosperous, and contented; living in the security vouchsafed, by the usages of our civilization and the laws of our country, to all of its citizens.
In projecting his campaign, Brown was a law unto himself, untrammelled by the accepted usages of war.
Chief Justice Marshall decided in Burr's trial, that the principles and usages referred to in this act were those of the common law.
The Euahlayi thus present a mixture of ideas and usages which appears to be somewhat peculiar and deserving of closer study than it has received.
A number of similar usages have been discussed by Mr. Hartland.
The special Tirhut observance of the Jur Sital or "smallpox fever" feast will be more conveniently considered in connection with other usages of the same kind.
Many similar usages prevail among the jungle tribes of South Mirzapur.
Ostensibly he came to persuade Henry that, by the usages and laws of the Empire, fiefs left vacant for want of heirs male were at the disposal of the Emperor.
There seems to have been nothing in the usages of the time or country to make the transaction, innocent in itself, in any degree disreputable.
This is first to be asked of the woman, and then an inquiry is to be made of the man whether he will have the woman, and the ancient and immodest usages of past times must then be abandoned.
Many Mahomedan superstitions and usages had found their way to the interior, and among them the rite of circumcision.
There seemed to me much admirable machinery in the traditional and still existing usages and institutions of the natives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "usages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
