How by the Force of one Element breaking loose upon the rest, all the Vanities of Nature, all the Works of Art, all the Labours of Men, are reduced to Nothing.
There are infinite Reveries, numberless Extravagancies, and a perpetual Train of Vanities which pass through both.
For, as regards myself, I have been invested with the lesser orders; I have cast out from my soul the vanities of the world; I have received the tonsure; I have consecrated myself to the service of the altar.
Of all his vanities it was the least weak--because the most sincere.
The old lady herself, though silk-gowned, wore her white hair drawn severely back over parchment temples, as though repudiating the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.
The vast labors of the earnest life of a great genius were lost to a world too conceited of its petty vanities to recognize how far he was in advance of it.
A pestilence was raging when he reached Constantinople, which so impressed him with the miseries and vanities of life that he dismissed his suite and continued his voyage as an humble pilgrim with a single companion.
But vanity is such a delusive and multified failing that men who fight vanities are like men who fight midgets and butterflies.
She loathed the small vanities with which she was surrounded, and would wander out into the frosty garden, and pace the walk, which was both sheltered and concealed by evergreens.
But you're not in a mood for wisdom or virtue, I see; so I'll go and get ready for dinner, and leave you to your vanities of dress.
For even they have some poor little vanities and foibles, though in this matter they are paupers as compared to us.
They had lived to prove, once more, a sad truth which had been proven many times before in the world: that whereas principle is a great and noble protection against showy and degradingvanities and vices, poverty is worth six of it.
But what struck him most, and seemed to him even more piteous, was her habit of regarding these vanities as matters not of amusement, but of important business.
Except pottery and violin music, come into her existence by the merest accident, and remaining there utterly isolated, she had no experience, save of the vanities of the world.
There reigns in it gentleness and goodness; and if a tinge of the world's pride or vanities may mix with an expression so lovely, how should we chide that which is of earth for bearing some colour of its original?
Most of us find money enough for our little vanities and pleasures, but feel dreadfully poor when we come to pay for work, sewing especially.
Puss appeared to endorse the sentiment by a loud purr and a graceful wave of her tail, and Polly returned to the subject from which these little vanities had beguiled her.
Dionysius in old times, Frederic in the last century, with capacity and vigor equal to the conduct of the greatest affairs, united all the little vanities and affectations of provincial blue-stockings.
He went after the sermon to renounce in Francis' hands all the vanities of the world, and to embrace his Institute.
Do you know Papa that he is looking out for a solitude where he may retire from the vanities of the world.
But may we not be allowed to detect thevanities of human nature at St. Giles's as well as St. James's?
None of us are authors of any consequence, and it is the most ridiculous of all vanities to be vain of being mediocre.
I wasna twenty-three when I had dune wi' the gawds an' vanities o' this wicked world.
As I was sayin', I renounced thinkin' aboot the vanities o' youth langsyne.
I wonder muckle that yer thouchts are sae set on the vanities o' young men.
The citizens wept to hear his words: a bonfire of vanities was lighted on the flags beside Pisano's fountain: foe kissed foe: and the same cowl of S.
I entreat you to make me a present of it; for what occasion has a dervish, as you are, who has renounced the vanities of the world, for perfumes, or scented ointments?
But he, pleased with thevanities of society, and seduced by the voice of selfishness, had paid no heed to this prayer which the unhappy woman had not dared to formulate with her lips.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vanities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
