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Example sentences for "vouchsafes"

Lexicographically close words:
vouchers; vouches; vouching; vouchsafe; vouchsafed; vouchsafing; voudra; voudrais; voudrois; voudroit
  1. To my friendly chaff he vouchsafes no reply, but simply sits motionless on his pony, and fixes a regular "Injun stare" on the bicycle.

  2. Miracles are also in themselves nothing incomprehensible; they are simply enhancements of natural laws beyond their ordinary operations, by supernatural assistance, which God vouchsafes but rarely and only for extraordinary ends.

  3. Whoever earnestly meditates on his welfare will prefer moral or rational good to sensuous good, since the former alone vouchsafes true happiness.

  4. That she here with trust may stay, None vouchsafes a sheltering roof; Not a temple's columns gay Give of godlike worship proof.

  5. Better educated people, many-sided and highly polished, continually giving out all that is in them, can never exhibit this supreme power, save by one of the miracles which God sometimes vouchsafes to work.

  6. Once there, we will settle which of the courses heaven vouchsafes us shall seem wisest.

  7. Read the Holy Scriptures and see how tenderly, yea, how affectionately God vouchsafes to deal with mankind, so that no father or mother upon earth can be more indulgent to their darling child.

  8. As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.

  9. But to a few blessed mortals God of His grace vouchsafes a mystic vision of His nature.

  10. About the physical universe he is frankly a skeptic,[262] but his religious faith leads him to hold that God vouchsafes to man some knowledge of Himself and of the proper way of life, i.

  11. And if God vouchsafes so much to him, how can we look upon him as though he were no way connected with us?

  12. Whene'er his influence Jove vouchsafes to shower, To bless the natal and the nuptial hour; From the great sire transmissive to the race, The boon devolving gives distinguish'd grace.

  13. In the sixth opinion, Christ vouchsafes no answer to their question, and we should naturally expect an impatient interruption from them immediately after, were that opinion correct.

  14. No other reason than His own Divinity and essential truthfulness was necessary; but, as the Apostles did not yet understand that this new Comforter was Divine, Jesus vouchsafes another reason to convince them of His truthfulness.

  15. But Wishart vouchsafes no authority for his statement.

  16. To this time, too, belongs the only trace of Montrose's wife that history vouchsafes between the records of her marriage and her death, in a warrant of the Committee of Estates entrusting her with the care of her third son Robert.

  17. If great Neptune vouchsafes me a fair passage, in three days I shall be in Phthia.

  18. If Jove again vouchsafes glory to the son of Tydeus they will carry us safely back to the city.

  19. Life is the same in one and all, and men say that he is but mortal despite the triumph that Jove son of Saturn vouchsafes him.

  20. He to whom Apollo vouchsafes the greater endurance, and whom the Achaeans acknowledge as victor, shall take the mule back with him to his own tent, while he that is vanquished shall have the double cup.

  21. Your informant then vouchsafes further information which, if you carefully heed and are able to follow, will without fail, conduct you to your desired goal.

  22. And he vouchsafes the reason for not keeping the wine, with "all other necessayre thinges they haue, with theym in the trees.

  23. I have asked him; he vouchsafes me no answer.

  24. In children and puppies, for example, the gleeful shouts and barking which accompany that display of muscular activity show unmistakably that it vouchsafes them a great amount of gratification.

  25. His work satisfies him, and every new detail he perfects, every novelty he initiates, vouchsafes him a powerful ego gratification.

  26. Jove first I sing; ye Muses, aid my lay; All Nature owns his energy and sway; The Earth and Heavens his sovereign bounty share, And to my verses he vouchsafes his care.

  27. I am deeply touched by the interest your lordship vouchsafes to my concerns.

  28. Far less I now lament for one whole world Of wicked sons destroyed, than I rejoice For one man found so perfect, and so just, That God vouchsafes to raise another world From him, and all his anger to forget.

  29. Venus herself guides the navigator to the top of a hill, whence she vouchsafes him a panoramic view of all the kingdoms of the earth and of the spheres which compose the universe.

  30. Damayanti simply vouchsafes the information that her husband has lost all through dicing, and volunteers to serve the rani, provided she is never expected to eat the food left by others or to wait upon men.

  31. He also vouchsafes to Adam a glimpse of Moses on Mount Sinai receiving the tables of the law, and appointing the worship which the Chosen People are to offer to their Creator.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vouchsafes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.