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Example sentences for "waverers"

Lexicographically close words:
wavelet; wavelets; wavelike; waver; wavered; wavering; waveringly; wavers; waves; waviness
  1. This did much for us, yet when the vote was taken the old cowardice was again shown; but several of us stood in the cloak-room and fairly shamed the waverers back into their places.

  2. Ireland, the proceeds to be expended in a war of extermination, strengthened the hands of the Irish leaders, and helped to bring over the waverers to their side.

  3. Several of the waverers especially in Edinburgh seem to have returned to the Church.

  4. In the House of Lords some dozen Tories and Waverers have continued to keep up a little skirmish, and a good deal of violent language has been bandied about, in which the Whigs, being the winners, have shown the best temper.

  5. The Waverers undertook a task of great difficulty with slender means, and they accomplished it with complete success.

  6. When at last he was drawn into the controversy he constructed for his own satisfaction and that of other waverers who looked up to him for support and guidance an argument founded on the Butlerian principle of probability as the guide of life.

  7. At the outset of the struggle, and throughout its course, he scorned those tactful arts and melodramatic ways which win over waverers and inspire the fainthearted.

  8. It is the curse of a policy of retirement that waverers haste to leave betimes with all the spoils obtainable.

  9. The waverers will concur with them, and the followers of the Nazarene will find it well to be silent, and take themselves off.

  10. This reverse having brought home to the waverers the danger of procrastination, a fresh spirit set in among the passive loyalists.

  11. The danger that would follow a German victory in South Africa was so lucidly put by the Premier that many waverers were at once imbued with the patriotic spirit.

  12. Kruger's passionate appeal availed, and the waverers returned to their posts.

  13. It was evident that if the enemy were not dislodged from Wagon Hill during daylight, he would be able to establish himself irremovably after dark, when all the waverers would come up under the protection of the night.

  14. The waverers will find in it their excuse for deserting.

  15. The waverers at the State House chose to believe that Jeff had sold them out and fled with his price.

  16. Thirdly, a victory gained in the centre of the disaffected districts would have been a feather in the cap of the General, for it must have drawn to him such waverers whose vacillating loyalty was daily growing dangerous.

  17. At that time thou wilt find the waverers in manifest loss.

  18. Then shalt thou see the waverers frightened and at loss.

  19. Our vote counts for no more than that of the man who has sold his suffrage for beer; but our influence may have brought twenty waverers to the poll, while that of our beer-drinking acquaintance has brought none.

  20. Mr Ashford rallied three waverers to his standard that morning.

  21. If the line cut a snug little set of chums in half, if it turned one or two settled school customs out of house and home, if it sent one or two waverers hopelessly over to the wrong side--well, so be it.

  22. That it has on its side reason, Scripture and history signifies nothing for the moment; what is important is that it makes its strength felt, that it has won over waverers or doubters to its ranks, and that it has at last spoken plainly.

  23. It has served to bring in adherents to the Opposition, who in the strictest sense of the word belong to the Roman Court party, and to provide waverers with a comparatively innocent method of resistance.


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