Nicky was then three years old, and a daily growing delight to Ishmael, but the Parson was not without a guileful plot to wean him somewhat from that allegiance.
The priest in him yearned over her to wean her from her sin, but the patient wisdom in him told him that not that way had she yet come.
You are, and have always been a visionary, and nothing will ever wean you from it.
If a man steals, he should have such punishment and for such a time as will wean his soul from theft, as will atone for his sin.
These were the daftlike words I had for him, and me holding his hand and clapping him on the back, as if he were a wean again.
She's lain wi' me in the stable lofts and outlying barns these many nights, but the wean is nane o' mine.
Belle had slipped out as the old woman was speaking, and now came back with her tartan bundle; and when Betty had left the room the gipsy took from the shawl a wean that cried so lustily that it wakened the heir to all Nourn.
At that I made mention of the weanhe had taken to the convent in France.
Scaurdale, it seemed, would be hiding the wean in fair earnest now, and McGilp I kent would whiles be on the French coast.
In plain words," said I, "the wean has been stolen away from her father with the mother's help.
It will take a little time to wean her from the fancy, and if I pull out the authoritative stop I shall be making him into a hero and her into a persecuted heroine.
Then, as to his life, it really rests with you to wean him in every way from his present pursuits.
Suffering is not always punitive; it is sometimes disciplinary, designed to wean the good man from his sin.
She has done it to wean them away from the National movement, and to paralyze that movement.
Some farmers wean the pigs a few hours after birth, and turn the sow at once to the boar.
The age at which pigs may be weaned to the greatest advantage is when they are about eight or ten weeks old; many, however, wean them as early as six weeks, but they seldom turn out as well.
With a smile Lord Henry heard her plans of artless art To wean Don Juan from the siren's wile; And answer'd, like a statesman or a prophet, In such guise that she could make nothing of it.
T was for a voyage that the young man was meant, As if a Spanish ship were Noah's ark, To wean him from the wickedness of earth, And send him like a dove of promise forth.
Oh, how doubly anxious would Evelyn be hereafter to soothe, to comfort, to wean that dear mother from the past!
I never think of Anderson without wishing I had been more severe with him,--more persistent in my efforts to wean him from his real passion.
Heredity impels the cow to do this, and it would take generations of wild life to wean her from it.
Isaiah made use of this opportunity in order to appeal to the blinded princes of Judah, whose danger could not wean them from sin, and to impress on them that mere outward piety, such as sacrifices and fasts, was of no avail (Isaiah i.
By means of this troop of priests of Baal and the ecstatic followers of Astarte, Jezebel hoped to wean the Israelitish people from the God of its fathers, and to carry into effect the plan of entirely transforming the national character.
A large offer was proposed to her to wean her own child when another should claim her care, but this she resolutely refused.
If Miss Bennet meant he was fast losing his heart to Frances, and that Amy must go back to wean him away, how little she knew of the pride of her woman's nature.
To wean me frae these waefu' thoughts, They took me to the town; But sair on ilka weel-kenned face I missed the youthfu' bloom.
He was a man of humor and sagacity, and perceived that "the colonists are infants at their mother's breasts, but will wean themselves when they come of age.
He, with Hosack and Brown, all of whom I consulted, joined with me in opinion that she ought immediately to weanher child or provide a wet nurse.
Clever in seizing their prey, though near, the mongoose and the owl felt unable to wean the mouse and the cat from that compact.
There were but two relaxations in effigy and one in person--the latter being a Huguenot named Jacques Pinzon, whom the Granada tribunal had been leisurely endeavoring to wean from his heresy for a couple of years.
Learned men were called in to wean him from his errors, but they declared his pertinacity to be terrible and that, with his knowledge of Hebrew, he would be most dangerous.
For sure the woman is fairy-struck, To leave her child a fairy guest, And love the weak, wee wean the best!
Incidentally, his enthusiasm served to wean Sir Geoffrey's mind from acrimonious criticism of politicians.
And his next words confirmed her suspicion that it was impossible for any man, at such a time, to wean consideration from issues so personal and so insistent.
If youwean a calf at the time of the full moon, it will make less fuss.
You mustn't wean it when the sign is in the belly, or it will never grow fat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wean" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
