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Example sentences for "word against"

  • The governor will not hear a word against them.

  • But our aunt never spoke a word against you," broke in Harry, more and more amazed at the nymph's vehemence.

  • There was not a word against you in them, madam: about that I can make your mind easy.

  • Sir, you don't dare for to breathe a word against my Lady Maria?

  • No one can say a word against her; and yet she just is not well-bred.

  • She was the last girl to say a word against another; at the same time she was exceedingly truthful.

  • I think he spoke of having a wife and children, and then something more about it's being my word against his.

  • My word against his, nothing much happened anyway, and it hasn't any bearing.

  • Do you think that I could say a word against you, even to a friend?

  • I am not going to say a word against him.

  • I wouldn't say a word against them as is gone, Mrs. Lopez, if I could help it.

  • Nor could she endure at this time that her father should say a word against him, even when she obliged the old man to speak of one whose conduct had been so infamous.

  • I don't think anybody believed me, but everybody soon learned to avoid insinuating a word against her, or even mentioning her name in my presence.

  • I always said and thought, that I would never believe a word against you, unless I heard it from your own lips.

  • She never speaks a word against him: it is only anxiety for him that she expresses.

  • If it had been possible to hang Grip, hanged he would have been that very day; for the mistress had nursed Fangs through his distemper, and never would listen to a word against him.

  • But I did not dare to say a word against it.

  • Why, you ought to be the last in the world to say such a thing; you ought to be the last to say a word against him.

  • This time the goody thought so too, and said not a word against it, for now he had new clothes of the finest kind, and he looked so well she thought it quite out of the question that any one could say, 'No!

  • So in came her lover with another girl; and she begged so prettily and so hard he would only spare her life, and then she would never say a word against him, but it was all no good.

  • But now they were free because he had come down to them, and never said a word against them.

  • I swear I'll cut out your tongue if you say a word against them.

  • I tell you, Alvar, that if I ever hear you say a word against Guillen, or any of those who have joined the army with him, I'll break your ribs with a cudgel.

  • If we were married it would be perfectly proper for you to go with me, and no one could say a word against either of us.

  • No one could ever say a word against either of us.

  • Then, if anyone ever says a word against you, he'll have me to settle with.

  • And Zebedee Tugwell, by right of position, and without a word said for it--because who could say a word against it?

  • If you, my lord, intend to take an attorney's word against mine, and that on a matter as to which no one but myself can know the truth, then you are not fit to be my husband.

  • Miss Morris, if it will suit you to stay with my mother, I will never say a word against it.

  • My dear fellow," said Lord George, "nobody is saying a word against you, or your house.


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