How To Use avouch In A Sentence
- Blamers to prudence me exhort; I heed them not, for I In my avouchment am sincere of love and constancy. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II
- An outlandish delegate sustained against both these views, with such heat as almost carried conviction, the theory of copulation between women and the males of brutes, his authority being his own avouchment in support of fables such as that of the Minotaur which the genius of the elegant Latin poet has handed down to us in the pages of his Metamorphoses. Ulysses
- Hewn, so stories avouch, in a mountain's kernel; an hero Poems and Fragments
- Not alone in the great junctures of the tragedy -- the encounters with the ghost, the parting with Ophelia, the climax of the play-scene, the slaughter of poor old Polonius in delirious mistake for the king, and the avouchment to Laertes in the graveyard -- was he brilliant and impetuous; but in almost everything that quality of temperament showed itself, and here, of course, it was in excess. Shadows of the Stage
- When our father died, he left us some money, which we shared amongst us, and he took his part of the inheritance and wasted it in frowardness and debauchery, till he was reduced to poverty, when he came upon us and cited us before the magistrates, avouching that we had taken his good and that of his father, and we disputed the matter before the judges and lost the money. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- But, O our lord the Imam, 'tis my wish first of all things to look upon her and see if she be pure or otherwise; and, as regarding her singular comeliness, my convicion is that thy word sufficeth and thine avouchment is veridical. Arabian nights. English
- But truly it is very unbeseeming to make so slight account of the works of men, seeing yourselves avouch that it is not the habit makes the monk, many being monasterially accoutred, who inwardly are nothing less than monachal, and that there are of those that wear Spanish capes, who have but little of the valour of Spaniards in them. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- Those modern Jews were voluble to disavow all sympathy with the murderous deeds of their progenitors, who had martyred the prophets, and ostentatiously averred that if they had lived in the times of those martyrdoms they would have been no participators therein, yet by such avouchment they proclaimed themselves the offspring of those who had shed innocent blood. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
- This avouchment is made to the Tyler, who will cause you to sign the register, to which will be appended the name of the member who is making the avouchment.
- And it was for the avouchment of the love of that maiden that Geraint jousted for the Sparrow-Hawk at the tournament; for he said that that maiden was better entitled to the Sparrow-Hawk than this maiden who was with me. The Mabinogion Vol. 2 (of 3)