How To Use Avouch In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Hewn, so stories avouch, in a mountain's kernel; an hero
Poems and Fragments
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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)
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We might be disposed to question its authenticity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence.
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As I headed back down to the chapel in my white kittel, the special garment that is the color of mercy, worn only on the Day of Atonement, I heard a precocious five-year-old avouch nasally, “My Barbie wins”
The Barbie Chronicles
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Then the Kazi bade silence the women and said to the prisoner, “These folk avouch that thou didst enter their dwelling-house and steal their goods: belike thou stolest less than a quarter dinar221?”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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We do not hear you avouch your own knowledge of this matter, further than your belief resting upon the demeanour of this hound towards the Marquis of Montserrat.
The Talisman
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“There can be no better rede, and we will all avouch it,” said the citizens.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Conrade arose boldly to answer, and in despite, as he expressed himself, of man and brute, king or dog, avouched his innocence of the crime charged.
The Talisman
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Paulina and her friends being gone, I scarce could avouch that I had really seen them.
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All these forms of avouchment will be more fully explained later in this guide, as they apply to the jurisdictions wherein they are used.
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Because this engagement is a means to accomplish His promise: because thou hast avouched God, God hath avouched thee, and will do as He hath said, and again, as He hath said; the repetition whereof seems to argue contentedness in God, in that, by this avouchment, a way was opened for the accomplishment of His promise.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
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Solomon David-son (upon the twain be the Peace!) ,359 who pretendeth to prophetship and avoucheth that he hath a mighty Lord who can do all things and whose kingdom is in the Heavens and who hath dominion over all mankind and birds and beasts and over the wind and the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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“I will be open with you, my father — bid these men stand out of ear-shot, and I will tell you all I know of this mysterious business; and muse not, good father, though it may pass thy wit to expound it, for I avouch to you it is too dark for mine own.”
The Monastery
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God is as wicked as themselves, to wit, that he is an avoucher of lies to be true.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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Millions were ready to avouch the exact contrary.
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In that pleasant humour they all posted to Rome; and intending, by their secret and sudden arrival, to make trial of that which every one had before avouched, only Collatinus finds his wife, though it were late in the night, spinning amongst her maids: the other ladies were all found dancing and revelling, or in several disports.
The Rape of Lucrece
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Fear makes our imagination conceive what it list, invites the devil to come to us, as [1667] Agrippa and Cardan avouch, and tyranniseth over our phantasy more than all other affections, especially in the dark.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Dismounting before it, each knight avouched the justice of his cause by a solemn oath on the Evangelists, and prayed that his success might be according to the truth or falsehood of what he then swore.
The Talisman
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Catharine, “and which you yourself have avouched often.”
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Then Affan and Bulukiya fared on for the hills where grew the herbs; and, as they went about with the Queen, each plant they passed began to speak and avouch its virtues by permission of Allah the Most High.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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No, this was a silent mutiny, a mutiny of the heart, and paradoxically, though it was never intended - but, perhaps, a kind of Karma - an avouchment of support for him.
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Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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Under no circumstances whatever should ‘A’ ever accept an avouchment from ‘B’ as to ‘C,’ unless all three be present together.
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The disciples were gratified at this plain avouchment, and exclaimed:
Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
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And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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He, of course, avouched his innocence, and offered his body for battle.
The Talisman
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He offered to avouch his innocence with his sword.
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After signing up with the required avouchments and paying the $75 initial registration fee, reserve a car for 1 hour or more, and pay $6.00 / hour plus $.50 / mile.
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We can avouch for the quality.
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Shakspeare's genuine text, backed by the masterly illustrations of his ablest glossarist, before the wishy-washy adulterations of Nobody: and as a small contribution to his abundant avouchment of the original reading, the underwritten passage may be flung in, by way of make-weight:
Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Under his habit, and secured in a small silver box, he had worn perpetually around his neck a lock of-hair, which the fathers avouched to be a relic.
Redgauntlet
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That law required, in its first command, the avouchment of
The Ordinance of Covenanting
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The principles of this religion are contained in a book written in the Hebrew tongue, which they call the Torah, or law, composed of several precepts, promises, and threatenings; together with histories of things past, and prophecies of things to come: this book, they say, was written by men inspired by God himself; and therefore they avouch it not to be of human invention, but merely of divine institution.
Private Thoughts Upon Religion and a Christian Life; to which is Added the Necessity and Advantage of Frequent Communion. Volume I.
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Ask Wall Street and they would enthusiastically avouch that they are quite up to the task - more than able and willing.
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Ne'er shall woman avouch herself so rightly beloved,
Poems and Fragments
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The Duke had now recovered his breath, and was able to sit up and give attention to what passed betwixt Dunois and Crawford, while the former pleaded eagerly that there was no occasion to mention in the matter the name of the most noble Orleans, while he was ready to take the whole blame on his own shoulders, and to avouch that the Duke had only come thither in friendship to him.
Quentin Durward
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They avouch that every element and different state of being have animals resembling those of another element, as there be fishes at sea resembling Monks of late order in all their hoods and dresses, so as the Roman invention of good and bad daemons and guardian angels particularly assigned, is called by them ane ignorant mistake, springing only from this originall.
A Legend of Montrose