How To Use Desertion In A Sentence
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When faced with mass desertion, regiments often lacked the personnel to pursue the scofflaws, and soldiers could count on the sympathy of civilians willing to give them jobs rather than report them.
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This has created a crisis in the armed forces with high desertion rates, poor morale and a sharp drop in military recruitment.
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The captain professed great annoyance and indignation at what he termed the desertion of his ward, and demanded to know when the tutor proposed to return to his duties.
Roger Ingleton, Minor
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The officer was convicted of desertion at a court martial.
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Three hundred and six British servicemen were shot for offences against military law, including cowardice and desertion.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was shot for desertion in the face of the enemy.
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Anyone seeking to leave the movement was declared an enemy of God and threatened with death for apostasy and desertion.
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By 1891 the desertion rate had fallen to a more respectable 6.2 percent.
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Increasing cases of extra-marital relations are resulting in desertions and divorces.
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They return to their former ways, though perhaps in newly clandestine associations such as the murky and much feared paramilitary demobilisation, Medellín - and Colombia - are now presented with a worrying remobilisation. blows: desertions, the cross-border killing of commander Raúl Reyes at his camp in Ecuador and the death of co-founder Manuel Marulanda, and the humiliating rescue of its most high-profile prisoner
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Never was the _honour_, the _principles_, the policy of a nation so grossly abused as in the desertion of those men, who are now exposed to _every punishment_ that _desertion_ and _poverty_ can inflict, _because they were not rebels_.
The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816
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Ramaphosa's own transformation into a tycoon has disappointed some blacks, who accuse him of desertion.
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Why is Mrs. Bardell so earnestly entreated not to agitate herself about this warming – pan, unless (as is no doubt the case) it is a mere cover for hidden fire — a mere substitute for some endearing word or promise, agreeably to a preconcerted system of correspondence, artfully contrived by Pickwick with a view to his contemplated desertion, and which I am not in a condition to explain?
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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Wolfgang Koch sings with well-focussed richness as Peter, the son driven to an excess of hammy acting by Eva's desertion.
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It seeks pardons only for those killed for desertion and cowardice.
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He has been charged with desertion and will face a court martial in July.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Virginia troops were underfed, underpaid, poorly clad, and overworked, so desertion was a wholesale problem.
George Washington’s First War
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He shows how desertions, profiteering, hoarding, and plunder were widespread.
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The high rate of desertion has added to the army's woes.
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`This garbage will be killed, and then you will return with me and face a court-martial for desertion.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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He has been charged with desertion and will face a court martial in July.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, separation and desertion remain far more common.
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He has been charged with desertion and will face a court martial in July.
Times, Sunday Times
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Society in general, and the general decline in the nation's moral responsibilities, is also named as the reason for dwindling congregations and religious desertion.
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He took his son's desertion as a personal affront.
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Novels of alienation and misery are common currency, tales of abuse, violence and desertion are run-of-the-mill stuff for British fiction.
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The reason for the desertion wasn't difficult to find: a pair of Buzzards had decided that the old rookery was an ideal place for them to nest!
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His quote is, of course, from that fine poem The Lost Leader in which Robert Browning decries Wordsworth's desertion of liberal causes and his selling-out to the Tory establishment and values "Just for a handful of silver he left us,/ Just for a riband to stick in his coat...
Letters: Electoral lessons for the Lib Dems and Labour
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Girls' average age of entry was fifteen, and the overwhelming majority were incarcerated for incorrigibility, immorality, truancy, desertion, and petty theft.
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Often the socio-economic implications arising out of desertions by the spouse is overlooked by society.
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According to the CBS News programme 60 Minutes, there have been 5,500 desertions amongst US troops.
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There was no crime black enough, no desertion, no cruelty horrible enough to outspeed her pity.
Fortitude
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The reason is plain: he was, so to speak, of two parties, yet of neither: the one could not forgive his early aspirations for liberty, uttered in imperishable verse; the other could not pardon what they called his desertion of their cause, when he saw that England was willing to do, and was doing, justice to Ireland.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
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Secondly by the flight and voluntary desertion of the younger Fairford, the advocate; on account of which, he served both father and son with a petition and complaint against them, for malversation in office.
Redgauntlet
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This left the two that had claimed most lives - cowardice and desertion.
Times, Sunday Times
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The term desertion is also applied to a cleric's abandonment of his benefice, whether it be residential or non-residential.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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He just finished serving 30 days in jail for his 1965 desertion.
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The idea of desertion is taken up again in the comic version of the television show in Firefly: Those Left Behind.
Book Review: The Stars My Destination | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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She plans to crash the party and reveal that she is Godfrey's wife so that she can avenge Godfrey's desertion.
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This left the two that had claimed most lives - cowardice and desertion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dissent within the ranks was substantial, officers had lost control, desertion had increased, and soldiers wanted to go home regardless of orders.
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Ramaphosa's own transformation into a tycoon has disappointed some blacks, who accuse him of desertion.
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Any desertion on Edith's part is terminated by Robert agreeing to the separation.
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In fact, she said, the magazine's action suggested out-and-out desertion.
ISAAC CAMPION
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Crows and ravens flock for food to the camps broken up for the springtide and autumnal marches, and thus become emblems of desertion and desolation.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A friend of ours who presides over a court of domestic relations in a large city, recently told us that he believed much trouble was caused in families -- many divorces, occasioned, and many desertions provoked -- because improperly fed babies were cross and irritable and so completely occupied the time of the mother, who, herself, knew nothing about mothercraft or the art of infant feeding.
The Mother and Her Child
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He wasted no more time with words, but ran towards the hollow where his steed had been hobbled, that is, the two front legs tied together so as to admit of moderate freedom without the risk of desertion.
The Prairie Chief
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High densities of argasid ticks have been linked to egg and seabird nestlings desertion and lower survival of Cattle Egrets.
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Of these, 1293 had been lost to recruitment by the police, resignations, arrests for serious crimes, ministerially approved discharges and desertion.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The log lists a steady trickle of desertions thereafter, including the name of the hero of the battle off Flamborough Head, William Hamilton, the brave seaman who climbed out on the mainyard and dropped the grenade through the hatchway on the Serapis.
John Paul Jones
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Leaving the abusive marriage, or divorcing him, will be branded desertion or a sin, shifting the blame to her.
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Congress first offered service pensions to officers in 1781, in order to prevent mass desertion.
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`This garbage will be killed, and then you will return with me and face a court-martial for desertion.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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We confined our trapping to the late stages of incubation to minimize nest desertion due to trapping procedures.
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Three hundred and six British servicemen were shot for offences against military law, including cowardice and desertion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most were suspected of draft evasion, desertion, or sabotage.
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He could not contemplate anything so desperate as desertion.
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He has been charged with desertion and will face a court martial in July.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1921 King George V granted him a pardon on the desertion charge.
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Their suspicions focussed particularly on what Cornwallis and his kind characterized as sloth and desertion.
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Officers and men from units which had been forced to abandon their positions were shot for desertion.
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The tedium of dredging and sounding very likely accounted for the high attrition of ship's personnel by desertion.
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Her right to maintenance was not lost by desertion.
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Adultery, bigamy, and desertion were acceptable legal grounds.
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But the legal proceedings could drag on for years, and since desertion is not an extraditable offense, his clients are safe for some time.
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When desertion was only suspected after two checks, further checks were conducted until the status of the nest became clear.
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Mrs. Berlinton, though she felt no resentment against Camilla for the desertion she had occasioned her, felt much surprize; not to be first was new to her: and whoever, in any station of life, any class of society, has had regular and acknowledged precedency, must own a sudden descent to be rather aukward.
Camilla
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Ultimately, "want of confidence" turned into actual desertion.
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Geiton the hero, a handsome, curly-pated hobbledehoy of seventeen, with his câlinerie and wheedling tongue, is courted like one of the sequor sexus: his lovers are inordinately jealous of him and his desertion leaves deep scars upon the heart.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Paradoxically, the distrust is further fuelled by the desertion of an assistant counsel on the team last month.
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Desertion is a ground for divorce.
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The courage to leave her and beg public forgiveness for his desertion of his cause and his friends.
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Mrs. Snavely got a divorce on the grounds of desertion.
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After two years he divorced his wife for desertion.
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Divorce can be obtained on the bases of adultery, intolerable behavior, desertion, and de facto separation.
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The little guy did have a crucial part in the only goal of the half, but a number of the home defenders should have been cashiered for desertion for their part in it.
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He had to contend against treachery, desertion and want, but rose above all these obstacles, and proved himself the most powerful obstructor that the British columns had to encounter in South
In the Shadow of Death
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The wife may ask for divorce based on impotence, non-support, and desertion or lengthy absence.
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He'd have fled in the dark of night, on his own would never have found the courage for this diabolically timed desertion.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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No such reversals of fate await the protagonist of novelist Kurt Vonnegut's freshly conceived 1993 text for "L'Histoire" -- retitled "An American Soldier's Tale" and receiving its first recording on a Summit label CD (DCD 532) -- which tells the true, World War II-era story of Pvt. Eddie Slovik, the first American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War.
On CD: Another view of "L'Histoire"
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Desertion was recognized if one or both parents were not seen at the nest for at least two consecutive nest checks.
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Occasion for making this explanation and statement frequently arises in desertion cases when the accused, after pleading guilty, testifies or states in effect that throughout his unauthorized absence he had the intention of returning.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
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Desertion is a ground for divorce.
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In the northwest, troop desertions will plague the Ottomans, and even farther west, in the Christian kingdoms, inexplicable diseases will disarrange the lips of kings.
Excerpt: The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
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Mrs. Berlinton, though she felt no resentment against Camilla for the desertion she had occasioned her, felt much surprize; not to be first was new to her: and whoever, in any station of life, any class of society, has had regular and acknowledged precedency, must own a sudden descent to be rather aukward.
Camilla
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Now he was walking away, putting family before his political patron, a previously unthinkable desertion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every attempt of the Roman handicraftsmen to better themselves was a breach of the peace; disobedience was rebellion; resistance was treason; running away was desertion.
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Thus the idea of desertion runs through both the frame narrative and the inner story of "On Greenhow Hill."
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His guilt about his desertion of the weaker boy was to provide the story of his television play Old Flames.
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He was shot for desertion in the face of the enemy.
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Mrs. Snavely got a divorce on the grounds of desertion.
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Meanwhile, not insignificant hordes of sensible Republicans are in desertion mode, appalled by the shenanigans of the mooseburger-eating creationist from Alaska.
Mooseburger-eating creationist news
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Over 300, he said, some for desertion, some for cowardice, and two for falling asleep at their posts.
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Lincoln charged that he was encouraging desertions from the Union army.
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Is it desertion or death?
Times, Sunday Times
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His wife's desertion had embittered him, and her name was forbidden to be mentioned.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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I turn now to the matter of fines for such things as wilful desertion, breaking lease, breaking the agreement, or failing to attend the tribunal or mediation.
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An act of gross desertion may, in any case, be palliated under the plea of intoxication; the murder of an officer may be as easily coloured over with that of temporary insanity.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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Spousal desertion automatically invokes this right.
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Desertion, arson and poor or slow work were the most common ways of showing resistance by slaves.
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Perhaps the most interesting finding in the exit polls Tuesday was that the base did turn out for Mr. Rove: white evangelicals voted in roughly the same numbers as in 2004, and 71 percent of them voted Republican, hardly a mass desertion from the 78 percent of last time.
November 2006
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Merely in pyjamas I headed for the poop, Possum wailing dismally at my desertion.
CHAPTER XXX
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The desertion of an ally, especially from fear of war, saps the spirit of any army.
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The desertion of the small family farm constitutes the largest population movement in American history.
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They tell their own story of desertions, food rationing, shortage of ammunition and other difficulties.
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`This garbage will be killed, and then you will return with me and face a court-martial for desertion.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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Besides, he is not so overwise as to imagine that he knows whether death is a good or an evil; and he is certain that desertion of his duty is an evil.
The Apology
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Paradoxically, the distrust is further fuelled by the desertion of an assistant counsel on the team last month.
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The effervescence which is appearing in all quarters, and the desertion of their followers, will frown them into silence -- at least for a while.
Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched
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He shows how desertions, profiteering, hoarding, and plunder were widespread.
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There was not an instance of desertion in the battalion.
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It seemed like there had been a sudden mass desertion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inherent in this cultural stigma is often the desertion of the partner or male responsible for the pregnancy, thus relegating the woman to position of a single mother.
ProWomanProLife » 2010 » June
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I confess, I had sometimes, however, the weakness to think the worse of human nature, for what I called the desertion and ingratitude of these my former companions and flatterers; and I could not avoid comparing the neglect and solitude in which I lived in London, where I had lavished my fortune, with the kindness and hospitalities I had received in Dublin, where I lived only when I had no fortune to spend.
Tales and Novels — Volume 04
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She had to provide other evidence, such as cruelty or desertion, as well.
COURTESANS
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Does the past success of the brood influence the timing of mate desertion?
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She spoke to him of his luckless courtship of Widow Denison (a most unpleasant topic), thus giving a clue to the whole situation, in showing that Madam Winthrop resented his desertion of her in his first widowerhood, and like Falstaff, would not "undergo a sneap without reply.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England