How To Use Monitory In A Sentence
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(abolition of slavery in the N.W. territory) has eventuated in effects which speak a monitory lesson.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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Scientists have long known about this so-called premonitory phase, which occurs well before the better-known aura, the flashing lights and wavy lines that about 30% of migraine sufferers see shortly before the headache begins.
Beware, a Big Headache Is Coming
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shook a monitory finger at him
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There is something a little admonitory—even perhaps retaliatory—about such a response.
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Young Americans came to view religion, according to one survey, as judgmental, homophobic, hypocritical, and too political.49 All these were premonitory signs that a second major aftershock was about to roil the American religious landscape.
American Grace
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There may even have been some admonitory finger-waving.
Lay off the Old Firm, Mr Salmond – Glasgow has more 'shameful' problems | Kevin McKenna
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‘Ah, ah, ah,’ Vic said, shaking an admonitory finger at him.
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It was the old Time formula that I remembered from more than 50 years ago when I tired of and stopped reading its treacle that recorded every week the latest milestone in the inexorable march of mid-America toward its apotheosis of gelatinous, platitudinous, universal, and permanent embourgeoisement: a premonitory Pleasantville.
Conrad Black: Time's Fatuous and Egregious Coverage of Wall Street Prosecutor
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To the captains, supercargoes, or younger merchants in their employ, experienced traders wrote admonitory letters filled with advice regarding the selection of the right Hong merchant to handle a cargo.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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If you have a 20 inch monitory, you should put it 20 inch in front of you.
Small Home Office Idea for a Small Apartment
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The liberality of Virginia, or, as the result may prove, her folly, which submitted to, or, if you will, PROPOSED _this measure_, (abolition of slavery in the N.W. territory) has eventuated in effects which speak a monitory lesson.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4
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Back at my apartment I found an admonitory email from Doug, the CEO. ‘Hi Peter,’ it said. ‘Hope you have incorporated what you learned the other day into your lifestyle.’
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O'Harra blew into his great, silver monitory horn, and it was a sound of relatively high pitch that all those in Stanton knew well to be wary of.
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They are also too far away, normally a monitory should be as far away as its size.
Small Home Office Idea for a Small Apartment
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But you can't really tell the animal off; it's in a cat's nature after all, and they wouldn't understand an admonitory tap on the nose.
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An important thing to remember is that the state still owns all of the land in Ethiopia, an admonitory lesson on the dubious benefits of Georgist land tenure.
Ethiopia Bleg, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The last Divinity of poor mankind dethroning himself; sinking _his_ taper too, flame downmost, like the Genius of Sleep or of Death; admonitory that Tailor time shall be no more!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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Sandra Gilbert, past president of the MLA, is both funny and wisely admonitory.
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Oliver Twist draws most overtly on the model of the didactic tracts by providing negative monitory examples.
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Em asked curiously, not at all affected by his admonitory expression.
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A melancholy and monitory lesson this, to all timeserving and temporising statesmen!
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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We are over-fond of drawing monitory morals from the lives of gifted persons, tacking together our little ten-by-twelve pinfolds to impound breachy human nature in, but it is only because we know more than we have any business to know of the private concerns of such persons that we have the opportunity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
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Etskae shook his head, and waved an admonitory finger.
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There is a kind of premonitory apology implied in my saying this, I am aware.
Stories by American Authors, Volume 1
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The liberality of Virginia, or, as the result may prove, her folly, which submitted to, or, if you will, PROPOSED _this measure_ (abolition of slavery in the N.W. territory) has eventuated in effects which speak a monitory lesson.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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One of South Africa's leading vehicle tracking companies with Namibia's largest and technically most advanced alarm monitory and response company.
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The whole is accompanied by a ghostly, premonitory sound of deep tolling bells.
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One of the most baneful instruments of ancient criminal procedure was what was known as the monitory; this was a notice from the pulpit, given out by the bishop and repeated by all vicars to their parishioners, ordering them to make inquiries about the crime in question, and to reveal all the facts which might come to their knowledge.
Mauprat
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Her tone was odd, neither commanding nor monitory, almost, in a way, conspiratorial.
BARN BLIND
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Slate has picked it up, and I read also (some months after the fact) the admonitory article in the Chronicle on this subject some months ago.
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He spoke in Tibetan, and his delivery was stern and admonitory , like a forbidding, old-fashioned father reprimanding his children.
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Here, the resulting distortions have become so embarrassing that the sub-entries have recently been left blank, with an admonitory footnote to the effect that the omission arises because the numbers are not to be trusted!
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Helen entered in time to retrieve, wipe clean, and re-insert it - with an admonitory look - the instant before Nurse Manning turned.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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The Four Phases of a Migraine 1 Premonitory, or prodrome.
Beware, a Big Headache Is Coming
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The Bishop of _Ravenna_, the Metropolis of _Flaminia_ and _Æmilia_, was also subject to the Pope: for _Zosimus_, A.C. 417, excommunicated some of the Presbyters of that Church, and wrote a commonitory Epistle about them to the Clergy of that Church as a branch of the _Roman_ Church: _In sua_, saith he, _hoc est, in Ecclesia nostra Romana_.
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
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‘I'll laugh when that thing stops in the middle of the road in the rain,’ I joked in an admonitory tone.
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Even as he'd spoken, there had been an admonitory voice in the back of his head, warning that he was saying far too much.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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Unlike all the other men, he had no private books, no mezzotints of family grandees, no clutches of letters from admonitory father or teary mother or whispery girl back home.
Son of a Witch
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Young Americans came to view religion, according to one survey, as judgmental, homophobic, hypocritical, and too political.49 All these were premonitory signs that a second major aftershock was about to roil the American religious landscape.
American Grace
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And after the trauma of so many admonitory sermons on the sins of his late father, he never thereafter regarded Scottish Presbyterianism as a fit religion for a gentleman.
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When it comes to religion, some leaders need to focus less on satisfying their own ego, whether it is monitory gain, a thirst for power and attention, a thirst for status either here on earth or a heavenly sense of status, and a thirst for image and quantity rather than quality -- all of which are ego's way of wanting more and using religion to get it.
Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: The Psychology of Religion: Why Are Some of Us Attracted to It?
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Actually, TV station oneself takes a program parade seriously very, they perhaps are inserted in other item sow premonitory , perhaps cooperate with other media.
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There is something a little admonitory - even, perhaps, retaliatory - about such a response.
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The result of the whole is that we must recur to the monitory reflection that no Government of human device, & human administration can be perfect; that that which is the least imperfect is therefore the best Govt.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Wishful Linguistics
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His commentary is inevitably wise and slightly admonitory in tone, as if he cannot bear a mistake he picks out of a fighter's performance: ‘He carried his right hand too low and he's going to suffer for it.’
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It has obtained such reputation as it possesses, partly because of its invention or improvement of the fable of "Surrey and Geraldine"; more, and more justly, because it does work up a certain amount of historical material -- the wars of Henry VIII. in French Flanders -- into something premonitory (with a little kindness on the part of the premonished) of the great and long missed historical novel; still more for something else.
The English Novel
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Hence he is apt to become narrative and admonitory, that is to say, fond of telling long stories, and of doling out advice, to the small profit and great annoyance of his friends.
Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies
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Amongst so excitable a people as the Arabs, this game caused quarrels and bloodshed, hence its prohibition: and the theologians, who everywhere and at all times delight in burdening human nature, have extended the command, which is rather admonitory than prohibitive, to all games of chance.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The report's tone is admonitory, its assertions sweeping.
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When Heather's book appeared, indeed, a number of conservative commentators remarked it, calling admonitory attention to its author's thesis that a kind of illegal immigration, or technically legal immigration by culturally inassimilable people, played a major role in killing off the largest, longest-lived, most functionally universal polity that ever existed.
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
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All the same, there are two passages in the book that I found eerily premonitory of what she would do ten years later.
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A new liberty will arise, so the monitory promise goes, not in any freedom from constraints too subtle for the hungry to perceive, but in class consciousness.
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I even had a dream that proved premonitory, in which I did go home for the holidays and I was miserable.
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Whether or not this little tale is true, it does pack an admonitory sting in its tale.
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Her words were admonitory, but there was a smile in her voice and a laugh in her eyes.
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I had heard from good authority that "to those whose propensities were known, Duroc's information that the Empress was visible was accompanied with a kind of admonitory or courtly hint, that the strictest decency in dress and manners, and a conversation chaste, and rather of an unusually modest turn, would be highly agreeable to their Sovereigns, in consideration of the solemn occasion of a Sovereign
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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The scriptures of Semitic inspiration are hortative, admonitory; they urge, they reprove, they enjoin, they warn.
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The discourses of Jesus on the subject appear to be admonitory rather than predictive.
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The whole is accompanied by a ghostly, premonitory sound of deep tolling bells.
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Venner was only slightly less admonitory.
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The first phase of a migraine is called the premonitory period or prodrome.
Brain Blogger
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At home, one reaction has been a revival of premonitory scenarios of gloom.
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The last Divinity of poor mankind dethroning himself; sinking _his_ taper too, flame downmost, like the Genius of Sleep or of Death; admonitory that Tailor-time shall be no more!
Past and Present
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But when you ask for it back, don't be surprised to get an admonitory finger-wagging about being over-fixated on money and wealth, when you really should be thinking more about wellbeing and the work-life balance.
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For instance, I'm not looking ahead to my 30th birthday with any sort of premonitory dread.
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Junichi watched as Murasaki chided her master with a grim expression on her face and her tone was gently admonitory.
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Even if it means selling off their valuable assets and liquidating their monitory investments to do so, it must urgently be done.
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The study of history, Carlyle insists, is monitory.
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In the early stage, that which might be called premonitory, while the patient is yet able to be about his business, but is complaining of the symptoms above named, he should, as far as possible, abstain from exercise and food, and take of _Baptisia_ and _Phosphorus_ alternately,
An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time
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The existing literatures deem PBC is the exploitation of the monitory stockholders.
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But I suspect other biographers write about lives they consider to be exemplary or admonitory.
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-- Heaven grant that little snort be not what the medical people call a premonitory symptom -- if so, he'll be in upon me now in no time.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete