How To Use Plausive In A Sentence
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He can listen to a foolish discourse with an applausive attention, and conceal his laughter at nonsense.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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Maitre Pierre, in whom the bravado of the young gallant seemed only to excite laughter, more scornful than applausive.
Quentin Durward
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And utter England's name with sadly-plausive voice.
ODE
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It must be a very plausive invention that carries it: they begin to smoke me; and disgraces have of late knocked too often at my door.
All’s Well That Ends Well
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His lordship kindly gratified them as much as possible, with a sight of his person, by repeatedly presenting himself at the window; and was as repeatedly greeted by the grateful and applausive shouts of the surrounding multitude, invoking Heaven's best blessings on the noble champion of his country.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
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Alice's talk was little more than cheerful sound, but, to fill a desolate interval, served its purpose; and her mother supported her with ever-faithful cooings of applausive laughter.
Alice Adams
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Instead of getting a soft fence against the cold, shadowy, unapplausive audience of his life, had he only given it a more substantial presence?
Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
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When the murmur of this applausive exclamation had subsided, Alexius proceeded: — “Once more, I say, that my faithful Grand Domestic, and those who act under him, will take care to commit the execution of such part of these orders as may seem aggressive, to troops of foreign appearance and language, which, I grieve to say, are more numerous in our imperial army than our natural-born and orthodox subjects.”
Count Robert of Paris
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(“Good-by, men!”), and vanished with us from their applausive presence.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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For, as Nathalie passed through the long _salons_, she was followed by such a trail of whispers, envious, malicious, amazed, from the women, universally applausive from the men, that the Countess suddenly realized that she held in her hands
The Genius
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Why such unplausive eyes are bent? why turnd on him,
The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)
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At which Festival the Public again assists, unapplausive: not we.
The French Revolution
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It must be a very plausive invention that carries it.
Act IV. Scene I. All’s Well that Ends Well
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No plausive gift; the smitten head, stopped throat,
The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations
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He covered a canvas with erratic blots of colour and quaint signs, but his plausive eloquence carried him through, and Elsie thought more highly of his talents than he did of hers.
Celibates
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Clearly he was amused — as amused as a man could be who was so little ever surprised, and that made him almost applausive.
The Portrait of a Lady
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Silk gowns and snowy wigs raise the applausive roar!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891
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Quero enfatizar aqui, e já o fiz noutros escritos, que uma crença pode até ser infundada, i. é., não ser baseada em razões plausíveis, mas tem sempre efeitos reais.
Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias
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Deceived, Olive abandoned herself to the plausive charm of Violet's manner, and at different times she spoke of her flirtation, and told many little incidents concerning it -- what he had said to her, how she had answered him, and how, the last time they had met, he had expressed his sorrow at being unable to call to see her until the end of the week.
Muslin
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Add to the fact of the challenge, another fact, that she is of Irish blood, and that her gallery gods are just inside the door, and it is a pity her audience should be merely the hens and I. Thus do I ever hover at hand, softly applausive of my mother's defense of her garden, secretly appreciative of the devious ways of vegetables, witnessing -- to forgive -- the wanderings of my father's flock.
The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers
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A pale yellow sky rose behind the brick neighbourhood, and with agonised soul the woman viewed its plausive serenity.
Esther Waters
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He'll come on your shoulder presently," said Sister Mary John, and after some plausive coquetting the bird fluttered on to Evelyn's shoulder, and Sister Mary John said --
Evelyn Innes
