How To Use Solicitude In A Sentence
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You would scarcely imagine that this copper is deemed worthy to be hoarded; yet such is the people's aversion from the paper, and such their mistrust of the government, that not an housewife will part with one of these pieces while she has an assignat in her possession; and those who are rich enough to keep a few livres by them, amass and bury this copper treasure with the utmost solicitude and secresy.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
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But how varied, how ingenious in incident, how full of funny gesture and dry discrimination, is this undergraduate epic; with such a gay gallopade of mortality and such decorative archaism of expression, and such a solicitude for words.
Zuleika Dobson
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I have argued that in the United States the conjunction of many factors resulted in the special solicitude toward children that condemned child labor.
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Your solicitude so kindly exprest for my success and reputation, demands acknowledgments and thanks such as do not allways come readily to the nib of my pen, but lie skulking about my Heart in various shapes and colours, refusing to be brought forward but by force; and then, like many other forced fruits are apt to come, from my hand, very imperfectly and without relish.
Letter 80
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Do you play with or without the roquet-croquet?" has now come to be the first point of mutual solicitude in a mixed party.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
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Khusrû was treated with great kindness by his father, after he had been barbarously deprived of sight; [17] but when his brother, Shâh Jahân, was appointed to the government of Southern India, he pretended great solicitude about the comforts of his _poor blind brother_, which he thought would not be attended to at court, and took him with him to his government in the
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
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The round-the-clock communications and solicitude evidently required for her maintenance demanded a heroism if not masochism in her patient allies.
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It is not strange that with such a chorister in charge, all solicitude about anthems and voluntaries vanished from the preacher's mind.
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Katherine said that no man has ever treated her as well as Jake has, which either is a testament to Jake's solicitude or a condemnation of her previous relationships.
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Though displaying no overt solicitude, the tavern owner seemed helpful.
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True conservation had to begin with “that combination of solicitude, foresight, and skill which we call husbandry,” practiced by landowners on their own land.
Aldo Leopold's Legacy
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So I may anticipate regular visits of inspection and solicitude while they wait for me to get a belly full of independence.
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Indeed, solicitude did not terminate with them: the munificence of his disposition having spread itself through every county in which he owned a rood of land, as many prayers ascended for the repose of his spirit as ever petitioned Heaven from the mouths of "monkish beadsmen" in favor of power and virtue.
Thaddeus of Warsaw
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The minister can thus also personally care for the burial of the dead; and, in short, fulfil with solicitude and concern all the demands and obligations of his office as a priest, and in the care of souls.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
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She took my temperature, placing her hand to my forehead as I held the thermometer in my mouth; she had this priceless expression of solicitude, concern, and professional remove.
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O Marie, souvenez vous du moment supreme où Jesus votre divin Fils, expirant sur la croix, nous confia à votre maternelle solicitude.
Through the Wall
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In fact, considering my most recent actions, one could easily come to the conclusion that I was raised by people who had no sense of solicitude whatsoever, but it was not the case; unthoughtfulness is a trait I developed all on my own.
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The solicitude shown him by his neighbours after robbery touched him deeply.
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His solicitude about maintaining a certain order within the state was described as haughtiness and harshness, his preoccupation lest the precarious resources of the government be dissipated in useless expenditures was dubbed avarice, and the prudence which had impelled him to restrain the rash policy of expansion and aggression which Germanicus had tried to initiate beyond the Rhine was construed as envy and surly malignity.
The Women of the Caesars
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He exchanged quick pleasantries and accepted her solicitude regarding the funeral in San Francisco.
THE LAST RAVEN
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El señor Lázaro se ha dedicado toda su vida a la carpintería, empezando como aprendiz a muy temprana edad y el buen ahorro le permitió abrir su propio taller de ebanistería, comenzando sus trabajos en la reparación de muebles, ahora su demanda ha crecido, gracias a su buen prestigio que le permite nuevos clientes y nuevas solicitudes de trabajo que aportan en gran medida a su economía, con el negocio en pie solicita un préstamo para la inversión destinando
Kiva Loans
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She was impatient herself for the important conference she was planning, and felt, with increasing solicitude, that all her life's happiness hung upon her power to extricate herself honourably from the terrible embarrassment in which she was involved.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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I remember seeing him in his 60s, a big, six-foot-tall man, his balding hair completely gray, waiting on his 80-year-old mother with filial solicitude.
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Not even Voltaire's hypersensitive behaviour checked her solicitude for his welfare and her promotion of his plays, in spite of their dramatic weakness.
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In time, she managed to have her own needs addressed, as she too discovered incapacitating ailments that compelled the services and solicitude of her children, physicians, and, eventually, a therapist.
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The child, become an object of anxious solicitude, is usually restrained from the more hardy play of his young neighbors, and a retarded physical development is the result.
The Social Disability of the Jew
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He was especially nice to Mimi, whom he treated with a gentle solicitude both on and off camera, exactly how he must have been with Takako.
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Unwilling to give Camilla, whom he concluded impressed with the thousand solicitudes of her impending change of situation, any abrupt account of her brother's cruel conduct, he spoke with composure though not with chearfulness, and hoped, by a general gravity, to prepare, without alarming her, for the ill news he must inevitably relate.
Camilla
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A young man stood before me, his brow creased in solicitude.
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It evokes a reflexive pang of parental solicitude in the reader.
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A solicitude for you. Precisely because " on you depends tomorrow ".
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If any one had maintained against Voltaire that the aspirations after a future life, the longing for some token that the Deity watches over his creatures and is moved by a tender solicitude for them, and the other spiritual desires alleged to be instinctive in men, constitute as trustworthy and firm a guide to truth as the logical reason, we may be sure that he would have forgiven what he must have considered an enervating abnegation of intelligence, for the sake of the humane, if not very actively improving, course of life to which this kind of pietism is wont to lead.
Voltaire
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Ted greeted the detective with an expression of queasy solicitude, but when he caught sight of Charles something between disconcertion and abject terror took over his face.
Here Comes Another Lesson
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The following are the heads and principles of such an arrangement as we are decisively of opinion must be adopted for these purposes, viz. That, for making a provision for discharging the Nabob's just debts to the Company and individuals, (for the payment of which his Highness has so frequently expressed the greatest solicitude,) _the Nabob shall give soucar security for the punctual payment, by instalments_, into the
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
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A thousand thanks for your intelligent solicitude; I entirely approve of the word tedesco being left out on the title-page;
Letters
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And that my principal fault has been carelessness of my character, and too little solicitude to clear myself, when aspersed?
Clarissa Harlowe
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The disadvantaged students for whom antielitist solicitude is expressed are the very ones who suffer when we fail to introduce traditional literate culture into the earliest grades.
The Theory Behind the Dictionary: Cultural Literacy and Education
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For some moments she gazed at me, and I put all my love and solicitude into my face.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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His concern, given the context, seems overblown - even he thinks so, and he is chagrined by his own moral solicitude.
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Her delivery, too, is eerily good – a show of demure solicitude, invariably overtaken by steely, wild-eyed stridency.
The Iron Lady: first screening
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Hired labourer literature" is that literature shows solicitude for bottom peasant laborer survival state instantly a platform.
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She was grateful to him for his solicitude and the tale came slowly out.
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That she is a woman with the most sincere and proven solicitude for refugees was attested to by their representatives.
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For the patient's sake as well as his own, he must endeavour to strike the medium between negligence and ridicule on the one hand, and too much solicitude about every trifling symptom on the other.
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However, ultimately it might be argued that neither her self-imposed privations nor apparent solicitude qualifies as a genuine ordeal.
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Those whom you have so well called the disinherited of the world, are certainly the object of our solicitude.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete
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X. plays skilfully and correctly, but his expression continues crude, cold, monotonous; he shows too pedantic a solicitude about mechanical execution and strict time; he never ventures on a _pp. _, uses too little shading in _piano_, and plays the _forte_ too heavily, and without regard to the instrument; his _crescendi_ and _diminuendi_ are inappropriate, often coarse and brought in at unsuitable places; and -- his _ritardandi_! they are tedious indeed!
Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances
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Most collections of lives of the saints, particularly those in modern languages, are inspired by the idea of edifying and interesting the reader, and without any great solicitude for historical truth.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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He saw a face which even the dust of the streets could not so begrime as to hide its sweetness or its tenderness, as, with deep solicitude, she bent over her cousin.
The Earth Trembled
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The agency's inclusiveness, its solicitude toward the divergent perspectives of many different stakeholders, fit with its avowed mission of neutrality.
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To the middle-class reader at the breakfast table or on his way to the office the letter was an admirable demonstration of the Christian concern of the Dublin employers and their solicitude for the less fortunate members of the community.
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God knows how many sacrifices, prayers and sufferings have been offered to support me in my service to the church, how much benevolence and solicitude, how many signs of communion have surrounded me every day.
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Fenton caught the essential loneliness of royalty in the Queen, together with the Prince Consort's tender solicitude - it was the time of the Crimean War.
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Behind him hurried a younger, comelier man, carefully clad in motor costume, who bent above the girl with passionate solicitude and gazed into her staring eyes until they narrowed and dropped and her face flushed deeper and deeper crimson.
DARKWATER
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How great was my joy to see the well known Signature of my Friend after a Melancholy Solicitude of many months in which my hopes and fears alternately preponderated.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 10 April 1782
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In the case of the South African mierkat, for instance, the female is generally more combative and more difficult to tame than the male; and it is the males who from the moment of birth watch over the young with the most passionate and tender solicitude, keeping them warm under their persons, carrying them to places of safety in their mouths, and feeding them till full grown; and this they do not only for their own young, but to any young who may be brought in contact with them.
Woman and Labour
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But, however that is to be, we have all laid our heads together, and are determined, for your delicacy — sake, to let this matter take its course; since, after an opening so undesignedly warm, you might otherwise imagine our solicitude in the affair capable of beiny thought too urgent.
Sir Charles Grandison
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With her nicely poised head, her silken arms, and expressive upper back, she brought a personal glow to the production, although Nilas Martins as Siegfried did not offer her much solicitude.
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It had to be an important office because Mrs Brown's added solicitude was obvious.
SOMEBODY
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Authur was immensely pleased by the girl's solicitude about him.
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He is full of tender solicitude towards my sister.
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If they do obtain their suit, which with such cost and solicitude they have sought, they are not so freed, their anxiety is anew to begin, for they are never satisfied, nihil aliud nisi imperium spirant, their thoughts, actions, endeavours are all for sovereignty and honour, like [1819] Lues Sforza that huffing Duke of
Anatomy of Melancholy
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It was once attributed to Guercino, which is understandable since the type of the bearded and turbaned king, his gentle solicitude, the discreet radiance and the soft glow on the faces are reminiscent of that artist's quieter late works.
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(A striking example of this hypocrisy was the solicitude displayed by the Russian landowners last year, their efforts to combat the famine which they had caused, and by which they profited, selling not only bread at the highest price, but even potato haulm at five rubles the dessiatine (about 2 and four - fifths acres) for fuel to the freezing peasants.)
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
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But these are improperly called jealousies, and by a metaphor, to show the care and solicitude they have of them.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Despite all that solicitude for the privacy of would-be spouses, the prohibition on incestuous marriages stands.
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To effect objects so dear to every patriot I shall devote myself with anxious solicitude.
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Love-making gets the novelist's tenderest interest and solicitude, but it receives little attention from the sagaman.
The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature
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He would look after his friends with rather touching solicitude.
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It is now very well known that a great many cases of so-called dyspepsia are really due to over-solicitude about food and the elimination from the diet of so many articles supposed to be indigestible that the patient's nutrition is seriously interfered with.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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She was grateful to him for his solicitude.
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Would not one word suffice to dispel their solicitude, and restore the lost one to their arms?
Wild Western Scenes