How To Use Vouchsafe In A Sentence
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It was not sufficient, he thought, for government to protect our rights if it was to vouchsafe our pursuit of happiness.
America's Enduring Ideal
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It is ‘a poem: one of those genuine productions so often vouchsafed to the fortunate public of those days - the golden age of modern literature.
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As we approached the summit we were vouchsafed a rare vision.
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Catholic opinion was united in its disapproval of the privileges vouchsafed to them by the edict.
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And yet that billboard vouchsafes to one of the novel's minor characters, J. Edgar's ghostly Sister, a vision of beatitude.
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Those who had this secret wisdom of the plants were the chosen of their god; to them alone had he vouchsafed the privilege of access to the heavenly throne.
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Spirit and word vouchsafe to bl/- ess and sanc/- tify these Thy gifts and creatures of Bread and Wine, that they may be unto us the Body and
Studies in the Book of Common Prayer
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He vouchsafed that his mother, 80 years of age, was an avid Internet fan.
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In so doing, the church would seem to have vouchsafed the gospel's inextricable relationship to the First Testament.
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When the author indulges his ability to frolic away from the described path (the path, the sole path to which the audience has vouchsafed its interest), the less interested the audience becomes.
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I would love to know its source, but as a reader I am clearly not intended to; at any rate the information is not vouchsafed.
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Margot flamed with indignation, but before the angry words had time to form themselves on her lips, the thought occurred that after all the help vouchsafed to her had been no pretence, but a very substantial reality.
Big Game A Story for Girls
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Seven years later, ‘He is a good man, we did not suit,’ was the only reason she vouchsafed for the break up of that marriage.
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The male of the species was not disgraced, that much I can vouchsafe.
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Because you, of all people on all worlds, and I use the term people loosely, and I grip the term worlds tightly, know that I will never vouchsafe or divulge.
Self-Destruction, Vol. 1
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I wish it had been vouchsafed me to be by when your spirit of a sudden grew willing to bestow itself without question or let or hope of return, when the self broke up and grew fain to beat out your strength in praise and service for the woman who was soaring high in the blue wastes.
From Dane Kempton to Herbert Wace - Letter I
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And as soon as he heard that name he was full of joy, and for gladness let fall tears from his eyes, giving laud and thanksgiving to Almighty God, and to S. John his avowry that he would vouchsafe to let him have knowledge of his departing out of this world.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6
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The two lovers are privileged to witness the assumption and are vouchsafed a vision of heaven.
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If God sends or raises up among us someone who can feed our souls, let us receive him with joy and thankfulness from God, according to the gift that has been vouchsafed to him.'
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They vouchsafed his retirement.
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In an earlier television interview, the Chancellor had vouchsafed the view that as well as the return of Status Quo and Queen in any Live 8 concerts, he wants to see the Spice Girls reformed.
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You don't think me 'ambidexter,' or 'either-handed' ... and both hands open for what poems you will vouchsafe to me; and yet if you would let me see anything you may have in a readable state by you, ...
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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They do not always accurately portray the degree of damage, nor do they vouchsafe how long the damage has been there.
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She had become tense and taciturn, particularly with me, and for no reason that she would vouchsafe.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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Recall the exaggerated influence vouchsafed, not too long ago, to psychoanalytic theory.
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In the discourse delivered to my flock on the twenty-fifth anniversary of my pastorate was the following passage, to whose truth the added years have only added confirmation, “There is still another sweet mercy which has been vouchsafed to me in the true heart that has never faltered and the gentle footstep that has never wearied in the pathway of life for two and thirty years.
Recollections of a Long Life
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Even that much explanation is unlikely to be vouchsafed to Michael Wills and his colleagues as they return to the back benches.
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A terribly 90s enlightenment, of course, combining the pleasant notion that the experiences vouchsafed to you aren't for the common man with the assurance that you don't actually have to do any work for them, you just have to take part.
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Yet while it seems fair to ascribe to these pieces the ‘legendary’ status vouchsafed them in the leaflet, this is not enough.
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This information was vouchsafed via CNN from an undisclosed military base, seemingly a long way from Washington.
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We believe that artists are somehow vouchsafed the ability to tap into a greater knowledge of the human condition and impart this to us.
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By the power and might of the great God, and through the grace which he vouchsafes to our empire, be the name of the Khan blessed; and let all such as disobey (what is herein directed) suffer death and be utterly destroyed.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)
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I noted, with the thrill that circumstances vouchsafe to an active scholar only a few times in a full career, that Agassiz had penciled copious marginal notes into this copy.
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The same principals being come accordingly, he welcommed them and shewed them al friendship he could, thanking them for their good and faithfull endeuours which they had shewed in this seruice, which he performed with a singular oration, praying Almighty God that he woulde vouchsafe to be his only loadsman and merciful defender, in all his enterprises, to the honor of his name, and happy successe of the vnited Netherlandish prouinces.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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He had won the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1953 and had much to live up to, and, as he vouchsafed to friends, this was also to be his last literary endeavour.
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Why, one would almost think that the SPD had brutally murdered socialist leaders fifteen years earlier in a vain attempt to vouchsafe their own base of political power.
Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats
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A flip-down visor was useful if you encountered any of the really dire conditions Cravat sometimes vouchsafed — acid hail, flocks of kamikaze hat pin bugs, even moderate amounts of fire and brimstone in the solfatara lands.
Perseus Spur
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He didn't vouchsafe any further information, and Wendy certainly wasn't going to pry.
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O God, who by the resurrection of thy Son Jesus Christ didst vouchsafe to give gladness unto the world: Grant, we beseech thee, that we, being holpen by the Virgin Mary, his Mother, may attain unto the joys of everlasting life; through the same Christ our Lord.
Archive 2006-04-01
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For him it was a means of revealing the divine principle and concretizing a personal vision of the Supreme Being that had been vouchsafed to him.
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Then haue you a second Nauigation of his performance to the South shore of the foresayd Caspian sea, together with his landing at Derbent, his arriuall at Shabran, his proceeding vnto Shamaky, the great curtesie vouchsafed on him by Obdolowcan king of Hircan, his iourney after of 30. dayes Southward, by Yauate, Ardouil, and other townes and cities to Casben, being as then the seate imperiall of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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I wouldn't do this for anybody but you, Cap'n," he vouchsafed, in what might be called a reproachful shout.
Cap'n Warren's Wards
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And yet that billboard vouchsafes to one of the novel's minor characters, J. Edgar's ghostly Sister, a vision of beatitude.
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He also vouchsafed to them that police surveillance of Mr Lillie had revealed nothing suspicious.
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Free Library," he vouchsafed, as he began to read, with one hand holding the place while with the other he waited for the tug on the fishline that would announce rockcod.
CHAPTER XVI
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Then it is very probable that the soul of these reptiles is of a different kind from that which we call vegetative soul in plants; that it is a faculty of a superior order, which God has vouchsafed to give to certain portions of matter.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Same goes for thoughts, if those thoughts are disagreeable to me, I would not agree with them regardless of how honourable you are or how many others are willing to vouchsafe for you.
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And albeit we doe scarse vouchsafe to stand longer about answering of him, yet in regard of others, who at this day partly woonder at the matter, and partly obiect it to our nation, we thought good to adde some few things in this place.
A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
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I enter into confession, I most humbly beseech you, that you would vouchsafe (in this distresse) to assist me with your fatherly advice and counsell, because, if thereby I cannot attaine to a more pleasing kinde of happinesse; neither confessior, or any thing else, is able to doe me any good at all.
The Decameron
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Ten chapters later, we are vouchsafed some extra details.
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As we approached the summit we were vouchsafed a rare vision.
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As one senior MP yesterday vouchsafed, the failure to take on the Liberal Democrats in Brent East was a disastrous mistake.
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‘Most of them are opting for second pair of sun glasses since they are affordable’, Bajaj vouchsafes.
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Releasing more bailout funds will require the International Monetary Fund and European institutions to vouchsafe that Greece has not fallen short of its privatization and austerity pledges and the IMF will have to maintain that Greece's mountainous debt burden is sustainable.
Move Buys Time for Greece, But Growing Debt Looms
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I wondered as to where the assistant was located whose duty it was to take down whatever information I might loudly vouchsafe.
JOHNNY UPRIGHT
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Indeed, this be of that which is incumbent on us, O King, and I say, ‘Praised be Allah!’ in that He hath guerdoned thee with His gifts and vouchsafed thee of His mercy, the welfare of the realm; and hath succoured thee and ourselves, on condition that we increase in gratitude to Him; and all this no otherwise than by thine existence!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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She had become tense and taciturn, particularly with me, and for no reason that she would vouchsafe.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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For him it was a means of revealing the divine principle and concretizing a personal vision of the Supreme Being that had been vouchsafed to him.
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King hath no issue, male or female, so I pray the Almighty to vouchsafe me a son who shall inherit of this mighty sovran that which the Lord hath bestowed upon him of lands and palaces and possessions.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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They do not always accurately portray the degree of damage, nor do they vouchsafe how long the damage has been there.
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He claimed that he had been informed that Funfack had indeed been Deputy Chief Medical Officer but he did not vouchsafe who provided that information.
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Garey at length approached, but not until Rube, with a triumphant toss of his head and a scarcely audible "wheep" from his thin lips, showed signs that the consultation had ended, and that the "joss" who dwelt at the bottom of his rifle-barrel had vouchsafed an answer!
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
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Since then I've come to believe in Barack Obama even more strongly as I've watched him struggle to provide healthcare for tens of millions of American children, women and men at risk for bankruptcy, unrelieved suffering, even premature death because they lacked the healthcare protection that every civilized society should vouchsafe for its citizens.
The Moral Measure of Obama's Presidency
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There was once in Baghdad a man of consequence and rich in monies and immoveables, who was one of the chiefs of the merchants; and Allah had largely endowed him with worldly goods, but had not vouchsafed him what he longed for of offspring; and there passed over him a long space of time, without his being blessed with issue, male or female.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The American dispensatories do not vouchsafe it the same notice that it has received in various parts of Europe.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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A sure sign, Mrs. Hungerford thought, that she was feeling better; and she watched in secret amusement the sudden stiffening of the angular figure and the compression of the thin lips as the "instructress" looked fixedly out of the carriage window and vouchsafed no other reply.
Dorothy's Travels
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If they fall into that delusion, they are doomed and no second reprieve will be vouchsafed them.
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In reality, of course, there can be no truly riskless asset - death and taxes remain the only certainties vouchsafed to human beings.
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And Allah vouchsafed him children by her, and they both lived the gladdest and happiest of lives, till there came to them the Destroyer of delights and the Severer of societies and the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The Grail vouchsafes visions, specifically processions and hallows, to the quester.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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As we approached the summit we were vouchsafed a rare vision.
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Lenin's intention was that the testament should remain secret; but his secretary vouchsafed its contents to Stalin.
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But if Mr. Coleman is any indication, some GOP elites will dump this political slogan when a faculty member shows up to vouchsafe her new respect for their moderation and realism.
With Friends Like Romney's . . .
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Then Ajax, at his wits 'end, cries: Zeus, Father, yet save thou Achaia's sons from beneath the gloom,/And make clear day, and vouchsafe unto us with our eyes to see!
On the Sublime
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In reality, of course, there can be no truly riskless asset - death and taxes remain the only certainties vouchsafed to human beings.
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For him it was a means of revealing the divine principle and concretizing a personal vision of the Supreme Being that had been vouchsafed to him.
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He seems to know stuff no one else is aware of, perhaps vouchsafed to him through a special revelation.
