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But we have no occasion to avow such opinions now. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
When his wife charged him with the crime, he was about to avow it. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Now was their time to speak, to avow their mission to Monte-Cristo. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
They never hesitate to avow their own convictions and predilections. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
October 26, "to avow their principles and consult as to future action.". From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
It seemed to her that it would put a stigma upon her love to avow it in such a place. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Bot zit we poenas non suae ... sed nostrae avow that He remained the only iniquitati. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics] Reference
Sarkozy: Mr. Ramadan, if it is regressive not to want to stone women, I avow that I am a regressive. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Conniff: Con Games: Moderate Muslim Double-Talk] Reference
After awhile I can give you the names of a score at least of others who avow their preference for me. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Had she, Marjorie, been wise to avow unswerving loyalty to a stranger, and all because she looked like Mary. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
This function we have wished to fufil; and we avow ourselves considerably perplexed, though not in despair. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
You have told me that you love me, Monsieur; and I avow frankly that I entertain a lively affection for you. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I got you out of the way also, and I frankly avow that I never expected to have the pleasure of seeing you again. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Indeed, many of her presses and statesmen openly avow their belief and desire that the Union should be overthrown. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"Diabolical subtilty! which few avow clearly, but which many brood over, and cherish in their most secret thoughts.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Then, though we might differ, we would not be afraid to avow, our convictions, and we would not be accounted heretics. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
Once when she arrived in time to confess, he asked her to avow nothing the next time, as he liked to be scolded for her. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
Some of them continued to avow their anti-slavery principles, but no one had the temerity to mention them in convention. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
But last week, after the release of new evidence of his dealings with the Japanese, she desperately tried to dis-avow his legacy. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
But popular clamor carried all before it, and it would have been unsafe for any one to openly avow himself in favor of the excise. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
All women, whether they avow it or not, love to find their master and bend to him; and Dominic was of the very essence of virility. From Wordnik.com. [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference
I confess it is a weakness, but I avow it, I do entertain a considerable affection for the countenance and limbs I behold, whenever. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
'They say a woman never rests content under a mystery,' he said; 'and you have proved my good angel, so I can only avow my gratitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
Maximus, who was a bigoted pagan, greatly disliked the edict, but being afraid of Constantine, did not openly avow his disapprobation. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
The king was interested in these bold yeomen, who dared to avow themselves law-breakers, and bade men bring them to audience with him. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
Parizo: Paris. vilagxo: village. regno: State. obe -: obey. imperio: empire. konfes -: confess, avow, polico: police. acknowledge, profess. From Wordnik.com. [The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians] Reference
The gentleman from Ohio propounds the question more directly whether I am willing to withdraw the resolution for the purpose which I avow?. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
"I avow my conviction, now and here," says he, "that, logically and historically, his argument is impregnable -- entirely impregnable.". From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
"I will lack neither boldness to speak as freely as I can of my good qualities," he writes, "nor sincerity to avow frankly that I have faults.". From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Mark hesitated, but feeling that he must seize the opportunity, he at once asked Mrs Franklin's permission to avow his attachment to her daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Nearly Lost but Dearly Won] Reference
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