Sentence example with the word 'abstains'

abstains

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His arguments, as summed up by Swete (op. cit., p. cxiv seq.), are as follows: "John the Evangelist abstains from mentioning his own name, but John the Apocalyptist names himself more than once at the very outset of his book, and again near its end.   [Please select]

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And he who abstains will be regarded by the world as a fool for his pains.   [Please select]

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Yet he abstains from saying that he believed in the gods whom the State approved.   [Please select]

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It is generally believed in Ceylon that, in the case of larger animals, the crocodile abstains from devouring them till the commencement of decomposition facilitates the operation of swallowing.   [Please select]

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[Footnote 1: HERODOTUS records the observations of the Egyptians that the crocodile of the Nile abstains from food during the four winter months.   [Please select]

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