Sentence example with the word 'susceptibilities'

susceptibilities

Last update: June 9, 2015


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The objection to admitting immigrants was not only to the Chinese, but extended to all Asiatics; but as a large proportion of the persons whose entrance into the colonies it was desired to stop were British subjects, and the Imperial government refused to sanction any measure directly prohibiting in plain terms the movement of British subjects from one part of the empire to another, resort was made to indirect legislation; this was the more advisable, as the rise of the Japanese power in the East and the alliance of that country with Great Britain rendered it necessary to pay attention to the susceptibilities of a powerful nation whose subjects might be affected by restrictive laws.   [Please select]

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Max, a man of refined susceptibilities, came to his aid, diplomatically.   [Please select]

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This effect of music I had often experienced; but, like all my pleasurable susceptibilities, it was suspended during the gloomy period.   [Please select]

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"My dear child, don't add to it still more--at least to your conception of it--by attributing to her all sorts of susceptibilities of your own."   [Please select]

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Never before had the sensation presented itself, but, once set up, it ran through all his susceptibilities.   [Please select]

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Her susceptibilities were tensely alert as she watched Loder search for his key and insert it in the lock.   [Please select]

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And at last, to her acutely nervous susceptibilities, it seemed that he paused in absolute silence.   [Please select]

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