Sentence example with the word 'relaxations'

relaxations

Last update: September 18, 2015


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Indultusn, from indulgere, grant, concede, allow), a, papal licence which authorizes the doing of something not sanctioned by the common law of the church; thus by an indult the pope authorizes a bishop to grant certain relaxations during the Lenten fast according to the necessities of the situation, climate, &c., of his diocese.   [Please select]

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His intimacy with her neighbours, and her neighbourhood, was one of his relaxations.   [Please select]

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We rode out one day, for one of the relaxations of that watering-place, to the great Monson Poorhouse.   [Please select]

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Grotius was freely allowed during his close imprisonment all the relaxations of study.   [Please select]

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But Miss Winwood was making holiday and allowed herself certain relaxations.   [Please select]

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After dinner, Dominey's guests passed naturally enough to the relaxations which each preferred.   [Please select]

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Consequently--for all men must have their relaxations--whenever we meet the weak, the beneath us, the momentarily helpless, we are brutal.   [Please select]

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I cannot say that a trying day's work at the Admiralty in the middle of a war is the best or even a good preparation for appreciating the lighter relaxations of London.   [Please select]

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