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Sentences starting with abandon

Abandon knowledge, all ye who enter there! [11]

Sentences ending with abandon

Yes, they have come to me and offered to take your places, to finish the campaign which you have so well begun and wish to abandon. [9]

Short sentences using abandon

Should she abandon him? [10]

More example sentences with the word abandon in them

All the railroads would have to abandon their terminals--there'd be no more traffic, and you'd have to walk across the bridge to get a drink. [9]
It must have worn a different aspect to Ruth, for she entered into its pleasures at first with curiosity, and then with interest and finally with a kind of staid abandon that no one would have deemed possible for her. [5]
Philometer, now alone with his wife, said with mild reproach: "How could you abandon yourself to such unmeasured anger? [10]
Mademoiselle Cerise sang, with chic and abandon very fascinating to his own sensuous nature, a song with a charming air and sentiment. [11]
He wanted his wife to abandon his wretched carcass long ago, as she herself was sound and well, but Luka said that she was content to remain and wait on the man she loved till the spirit should be freed from its burden. [5]
Though the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. [2]
We have abandoned Vilna and Vitebsk and shall abandon Drissa. [2]
He was just urging his hearers, in a loud voice, to abandon the base avarice which gathers pence. [10]
He was called upon to abandon his tradition, to mingle in a European conflict, to fight for an idea alone. [9]
There are ways to persuade him to abandon it. [5]
She would appeal to him, and he would abandon the matter. [9]
She felt this to be their last hope and that if Nicholas refused the match she had found for him, she would have to abandon the hope of ever getting matters right. [2]
Was it right to abandon the young wife, who had held out a saving hand in her distress? [10]
Circumstances force him to abandon his project, but he is not for one moment discouraged. [9]
The impression of these photographs is that these people abandon themselves soberly to the pleasures of the sea and of this packed, gregarious life, and get solid enjoyment out of their recreation. [4]
To now abandon them would be not only to relinquish a lever of power, but would also be a cruel and an astounding breach of faith. [7]
Sir Heinz Schorlin, the wild butterfly, desired to sip the honey from this sweet, untouched flower, and then probably abandon her like so many before her. [10]
With abandon of the mind came a recklessness of body, which gave her, all at once, a voluptuousness more in keeping with the typical maid of Andalusia. [11]
Thereupon, Dicky told the Khedive the whole story, and not in years had Ismail's face shown such abandon of humour. [11]
At such times the fear grew upon Hodder that he might be recommended for trial, forced to abandon his fight to free the Church from the fetters that bound her: that the implacable hostility of his enemies would rob him of his opportunity. [9]
But everybody sees that the time is near when England must say definitely as to the imperial policy generally whether it will pursue it or abandon it. [4]
My poor--The rest that I must cast aside and abandon is more than I can enumerate now. [10]
Give him up that he may not abandon thee! [10]
Perhaps you can tell me why, if a man admits that it is wrong for a state to abandon this Union, he cannot call upon Congress for men and money to bring her back. [9]
But when they stealthily stole up to the seat of that crafty chief, they found that those "damned Dutchmen" had caused Powhatan to abandon his new house at Werowocomoco, and to carry away all his corn and provisions. [4]
If a friend refuses to share in joys it is hardly less wounding than if he were to abandon us in trouble. [10]
But am I really to abandon forever the joy of Prince Andrew's love, in which I have lived so long? [2]
However, her piteous prayer that Philippus would not abandon her to her fate had prevailed to induce him to continue to see her, in the hope of possibly restricting her use of the drug. [10]
The hardest, and perhaps the wisest, resolution of his life was to abandon the provinces which it would have exhausted the power of the Empire to retain. [10]
At the first opportunity, she charged Selby with his intention to abandon her. [5]
Yet it is only necessary to abandon the false view (adopted to gratify the "heroes") of the efficacy of the directions issued in wartime by commanders, in order to find this unknown quantity. [2]
If he could only know what pain it caused her to see him suffer, he would surely command Zminis to abandon the pursuit of her brother. [10]
Since the twenty-ninth of August I have received no communication from you, yet on the first of September I received from the commander in chief of Moscow, via Yaroslavl, the sad news that you, with the army, have decided to abandon Moscow. [2]
Mark Twain was never one to abandon any undertaking easily. [5]
The Spaniard never more greedily desired gold than he victual, nor his soldiers more to abandon the country than he to keep it. [4]
Now swear to me, swear--no, do not interrupt me--swear by the head of your father that you will never, abandon her, that you will never behave to her otherwise than as if she were the daughter of your dearest friend or of your own brother. [10]
It seemed to me that I had nothing to do but to abandon at once a cherished dream, and probably to renounce authorship. [6]
The following characteristic letter was written in self-defense when, on one such occasion, a committee had become sufficiently peevish to abandon a worthy enterprise. [5]
She had fat legs that creased above the tops of the absurd little boots that looked to be too tight; sometimes she rolled and tumbled in an ecstasy of abandon, and again she would sit motionless, as though absorbed in dreams. [9]
She would, he knew, with the abandon of an absorbing passion, throw all things away for him. [11]
On the 12th it was determined to abandon the city and take possession of Harlem Heights. [4]
Just as it is impossible to say when it was decided to abandon Moscow, so it is impossible to say precisely when, or by whom, it was decided to move to Tarutino. [2]
Every feeling, every instinct, urged her to abandon herself entirely to her lover, and yet she never for one instant doubted which side she would take in the approaching conflict of the great powers that ruled the world. [10]
Well she knew, if the event in the tannery shed had not made him abandon his affairs, no appeal could do so. [9]
It was the hot torrent of Polykarp's words that had first thrown the spark into his soul, which jealousy and the dread of having to abandon Sirona to another, had soon fanned into a consuming flame. [10]
The artist threw himself into the melee with abandon, and pacified his conscience by an occasional letter to Miss Lamont, in which he confessed just as many of his conquests and defeats as he thought it would be good for her to know. [4]
There was in her voice an abandon and tragic intensity, a wonderful resonance and power, which captured her hearers as they had never been captured before. [11]
Janet wondered at her striking good looks, at the boldness and abandon with which she talked to Jastro or exchanged sallies across the room. [9]
So long as her art remained faithful, he could not abandon her. [10]
I felt that he was losing interest in our tiny world and might at any time abandon his visits entirely. [5]
In that glimpse he had into the heart of life's terrible mystery he momentarily understood many things: he knew that behind the abandon of the woman's song was the same terror which reigned in the room in which he stood . [9]
If she had had that touch of abandon shown when she sang "The Waking of the Fire," Gaston might, even at this moment, have broken his promise to his uncle; but, somehow, he knew himself slipping away from her. [11]
The older we grow the more ready we are to abandon to the young the things we ourselves used most to enjoy. [10]
You abandon Vienna, give up its defense--as much as to say: 'Heaven is with us, but heaven help you and your capital! [2]
This occupation was found so absorbing that it was with difficulty the Ten were induced to abandon it and dress for an early dinner, and only did so after the second peremptory message from Mrs. Cooke. [9]
We have paid for the right to look at the matter plainly and simply, and we will not abandon that right. [2]
She would flee first, and abandon all rather than submit to it. [9]
If so, he finally decided to abandon the intention. [11]
I didn't come down here to plead with you to abandon what you believe to be your duty, because I know that would be useless. [9]
It is beyond doubt that at an early period he was called upon to abandon his attendance at school and assist his father, and was soon after, at the age of sixteen, bound apprentice to a trade. [5]
Fish says, "The determination of this government not to abandon its claims nor those of its citizens was stated parenthetically, and in such a subordinate way as not necessarily to attract the attention of Lord Clarendon. [6]
Perhaps she had decided to abandon the thing! [11]
He had a courteous smile, an apparent abandon of manner, but there was devilry behind all, for here, for the first time, he saw this woman, fought for and lost, in his presence with her husband, begging that husband's life of him. [11]
Bennigsen opened the council with the question: "Are we to abandon Russia's ancient and sacred capital without a struggle, or are we to defend it? [2]
He never could cease to feel that everything good or lofty in himself was Paula's alone; that her love ennobled and strengthened him; that to desert her was to abandon himself. [10]
Would he (she caught her breath at this thought) would he abandon that struggle with Isaac D. Worthington in which he was striving to maintain the mastery of the state by those very practices? [9]
Many were the books I began in this ecstasy of self-vindication, only to abandon them when my confinement came to an end. [9]
And now the bishop forbade him the work, and the poor fellow might well be feeling just as he himself had felt thirty years ago, when he had been commanded to abandon the immature first-fruits of his labor. [10]
The old count began irresolutely to admonish Nicholas and beg him to abandon his purpose. [2]
I--I who have been taught to think, cannot abandon my judgment; it builds up a barrier between me and the happiness that beckons me. [10]
When Count Rostopchin at the Yauza bridge galloped up to Kutuzov with personal reproaches for having caused the destruction of Moscow, and said: "How was it you promised not to abandon Moscow without a battle? [2]
He was delighted at the unexpected rapidity of his pupil's progress, but could not abandon the edifice of argument he had laboriously constructed. [2]
The excursion had assembled on the lee guards out of the wind, and was enjoying itself in an abandon of serious musical enthusiasm. [4]
With an abandon, as startling as it was real and true to her nature, she sank down to the floor and buried her face in her hands at his feet. [11]
And such spirit and life as he threw into the performance, rollicking through the Vespers with a perfect abandon of carriage, as if he could sing himself out of his skin if he liked. [4]
The Russians retreat and abandon their ancient capital. [2]
He sent for all the chief members of the family and said he would suffer her to burn herself if they would enter into a written engagement to abandon the suttee in their family thenceforth. [5]
To that was added suddenly a certain tinge of recklessness and abandon in carriage and manner, as one flings the body loose from the restraints of clothes, and it expands in a free, careless, defiant joy. [11]
One hand lay across his chest and one was thrown back over his head with the abandon of perfect rest. [11]
Publius was not accustomed to abandon himself to dreaming when action was needed, and this reminded him of the purpose for which he had come out into the open air. [10]
Now her careless abandon was gone; she seemed to be following her emotions. [11]
He must either abandon the position he then took, or he must now vote against his own resolution. [7]
Perhaps he would abandon that struggle. [9]
He had seen a new life, even in its abandon, polite, fresh. [11]

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