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Sentences ending with neglect

It is on view everywhere, it is garlanded with flowers, offerings are made to it, it suffers no neglect. [5]
At the same time it was desirable to rescue as much as possible from the flames; for it would have given his enemies a fatal hold upon him, if the famous old city of Memphis should perish by his neglect. [10]
Richards worked at these details a good while, and in the end he thought he remembered things concerning them which must have gotten mislaid in his memory through long neglect. [5]
The Fairfaxes kept their lordship alive, and so they have never lost it to this day, although they live in Maryland; their friend lost his by his own neglect. [5]
Some who attain the position of classics are subject to variations in popular and even in scholarly favor or neglect. [4]
He said frankly that they both felt she had unjustifiably turned her back upon possibilities which she ought not to neglect. [8]
If she had remained in England after the novelty was over, she might have been subject to slights and mortifying neglect. [4]
Lassiter's warmed in him something that had grown cold from neglect. [13]
She never allowed her Italian, French, and German to get rusty through neglect. [5]
No doubt you have heard a great deal about Robert Fulton and the influences that have grown from his invention, but the little steamboat is suffering neglect. [5]

Short sentences using neglect

I neglect my duty. [11]

More example sentences with the word neglect in them

Kandaules may take your place to-morrow, but give hum the strictest orders, and say that the slightest neglect will put his life in danger.--Now depart. [10]
I can tell you that circumstances have occurred which will determine Hadrian to punish any insolent person who may choose to neglect the respect due to me and to my daughters. [10]
To neglect it would be unjust to himself, and dishonest to his client. [7]
There isn't one woman out of ten thousand that would have stood the test as your wife has stood it; injured at the start, constant neglect, temptation--" he paused. [11]
Smith upbraided him with neglect of his promise to supply them with corn, and told him, in reply to his demand for weapons, that he had no arms to spare. [4]
I cannot and will not neglect my duty for the sake of the wretched woman. [10]
The devoted daughter, wife, mother, whose life has been given to unselfish labors, who has filled a place which it seems to others only an angel would make good, reproaches herself with incompetence and neglect of duty. [6]
Do you know what a shameful neglect is at the most pitiful time in your life? [11]
The last few weeks had claimed his entire time and strength so rigidly and urgently that he would have been compelled to refuse Barbara's demands upon his love or neglect serious duties. [10]
True, an inward voice constantly repeated that he could not part from her any more easily than she from him; but her maidenly pride rebelled against the neglect with which he grieved her. [10]
There was no visible neglect, no sufficient alienation for gossip to take hold of. [4]
I was put to very small pains to rout my instructor out of all his positions, because indolence, and lack of interest in the question, and contempt for the Americans, had made him neglect the study of it. [9]
I shall go to the wall for bread and meat if I neglect my business this year as well as last. [7]
I was able to read the English edition of the Greville Memoirs through without interruption, take my meals in bed, neglect all business without a pang, and smoke 18 cigars a day. [5]
You cannot afford to neglect it. [4]
Nor is this to induce you to violate or neglect any military order from the General-in-Chief or Secretary of War. [7]
Number Seven has to bear a good deal in the way of neglect and ridicule, I do not doubt. [6]
It is owing to a neglect of the doctrines, that there is such a fearful falling away in the country. [5]
He always regards the new plantations as somehow his own, and made in the light of his advice; and their mischances are usually due to the neglect of his counsel. [4]
Irving has shared the neglect of the writers of his generation. [4]
Make use of the king's pioneer as you will, but do not, because you are indebted to him for gifts, neglect to judge him according to his imaginings and deeds if you would deserve your title of the Initiated and the Enlightened. [10]
He meant that the enemy by neglect or through force of circumstances leaves an opening for you, and you see your chance and take advantage of it. [5]
The courtiers explained the Emperor's neglect of him by His Majesty's displeasure at Bolkonski's not having served since 1805. [2]
It is, on the contrary, a most zealous defence of Perkinism, and a fierce attack upon its opponents, most especially upon such of the medical profession as treated the subject with neglect or ridicule. [6]
It was unusual that none of her churchmen or friends had called upon her of late; but it was neglect for which she was glad. [13]
I feel persuaded that in the matter of psychologizing, a professional is too apt to yield to the fascinations of the loftier regions of that great art, to the neglect of its lowlier walks. [5]
It is true that I am a stranger to some of the monarchs--mainly through their neglect of their opportunities--but such is not the case in the present instance. [5]
Does she deserve that her husband should leave her to starve, neglect her, and take a strange woman into his tent as if he had repudiated her? [10]
The By-laws say that "if a solo singer shall neglect or refuse to sing alone" one of those three hymns as often as once a month, and oftener if so directed by the Board of Directors--which is Mrs. Eddy--the singer's salary shall be stopped. [5]
I have, therefore, taken great pains to advise other persons laboring under the impression that they were gifted beings, destined to soar in the atmosphere of song above the vulgar realities of earth, not to neglect any homely duty under the influence of that impression. [6]
According to this she had supposed Smith dead, and took umbrage at his neglect of her. [4]
Yet now she seemed not to know why she had not written, and to blame herself for neglect and forgetfulness. [11]
But he could see, all the same, that he had caught her fancy, and he admired the skill with which she punished his neglect when they met in New York. [8]
You have no right to neglect it. [9]
If the lady receiving the call desires a further acquaintance, she must return the visit within two weeks; to neglect it beyond that time means "let the matter drop. [5]
It is his own neglect of his great opportunity of which he now speaks, and not merely the indolent indifference of others. [6]
Whenever a man or a woman showed us cold neglect, we spoke up confidently in our own tongue and asked for such information as we happened to need, and we always got a reply in the same language. [5]
This was their only ritual of camaraderie, and neglect of it would have fretted the half-breed. [11]
After many years of perversion and neglect, to take up the study of literature in a comprehensive text-book, as if it were to be learned--like arithmetic, is a ludicrous proceeding. [4]
Meantime he did not neglect social life--that is, the easy, tolerant company which lived as he liked to live. [4]
If he does not he is too ignorant to be placed at the head of the committee which his resolution purposes and if he does, his neglect to mention it shows him to be too uncandid to merit the respect or confidence of any one. [7]
Surely it would not cost much to repair them, and it seems inexcusable neglect to leave them as they are. [5]
Why should she neglect the remedy which had so greatly mitigated her husband's distress? [10]
I did not neglect old friends, however, and when I did not go to the theatre in the evening I ended the day with my aunt at Blasewitz. [10]
Besides, the absolute neglect into which the Tractors soon declined is good evidence that they were incapable of affording any considerable and permanent relief in the complaints for the cure of which they were applied. [3]
By my long neglect I had forfeited the right to go. [9]
He began to neglect his great pork business; presently he wholly retired and turned an elegant leisure into a rabid search for curious things. [5]
You must not neglect him next time. [7]
There is the musty old inn, where the dirt has accumulated for years, and slow neglect has wrought a picturesque sort of dilapidation, the mouldiness of time, which has something to recommend it. [4]
How little Charles must care for her, since he now showed such deep neglect and found no return for all that she had sacrificed to him save cruel sternness! [10]
It is so much simpler to consign a soul to perdition, or say masses, for money, to save it, than to take the blame on ourselves for letting it grow up in neglect and run to ruin for want of humanizing influences! [6]
You make that mistake when you devote your best energies to your possession of material substance, and neglect the enlargement, the training, the enrichment of the mind. [4]
Their want of mental coloring-matter makes them sensitive to those impressions which stronger minds neglect or never feel at all. [6]
To Wilson, so long familiar with neglect and depreciation, this strange new incense of popularity and admiration was as a fragrance blown from the fields of paradise. [5]
This was Byng's last day at Brinkwort's Farm, to which he himself had come to-day lest Rudyard should take note of his neglect, and their fellow-officers should remark that the old friendship had grown cold, and perhaps begin to guess at the reason why. [11]
I do not know what would happen to her if she should neglect to strike it at the hour. [4]
The only danger is, that you may rather make an idol of the hoe, and somewhat neglect your garden in explaining it, and fooling about with it. [4]
Tom Driscoll dropped in, an hour after dark, and said with a pleasant laugh as he took a seat: "Hello, we've gone back to the amusements of our days of neglect and obscurity for consolation, have we? [5]
For all nations in all times have built monuments on their battle-fields to keep green the memory of the perishable deed that was wrought there and of the perishable name of him who wrought it; and will France neglect Patay and Joan of Arc? [5]
Blessed be ye if ye follow my counsels, but curses rest upon you, if ye neglect to reconquer the throne from the Magi and revenge yourselves upon them.--Behold, I die a true and honorable man! [10]
Some for the Honours of Old Age, and some Long for its Respite from the Hum And Clash of sordid Strife--O Fools, The Past should teach them what's to Come: Lo, for the Honours, cold Neglect instead! [5]
The Reverend Doctor Honeywood had been very busy with his benevolent associations, and had discoursed chiefly on practical matters, to the neglect of special doctrinal subjects. [6]
Neither was our hero a man to neglect, on account of strained relations, to insist upon his rights. [9]
It had mystified her to find that when they first met in New York, after their summer in St. Barnaby, she cared nothing for him; she had expected to punish him for his neglect, and then fancy him as before, but she did not. [8]
At any rate, he was too valuable an opponent to neglect, and after a certain interval of time Mr. Vane became chief counsel in the State for the Imperial Railroad, on which dizzy height we now behold him. [9]
To know that he missed Austen, to feel that Hilary was being justly punished for his treatment of her idol, for his callous neglect and lack of realization of the blessings of his life--these were Euphrasia's grim compensations. [9]
Loyal citizens everywhere have the right to claim this of their government, and the government has no right to withhold or neglect it. [7]
And unfortunately I have a case which I cannot neglect. [9]
Many a man has died because of the neglect of the ship's surgeons; many have been kicked about the head and beaten, and haven't dared to go on the sick list for fear of their officers. [11]
It was very hard for her to leave him and neglect the duties which she had undertaken, but in the presence of the summons addressed to her every other consideration must be silent. [10]
But then he had his choice whether to do his duty, or to neglect it, and save his phosphorus and other combustibles. [6]
They and the grounds are sacred now, and will suffer no neglect nor be profaned by any sordid or commercial use while the British remain masters of India. [5]
The agony of forced, total neglect, is not now felt, as during Emily's illness. [14]
If I were five years younger I should have said instantly that the memory would be one--" "Which would disturb you, make you restless, cause you to neglect your work, fill you with regret; and yet all too late--isn't that it? [11]
This was the first time since he had mounted to good fortune that she had not thrown him a favour to pick up with his spear and wear in her honour, and he could scarce believe that she had meant to neglect him. [11]
Everywhere toasted and feasted, Monsieur Genet did not neglect the Rights of Man, for without doubt the United States was to declare war on Britain within a fortnight. [9]
The one prevalent failing of the medical art is to neglect the causes and quarrel with the effect. [3]
But he did expect it, and without reason, for he should have known that Carmen was not only overwhelmed with the sudden shock of her calamity, but that she would necessarily be busy with affairs that even grief would not permit her to neglect. [4]
There is no dirt, no decay, no rubbish anywhere--nothing that even hints at untidiness --nothing that ever suggests neglect. [5]
Nowhere is there dirt or stench, puddle or hog-wallow, neglect, disorder, or lack of trimness and neatness. [5]
Don't neglect or delay in the matter. [7]
To her other defects (as most people thought them, but which to Pierre were qualities) of untidiness and neglect of herself, she now added stinginess. [2]
It was getting crazy and ruinous now, from long neglect. [5]
But this trivial comment must not lead the careful reader to neglect to note how much is made of what is really nothing at all. [6]
You have not come near me lately, but it wasn't because you felt any neglect, or wished to take back your words; but--because of something else. [11]
How strange that civilization should set such a high value on education and treat its functionaries with such neglect! [9]
Now, in the case of Madagascar, the formalities had originally been observed, but by neglect they had fallen into desuetude ages ago. [5]
No sort of carelessness or neglect is allowed under her rule, and yet she is not over-strict, nor too rigidly exacting: her servants and her poor neighbours love as well as respect her. [14]
If the worst came to the worst, there was his grand-daughter and his dear son-in-law whom he so seldom saw--blood was thicker than water, and he would see to it that it was not thinned by neglect. [11]
Mela had little but her good-nature to avail her in any exigency, and if Mrs. Horn or Miss Vance had come to call after a year of neglect, she would have received them as amiably as if they had not lost a day in coming. [8]
It was impossible--Biberli believed this as firmly as his nurse--that Heinz could coldly forget his follower or Katterle neglect what she had undertaken. [10]
If there had been any open neglect or jealousy, any quarrel or rupture, or any scene, these could be described. [4]
Though more scantily attired than she might have been she was dressed with perfect neatness, and betrayed no marks of poverty or neglect. [12]
I am sure at least a dozen were at the task, searching all about; nor did they neglect the loft where I lay. [11]
She was staying at Branford, either from neglect of the company or because the London smoke disagreed with her, and there Smith went to see her. [4]
She bears the Armour name, and is likely to make them all very unhappy, indeed, if she determines to retaliate upon them for any neglect. [11]
We cannot neglect anywhere any of the pleasures of our social life. [4]
Don't neglect it; and write me at your first leisure. [7]
In the middle and western part of the island the ruinous movements went on without being stayed; planters and people generally railed at the governor, and said that through his neglect these dark things were happening. [11]
He indulged less and less in the convivial meetings and excursions that hitherto had given him relaxation and enjoyment, and if his cronies inquired as to the reasons for his neglect of them he failed to answer with his usual geniality. [9]

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