English vocabulary examples in context: abdicate
Vocabulary in context: abdicate -- Example 1.
Happy is he who, when the hour strikes, takes a heroic resolve, and abdicates like Sylla or Origenes.
Vocabulary in context: abdicate -- Example 2.
To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of monasticis
Vocabulary in context: abdicate -- Example 3.
But the bourgeois of the epoch of la Minerve estimated so highly that poor de, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it.
Vocabulary in context: abdicate -- Example 4.
A people which accepts a charter abdicates.
Vocabulary in context: abdicate -- Example 5.
Summer does not abdicate.
Vocabulary in context: abdicate -- Example 6.
One can consent to it for the first hour; one seats oneself on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of red hot iron, but the mantle of flame still remains to be donned, and comes there not a moment when the miserable flesh revolts and when one abdicates from suffering?
Vocabulary in context: abdicate -- Example 7.
It seemed to her that such a one abdicated all claim to enjoy the fruits of those friendly relations with people of good position which prudent parents cultivate and store up for their children's benefit, for my great-aunt had actually ceased to 'see' the son of a lawyer we had known because he had married a 'Highness' and had thereby stepped down--in her eyes--from the respectable position of a lawyer's son to that of those adventurers, upstart footmen or stable-boys mostly, to whom we read that queens have sometimes shewn their favours.
Vocabulary in context: abdicate -- Example 8.
The Manichaeans believed the absolute occasionally gives way, and that God Himself sometimes abdicates for a time.
Vocabulary in context: abdicate -- Example 9.
Paris resigned herself, Paris abdicated, Paris surrendered; the novelty of the treason proved its chief strength; Paris almost ceased to be Paris; on the next day the chattering of this terrified Titan's teeth could be heard in the shadows.
Vocabulary in context: abdicate -- Example 10.
The Allies defeated Napoleon, entered Paris, forced Napoleon to abdicate, and sent him to the island of Elba, not depriving him of the title of Emperor and showing him every respect, though five years before and one year later they all regarded him as an outlaw and a brigand.
