English vocabulary examples in context: abdication
Vocabulary in context: abdication -- Example 1.
If we are to credit the monk Austin Castillejo, this was the means employed by Charles the Fifth, desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication.
Vocabulary in context: abdication -- Example 2.
This abdication sets him free.
Vocabulary in context: abdication -- Example 3.
Their eclipse is never an abdication.
Vocabulary in context: abdication -- Example 4.
We are few in number, we have a whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural law, the sovereignty of each one over himself from which no abdication is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the three hundred Spartans.
Vocabulary in context: abdication -- Example 5.
Marius was the master of the house, there was abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson.
Vocabulary in context: abdication -- Example 6.
I don't think poor Amelia cared anything about Brienne and Montmirail, or was fairly interested in the war until the abdication of the Emperor; when she clapped her hands and said prayers--oh, how grateful!
Vocabulary in context: abdication -- Example 7.
Shall a man drag himself thus along with such adherence to dust and corruption, with such vicious tastes, such an abdication of right, or such abjectness that one feels inclined to crush him under foot?
Vocabulary in context: abdication -- Example 8.
One all-powerful, revolting against beauty and splendour, gave herself to the damned of night; preferred Gwynplaine to Antinoues; excited by curiosity, she entered the shadows, and descending within them, and from this abdication of goddess-ship was rising, crowned and prodigious, the royalty of the wretched.'You are hideous.
Vocabulary in context: abdication -- Example 9.
There is at the Elysee a room which has seen the second abdication, the abdication after Waterloo.
