English vocabulary examples in context: abolish
Vocabulary in context: abolish -- Example 1.
The North abolished slavery long ago, and the South has been obliged to follow the example of the North!
Vocabulary in context: abolish -- Example 2.
In 1807, England abolished the slave-trade in her colonies, and France followed her example in 1814.
Vocabulary in context: abolish -- Example 3.
Besides, during these discussions, which he listened to attentively, it is difficult to say whether he was more touched by Miss Halliburtt’s arguments or the charming manner in which she spoke; but at last he was obliged to acknowledge, among other things, that slavery was the principal feature in the war, that it must be put an end to decisively, and the last horrors of barbarous times abolished.
Vocabulary in context: abolish -- Example 4.
During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence committed against the King.
Vocabulary in context: abolish -- Example 5.
No sooner were the spirit monopolies abolished than the railways came up, and banking companies; that, too, is profit without work.
Vocabulary in context: abolish -- Example 6.
It was one of those 'millinery establishments' which were abolished by the police a good time ago.
Vocabulary in context: abolish -- Example 7.
Either the post was abolished after he had been appointed to it, or a new chief took charge of the department; once he was almost arrested by mistake with other people.
Vocabulary in context: abolish -- Example 8.
This lady, I believe, would have abolished all gaols, punishments, handcuffs, whippings, poverty, sickness, hunger, in the world, and was such a mean-spirited creature that--we are obliged to confess it--she could even forget a mortal injury.
Vocabulary in context: abolish -- Example 9.
By the process of memory, Swann joined the fragments together, abolished the intervals between them, cast, as in molten gold, the image of an Odette compact of kindness and tranquillity, for whom he was to make, later on (as we shall see in the second part of this story) sacrifices which the other Odette would never have won from hi
Vocabulary in context: abolish -- Example 10.
It was at Madagascar--where, however, slavery was soon to be abolished--that Tom and his companions had been sold.
Vocabulary in context: abolish -- Example 11.
The situation filled by Barkilphedro has been abolished more than a century, but it had its real utility.
Vocabulary in context: abolish -- Example 12.
To outrage Right, to suppress the Assembly, to abolish the Constitution, to strangle the Republic, to overthrow the Nation, to sully the Flag, to dishonor the Army, to suborn the Clergy and the Magistracy, to succeed, to triumph, to govern, to administer, to exile, to banish, to transport, to ruin, to assassinate, to reign, with such complicities that the law at last resembles a foul bed of corruption.
