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Usage examples of usage.

It is a cheering thought throughout life that something can be done to ameliorate the condition of those who have been subject to the hard usages of the world.

It is a cheering thought throughout life, that something can be done to ameliorate the condition of those who have been subject to the hard usages of the World.

We cannot describe as dogmas, doctrines such as the Apokatastasis, or the Kenosis of the Son of God, without coming into conflict with the ordinary usage of language and with ecclesiastical law.

Though the knight was escorted by Captain Bludder and his Alsatian bullies, several of the crowd did not seem disposed to confine themselves to jeers and derisive shouts, but menaced him with some rough usage.

And now, as, according to a singular usage of the court, no male subject was ever allowed to sit at table with a queen or dauphiness of France, the dinner party over which the youthful pair, sitting side by side, presided, consisted wholly of these dames whose profession is not generally considered as imparting any great refinement to the manners, and who, before the close of the entertainment, showed, in more cases than one, that they had imported some of the notions and fashions of their more ordinary places of resort into the royal palace.

My usage generally follows that of the dedicatees who compiled the first English-Swahili dictionary in the field shortly after the time in which the action of the novel takes place.

Along with them came a murmuring academic program and text discussing how these locations demonstrated dichotomous usage.

These usages are so much a matter of capricious priestly ritual, ancestral tradition, unreasoning instinct, blind or morbid superstition, that any consistent doctrinal construction is not fairly to be put upon them.

You are far too hard on the very harmless drolleries of the young men, licensed as they are moreover by immemorial usage.

But as the more successful of the toiling farmers and traders of republican America rose one by one to affluence, leisure, and freedom, it was far more easy for them to adopt the polished and prepared social patterns and usages of Europe than to work out a new civilization in accordance with their equalitarian professions.

I am going to force the ancient usage of knight errantry beyond its limits and boundaries, then you are sadly mistaken.

After a moment I realized he meant fraternize, which was the euphemism in general military usage for what another American officer was doing to my wife.

One has only to study the layout and drainage of their houses and towns, their accommodation for washing, their exiguous wardrobes, the absence of proper laundry organization and of destructors for outworn objects, to realize that only usage saved them from a perpetual disgust and nausea.

The Pope, however, had much less difficulty in carrying out his reform than I should have with my subjects, who are too fond of their ancient usages and customs.

I found hardest to be borne was their running their rigs on me about my language and ways, which they were all the time laughing at as Yankee conversation and usages, while they pretended that the body out of which all on it come was an English body, and so they set it up to be shot at, by any of their inimies that might happen to be jogging along our road.