What is "practises"

Usage examples of "practises".

Partly, too, Stephen’s failure to make his hold on her heart a permanent one was his too timid habit of dispraising himself beside her—a peculiarity which, exercised towards sensible men, stirs a kindly chord of attachment that a marked assertiveness would leave untouched, but inevitably leads the most sensible woman in the world to undervalue him who practises it.

No: for that chastity is of no use either to the society that witnesses, or the individual who practises it.

He practises it regularly - not only during the sex act - until it becomes as basic as aiki taiso in aikido,' Nangi said.

When each one in this way practises that faith and righteousness, life will go on to double its length till it reaches 80,000 years.

You have seen the practises by which the public servants have been able to cover their conduct, or, where that could not be done, delusions by which they have varnished it for the eye of their constituents.

For though the French commander bore a high character for courage and enterprise, he was also thought to be expert in those political practises which do not always respect the nicer obligations of morality, and which so generally disgraced the European diplomacy of that period.

But even as near home as Surrey I could introduce you to a friend of mine, a doctor who practises among the country people, who will vouch for it that the older cottagers are still unshakable in their belief that certain people are were-hares, and have power to change their shape at particular phases of the moon.

And compared to goodness, real goodness, or the unmovable self-abnegation my daughter Norah practises, charm is nothing but crumpled tissue paper, soiled from previous use.

When he practises on his very expensive trombone, he punches great jagged holes in the air.

When she practises warming-up exercises first thing in the morning, her fluffy hair glows like gold when it catches the light, making it look like a halo.