What is "refuses"

Usage examples of "refuses".

The disobedience of Marseilles, which refuses to receive the magistrates sent under letters patent to take testimony, is tolerated.

Again, after the return from Varennes, when the Assembly finds out that the result of its labors is impracticable and wants to make it less democratic, the whole of the right side refuses to share in the debates, and, what is worse, votes with the revolutionaries to exclude the members of the Constituent from the Legislative Assembly.

But this one it must have, for on this its aptitudes are superior, natural, unique, and the State which refuses to employ it resembles the gardener who in his fondness for a plane surface would repress his best shoots.

One among them, the Chevalier de Beausset, major in Fort Saint-Jean, is opposed to this, and refuses his signature.

The National Guard is wearied, never comes forward, or refuses to use its arms.

She refuses and they insist, and she refuses again, when they inform her that " some misfortune will happen to her.

The municipality at first refuses, but finally consents on the condition that Latierce be given up in exchange for him.

The National Guard refuses to discharge them in open daylight and serve as their escort.

Consequently, the orthodox, both priests and believers, men and women, are now at its mercy, and, thanks to the connivance of the armed force, which refuses to interpose, the rabble satisfy on the proscribed class its customary instincts of cruelty, pillage, wantonness, and destructiveness.

Elsewhere, a mob refuses to allow the body of an old curé, who had died without taking the oath, to enter the cemetery.

And it so happens that he not only refuses this, but be is said to be inimical to the whole new order of things.

He refuses to stamp the passports, and, seeing two priests approach, one provided with a sword-cane and the other with an iron-pointed stick, thinks that there is to be a sudden attack.

The guard refuses to give any assistance, coming too late and merely "to witness the disorder, never to repress it.

The rest of the Council refuses to talk to anyone other than Hu Shih or Hrrestan.

It's a treacherous world that refuses to give up its secrets to outsiders, but seems to have a fondness for certain people who live there.