Example Sentences

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In yielding you to the world I am renouncing you; but I love you too well not to sacrifice my happiness to your welfare.

From The Lily of the Valley by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

If I renounce the preachers, I am renouncing some of the greatest artists, and indirectly sanctioning even such art as is worthy only of Holywell Street, and panders to the worst passions.

From Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II by Stephen, Leslie

That beauty for whose sake I am renouncing husband, children, and happiness....

From A Voyage to Arcturus by Lindsay, David