Band of Hope

British  

noun

1. a society promoting lifelong abstention from alcohol among young people: founded in Britain in 1847

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Example Sentences

"I wonder if you wouldn't all like to come along to my house, and play with my magic lantern, and—and—organize a Band of Hope?"

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd

To give an idea of the extensive character of the operations, I may mention that one company, the Band of Hope, has erected machinery of the value of 70,000l.

From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Smiles, Samuel

Now I'd be there Wednesdays to meet the mothers, and Mrs. Underwood Saturdays for the Band of Hope and the kitchen-garden.

From A Philanthropist by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

She stood outside on the trodden grass behind the Band of Hope, and really cried.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

There is something very depressing about last nights—we would really have been much better at the Band of Hope, and I would have been doing my duty, and thus have acquired merit.

From The Setons by Douglas, O.