indulgency
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Max Schindelberger's smile took on the quality of indulgency as he advanced slowly toward B. Lesengeld.
From The Competitive Nephew by Glass, Montague
"I warn you, my lord, against this indulgency of evil feeling," said I. "I know not to which it is more perilous, the soul or the reason; but you go the way to murder both."
From Master of Ballantrae by Stevenson, Robert Louis
What right have I to judge others severely, do you suppose, when I must ask for indulgency myself?
From A House of Gentlefolk by Garnett, Constance
“I warn you, my lord, against this indulgency of evil feeling,” said I. “I know not to which it is more perilous, the soul or the reason; but you go the way to murder both.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Thrice happy he To whom the wise indulgency of Heaven, With sparing hand but just enough has given.
From Cowley's Essays by Cowley, Abraham
There’s little doubt that Mr. Hopper’s indulgencies took their toll, but if “The Last Movie” had made the money, you might be reading a different story.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2010
Poor Miss Milner, on this, ate something; for where we hope for nothing, we receive small indulgencies with joy.
From A Simple Story by Strachey, G. L.
They must give the pregnant women more indulgencies.
From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Volume I by Clarkson, Thomas
It would have been useless to have opposed these impulses by barriers, which would only have driven those actuated by them to more pernicious indulgencies.
From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Meantime, the poetical studies, or rather indulgencies of home, had ceased.
From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny
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