indulgency
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indulgencies
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Origin of 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 Montague Glass
“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 Robert Louis Stevenson
Thrice happy he To whom the wise indulgency of Heaven, With sparing hand but just enough has given.
From Cowley's Essays by Abraham Cowley
What right have I to judge others severely, do you suppose, when I must ask for indulgency myself?
From A House of Gentlefolk by Constance Garnett
"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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
His sins and weak indulgencies were destined to work family and national disaster.
From The Bible Period by Period A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods by Josiah Blake Tidwell
Having been early left an orphan by both parents, he received an hardy and robust education, not tempered by the elegancies of literature, nor much allayed by the indulgencies of natural affection.
From Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin
Secondly, if it is agreed not to observe the rules exactly, but one party demands indulgencies, he should then be as willing to allow them to the other.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
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