Example Sentences

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I shall bear it in solitude and self-banishment.

From The Sign of Flame by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

The fireworks—were those overgrown wheels and gaunt windmills and gas-house the secret of the prince's self-banishment to this dreary coast?

From Visionaries by Huneker, James

"I will come when you send for me and not before," her husband said to her, "and I trust you understand the motives which underlie my self-banishment."

From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)

There was, first, the remote suggestion of self-banishment in some distant land, where the rebuking presence of his injured family could never haunt him.

From The Good Time Coming by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

None asked her a reason for her self-banishment, none inquired whether the cause of her exile was crime or misfortune.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James