Example Sentences

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"Labour is prayer," remarked his father, as if he were enunciating something strikingly original.

From At Love's Cost by Garvice, Charles

For while these grand moguls of their sciences were enunciating their dogmas, pioneers here and there were already setting the mines that were to explode them.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

"Does a man go into bankruptcy for less?" replied Cerizet, as though he were enunciating a maxim.

From The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Balzac, Honoré de

"You remind me, madam," said he, in a slow, deliberate voice, as though he were enunciating some long-resolved sentiment,—"you remind me much of Josephine."

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James

As late as when the Puritans were enunciating their lofty principles, it was generally held that the king's touch would cure scrofula.

From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by Cutten, George Barton