Example Sentences

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They will predicate peace, that the people may be tractable to them; but a religion altogether pacific is the fomenter of wars and the nurse of crimes, alluring Sloth from within and Violence from afar.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

I should deem it a disgrace to be cast away in some society I could name, although I will predicate, as we say in America, nothing on their absence.

From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by Cooper, James Fenimore