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1. And so if Israel is not holy, not teaching the difference between the sacred and profane, if they are indulgent in all the things of the world, and if they have promoted all the same mentalities and attitudes the rest of the nations promote and hold to, then all the nations will be vile
2. Mothers were indulgent and loitered in groups nearby, chatting and laughing and flirting with the men working nearby
3. The law was at that time so indulgent to the inhabitants of towns, and so desirous of diminishing the authority of the lords over those of the country, that if he could conceal himself there from the pursuit of his lord for a year, he was free for ever
4. 32), is so very indulgent as to declare, that this shall not hinder any person from carrying his wool home from the place of shearing, though it be within five miles of the sea, provided that in ten days after shearing, and before he remove the wool, he do under his hand certify to the next officer of the customs the true number of fleeces, and where it is housed; and do not remove the same, without certifying to such officer, under his hand, his intention so to do, three days before
5. assessment happened to produce, and required no compensation for the loss which the state might sustain, either by those who could not pay, or by those who would not pay (for there were many such), and who, by the indulgent execution of the law, were not forced to pay
6. France, however, is certainly the great empire in Europe, which, after that of Great Britain, enjoys the mildest and most indulgent government
7. indulgent father have foreseen the sad and bitter fates of both his
8. ” And the kid on the ski lift is pretty much the sort of passive, limp, indulgent automaton his classroom teachers seek to produce as future citizens, using such material as cited above
9. philosophy is ‘liberal’-Left-wing) on the Fox News Channel’s Hannity and Colmes, on June 18, 2003, I found his indulgent, patronizing remarks about the “conservative nature”
10. In this way, the indulgent listeners were always left with the feeling of having been listening to a great soprano
11. Beatrice, my adorable sister Beatrice, always with the biting and suspicious comments on her lips, often we got entangled in words, but our fights did not have tangible consequences that could muddy our relationship, but were remaining wrapped under the indulgent cloak of the anecdote
12. Knowing that you can “save up” any indulgent foods for cheat day becomes a built-in reward for following your plan the previous five days
13. He declared that the heavenly Father is not a lax, loose, or foolishly indulgent parent who is ever ready to condone sin and forgive recklessness
14. After the indulgent three course meal, a couple of hours flew by during pleasant chit chat
15. Her eyes glimmered in the night, fixing me with indulgent amusement, but I
16. Just by bringing you here and telling you about this I am risking my career, so please be indulgent and bear with me
17. But what eye-openers the end chapters of the Gita were to me; what a vile creature I was, I came to realize from these verses - Make all vile, rude guys all / Vainglorious ’n haughty too / Besides being indignant / No less are they indulgent; Gives as virtue man freedom / Keeps him vileness in bondage; Pride ’n lust, long wish list / Vile in conceit live impure; Seeing life as one to gloat / Vile by impulse go to lengths; Seek vile creatures ever shortcuts / On way to wants, they ill-get wealth; Think all vile, in like terms- / This is mine so let me keep / Why not have I more of it, Foe this mine I’ve truly floored / Won’t I tackle the rest of them / Sure I’m Lord of mine own world; Note all vile, gloat as such – / Besides wealthy, I’m well-born / Won’t I give and enjoy too, To their hurt in illusion vile / End up slaves of joys of flesh
18. Going by the aforesaid, the Quran seems to be indulgent towards Muhammad, having all the while condemning the Christians for ascribing partners to Allah, as can be seen from the following!
19. She favored him with an indulgent smile
20. There is an unbridgeable moat of disposable possessions growing between the indulgent and indigent classes
21. This acceptance transcends the moral perceptual judgement of good people and bad behavior, and its ethical condition of the deserving winner being rewarded with the benefits of the indulgent, while the equally deserving loser is punished with the imprisonment of poverty
22. “This is the pornography of the wealthy: making us slaves to the golden trickle down, believing their indulgent excesses sate our appetite for gold-leafed shit
23. ” Ralf's voice suddenly was imbued with the pride of an indulgent owner
24. sofa watched the boy, an indulgent smile on the small
25. indulgent exercise in griping about the past (an issue I’ll deal with
26. Not that I think she and I would ever be intimate in the way I am sure Dolly and I would be after ten minutes together alone, but we might develop a mutually indulgent affection
27. I know this so well that I generally succeed in keeping quiet; but sometimes even now, after years of study in the art of holding my tongue, some stray fragment of what I feel does occasionally come out, and then I am at once pulled up and brought to my senses by the well-known cold stare of utter incomprehension, or the look of indulgent superiority that awaits any exposure of a feeling not in the least understood
28. She always flickered mentally, her thoughts just giving each subject a little lick and then blowing off it to something else, but in the afternoons and evenings the flickering was often beautiful, or at those warmer more indulgent hours it seemed so, and in the morning it was not
29. It was of course self indulgent
30. for the benefit of the dilatory but indulgent relatives
31. What the undead did was: because Luther blocked the sale of religious indulgences, they orchestrated a deluge, a flood of the secular sale of indulgences and physical poisons instead of spiritual poisons: which were ten thousand times more indulgent than the indulgence of granting a forgiveness of sins
32. Hell, with indulgent acts that
33. I see him as a kind, loving, indulgent Father
34. Little Teddy bore a charmed life, for nothing ever happened to him, and Jo never felt any anxiety when he was whisked up into a tree by one lad, galloped off on the back of another, or supplied with sour russets by his indulgent papa, who labored under the Germanic delusion that babies could digest anything, from pickled cabbage to buttons, nails, and their own small shoes
35. He would have been ashamed of being as indulgent to himself, as he was
36. The counsel for the plaintiff opened the cause, by observing, "that his client had ever been an indulgent husband, and had borne with several defects of
37. "Why do you not ask Marianne at once," said she, "whether she is or she is not engaged to Willoughby? From you, her mother, and so kind, so indulgent a mother, the question could not give offence
38. Yet he was usually indulgent to them
39. She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays
40. He was rather too indulgent in humouring her caprices; not from affection, but from pride: he wished earnestly to see her bring honour to the family by an alliance with the Lintons, and as long as she let him alone she might trample on us like slaves, for aught he cared!
41. "'He's very delicate, sir,' I replied; 'and scarcely likely to reach manhood; but this I can say, he does not resemble his father; and if Miss Catherine had the misfortune to marry him, he would not be beyond her control: unless she were extremely and foolishly indulgent
42. The old feeling of indulgent tenderness overcame her vexation, and she grew thoroughly moved and alarmed
43. his fond indulgent grand-mother, from whom he drew constant and
44. I’ve become a hedonist, sleeping ten hours at a time, taking long indulgent showers behind a locked bathroom door, making myself meals of meat and potatoes and more meat, which I’ve not had in months
45. When he had finished reading the letter, Rushton looked up, and, leaning comfortably back in his chair, he blew a cloud of smoke from his cigar, and said in an affable, indulgent tone, such as one might use to a child:
46. presence and to be indulgent to us
47. Should your confessor be less indulgent to you in your dying moments than you found the Abbe Busoni, send for me, if I am still on earth, and I will soothe your ears with words that shall effectually calm and soothe your parting soul ere it goes forth to traverse the ocean called eternity
48. He did not know whether to be amused or angry that she had been indulgent to Merthin
49. To the world and to his servants Danglars assumed the character of the good-natured man and the indulgent father
50. Let us hasten to say that in private the genial side descended to the level of the other, so that generally the indulgent man disappeared to give place to the brutal husband and domineering father