renounced

Example Sentences

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Romance Renounced A lot of people are talking about the return of respectability.

From Time Magazine Archive

For him she fled from soft repose, Renounced a parent's care; He sails to crush his country's foes, She wanders in despair!

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

They for her Renounced all else, the banquet and the dance, And nuptial rites revered.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

Renounced thoughts of Italy: 'Europe bleeding, and especially France and Prussia, how go idly touring?'

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Carlyle, Thomas

The scarlet robe of autumn Renounced and put away, The mystic Earth is fairer still,— A Puritan in gray.

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss