Banished

Examples

• But still the disappointed father held a strong lever; and Fred felt as if he were being banished with a malediction. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I had no right to hear them, no right to answer them--they were the words that banished me, in the name of her sacred weakness, from the room. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Cedric, who had been struck mute by the sudden appearance of his banished son, now rushed forward, as if to separate him from Rowena. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Long banished Robinson Crusoe,' says the charmer, exchanging salutations, 'how did you leave the Island? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• These then, I said, must be banished; even to women who have a character to maintain they are of no use, and much less to men. Plato. The Republic.
• Such was our domestic circle, from which care and pain seemed for ever banished. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I am banished to the Bower, to be found in it like a piece of furniture whenever wanted. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Harpalus and Niarchus, Phrygius and Ptolemy, some of the other companions of the prince, he banished. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Antiquity brooded above this region, business was banished thence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But this idea was soon banished, and her spirits were very differently affected, when, to her utter amazement, she saw Mr. Darcy walk into the room. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Her manners were attaching, and soon banished his reserve. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• All that world of poetry and fancy which the passion of love has called forth in modern literature and romance would have been banished by Plato. Plato. The Republic.
• What debt did she owe to a social order which had condemned and banished her without trial? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I was banished to the house of a relation far distant, and she was allowed no liberty, no society, no amusement, till my father's point was gained. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Coriolanus in glory, Coriolanus in disaster, Coriolanus banished, followed like giant shades one after the other. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Oh, that death and sickness were banished from our earthly home! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Loneliness and gloom were now banished from her bedside; protection and solace sat there instead. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Fallen, insurgent, banished, she remembers the heaven where she rebelled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I was banished from it, and you were the serpent who caused my banishment. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Before the vision of the banished man Moore's spirit seemed to pause. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• What caused him to be banished by his countrymen? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We banished from our talk, and as much as possible from our thoughts, the knowledge of our desolation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They were banished from thence by the tyranny of one of Machiavel's heroes, Castruccio Castracani. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Genius banished? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The physical state of man would soon not yield to the beatitude of angels; disease was to be banished; labour lightened of its heaviest burden. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• After each uprising the victors usually banished a great number of the defeated faction from the city. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• She hated the change; she felt like one banished; but here she was forced to abide. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But we can also imagine the existence of an age in which a severer conception of truth has either banished or transformed them. Plato. The Republic.
• They have banished the tender grace of life and left only the sapped and skinny mockery. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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