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Example sentences for "cautionary"

Lexicographically close words:
cauterize; cauterized; cauterizing; cautery; caution; cautioned; cautioner; cautioning; cautions; cautious
  1. To these Charles IX assented and the Huguenots waived the matter of confirmation by provincial Parlements and the surrender of certain cautionary places for the time being.

  2. And now to give the reader a cautionary conclusion.

  3. They engaged also, during the time that England should continue the war with Spain, to pay the garrisons of the cautionary towns.

  4. But we are obliged to increase the garrisons in the cautionary towns," said one of the English councillors, "as 800 men in a city like Flushing are very little.

  5. As it was understood that the English subsidies were only a loan, secured by mortgage of the cautionary towns, this did not seem very unreasonable, when the intimate blending of England's welfare with that of the Provinces was considered.

  6. This is the quality which chiefly inspires the Cautionary Tales, that admirable series of biographies.

  7. Successors in a similar manner are More Beasts for Worse Children (delightful title), A Moral Alphabet, and Cautionary Tales for Children.

  8. To those whose knowledge of Mr. Belloc's writings was confined to The Path to Rome or the Cautionary Tales, who thought of him as essayist or poet, this must have seemed a strange metamorphosis indeed.

  9. But why do you put in these cautionary words, They must not sell always as dear, nor buy always as cheap as they can?

  10. They go to the length of their tether in discussing affairs of state--notwithstanding cautionary hints.

  11. There was a great suspicion in the minds of the Dutch and Flemings that she meant to give up the cause of Protestantism there, and to sell the cautionary towns which she held to Spain.

  12. But the first payment was not to be made till the end of two years, and James was still to retain the cautionary towns till the whole was discharged.

  13. Peace and commercial relations were restored between the two countries, and James was left at liberty to do as he pleased with the cautionary towns if the States did not redeem them.

  14. States and Spain, that monarch had the wonderful conception that the Republic was in some sort a province of his own, because he still held the cautionary towns in pledge for the loans granted by his predecessor.

  15. Rarely do we find a cheerful tale such as "The Cherry Orchard" in this cautionary style of toy-book.

  16. In still another series of stories often reprinted from London editions were those moral tales with the sub-title "Cautionary Stories in Verse.

  17. Little Nancy, or, the Punishment of Greediness," is representative of this sort of moral and cautionary tale.

  18. An Essay on Marriage, in a Cautionary Epistle to a Young Gentleman.

  19. For examples of the lighter productions referred to see An Essay on Marriage, in a cautionary Epistle to a Young Gentleman, wherein the Artifices and Foibles of the Fair, etc.

  20. It is good that we want legs of our own, since we may borrow from Christ; and it is our happiness that Christ is under an act of cautionary for heaven, and that Christ is booked in heaven as the principal debtor for such poor bodies as we are.

  21. If I had been like many other princes, I should never have let the advantage of the cautionary towns slip out of my fingers, but rather by means of them attempted to get even a stronger hold on your country.

  22. Now that the recovery of the cautionary towns had been so dexterously and amicably accomplished, and at so cheap a rate, it seemed a propitious moment to proceed to a general extinction of what would now be called "burning questions.

  23. Meantime James would keep the cautionary towns in his clutches, not permitting their garrisons or any of his subjects to assist the rebels on sea or shore.

  24. The cautionary towns being next mentioned, Barneveld stated that a demand had been made upon Envoy Caron by Cecil for the delivery of those places to the English Government, as England had resolved to make peace with Spain.

  25. Making a merit to himself of imparting an important secret, he said that the state-council of the commonwealth had resolved to elude at any cost the restoration of the cautionary towns.

  26. THE DAISY; or, Cautionary Stories in Verse, with 30 Engravings, plain.

  27. The offer was accepted and in June, 1616, the cautionary towns were transferred into the hands of the Dutch.

  28. He still retained the cautionary towns, as a pledge for the debt, and his representative sat in the Council of State, but as one of the conditions of peace he promised to lend no assistance to the Dutch.

  29. By his possession of the cautionary towns the King of England appeared in the eyes of the world to be recognized as a protector of the Dutch Republic, who had certain rights over it.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cautionary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advisory; deterrent; didactic; directive; discouraging; exemplary; hortatory; instructive; intimidating; monitory; moralistic; ominous; remonstrative; sententious; warning