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Example sentences for "deterred"

Lexicographically close words:
determinism; determinist; deterministic; determinists; determyned; deterrence; deterrent; deterrents; deterring; deters
  1. I shall not be deterred from doing my duty to my country and my countrymen, by any such attempts, whether they proceed from emissaries of the Pope or not, I assure you.

  2. Some benighted horseman wending towards London, and deterred from going on to-night by the marvellous tales of my friend the highwayman, I suppose,' said Edward.

  3. The man was gazing straight over the prow of the gondola, not more intent than his brother often was, yet the young girl felt abashed and deterred from her purpose.

  4. And I have my nieces," he replied, deterred by a curious jealousy from pursuing the subject of the boy.

  5. Bourbon would have now landed, but he was deterred by perceiving some of Warthy's men on the left bank.

  6. I brought my troops into Lombardy to retake the duchy of Milan, and I shall not be deterred from my purpose by promises or threats.

  7. As for what danger was to be encountered, it rather stimulated than deterred in the desire to partake of it, as the lion hunt has greater attractions for the hunter than the chase of the deer.

  8. But there were several reasons which deterred the king from openly avowing their enterprise.

  9. However, he was not to be deterred from making the usual journeys to Frankfort (in March and September for the book-fairs) and rode on horseback both ways.

  10. On 24 August he left Jerusalem with a small company of pilgrims who had not been deterred from undertaking the journey to Sinai.

  11. But the obscurity of the subject deterred you from the books; and that illustrious rhetorician to whom you had applied answered you, I suppose, that he knew nothing of these rules of Aristotle.

  12. Is he deterred by physical or moral fear?

  13. He was deterred from instantly laying hands on Dick by the attitude of defence into which the latter had promptly thrown himself.

  14. By keeping his sword-point constantly in evidence, he deterred the Squire and the latter's man from a rush.

  15. From this he was deterred both by the fate of his adoptive father and his own cautious, conservative character which gave him such a shrewd understanding of Roman temperament.

  16. The quarrel was not generally popular among the gentry; and even those who were not unwilling themselves to have taken arms, were deterred by the repugnance of their wives, mothers, and sisters, to their engaging in such a cause.

  17. I began also to dip into Hebrew, but, deterred by the strangeness of the words, I desisted, knowing that one man's life and genius are not enough for too many things at a time.

  18. The marchioness no doubt felt scruples about it, and the marquis was deterred from marriage by his profligate habits.

  19. But Captain Poul, with his usual impetuosity, did not give the insurgents time to form, but threw himself upon them to the beat of the drum, not in the least deterred by their first volley.

  20. As hour after hour passed on Harry concluded that, deterred by the great loss which his men had already sustained in endeavoring to capture the post, Cromwell had determined to reduce it by starvation.

  21. If they fail, as is generally the case, they are in no way deterred from using their inferior colors as the Orientals used the riches of their palette.

  22. As a consequence, although many great painters have turned their genius to the decoration of earthen-ware, others have been deterred from doing so by the very facts here mentioned.

  23. To Lord Julian, who went with him, since none deterred him, Bishop expressed himself when presently he had sufficiently recovered.


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