1 For even if he could have taken his consulship from one man, or his status as a senator from another, he could not abolish the senatorial rank nor pass new laws.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXV 2 Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.
3 The four young pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Meetings raised their voices timidly, but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs.
4 They were the same four pigs as had protested when Napoleon abolished the Sunday Meetings.
5 He announced that, by a special decree of Comrade Napoleon, 'Beasts of England' had been abolished.
6 He could not of course know--for he, Napoleon, was only now for the first time announcing it--that the name "Animal Farm" had been abolished.
7 Gratitude was to be abolished, and the virtues springing from it were not to be.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII 8 I found it was "the act of abolishing;" but then I did not know what was to be abolished.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VII 9 It was one of those "millinery establishments" which were abolished by the police a good time ago.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyGet Context In PART 2: V 10 During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence committed against the King.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE 11 They cannot be laughed away, nor always successfully stormed at, nor easily abolished by act of legislature.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In VI 12 The other project was, a scheme for entirely abolishing all words whatsoever; and this was urged as a great advantage in point of health, as well as brevity.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER V. 13 Equal partition abolishes emulation; and consequently labor.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION