1 And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming.
2 The expanding forces of life within her choked the desire for reforming.
3 Here it seems to me not out of place to cite instances of the Romans seeking assistance from religion in reforming their institutions and in carrying out their warlike designs.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII. 4 Of course, a minute or so later I would realise wrathfully that it was all a lie, a revolting lie, an affected lie, that is, all this penitence, this emotion, these vows of reform.
5 You, for instance, want to cure men of their old habits and reform their will in accordance with science and good sense.
6 Pierre was staying at Prince Vasili Kuragin's and sharing the dissipated life of his son Anatole, the son whom they were planning to reform by marrying him to Prince Andrew's sister.
7 Every violent reform deserves censure, for it quite fails to remedy evil while men remain what they are, and also because wisdom needs no violence.
8 General Campan's division did not seize the first fortification but was driven back, for on emerging from the wood it had to reform under grapeshot, of which Napoleon was unaware.
9 He cried, he pleaded for forgiveness, promised to reform over and over again, and then received his dismissal, feeling that he had won but an imperfect forgiveness and established but a feeble confidence.
10 The boy's first impulse was to be grateful, and reform.
11 He said he reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn't know no other way.
12 Mrs. Fisher's latest hobby was municipal reform.
13 And another thing: People like you and me, who want to reform things, have to be particularly careful about appearances.
14 I had not long been a reader of the "Liberator," before I got a pretty correct idea of the principles, measures and spirit of the anti-slavery reform.
15 I gave her a chance to reform, I tried to save her.