One party to a contract may
violate it--break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?
I accept your limitation," said Van Helsing, "and all I ask of you is that if you feel it necessary to condemn any act of mine, you will first consider it well and be satisfied that it does not
violate your reservations.
For such as
violate our civil order, it may be permitted us to show mercy.
It should have taught him that the poor man's hearth is sacred, and that armies and nations have no right to
violate it.
If we
violate the sanctity of this ceremonial, by any hostile movement on our part, it is we who incur the charge of faithlessness; and we doubt not that in both these instances the white men have been considered by the Blackfeet as the aggressors, and have, in consequence, been held up as men not to be trusted.
The confidence of our friendship is sacred with me, and nothing, no, nothing, could ever tempt me to
violate such a trust.
I'm sure it will be as great a pleasure to me, as it can possibly be to you, to meet once more after so many years: and of course I shall be ready to give you all the benefit of such medical skill as I have: only, you know, one mustn't
violate professional etiquette
In silence we partook of the small morsel of refreshment that had been left from the morning's repast, and without once proposing to
violate the sanctity of our engagement with respect to the remainder, we rose to our feet, and proceeded to construct some sort of shelter under which we might obtain the sleep we so greatly needed.
Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to
violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?
He believed in a future in the service of D'Artagnan, and consequently would have allowed himself to be cut to pieces, rather than
violate the order given by his leader.
They don't scare me, and you needn't give me leave to
violate them.
It was demanded by nearly all, and particularly by the most respectable inhabitants, that Roderick should no longer be permitted to
violate the received rules of decorum by obtruding his own bosom serpent to the public gaze, and dragging those of decent people from their lurking places.
