tenour

"The tenour of your talk led me on to believe —" she stammered with hot cheeks.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

Mrs. Tyrold, and the gentle voice of my Camilla, in accents yet more gentle than even that voice ever spoke before, answering some question; I was not myself, at first, aware of its tenour ... but when, unavoidably,

Camilla 2008

A plan by which so great a revolution was to be wrought in her mind, was not to be effected by any sudden effort of magnanimity, but by a regular and even tenour of courage mingled with prudence.

Cecilia 2008

Ever ready to abandon, and most willing to condemn me, you have more confidence in a vague conjecture, than in all you have observed of the whole tenour of my character.

Cecilia 2008

There was nothing to mark the difference between now and formerly in the even tenour of its courage; and it was a life which at all times had been a marvel of cheerfulness and calm content. 662

Memorabilia 2007

Let there then be such a place as ours, separate from intercourse with men, that the tenour of our exercises be not interrupted from without.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

Therefore he laid down the universal rule, that whatsoever Scripture teaches dogmatically, and affirms expressly, must on its own sole authority be admitted as absolutely true: that there is no doctrine in the Bible which directly contradicts the general tenour of the whole: but only some which appear to involve a difference, for the phrases of Scripture often seem to imply something contrary to what has been expressly taught.

Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

How are your absent cousins to understand the tenour of your life in Bath without one?

March 14th, 2005 2005

This is the tenour of my belief; wherein, though there be many things singular, and to the humour of my irregular self, yet, if they square not with maturer judgments, I disclaim them, and do no further favour them than the learned and best judgments shall authorize them.

Religio Medici 2007

“God bless him,” say I, perceiving that so far from being the butt of foul conspiracy, he is an object of anxiety to all, lest evil should betide him; and so he pursues the even tenour of his days in happiness exempt from fears and jealousy140 and risk.

Hiero 2007