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Definition of Indulges
1. indulge [v] - See also: indulge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indulges
Literary usage of Indulges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter (1909)
"COMSTOCK indulges IN "FRILLS," AND BILLY REAPPEARS IT WAS Wesley Sinton who really
wrestled with ..."
2. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"One gratifies his desires or appetites and indulges his humors, or indulges in
pleasures: by the former, one seeks to get the pleasure which the desire ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1876)
"1, whicli(/) power, -which the legislature indulges with caution, and which
nothing but the legislature can perform.(17) (0 Sec the introduction to the ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"The Rhymester, muling in City Slums, indulges in Elegiacs concerning possible
Elysia for the City Children. " The value of (mall open «paces in ..."
5. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1866)
"He indulges the hope that these additions to the work may be found to render it
more useful to the reader, and make it more worthy of the favor with which ..."
6. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... we may be taught moderation, but yet for his own safety's -sake would have it
escape destruction, he indulges a wish beyond the limit of human power. ..."
7. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"He is very temperate in his diet, and the only luxury he indulges himself in, is
a few glasses of punch after supper. ..."
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