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  • The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value.†  (source)
  • I read most of them with laudable zeal, but few of them really appealed to me.†  (source)
  • This was his day off and with laudable initiative he had hurried out "to see."†  (source)
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  • This was that the scholars of Avonlea school should get up a concert and hold it in the hall on Christmas Night, for the laudable purpose of helping to pay for a schoolhouse flag.†  (source)
  • It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing of means and machinery, which were introduced with loud laudation a few years or centuries before.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • However, the widow made a pretty fair show of astonishment, and heaped so many compliments and so much gratitude upon Huck that he almost forgot the nearly intolerable discomfort of his new clothes in the entirely intolerable discomfort of being set up as a target for everybody's gaze and everybody's laudations.†  (source)
  • When you told Mrs. Bennet this morning that if you ever resolved upon quitting Netherfield you should be gone in five minutes, you meant it to be a sort of panegyric, of compliment to yourself—and yet what is there so very laudable in a precipitance which must leave very necessary business undone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself or anyone else?†  (source)
  • And by hideous contrast, a redundant orator was making a speech to another gathering not thirty steps away, in fulsome laudation of "our glorious British liberties!"†  (source)
  • No aim that I have ever cherished would they recognise as laudable; no success of mine—if my life, beyond its domestic scope, had ever been brightened by success—would they deem otherwise than worthless, if not positively disgraceful.†  (source)
  • The genius for laudation characteristic of the race was in that phrase.†  (source)
  • If you wish, I could make a laudable case for your defection.†  (source)
  • The subject of this laudation was a very little canary, who was so tame that he was brought down by Mr. Boythorn's man, on his forefinger, and after taking a gentle flight round the room, alighted on his master's head.†  (source)
  • All the way home he had tried to decide if he should confront her with it, lance the boil, try living with the laudable pus ...or if he should just deep-six it.†  (source)
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