Sample Sentences for
amity
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    The truck is red and rusted, an Amity vehicle.  (source)
    Amity = in this novel, the group of people to whom it is most important to be friendly and live in peace
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    Is there any reason you wish to preserve amity with the Shadowhunters, besides the fact that one of them is your lover?  (source)
    amity = a state of friendly relations
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    It drew maps with avenues a hundred yards wide and thought seriously of preserving the half-ruined Museum of Science and Industry more or less as it was, as a monument to the disaster, and naming it the Institute of International Amity.  (source)
    Amity = friendly relations
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    Don found this frustrating and he called me Qhipu more in irritation than in amity.  (source)
    amity = friendship
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    Utterson was amazed; the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and amities; a week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise of a cheerful and an honoured age; and now in a moment, friendship, and peace of mind, and the whole tenor of his life were wrecked.†  (source)
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    He reminded himself that he would sell his d'Anconia Copper stock, which had never rallied fully after its crash of last year, and he would purchase shares of the Inter-neighborly Amity and Development Corporation, as agreed with his friends, which would bring him a fortune.  (source)
    Amity = friendly relations
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    An earnest conjuration from the king,—As England was his faithful tributary; As love between them like the palm might flourish; As peace should still her wheaten garland wear And stand a comma 'tween their amities; And many such-like as's of great charge,—That, on the view and know of these contents, Without debatement further, more or less, He should the bearers put to sudden death, Not shriving-time allow'd.†  (source)
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    It was either clumsiness or craft: there was no other way to fathom such words, after I had so emphatically and so recently made it a condition of our amity—if such it might be called—that he would lay off his heavy business about the South.  (source)
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    I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.†  (source)
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    I was thankful there was this spirit of amity; we were neither of us anxious to engage in futile disputes.  (source)
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    Then let our praise of gratitude for the amity distinguishing our political counsels rise to Heaven.  (source)
    amity = state of friendly relations
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    Speaking simply and clearly, without resorting to the customary rhetorical devices, his full, rich voice touched the hearts of every listener with its simple plea for amity and justice between North and South.  (source)
    amity = friendly relations
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    And as if to underscore the ambiguity of the admiral's mission, transports loaded with troops bore such names as Good Intent, Friendship, Amity's Admonition, and Father's Good Will.  (source)
    Amity = a state of friendly relations
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