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But as I only stayed eight days in this place, and knew not a syllable of the language, perhaps it is as well to pretermit any disquisitions about the spirit of the people.

From From Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Thackeray, William Makepeace

What precisely is meant by 'ideal' is a question which for the moment I pretermit.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

In fact, the old lady declined altogether to hear his hour's lecture of an evening; and when she came to Queen's Crawley alone, he was obliged to pretermit his usual devotional exercises.

From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace

I pretermit their unparallel'd Impieties, &c. and only close all with this one Story that follows.

From A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Casas, Bartolomé de las

He greeted me with a brief nod and a grim smile, but did not pretermit his paternal functions.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various

“The law ensures that the pretermitted heir is treated fairly and receives a portion of the estate as if there was no will in place,” the firm says.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2025

I search my diary in vain to find some pretermitted adventure wherewith to give you a thrill, or, as good Mrs. B. calls it, "a feel"; but I can find none.

From A First Year in Canterbury Settlement by Butler, Samuel

But the birth of a New Year is of an interest too wide to be pretermitted by king or cobbler.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles

It is true that the over-population was at least as dense in the epoch of lords and ladies, and that now-a- days some customs which made Edinburgh notorious of yore have been fortunately pretermitted.

From Edinburgh Picturesque Notes by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The pleasant musical evenings, however, which John had formerly been used to spend in the company of Mr. Gaskell were now entirely pretermitted.

From The Lost Stradivarius by Falkner, John Meade

Daughters performed the said offices to their fathers, and sisters to their brothers; not pretermitting those who did not neglect their broken-pated bachelors to whom they paid equal attention.

From The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William