| Her acquittal in the law court would be as nothing to her if it must be followed by an avowal of her guilt to her own son! |
| Annabelle was deeply touched at his unselfish avowal of where his first duty lay. |
| In the provinces, to live in another person's house is an avowal of poverty. |
| Such an avowal of nescience is an implicit assertion of an immeasurable insight. |
| This tribute was prompted perhaps by Longford's optimistic avowal to the Germans that the British had forgiven them the wartime excesses. |
| But he has done so with a resolute trimness, a disciplined avowal to say the poem only as it says itself, and no more. |
