Use according in a sentence
Sentences starting with according
- According to Mr. Wilton's statement of the seventy-six appointments we examined, fifty-four were of Democrats, eleven of Whigs, and eleven of unknown politics. [7]
- According to Houzeau, who paid particular attention to the subject, the domestic fowl utters at least a dozen significant sounds. [1]
- According to Smith, who is probably correct in this, the fire did not occur till five or six days after the arrival of the ship. [4]
- According to this view, their present manner of nesting was acquired before their present colours. [1]
- According to this view the power of historical personages, represented as the product of many forces, can no longer, it would seem, be regarded as a force that itself produces events. [2]
- According to an understanding with the two victims, he was to have given Backus four queens, but alas, he didn't. [5]
- According to Diodorus, there was a president of the thieves' caste, from whom the stolen goods could be reclaimed on relinquishment of a fourth part of the same. [10]
- According to him, there is no game that cannot be won by dynamics. [9]
- According to Apollonius, the wise man must also be poor, and, though the citizens of his state are permitted to acquire treasures, the wealthy are looked upon as dishonorable. [10]
- According to history, the monks of this place two centuries before had been worldly minded enough to want to wash. [5]
Sentences ending with according
- We are powerful glad you are all back; and send love according. [5]
Short sentences using according
- Gilfaron--Only according to the Signs. [11]
- According to Xenophon, Cyrop. [10]
- According to Cranz (24. [1]
Sentences containing according two or more times
- They've been learnt to haul little carriages in harness, and go this way and that way and t'other way according to their orders; yes, and to march and drill like soldiers, doing it as exact, according to orders, as soldiers does it. [5]
- The troops to be mustered into the service of the United States by regiments, when the regiments are filled up, according to regulations, to the minimum strength--the regiments to be organized according to the regulations of the War Department. [7]
- If people dressed according to their means, acted according to their convictions, and avowed their opinions, it would revolutionize society. [4]
More example sentences with the word according in them
- Egypt attained the zenith of her power under this king, whose army, according to Diodorus (I. [10]
- If--always according to your notion of the convention--if I don't get out, and haven't any chance, they tell me on pretty good authority Austen Vane will get the nomination. [9]
- Again, according to your mind, a man who steals holy vessels must needs be an infidel; therefore a tailor in Chaudiere, suspected of being an infidel, stole the holy chalices. [11]
- He had not yet written to her, according to his parole: this issue was clear; he could not send a letter to Guida until he was freed from that condition. [11]
- Six days after writing his letter Shelley and his wife were together again for a moment--to get remarried according to the rites of the English Church. [5]
- One has to write according to the impulse that seizes one and after the fashion of one's own mind. [11]
- The only thing worth doing in this world is to live life according to one's convictions--and one's heart. [11]
- Then he added, with some grim humour, that if Druce had no objection to spending an hour with Roadmaster over a fire and a billy of tea, he would be glad of his company; for bushranging, according to his system, was but dull work. [11]
- These were loaded with rings; the finger-nails were stained red, according to Egyptian custom, and gold or silver bands were worn above the elbow, and at the wrists and ankles. [10]
- If you're dealing with him, don't think him a fool because he chirrups, and don't size him up according to his looks. [11]
- But she seemed wilful too, and contradictory--at any rate to-day; for when Orion pointed out some move to her she rarely took his advice, but with set lips, pushed the piece according to her own, rarely wiser, judgment. [10]
- She's got a wife's dower-rights according to the law. [11]
- The only point where the mind and meaning of the man worked according to the law of his life was at the eye, where the monocle was caught now as in a vise. [11]
- Your last reports were written on the twentieth, and during all this time not only has no action been taken against the enemy or for the relief of the ancient capital, but according to your last report you have even retreated farther. [2]
- With all this were mingled hints of her old superstition,--forebodings of something fearful about to happen,--perhaps the great final catastrophe of all things, according to the prediction current in the kitchens of Rockland. [6]
- The auxiliary troops were encamped in divisions according to their nationality, and between them the Egyptian legions of heavy-armed soldiers and archers. [10]
- You may laugh, weep, reason, sing, sneer, or pray, according to your genius. [6]
- The day when we visited Bemerton was, according to A----'s diary, "perfect. [6]
- Hear us when we pray to Thee; strengthen with Thy might our most gracious sovereign lord, the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich; be mindful of his uprightness and meekness, reward him according to his righteousness, and let it preserve us, Thy chosen Israel! [2]
- The declaration that we have always opposed the war is true or false, according as one may understand the term "oppose the war. [7]
- Far less did we feel that we were being educated according to any fixed method. [10]
- Only in this way, according to our present methods, could one expect to accomplish anything in regard to this foreign-felt want. [4]
- Slow as he was, however, the stout Scotsman had more than once proved himself a man of rare merit according to Hume's ideas. [11]
- Emerson's father, however, was very methodical, according to Dr. Lowell, and had "a place for everything, and everything in its place. [6]
- But this thought was unbearable and an inward voice whispered that, having neither father nor mother, he was free to act according to his own will. [10]
- The interesting fact was that she was obliged to judge this world according to the standards of literature, morals, and manners that had been implanted in her mainly by the influence of one person. [4]
- But his crime was so great that, according to the law of Egypt, his nearest relations were to be seized and punished with him. [10]
- His son Philip was obedient to his father, and would certainly continue to wield the sceptre according to his wishes. [10]
- Take away what was his, by every holy right, because it was all according to the law of the land and of the Holy Gospel, and what was left? [11]
- The entire household was governed according to Pierre's supposed orders, that is, by his wishes which Natasha tried to guess. [2]
- More than ever was Boris resolved to serve in future not according to the written code, but under this unwritten law. [2]
- But our case was a strange one, and it must be dealt with according to its strangeness--our only guides our consciences. [11]
- It has at various times brought forward collections of figures having the air of statistical documents, pretending to show a great proportional mortality among the patients of the Medical Profession, as compared with those treated according to its own rules. [3]
- There was the usual division of the scholars into a first and second set, according to the social position, mainly depending upon the fortune, of the families to which they belonged. [6]
- Now they stood up with only their brass spikes, which were intended to intercept and conduct the lightning.--[ According to an inscription first interpreted by Dumichen. [10]
- He also made up his mind that Tom should be allowed a reasonable time for spiritual preparation, and then be hanged, drawn and quartered, according to the law and usage of the day in cases of high treason. [5]
- He was quiet, unobtrusive, and only a fair scholar according to the standard of the College authorities. [6]
- But we got under all right, and out through the hole, swift but soft--Jim first, me next, and Tom last, which was according to Tom's orders. [5]
- Let us imagine two men who have come out to fight a duel with rapiers according to all the rules of the art of fencing. [2]
- He uses it twenty times a day, or twenty thousand times a day; or a million times a day-- according to the exigencies. [5]
- The New York Tribune was for it, and understood it to mean that we must accept gradual emancipation according to the plan suggested, or get something worse. [7]
- Tavernier, the French traveler (17th century), notes that Ganges water is often given at weddings, "each guest receiving a cup or two, according to the liberality of the host; sometimes 2,000 or 3,000 rupees' worth of it is consumed at a wedding. [5]
- Everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to Lorrain's instructions. [2]
- Three hundred persons took their seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows deepest where the land lies lowest. [2]
- It may be tomorrow, or not yet, according to the long-suffering of the Most High. [10]
- When I came to, I found that my foot had been bandaged, there was a torch in the wall, and by my side something in a jug, of which I drank, according to directions in a surgeon's hand on a paper beside it. [11]
- If he, according to tradition, merely translated it from certain ancient and mysteriously-engraved plates of copper, which he declares he found under a stone, in an out-of-the-way locality, the work of translating was equally a miracle, for the same reason. [5]
- His marriage, according to this, was a pure work of supererogation. [4]
- For facts relating to this question we must look to two sources; the recorded experience of the medical profession in general, and the results of trials made according to Homoeopathic principles, and capable of testing the truth of the doctrine. [3]
- They lived according to their lights, they had acted righteously as by their code, they had used him well--well always. [11]
- This was according to the prophecy which Joan made that day in the pastures the time that she said the rest of us would go to the great wars. [5]
- They change according to the pleasure of the supreme will. [10]
- He grew according to the need; his mind mastered the problem of the day: and as the problem grew, so did his comprehension of it. [7]
- Bury her according to the customs of your church; we have come to arrange the earthly possessions she leaves behind. [10]
- If so, according to the custom of the land, then Mahommed is as immune as thou art. [11]
- One morning, according to the agreement, he notified Coello that the Madonna was completed. [10]
- Then, the water to run it with would cost from $1,000 to $30,000--and even more, according to the location. [5]
- I did according to my nature. [11]
- This program subject to modifications according to circumstances. [5]
- When he came to live with the Doctor, he made up his mind he would dismiss the old gentleman, if he did not behave according to his notions of propriety. [6]
- Have I got to learn the shape of the river according to all these five hundred thousand different ways? [5]
- I was obliged to learn it according to Tuki, Peyron, Tattam, and Steinthal-Schwarze. [10]
- Moses had seemed to lay the utmost stress upon this privilege, and according to the existing law, no one was permitted to cross the narrow fortified frontier on the east without the permission of the government. [10]
- The sound, according to Landois (24. [1]
- Each historian, according to his view of what constitutes a nation's progress, looks for these conditions in the greatness, wealth, freedom, or enlightenment of citizens of France or some other country. [2]
- In fact, according to his history-book there had been little but wars in this peaceful nation: the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the incessant frontier wars with the Indians, the Kansas War, the Mormon War, the War for the Union. [4]
- Wilhelm, who, according to his friend's advice, appeared in the uniform of an ensign of the city-guards, seated himself at the empty board just after the clock in the steeple had struck ten. [10]
- Mrs. Mavick, according to her own assertion, was one of those who enjoy nature. [4]
- At first, according to her custom, she had roused the handsome fellow's hopes by fiery glances which she could not restrain. [10]
- My idea was to do the work over according to the law, in presence of the complaining party, and thereby to correct anything which might be found amiss. [7]
- To live and to die according to this book is not highly profitable. [10]
- Better, after all, to deal with a fool according to his folly. [9]
- The convention is to be held at Tremont on the 5th of April and according to the rule we have adopted your county is to have delegates--being double your representation. [7]
- It pleased her to be able to play the hostess, according to the meaning of the word in her parents' house. [10]
- That is, according to American ideas, for you have everything in these two rooms. [4]
- It was according to Amajuba precedent, where the British loss was 226 out of about 400 engaged. [5]
- In Gelasimus, according to a statement quoted by Milne Edwards (11. [1]
- They emigrate according to a preconcerted plan. [1]
- I believe, according to a letter of yours to Hatch, you are "feeling like h-ll yet. [7]
- In the mean time James was getting impatient to be on his return, according to the direction of his employers. [6]
- In the mean time I have contrived to make out the person and the story of our young lady, who, according to appearances, ought to furnish us a heroine for a boarding-house romance before a year is out. [6]
- It burns about three hundred pounds of carbon a year, (besides other fuel,) when in fair working order, according to a great chemist's estimate. [6]
- But far before this virtue stands another--that of spelling a word according to the sound of it. [5]
- The birch, in this locality, flourishes in the mountainous region, the palm, according to Griesbach (Vegetation of the Earth, Vol. [10]
- Says I, "Now this is according to the promises; I've been having my doubts, but now I am in heaven, sure enough. [5]
- Granvelle protested that this act of indulgence weighed heavily upon him also; but at that time a refusal would have occasioned a new war, which, according to human judgment, would have resulted in loss and the establishment of heresy in the Netherlands. [10]
- If you accomplish this according to our wish, you shall receive to-day five thousand rings of gold, and the fifth part of this sum yearly, during your life. [10]
- Do think these things over, and then act according to your judgment. [7]
- I have asked Theopompus to arrange everything about our wedding with her according to the usual custom; and I shall remain in his house incognito until I can carry you off as my own dear wife. [10]
- Did you get them together by accident or according to some preconceived plan? [6]
- Then according to their composition they drew him forth and led him to the fire, where his men were slaine. [4]
- We had in the year 1855, according to law, a census, or enumeration of the inhabitants, taken for the purpose of a new apportionment of representation. [7]
- He could hear the words "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word. [11]
- I--I, Cleopatra, was the wife of Mark Antony according to the customs of this country, when you wedded him to the widow of Marcellus, who had scarcely closed his eyes. [10]
- London, according to the Venetian Busino, was extremely dirty. [4]
- We may concede the unity of all forms of force, but we cannot overlook the fixed differences of its manifestations according to the conditions under which it acts. [3]
- And according to the surmisers, that is what he did. [5]
- The desperado stalked the streets with a swagger graded according to the number of his homicides, and a nod of recognition from him was sufficient to make a humble admirer happy for the rest of the day. [5]
- Everywhere he saw the stewards' accounts, according to which the serfs' manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue coats. [2]
- Among the rest, the sellers of fruits--oranges, bananas, and others, according to the seasons--did an active business. [6]
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