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Sentences starting with alexander

Alexander and Napoleon, with the long train of their suites, approached the right flank of the Preobrazhensk battalion and came straight up to the crowd standing there. [2]
Alexander held his trembling hand, and when the physician, a stout man of middle age, took the artist's place and bade him retire, Caracalla, in a low voice, desired him to remain. [10]
Alexander listened attentively to what was said to him and, bending his head, smiled pleasantly. [2]
Alexander was commissioned to take one of the emperor's chariots--which always stood ready for the use of the courtiers between the Serapeum and the springs on the east--and to hasten to the lady Berenike. [10]
Alexander now came to his sister's aid, and reminded him how Melissa had hazarded life and liberty to save him and her brothers. [10]
Alexander rejoiced at this, and only expressed his regret that most of the epigrams he had collected turned on the death of Caesar's brother Geta. [10]
Alexander Thomson split them up into cobwebs, as you may see in the plates to Velpeau's Surgical Anatomy. [3]
Alexander soon found the closed carruca intended for Melissa, and placed her in it as soon as he had helped Euryale into her harmamaxa. [10]
Alexander and Melissa soon were wreathed with myrtle and ivy. [10]
Alexander was saying something affable to him. [2]

Sentences ending with alexander

It will carry your name down to posterity like the ring of Thothmes, like the coin of Alexander. [6]
After dinner they went to drink coffee in Napoleon's study, which four days previously had been that of the Emperor Alexander. [2]
I have to walk before the sacred images in full ceremonial vestments, and accompanied by the priest of Alexander. [10]
We bow down to the noble vessel of the soul of Alexander. [10]
Agatha was betrothed to Alexander. [10]
Specialist historians describing the campaign of 1813 or the restoration of the Bourbons plainly assert that these events were produced by the will of Alexander. [2]
I should take the Alexander. [4]
Glaukias had immediately run back, at any risk, to warn Alexander. [10]
And it is right, believe me, Alexander! [10]
This protection, however, proved unnecessary, for, instead of the praetorians, Johanna entered the room, supporting on her arm the half-sinking form of a young man in whom no one would have recognized the once beautifully curled and carefully dressed Alexander. [10]

Short sentences using alexander

The Emperor Alexander, not I! [2]
When did Alexander flourish? [4]
Whither had Alexander fled? [10]
What has Alexander done? [10]
But where is Alexander? [10]
Come up, Mr. Alexander. [5]
Hurrah for Emperor Alexander! [2]
Alexander still held Agatha's hand. [10]
You, Alexander, must accompany her. [10]
Alexander H. Rice. [6]

More example sentences with the word alexander in them

Philip had learned yesterday where Alexander was concealed, so he undertook to go across the lake and inform him of what had occurred. [10]
King Ptolemy was writing the history of the conqueror of the world, and needed the aged comrade of Alexander, the sole survivor who had held a prominent position in the great Macedonian's campaigns. [10]
My lord Alexander would have it that he had seen the spirit of one who was dead, and he would gladly give his life to see her once again. [10]
With a jesting word he leaped on to the car, and even succeeded in murmuring to Alexander, unobserved, that Melissa had placed herself under his protection. [10]
The gold coins with the head of Alexander the Great are some of them so fresh one might think they were newer than much of the silver currency we were lately handling. [6]
He came charged with the commission to convey the artist, in the carriage of the gray-haired comrade of Alexander, to the neighbouring city of Pithom, where Philippus, by the King's command, was now residing. [10]
Melissa stood mute, with tearful eyes, while Alexander, quite beside himself, tried to relieve his rage and grief by empty threats. [10]
I will speak with him alone.--You, my friends, withdraw with our idiologos, the priest of Alexander, who is well known here, and visit the city. [10]
Seleukus and his wife have a great regard for Alexander, and will do for him all that lies in their power. [10]
This was Diodoros, who, while Alexander was giving his directions to the charioteer, had, under cover of the darkness, sprung into the vehicle from the opposite side. [10]
He and Alexander, who usually were such united friends, now both were in love with Agatha, and what could come of that? [10]
It was she who spoke most, and Alexander, whom nothing escaped that had any form of beauty, feasted his ear on the pearly ring of her voice. [10]
Mr. Alexander Ireland, who had paid him friendly attentions during his earlier visit, and whose impressions of him in the pulpit have been given on a previous page, urged his coming. [6]
And the men who commit these crimes, especially their leader, assure themselves that this is admirable, this is glory--it resembles Caesar and Alexander the Great and is therefore good. [2]
In the antechamber, where Hermon waited for the King, Proclus mentioned one of the finest statues of Alexander by Lysippus, and an exquisite Eros by Praxiteles. [10]
An hour ago, when he had been pacing Alexander Duncan's library, the eyes and the mouth had been different. [9]
So felt Alexander when he compared even his adored Homer with the hero the poet had sung. [3]
The lictors who were keeping off the mob had stopped Melissa too; but while Alexander had been gazing into Agatha's imploring eyes, feeling as though all his blood had rushed to his heart and face, Melissa had contrived to creep up close to him. [10]
Their wildest curses were for Alexander, the painter, who in fact had played the spy for you. [10]
If only Alexander were at home! [10]
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]
Her thick, slightly waving hair framed the lovely oval of her face under the veil, and Alexander agreed with his sister when she expressed the wish that she might but once see this rarely beautiful creature. [10]
The ex-Minister Stein was there because his advice was useful and the Emperor Alexander held him in high esteem personally. [2]
The great Alexander was restless, and at no initial instant did he conceive his scheme of conquest. [4]
The whole street was like a crowded fair; and Alexander had several times to follow Agatha and her escort out into the roadway, quitting the shelter of the arcade, to escape a party of rioters or the impertinent addresses of strangers. [10]
And all this was found in Alexander I; all this had been prepared by innumerable so-called chances in his life: his education, his early liberalism, the advisers who surrounded him, and by Austerlitz, and Tilsit, and Erfurt. [2]
In Russia there was an Emperor, Alexander, who decided to restore order in Europe and therefore fought against Napoleon. [2]
Thus her presence was a source of peril to Alexander, and she must at any cost avert that. [10]
After the final war of 1815 Alexander possesses all possible power. [2]
The historians tell us with naive assurance that its causes were the wrongs inflicted on the Duke of Oldenburg, the nonobservance of the Continental System, the ambition of Napoleon, the firmness of Alexander, the mistakes of the diplomatists, and so on. [2]
It was not until Alexander Duncan spoke to me last week that I thought of it at all. [9]
My brother Alexander, too, who is in danger, I would fain commend to you; but he is well in body, and your remedies are of no effect against the perils which threaten him. [10]
She begged Alexander to take her thither, and he consented, though he was of opinion that Philip would be found in the mortuary chamber, in the presence of Korinna's portrait. [10]
I should like to sell him my picture of Alexander saluted by the priests in the temple of Jupiter Ammon. [10]
He expected, too, to see Alexander among them. [10]
This she addressed to Mrs. Alexander Duncan, at a certain number on Beacon Street, and sent it out to be posted immediately. [9]
The intention was to make a stand at the Drissa camp, but Paulucci, aiming at becoming commander in chief, unexpectedly employed his energy to influence Alexander, and Pfuel's whole plan was abandoned and the command entrusted to Barclay. [2]
I should like to know who the Alexander will be who will be the first to ask for my Roxana as his wife. [10]
Moreton, Tom used to call Alexander the Great because he was a fighter from the cradle, beating his elder brother, too considerate to strike back, and likewise--when opportunity offered--his sister; and appropriating their toys. [9]
But Alexander saw through their purpose. [10]
It is just this which Alexander will feel most painfully, I know him. [2]
He was at this time a victim to a fresh attack, and had therefore sent his confidential steward into the town to tell Heron that he approved of his son's choice, and that he would protect Alexander from pursuit. [10]
What fine fellows they were, as they marched on, talking and singing; and she said to herself that Diodoros and Alexander were taller even than most of these, and would have been handsome among the handsomest! [10]
Providence compelled all these men, striving to attain personal aims, to further the accomplishment of a stupendous result no one of them at all expected--neither Napoleon, nor Alexander, nor still less any of those who did the actual fighting. [2]
He says, if there is a deed, it is most probable General Alexander, of Paris, has it. [7]
Only now and then the thought of the sacrifice which the vehement Philip must make for his younger brother, and of the danger which still threatened Alexander, disturbed the cheerful contentment of her soul, rich as it was in glad hopes. [10]
Napoleon, without giving them a glance, turned to Balashev: "Assure the Emperor Alexander from me," said he, taking his hat, "that I am as devoted to him as before: I know him thoroughly and very highly esteem his lofty qualities. [2]
Why she was the wife of Alexander the Great, and is long since dead, but I care only for the living, and when I left the merry tumult in the streets it was simply and solely--" "You excite my curiosity. [10]
The testimony of the very aged is always to be received without question, as Alexander Hamilton once learned. [4]
Cleopatra had sought the venerable Anubis, who now, as the priest of Alexander, at the age of eighty, ruled the whole hierarchy of the country. [10]
In spite of the trampling of the French gendarmes' horses, which were pushing back the crowd, Rostov kept his eyes on every movement of Alexander and Bonaparte. [2]
It came from the Temple of Nemesis--a pretty little structure belonging to the time of Alexander the Great, which he had often examined with pleasure. [10]
As they passed the Temple of Artemis, which was brightly illuminated, reminding them that they were reaching their destination, Alexander at last looked up and begged the lovers to consider their immediate affairs. [10]
The latter measured the tall, brave fellow with a hasty glance, and turning, half to him, half to Alexander Farnese, said: "An enviable trick, and admirable performance, by my love! [10]
I am Keraunus the son of Ptolemy, whose father came into Egypt with Alexander the Great, and helped to found this city, and every one knows it. [10]
The captain of the night-watch, I would have you to know, is a very great man, and very likely a friend of Seleukus's, whose daughter Alexander has just painted. [10]
He foamed at the mouth, with low moans, and, before Alexander could prevent him, racked with pain and seeking for some support, he had set his teeth in the arm of the seat off which he was slipping. [10]
While Melissa helped the matron to change her dress--in the next room Alexander paced to and fro in great unrest. [10]
He would cross the lake and warn Melissa not to return home, and to tell Alexander what he might think necessary. [10]
He then named the gem-cutter Heron, his son Alexander, and his daughter Melissa, the Alexandrian senator Polybius, his son Diodoros, and the wife of Seleukus. [10]
At the moment the Emperors went into the pavilion he looked at his watch, and did not forget to look at it again when Alexander came out. [2]
Serapis, and Alexander, the divine hero of the town, were enthusiastically welcomed, while scarcely a voice was heard on the approach of Zeus-Jupiter and Ares-Mars. [10]
Titianus falls before the dancer Theocritus, the noble Papinian before the murderer Caracalla, our splendid Alexander before such a wretch as Zminis; and divine reason lets it all happen, and allows human reason to proclaim the law. [10]
Napoleon merely laid the cross on Lazarev's breast and, dropping his hand, turned toward Alexander as though sure that the cross would adhere there. [2]
The other contains the body of the great Alexander, to whom the city owes its origin and name. [10]
Tramp--the man with the air of a young Alexander, with a voice like the low notes of the guitar thrown to the flames! [11]
Let us assume that this program was possible and had then been formulated, and that Alexander had acted on it. [2]
It was rumored that Savary had been sent to propose to Alexander a meeting with Napoleon. [2]
The very day that Napoleon issued the order to cross the Niemen, and his vanguard, driving off the Cossacks, crossed the Russian frontier, Alexander spent the evening at the entertainment given by his aides-de-camp at Bennigsen's country house. [2]
They finally decided that Alexander should try to discover the maiden who so strangely resembled the dead; and the artist was ready for the task, for he could only work when his heart was light, and had never felt such a weight on it before. [10]
Hitherto Alexander had taken no part in the conversation. [10]
But here they take their right place, and Caesar and Napoleon and Alexander have to take a back seat. [5]
Hand me your tablets; if the others are no worse--" "But they are," Alexander exclaimed, anxiously, and I only regret that I should be the instrument of your tormenting yourself--" "Tormenting? [10]
And Castor was strong too while Alexander tried to keep him off with his right hand, holding on to Agatha with his left, the shouts of the deaconess and her accomplice soon collected a crowd. [10]
At this Horapollo stepped up to Alexander, his eyes flashing with rage, and demanded that the intruder should be forbidden to speak; but the commanding eye of the new-comer rested on the dyer, who bowed his head and allowed him to proceed. [10]
At least those sort of folks are often built askew, as that scoundrel was," replied Alexander, lightly. [10]
The prefect was sorry for my father and Alexander, but ended by saying that he himself needed an intercessor; for, if it were not to-day, at any rate to-morrow, the actor would inveigle Caesar into signing his death-warrant. [10]
But on Saturday some one knocked at the door of his modest little room and introduced himself as Alexander von Humboldt's valet. [10]
Scared as though some imminent horror threatened herself, she clasped Melissa's hand as she listened to the tale of the dangers Alexander had so narrowly escaped. [10]
Then he rose slowly, and looked keenly at Alexander, exclaiming: "I should almost like to try you. [10]
Had she not slept in her quiet little room; had she been rushing with Alexander in the wild Bacchic rout; or had something dreadful happened to his son? [10]
Hay pronounced the sketch a masterpiece, and wrote immediately to his old Cleveland friend, Alexander Gunn, prince of connoisseurs in art and literature. [5]
To speak a single word in behalf of Alexander or your father would be to fling myself into the fire without putting it out. [10]
The most splendid sight of all was the procession of priests, with Timotheus, the high-priest of Serapis, at their head, and by his side the priest of Alexander, both marching with dignity under a canopy. [10]
The facts clearly show that Napoleon did not foresee the danger of the advance on Moscow, nor did Alexander and the Russian commanders then think of luring Napoleon on, but quite the contrary. [2]
But how could she think of such a thing?--she, the sister of Alexander, the betrothed of Diodoros, whom she truly loved! [10]
Gladly and quickly she hurried through the empty, dimly lighted rooms, and found Alexander in a sitting position, half asleep and half awake, with closed eyes. [10]
How often had she heard of the annoyances in which this man had involved her father and Alexander, who were apt to be very short with the man! [10]
Alexander, too, was seeking Philip; but, sharp as the artist's eyes were, Melissa's seemed to be keener, for, just as they were giving it up and turning to go, she pointed to a dark corner and said softly, "There he is. [10]
His longing to see his daughter and the desire to speak with Caesar had driven him out of the house, and Alexander had, of course, accompanied him. [10]
Alexander witnessed the scene, his impetuous, heroic courage bore him on, and he too ordered: "Forward! [10]
Alexander seemed to resist Caesar's demands; but presently the despot must have proposed something which pleased the artist, for Melissa heard the low, musical laugh which had often cheered her in moments of sadness. [10]
You are to represent the bride of Alexander, and pride and delight have changed you wonder fully in a single night--but I think to your disadvantage. [10]
While Caracalla was receiving the thanks of the astrologers, he caught sight of Alexander, and at once graciously inquired how Melissa had got back to her fathers house. [10]
In the first rank of the brilliant circle of distinguished ecclesiastics, ambassadors and grandees, who surrounded the queen, stood the Austrian archdukes, and the handsome, youthful figures of Alexander of Parma and of Don Juan, the half-brother of King Philip. [10]
Little six-year-old Alexander ran towards her with open arms, hugged her closely, pressed his curly head against her, and gazed into her face with his large clear eyes. [10]
In "Winslow's Relation," quoted by Alexander Young in his "Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers," under date of July, 1623, we read that on account of a great drought a fast day was appointed. [4]
I had the privilege of meeting Alexander von Humboldt at a small dinner party, and his image is vividly imprinted on my memory. [10]
Alexander Barbour, its president, had been a great man, but after that he bowed, in certain matters, to a greater one. [9]
Alexander Duncan is president of the Central. [9]

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