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Sentences starting with american

American managers might want to make a note of that. [5]
American monkeys beat the wild oranges on the branches until the rind is cracked, and then tear it off with the fingers of the two hands. [1]
American participation meant the triumph of the forces of reaction. [9]
American Claimant Of the Great Earldom of Rossmore' in the Peerage of Great Britain. [5]
American enterprise has surely lagged in this. [9]
American coffee, with real cream. [5]
American genius had not then evolved the false entry method of overcapitalization. [9]
American literature was not only born,--it was able to go alone. [4]
American and English millionaires do it every day, and thus verify and confirm to the world the tremendous forces that lie in religion. [5]
American Indians,' 3rd ed., 1842, vol. [1]

Sentences ending with american

One day Louisiana would be American. [9]
There she was what she was, and you were what you are, not a Frenchman, not Catholic, and an American--no, not an American--a South American. [11]
In our house we have a Japan room, and an Indian room, and a Chinese room, and an Otaheite, and I don't know what--Egyptian, Greek, and not one American, not a really American. [4]
I said I was obliged to him for his compliment, since I knew he meant it for one, but that I was not fairly entitled to it, for I did not speak English at all--I only spoke American. [5]
And yet it was American. [4]
If ever man took large and eager hold of earthly things and appropriated them to his own use, it is the American. [4]
The reader of to-day who has the curiosity to inquire into the correctness of this opinion will, if he is familiar with the romances of the eighteenth century, find little originality in Brown's stories, and nothing distinctively American. [4]
But to return to our American. [4]
All you need to do is to use the common formula over here: go and say, 'I'm an American! [5]
Nothing can surpass the dauntless independence of all form, ceremony, fashion, or reputation of a downright, unsophisticated American. [4]

Short sentences using american

Longfellow an American Writer. [5]
Broiled chicken, American style. [5]
For the American snipe, Capt. [1]
That American told me so. [5]
Catlin, 'North American Indians,' 3rd. [1]
The American winked at us. [11]
Louisiana became American at last. [9]
Sasenoshky--in the American army. [9]
Her mother was an American. [11]
You are an American. [9]

Sentences containing american two or more times

And on this voyage I was reminded of Josiah Royce's splendid summary of the American philosophy--of the American religion as set forth by William James: "The spirit of the frontiers-man, of the gold-seeker or the home-builder transferred to the metaphysical or to the religious realm. [9]
We are here to celebrate one of the greatest events of American history, and not only in American history, but in the world's history. [5]
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe; but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die. [5]
For a long time the one American counteraction, almost the only, to this English influence was the newspaper, which has always kept alive and diffused a distinctly American spirit--not always lovely or modest, but national. [4]
There was not the name of a single American attached to the Declaration of Independence--in fact, there was not an American in the country in that day except the Indians out on the plains. [5]
While we revere the Fourth of July--and let us always revere it, and the liberties it conferred upon us--yet it was not an American event, a great American day. [5]
Old Ben Franklin, the father of American science and the American Union, was n't ashamed to be born here. [6]
He called this the Cincinnatus theory: that any American, because he was an American, was fit for any job in the gift of state or city or government, from sheriff to Ambassador to Great Britain. [9]
It is like the assertion that the American government is the best in the world; no doubt it is, for the American people. [4]
Captain Ormsby, in the American ship Hornet, touched at Pitcairn's nearly four months after the admiral's visit, and from the facts which he gathered there we now know all about that American. [5]

More example sentences with the word american in them

She was a young woman of thirty, slim to spareness, simply dressed in a shirtwaist and a dark blue skirt; alert, so distinctly American in type as to give a suggestion of the Indian. [9]
If the American young man and young woman get it into their heads that repose, especially of manner, is the correct thing, they will go in for it in a way to astonish the world. [4]
When you say you will do a thing 'directly,' you mean 'immediately'; in the American language--generally speaking--the word signifies 'after a little. [5]
During the long years of their union Mrs. Ebers was his active helpmate, many of the business details relating to his works and their American and English editions being transacted by her. [10]
Somebody has been writing to me about "Oatmeal and Literature," and somebody else wants to know whether I have found character influenced by diet; also whether, in my opinion, oatmeal is preferable to pie as an American national food. [6]
Mr. Chesterton, in writing about the American Revolution, observes that the real case for the colonists is that they felt that they could be something which England would not help them to be. [9]
These were the writers who helped to make the "North American Review" what it was during the period of Emerson's youth and early manhood. [6]
Probably, therefore, it would not suit the American, whose imagination does not work so easily backward as forward, and who prefers to build his own nest rather than settle in anybody else's rookery. [4]
I thought I would have twelve dollars to, begin life with in America, but the American Consul took two of them for making a certificate that I was shipped on the steamer. [5]
My word "fountain" would be correct; it would speak the strict truth; and it would convey the strict truth to the handful of Syrians, and the strictest misinformation to the North American millions. [5]
Strangely enough, Mr. Worthington's remarks on American Indians are not only intelligent, but interesting. [9]
The United American Workers (who were half foreigners by birth) passed resolutions denouncing Henderson for employing foreign pauper labor, and organized more than one strike while the house was building. [4]
Morgan's most interesting work, 'The American Beaver,' 1868, p. 300. [1]
The distribution of work in a hive is as cleverly and elaborately specialized as it is in a vast American machine-shop or factory. [5]
For he still wore unconsciously the colors of the army of the American Republic. [9]
It is not within our best-fenced churches and creeds that the self-governing American is like to find the religious freedom which the Concord prophet asserted with the strength of Luther and the sweetness of Melancthon, and which the sovereign in his shirt-sleeves will surely claim. [6]
Now the trouble with an American paper is that it has no discrimination; it rakes the whole earth for blood and garbage, and the result is that you are daily overfed and suffer a surfeit. [5]
I could have wished to leave untold the story of the English mission, an episode in Motley's life full of heart-burnings, and long to be regretted as a passage of American history. [6]
And, by a wise provision in the Constitution of our glorious American Union, no one state could tie the nuptial knot so tight that another state could not cut it at a blow. [9]
With the shifting wind and the passing clouds the scene was in perpetual change; now the American Fall was creamy white, and the mist below dark, and again the heavy mass was gray and sullen, and the mist like silver spray. [4]
However, that American will point you right, and you'll go. [5]
There is something,--I will not stop now to try and define it,--but there is something by which we recognize an American among the English before he speaks and betrays his origin. [6]
Mr. Motley's successor will find his mission wonderfully facilitated by the firmness and discretion that have presided over the conduct of American affairs in this country during too brief a term, too suddenly and unaccountably concluded. [6]
The average American will be inclined to regard the program of the new British Labour Party as the embodiment of what he vaguely calls Socialism, and to him the very word is repugnant. [9]
Therefore, on the whole, if he were a superior fellow, incapable of mistaking it for personal conceit, I think I would let out the fact of the real American feeling about Old-World folks. [6]
The good American who hired me to go to his country is to pay me $12 a month, which is immense wages, you know--twenty times as much as one gets in China. [5]
These are they who deplore the absence among us of a tradition of monarchy, since the American people "should have something to look up to. [9]
When, a little while after the establishment of the new magazine, the "Saturday Club" gathered about the long table at "Parker's," such a representation of all that was best in American literature had never been collected within so small a compass. [6]
The pernicious doctrines which we have announced as prevailing in American society have been again illustrated. [5]
During the years which immediately followed his departure from college, Warner led the somewhat desultory and apparently aimless life of many American graduates whose future depends upon their own exertions and whose choice of a career is mainly determined by circumstances. [4]
It was one which I had heard attributed to every humorous person who had ever stood on American soil, from Columbus down to Artemus Ward. [5]
The dread returned when the party approached again the turmoil of the American Fall, and fell again under the influence of the merciless haste of the flood. [4]
At a moment when the body-guard appeared to be most ostentatious in his freedom from clothing the American said to his Majesty: "King, do you know what 1/60th of your standing army is? [11]
I remember that when Leverrier discovered the Milky Way, he and the other astronomers began to theorize about it in substantially the same fashion which M. Bourget employs in his seasonings about American social facts and their origin. [5]
The pleasantest hours were those of our afternoon drive in the Champs Elysees and the Bois de Boulogne,--or "the Boulogne Woods," as our American tailor's wife of the old time called the favorite place for driving. [6]
My overcoat pockets were stuffed with German cigars and linen packages of American smoking tobacco, and a porter was following us around with this overcoat on his arm, and gradually getting it upside down. [5]
The original members were selected by an invitation from the American Social Science Association, which acted under the power of its charter from the Congress of the United States. [4]
Under the trees were hundreds of tables surrounded by hovering ministering angels in white, and if you were German, they brought you beer; if American, ice-cream. [9]
After this A---- went to a musical party, dined with the Vaughans, and had a good time among American friends. [6]
About midnight I went away, in company with the military attaches of the British, Italian, and American embassies, to finish with a late smoke. [5]
He eyed the well-scraped over-mantel askance and saw, with scarcely concealed astonishment, a fine, old, carved wooden seat carried out of doors to make room for an American rocking-chair. [11]
An hour later we were on board his yacht, Wilderness, being introduced to MacGregor, the captain, to Mr. Dagmar Caramel, C.M.G., his guest, and to some freshly made American cocktails. [11]
In the afternoon we went to our Minister's to see the American ladies who had been presented at the drawing-room. [6]
In their place we have to-day that American institution and apostle of wide humanity--Mark Twain. [5]
What would George Washington do, the father of his country, the only American who could not tell a lie? [5]
One gentleman, who was very familiar with American literature, said he had never seen it mentioned in any book. [5]
In Bombay I was told by an American missionary that in India there are 640 Protestant missionaries at work. [5]
The nebula which was to form a cluster about the "North American Review" did not take definite shape until 1815. [6]
An American edition was published by the Harpers at the same time as the London one. [6]
At first he was preoccupied, and answered absently across the table the questions of the Englishman and the Austrian about American politics, and talked to the lady of social prominence on his right not at all; nor to Mrs. Pomfret'--who excused him. [9]
The following winter was passed in Rome, among many English and American friends. [6]
A new sense was opened up in her, and she felt somehow that the ultra-marine blue was not right, that the over-mantel had been spoiled, that the new walnut table was too noticeable, and that the American rocking-chair looked very common. [11]
If the amnesty was not granted, then one of two things should happen--the ship must make for a South American port, or she must fight. [11]
And I, myself, was not able to say that I had seen it mentioned in a book; and yet the autumn foliage, with all other American scenery, has received full and competent attention. [5]
William Dean Howells was in those days writing those vividly realistic, indeed photographic stories which fixed his place among American men of letters. [5]
But the American was in a fever of impatience, desirous, if possible, to get on that night. [4]
But King, who was immensely interested in it all as one phase of American summer life, was glad that Irene was not at Ocean Grove. [4]
Once, while I was hungrily taking in one of these surprises, and doing my best to get all I possibly could of it while it should last, I was interrupted by a young and care-free voice: "You're an American, I think--so'm I. [5]
When the heat was greatest and the spiritual gloom thickest the American threw out the sand-bags, as it were, and hope mounted again. [11]
Among our passengers was an American with a unique vocation. [5]
All day she was American, practically, and proud of the work of her head and hands and its commercial result; all the evening she took holiday and dwelt in a rich shadow-land peopled with titled and coroneted fictions. [5]
Do you really want to know "whether oatmeal is preferable to pie as an American national food"? [6]
These two American volumes succeeding Pierre were published under the title of An Adventurer of the North and A Romany of the Snows respectively. [11]
Nil admirari is very well for a North American Indian and his degenerate successor, who has grown too grand to admire anything but himself, and takes a cynical pride in his stolid indifference to everything worth reverencing or honoring. [6]
There were two very pleasant Americans, who spoke American, going on in the diligence at half-past five in the morning, on their way over the Simplex. [4]
I had a very complete set of the "American Journal of the Medical Sciences;" an entire set of the "North American Review," and many volumes of the reprints of the three leading British quarterlies. [3]
The American was very business- like in the matter, but this admission fee was our only contribution to the expenses of that cruise. [11]
He made himself very agreeable by abundant details concerning the religious, political, social, commercial, and educational progress of the South American cities and states. [6]
France stole that vast country on that spot, the future Napoleon; and by and by Napoleon himself was to give the country back again!--make restitution, not to the owners, but to their white American heirs. [5]
There was no valley so darkened by overshadowing hills that it did not see the American flag hauled down on the 13th of April. [6]
He talked about Utah, and the Indians, and Nevada, and general American matters and questions, with our secretary and certain government officials who came with us. [5]
Of course the usual American relief of irritability and impatience suggested itself. [4]
The commendation bestowed upon Motley's historical essays in "The North American Review" must have gone far towards compensating him for the ill success of his earlier venture. [6]
During the journey up the Forty-Mile Track to Kilauea, the American enveloped 1/60th of his Majesty's standing army with his Michigan Avenue and peanut-stand wit, and not always, it was observed, out of the hearing of the King, who nevertheless preserved a marked unconsciousness. [11]
I will hunt up the American Claimant the first thing in the morning, accomplish my mission, then change my lodging and vanish from scrutiny under a fictitious name. [5]
Whereupon he girded up his loins and went forth and preached the word of Jacksonian Democracy in all the farmhouses roundabout, with such effect that Samuel Todd and others were able to talk with some fluency about the rights of American citizens. [9]
It is not unusual to have American gentlemen in New Orleans, for many come here first and last. [9]
They were frequently under fire --when they brought back the wounded or fetched car-loads of munitions to the great guns on the ridiculous little trains of flat cars with open-work wheels, which they named--with American humour--the Federal Express and the Twentieth Century Limited. [9]
Then, when the Two Strange People had been struck with panic, the Syrian donkey- market, and the five hundred feddans of American cotton, and the new schools would be his for a song--or a curse. [11]
He has built two or three breeds of American coquettes out of anecdotes-- mainly "biased" ones, I suppose; and, as they occur "in literature," furnished by his pen, they must be "all libelous. [5]
If the following two lines which I have cut from it are your natural handwriting, then I understand you to ask me "for a farewell letter in the name of the American people. [5]
Now would Mark Twain remark to this: 'An American is not such a fool: when a creditor stands in his way he closes his doors, and reopens them the following day. [5]
I have been trying, ever since I have been here, to ascertain the price of oranges; not for purposes of exportation, nor yet for the personal importation that I daily practice, but in order to give an American basis of fact to these idle chapters. [4]
Even now the truer spiritual goal is glimpsed through the battle clouds, and has been hailed in world-reverberating phrases by our American President. [9]
Lise was a truer daughter of her time and country in that she had the national contempt for law, was imbued with the American hero-worship of criminals that caused the bombardment of Cora Wellman's jail with candy, fruit and flowers and impassioned letters. [9]
He is the true history of the American people in his time. [6]
The neighbourhood they traversed was characteristic of our rapidly expanding American cities. [9]
We left the train and mounted the donkeys, along with our invited guests--pleasant young gentlemen from the officers' list of an American man-of-war. [5]
I wrote The Trail of the Sword because the early history of the struggles between the French and English and the North American Continent interested me deeply and fascinated my imagination. [11]
By inheritance, by tradition, by habits of thought, Austen Vane was an American,--an American as differentiated from the citizen of any other nation upon the earth. [9]
The American Board's trade is financed mainly from the graveyards. [5]
He therefore boldly took the step of self-ennobling, and gave himself forth--as he said, obeying "the voice of the people at large"--as "Lord Timothy Dexter," by which appellation he has ever since been known to the American public. [6]
It is, perhaps, too much to say that all the American novel needs for its development is an audience, but it is safe to say that an audience would greatly assist it. [4]
But nothing is too grand for the American, in the way of titles. [6]
Many people have told me that they had seen the original of Charley Steele in an American lawyer. [11]
I'll go back to Washington, and if the government has any backbone, if it's still American, they'll go to work or fight! [9]
I am inclined to think that the reporting department is the weakest in the American newspaper, and that there is just ground for the admitted public distrust of it. [4]
I never belonged to the American party organization, nor ever to a party called a Union party; though I hope I neither am or ever have been less devoted to the Union than yourself or any other patriotic man. [7]
The American desired to take the one by which we had not come; the rest of us, tired out, preferred to go as we came--the shortest way. [11]
You have but to take the oath of allegiance to the Continental Congress to become free, even as we are, to enjoy the blessings of that American government under which we live and for which we fight. [9]

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