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Sentences starting with banks

Banks was already there to dress me, to congratulate me as discreetly as a well-trained servant should; nor did he remind me of the fact that he had offered to lend me money, for which omission I liked him the better. [9]
Banks brought me the news that Lord Comyn was sitting up, and had been asking for me that day; that he was recovering beyond belief. [9]
Banks was with me. [9]
Banks was on hand in the morning to assist at my toilet, and was greatly downcast when I refused him this privilege, for the first time. [9]
Banks were denying credit, businesses were forced to the wall. [5]
Banks had just concluded a discreet discourse upon my accomplishment of the day before, and had left for my newspapers, when he came running back with the information that Miss Manners would see my honour that day. [9]

Sentences ending with banks

I don't deal with banks. [11]
To-day its sacred waters are still sweet, but soon it will taste as salt as the north sea with all the tears that have been shed on its banks. [10]
Of course the water was nowhere as clear or of as fine a complexion as it is in some other seasons of the year; for now it was at flood stage, and therefore dimmed and blurred by the mud manufactured from caving banks. [5]
The sacred Nile was dried up, and not a blade of verdure was green on its banks. [10]
Fortunately, a murder was committed in one of our suburbs, creating a mystery that filled the "extras" for some weeks, and this was opportunely followed by the embezzlement of a considerable sum by the cashier of one of our state banks. [9]
Are they going to peg all the banks? [5]
Rivulets dashed into the streets from the gutters on the steep roofs of Leyden; the water in the canals and ditches grew turbid and rose towards the edges of the banks. [10]
The blossoms of the haw perfumed the air deliciously, and a few birds whistled blithely along the banks. [5]
Then he instructed the banks. [11]
Smith himself says that Chambers had persuaded the French admiral that if Smith was let to go on his boat he would revenge himself on the French fisheries on the Banks. [4]

Short sentences using banks

There was Banks. [9]

Sentences containing banks two or more times

I only know that while New Yorkers are burdened with banks and drifts of snow, Californians are burdened with banks and drifts of flowers, if they only keep their hands off and let them grow. [5]
Through the larger part of the river works of contraction will not be required, but nearly all the banks on the concave side of the beds must be held against the wear of the stream, and much of the opposite banks defended at critical points. [5]
Stripped of the green magnolias and the cane, the banks of clay stood forth in hideous yellow nakedness, save for a lonely stunted growth, or a bare trunk that still stood tottering on the edge of a banks its pitiful withered roots reaching out below. [9]
On the twenty-fifth day of November five hundred and eighty-four national banks had been organized, a considerable number of which were conversions from State banks. [7]
They wall up both banks with slanting solid stone masonry--so that from end to end of these rivers the banks look like the wharves at St. Louis and other towns on the Mississippi River. [5]

More example sentences with the word banks in them

This will give you control of both banks of the river. [7]
The river-banks are woven with osiers to keep them from washing; and at intervals on the banks are piles of the long withes to be used in emergencies when the swollen streams threaten to break through. [4]
Shall they be withdrawn from Banks, or Grant, or Steele, or Rosecrans? [7]
Among the notes with which my table was laden, Banks had found a scrawl. [9]
General Banks at Williamsport, with his old force and his new force at Harper's Ferry, is directed to co-operate. [7]
The south winds whistled through the woods, as the waters dashed against the banks, as rapid fire in the pent furnace roars. [5]
In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen had been, was nothing but a wide expanse of emerald turf, with not even the faintest sign that human life had ever been present there. [5]
Warm, still days were interspersed between the windy ones, when the sky was turquoise blue, when the very river banks were steeped in new colours, when the distant, shadowy mountains became real. [9]
Under this pressure We thinned the line on the upper Potomac, until yesterday it was broken with heavy loss to us, and General Banks put in great peril, out of which he is not yet extricated, and may be actually captured. [7]
I made my way, Banks behind me, into Church Street, past the "Ship" tavern, which brought memories of the brawl there, and of Captain Clapsaddle forcing the mob, like chaff, before his sword. [9]
A southerly wind was sending great rolls of fog before it as Mr. Swain and I, with Banks, crossed over to Kent Island on the ferry the next morning. [9]
The poor invalid was carried up the stairs in a faint by Banks and Romney. [9]
Close to it was a stream, and on its banks a great herd of curious-looking Syrian goats and sheep were gratefully eating gravel. [5]
The faithful Banks vowed, with tears in his eyes, that he would never desert me. [9]
The only lights visible were in the low houses lining the banks of the river. [11]
We'll have all Upper Egypt on the banks of the Nile waiting to see what happens to Mustapha. [11]
A few miles up this river, the depth of water on the banks was fully eight feet, and on all sides could be seen, still holding against the strong current, the tops of cabins. [5]
Presently, from the top of the hill, they looked down upon the long line of little homes lying along the banks of the river like peaceful watchmen in a pleasant land, with corn and wine and oil at hand. [11]
But at last, to their great joy, it led downwards in a steep descent, with overhanging banks over which the footpaths led; and the clustered houses of the village peeped from the woody hollow below. [12]
I looked, not to the northeast whence the banks of cloud had risen, but to the southwest, and it seemed as though a little speck was there against the hurrying film of cloud. [9]
When they came to the higher banks covered with dense scrub, Angers paused, and told Marie where they were. [11]
The bill proposes to repeal the existing legislation prohibiting the circulation of bank-notes of a less denomination than five dollars within the District of Columbia, without permitting the issuing of such bills by banks not now legally authorized to issue them. [7]
This attracted men to him personally, and besides he found, as Bismarck did, that it was more serviceable to him than lying, for the crafty world usually banks upon insincerity and indirectness. [4]
What shapes, when thy arriving tolls, Shall crowd the banks to see? [9]
Its banks, and those of the brook are respectably adorned with blooming oleanders, but the unutterable beauty of the spot will not throw a well-balanced man into convulsions, as the Syrian books of travel would lead one to suppose. [5]
We have so thinned our line to get troops for other places that it was broken yesterday at Front Royal, with a probable loss to us of one regiment infantry, two Companies cavalry, putting General Banks in some peril. [7]
Like ghostly vessels they passed on, until at last they could hear the stir and murmur of life along the banks of the stream. [11]
He had relieved them of such money as was in their pockets, and then had caused them to write sumptuous cheques on their banks, payable to bearer. [11]
Along the banks the young people were straying. [6]
They burst from the palm-trees and rushed down to the banks with cries of rage, murder, and death; for now they saw him fighting for his life. [11]
Everything that bore the name of Egyptian was hateful or suspicious to the Roman, and it was hard to forgive this woman, born on the banks of the Nile, for having seen Julius Caesar at her feet and compelled Mark Antony to do her bidding. [10]
Ere long, however, the moon rose; the objects that loomed on the banks and were mirrored in the stream, were again clearly visible and lost their terrors. [10]
Like clockwork from the Mississippi's banks beyond came the boom and shriek of the coehorns on the barges. [9]
In 1673 Joliet the merchant, and Marquette the priest, crossed the country and reached the banks of the Mississippi. [5]
Before I gained the Life Guard's House I met a dozen horsemen, amongst them Banks on a mount of Mr. Fox's. [9]
Every day while the garden lasted flowers were in my room, and it was Banks who told me that she would allow no other hands than her own to place them by my bed. [9]
At length arrived the eve of St. John, when the lower classes of Granada swarm into the country, dance away the afternoon, and pass midsummer's night on the banks of the Darro and the Xenil. [4]
The walls of the ditch were brilliant with yellow banks of sulphur and with lava and pumice-stone of many colors. [5]
The people on the banks shouted Bent-Anat's name with a thousand blessings, but many insulting words were to be heard also. [10]
He came from the banks of the Mississippi--from the flatboatmen, pilots, roustabouts, farmers and village folk of a rude, primitive people--as Lincoln did. [5]
It transfers to the banks of the Mississippi the incidents of a strange murder which was committed in Sweden in old times. [5]
The river brushed the banks like rustling silk, and the only other sound, very sharp and clear in the liquid monotone, was the crack of a woodpecker's beak on a hickory tree. [11]
The water cleaves the banks away like a knife. [5]
I noticed also that there were very few fishers on the banks or in the river. [11]
Never had vessels taken such risks on the Nile before, never had pilots trusted so to instinct, for there were sand- banks and ugly drifts of rock here and there. [11]
Changes from State systems to the national system are rapidly taking place, and it is hoped that very soon there will be in the United States no banks of issue not authorized by Congress and no bank-note circulation not secured by the Government. [7]
The Saskatchewan flowed swiftly between its verdant banks, an eagle went floating away to the west, robins made vocal a solitary tree a few yards away, troopers moved backwards and forwards across the square, and a hen and her chickens came fluttering to the threshold. [11]
The current is swift, the banks are steep and high as a house down below there. [11]
With the first suspicion of dawn, every pilgrim took off his clothes and waded into the dark torrent, singing: "On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, And cast a wistful eye To Canaan's fair and happy land, Where my possessions lie. [5]
It was the stern-wheeled tub Amenhotep, which churned her way up and down the Nile, scraping over sand banks, butting the shores with gaiety embarrassing--for it was the time of cholera, just before the annual rise of the Nile. [11]
These had high, steep banks on each side, and every time we flew down one bank and scrambled up the other, our party inside got mixed somewhat. [5]
He ran up stairs and wrote glowingly, enthusiastically, to his mother about the hogs and the corn, the banks and the eye-water--and added a few inconsequential millions to each project. [5]
Along its banks sprang up in succession the generations of man. [4]
The great and splendid Zeus of the Greeks has been transformed into Serapis here, on the banks of the Nile, and has become a god of the nether world. [10]
The suspension of specie payments by the banks soon after the commencement of your last session made large issues of United States notes unavoidable. [7]
All unconsciously she sought a relationship rarely to be found in banks and business offices; would yield herself to none other. [9]
He was the son of Fulvia, his father's first wife, and feeling himself a Roman, would have preferred a thousand times to live on the banks of the Tiber. [10]
The river was so low, and the banks rose so high, that it was impossible to see over them. [10]
By morning the snow is drifted in banks, and two feet deep on a level. [4]
His stronghold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of those green, sheltered, fertile nooks in which the Dutch farmers are so fond of nestling. [4]
We went slipping silently along, between the green and fragrant banks, with a sense of pleasure and contentment that grew, and grew, all the time. [5]
How fine the shade trees, and what brilliant banks of flowers! [4]
The orders already sent you and Banks place you and him in the proper positions for the work assigned you. [7]
The furniture, it seemed, had come from his own house in what was called the Wilderness Road, not far from the river banks, over the site of which limited trains now rolled on their way eastward toward the northernmost of the city's bridges. [9]
On the first Saturday of June, a fortnight before her disappearance, Myrtle strolled off by the river shore, along its lonely banks, and came dome with her hands full of leaves and blossoms. [6]
The invalid mother sat in her chair within the door; the servants were gathered on the lawn, and Ivie Rawlinson and Banks lingered where they had held my stirrup. [9]
At length she said: "Angers, take me to the river, and then on down, until we come to the high banks. [11]
So life may run on like a leaden stream, and everything that grows and blossoms on its banks remain scentless and grey. [10]
They reached a river that had overflowed its banks and which they had to cross by ferry. [2]
As the 2500 reported by you seemed small to me, I feared some had got to Banks and been cut off with him. [7]
Fill that whole region with an impenetrable gloom of smoke from a hundred miles of burning bagasse piles, when the river is over the banks, and turn a steamboat loose along there at midnight and see how she will feel. [5]
I was so reflecting the morning following Lord Carlisle's dinner, when Banks announced a footman. [9]
Nor is it rare to see those who started in company for the gates of pearl seated together on the banks that border the avenue to that other portal, gathering the roses for which it is so famous. [6]
It was not precisely the kind of weather in which people usually take tea in summer-houses, far less in summer-houses in an advanced state of decay, and overlooking the slimy banks of a great river at low water. [12]
As at Pilcher's Point, for instance, where the cabins had been moved back three hundred yards in three months, so we were told; but the caving banks had already caught up with them, and they were being conveyed rearward once more. [5]
A band was playing "The Banks o' Garry Owen," and the tramp of marching men came to his ears. [11]
These performances took place on the site of the future town of Napoleon, Arkansas, and there the first confiscation-cross was raised on the banks of the great river. [5]
The beds of papyrus on the banks now grew partly on dry land, and their rank green had faded to straw-color. [10]
You shall have paper for plans, and men and money for travel and works-cuttings, and pumps, and sand-bags for banks and barrages. [11]
How we made our way, benumbed with hunger and cold, to the banks of the Wabash, I know not. [9]
About forty of our British birds (excluding those of large size which could defend themselves) build in holes in banks, rocks, or trees, or construct domed nests. [1]
How charming the open glades of the river, how refreshing the great forests of oak and chestnut, and what a panorama of beauty the banks of rhododendrons, now intermingled with the lighter pink and white of the laurel! [4]
While you have only asked for Sigel, I have spoken only of Banks, and this because Sigel's force is now the principal part of Bank's force. [7]
There was no one to advise me, for Colonel Clark was far away, building a fort on the banks of the Mississippi. [9]
Twilight was coming on, the train was winding through the mountain passes, crossing and re-crossing a swift little stream whose banks were massed with alder; here and there, on the steep hillsides, blazed the goldenrod.... [9]
As I hurried on I saw that the lights usually set on the banks of the river were scattered through the town. [11]
The small town on both banks of the river expands, ere the Enz loses itself in the leafage, into the Kurplatz, where one stately building of lightred sandstone adjoins another. [10]
There were seven of us walking on the crater of the volcano: great banks of sulphur on the right, dark glaciers of lava on the left, high walls of scoria and volcanic crust enveloping us all about. [11]
Along the sides of the room were deep alcoves, like bay windows; and in each of these lay several marble- visaged babes, utterly hidden and buried under banks of fresh flowers, all but their faces and crossed hands. [5]
On the banks of the Osage he fell in with two other young amen in as bad a plight as himself. [9]
On the banks of the Musketaquid was fired the first fatal shot of the "rebel" farmers. [6]
With this intrusion of the commonplace, I suffered an eclipse of faith as to Evangeline, and was not sorry to have my attention taken up by the river Avon, along the banks of which we were running about this time. [4]
Their long chain of hillocks offered a firmer and more unconquerable resistance to the pressure of the sea, than the earthworks and redoubts of Alfen, Leyderdorp and Valkenburg, the three forts situated close to the banks of the Rhine, presented to hostile armies. [10]
There were flocks of herons and cranes and water pelicans, and I know not what other birds, and as we slipped under the banks we often heard the paroquets chattering in the forests. [9]
The exposed condition of General Banks makes his immediate relief a point of paramount importance. [7]
Upon the question of expediency, we only ask you to examine the history of the times during the existence of the two banks, and compare those times with the miserable present. [7]
I caught sight of Davenport, the tailor, with a wry face, talking against the noise; of Banks, the man I had hired, resplendent in my livery. [9]
Despite the protests of Banks and Fitzpatrick, and of Mr. Fox (who arrived early, not having been to bed at all), I jumped into a chaise and drove to Brook Street. [9]
What you really object to, when you come down to it, is that men like my father and me, and the bankers,--we're all in the same boat, most of 'us own banks, too,--control the conditions of life for you and men like you. [9]
Let the force now under Patterson or Banks be strengthened and made secure in its position. [7]

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