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Sentences starting with bill

Bill Cowan, doubled up behind a woodpile and breathing heavily, nudged me. [9]
Bill Noakes, put these handcuffs on; now come up close. [5]
Bill Clements is prominent enough up at Groveton. [9]
Bill Cowan and me will not be feeling the heft of it bechune us. [9]
Bill wanted to kill Turner. [5]
Bill is there in every respect. [5]
Bill Noakes, fall in ahead, and march. [5]
Bill Cowan and his friends stared at this diminutive Frenchman, open-mouthed, as he poured forth a veritable torrent of unintelligible words, plentifully mixed with sacres, which he ripped out like snarls. [9]
Bill Withers and his brother Jack come along by, talking, and Jack says: "What do you reckon he was toting? [5]
Bill Jenks was Captain Brent's senior pilot. [9]

Sentences ending with bill

I suppose that you sent for me to know whether Mr. Gaylord has employed me to lobby for his bill. [9]
Colonel, poor Laura will never get any benefit from our bill. [5]
I ask him whether he took the original provision out, which Trumbull alleges was in the bill. [7]
Let us inquire what Judge Douglas really invented when he introduced the Nebraska Bill? [7]
No doubt they were not very valuable, and without question he more than made up for them in my mother's bill. [9]
Some think it was Bill. [5]
Well, I only want you to examine into my bill. [5]
It looks to us as if he had altered the bill. [7]
It was the Truro Franchise Bill. [9]
If it is true, I fear we shall lose the bill. [7]

Short sentences using bill

I have read this bill. [5]
Yes, I know the bill. [5]
Does he study that bill? [4]
The bill is still pending. [5]
It's a mighty queer bill. [4]
Not so Bill Cowan. [9]
One was named Buffalo Bill. [5]
Then he called Bill Withers. [5]
Like to see Bill Jenks? [9]
Here's a bill, after all. [5]

Sentences containing bill two or more times

Such a bill was passed and tendered to the Republican Governor for his signature; but, principally for the reasons I have stated, he withheld his approval, and the bill fell without becoming a law. [7]
Trumbull has given the exact words that he says were in the Toomb's bill, and he alleges that when the bill came back, they were stricken out. [7]
He admits, however, that there is a literal change in the bill, and that he made the change in deference to other senators who would not support the bill without. [7]
It is said that he claims to know of improper practices having been used in the interest of this bill, and he thinks be sees a chance to make a great sensation when the bill comes up. [5]
He told Bill Ricketts so, and Bill told me afore he went East. [11]
Another of their reasons is that by the passage and continuance of Mr. Clay's bill, we prevent the passage of a bill which would give us more. [7]
Then, on the passage of the bill, the question came upon them, Shall we vote for preamble and bill together, or against both together? [7]
He said the other day that to venture out of the Capitol for a day at this time could easily chance to hurt him if the bill came up for action, meantime, although it couldn't hurt the bill, which would pass anyway. [5]
On Judge Douglas's motion, a bill, or provision of a bill, passed the Senate to so extend the Missouri line. [7]
It created a great flutter; but it stuck like wax, was voted into the bill, and the bill passed with it through the House. [7]

More example sentences with the word bill in them

Brampton had not yet received the details, but the Consolidation Bill had gone into the House that morning, and would be a law before the week was out. [9]
Now, after ten years, a bill was finally passed to pay to Moses the difference between what he earned in that unlucky year and what he received. [5]
And even the year before, a bill for Nebraska itself was within an ace of passing without the repealing clause, and this in the hands of the same men who are now the champions of repeal. [7]
Everything in this world "jibes" in with everything else, and all the fruits of this Nebraska Bill are like the poisoned source from which they come. [7]
There was no work to do; that was all finished; this was but the second session of the last winter's Congress, and its action on the bill could have but one result--its passage. [5]
We want to work three days more; if we don't find anything, we won't bring in no bill against you. [5]
But I work with might and main against his Immigration bill, --as pertinaciously and as vindictively, indeed, as he works against our University. [5]
Johnny Hedges went with him occasionally, and Henry Schneider, the bill clerk, and I listened eagerly to their experiences, afterwards confiding them to Tom.... [9]
In an encounter with a stranger, not in the bill of fare, I had lost my scalp. [5]
Ten minutes later, with a receipted bill in his pocket, Tom McMahon made for the barber's shop which Mazarine had entered. [11]
The man that will vote for that bill will break the eighth commandment in any other way, sir! [5]
He says: "I will ask the senator to show me an intimation, from any one member of the Senate, in the whole debate on the Toombs bill, and in the Union, from any quarter, that the constitution was not to be submitted to the people. [7]
I was a wild lad" (I repeat his exact words), "and I ran up a bill in Charlestown that would have filled a folio volume. [9]
If you wear white clothes you are clean, and your cleaning bill gets so heavy that you have to take care. [5]
But still later, when this very bill was first brought in, it contained no repeal. [7]
And it pinches when a body's got a bill waiting. [5]
What alterations, or what provisions in the way of altering, were going on in committee, Trumbull had no means of knowing, until the altered bill was reported back. [7]
This, if it were sound in itself, is waging destructive war with the former position; for if Mr. Clay's bill impoverishes the treasury too much, what shall be said of one that impoverishes it still more? [7]
The men who were determined that that amendment should not get into the bill, and spoil the place where the Dred Scott decision was to come in, sought an excuse to get rid of it somewhere. [7]
He says there were certain modifications made in the bill in committee that he did not vote for. [7]
You know as well as I do that Jethro has agreed to put the bill through. [9]
At every hotel we stop at we always have to send out for soap, at the last moment, when we are grooming ourselves for dinner, and they put it in the bill along with the candles and other nonsense. [5]
But how can we get a bill on this evidence? [9]
By the bill we are to receive annually a large sum of money, no part of which we otherwise receive. [7]
But if there was to be a reference, he desired to introduce his bill embracing the three propositions, thus enabling the committee and the House to act at the same time, whether favorably or unfavorably, upon all. [7]
The University bill was sure to pass this, time, and that would make money plenty, but might not the, help come too late? [5]
The University bill was safe, now; he could leave it without fear; it needed his presence and his watching no longer. [5]
When the bill was put to a vote he demanded a roll call. [9]
When the bill was passed, Hollowell did give a dinner on his own invitation, a dinner that was talked of for its refinement as well as its cost. [4]
Trumbull says it was not in the bill when it went to the committee. [7]
The district, too, was largely rural, and therefore anti-consolidation, and the inability of the Worthington forces to get their bill through had made it apparent that Jethro Bass was as powerful as ever. [9]
He says it was known that the bill was silent in this particular; but I say, Judge Douglas, it was not silent when you got it. [7]
The Nebraska-Kansas Bill was introduced four years and a half ago, and if the agitation is ever to come to an end we may say we are four years and a half nearer the end. [7]
And yet I was for the Omnibus Bill, and I am with Mr. Douglas in his local sovereignty. [9]
The committee, in view of these objections, has been solicitous to frame a bill which would not be obnoxious to them in principle or in practical effect. [7]
Trumbull then holds up another document like this, and says that is an exact copy of the bill as it came back in the amended form out of Judge Douglas's hands. [7]
He was sticking up a bill for the Royal Nonesuch--three-night performance--like that other time. [5]
If the Knobs University bill could only go through, what a change would be wrought in the condition of most of the persons in this history. [5]
The result was unexpected: the instrument was not affecting at all, but there was such a strong barometer taste to the soup that the head cook, who was a most conscientious person, changed its name in the bill of fare. [5]
Big Bill Cowan, undaunted in war, stared at me with fright written on his face. [9]
It will arraign two or three dozen of its members, or maybe four or five dozen, for taking bribes to vote for this and that and the other bill last winter. [5]
In regard to Trumbull's charge that he [Douglas] inserted a provision into the bill to prevent the constitution being submitted to the people, what was his answer? [7]
It is quite true that of the senators who passed the Nebraska Bill a majority of the whole Senate will retain their seats in spite of the elections of this and the next year. [7]
It is not true that Mr. Clay's bill prevents the passage of one more favorable to us of the new States. [7]
If it were true that Bijah had gone over to Jethro Bass, the Consolidation Bill was dead. [9]
After all Mackenzie's travels in Europe, Asia, and America with that beef; after all his trials and tribulations and transportation; after the slaughter of all those innocents that tried to collect that bill! [5]
But, before he took his seat, he would remark that the Senate during the present session had passed a bill making appropriations of land on that principle for the benefit of the State in which he resided the State of Illinois. [7]
The bill came, too: "Debtor, to 2 cats, 20 shillings. [5]
At table d'hote tonight, 3 dishes were enough for me, and then I bored along tediously through the bill of fare, with a back-ache, not daring to get up and bow to the German family and leave. [5]
At $10 per ton, or $100 per car, which would be a fair price for the distance by rail, the freight bill would amount to $180,000, or $162,000 more by rail than by river. [5]
Come up, Bill, Tom, Bob, Scotty--come up. [5]
Entertaining these objections to the bill, I feel myself constrained to withhold from it my approval and return it for the further consideration and action of Congress. [7]
He referred me to the bill of fare. [5]
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]
Mr. Lincoln moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed. [7]
Why, he tried to persuade you last night that our Illinois Legislature instructed him to introduce the Nebraska Bill. [7]
I am ready to pay you twenty thousand dollars the day that bill becomes a law. [9]
It was necessary to pass a bill for this. [7]
It isn't objectionable to me that all the trades and professions in the United States are protected by the bill. [5]
But the right to make a pursuit of happiness, given in a fundamental bill of rights, had quite a different aspect. [4]
However, in order to keep up the spirits of the Fisher family, the Auditor concluded to go back and allow interest from the date of the first petition (1832) to the date when the bill of damages was awarded. [5]
Instead of going to Jethro, he went to Heth Sutton, and Heth got the bill as far as the Committee on Corporations, and there she's been ever since, with our friend Chauncey Weed, who's whispering over there. [9]
To-night I go to Harwich and git the court to app'int an agent to repair that road, and the town'll hev to pay the bill. [9]
I will try to exert a little influence in favor of the bill. [5]
This bill seems to contemplate no end which cannot be otherwise more certainly and beneficially attained. [7]
When I returned to California by-and-by, I went up to Sacramento and presented a bill for general correspondence at twenty dollars a week. [5]
Cynthia's mind flew to Bunker Bill and the old North Church, but they went first to Faneuil Hall. [9]
Ridout was going to be their next governor if you hadn't singed him with the Pingsquit bill. [9]
This he understood to be the substance of the objections of the gentleman from Ohio to the passage of the bill. [7]
It dropped suddenly to a tone of persuasiveness and conciliation, and declaring that the bill would be merely vicious where it meant to be virtuous, ended with the question: "Shall we burn the house to roast the pig? [11]
Why, in my time they used to call the 'barkeep' Bill, or Joe, or Tom, and slap him on the shoulder; I watched for that. [5]
There is no time at this place to go into the feelings of Mr. Tom Gaylord the younger when he learned that his bill had passed the House. [9]
He ran it through, and remarked with satisfaction that it was a pretty heavy bill. [5]
At that he threw back his head and laughed, and Bill Cowan and my friends laughed with him. [9]
Buffalo Bill and Thorndike had lolled both of those toughs. [5]
But who is this, sitting beside him, who comes to William's rescue, and demands that the lady repeat the bill of fare? [9]
We cannot in this manner undertake to point out all the objections to this party measure; we present you with those stated by the Council of Revision upon returning the bill, and we ask for them a candid consideration. [7]
We'll put into this bill an appeal to our court for an order on the clerk to compel the witness to come before the court and testify, and we'll provide for a special commissioner to take depositions in the state where the witness is. [9]
Having to take the wife of a high personage of the neighbouring Republic over the line in the private car, he had astounded his master by presenting a bill for finger-bowls before the journey began. [11]
And Philip found the whole thing in the bill when he came to pay it. [5]
Then, standing on the velvet is a yellow wooden chick, with little eyes of beads, and a little wooden bill stuck in most quaintly, and a head that twists like a weathercock. [11]
And there was the Truro Franchise Bill hanging over him, with only a week left of the session, and Lovejoy's and Duncan's men sitting so tight in their seats! [9]
I ordered that the things be carted out and delivered at the dwelling of Marco, the son of Marco, by Saturday evening, and send me the bill at dinner-time Sunday. [5]
Louisville was deserted, the tavern porch vacant; but tacked on the logs beside the door was a printed bill which drew my curiosity. [9]
In spite of the strange omission of the State Tribune to print his speech and to give his victory in the matter of the Pingsquit bill proper recognition, Mr. Crewe was too big a man to stop his subscription to the paper. [9]
He has made the statement that he and his committee are giving to the Pingsquit bill and other measures--some other measures--their undivided attention. [9]
Yes means that the report of the Committee will be accepted, and that the Pingsquit bill will not pass. [9]
He also asks the question: Why did n't Trumbull propose to amend the bill, if he thought it needed any amendment? [7]
The attention of the proper committee of the House has, I am informed, been already directed to the preparation of a bill for this purpose. [7]
I said to the President, says I, 'Grant, why don't you take Santo Domingo, annex the whole thing, and settle the bill afterwards. [5]
He arranged with the planter, and mailed to Wilson the new bill of sale which sold Roxana to herself; then he telegraphed his Aunt Pratt: Have seen the awful news in the papers and am almost prostrated with grief. [5]
Leave it to the people of these old emancipating States, and I am quite certain they will decide that neither that nor any other good thing ever did or ever will come of the Nebraska Bill. [7]
Paid his bill the other day without saying a word about it. [6]
As soon as the old noblewoman heard that the bill of exchange for her son was on the way to Paris, she expressed her intention of thanking his Majesty for this noble donation. [10]
Jethro waited until the man had become upright and then held out a two-dollar bill. [9]
In the meantime the House passes an important bill dealing with the bounty on hedgehogs, and there are several card games going on in the cellar, where it is cool. [9]
In December, 1848, the heirs of George Fisher, deceased, came forward and pleaded for a "revision" of their bill of damages. [5]
The Member of the Haouse was just saying that this bill hit his constitooents in their most vital--when a pellet hit him in the feature of his countenance most exposed to aggressions and least tolerant of liberties. [6]
Old Hilary thought the Gaylords sent for him to lobby their bill through. [9]
Mr. Buckstone got the floor again and moved that the rules be suspended and the bill read a first time. [5]

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