Use branch in a sentence
Sentences starting with branch
- Branch Churches shall not organize with First Members, that special method of organization being adapted to the Mother-Church alone. [5]
- Branch sects could grow out of these practices. [5]
- Branch Office. [4]
- Branch Churches. [5]
Sentences ending with branch
- But Joshua fell upon them and utterly destroyed them, root and branch. [5]
- Confucius speak like this: 'Young woman go to young man; young bird is for green leaves, not dry branch. [11]
- S'pose we tackle that old dead-limb tree on the hill t'other side of Still-House branch? [5]
- Mr. Gould states that certain humming-birds decorate the outsides of their nests "with the utmost taste; they instinctively fasten thereon beautiful pieces of flat lichen, the larger pieces in the middle, and the smaller on the part attached to the branch. [1]
- They more nearly resemble horns than teeth, and are so manifestly useless as teeth that the animal was formerly supposed to rest his head by hooking them on to a branch! [1]
- Even now the pains shoot through my body when I think of how man after man plunged waist-deep into the icy water toward the farther branch. [9]
- After about sixteen or seventeen hours, during which I played and sung a little, now and then --always the same tune, because I didn't know any other--I laid down my harp and begun to fan myself with my palm branch. [5]
- Meanwhile a party of volunteers had made the necessary preparations for the execution, in the valley traversed by the branch. [5]
- At this period of her life she was awakening to the glories of literature and taking a special course in that branch. [9]
- But that little handful of English officials in India set their sturdy and confident grip upon it, and ripped it out, root and branch! [5]
Short sentences using branch
- What is a branch Church? [5]
Sentences containing branch two or more times
- This family became divided eight generations ago into two branches; so that the head of the above-mentioned branch is cousin in the seventh degree to the head of the other branch. [1]
More example sentences with the word branch in them
- The ferry-boat which would convey them to the gardens of Polybius started from the Agathodaemon Canal, an enlarged branch of the Nile, which connected the lake with the royal harbor and the Mediterranean; they had, therefore, to walk some distance along the shore. [10]
- The branch falls with the decay of its support, and must cling to the new growths around it, if it would not lie helpless in the dust. [6]
- Now, having established with his entire party this doctrine, having been entirely successful in that branch of his efforts in your behalf, he is ready for another. [7]
- Yet--there I agree with Archibius--life's greatest joy--love--is blended with pain, as yonder branch of exquisite roses from Dolabella, the last gift of friendship, has its sharp thorns. [10]
- I do not wish to dwell at great length on this branch of the subject at this time, but allow me to repeat one thing that I have stated before. [7]
- Then we saw what the trouble was--at some time or other we had drifted down the wrong side of an island and followed a sluggish branch of the Rhone not frequented in modern times. [5]
- As several millions were involved in this one branch of the case --the suit of the bondholders--the newspapers treated it with the consideration and dignity it deserved. [4]
- Only yesterday, we were coming down a branch of the great gorge which splits the plain in two. [4]
- I like very well to talk with gentlemen that play with my branch of entomology; I do not doubt it amused you, and if you want to see anything I can show you, I shall have no scruple in letting you see it. [6]
- Though the grass was still wet, she got down on her knees in her white skirt, the better to push the boat along the shore: once it drifted beyond their reach, and was only rescued by a fallen branch discovered with difficulty. [9]
- He said he was lonely, it is true, but he said it in a manly tone, and not as if he were repining at the inevitable condition of his devoting himself to that particular branch of science. [6]
- And the style Wald--or wood--Stromer is to be set down to the fact that this branch had, from a long past time, heretofore held the dignity of Rangers of the great forest which is the pride of Nuremberg to this very day. [10]
- It was a very slim tree that hadn't a branch on it from the bottom plumb to the top, and there it bursted out like a feather-duster. [5]
- They have drawn upon their last branch of resources, and we can now see the bottom. [7]
- All along the underside of every branch and twig is a comb of little icicles--the frozen drip. [5]
- Then we could turn from this scene to the Lake, and see every branch, and leaf, and cataract of flame upon its bank perfectly reflected as in a gleaming, fiery mirror. [5]
- In time the trunk and every branch and twig are incased in hard pure ice; so that the tree looks like a skeleton tree made all of glass--glass that is crystal-clear. [5]
- That which is true of every subject is especially true of the branch of knowledge which deals with living beings. [3]
- He had climbed to the topmost branch of the lithe and tough tree in order to take the full swing of this free creature in its sport with the western wind. [4]
- He was quick to see a bush move, to observe the flick of a branch, to catch the faintest sound of an animal origin. [11]
- I was about to say, when diverted from my subject, that occasionally one finds sage-bushes five or six feet high, and with a spread of branch and foliage in proportion, but two or two and a half feet is the usual height. [5]
- At eventide came to lurid and disordered brains the knowledge that the other branch was here. [9]
- Do you see those fine lines on the face of the water that branch out like the ribs of a fan. [5]
- She can do this without consulting the branch Church, and without explaining. [5]
- Another branch of this activity is the so-called syndicating of the author's products in the control of one salesman, in which good work and inferior work are coupled together at a common selling price and in common notoriety. [4]
- He had been there about an hour this morning when a clerk brought him a small box, which, he said, had been found inside another box belonging to the Belward-Staplings, a distant branch of the family. [11]
- It is inferable, then, that a branch Church is privileged to do in that matter as it may choose. [5]
- To have control, then, of the Readers, is to have control of the Branch Churches. [5]
- The anatomy of the scalpel and the amphitheatre was, then, becoming an exhausted branch of investigation. [3]
- The portion of the Papyrus Ebers just mentioned is now the only Egyptian source from whence we can obtain instruction concerning this important branch of ancient medicine. [10]
- When he reached the first cedar-tree, he tied his scarf upon a dead branch, and then hurried toward camp, having no more concern about finding his trail upon the return trip. [13]
- Do you remember the day I climbed out on the rotten branch of the big pear tree yonder to get you that pear--when I fell on the roof of Alfred's cabin? [9]
- Priests swarmed in the Alcazar, and soldiers belonging to every branch of military service, daily guarded or marched by the palace. [10]
- The manufacture of that article has become an extensive and therefore an important branch of industry. [6]
- At the Forty-second Street station they stopped a minute on the bridge that crosses the track to the branch road for the Central Depot, and looked up and down the long stretch of the Elevated to north and south. [8]
- We must adopt some principle of selection among the books outside of any particular branch which we may have selected for study. [6]
- I had scattered some branch schools secretly about the kingdom, and they were doing very well. [5]
- It was the snow slipping from some broad branch of the fir trees to the ground. [11]
- Mr. Speaker, I see I have but three minutes left, and this forces me to throw out one whole branch of my subject. [7]
- The satirist who said that Atlantic City is typical of Philadelphia, said also that Long Branch is typical of New York. [4]
- If everything went right, then, there would be a coroner's inquest to-morrow upon what remained of that gentleman, found suspended to the branch of a tree somewhere within a mile of the Apollinean Institute. [6]
- We used to ride up it on horseback in those days --we young people--and branch off and gather bones in a sandy region where one of the first Kamehameha's battles was fought. [5]
- The Long Branch region was the resort of politicians, and of persons of some fortune who connect politics with speculation. [4]
- There is a recognized branch of science familiar to all those who know anything of the studies relating to life, under the name of Teratology. [6]
- These she carefully put up, and hung upon the branch of a tree till her return. [5]
- Ask the wisest practising physician you know, what branches of science help him habitually, and what amount of knowledge relating to each branch he requires for his professional duties. [3]
- Did he still possess the right to award this noble branch to any one? [10]
- The position of portier in the chief hotels of Saratoga, Long Branch, New York, and similar centers of resort, would be one which the holder could afford to pay even more than five thousand dollars for, perhaps. [5]
- He had a pole ten feet long, with a crook in the end of it, and occasionally a goose would branch out from the flock and make a lively break around the corner, with wings half lifted and neck stretched to its utmost. [5]
- She holds, in perpetuity, autocratic and indisputable sovereignty and control over every branch Church in the earth; and yet says, in that sugary, naive, angel-beguiling way of hers, that the Mother-Church: "shall assume no official control of other churches of this denomination. [5]
- The branch Church pays his fee. [5]
- For three years past he had had a whole monastery of Benedictine monks at work to find some collateral branch from which he might take a successor to Leopold John, his imbecile heir--but to no purpose. [11]
- She has demonstrated over it and made it sacred to the Mother-Church: "The article 'The' must not be used before the titles of branch Churches-- "Nor written on applications for membership in naming such churches. [5]
- The stream that originates in Hickory Nut Gap is the westernmost branch of several forks of the Broad, which unite to the southeast in Rutherford County, flow to Columbia, and reach the Atlantic through the channel of the Santee. [4]
- And now, by order of Cauchon, an ecclesiastic named Nicholas Midi preached a sermon, wherein he explained that when a branch of the vine--which is the Church--becomes diseased and corrupt, it must be cut away or it will corrupt and destroy the whole vine. [5]
- Why not have one's divorce sent, C.O.D., to one's door, or establish a new branch of the Post-office Department? [9]
- I know that one branch line was bought for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and capitalized for three millions, and that most of the others were scandalously over-capitalized. [9]
- He was sitting on the seat the old prince used to like to sit on, and beside him strips of bast were hanging on the broken and withered branch of a magnolia. [2]
- The duties devolving on the naval branch of the service during the year and throughout the whole of this unhappy contest have been discharged with fidelity and eminent success. [7]
- The moonlight played on the delicate tufts that crowned the slender papyrus-stems, filmy mist, like diaphanous brocade of violet and silver, veiled the trees; and owls that shun the day, flew from one branch to another on noiseless, rhythmic wings. [10]
- So he broke off a cedar branch and threw it. [13]
- The various species of woodpeckers strike a sonorous branch with their beaks, with so rapid a vibratory movement that "the head appears to be in two places at once. [1]
- This upper branch of the Tennessee is a noble stream, broad, with a rocky bed and a swift current. [4]
- The pernicious branch of the just tree shall be cloven and cast into the brush-heap. [11]
- Classics, theology, especially of the controversial sort, statistics, politics, law, medicine, science, occult and overt, general literature,--almost every branch of knowledge was represented. [6]
- Of the making of that "Anatomy" on which my first predecessor in the branch I teach "did read very well" we can know nothing. [3]
- A modern branch of mathematics having achieved the art of dealing with the infinitely small can now yield solutions in other more complex problems of motion which used to appear insoluble. [2]
- I never heard of an English branch of our family. [11]
- But I do not wish to dwell at great length upon this branch of the discussion. [7]
- These veterans were not going to branch out and do things without the sanction of the Maid--that is true; and it was a great gain. [5]
- But I do not desire to dwell upon this branch of the question more than to say that this assumption of his is false, and I do hope that that fallacy will not long prevail in the minds of intelligent white men. [7]
- The cavern was nearly a hundred yards long, and when we reached its inner limit the proprietor stepped into a branch tunnel with his candles and left us buried in the bowels of the glacier, and in pitch-darkness. [5]
- You know from my lectures that I consider phrenology, as taught, a pseudo-science, and not a branch of positive knowledge; but, for all that, we owe it an immense debt. [6]
- While large sums must be set aside, not only for original research in every branch of knowledge, but for the promotion of music, literature, and fine art, upon which "any real development of civilization fundamentally depends. [9]
- It has still more serious significance to-day, when in every profession, in every branch of human knowledge, special acquirements, special skill have greatly tended to limit the range of men's thoughts and working faculties. [6]
- He and his men were all Arabs, and though well acquainted with the course of that branch of the river which they were to follow, they were not familiar with its peculiarities. [10]
- Wood also informs me that he once watched two individuals of C. pumilus fighting violently on the branch of a tree; they flung their heads about and tried to bite each other; they then rested for a time and afterwards continued their battle. [1]
- It could no longer have hoped to expand, to maintain an equilibrium in any branch of Congress, and to control the government. [7]
- There is another little difficulty about this matter of treating the Territories and States alike in all things, to which I ask your attention, and I shall leave this branch of the case. [7]
- The notion that literature can be taken up as a branch of education, and learned at the proper time and when studies permit, is one of the most farcical in our scheme of education. [4]
- He will go light of baggage, for he must hire a farmer to carry him from the Bras d'Or to the branch of St. Ann's harbor, and a part of his journey will be in a row-boat. [4]
- Are there any lacking ones whose exercise could make the branch in any noticeable way independent of the Mother. [5]
- Well, we've tried Jackson's Island a little, and we can try it again some time; and there's the old ha'nted house up the Still-House branch, and there's lots of dead-limb trees--dead loads of 'em. [5]
- Considering the Missouri its main branch, it is the longest river in the world--four thousand three hundred miles. [5]
- Long Branch and its adjuncts were planned for New York excursionists who are content with the ocean and the salt air, and do not care much for the picturesque. [4]
- Held, as it is, for the most part by our own people, it has become a substantial branch of national, though private, property. [7]
- The best way is to ask some expert before one risks himself very far in illustrations from a branch he does not know much about. [6]
- The nearest railway-station is distant something like an hour's drive; it is three hours from there to Boston, over a branch line. [5]
- The property was in the hands of a younger branch of the family then. [11]
- Major Rowens united in his person certain other traits which help a man to eminence in the branch of public service referred to. [6]
- She outstripped us in every branch of study. [10]
- This being so, if you doubt the other branch of the proposition, whether he is for you--whether he is really for you, as I have expressed it,--I propose asking your attention for a while to a few facts. [7]
- I worked as I had never worked before, making trips to New York to consult leading members of this new branch of my profession there, trips to Washington to see my former chief. [9]
- It was then I discovered for the first time that he was one of the best educational experts of that interesting branch of the British Government, the Department of Reconstruction, whose business it is to teach the convalescents the elements of social and political science. [9]
- It was now his one ambition to arrange a new succession excluding the Vaufontaines, a detested branch of the Bercy family. [11]
- I was under his charge only a short time, and his branch of knowledge was unfortunately my weak point. [10]
- Old Sophy dressed her with ruffles round her neck, and hunted up the red coral branch with silver bells which the little toothless Dudleys had bitten upon for a hundred years. [6]
- She came to her feet wearily, and drawing down a cool flowering branch of chestnut, pressed it to her cheek. [11]
- His long, narrow head rested on a thin neck, which did not stand erect, but grew out between the shoulders like a branch from the stem. [10]
- The branch Churches have no important liberties, none that give them an important voice in their own affairs. [5]
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