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Sentences starting with british

British soldiers took the place of the bloodthirsty mob. [11]
British cruisers sailed the Channel: now a squadron under Barrington, again under Bridport, hovered upon the coast, hoping that a French fleet might venture near. [11]
British recognition would be British intervention to create within our own territory a hostile state by overthrowing this republic itself. [7]
British Fishes,' vol. [1]
British Birds,' vol. [1]
British Birds' (vol. [1]

Sentences ending with british

He's been stirring up feeling against the British. [11]
He would throw them all away, someday, and go back to the lurid pleasures of hunting men, and being hunted himself by the British. [5]
Moreover, every evidence showed that he would gladly return to France, for his clear brain foresaw the final ruin of the colony and the triumph of the British. [11]
But it had opinions of its own, and would compare well enough with the "Gentleman's Magazine," to say nothing of "My Grandmother's Review, the British. [6]
She had read more than a little of the doings of great naval commanders, both French and British. [11]
And oh, sir," I cried, "can you tell me whether Mister Moultrie beat the British? [9]
A cry of fury and dismay went up from the French at the loss of their leader, a shout of triumph from the British. [11]
Suddenly, as if by magic--I know it was preconcerted--the talk turned on the events of the evening and on the defeat of the British. [11]
It's ensign was British. [9]

Short sentences using british

Hazlitt, William: British Poets, 21. [6]
A British trader is killed. [11]
You like British flag? [11]
It was the British flag. [11]
A British M.P. [11]

Sentences containing british two or more times

Two or three years ago, in New York, with that Society there which is made up of people from all British Colonies, and from Great Britain generally, who were educated in British colleges and. [5]
Washington was unable to penetrate the designs of the British commander, or to obtain any trusty information of the intentions or the movements of the British army. [4]
But to offset this average deficit the very profitable trade of India, which is mostly in British hands, swells the national wealth; and this trade would not be so largely in British hands if the flag were away. [4]
You haul down the British flag, and string up your tricolour in this British village while there is one Britisher to say, 'Put up that flag again! [11]
Abraham Lincoln at that time represented the American people as the British Government did not represent the British people. [9]
It will then run thus: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all British subjects who were on this continent eighty-one years ago were created equal to all British subjects born and then residing in Great Britain. [7]
I have been personally very hard at work, nearly two years, ransacking the British State Paper Office, the British Museum, and the Holland archives, and I have had two copyists constantly engaged in London, and two others at the Hague. [6]
The Declaration of Independence was written by a British subject, every name signed to it was the name of a British subject. [5]
The Briton should have done one thing or the other: discarded British methods and fought the Boer with Boer methods, or augmented his own force until--using British methods--it should be large enough to equalize results with the Boer. [5]
The lady is free to do what she pleases here within British law, and British law takes no heed of Romany law or any other law. [11]

More example sentences with the word british in them

Roughly proportioned, if you will allow your entire hand to represent the British Empire, you may then cut off the fingers a trifle above the middle joint of the middle finger, and what is left of the hand will represent Russia. [5]
Let me tell you I have an order from the British Government to confine him to his estate; not to permit him to leave it; and, if he does, to arrest him. [11]
Nearly a hundred years ago the crew of the British ship Bounty mutinied, set the captain and his officers adrift upon the open sea, took possession of the ship, and sailed southward. [5]
You and I would have fought for England and with the British troops, because we detest revolution. [11]
So large a work as the "History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic," offered for the press by an author as yet unknown to the British public, could hardly expect a warm welcome from the great dealers in literature as merchandise. [6]
We have been wont to think of all the British as aristocrats, while they have returned the compliment by visualizing all Americans as plutocrats--despite the fact that one-tenth of our population is said to own nine-tenths of all our wealth! [9]
It is honeycombed with dugouts in which the Germans who clung to it found their graves, while the victorious British army swept around it toward Bapaume. [9]
The British speak with appalling frankness of their blunders. [9]
Accept my best wishes for your individual welfare, and for the welfare and happiness of the whole British people. [7]
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]
Let us see what equality and hard-times can effect for the mental health of a brain-sick young British lord. [5]
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]
We know too well that the British aristocracy is not with us. [6]
In a moment we, too, had the British Flag flying at our mast-head. [11]
Day after day we issued forth from a musty and highly respectable hotel near Piccadilly to a gloomy Tower, a soggy Hampton Court or a mournful British Museum. [9]
A British captain was struck by a cannon-ball on the head, just as he was giving an order, at the Battle of the Nile. [6]
Yes, as I was saying, there's only St. Albans, Buccleugh and Grafton ahead of us on the list--all the rest of the British nobility are in procession behind us. [5]
But Perrot, who was not far from the fallen brothers, suddenly made a dash within easy range of the rifles of the British, and cut Gering and two of his companions off from the main body. [11]
But now there was needed an entanglement, intrigue, amour, and then America should shriek at his picture of one of the British aristocracy, and a gentleman of the Commons, "on the loose," as he put it. [11]
But another raid was nearing, a raid upon British territory this time. [11]
But when I was learning how to use the bayonet from a British sergeant in Picardy I met an English manufacturer from Northumberland. [9]
The British leader was conspicuous upon his horse. [11]
The gaiety and warmth of the hut erected in the Public Gardens which houses the British Officers' Club were a relief. [9]
In no previous war have the British given more striking proof of their inherent quality of doggedness. [9]
In releasing the vessel, the ragamuffins seem to have had a touch of humor, for they gave the captain a "receipt" for what they had taken, and an order on the British consul at Messina to pay for the same. [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 partnership was very common among our British ancestors. [3]
The Red River Valley, the Saskatchewan Valley, and British Columbia, are now belted by a great railway, and given to the plough; but in the far north life is much the same as it was a hundred years ago. [11]
We did not understand why a country that admits our beef and grain and cheese should seem to seek protection against a literary product which is brought into competition with one of the great British staples, the modern novel. [4]
I made but two brief visits to the British Museum, and I can easily instruct my reader so that he will have no difficulty, if he will follow my teaching, in learning how not to see it. [6]
The British army, twenty-five thousand strong, admirably equipped, and supported by a powerful naval force, threatened to envelop our poor force, and finish the war in a stroke. [4]
In their terror, twenty brave rebels of two hours ago were to be captured by a single British officer of infantry speaking bad French. [11]
A terrible evil, truly, to the Illinois farmer, who never wore, nor ever expects to wear, a single yard of British goods in his whole life. [7]
We supply our troops; but Herr von Nordwyk--I mean the younger one, who has been at the Queen's court as the Prince's ambassador, told my Wilhelm what a British glutton can gobble. [10]
Virginia had no troops to send us, and her men were fighting barefoot with Washington against the armies of the British king. [9]
Apparently, in every town and city in India the gentlemen of the British civil and military service have a club; sometimes it is a palatial one, always it is pleasant and homelike. [5]
Pessimism is perhaps too strong a word, and takes no account of the continued unimpaired morale and determination of the greater part of the British and French peoples. [9]
The British had told them that the Kentuckians were a barbarous people, and they had believed. [9]
A British officer told me that in India he paid his servant 10 rupees a month, and he had 11 cousins, uncles, parents, etc., dependent upon him, and he supported them on his wages. [5]
We can go to the West Indian Islands, to the British fleet there. [11]
I have been to the British Museum. [5]
Thuggee became known to the British authorities in India about 1810, but its wide prevalence was not suspected; it was not regarded as a serious matter, and no systematic measures were taken for its suppression until about 1830. [5]
When we came to Table Rock on the British side, our driver took us down on the outer part of the rock in the carriage. [6]
Be not surprised to see the British at our gates any day. [11]
I am forbidden to return to the British Isles or to the land of my birth, forbidden free traffic as a citizen, hammered out of recognition by the strokes of enmity. [11]
There was nothing to oppose their mass, nothing but a few weak battalions of British soldiers scattered about India, a force not worth speaking of. [5]
You may say to him,--"I see no probability of the British invading us"; but he will say to you, "Be silent: I see it, if you don't. [7]
Had he come to England to let them use him for a sensation only--a sequence of surprises, to end in a tragedy, all for the furtive pleasure of the British breakfast-table? [11]
Take these papers to Buckston Higgins--you see the address--who represents the British Argentine syndicate. [4]
But there seems to be a party that would go further --have Australasia cut loose from the British Empire and set up housekeeping on her own hook. [5]
This I want to ask-- isn't it worth while making a great fight in our own way, and showing that British seamen can at once be mutineers and patriots? [11]
It was according to Amajuba precedent, where the British loss was 226 out of about 400 engaged. [5]
In all that time we had not so much as got a whiff of an English frigate, though we had almost put a belt around the British Isles. [9]
Bad birds flying through the land (the British agents) had besought them to take up the bloody hatchet. [9]
If you get this, won't you try and make the British Government stand by the Saadat? [11]
Dr. Gunther makes this remark; 'Catalogue of Fishes in the British Museum,' vol. [1]
We have in this island one of the worst criminals in the British Empire. [11]
I do not think I saw a specimen of the British _Quercus robur_ of such consummate beauty. [6]
More and more they withdrew themselves, unwittingly and painfully, from the understanding and companionship of the usual matter-of-fact, commonplace, sensible people--the settler, the emigrant, and the British man. [11]
It had been then for over a decade the British Museum. [9]
The British contented themselves with holding their position till Walley returned bearing the admiral's orders to embark again for the fleet. [11]
Then they gathered themselves together in a great mass-meeting at Krugersdorp, talked their troubles over, and resolved to fight for their deliverance from the British yoke. [5]
That half of them succeeded in doing so was because the British fleet had been heavily handled in the fight, and would have been defeated had it not been for the arrival of the Ariadne. [11]
The river is the Wiltshire Avon; not Shakespeare's Avon, but the southern stream of the same name, which empties into the British Channel. [6]
The doors of the White Gate now opened; Commissioner Van Bronkhorst, Van der Werff, Van Hout and other leaders of the community accompanied the British colonel and his trumpeter to the bridge. [10]
That sense of the vastness of the British Empire, which at times is so profound, was mingled now with a knowledge that it was fighting for its life, marshalling all its resources for Armageddon. [9]
With respect to the swan, as given above, Yarrell's 'History of British Birds,' 2nd edition, 1845, vol. [1]
I have not the slightest doubt that it will be the morale of our own army also, but at present the British are holding the fort. [9]
I took up the second book, that on the philosophy of the organism, to read in its preface that a much-to-be-honoured British nobleman had established a foundation of lectures in a Scotch University for forwarding the study of a Natural Theology. [9]
The words from the scare-column of the paper he held smote his sight: "War Inevitable--Transvaal Bristling with Guns and Loaded to the Nozzle with War Stores--Milner and Kruger No Nearer a Settlement-- Sullen and Contemptuous Treatment of British Outlander. [11]
The first night the sailors of a British ship, being happy with grog, came down on the pier and challenged our sailors to a free fight. [5]
Then you get the real British flavor, which the cosmopolite Englishman loses. [6]
What would be the position of the British empire, what would be the tendency of English politics and society without him, is a matter for speculation. [4]
As they passed the Path by the Bazaar every eye among the hillsmen and among the handful of British was alert. [11]
Then I heard the order to charge, and from near four thousand throats there came for the first time our exultant British cheer, and high over all rang the slogan of Fraser's Highlanders. [11]
A writer in the 'North British Review' (July 1869, p. 531), well capable of forming a sound judgment, expresses himself strongly in favour of this conclusion. [1]
She was living the life of a British woman, she was as much a Gorgio in her daily existence as this man be side her. [11]
As compared with the landed estate of the British Empire, the landed estate dominated by any other Power except one --Russia--is not very impressive for size. [5]
When we consider the immensity of the British Empire in territory, population, and trade, it requires a stern exercise of faith to believe in the figures which represent Australasia's contribution to the Empire's commercial grandeur. [5]
In front of the house, and near it, was a tall staff, and on the staff the British Flag. [11]
Never, perhaps, in the history of the navy had British ships clamped the enemy as the Aquitaine was clamped by the Beatitude and the Ariadne. [11]
Dornburg is in the English service, and four weeks ago I met him as a member of her British Majesty's navy in London. [10]
I had thought the Declaration promised something better than the condition of British subjects; but no, it only meant that we should be equal to them in their own oppressed and unequal condition. [7]
Next day, upon the church, upon the Louis Quinze Hotel, and elsewhere, the Union Jack flew--the British colours flaunted it in Pontiac with welcome to the Governor. [11]
Wilhelm had seen the British soldiers, their commander, Colonel Chester, and Captain Gensfort, and praised their superb equipments and stately bearing. [10]
It appealed to the British public rather more than 'The Right of Way', and the great public of America and the Oversea Dominions gave it a welcome which enabled it to take its place beside 'The Right of Way', the success of which was unusual. [11]
For many years the British Indian Government has been trying to destroy the murderous wild creatures, and has spent a great deal of money in the effort. [5]
I had seen the British flag from the coral- bulwarked harbour, but could not find it now. [11]
My authorities make the British Empire not much short of a fourth larger than the Russian Empire. [5]
When appealed to, the British Consul had petulantly told her that Donovan Pasha was doing more important work. [11]
Twenty men of the British artillery were also off on a chase that pleased them well. [11]
The gun which the Boers had not dared to issue forth and take, which the British could not rescue without heavy loss while the battle was at its height--he would ride it over the hills into the Boers' camp. [11]
I never forget that, for it seemed to me even then that, whatever glory there was for British arms ahead, there was tragedy for him. [11]
When you do that you will not have to wait for a British bullet to kill you. [11]
We must remember that Virginia was young, and that her feelings were akin to those our great-grandmothers experienced when the British held New York. [9]
Try and understand that this is a British town, and we don't settle our affairs by jumping from a violin rhapsody to a knife or a gun. [11]
The marvel is that the British fleets fought as well as they did. [11]
The object of that expedition, as is well known, was to obtain the person of the Earl of Selkirk, in order to bring about the rescue of the unfortunate Americans suffering in British prisons. [9]
The great Northwest Territory, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, was acquired first, I believe, by the British Government, in part at least, from the French. [7]
Mahmoud lived to take back to Ebn Mazar the other hundred pounds of the gold Macnamara had looted from the Khalifa; and he also took something for himself from the British officers at Wady Halfa. [11]

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