Use canon in a sentence
Sentences ending with canon
- Everybody went there to see a bowlder which hung suspended over the stream in the narrow canon. [4]
- I have seen the silver bullfinch floating along the canon. [11]
- Nowhere is the river so terrible as where it rushes, as if maddened by its narrow bondage, through the canon. [4]
- It was on one of these occasions, that Charlotte determined to make her heroine plain, small, and unattractive, in defiance of the accepted canon. [14]
- And if our heroine be somewhat rudely tossed from one boulder to another, if we fail wholly to understand her emotions and her acts, we must blame the canon. [9]
- The air was clear, and full of the scent of the pines and cedars, and the rumble of the rapids came musically down the canon. [11]
- Surely it is an island of magic, unsubstantial, liable to go adrift and plunge into the canon. [4]
More example sentences with the word canon in them
- None, at least, was so fervent a defender of the faith, so punctilious in all observances, so constant at the altar rail; none so versed in rubrics, ritual, and canon law; none had such a knowledge of the Church fathers. [9]
- In 1586 he was installed canon of Windsor. [4]
- The photographers and the water-color artists have exaggerated the Purgatory chasm into a Colorado canon, but anybody can find it by help of a guide. [4]
- Yes, it was the same flesh, the same chair a canon, the sight of which had even then filled him with horror, as by a presentiment. [2]
- On the following Sunday I went to Westminster Abbey to hear a sermon from Canon Harford on A Cheerful Life. [6]
- I must break off and write a postscript to Canon Wilberforce before I go to bed. [5]
- The poor canon of the cathedral of Paris was spiked again. [5]
- Although it does not need the human element of disaster to make this canon grewsome, the keepers of the show places make the most of the late Captain Webb. [4]
- It had no name in it, but the Canon was the only man who was absent. [5]
- I do not know what a canon of a cathedral is, but that is what he was. [5]
- Not a cloud in the curve of azure, not a shiver of wind down the canon, not a frown in Nature, if we except the lowering shadows from the shoulders of the giants of the range. [11]
- Ahead of her, in the canon made by the road between the great woods, strode an uncouth but powerful figure--coonskin cap, homespun breeches tucked into boots, and all. [9]
- She lived with her uncle Fulbert, a canon of the cathedral of Paris. [5]
- I dare say he is Archdeacon now--he was a canon then--and he was serving in the Westminster battery, if that is the proper term--I do not know, as you mix military and ecclesiastical things together so much. [5]
- There is a famous river in the western part of our country that disappears into a canon, the walls of which are some thousands of feet high, and the bottom so narrow that the confined waters roar through it at breakneck speed. [9]
- At sunset my eyes sought the mountains, mountains unreal, like glorified scenery of grand opera, with violet shadows in the wooded canon clefts, and crags of pink tourmaline and ruby against the skies. [9]
- Round a curve, down a sharp incline, If the red-eyed lantern made no sign, Swept the train, and upon the bridge That binds a canon from ridge to ridge. [11]
- We may test contemporary literature by its confortuity to the canon of simplicity--that is, if it has not that, we may conclude that it lacks one essential lasting quality. [4]
- Pierre Maurice, a canon of Rouen, made a speech to Joan in which he admonished her to save her life and her soul by renouncing her errors and surrendering to the Church. [5]
- Foiled, he tore and rent me.... One morning I rode up through the shady canon, fragrant with bay, to the open slopes stained smoky-blue by the wild lilac, where the twisted madrona grows. [9]
- He moved to a mansion on the opposite side of the canon, because he had noticed the mules did not go there. [5]
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