Use case in a sentence
Sentences starting with case
- Case you kin have jes' anything you wants. [5]
Sentences ending with case
- He needed encouragement,--what young lawyer does not on his first important case? [9]
- I will tell you, briefly, my theory of the case. [9]
- I thought perhaps you would go round with me to see a pretty bad case. [4]
- Philippus had, some years since, been called to the old man's bedside in sickness, and being then a beginner and in no great request, he had given the best of his time and powers to the case. [10]
- Mrs. Simpson undoubtedly would not have relished this characterization, and she is not to have the opportunity of presenting her side of the case. [9]
- And whereas he would by no means consent, the dispute was taken up by others present and Jorg Loffelholz devised the fancy of holding a Court of Love to decide the case. [10]
- He handled things without gloves, and this was not a good thing for any that came to him with a weak case. [11]
- With her as with most present, the deepest feeling in the agitated suspense was not so much that the prisoner should go free, as that the prisoner's counsel should win his case. [11]
- He contented himself with a brief statement of the case. [5]
- My friend Archibius wishes me a long life, if any one does; but he is as wise as he is faithful, and therefore will consider that earthly life is by no means a boon in every case. [10]
Short sentences using case
- Had a case yet? [5]
- Ah, yes, an unhappy case! [11]
- His case is truly remarkable. [5]
- My case refused to improve. [5]
- He still has this case. [5]
- That is just the case. [7]
- Which is not the case. [5]
- This is really the case. [5]
- Go on with the case. [5]
- So the case stood. [5]
Sentences containing case two or more times
- But to know what can and what cannot be executed is impossible, not only in the case of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in which millions participated, but even in the simplest event, for in either case millions of obstacles may arise to prevent its execution. [2]
- I instructed him to guide himself back by the rope, in case of failure; in case of success, he was to give the rope a series of violent jerks, whereupon the Expedition would go to him at once. [5]
- New phases of the most interesting case Charley had ever defended spread out before him--the case which had given him his friend Jo Portugais, which had turned his own destiny. [11]
- I have said that there is evidence about the case tending to show that it was a made-up case, for the purpose of getting that decision. [7]
- I need not refer to the case lately read before this Society, in which a physician went, soon after performing an autopsy of a case of puerperal fever, to a woman in labor, who was seized with the same disease and perished. [3]
- Just now, on reaching your order in the case, I telegraphed the same officer withdrawing the suspension, and leave the case entirely with you. [7]
- The cooks seem possessed of one of the rules of whist,--in case of doubt, play a trump: in case of doubt, they always put in anise seed. [4]
- I think it must be a case of history actually repeating itself, and not a case of a good story floating down the ages and surviving because too good to be allowed to perish. [5]
- In practice, however, it seemed to him that the object was to win a case rather than to do justice in a case. [4]
- In this case he did well and in that case badly. [2]
More example sentences with the word case in them
- The safety of your fortune would be less difficult to provide for if, as was formerly the case here, we could entrust it to the merchants of Alexandria. [10]
- But I tell you"--her deep blue eyes flashed as she spoke--"that so long as you were still a genuine creating artist the case was different. [10]
- In that case you would not have obliged me to give this refusal. [2]
- I don't ask you to reveal it, but I will suppose a case--a case which you will answer as a starting point for the real thing I am going to come at, and that's all I want. [5]
- In such case you should not see Monsieur Masson here alone. [11]
- In any case, you must be in your place before I come. [10]
- Contradict me if you can, proud prefect's daughter; but I warn you beforehand, that in that case, I shall be compelled to bring forward fresh charges. [10]
- McDowell can reach you by land sooner than he could get aboard of boats, if the boats were ready at Fredericksburg, unless his march shall be resisted, in which case the force resisting him will certainly not be confronting you at Richmond. [7]
- I have troubled you at this length because my mind is much occupied with the pathology of these cases, and because no case can, on personal grounds, more strongly challenge our attention. [6]
- But sit where you are, if you please, in case I want you. [12]
- I will give you a case or two presently. [5]
- Mr. Chesterton, in writing about the American Revolution, observes that the real case for the colonists is that they felt that they could be something which England would not help them to be. [9]
- Rummel, a well-known writer of the same school, speaks of curing a case of jaundice in thirty-four days by Homoeopathic doses of pulsatilla, aconite, and cinchona. [3]
- But do you write Barstow that I have left here for a week or so, and in case he should want me he must write me here, or let me know through you. [5]
- And couldn't and wouldn't have happened in his case if he had been regarded as a celebrity at the time of his death. [5]
- I feared she would only reproduce the case of Anson and his wife. [11]
- Mere lukewarm satisfaction would not content her in the case of the Emperor Charles; she wished to arouse his enthusiasm, his rapture. [10]
- You know I would like to oblige you, but it seems to me my duty in this case is the other way. [7]
- An imaginary case would illustrate his meaning. [4]
- A sterner court would examine the case in Sydney--the Court of Directors, the lords of a company in whose ships the captain had served as mate a number of years. [5]
- Kit coming down-stairs would be called in; entertained with some moral and agreeable conversation; perhaps entreated to mind the office for an instant while Mr Brass stepped over the way; and afterwards presented with one or two half-crowns as the case might be. [12]
- I believe it would be better if it were a mere case of physical passion. [9]
- In payment he would accept nothing save the ordinary fees, as though it were some petty case in a county court. [11]
- The way the worldly-wise professor discovered the secret was this: he had gone to Bradford to hear the case, for he had been a dear friend of Sarah Austen. [9]
- This resemblance to words may be purely accidental, of course, and may have no purpose or meaning; but even in that case it is still extraordinary, and is a thing which no other bear can do. [5]
- I exhausted my wits, and very nearly my patience also, in efforts to convince both that the evils they charged on each other were inherent in the case, and could not be cured by giving either party a victory over the other. [7]
- That's the case with your philosopher; and I'm not sure that I won't lose twenty thousand dollars by him yet. [11]
- The circumstances connected with the very common antipathy to cats were as remarkable in many points of view as the similar circumstances in the case of Maurice Kirkwood. [6]
- Well, he began with taking off the case, and so on from one liberty to another, until he got it fairly open, and there were the works, as good as if they were alive,--crown-wheel, balance-wheel, and all the rest. [6]
- That's the case with old Swinton. [11]
- You can board with Mrs. Case --I've arranged that, too. [9]
- The case opened with Mr. Cooke's friends on the front benches. [9]
- It was not with me a case of "no shots left in the locker, no copper to tinkle on a tombstone. [11]
- Man is infested with internal parasites, sometimes causing fatal effects; and is plagued by external parasites, all of which belong to the same genera or families as those infesting other mammals, and in the case of scabies to the same species. [1]
- He had listened with affable condescension to the complaint of a landed proprietor, whose cattle had been driven off for the king's army, and had promised that his case should be enquired into. [10]
- He was armed with a musketoon (which he carried rather as a joke), a pike and an ax, which latter he used as a wolf uses its teeth, with equal case picking fleas out of its fur or crunching thick bones. [2]
- But it wasn't wise for the missionary to take the journey alone--it was a bad business in any case. [11]
- Their Reverend Samuel Willard wrote us a not over-wise report of a case of hysteria; and our Jean Astruc gave them (if we may trust Dr. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible) the first discerning criticism on the authorship of the Pentateuch. [3]
- That is His will, and if He requires you to serve Him, you must follow us and, in case of war, command the men of our people. [10]
- The correct case will then stand: the quotas of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth districts fixed at 2200 for the first draft. [7]
- When a man will not speak, will not lie to gain a case for his lawyer--or save himself, there is something! [11]
- And the case will be the same the morrow, as to that. [5]
- There's a reason why they want this case hushed up, the way they've be'n actin'. [9]
- We can see why it is that aborigines, who have long inhabited islands, and who must have been long exposed to nearly uniform conditions, should be specially affected by any change in their habits, as seems to be the case. [1]
- As a matter wholly my own, I would authorize no biography, without time and opportunity [sic] to carefully examine and consider every word of it and, in this case, in the nature of things, I can have no such time and Opportunity [sic]. [7]
- Probably in the whole history of crime there never was a more peculiar case. [11]
- The excellent physician who took charge of my case said positively that my lungs were sound, and the attack was due to the bursting of a blood-vessel. [10]
- Like all bachelors who have lived a lonely life, Master Byles Gridley had his habits, which nothing short of some terrestrial convulsion--or perhaps, in his case, some instinct that drove him forth to help somebody in trouble--could possibly derange. [6]
- The trivial sin which this sweet love secret contained had been pardoned in the case of the man bound by no older obligation, after a slight penance, and now for the first time he fully enjoyed the wealth of the unexpected new happiness. [10]
- If this conclusion, which rests almost exclusively on brain-characters, be admitted, we should have a case of convergence at least in external characters, for the anthropomorphous apes are certainly more like each other in many points, than they are to other apes. [1]
- Of all that which a President might constitutionally and justifiably do in such a case, everything was forborne without which it was believed possible to keep the government on foot. [7]
- It is doubtful whether this should be considered a case of puerperal fever. [3]
- In that case, where would he, Dick, be? [6]
- Better leave it where the law of the case has placed it. [7]
- At the instant when the case was most critical the tailor of Chaudiere set his foot inside the Notary's door. [11]
- At any rate, whatever the merits of their case, no one in England accused the Johannesburgers of foolhardy courage or impassioned daring. [11]
- In any case, whatever she, Euryale, could do to save her from the worst fate that could befall a woman, that should be done, and this time it was she who drew the other toward her and kissed her. [10]
- Cilo told me what they were called, and where they lived; he then added that one day they would all belong to me; that I must learn the art of fighting, in case they resisted me, and should require suppressing. [10]
- In any case, what 'Pierre' did was to open up a field which had not been opened before, but which other authors have exploited since with success and distinction. [11]
- Rosalie--in any case, what could there be for her? [11]
- But if there were two or three lives in the way, manifestly that altered the case. [6]
- But the brothers were Spaniards, and that alters the case. [10]
- At last all were seated, the carriage steps were folded and pulled up, the door was shut, somebody was sent for a traveling case, and the countess leaned out and said what she had to say. [2]
- James Grayden's directions were peremptory, but it was a case for the higher law. [6]
- 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]
- If your journey were from a sand-pit on our side to a lighthouse on the other, you could make it quicker by other lines, but that is not the case. [5]
- Before midsummer they were all out excepting two, who refused to sign the petitions for release; 58 had been fined $10,000 each and enlarged, and the four leaders had gotten off with fines of $125,000 each with permanent exile added, in one case. [5]
- If the evidence went as far to establish a guilty profit of one or two hundred thousand dollars, as it does of one or two hundred dollars, the case would, on the question of guilt, bear a far different aspect. [7]
- I know very well that I am worn out, and that I should have gone soon in any case. [9]
- It may be well enough to explain, though in the case of many of my readers this will hardly be necessary. [5]
- You know me well enough to be aware that, like you, I am reluctant to infringe another's rights, that except in case of necessity I am not cruel. [10]
- Mr. J. Jenner Weir has lately given me an analogous case with ducks of two species. [1]
- In a few weeks you would in any case have left the college, and by the king's command have transferred your blooming life, health, and strength to the exercising ground of the chariot-brigade. [10]
- In Frankfort everybody wears clean clothes, and I think we noticed that this strange thing was the case in Hamburg, too, and in the villages along the road. [5]
- One of our wealthy citizens said, on hearing that a friend had dropped off from apoplexy, that it made his mouth water to hear of such a case. [6]
- She saw the weakness of his case at once. [11]
- In our case we were put in the carriage because my mother would not leave us behind, and wanted to give our grandparents pleasure by our presence. [10]
- In that case we should probably have defended the Shevardino Redoubt--our left flank--still more obstinately. [2]
- In the piazza we pick up a donkey and his driver for use in case of accident; and, mounting the driver on the donkey,--an arrangement that seems entirely satisfactory to him,--we set forward. [4]
- He had limitless ways and means and powers at his disposal for preparing and strengthening the case for the prosecution, and he used them all. [5]
- Not the entire way, but far enough to answer the requirements of the case. [5]
- I said I was willin' to trust my case on that crossin' to a jury. [9]
- This morning I was told, by a gentleman who I have no doubt believes what he says, that in one case of assessments for $10,000 the different persons who paid compared receipts, and found they had paid $30,000. [7]
- Mr. Billings' answer was to wink, very slowly, with one eye; and shortly after these pleasantries were over, the case was called. [9]
- Our first care was to create a delay in the trial of the case in order to give the public excitement a chance to die down. [9]
- When a case was to be made out against him, the secretary wrote, December 30, 1870: "Well might he say, as he did in a subsequent dispatch on the 15th of July, 1869, that he had gone beyond the strict letter of his instructions. [6]
- For instance, there was the case of Mr. Dyck Calhoun. [11]
- For instance, there was the Baldwin case, in Ohio, twenty-two years ago. [5]
- If when he was talking and explaining anything to a monkey, its attention was easily distracted, as by a fly on the wall or other trifling object, the case was hopeless. [1]
- His leather case was swung over his shoulder, and with his glasses he swept the lake in search of the Scimitar and other vessels of a like unamiable character. [9]
- I said-- 'I was supposing a case, but I am coming to the real one now. [5]
- Yes, the case was plain to Hendon--he must lose no more time in Southwark, but move at once through Kent, toward Monk's Holm, searching the wood and inquiring as he went. [5]
- The world, however, was not in fault in Kit's case. [12]
- A third case was needed and servants had gone to fetch it. [2]
- A certain proximity was necessary for the influence to be felt, as in the case of magnetism and electricity. [6]
- In no case was it a holiday job; still they succeeded. [5]
- The first case was in February, during a very cold time. [3]
- Dr. Channing, who was in attendance with me on the three last cases, proposed to have a post-mortem examination of the subject of case No. [3]
- Besides, his case was hopeless unless the knight obtained a pardon for him from the Emperor Rudolph, for his persecutors would not cease their pursuit of him, and he could not endure the torture a second time. [10]
- But my strength was greater than hers, indeed full great for a maid; yet my heart told me that in her case my will would have been the same, so I made no more resistance but yielded up the letter. [10]
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