Use charge in a sentence
Sentences starting with charge
- Charge the office with your coach-hire back, you know; don't spare the office; get as much out of it as you can--clerk's motto--Eh, Mr Richard? [12]
- Charge it up to profit and loss. [5]
- Charge the attendants to admit no one, and to say I am at my devotions in the Holy of holies. [10]
- Charge it to me, Mr. [5]
- Charge the prime conductor of an electrical machine, and a gold-leaf electrometer, far off from it, will at once be disturbed. [6]
Sentences ending with charge
- Neither any thing you have presented me, nor anything I have otherwise learned, has convinced me that he has been unfaithful to this charge. [7]
- But what are you going to charge? [9]
- By a hand-shake with their god I had ground-circuited their wire and got their monster battery's whole charge. [5]
- She was alone, with the exception of the priest in charge. [10]
- I said that when Judge Douglas was speaking at place--where I spoke on the succeeding day he used very harsh language about this charge. [7]
- Dr. Thompson, the very active and intelligent surgical director of the hospitals of the place, took me in charge. [6]
- It presently dawned upon General Armour that it might also be trying to their charge. [11]
- And thereupon I understand that the Judge withdrew the charge. [7]
- Brother Tom--or Uncle Tom, as we must call him with Honora--cheerfully accepted the charge. [9]
- When you came to pay the servants, how would you like it if each of the men and maids had a fixed charge? [5]
Short sentences using charge
- No charge for these informations. [5]
- If not, withdraw the charge. [7]
- They didn't charge me anything. [5]
- To give him in charge? [11]
- Such a cruel, heartless charge! [5]
- Weekly to you--no charge. [5]
- They made no charge. [5]
- Sound the charge! [5]
- Prepare to charge! [2]
Sentences containing charge two or more times
- When that charge was brought forward by the Chicago Times, the Springfield Register [Douglas's organ] reminded the Times that the charge really applied to John Henry; and I do know that John Henry is now making speeches and fiercely battling for Judge Douglas. [7]
- His effort is to make the impression that his enemies first made the charge of toryism and he drove them from that, then Sampson's ghost, he drove them from that, then finally the assignment charge was manufactured just before election. [7]
- Down--down--down--ever down: Private Secretary to the President; Colonel in the field; Charge d'Affaires in Paris; Charge d'Affaires in Vienna; Poet; Editor of the Tribune; Biographer of Lincoln; Ambassador to England; and now at last there he lies--Secretary of State, Head of Foreign Affairs. [5]
- If the Judge now says that he offers this as a sort of setoff to what I said to-day in reference to Trumbull's charge, then I remind him that he made this charge before I said a word about Trumbull's. [7]
- I didn't charge for my opinion about them, and they didn't charge for their opinion about me: the account was square, the books balanced, everybody was satisfied. [5]
- How charge after charge was made during the long, hot day and into the night; how the delegates were carried out limp and speechless and starved and wet through, and carried in to vote again,--will all be told in time. [9]
- Then charge upon charge ensued, and each charge, if it cost them much, cost the besieged more, by reason of their fewer numbers. [11]
- It ought to be willing to be at some charge to make its treasures useful to its citizens, and, for its own sake, especially to that class which has charge of health, public and private. [3]
- It used to be a fashion amongst men that when a charge was made, some sort of proof was brought forward to establish it, and if no proof was found to exist, the charge was dropped. [7]
- To imperil an accused person by arbitrarily altering and widening the charge against him in order to compass his conviction when the charge as originally brought promises to fail to convict, is a thing unheard of before. [5]
More example sentences with the word charge in them
- Consider, then, whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves, and your charge of destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations. [7]
- Let me tell you that the President of the United States himself is liable to impeachment, and bound to disprove any charge he may be accused of. [9]
- What now would you charge for a dress for her? [10]
- See him if you can, and read this to him; but charge him not to make it public for the present. [7]
- I shall charge you a reasonable compensation for the demage to the school by the absence of a teacher. [6]
- That was the year that Miss Virginia Carvel was given charge of the booth in Dr. Posthelwaite's church,--the booth next one of the great arches through which prancing horses and lowing cattle came. [9]
- I arrived at Wye Island in season to dine with the good judge and his family, and there I made over to his charge the property of Patty and her mother. [9]
- I wish you would tell me frankly, as a friend, if you think the charge is true. [4]
- And then I would rather have had charge of a hospital ward than take care of that uncle. [4]
- That Eldon Parr would not lead the charge in person was a foregone conclusion. [9]
- Not what you would call two notes in the same key, she and Crozier," he reflected as he told her she need not trouble about her luggage, and took charge of the checks for it. [11]
- Such a statement would be open to the charge of exaggeration, and his frame of mind was pessimistic. [9]
- True, the cautious woman took no part in the conversation afterward, but she kept her charge in sight while she was skilfully knotting the fringe into a cloth which she had woven herself. [10]
- Unless you are without faith that a lie can be successfully contradicted, there is not a word of truth in the charge, and I am just considering a little as to the best shape to put a contradiction in. [7]
- Asarja and Michael, with their sons, who grudged the power of Moses and Aaron, had even gone from one to another to try to persuade them, ere departing, to summon the elders again and charge then to enter into fresh negotiations with the Egyptians. [10]
- The charge is, with regard to this universal suffrage, that you take the fruits of increased representation produced by it, and then deny it to a portion of the voters whose action was expected to produce a different political result. [4]
- I also remember with much pleasure the royal riding-school in charge of General Meyer. [10]
- Dr. Leigh remained with him for an hour longer, and then left him in charge of a young gentleman from the Neighborhood Guild, who gladly volunteered to watch for the night. [4]
- The coming woman will not smoke, to be sure; neither will she, in coming forward to take charge of the government, plead the Baby Act. [4]
- Meantime, the data will be arranged by those people who have charge of all such matters, the great chief Brahmins. [5]
- Frau Friedrich, the wife of the man in charge of the fountains, kept a neat inn, in which, however, she by no means dished up to all persons what they would like. [10]
- This was the wife of Martialis, who had charge of the villa at Kanopus, and whose acquaintance the artist had made when he was studying the Galatea in the merchant's country-house for the portrait of Korinna. [10]
- Davout's troops, in whose charge were the prisoners, were crossing the Crimean bridge and some were already debouching into the Kaluga road. [2]
- A young woman who was left in charge of the villa had supplied him with whatever he needed. [10]
- Captain Stanwix's wife, who was a good, motherly person, took charge of the little orphan, and arriving at Carvel Hall delivered her to my grandfather, who brought her up as his own daughter. [9]
- 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]
- In a little while the measured tread of military men was heard approaching, and the culprits entered the presence in charge of an under-sheriff and escorted by a detail of the king's guard. [5]
- In the charge which the New Englander ordered, Iberville and Perrot saw Gering, and they tried hard to reach him. [11]
- The distance at which the action took place [the letter was left on a shelf twenty-four feet from the place where I was sitting] shows this charge to have been of notable intensity. [6]
- We must see whether the towers are properly garrisoned, and charge the sentinels to keep their eyes open. [10]
- You can charge what you please; I promise the public no amusement, but I do promise a reasonable amount of instruction. [5]
- I might as well have got no better under his charge, and should have got off much cheaper. [6]
- During his first weeks of pain and weakness, Ruth was unceasing in her ministrations; she quietly took charge of him, and with a gentle firmness resisted all attempts of Alice or any one else to share to any great extent the burden with her. [5]
- I am afraid we do not always do justice to our country brethren, whose merits are less conspicuously exhibited than those of the great city physicians and surgeons, such especially as have charge of large hospitals. [3]
- After all, where was the ground for the charge of insult? [11]
- The Colonel's lady was taken in charge by a daughter of that hospitable family to which we had been commended by its head, and I proceeded to inquire for wounded officers at the various temporary hospitals. [6]
- Captain Leonard Helm was sent to take charge of Vincennes, and Captain Montgomery set out across the mountains for Williamsburg with letters praying the governor of Virginia to come to our assistance. [9]
- A good post was procured for him, with a rapidity which took away his breath, by some of the gentlemen who had believed him guilty of the offence laid to his charge, and who had acted upon that belief. [12]
- If Myrtle Hazard was in charge of any angelic guardian, the time was at hand when she would need all celestial influences; for the Rev. [6]
- So strong, indeed, was his pleading, so well did his stout courage stand by him, that had Count Frontenac balanced in his favour he might have been quit of the charge of spying. [11]
- My brother, who was escorting the caravan, told me the lady was no doubt running away, for she had paid the charge for the escort not in ready money, but with a gold signet-ring. [10]
- The judge's charge was brief, and, if anything, a little in favour of the prisoner--very little, a casuist's little; and the jury filed out of the room. [11]
- I heard after wards that she was very glad to know that they were in charge of persons who filled their minds with other thoughts than the desire to rule. [10]
- The Minister of War has also in his charge some venerable swivels on Punch-Bowl Hill wherewith royal salutes are fired when foreign vessels of war enter the port. [5]
- Very well, and very proud to be left in charge of the smoking wrecks. [8]
- It would be very pleasant to strike hands with the Fremonters of Iowa, who have led the van so splendidly, in this grand charge which we hope and believe will end in a most glorious victory. [7]
- Its music is very fine since Sir Wolf Hartschwert, whom you also know, has taken charge of it. [10]
- Smith's patent to use this charge, which he produced from Sigismund, was dated 1603, but the certificate appended to it by the Garter King at Arms, certifying that it was recorded in the register and office of the heralds, is dated 1625. [4]
- You further charge us with being disunionists. [7]
- It would enable us to teach them that, inasmuch as we select one of their own number to carry out our principles, we are free from the charge that we mean more than we say. [7]
- I have said, upon a former occasion, and I repeat it now, that the course of arguement that Judge Douglas makes use of upon this subject (I charge not his motives in this), is preparing the public mind for that new Dred Scott decision. [7]
- He had given up the legal profession to take charge of his somewhat impoverished paternal estate, and soon transformed it into one of the most productive in the whole neighbourhood. [10]
- Charley's soul rose up in revolt against the danger that faced him--not against personal peril, but the danger of being dragged back again into the life he had come from, with all that it involved--the futility of this charge against him! [11]
- The young Frau Ueberhell awaited with even greater curiosity than her husband, the disclosure of the contents of the sealed package which Herr Winckler had in charge for his ward. [10]
- Now to-day, about two hours ago, the dog barked, and an old man, a stranger, came up to me, and said he was Nebsecht's brother, and had a great deal of money in his charge for me. [10]
- These huge brass tubes, mounted on their scaffoldings and pointed skyward from every choice vantage-ground, have the formidable look of artillery, and give the town the general aspect of getting ready to repel a charge of angels. [5]
- I'm going to try to mail it back to you to-day--I mean I am going to charge my memory. [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]
- If it is true that the man you charge is an infidel, how does that warrant suspicion? [11]
- Of all the trials which those who take charge of others' health and lives have to undergo, this is the most painful. [6]
- When General Curtis took command of the department, Mr. Dick, against whom I never knew anything to allege, had general charge of this system. [7]
- I would sail to-day if I had anybody to take charge of my family and help them through the difficult journeys commanded by the doctors. [5]
- First, with reference to your part in it, I shall establish a free hospital for my employees, and put you in charge of it, at a salary of five thousand a year. [9]
- I have listened to the guns of Five Forks, where Sheridan and Warren bore their own colors in the front of the charge, I was with Mr. Lincoln while the battle of Petersburg was raging, and there were tears in his eyes. [9]
- So, entrusting Whisker to the charge of a man who was lingering hard by in expectation of the Job, he suffered his companion to take his hand, and to lead him up the dark and narrow stairs. [12]
- You never liked to take the responsibility of your own body; I don't see why you should want to have the charge of your own soul. [6]
- He isn't going to take charge of the hospital? [9]
- Would you venture to take charge of the case? [6]
- She wanted him to take charge of her cattle and horse and ranges, and save them if that were possible. [13]
- Likewise I strove to release my brother from the charge of making gold, by diligently showing that the old Knight had ever showered ducats on him to beguile him to his will. [10]
- I will undertake to prove by the record here that he made that charge against more and higher dignitaries than the editor of the Washington Union. [7]
- Finally, I have to meet a more serious charge, that Mr. Hodder remains in the Church because of "the dread of parting with the old, strong anchorage, the fear of anathema and criticism, the thought of sorrowing and disapproving friends. [9]
- I went back to Louisville to take up once more the struggle for practice, and I do not intend to charge so much as a page with what may be called the even tenor of my life. [9]
- Now, I wish to know what the Judge can charge upon me, with respect to decisions of the Supreme Court, which does not lie in all its length, breadth, and proportions at his own door. [7]
- He taught them to hold their mother's memory dear, and had so reared them that, in their maturity, he could lead them with head erect to the sarcophagus of the friend who had confided them to his charge. [10]
- But the allusion to her father reminded her of the first duty in her path; she roused her energies, thanked Marianne warmly, and begged her only to assist her in carrying the corpse into the thalamos, and then to take charge of the keys. [10]
- Then Melissa turned to her brother and begged him earnestly: "Then you take me to the ship Alexander; take charge of me yourself! [10]
- Rostov was horrified to hear later that of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. [2]
- The captain attained to fame in our little world from his maiden address, in which he very shrewdly separated the political character of Mr. Wilkes from his character as a private gentleman, and so refuted a charge of profligacy against the people's champion. [9]
- My impulse was to charge the procession, seize Nick and the drum together, and drag them back to my room; but the futility and danger of such a course were apparent, and the caution for which I am noted prevented my undertaking it. [9]
- He was going to Boston in charge of the body of the lamented Dr. Revere, the Assistant Surgeon of the regiment, killed on the field. [6]
- They know how to avail themselves of their altered position, and soon learn to charge city prices for country products; but nothing can make people feel rich who see themselves surrounded by men whose yearly income is many times their own whole capital. [6]
- He was here three years before he was tried on this charge. [11]
- Nor how many thoughts beset my brain, since my father has placed me in charge of all his new enterprises. [10]
- I thought--" "You thought," said Austen, "that I might not charge as much as the next man. [9]
- The first time those criminals charge me with irreverence for calling their Stratford myth an Arthur-Orton-Mary-Baker-Thompson-Eddy-Louis-the-Seventeenth-Veiled- Prophet-of-Khorassan will be the last. [5]
- And worse than this, it was discovered that the last grand charge the engine had made upon the enemy had broken the fore-and-aft shaft of the driving-wheel! [5]
- In proof of this there is the fact that the majority of the council voted for such a retreat, and above all there is the well-known conversation after the council, between the commander in chief and Lanskoy, who was in charge of the commissariat department. [2]
- In saying all this the Drawer is well aware that it subjects itself to the charge of being commonplace, but it is precisely the commonplace that this essay seeks to defend. [4]
- The effect which this had upon him was to put him greatly at his ease, and also to charge his system with very gratifying sensations. [5]
- This charge, in this form, was made by Judge Douglas on, I believe, the 9th of July, 1858, in Chicago, in my hearing. [7]
- Being satisfied with this effort I looked around for other worlds to conquer, and it struck me that it would make good, interesting matter to charge the editor of a neighboring country paper with a piece of gratuitous rascality and "see him squirm. [5]
- I recurred to this charge at Ottawa. [7]
- Do you consider this an advertisement?--and if so, do you charge for such things when a man is your friend? [5]
- Smith signaled that they would charge on the east of the town in the night, and at the alarum Ebersbraught was to sally forth. [4]
- It is thought they will do nothing if our folks nominate men who are not very obnoxious to the charge of abolitionism. [7]
- It is thought they will do nothing if our folks nominate men who are not very [undecipherable word looks like "obnoxious"] to the charge of abolitionism. [7]
- That very afternoon they moved to Glencoe, and Ephum was left in sole charge of the store. [9]
- True, he says they had conspired against him; but if the testimony of an angel from Heaven were introduced against him, he would make the same charge of conspiracy. [7]
- They replied that they did not charge the clergy anything. [5]
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