Use charles in a sentence
Sentences starting with charles
- Charles Emerson, the younger brother, who was of the same type, expresses the feeling in his college essay on Friendship, where it is all summed up in the line he quotes:-- "The hand of Douglas is his own. [6]
- Charles Francis Adams wrote, "It attracted my attention because it so exactly expresses the views I have myself all along entertained. [5]
- Charles Augustus Murray, writing some forty-five or fifty years ago, said--'The streets are narrow, ill paved and ill lighted. [5]
- Charles Warren Stoddard, whom he had known in California, shared his apartment at the Langham, and acted as his secretary--a very necessary office, for he was besieged by callers and bombarded with letters. [5]
- Charles left for Washington, summons from President, in the midst of it. [9]
- Charles Dudley Warner was at church, one day, when the worn letter was read and wept over. [5]
- Charles listened to this explanation with a silent shrug of the shoulders. [10]
- Charles summoned her there almost daily, and always at different hours. [10]
- Charles instantly scanned the list of dishes, and his face clouded still more as he missed the highly seasoned game pasty which the culinary artist had proposed and he had approved. [10]
- Charles angrily exclaimed that he knew what such illness meant, and his under lip protruded so far that it was easy to perceive how deeply this fresh proof of Barbara's defiance and vanity incensed him. [10]
Sentences ending with charles
- A youth from the school of poets, attired as the goddess of Fame, bewailed in well-rhymed verses that for a long time no one had given her so much to do as the Emperor Charles. [10]
- Lights sparkled on the crescent shore of Beauport, and the torches of fishermen flared upon the St. Charles. [11]
- The face was that of one of Lord Northwell's ancestors, a sporting nobleman of the time of the second Charles. [9]
- Barbara, still with quickened breathing, then put the question how she could know this; and Adrian, with a significant smile, replied that her heart would tell her, and if it should ever err--of this he was certain--the Emperor Charles. [10]
- There was some plot against Charles! [11]
- It suited only one, lauded a grandeur and dignity which stood firm as indestructible cliffs, and which no one here possessed save the Emperor Charles. [10]
- She is driving on the ice with ma'm'selle Lotbiniere and her brother Charles. [11]
- No prayer is offered to the Saviour, who seems to be of little importance any where in Rome; but an inscription below says, "Blessed Peter, give life to Pope Leo and victory to king Charles. [5]
- On the twenty-eighth of May, King Ferdinand arrived with his family to visit his brother Charles. [10]
- To attract his notice by another performance would have been the most natural course, but Barbara had placed herself in a singular relation toward the Emperor Charles. [10]
Short sentences using charles
- Congdon, Charles, his Reminiscences, 66. [6]
- I saw Charles I beheaded. [5]
- Lamb, Charles, Carlyle's criticism, 196. [6]
- His name was Charles Boyd. [11]
- Jackson, Charles, garden, 38. [6]
- Charles V., 197. [6]
- Charles Rex--like that! [11]
Sentences containing charles two or more times
- Charles, Charles, it was Aaron again, and the dog is like to snap at last. [9]
- This, the first land they descried, they named Cape Henry, in honor of the Prince of Wales; as the opposite cape was called Cape Charles, for the Duke of York, afterwards Charles I. [4]
- Later in the evening Mr. Clemens made another speech, replying to a fire of short speeches by Charles Dudley Warner, Charles A. Dana, Seth Low, General Porter, and many others, each welcoming the guest of honor. [5]
More example sentences with the word charles in them
- To be in your place when you sing to the Emperor Charles again! [10]
- Assisted by a young apothecary, Sir Charles washed and dressed the wound, which was in the left groin, and to our anxious questions replied that there was a chance of recovery. [9]
- What was that you were telling about Charles Lamb, the other day, Mandeville? [4]
- I may be wrong, but the Tiber has a voice for me, as it whispers to the piers of the Pons Alius, even more full of meaning than my well-beloved Charles eddying round the piles of West Boston Bridge. [6]
- And Mr. Charles Wrexell Allen, treasurer of the widely known Miles Standish Bicycle Company, was said to have led the cotillon in a manner that left nothing to be desired. [9]
- Had Mr. Charles Wrexell Allen arrived at Asquith and created a sensation with the man who stole his name I should have been amply satisfied. [9]
- Among these western wooded hills my day-dreams built their fairy palaces, and even now, as I look at them from my library window, across the estuary of the Charles, I find myself in the familiar home of my early visions. [6]
- The Emperor Charles, with his forehead resting on his hand, sat absorbed in thought before the papers which had occupied his attention. [10]
- Barbara had often wished to see the Netherlands, which the Emperor Charles also remembered with special affection, but no one had ever thus transported her to the midst of these flourishing provinces and this blithesome people. [10]
- The Emperor Charles wished to place her in safe quarters up here, while he himself had taken lodgings in the modest house of a Schwaiger--a small farmer who tilled his own garden and land in the valley below. [10]
- The Emperor Charles wished to know how she liked her new home. [10]
- The Emperor's last will had a codicil, which concerned a son of his Majesty; but, a few days before his end, Charles had also remembered Barbara, and commissioned Ogier Bodart, Adrian's successor, to buy a life annuity for her in Brussels. [10]
- For the sleeper whose dream here on earth he, Charles, had beautified in so many ways, a happy waking had long since followed in the land for which she had never ceased to yearn. [10]
- Both as a whole and in detail Charles approved them, and gladly left to the minister the final negotiations with the duke, who intended to leave Ratisbon at noon. [10]
- But the man who had honoured her with his love was no less a personage than the Emperor Charles, and this circumstance only increased the sympathy which the sisters felt for their much-admired friend. [10]
- She it was who had a secret passion for Prince Charles, and these letters to Sir John, who had been with the Pretender at Versailles, must prove her ruin if produced. [11]
- Do you know whether this gentleman is Charles Wrexell Allen, or whether he is the author? [9]
- I knew well where I was, and at once started off in a northwesterly direction, toward the St. Charles River, making for a certain farmhouse above the town. [11]
- By good luck, when I had paid into Mr. Dix's hand the thousand pounds I had received from Charles Fox, and cleared my outstanding bills, the sum I remained in Comyn's debt was not greatly above seven hundred pounds. [9]
- On Monday morning, when I come to you for tidings, you are off watching Charles make an ass of himself at Newmarket. [9]
- Forget not to wear my sword--it has come from the first King Charles himself, Robert. [11]
- That is the way Dr. Owen and Dr. Huxley, Dr. Agassiz and Dr. Jeffries Wyman, Dr. Gray and Dr. Charles T. Jackson settled the difficulty. [3]
- Outlaw as he was, his estates given over to his son who now carried a knighthood bestowed by King Charles, he was still a loyal subject to the dynasty which had dishonoured him. [11]
- My Lord Carlisle was the poet and scholar of the little clique which had been to Eton with Charles Fox, any member of which (so 'twas said) would have died for him. [9]
- The Emperor Charles was sending the old man far away that the happiness of her love might be undisturbed and unclouded, and the consciousness weighed heavily upon her by no means unduly sensitive conscience. [10]
- While the chamberlain was retiring, Charles saw Barbara leaning on Malfalconnet's arm, beckoned to them, and asked her whether she had yielded to her love for dancing. [10]
- But Emperor Charles was not the man to allow matters which aroused his wrath and strong disapproval to pass unpunished. [10]
- How wise it was in Charles Warren Stoddard to take in his sign and go for some other calling while still young. [5]
- But Charles Emerson was idolized in his own time by many in college and out of college. [6]
- When young Enderby was driven from his father's house by Cromwell, he determined to join the Scotch army which was expected soon to welcome Charles the Second from France. [11]
- Although each individual was concerned about his own affairs, one thought, nevertheless, ruled them all--the Emperor Charles, his health, and his decisions. [10]
- By Charles Dudley Warner The problem of dealing with the criminal class seems insolvable, and it undoubtedly is with present methods. [4]
- By Charles Dudley Warner Delivered before the Alumni of Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., Wednesday, June 26, 1872 Twenty-one years ago in this house I heard a voice calling me to ascend the platform, and there to stand and deliver. [4]
- Yet during this walk the Emperor Charles, even at the risk of presenting a pitiable spectacle, would gladly have availed himself of the litter. [10]
- After the short walk in the park of his palace, during which Barbara had met him in the dusk, the Emperor Charles had dined with his son Philip and the Queen of Hungary. [10]
- If war was waged against the Smalkalds, the allied Protestants of Germany, Spain, which had been taught to regard the campaign as a religious war, was ready to aid Charles with large subsidies of money and men. [10]
- For Charles Fox vows that conscience makes cowards of the best of us. [9]
- She had been visiting Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner, but by the physician's advice had been removed to the comfort and quiet of her own home, only a few steps away. [5]
- Master Adrian, the valet, had just brought it, but this time Charles glanced over the important expressions of opinion given by the young minister swiftly and without deeper examination. [10]
- Above the town, up to this time, the guard was of a perfunctory sort, for the great cliffs were thought impregnable; and even if surmounted, there was still the walled town to take, surrounded by the St. Lawrence, the St. Charles, and these massive bulwarks. [11]
- So I gave up my sword to Charles Bedford, my lieutenant, with more regret than I can tell, for it was sheathed in memories, charging him to keep it safe--that he would use it worthily I knew. [11]
- This would continue until her own end and that of all the Olympians, because the Emperor Charles himself was an immortal. [10]
- As Lord Rippingdale turned to Charles to raise him, the coach-door was opened upon the other side, a light was thrust in, and over the unconscious body of the King my lord recognised John Enderby. [11]
- Wolf's first walk took him to the Golden Cross, the lodgings of the Emperor Charles and his court. [10]
- The Archbishop of Toledo was summoned, and predicted that Charles would die on the day after to-morrow, St. Matthew's day. [10]
- Everything Wolf had told her concerning the motives which induced Charles to devote himself for the remainder of his life to quiet contemplation seemed to her as credible as to the knight himself. [10]
- Among other things to which Mr. Palgrave called our attention was the death-warrant of Charles the First. [6]
- It is dedicated to the "high, hopeful Charles, Prince of Great Britain," and is prefaced by an address to the King's Council for all the plantations, and another to all the adventurers into New England. [4]
- Were the days to return when, in the Netherlands, Charles had condescended to treat even humble folk with blunt familiarity? [10]
- Did Charles desire to rear it there to the grandeur and splendour for whose sake she had yielded him? [10]
- The letter is to her uncle Charles Langdon, the "Charlie" of the Quaker City. [5]
- Charles, here, is to give him a commission in his Majesty's Navy. [9]
- He had come to consult with the Emperor Charles about the diadems which he wished to give his two nieces, the daughters of Ferdinand, King of the Romans, who were to be married in July in Ratisbon. [10]
- Without any attempt to conceal from the valet the strong excitement that mastered him, Charles at last impatiently approached the window and looked down into the Haidplatz. [10]
- When I used to be at the Dales', in Mount Vernon Street, in thirty-seven, Mrs. Charles Atterbury Brice used to come there in her carriage, a-callin'. [9]
- After escorting her to a seat on the train, he tactfully retired to the smoking car, not to rejoin her until they were on the trestle spanning the Charles River by the North Station. [9]
- For the second time I took the hand of Charles O'Byrne, the celebrated Irish giant of the last century. [6]
- During the next three years he was distracted by the financial struggle which ended in April, 1894, with the failure of Charles L. Webster & Co. Mark Twain now found himself bankrupt, and nearly one hundred thousand dollars in debt. [5]
- Jackson, Dr. Charles Thomas, anaesthesia, 403. [6]
- He was by this time one-third owner in the business of Charles L. Webster & Co., as well as its general manager. [5]
- Two days after this letter was written we get a hint of what was the beginning of business trouble--that is to say, of the failing health of Charles L. Webster. [5]
- The "Annie" in this letter was his sister Pamela's little daughter; long years after, she would be the wife of Charles L. Webster, Mark Twain's publishing partner. [5]
- For Charles says this Falkland business with Spain will blow out of the touch-hole. [9]
- But the finest thing that has happened in my day was a year or so ago; that was Charles Peace's reception --him they called 'the Bannercross Murderer'--an Englishman. [5]
- But every year there come from New York a box of flowers, and every year P'tite Louison send him a 'Merci, Charles, mille fois. [11]
- After this conversation the two men who, in different positions, stood nearest to the Emperor Charles, placed no obstacle in Barbara's way. [10]
- Don Luis was the tool in every blow which Charles, his master, dealt at my happiness and peace. [10]
- This was in the time when Charles was yet devoted to his Princess of Portugal, and while she was yet happy and undisturbed by rumours--or assurances--of her Lord's wandering affections. [11]
- Ere he crossed the threshold he saw that Charles was suffering and felt troubled by some important matter, and soon learned what he desired to know. [10]
- I knew Charles the Second very well--one of the most popular comedians in the English section--draws first rate. [5]
- Near midnight of the second day I came out secretly from my lurking-place, and faced straight for the St. Charles River. [11]
- Suddenly a voice, the rasp of which penetrated to St. Charles Street, came out with a bid. [9]
- In 1893, when the publishing company of Charles L. Webster, of which I was financial agent, failed, it left me heavily in debt. [5]
- He, Don John, the not all unworthy son of the great Emperor Charles, was not born to obey all his life, and allow himself to be turned to account, worn out, and abused for the benefit of another. [10]
- Instead of leaving the Netherlands, the Emperor Charles remained nearly a year in Brussels. [10]
- Henry Hastings was the name of this old gentleman, who lived in the time of Charles the First. [6]
- Then, whereas in the middle of the past century all towns were forbid by imperial law to hold tournaments, he went to Court, and had been dubbed knight by the Emperor Charles, and won fame and honor by many a shrewd lance-thrust. [10]
- The man in the litter had been only the wreck of the Charles whom she loved; even the fiery light in his eyes, though not extinguished, had appeared subdued and veiled. [10]
- The thought of the Emperor Charles was as far removed from his mind as heaven from earth, though Barbara emphasized the fact that the man whom she loved would be sure of his respect. [10]
- No voice which the Emperor Charles had ever heard had put such pure, bewitching melody into this expression of the deepest yearning. [10]
- As soon as the door had closed behind Maurice, Charles, turning to Granvelle, remarked, "The Saxon cousin returned our clasp of the hand some what coldly, but the means of rendering it warmer are ready. [10]
- And this is the daughter of Gabriel Druse, King and Duke of all the Romanys, him with ancestor King Panuel, Duke of Little Egypt, who had Sigismund, and Charles the Great, and all the kings for friends. [11]
- Then she seized the dainty little bell on the table to ring for the valet Adrian; but the Emperor Charles stopped her with the exclamation: "Never mind him. [10]
- She saw in the codicil the bridge which would lead her son to splendour and magnificence, and up to the last hour of his life the Emperor Charles had also remembered her. [10]
- He had avoided the chief ever since he had come back to Fort Charles, and practically had not spoken to him for a year. [11]
- The expedition crossed the bay at "Smith's Isles," named after the Captain, touched at Cape Charles, and coasted along the eastern shore. [4]
- May I say that when Helen is not Helen she is Mrs. Falchion, and when Menelaus is not Menelaus he is--Mr. Charles Boyd. [11]
- Barbara then acknowledged that she was fond of such magnificent exhibitions, and begged Charles to allow her to attend the festival with the marquise. [10]
- How I wished that Charles Fox might have been with me. [9]
- But I must tell your Highness that I was no enemy of King Charles, and am no foe to his memory. [11]
- But to be taken there by Charles Fox was an honour falling to few. [9]
- And in that sweet curve of shore, from the St. Charles to Beauport, thousands of stars seemed shining. [11]
- It was amidst such surroundings that Charles Dudley Warner was born on the 12th of September, 1829. [4]
- Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe lived near the Clemens home; also Charles Dudley Warner. [5]
- And underneath it stood a gold cabinet, lacquered by Martin's inimitable hand, in the centre of which was set a medallion of porcelain, with the head in dark blue of his Majesty, Charles the First. [9]
- But though she still retained a portion of her former affection for Wolf Hartschwert, she loved the Emperor Charles with passionate fervour. [10]
- This was good St. Charles Borromeo, Bishop of Milan. [5]
- Charles cut this speech short, and curtly requested her to take under her charge, in his royal sister's place, a young lady of a noble family. [10]
- Why, Miss Tayloe, Sir Charles Grandison himself would scarce suit her! [9]
- The play, "Ah Sin," had many good features, and with Charles T. Parsloe in an amusing Chinese part might have been made a success, if the two authors could have harmoniously undertaken the needed repairs. [5]
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