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Sentences starting with citizen

Citizen was the proper term now,--Citizen General Wilkinson when that magnate came to town, resplendent in his brigadier's uniform. [9]
Citizen Genet, Ambassador of the great Republic of France to the little Republic of America, landed at Charleston, acclaimed by thousands, and lost no time. [9]
Citizen Genet organized his legions as he went along, and threw tricolored cockades from the windows of his carriage. [9]
Citizen Gignoux laid a fat finger on one side of his great nose. [9]

Sentences ending with citizen

During the later years of his life he ranked not only as America's chief man of letters, but likewise as her best known and best loved citizen. [5]
Is my father wrong when he says that it is a proud thing to belong to the mightiest realm on earth, before whose power barbarians tremble; a great thing to feel and call yourself a Roman citizen? [10]
So I am writing this as a simple citizen. [5]
But of course, when a man sells his country, he ceases to be its citizen. [10]
If Judge Driscoll was the recognized first citizen of Dawson's Landing, Pembroke Howard was easily its recognized second citizen. [5]
Every town and village along that vast stretch of double river-frontage had a best dwelling, finest dwelling, mansion,--the home of its wealthiest and most conspicuous citizen. [5]
I am only the wife of a citizen. [10]
Page, editor of the Clarion, and notify the first citizen. [9]
His beautiful songs soon procured him the rights of a Lacedaemonian citizen. [10]
It is not so with the more dynamic personality of the over-sea citizen. [11]

Short sentences using citizen

No communist justice, Citizen Gabrielle. [11]
Speak out, Citizen Carbourd. [11]
Eh, citizen? [9]

Sentences containing citizen two or more times

The Citizen Quartermaster was angry at this, and it did not require any great perspicacity on my part to discover that he did not love the Citizen de St. Gre. [9]
If this is the duty of a citizen, he had discharged it with singleness of purpose; but no other duty of the citizen had he undertaken, if we except his private charities. [4]
There was a store in the village kept by a great citizen,--not a citizen of Kaskaskia alone, but a citizen of the world. [9]
Under your guidance, Citizen General, we fought, we bled--" How far the Citizen Captain would have gone is problematical. [9]
There was a certain Mr. Gamaliel Ives in the town, belonging to an old Brampton family, who would have been the first citizen if that other first citizen had not, by his rise to wealth and power, so completely overshadowed him. [9]
I had noticed a look of disgust slowly creeping into the Citizen Quartermaster's eyes, and at this juncture he seized the Citizen Captain and thrust him into a chair. [9]

More example sentences with the word citizen in them

From one citizen you gather the idea that Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius. [5]
The ordinary citizen would have accomplished nothing--the brother-in-law of a directory can accomplish anything he wants to. [5]
One other very worthy citizen of Kentucky did solicit me to have the augmenting of the force suspended for a time. [7]
The Citizen Quartermaster wore his hair long in the backwoods fashion; he had a keen, pale face and sunken eyes. [9]
Mr. Veneer sent word that the messenger should wait below, and presently appeared in the study, where Abel was making himself at home, as is the wont of the republican citizen, when he hides the purple of empire beneath the apron of domestic service. [6]
When the procession, with its thousand lamps and torches, paused before the hovel, which was almost invisible in the dusk, and one citizen said to another: "Here comes the sacred heart! [10]
Every sober-minded citizen, will agree that they give us a pretty good government. [9]
The obscure citizen who keeps the hotel over the way, inclined strongly to that opinion to-night when I ordered him to prepare the banquet. [12]
Once in a while they saw the light of some contemptuous citizen of the residence district who had stayed to laugh. [9]
Now wheresoever a well-to-do Nuremberg citizen is taking his ease with victuals and drink, if others join him they likewise must sit down and eat with him, yea, if it were in hell itself. [10]
Cynthia knew very well that Ephraim meant to lay hands on Mr. Worthington, and it would indeed have been a disastrous hour for the first citizen if the old soldier had ever got into his library. [9]
I may as well say to you now that I have chosen the Citizen Captain to go at once to New Orleans and organize a regiment among the citizens there faithful to France. [9]
The first question was, Who could the citizen have been who gave the stranger the twenty dollars? [5]
The chief citizen was York Leicester Driscoll, about forty years old, judge of the county court. [5]
I supposed I was appointing for register of wills a citizen of this District. [7]
There came a voice to a citizen of Damascus, named Ananias, saying, "Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas, for one called Saul, of Tarsus; for behold, he prayeth. [5]
It was taken up again by other companies, and by the time Iberville presented himself to Count Frontenac, not long after, there was hardly a citizen, soldier, or woodsman, but was singing it. [11]
Presently they spake unto a citizen and said, Who is King in Ephesus? [5]
It was all undesignedly a part of herself, and she was one of a population in a universal nation whose devout citizen she was. [11]
This is in truth the natural and genuine feeling of a self-governing citizen of a commonwealth where thrones and wigs and mitres seem like so many pieces of stage property. [6]
He was a true citizen of the wilderness. [4]
By inheritance, by tradition, by habits of thought, Austen Vane was an American,--an American as differentiated from the citizen of any other nation upon the earth. [9]
It is impossible to turn a fellow citizen whose vote may make his master--say, rather, employer--Governor or President, or who may be one or both himself, into a flunky. [6]
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]
If he were to humble the first citizen, Mr. Ives reflected that a better opportunity might present itself. [9]
Wetherell, not wishing to be intrusive, went to his desk again, leaving the first citizen standing among the barrels. [9]
I am grateful to America for what I have received at her hands during my long stay under her flag; and to one of her citizens--a citizen of Hadleyburg--I am especially grateful for a great kindness done me a year or two ago. [5]
But this time they should see--the hypocrites, who pretended to so much humanity, and then set ferocious dogs on peaceful folk!--they should learn that they could not fall on a Macedonian citizen without paying for it. [10]
What had become, they asked, of the expedition of Citizen General Clark preparing in the North? [9]
When they find they are not likely to sell out, they approach a citizen mysteriously, and say in a low voice--"Last copy, sir: double price; paper just been suppressed! [5]
Apparently one of these laws has been broken; when the King is on his throne again, can it ever grieve him to remember that when he was seemingly a private person he loyally sank the king in the citizen and submitted to its authority? [5]
One more point--all the world knows it, and that is why it is dangerous to omit it--our guest is a distinguished citizen of the Great Republic beyond the seas. [5]
I believe, on the whole," he said, with what was an extreme complaisance for the first citizen, "that I have reason to congratulate myself upon Robert's choice. [9]
It was scarcely the way in which a school-teacher should receive the advances of the first citizen, come to give a gracious consent to her marriage with his son. [9]
A minister of the United States does not cease to be a citizen of the United States, as deeply interested as others in all that relates to the welfare of his country. [6]
No sooner had the town heard with bated breath of the expulsion of the first citizen from the inner sanctuary of the post-office, than the news of another event began to go the rounds. [9]
He rushes up the steps and through the hall, and into the library, where the first citizen and his seneschal are sitting. [9]
What reward had the Republic for him who sat brooding in his house above the Falls--for Citizen General Clark? [9]
And I maintain the privilege of an American citizen to set my own standards, within the law, and to be the sole arbitrar of those standards. [9]
He thought that the only effective way of preserving and protecting public rights was for each citizen to do his share in preventing or punishing such infringements of them as came under his personal notice. [5]
He had relieved the meeting of the necessity of taking any further action: of putting their names, for instance, in their enthusiasm to a paper which the first citizen might see. [9]
In republics, neither the government nor the rich private citizen is much given to propagating art. [5]
The fiat of the first citizen had gone forth that the ward of Jethro Bass must be got rid of; the designing young woman who had sought to entrap his son must be punished for her amazing effrontery. [9]
It was, indeed, the first citizen and reformer of Brampton. [9]
The citizen was the culprit to start with, just as he is the culprit now, because he does not take sufficient interest in his government to make it honest. [9]
He would have the citizen conform his vote to that decision; the member of Congress, his; the President, his use of the veto power. [7]
On or about the 1st day of September, 1813, the Creek war being then in progress in Florida, the crops, herds, and houses of Mr. George Fisher, a citizen, were destroyed, either by the Indians or by the United States troops in pursuit of them. [5]
Including Doctor Parkhurst, that strong and brave and excellent citizen, but superficially educated. [5]
But I said that it was the duty of every man who was a good citizen and respected the laws of his country, to see, in so far as it was possible, that there should be no breach of those laws. [11]
His idea was that every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution. [5]
The theory is that each citizen shall find his place, according to his gifts and abilities, and be satisfied therewith. [9]
Who will believe that a well-behaved and reputable citizen could have been denounced as a "moral parricide," because he attacked some of the doctrines in which he was supposed to have been brought up? [6]
They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a "wire edge" that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said "no, it will come off when the enamel does"--which was comforting, at any rate. [5]
One evening, towards sunset, the comfortable citizen, taking the mild air on his piazza, sees an interesting figure approach. [4]
Was there ever such a march of triumph as that of the Citizen Ambassador northward to the capital? [9]
During a short stay in East Tennessee he was in a citizen colonel's tent one day, talking, when a big private appeared at the door, and without salute or other circumlocution said to the colonel: 'Say, Jim, I'm a-goin' home for a few days. [5]
We found the state palace of the Governor of Nevada Territory to consist of a white frame one-story house with two small rooms in it and a stanchion supported shed in front--for grandeur--it compelled the respect of the citizen and inspired the Indians with awe. [5]
In 1862, a son of Keokuk's late distinguished citizen, Mr. Claggett, gave me this incident concerning Dean-- The war feeling was running high in Keokuk (in '61), and a great mass meeting was to be held on a certain day in the new Athenaeum. [5]
When the citizen simply does his duty in the place where he stands, the boss will be eliminated, in the nation, in the State, in the town, and we shall have, what by courtesy we say we have now, a government by the people. [4]
For instance, Mr. Silas Tredway of Ripton, made such a pilgrimage and, as a citizen who had voted in 1860 for Abraham Lincoln (showing Mr. Tredway himself to have been a radical once), appealed to Mr. Henderson to save the State. [9]
An Englishman is self-assured, as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world, and therefore as an Englishman always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. [2]
We want to see the muss cleared up, of course; we want Shon McGann to act like a high-toned citizen, and there's a general prejudice in favour of things bein' on the flat of your palm, as it were. [11]
An English citizen said: "In the early part of this century Mauritius was used by the French as a basis from which to operate against England's Indian merchantmen; so England captured the island and also the neighbor, Bourbon, to stop that annoyance. [5]
Straight off you said, 'Oh, false citizen, to have fed a tramp! [5]
And it was said that a belated citizen had come upon Potter washing himself in the "branch" about one or two o'clock in the morning, and that Potter had at once sneaked off--suspicious circumstances, especially the washing which was not a habit with Potter. [5]
Thus the duty rests to-day, more heavily than ever, upon each American citizen to make good to the world those principles upon which his government was built. [9]
They proceed to resolve "that these safeguards of the rights of the citizen against the pretensions of arbitrary power were intended more especially for his protection in times of civil commotion. [7]
That was the residence of the principal citizen, all the way from the suburbs of New Orleans to the edge of St. Louis. [5]
Citoyens, Vive la Republique!--Hail to the Citizen General! [9]
The first citizen, raging inwardly, but trying to appear unconcerned, walked rapidly back to his house. [9]
He evaded Henrica's questions, and merely hastily enquired about Anna's health and the Leyden citizen, whom Georg had mentioned. [10]
Next came Citizen Quartermaster Depeau, now of Knob Licks, Kentucky, sometime of New Orleans. [9]
It is a public duty and no citizen has a right to shirk it. [5]
It is wholly prospective, and touches neither person nor property of any loyal citizen, in which particulars it is just and proper. [7]
During this period probably no citizen of the Republic, except the Father of his Country, had so wide a reputation as his namesake, Washington Irving. [4]
Especially in the presence of fashion and wealth would the independent American citizen straighten his backbone, reassuring himself that he was as good as anybody. [4]
He was so popular at home, and so trusted--during his sober intervals --that he was enabled to use the name of a principal citizen, and get a large sum of money at the bank. [5]
Standing on the platform after the train pulled out, he summoned up courage to ask a citizen with no mustache and a beard, which he swept away when he spat, where was the office of Lincoln & Herndon. [9]
It is a pity that we cannot take Citizen Louise Michel with us. [11]
His name was Phinehas Barnes, and, if he is inquired after in Portland or anywhere in the State of Maine, something will be heard to his advantage from any honest and intelligent citizen of that Commonwealth who answers the question. [6]
At a later period, "Roi Citoyen"--the citizen king was a common title given to Louis Philippe. [6]
Nor has he particularly chosen for the field of this novel a state of which he is a citizen, and for which he has a sincere affection. [9]
A citizen stumbled over that head, and drove his own head into the back of somebody in front of him, who turned and knocked down the first person that came handy, and was promptly laid out himself by that person's friend. [5]
Yet in all our rejoicings let us neither express nor cherish any hard feelings toward any citizen who by his vote has differed with us. [7]
I couldn't let our first citizen build a modern Rhine castle, could I? [9]
He was none other than the Citizen Gignoux. [9]
The citizen sergeant only smiled, and made no move to arrest the young lady in red and white. [9]
I can guarantee one thing only: I will do my best to prevent this injury of an estimable citizen, interference with the laws of our city, and violation of good taste. [10]
They had only one fact, yet the distinguished citizen had spent twenty-six years in that little town--just half his lifetime. [5]
But Nick, hurrying on, came near to bowling more than one respectable citizen we met on the banquette, into the ditch. [9]
Not the least of the news concerned the first citizen of that place. [9]
The French republicans of the earlier period thought the term citizen was good enough for anybody. [6]
The great news of that day which concerns the world--and incidentally this story--was that Citizen Genet had landed at Charleston. [9]
A reputable citizen of Salomon City was produced to prove her residence, and somebody cried out something, not loudly, in which she heard the name of Spence mentioned twice. [9]
The valiant citizen of Leyden came to Delft more and more frequently, and was always a guest at Doctor Groot's house. [10]
I see one of his smirchy pictures hanging in a shop window, awaiting the advent of the citizen of the United States. [4]
The first citizen of Brampton possessed one quality so essential to greatness--that of looking into the future, and he believed that the time would come when an event of some importance might create a perpetual alliance between himself and Mr. Duncan. [9]
I'm a citizen of Avalon County, though many people call me a summer resident; I've done business here and helped improve the neighbourhood for years. [9]
The peaceful house of a Roman citizen turned into shambles. [10]
I have heard of a citizen who made an annual joke. [6]

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