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Sentences starting with claims

Claims conflicted, titles lapped. [9]

Sentences ending with claims

Them varmints is wuss'n redskins,--they've robbed me already of half my claims. [9]
Perhaps it was the importance she attached to her ancestry which made her impatient with their present position, and with people in the parish who would not altogether recognise their claims. [11]
There is something terribly uncertain in this cause of yours, in your claims. [11]
We traded some of our "feet" for "feet" in other people's claims. [5]
Still there were not wanting some among the more respectable members of the medical profession who supported its claims. [6]
Jim Gillis, a lovable, picturesque character (the Truthful James of Bret Harte), owned mining claims. [5]
Some have called him a poet and nothing but a poet, and some have made so much of the palpable defects of his verse that they have forgotten to recognize its true claims. [6]
Your technical claim has overridden my rights--you have a gift for making successful technical claims. [11]
The critters is everywhar, robbin' men of their claims. [9]
The relinquishment of error deprives material sense of its false claims. [5]

Short sentences using claims

Bofe un you claims it. [5]
What claims has a prisoner? [11]

Sentences containing claims two or more times

Mr. Motley said, in the course of his conversation, "At present, the United States government, while withdrawing neither its national claims nor the claims of its individual citizens against the British government," etc. [6]
Indeed, General Cass's entire silence in regard to these items, in his two long letters urging his claims upon the government, is, to my mind, almost conclusive that no such claims had any real existence. [7]
There are no courts or officers to whom the citizens of other States may apply for the enforcement of their lawful claims against citizens of the insurgent States, and there is a vast amount of debt constituting such claims. [7]
Mutual payments have been made of the claims awarded by the late joint commission for the settlement of claims between the United States and Peru. [7]

More example sentences with the word claims in them

You have elected your committee of your free wills, and they have claims before you. [9]
Instead of the yearning for John, of which Wolf had spoken and she, blind fool, believed, he thought of him with petty fears of the claims by which he might injure his favoured brother. [10]
Elsewhere their appetites will be sure to make them enemies, or, what are almost as bad, friends whose interests are at variance with the claims of their exacting necessities and demands. [6]
He regarded his wife, himself, and Cayley, as an impartial judge would view the extraordinary claims of three desperate litigants. [11]
He claims credits which belong solely to his Maker. [5]
Your Highness knows well what honour claims of me. [11]
In short, she was a lady; not one by virtue of a visit to the gods that rule o'er Buckingham Palace, but by the claims of good breeding and long descent. [11]
Around the court-house was a familiar, buzzing scene,--the backwoodsmen, lounging against the wall or brawling over their claims, the sleek agents and attorneys, and half a dozen of a newer type. [9]
He understands the wants of Stone's Landing, and the claims of the inhabitants--who are to be there. [5]
The society of Vienna was at that time, and I believe is still, the absolute reverse of that of England, where all claims to distinction are recognized and welcomed. [6]
We took up various claims, and commenced shafts and tunnels on them, but never finished any of them. [5]
All the claims upon him become pent up, and when he returns home they deluge him like water when the sluice-gates are suddenly opened behind which it has been dammed up. [10]
He had given up hope of winning her heart or confidence by storm, and had followed his finer and better instincts-- had come to the point where he made no claims, and even in his own mind stood upon no rights. [11]
The joint commission under the act of the last session of carrying into effect the convention with Peru on the subject of claims has been organized at Lima, and is engaged in the business intrusted to it. [7]
There are only two claims which I dispute and which I mean to look into personally before I pay them. [5]
Another of the Twelve says she claims that she has never committed any sin. [5]
And I am told it was conceived by a lawyer who claims to be a respectable member of his profession, and who has extraordinary ability, Theodore Watling. [9]
All that happens to him is, that upon his attention an imaginary disturbance sometimes obtrudes itself which claims to be an ailment, but isn't. [5]
All that happens to him is that upon his attention an imaginary disturbance sometimes obtrudes itself which claims to be an ailment but isn't. [5]
You have only to establish a board of men in whom you have confidence,--a court of claims, so to speak,--to pass upon the validity of every application, not from a business standpoint alone, but from one of a broad justice and equity. [9]
In these troublous times but one thing claims my thoughts, and whatever diverts them from it is evil. [10]
Now all of this is but naked claim; and what I have already said about claims is strictly applicable to this. [7]
Galligan claims that there was a defective sill on the car which is said to have caused the wreck. [9]
This does constitute their platform, and it is because Judge Douglas claims it is his platform--that these are his principles and purposes--that he has a right to declare he speaks his sentiments "frankly and manfully. [7]
Creditors were pressing their claims and profits were negligible. [5]
And by contrasting the powers and limitations of two such young persons as Gifted Hopkins and Cyprian Eveleth, we may better appreciate the nature of that divine inspiration which gives to poetry the superiority it claims over every other form of human expression. [6]
Though another claims the name, old Damascus is by right the Eternal City. [5]
Her visitors enjoy the most perfect liberty; what she claims for herself she allows them. [14]
There was always the incentive to the upstart political and military buccaneer to overthrow the dictator and gain possession of the spoils, to sell new doubtful concessions and levy new tribute on the capitalists holding claims from a former tyrant. [9]
I have mentioned the fact that the Tutor is a poet as among his claims to our attention. [6]
In saying that the exterior of Salisbury Cathedral is more interesting than its interior, I was perhaps unfair to the latter, which only yields to the surpassing claims of the wonderful structure as seen from the outside. [6]
I appeal from the disparaging language by which the Professor in the Jefferson School of Philadelphia world dispose of my claims to be listened to. [3]
Instead of winning the credit and commendation he had expected, he now found himself pursued by claims of considerable proportions. [5]
The commission under the convention with the Republic of New Granada closed its session without having audited and passed upon all the claims which were submitted to it. [7]
She had realised the consternation of the people, and she knew that, for her sake, and because the Cure had commanded, all the obsolete claims he had made were responded to by the people. [11]
The controversy between the claims of the practical life and the intellectual is as idle as the so-called conflict between science and religion. [4]
Conventions for adjusting the claims by joint commission have been proposed to some governments, but no definitive answer to the proposition has yet been received from any. [7]
I shall work the "Monitor" and the other claims with my own hands. [5]
My conclusion is that, other claims and qualifications being equal, they have the better right and this is especially applicable to the disabled and the soldier, deceased soldier's family. [7]
It is important that some more convenient means should be provided, if possible, for the adjustment of claims against the government, especially in view of their increased number by reason of the war. [7]
I think, myself, that it is only a toy; but Szczepanik claims more for it, and I know him well enough to believe that he can see father than I can--either with his telelectroscope or without it. [5]
What is he that he should absorb the sweets of the universe, that he should hold all the claims of humanity second to the perfecting of himself? [4]
It is said that he claims to know of improper practices having been used in the interest of this bill, and he thinks be sees a chance to make a great sensation when the bill comes up. [5]
One reminiscence of that afternoon claims precedence over all the rest. [6]
New claims were taken up daily, and it was the friendly custom to run straight to the newspaper offices, give the reporter forty or fifty "feet," and get them to go and examine the mine and publish a notice of it. [5]
Soon after Mr. Sumner made that violent speech about the Alabama claims, and the British government was greatly offended. [6]
My pile of stock was not all given to me by people who wished their claims "noticed. [5]
Gould & Curry stock paid heavy dividends--a rare thing, and an experience confined to the dozen or fifteen claims located on the "main lead," the "Comstock. [5]
In an outer space swung Mr. Parr; then came the scarcely less rarefied atmosphere of the Constables and Atterburys, Fergusons, Plimptons, Langmaids, Prestons, Larrabbees, Greys, and Gores, and then a smaller sphere which claims but a passing mention. [9]
But experience has shown that the character of these assertions is not sufficient to deter many, from examining their claims to belief. [3]
One instance will show the extreme slightness which characterizes many of the grounds of inculpation:-- The instructions say, "The government, in rejecting the recent convention, abandons neither its own claims nor those of its citizens," etc. [6]
His papers I send to you; and I solicit for his claims a full and fair consideration. [7]
Here is the seat of Elfonzo; darkness claims but little victory over this dominion, and in vain does she spread out her gloomy wings. [5]
I regret to say, however, that such claims have been put forward, and in some instances in behalf of foreigners who have lived in the United States the greater part of their lives. [7]
By-and-by his Majesty said gravely, and with a touch of genuine compassion, though the words themselves were capable of being interpreted ironically-- "Mind not thy mischance, good man; there be others in the world whose identity is denied, and whose claims are derided. [5]
The church, the ruin, the antiquated graves, had equal claims at least upon a stranger's thoughts, but from the moment when her eyes first rested on these two dwellings, she could turn to nothing else. [12]
But he is really, as he claims to be, the author of all those detestable books we have been hearing so much of. [9]
If he briefly ratified the terms which had been arranged with Granvelle, and gave Maurice his hand in farewell, he thought he would have satisfied amply the claims of the covetous man, of whose aid, however, he stood in need. [10]
This past would prevent me from serving clients who might have righteous claims against your railroads, and--permit me to speak frankly--in my opinion the practice tends to make it difficult for poor people who have been injured to get efficient lawyers. [9]
The instructions were prepared very carefully, and after Governor Fish and I had gone over them for the last time I wrote an addendum charging him that above all things he should handle the subject of the Alabama claims with the greatest delicacy. [6]
To sustain the position of "the only true Church," which Rome claims was thus conferred upon her, she has fought and labored and struggled for many a century, and will continue to keep herself busy in the same work to the end of time. [5]
We shall lay plenty of claims for him, but if they never pay him anything, they will never cost him anything, Orion and I are not financiers. [5]
The genius of Philadelphia again claims the gratitude of the tourist, for the Sagamore Hotel is one of the most delightful hostelries in the world. [4]
There were many others in Washington on the same errand, some of them with claims as difficult to establish as his. [5]
Holding the individual opinion that the appointment of a different gentleman would be better, I ask especial attention and consideration for his claims, and for the opinions expressed in his favor by those over whom I can claim no superiority. [7]
When you are one of us, no Benjamin can embitter your happiness on earth, no Patriarch can abrogate your claims and your father's to eternal bliss. [10]
I might have omitted them, but on the whole it seemed more just to the claims of my argument to suggest the vast complication of improbabilities involved in the statements enumerated. [3]
Webster's leading definition of the verb "to compromise" is "to adjust and settle a difference, by mutual agreement, with concessions of claims by the parties. [7]
On the 10th of September, 1857, a claims convention was concluded between the United States and the Republic of Granada. [7]
If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to the performance of that service are imperious. [4]
In the event of his dying within the next three years all his claims were to be transferred to her uncle Chrysippus. [10]
In the matter of compensation, it is provided that claims may be presented within ninety days from the passage of the act, "but not thereafter"; and there is no saving for minors, femmes covert, insane or absent persons. [7]
He was used now to his disappointment; he was rich; he had no claims upon Pontiac; there was no one but himself to whom it mattered, this little Seigneury. [11]
My time has now gone by; and I have growing claims upon my thoughts and upon my means, slender and precarious as they are. [4]
In the little note which she had wrapped around it she implored her lover to regard it as his own property, and to use it to satisfy the claims of the Church. [10]
But, even had not new claims constantly pressed upon her, she could on no account have sought his hiding-place at this hour. [10]
But they do not give that instrument the credit; each sect claims that its way differs from the ways of the others. [5]
My partner has no resources, and I do not look for assistance to my wife, whose contributions in cash from her own means have nearly equalled the claims of all the creditors combined. [5]
There are always new claims, and work done, apparently without system or continuance, hoping to uncover sudden boundless affluence. [5]
I said to myself, then, if that ain't a lie I will eat that king if they will fetch him, for even Methusalem warn't that old, and nobody claims it. [5]
Ocean claims great multitudes, but does not invite the solitary who would fain be rid of himself. [6]
They spoke of much that I did not understand concerning the discountenance by Virginia of these claims, speculating as to whether Henderson's grants were good. [9]
There is nothing more wearing to a woman than affectionate attentions from a man who has claims upon her, but whom she does not love. [11]
Then, too, the melancholy of his birth and history claims some sympathy. [11]
It happened to me to be in Paris when he was first chosen a corresponding member of the Institute, and when his claims were canvassed with the freedom and earnestness which peculiarly characterize such a candidacy in France. [6]
As no wise man, I suppose, ever was rich in the sense of freedom to spend, because of the inundation of claims, so neither am I, who am not wise. [6]
But the sharp-sighted man could not believe in such love on his master's part; in his nature the claims of reason threw those of the heart too far into the shade. [10]
Fortunes have been made, and lost in riotous living; scores of visionary men have been disappointed; lawsuits about titles and claims have multiplied, and quarrels ending in murder have been frequent in the past few years. [4]
Only, even though love has wholly disappeared, she still claims consideration, and Althea did not wish to lose Hermon's regard. [10]
Why must he look farther than their platform when he claims himself to stand by his platform? [7]
In a former letter we have seen how Mark Twain, working on a story that was to stand as an example of his best work, and become one of his surest claims to immortality (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), displayed little enthusiasm in his undertaking. [5]
Of that young lady's ancestral claims to distinction there is no need of discoursing. [6]
Cruel old man, know that I come with claims which even you cannot despise. [5]
If the existing judicial tribunals are inadequate to this purpose, a special court may be authorized, with power to hear and decide such claims of the character referred to as may have arisen under treaties and the public law. [7]
The river claims it; and, as if by a miracle, it has been brought to our hand. [10]
Yet he did it, and his words, which are equivalent to a deed, are among this greatly misjudged woman's fairest claims to renown. [10]
But when, as is true, we find it wanting in all these claims to the public confidence, it is not resistance, it is not factious, it is not even disrespectful, to treat it as not having yet quite established a settled doctrine for the country. [7]
The whole case is set forth in the first volume of the Court of Claims Reports. [5]
So that there is but claim against claim, leaving nothing proved until we get back of the claims and find which has the better foundation. [7]
Then, too, imagination is a strong, restless faculty, which claims to be heard and exercised: are we to be quite deaf to her cry, and insensate to her struggles? [14]

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