Use companies in a sentence
Sentences ending with companies
- A matter like this would rank merely as an error with you and me; it ranks as a crime with the directors of steamship companies. [5]
- Insured in all the companies. [5]
- All but one rejoined their companies. [2]
- I have not much taste for such large companies. [6]
- So I think doctors are generally welcome in most companies. [6]
- With the check came two through tickets--good on the railroad from Hawkeye to Washington via New York--and they were "dead-head" tickets, too, which had been given to Senator Dilworthy by the railway companies. [5]
- It is artificial, and it is provided and anchored out by the steamer companies. [5]
Sentences containing companies two or more times
- One by one the companies are marching up, and taking place in line; the city companies in natty gray fatigue, the country companies often in their Sunday clothes. [9]
- On the Pacific coast the Chinamen all belong to one or another of several great companies or organizations, and these companies keep track of their members, register their names, and ship their bodies home when they die. [5]
More example sentences with the word companies in them
- The Boyne Iron Works was to become the Boyne Iron Works, Ltd., owner of various subsidiary companies, some of which were as yet blissfully ignorant of their fate. [9]
- The twenty-four sharpshooters with discharged muskets, standing in the center of the circle, ran back to their places as the companies passed by. [2]
- The regiment in which Hans Eitelfritz served, and the other companies of lansquenets, had succumbed to the temptation, and only waited the signal for revolt. [10]
- In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen had been, was nothing but a wide expanse of emerald turf, with not even the faintest sign that human life had ever been present there. [5]
- I buy them, when other steel companies won't touch 'em. [9]
- Ma says there were 10 hearses, with the fire companies (their engines in mourning--firemen in uniform,) the various benevolent societies in uniform and mourning, and a multitude of citizens and strangers, forming, altogether, a procession of 30,000 persons! [5]
- And yet there was an artificial military courtesy (something like that existing in the feudal age, no doubt) which put the meeting of these two rival and mutually detested companies on a high plane of behavior. [4]
- There is another wait, the companies standing at ease. [9]
- She has the usual Upper River quota of factories, newspapers, and institutions of learning; she has telephones, local telegraphs, an electric alarm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. [5]
- The regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed quarters near Braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and to rest after their hard marches. [2]
- 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]
- Shortly afterward the tuba sounded to assemble the plunderers still scattered about Seleukus's house, and Nemesianus saw the men marching in small companies into the great hall. [10]
- One of those trust companies is taking care of it. [5]
- She provided the top of everything for those companies, and in abundance --among them many a dish and many a wine which they had not tasted before and which they had not even heard of except at second-hand from the prince's servants. [5]
- I ran back to the fort, and when I had gotten my drum the three companies were falling into line, the men murmuring in undertones among themselves. [9]
- We have so thinned our line to get troops for other places that it was broken yesterday at Front Royal, with a probable loss to us of one regiment infantry, two Companies cavalry, putting General Banks in some peril. [7]
- At length, when they were come to some Indian mounds, they found a picket of three, companies of the force which had reached the flat the day before, and had been sent down to prevent the enemy from obstructing further the stream below the fleet. [9]
- A dozen of them are investments of English capital; and the companies that own them are at work now, trying to settle up and get out with a saving of half the money they put in. [5]
- The square-timber of the two companies had got tangled at a certain point, and gangs from both must set them loose. [11]
- But, thank Heaven, the railway companies are generally disposed to do the right and kindly thing without--compulsion. [5]
- But, thank Heaven, the railway companies are generally disposed to do the right and kindly thing without compulsion. [5]
- The companies of the imperial body-guard, who were placed about the amphitheatre, found no great difference, so long as it was daylight, between the crowd round the Circus of Alexandria and that by the Tiber. [10]
- Then there were the French--yesterday, running hither and thither in paroxysms of fear; to-day, enlisting in whole companies, though it were easier to get to the wild geese of the swamps than to Hamilton. [9]
- By October, when the French were fleeing toward Smolensk, there were hundreds of such companies, of various sizes and characters. [2]
- The retirement of the center to the other side of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the different companies did not get mixed. [2]
- And a holiday that takes on such proportions that the Express companies and the Post-office cannot handle it is in danger of a collapse. [4]
- Don't you think that if some one went among them, and tried to make them see how perfectly hopeless it was to resist the companies and drive off the new men, he might do some good? [8]
- She liked to take him about with her, and see the welcome in all companies of a man so handsome, so natural and cordial, as her husband. [4]
- The Seventh Cavalry still in garrison, here; also the Ninth Dragoons, two artillery companies, and some infantry. [5]
- Two miles away, several regiments were in camp, and two companies of U.S. cavalry. [5]
- Covered with desert sand and blood, and fighting and raging after the manner of a Sikh, he could hold ten companies together like a wall against a charge of Dervishes. [11]
- The militia is riddled with rebels, and the rest are forming companies of minute men. [9]
- The usual net receipts of a performance were from nine to ten pounds, and this was about the sum that Elizabeth paid to companies for a performance at Whitehall, which was always in the evening and did not interfere with regular hours. [4]
- The company commanders ran off to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and hum with voices. [2]
- Now the only point was to keep her out of the way of other rope-dancers, English proprietors of circus companies, as well as the numerous knights and gentlemen who tried to take her from him. [10]
- Not to seem partial, I made friends and told fortunes among all the companies garrisoned there; but I gave Company C the great bulk of my attentions. [5]
- The drum-major of our holiday militia companies is copied exactly from the turkey gobbler; he has the same splendid appearance, the same proud step, and the same martial aspect. [4]
- Now and again other birds, dark, quick-winged, low-flying, shot in among the white companies of sea-gulls, stretching their long necks, and turning their swift, cowardly eyes here and there, the cruel beak extended, the body gorged with carrion. [11]
- And suddenly the order went forth for the men to draw up in front of it by companies, with the families of the emigrants behind them. [9]
- Berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be doubled. [2]
- Otherwise it is only a waiting in a material existence, like the lovers, in the words of the Arabian story-teller, "till there came to them the Destroyer of Delights and the Sunderer of Companies, he who layeth waste the palaces and peopleth the tombs. [4]
- Now there was one indigent man who had been disappointed so often with other companies that he had grown disheartened, his appetite left him, he ceased to smile--said life was but a weariness. [5]
- Now there was one indigent man who had been disappointed so often with other companies that he had grown disheartened, his appetite left him, he ceased to smile--life was but a weariness. [5]
- To satisfy him on this ground, I addressed the following question to the President of one of our principal Insurance Companies, leaving Dr. Meigs's book and my Essay in his hands at the same time. [3]
- The sun rose on that 25th of February, and the mud melted, and one of our companies drew up on each side of the gate. [9]
- It was the old man's duty to keep the booms of several great lumbering companies, and to watch the logs when the river-drivers were engaged elsewhere. [11]
- After the dissolution of the companies, and the granting of new letters-patent to a company of some twenty noblemen, there seems to have been a project for dividing up the country by lot. [4]
- Then whole companies of marines returned a musketry fire at him, to no purpose. [11]
- Lajeunesse, by virtue of his position in the parish, and his former military experience, was made a captain, and the others sergeants of companies yet unnamed and unformed. [11]
- There were, too, numerous conferences with local personages, with Mr. Dickinson and Mr. Grierson, and Judah B. Tallant,--whose newspaper was most useful; there were consultations and negotiations of a delicate nature with the owners and lawyers of other companies to be "taken in. [9]
- Down that street, now in double time, came three companies of Boston militia, newly arrived in Hampton, blue-taped, gaitered, slouch-hatted. [9]
- While more and more troops of the Regent's soldiers, more companies of musicians, and rare animals, followed in procession, the festal bark of Amon started from the shore. [10]
- The insurance companies might agree, but no one else would admit that he belongs in the average. [4]
- Another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him. [2]
- Two companies of light infantry, leaving the Mont es Pendus, stole round the town and placed themselves behind the invaders on the Town Hill; the rest marched direct upon the enemy. [11]
- He was a lieutenant in one of Blair's companies before the call came. [9]
- As a citizen it is my duty to help the railway companies keep their servants to their work. [5]
- They were divided into companies, according to the wrestling-schools or the Circus and other societies to which they belonged. [10]
- At the sharp instigation of Doltaire, instantly some companies of marines filed in upon the place where they had stood, leveled their muskets on us, and hid my beloved wife from my view. [11]
- He had moneys in the bank, shares in various companies, wood-lots in the town; and a large tract of Western land, the subject of a lawsuit which seemed as if it would never be settled, and kept him always uneasy. [6]
- The companies stood in close ranks before his house, impetuous shouts and bursts of music made the windows rattle, and now the officers pressed into his room, holding out their swords, vowing fealty unto death, and entreating him to remain their commander. [10]
- Always--from all companies, high or low--she went forth richer in honor and esteem than when she came. [5]
- Acting under orders, he had marched his company to make conjunction with other companies at a point in the mountains twenty miles away, but had himself returned to get the five thousand dollars gathered by Papineau's agent. [11]
- These dominant bankers had contrived to gain control of the savings of thousands and thousands of fellow-citizens who had deposited them in banks or paid them into insurance companies, and with the power thus accumulated had sallied forth to capture railroads and industries. [9]
- After the soldiers had come from the muster-field, and some of the companies were on the village-common, there was still some skirmishing between a few individuals who had not had the fight taken out of them. [6]
- Post yourself with four companies at the Hohenort Gate, to be ready to take part, if the battle approaches the city-walls. [10]
- Big companies were formed, and for several decades, now, the lodes have been successfully worked, and have yielded great wealth. [5]
- She amused herself for some time with watching them; but when the last man had entered the stadium, and they had formed in companies, she again took up the rolls. [10]
- Speaking of patience; for example, one of the local companies went steadily on with its deep borings and searchings without show of gold or a penny of reward for eleven years --then struck it, and became suddenly rich. [5]
- But now for fifty years and more that room has been a meeting-ground for the platoons and companies which range themselves at the scholar's word of command. [6]
- There is tremendous excitement here over news from the front that two companies of French soldiers are assembling there. [5]
- There is no evidence that Elizabeth ever attended the public theatres, but the companies were often summoned to play before her in Whitehall, where the appointments and scenery were much better than in the popular houses. [4]
- Mr. Paret, who entered both companies on the ground floor, likewise got fees. [9]
- At seven we embarked by companies in the flatboats, waving a farewell to those who were to be left behind. [9]
- Two companies were drawn up in the sun before the old Jesuit house, and presently through the gate a procession came, grave and mournful. [9]
- The insurance companies do not commonly charge a different percentage on the lives of the patients of this or that physician. [3]
- The infantry were divided into regiments and companies, under different standards, and variously equipped. [10]
- The army was demoralized, clamoring in vain for pay, and deserting by companies and regiments; one-third of the men were without tents, one-fourth of them were on the sick list. [4]
- Here are brave companies of the Douglas Guards, the Hickory Sprouts, and the Little Giants to do honor to the person of their hero. [9]
- Thither the London Companies had come in their varied dazzling accoutrements--hundreds armed in fine corselets bearing the long Moorish pike; tall halberdiers in the unique armour called Almainrivets, and gunners or muleteers equipped in shirts of mail with morions or steel caps. [11]
- A small company, but small companies are pleasantest. [5]
- There is an awful excitement here over the rumour that two companies of Prussian troops have concentrated on the border. [5]
- It might be asked why the government should buy this land, when it had millions of yes, more than the railroad companies desired, which, it might devote to this purpose? [5]
- Many of them appropriated several houses, chalked their names on them, and quarreled and even fought with other companies for them. [2]
- Commissioners have been appointed under the treaty with Great Britain on the adjustment of the claims of the Hudson Bay and Puget Sound Agricultural Companies, in Oregon, and are now proceeding to the execution of the trust assigned to them. [7]
- Caesar's Macedonian guard and other infantry troops were silently coming up in companies and vanishing into the side-doors which led to the upper tiers of the stadium. [10]
- The young farmers and mechanics of that whole region joined the companies to which they belonged, or organized in squads and marched at once, or got ready to march, to the scene of conflict. [6]
- The regimental commander and Major Ekonomov had stopped beside a bridge, letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up and took hold of the commander's stirrup, almost leaning against him. [2]
- In Annapolis fife and drum had taken the place of fiddle and clarion; militia companies were drilling in the empty streets; despatches were arriving daily from the North; and grave gentlemen were hurrying to meetings. [9]
- He addressed letter after letter to the companies of Virginia and Plymouth, giving them distinctly to understand that they were losing time by not availing themselves of his services and his project. [4]
- Baedeker knows all about hotels, railway and diligence companies, and speaks his mind freely. [5]
- On the 23d a rebel force of 7000 to 10,000 fell upon one regiment and two companies guarding the bridge at Front Royal, destroying it entirely; crossed the Shenandoah, and on the 24th (yesterday) pushed to get north of Banks, on the road to Winchester. [7]
- I cannot violate a legal requirement of my country without dishonouring myself; I cannot allow any man or corporation to hamper my liberties with illegal rules--a thing which railway companies are always trying to do--without dishonouring my citizenship. [5]
- At the hotel--may a kind Providence wake it up to its responsibilities--we had the pleasure of reading one of those facetious handbills which the great railway companies of the West scatter about, the serious humor of which is so pleasing to our English friends. [4]
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