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Sentences starting with country

Country neighbors from Otradnoe, impoverished old squires and their daughters, Peronskaya a maid of honor, Pierre Bezukhov, and the son of their district postmaster who had obtained a post in Petersburg. [2]
Country people with money enough not to have to work are in much more danger than city people in the same condition. [6]
Country folks, the Bonapartes--country folks? [9]

Sentences ending with country

I know that you will not be misled by the words "civilized country. [9]
For the services you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged, I present you sincere thanks for myself and the country. [7]
Jackson will bring you anything you desire, and should you wish to drive, I shall be delighted to show you the country. [9]
I must congratulate you and Howard on being sensible enough to start your married life simply, in the country. [9]
Arrived in New York he took lodgings near old Washington Square, where there were a few studios near the Bohemian restaurants and a life as nearly continental as was possible in a new country. [11]
There is enough yet before us requiring all loyal men and patriots to perform their share of the labor and follow the example of the modest General at the head of our armies, and sink all personal consideration for the sake of the country. [7]
At about twenty-six years of age he killed a man in a quarrel and fled the country. [5]
Tell him he wouldn't recognize the d--d country. [5]
The proposed emancipation would shorten the war, perpetuate peace, insure this increase of population, and proportionately the wealth of the country. [7]
I suppose it would be hard to match this in any country. [5]

Short sentences using country

It's a country town now. [5]
You have seen the country. [11]
This is a rich country. [4]
This, indeed, was real country. [9]
It is a new country. [11]
I feared for my country. [5]
We need country missions. [4]
It was a lonely country. [11]
Talk again--the country is listening. [5]
Our country abounds in them. [9]

Sentences containing country two or more times

France stole that vast country on that spot, the future Napoleon; and by and by Napoleon himself was to give the country back again!--make restitution, not to the owners, but to their white American heirs. [5]
The former preserve us from becoming Europeanized; they keep our pride of country intact, and at the same time they intensify our affection for our country and our people; whereas long visits have the effect of dulling those feelings--at least in the majority of cases. [5]
Worth's is the trading center of the region, has a post office and a saw-mill and a big country store; and the dwelling of the proprietor is not unlike a roomy New England country house. [4]
Never had he touched his guitar with such skill; never had he poured forth more soul-moving ditties, but he had no longer a country curate or country lass to deal with. [4]
They are tendered to the country, to the institutions of the country, and to the perpetuity of the liberties of the country, for which these institutions were made and created. [7]
I am grateful to Oxford for conferring that honor upon me, and I am sure my country appreciates it, because first and foremost it is an honor to my country. [5]
I suppose that this country is better off for naval repairs than any other country in the world. [4]
And Stephen forgot the country tavern, the country politician, and was transported straightway into the Quaker's smithy. [9]
Indeed, strictly speaking, the Confederacy then owned no country at all; the States respectively owned the country within their limits, and some of them owned territory beyond their strict State limits. [7]
It is said that some of the country seats have grounds--domains--about them which rival in charm and magnitude those which surround the country mansion of an English lord; but I was not out in the country; I had my hands full in town. [5]

More example sentences with the word country in them

Youth answering to youth had claimed its own; love springing from the dawn, brave and bright-eyed, had waved its wand towards that good country called Home. [11]
He comes from your part of the country, and you will be concerned, of course. [11]
Never fall below your ideals--that is what I heard a speaker say at the Town and Country Club, and that is my notion. [4]
Caesar has made your father, and your neighbor Skopas, and every free man in the country a Roman citizen; but it is a pity that, while he gave each man his patent of citizenship, he should have filched the money out of his purse. [10]
Do you love your country, sir? [9]
The success of your army and the cause of the country are the same, and, of course, I only desire the good of the cause. [7]
I am no 'young Penthesilea mediis in millibus,' but a plain country parson's daughter. [14]
I will ask you, if the policy you are now advocating had prevailed when this country was in a Territorial condition, where would you have gone to get rid of it? [7]
I can tell you, as one who knows, that there is no corporation in this country which, in the struggle to maintain itself, is not forced to adopt the natural law of the survival of the fittest, which you condemn. [9]
And insomuch as you were even then serving the country faithfully and bravely, and had a clean and honourable record of service, the whole of the lands were given to you. [9]
The first thing you want in a new country, is a patent office; then work up your school system; and after that, out with your paper. [5]
In marrying us you style us, 'the mistress of the house,' and if the elders of the citizens grow infirm, in this country it is not the sons but the daughters that must be their mainstay. [10]
In that country you might fall from a third story window three several times, and not mash either a soldier or a priest.--The scarcity of such people is astonishing. [5]
He's all air, you know,--breeze, you may say--and he freshens them up; it's a trip to the country, they say. [5]
And yet when you come to look at it you cannot deny that we would have to go without the services of some of our ablest men, sir, if the country were opposed to --to--bribery. [5]
It absorbed New York gossip for two days, and then another topic took possession of the mercurial city; but it was the sort of event to take possession of the country mind. [4]
During the four years of his residence the country was in a constant state of excitement and often of panic. [4]
I have watched, year by year, this detestable spirit of greed, this lust for money and power creeping over our country, corrupting our people and institutions, and finally tainting the Church itself. [9]
His words so wrought upon us that it was a relief to us all when the conversation drifted into a more cheerful channel and the natural features of the curious country we were in came under treatment. [5]
I may be wrong, but I have an idea that when the people of this country learn how their legislatures are conducted they will want to change things. [9]
To read and write were still rare accomplishments in the country, and Dogberry expressed a common notion when he said reading and writing come by nature. [4]
I guessed I wouldn't stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn't ever find me any more. [5]
In Parliament she would have sat on the right, but that her adopted country should have a Parliament filled her with joyful pride. [10]
Sellers, if you would go into politics, if I had you for a colleague, we should show Calhoun and Webster that the brain of the country didn't lie east of the Alleganies. [5]
I think he would force all this country to speak English in two months. [4]
And faithful Rustem would be always with her, and the road over the mountains was the safest in all the country, with frequent stations for the accommodation of travellers. [10]
Perhaps it is worth while, in view of certain recent discussions, and especially of some free criticisms of this country, to consider whether there is any intention of progress in this world, and whether that intention is discoverable in the age in which we live. [4]
One of the worst evils, I think, that can befall a country. [9]
We gave the world tobacco and the potato, perhaps the most important contributions to the content and the fatness of the world made by any new country, and it was a noble ambition to give it new styles of art and literature also. [4]
But, still, the works which his great and untiring hand had already thoroughly finished will remain to attest his learning and genius, --a precious and perpetual possession for his country. [6]
Them's the very words I said; they all heard me; and the country may rot for all me --I'll never vote agin as long as I live. [5]
But with the words her thoughts flew to the hill country. [9]
No prophet is without honour save in his own country. [9]
But we were within the enemy's country now, so there was no help for them, they must continue the march, though Joan said that if they chose to take the risk they might depart. [5]
But the magazine with which Warner had become connected was desirous that he should prepare for it an account of some of the principal watering-places and summer resorts of the country. [4]
These territories, together with the States themselves, constitute all the country over which the Confederacy then claimed any sort of jurisdiction. [7]
It is different with the reputation of an equally great financier who has used his ability for the service of his country. [4]
A board inscribed with the name of the country or city indicated the scene of action. [4]
As the troubles with the mother country thickened, she took to a foot-wheel, and often in the crisp autumn evenings I would hear the bumping of it as I walked to the house, and turn the knob to come upon her spinning by the twilight. [9]
I come over with Montgomery, and Dillard's here from the Holston country with a company. [9]
Latterly his familiarity with it has doubled in bulk; so that when America is mentioned now, two torches flare up in the dark caverns of his mind and he says, "Ah, the country of the great man Washington; and of the Holy City--Chicago. [5]
I was pressed with invitations to go into the country to ride this or that horse. [9]
The Maryland aristocrat with his town place and his country place was indeed a parallel of the patrician at home. [9]
He sat up with delight to see an artist and his "Madame" returning from a journey in the country, seated upon sheaves of corn, quite unregarded by the world; doing as they listed with unabashed simplicity. [11]
He had dined with country people, and had dined them; had entered upon the fag-end of the London season with keen, amused enjoyment; and had engrafted every little use of the convention. [11]
Innumerable boarding-houses swarmed with city and country clergymen, who have a well-founded impression that the waters of the springs have a beneficent relation to the bilious secretions of the year, but the resort had not an oppressive air of sanctity. [4]
It is not with any pleasure that I contemplate the possibility that a necessity may arise in this country for the use of the military arm. [7]
They clenched there with a power like that of three men; for this was the kind of grip which, far away in the country of the Yang-tse-kiang, Li Choo had learned in the days when he had made youth a thing to be remembered. [11]
I was driving with a friend, the other day, through a somewhat dreary stretch of country, where there seemed to be very little to attract notice or deserve remark. [6]
At last Sir Wissenschaft, a poor and obscure knight, out of a far country, arrived to do battle with the monster. [5]
Free as the wind and clouds, I followed the same road over which I had ridden with Leonhard, for in your country a war after my own heart was going on, and my future fortune was to be based upon my sword. [10]
I beg you will therefore accept my most grateful thanks for this manifest devotion--not to me, but the institutions of this great and glorious country. [7]
Come, and I will start ye on the swift trail to your own country, and ye shall come here no more. [11]
Mr. Motley's successor will find his mission wonderfully facilitated by the firmness and discretion that have presided over the conduct of American affairs in this country during too brief a term, too suddenly and unaccountably concluded. [6]
You and I will do this: the Church will bless us, the State will thank us; your home and country will be safe and happy, your father and brother honoured. [11]
The country air will benefit her. [10]
The Endowment Fund will be the most fitting of all the memorials the country will dedicate to the memory of Lincoln, serving, as it will, to uplift his very own people. [5]
Further on it will be seen that he is a country expert on the fiddle, and has a three-township fame. [5]
It was a wild country an' a wild time. [13]
The country was wild and rocky about here, but there were plenty of trees, plenty of moss, and grass. [5]
A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. [7]
A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. [7]
If it was widened, and deepened, and straightened, and made, long enough, it would be one of the finest rivers in the western country. [5]
But, on the whole, we rolled southward happily, between high walls and hedges, past trim gardens and fields and meadows, and I marvelled at the regular, park-like look of the country, as though stamped from one design continually recurring, like our butter at Carvel Hall. [9]
In reviewing the whole course of its history we read a long list of honored names, and a precious record written in private memories, in public charities, in permanent contributions to medical science, in generous sacrifices for the country. [3]
The baker Carcaud, who, with Olivier Delagarde, betrayed the country into the hands of Rullecour years ago, had, with a French confederate of Mattingley's, been captured in attempting to steal Jean Touzel's boat, the Hardi Biaou. [11]
The good American who hired me to go to his country is to pay me $12 a month, which is immense wages, you know--twenty times as much as one gets in China. [5]
Miss Puss Russell, who has another name, and whose hair is now white, will tell you how Virginia carried off the occasion with credit to her country. [9]
Shrewd country delegates who had listened to the Champion's speeches and had come to the capital prepared to vote for purity, had been observing the movements since yesterday, of Mr. Tooting and Mr. Wading with no inconsiderable interest. [9]
The older brother, who died as Grand Duke, continued his friendship for me while sovereign of his country. [10]
Powhatan served the whites with the best he had, and best of all with a friendly welcome and with interesting discourse of the country. [4]
I drink more whiskey in a day than any three men in the country. [11]
Just for a whim of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone in the country. [2]
She caught it while I was up country trapping on the North Shore of the Erie; caught it in the timber a couple of miles from our dug-out--or it might have been four, she isn't certain which. [5]
The distinguished part which you, Mr. Minister, have acted in the history of that interesting country, is well known here. [7]
Consider the ladder which he has climbed, the illustrious vocations he has served--and vocations is the right word; he has in all those vocations acquitted himself with high credit and honor to his country and to the mother that bore him. [5]
The country press, which had far and wide printed the interesting story, softened it in accordance with the later development. [4]
These two mountains, which belong to the great system of which Marcy is the giant centre, and are in the neighborhood of five thousand feet high, on the southern outposts of the great mountains, form the gate-posts of the pass into the south country. [4]
That curly grass which always grows by country roadsides became clearly visible, still wet with the night's rain; the drooping branches of the birches, also wet, swayed in the wind and flung down bright drops of water to one side. [2]
She could live wherever she pleased, and her dowry, with what she had saved, would be ample to support her and Maria, in the city or the country, in a style suited to their rank. [10]
At one place where we halted for a while, the foul gush from a sewer was making the water turbid and murky all around, and there was a random corpse slopping around in it that had floated down from up country. [5]
It is fortunate when the youth of a country have an ideal. [4]
On the Sundays when the heathen prevailed she studied the congregation, grew to distinguish the local country families; and, if the truth must be told, watched for several Sundays for that ugly yet handsome young man whom she had seen on horseback. [9]
My room-mate thought, when he first came, it was the bell tolling deaths, and people's ages, as they do in the country. [6]
But of course, when a man sells his country, he ceases to be its citizen. [10]
And classes is what some of us didn't expect to find in this country, but freedom. [9]
We see only what may be called the first stage of it; for democracy is still in a far country eating the husks of individualism, materialism. [9]
But answer me, what is your country? [11]
No matter at what hour of day or night a train may arrive or depart at a country station in America, the loafers are so invariably there in waiting that they seem to be a part of our railway system. [4]
They won that western country for themselves with no Federal nor Virginia or North Carolina troops to help them. [9]
Redoubts and towers were within musket-shot of each other, with watch-houses between, and at intervals every able-bodied man in the country was obliged to leave his trade to act as sentinel, or go into camp or barracks with the militia for months at a time. [11]
The Indian wars were very desecrating to the country. [5]
What their homes were to them, these fellaheen, dragged forth to defend their country, to go into the desert and waste their lives under leaders tyrannous, cruel, and incompetent, his old open life, his innocence, his integrity, his truthfulness and character, were to him. [11]
His disturbing words were these: "To-night I am the Governor of this country. [11]
At dark we were riding slowly, very slowly, for miles through a country overflowed with water, out of which trees and houses loomed up in a ghastly show. [4]
Anybody whose ancestors were in this country when we were trying to free ourselves from oppression, must sympathize with those who now are trying to do the same thing in Russia. [5]
Sometimes--not too frequently--we were in the habit of going out into the country in one of her motors, a sort of landaulet, I believe, in which we were separated from the chauffeur by a glass screen. [9]
All the quality were in the country, of course, save only four gentlemen of the local Patriots' committee, of which Captain Daniel was a member, and with whom he had an appointment at ten. [9]
The country estates were divided between Protarch and Lysander. [10]
The companion mansions were closed, their blinds tightly drawn; the neighbourhood was as quiet as the country, save for a slight but persistent noise that impressed itself on my consciousness. [9]

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