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The last camp which we fell back upon was in a hollow near the village of Florida, where I was born--in Monroe County. [5]
I suppose it was intended by Congress that this government should execute the act in question without dependence upon any other government, State, city, or county. [7]
Admiration for him was born the day he pushed O'Meara out of his office and down a flight of stairs because he had undertaken to suggest that which should be done with the timber in Jackson County. [9]
They've got halfway through Truro County. [9]
I can remember the time when a man in a motor was an easy mark for every reuben in the county. [9]
As part of the same subject, let me say I am now pressed in regard to a pending assessment in St. Louis County. [7]
On yesterday morning the most of the Whig members from this district got together and agreed to hold the convention at Tremont in Tazewell County. [7]
Hannibal lies at the extreme south-eastern corner of Marion County, on the Mississippi River; our objective point was the hamlet of New London, ten miles away, in Ralls County. [5]
With the young Seigneur was the member of the Legislature for the county. [11]
We have already resolved to make a particular effort to give you the very largest majority possible in our county. [7]

Sentences containing county two or more times

I am sorry to hear that any of the Whigs of your county, or indeed of any county, should longer be against conventions. [7]
This is the shape it takes: instead of saying "Mr. Simmons, clerk of the county and district courts, was in town yesterday," the new form put it thus: "Clerk of the County and District Courts Simmons was in town yesterday. [5]
Boone, the county seat of Watauga County, was our destination, and, ever since morning, the guideboards and the trend of the roads had notified us that everything in this region tends towards Boone as a center of interest. [4]
He had once respected himself for the hard-headed, practical common sense which first gave him standing among his country neighbors; which made him supervisor, school trustee, justice of the peace, county commissioner, secretary of the Moffitt County Agricultural Society. [8]
John M. Robinson, of Columbia, Missouri; James L. Matthews, of Boone County, Missouri; and James L. Stephens, also of Boone County, Missouri, may be allowed to return to their respective homes. [7]
Then came carryalls of all ages and degrees, wagons from this county and that county, giddily draped, drawn by horses from one to six, or by mules, their inscriptions addressing their senatorial candidate in all degrees of familiarity, but not contempt. [9]
They seem to me to be not unfair; and I forbear to join in proposing them only because I choose to leave the decision in each county to the Whigs of the county, to be made as their own judgment and convenience may dictate. [7]
This was Johnson County, Tennessee, a strong Republican county but dog-gone it, says Mr. Egger, it's no use to vote; our votes are overborne by the rest of the State. [4]
But this Mitchell County, although it was a Union county during the war and is Republican in politics (the Southern reader will perhaps prefer another adverb to "although"), has had the worst possible reputation. [4]
More meetings followed, at the rate of four a week, in county after county. [9]

More example sentences with the word county in them

He is of your own county, of your own village, is your neighbour, a man of whom all England should be proud. [11]
In payment he would accept nothing save the ordinary fees, as though it were some petty case in a county court. [11]
How he dealt will be seen presently, but when he finally reached this conclusion, the clipping from the Pepper County Plainsman had not yet come before his eyes. [9]
Hunt; Baron Burrows, who farms out the post-office at Edmundton, leads Edmunds County; Earl Elisha Jane, consul at some hot place where he spends the inclement months drops the first ticket for Haines County, ostensibly solid for home-made virtue and the Honourable Giles. [9]
From this, no Whig of the county dissents. [7]
The same law which organized the Supreme Court in 1824 also established and organized circuit courts to be held in each county in the State, and five circuit judges were appointed to hold those courts. [7]
I'll tell you what, Stanhope, I'll take Miss Benson to the Town and County Club next Saturday. [4]
His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks County, Pennsylvania. [7]
The Boyne Works were buying up coal-mines, and this was a contract looking to the purchase of one in Putman County, provided, after a certain period of working, the yield and quality should come up to specifications. [9]
When he reached Wells County, the last, Mr. Bixby so far lost his habitual sang froid as to hammer on the rail with his fist. [9]
If we had, we should doubtless on that Sunday have been waiting, with the other law-breaker, for admission into the Yancey County jail. [4]
The chief citizen was York Leicester Driscoll, about forty years old, judge of the county court. [5]
Upon consultation, it was the general verdict that there were men in the county who would keep it if they had picked it up. [4]
To Mrs. Elizabeth W. Smith, in Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Mo. [5]
The colony of Victoria itself looks small on the map--looks like a county, in fact--yet it is about as large as England, Scotland, and Wales combined. [5]
He was a Unionist during the war, and is a Democrat now, though his county (Greene) has been Republican. [4]
The twins were transferred from the city jail to the county prison to await trial. [5]
She was here to watch the trial now, and was going to lift up just one "hooraw" over it if the county judge put her in jail a year for it. [5]
And send word to Putnam County to come along on their fifth ballot. [9]
I've been talkin' to Putnam County folks some, and you hain't lost nothin' by this. [9]
Then I got to New Salem, at that time in Sangamon, now in Menard County, where I remained a year as a sort of clerk in a store. [7]
All can recur to instances of this difficulty in the case of county roads, bridges, and the like. [7]
The convention is to be held at Tremont on the 5th of April and according to the rule we have adopted your county is to have delegates--being double your representation. [7]
We shall carry this county by a larger majority than we did in 1836, when you ran against May. [7]
With military precision they repaired to the Brewster House, and ahead of then a banner was flung: "Winnebago County for the Tall Sucker. [9]
For a moment they contended, and then Mere Langlois fell out of the contest, and Virginie continued it with an ambitious farmer from the next county, who was about to become a Member of Parliament. [11]
Thus one of these testimonials is from "John Tyler, Esq., a magistrate in the county of New London, and late Brigadier-General of the militia in that State. [6]
The doctor's and the post-master's sons became 'mud clerks;' the wholesale liquor dealer's son became a barkeeper on a boat; four sons of the chief merchant, and two sons of the county judge, became pilots. [5]
He thus won the general gratitude, and they wanted to make him emperor--emperor over them all--emperor of County Cork, but he said, No, walking delegate was good enough for him. [5]
We fell upon the enemy even as they were emerging from their stronghold, the schoolhouse, and smote them hip and thigh, with the sheriff of Anne Arundel County a laughing spectator. [9]
This was in the eleventh century, when our people were living in Aberdeen, county of Cork, England. [5]
The compiler of the Dictionary of Congress states that while preparing that work for publication, in 1858, he sent to Mr. Lincoln the usual request for a sketch of his life, and received the following reply: Born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. [7]
The stamps on the deed, which is now on its way to Humboldt County, from New York, for record, amounted to $3,000, which is said to be the largest amount of stamps ever placed on one document. [5]
With respect to the County of Sangamon, some.... [7]
Nathan also said that some man, whom he could not remember, had said lately that Menard County was going to decide the contest and that made the contest very doubtful. [7]
Then it was that Mr. Carvel gave to Grafton the estate in Kent County and bade him shift for himself, saying that he washed his hands of a son who had acted such a part. [9]
You pointed out that it would be an advantage to Grenoble to revive the county fair, and you asked me to subscribe five thousand dollars to the Fair Association. [9]
Think of a system which could do this, not for Putnam County alone, but for all the counties in the State! [9]
It was more suggestive of the county hospital than any thing else. [5]
Thomas, the youngest son by his first wife, married Emma, a daughter of John Wait, the first Sheriff of Cumberland County under the government of the United States. [6]
Certainly there was something picturesque in the idea of the Missouri private who had been chased for a rainy fortnight through the swamps of Ralls County being selected now to join in welcome to his ancient enemy. [5]
The family of Smith is so "ancient" that the historians of the county of Lincoln do not allude to it, and only devote a brief paragraph to the great John himself. [4]
Then came the smiling fields of Chester, with their English green, and soon the county of Philadelphia itself, and the increasing signs of the approach to a great city. [5]
Travelling with incredible slowness, in due time we came to a county called Orangeburg, where all were Dutchmen like Hans, and very few spoke English. [9]
What was the situation in this county and in that? [9]
Only now, when Sheila was released from a governess, had she moved out of the little wild area of the County Limerick where she lived; only now had she come to visit an uncle whose hospitality she had for so many years denied herself. [11]
Again, it is said there will be an attempt to get up instructions in your county requiring you to go for Baker. [7]
Obituary: 'At his residence in Babbslow Square, yesterday, Sir S. G. Babbs, M. P., member of the London County Council. [11]
After the first report of your subcommittees, unless there should be found a great many doubtful voters, you can tell pretty accurately the manner in which your county will vote. [7]
Vane, who was recently made manager of Ready Money Ranch, is one of the most popular young men in the county. [9]
The Duke of Putnam had sent out a general call to the office-holders in that county. [9]
The times and places designated are as follows: Ottawa, La Salle County August 21st, 1858. [7]
So are many people, and yet they are not county people. [11]
He said the people there had found out that you had been sheriff or deputy sheriff in Sangamon County, and that you came off and left your securities to suffer. [7]
They've had trip passes enough to move the whole population of Putnam County. [9]
A railroad had passed close to one margin of the township, some mines had been opened in the county, in which a village calling itself a city had grown big enough to have a newspaper and Fourth of July orations. [6]
Now, it turns out that he had got hold of some resolutions passed at some convention or public meeting in Kane County. [7]
Our county committees, our state committees chose the candidates for the conventions, which turned around and chose the committees. [9]
As to the other departments of the fine arts in the glass palace, I cannot give you a better idea of them than by saying that they were as well filled as the like ones in the American county fairs. [4]
The stream that originates in Hickory Nut Gap is the westernmost branch of several forks of the Broad, which unite to the southeast in Rutherford County, flow to Columbia, and reach the Atlantic through the channel of the Santee. [4]
Leaving out two or three short journeys of the Saviour, he spent his life, preached his gospel, and performed his miracles within a compass no larger than an ordinary county in the United States. [5]
I found that one of these creatures had spent nine years in the county jail, and that the other one had spent about four or five years in the same place. [5]
Jim's the sheriff of Truro County, and I guess the jedge don't need any recommendation as a lawyer from me. [9]
Have no fears of the mineral resources of Humboldt county. [5]
Being a member of the Legislature, he naturally shirked responsibility, and he had come to see the young Seigneur, who was justice of the peace, and practically mayor of the county. [11]
The railroad's side of the case was presented by that genial and able practitioner of Putnam County, Mr. Nathaniel Billings, who travelled from his home in Williamstown by the exhibition of a red ticket. [9]
The district consisted of several counties, but the unanimous vote of the people of his own county was for Lincoln. [7]
John Wilson Mackenzie, of Rotterdam, Chemung County, New Jersey, deceased, contracted with the General Government, on or about the 10th day of October, 1861, to furnish to General Sherman the sum total of thirty barrels of beef. [5]
He had opportunities of hearing from almost every part of the Union from reliable sources and had not heard of a county in which we had not received accessions from other parties. [7]
If a member of Congress must have an appropriation for his district, so a member of a Legislature must have one for his county. [7]
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]
Jackson'sh county sholicitor,--devil of a man. [9]
I have seen nothing that comes near it in Berkshire County, and few to compare with it anywhere. [6]
Gets a man nominated to State and county conventions that can't go, and goes himself with a bunch of credentials. [9]
The locality of nearly all this seems to be St. Joseph and Buchanan County. [7]
It will be my policy to employ home talent Avalon County lawyers, for instance. [9]
I am as much responsible for the resolutions at Kane County as those at Springfield,--the amount of the responsibility being exactly nothing in either case; no more than there would be in regard to a set of resolutions passed in the moon. [7]
Uncle Jim had made the terrible journey, falling at last in the streets of the county town with frozen hands and feet, not a dozen rods from the doctor's door. [11]
They went to live in Kent County, as I have said, spending some winters in Philadelphia, where Mr. Grafton was thought to have interests, though it never could be discovered what his investments were. [9]
Keys made this letter public, which immediately set the whole town and adjoining county agog. [7]
There are at least twelve hundred Whigs in the county that took no part, and yet I would as soon put my head in the fire as to attempt it. [7]
Immense sewers are laid across the bed of the Hudson River, and pass through the country to Westchester county, where a whole river is turned from its course, and brought to New York. [5]
He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in my eighth year. [7]
There is a Judge Mayo in that county, who is a candidate for the Legislature, for the purpose, if he secures his election, of helping to re-elect Judge Douglas. [7]
If yourself and James Short were appointed from your county, all would be safe; but whether Jim's woman affair a year ago might not be in the way of his appointment is a question. [7]
I believe it is also true that I went away from Springfield when the convention was in session, to attend court in Tazewell county. [7]
He was an Irishman, son of an Irish king--there were thirty thousand kings reigning in County Cork alone in his time, fifteen hundred years ago. [5]
From the reservoir in the city to the Westchester county reservoir, the distance is thirty-eight miles! [5]
I ain't lived in Mercer and Putnam County all my life for nothin'. [9]
Laws bless me, I just took one glimpse, General, and lit out'n the county in three jumps exactly. [5]
He would be hurt to know that you had let the best people of the county be parched, when you could give them drink. [11]
The people of Humboldt county are feet crazy. [5]
He now remembered how general sympathy went out to a well-known county family when it was announced that two of its members were lost in the Arctic regions. [11]
Taylor delivered up his petition for the new county to one of our members this morning. [7]
A college near his home was the excellent one of Hamilton in the not distant town of Clinton in the adjoining county of Oneida. [4]
He said that he had helped to enlist a good many fellows for the war, and had paid money to fill up the Moffitt County quota under the later calls for troops. [8]
I am told he despairs of its success, on account of all the members from Morgan County opposing it. [7]
To one question he answers, "Anderson brought a suit against me before James Adams, then an acting justice of the peace in Sangamon County, before whom he obtained a judgment. [7]
There's no man has an office or a pass in that county but what Bascom gives it to him, and Bascom's the railrud tool. [9]
Also to Charles Harper, Samuel Harper, and B. C. Harper, and T. J. Scroggins, John Scroggins at Pulaski, Logan County. [7]

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