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Sentences starting with department

Department a blast in the papers about sending misdirected letters of mine back to the writers for reshipment, and got a blast in return, through a New York daily, from the New York postmaster. [5]
Department signals for his instruction. [5]

Sentences ending with department

I hope it won't be a literary one, with a fancy for running my department. [8]
Subsequently his brother William wrote him that Commodore Decatur was keeping open for him the office of Chief Clerk in the Navy Department. [4]
I sent it to the War Department. [9]
I refer you to the report of the Secretary of the Interior, which is herewith laid before you, for useful and varied information in relation to the public lands, Indian affairs, patents, pensions, and other matters of public concern pertaining to his Department. [7]
In proof of this there is the fact that the majority of the council voted for such a retreat, and above all there is the well-known conversation after the council, between the commander in chief and Lanskoy, who was in charge of the commissariat department. [2]
The details for this object will be immediately communicated to the State authorities through the War Department. [7]
The report of the Secretary of the Interior, with the accompanying documents, exhibits the condition of the several branches of the public business pertaining to that department. [7]
The management of the school was henceforward in the hands of a man of character, while the extensive knowledge and the excellent method of a well-trained scholar had been obtained for the educational department. [10]
The list of the kings which I compiled at that time, from the most remote sources to the Sassanida, won the commendation of A. von Gutschmid, the most able investigator in this department. [10]
It recalls, however, the condition of things, as presented to me, which led to a change of commander of that department. [7]

Short sentences using department

Ferguson's Department Store. [9]
Honolulu Fire Department. [5]

Sentences containing department two or more times

Ordered also, That the country west of the Department of the Potomac and east of the Department of the Mississippi be a military department, to be called the Mountain Department, and that the same be commanded by Major-General Fremont. [7]
Fulkerson was glad that March, as the literary department, had treated the old gentleman so well, because there was an open feud between him and the art department. [8]
If the trouble occurred in the conductor's department, that officer must suffer if his subordinate cannot be proven guilty; if in the engineer's department and the case be similar, the engineer must answer. [5]
During that week I got as far as the Sixth Comptroller in that division; the next week I got through the Claims Department; the third week I began and completed the Mislaid Contracts Department, and got a foothold in the Dead Reckoning Department. [5]
It is further directed that whenever any order shall be made affecting the personal liberty of an alien reports of the same and of the causes thereof shall be made to the War Department for the consideration of the Department of State. [7]
Still later the department sued Reeside on his supposed indebtedness, and by a verdict of the jury it was determined that the department was indebted to him in a sum much beyond all the credits given him on the account above stated. [7]
If the reporting department needs strengthening and reduction to order in the American journal, we may also query whether the department of correspondence sustains the boast that the American, newspaper is the best in the world. [4]
Ordered, First: that clearances issued by the Treasury Department for vessels or merchandise bound for the port of Norfolk, for the military necessities of the department, certified by the military commandant at Fort Monroe, shall be allowed to enter said port. [7]

More example sentences with the word department in them

Florida is in your Department, and it is not unlikely you may be there in person. [7]
General Grant wishes you to remain in command of the department, and I do not wish to order otherwise. [7]
I said I would haunt them; I would infest every department of this iniquitous government till that contract business was settled. [5]
That glorified drug-store with the five bays included in its manifold functions a department rivalling Delmonico's, with electric fans and marble-topped tables and white-clad waiters who took one's order and filled it at the soda fountain. [9]
This power, combined with a fine intellectual and indomitable energy, and a taste altogether military, constituted in him, as seemed to me, the best natural talent in that department I ever knew. [7]
Then two gentlemen went to Washington, and the next thing that happened was Brigadier General Lyon, Commander of the Department of the West. [9]
Inasmuch as everybody went armed, we had an inquest about every day, and so this department was naturally set down among the "regulars. [5]
You might as well try to stand in with a combination of gang-saws, or to make friends with the Department of the Interior. [4]
They remembered perfectly well the omniscient snobbishness of Thomas Mavick when he held a position in the State Department at Washington and was at the same time a secret agent of Rodney Henderson. [4]
The hygienic department was to be all that modern science could desire. [9]
Clayton (now captain) was serving in that military department at the time. [5]
A mutual agreement was entered into between the Governor and the old Indian fighter in command of the Western Department, to respect each other. [9]
The Secretary of War will suspend the order of General Hunter mentioned within, until further order and direct him to send to the Department a brief report of what is known against each one proposed to be dealt with. [7]
Mr. Peckham gave very little personal attention to the department of instruction, but was always busy with contracts for flour and potatoes, beef and pork, and other nutritive staples, the amount of which required for such an establishment was enough to frighten a quartermaster. [6]
Moor is great, very great in this department, but I take a very different view of art; it has higher aims. [10]
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]
He presently came upon Elbridge, chief of the equine department, and driver of the family-coach. [6]
I've just called up the Department in Washington and given them a piece of my mind--told 'em they'd have to conscript labour. [9]
But I made up my mind it was nonsense to draw the line at department stores, especially since Mr. Ferguson's was such a useful and remarkable one, so I went across and called. [9]
If Miss Crabs undertakes any dooties belongin' to your department of instruction, she will look to you for sech pecooniary considerations as you may agree upon between you. [6]
The Agricultural Department, under the supervision of its present energetic and faithful head, is rapidly commending itself to the great and vital interest it was created to advance. [7]
After looking about two or three days, you called and distinctly told me that if I would add the Blenker division to the force already in the department, you would undertake the job. [7]
For every happiness turned out in the one department the other stands ready to modify it with a sorrow or a pain--maybe a dozen. [5]
Whether this be true, the records of the department will show. [7]
Whether this is true the records of the department will show. [7]
Comments upon other topics than those to which his department was originally devoted, especially upon social questions, were made a distinct feature. [4]
When General Curtis took command of the department, Mr. Dick, against whom I never knew anything to allege, had general charge of this system. [7]
I am inclined to think that the reporting department is the weakest in the American newspaper, and that there is just ground for the admitted public distrust of it. [4]
It only came to the knowledge of the War Department and of myself yesterday, and it gives us some uneasiness. [7]
He was appointed to the head-directorship in the entire department of music in Lacedaemon and succeeded in naturalizing the soft Lydian music. [10]
Do you mean to tell me, on the plea that business is business and hence a department by itself, that deception, cheating, and stealing are justified and necessary? [9]
I shall try to take care of it at the department till your action can be had and forwarded on. [7]
I should like to run the treasury department about six months. [5]
However, I had to obey orders, and my wife would have it that I should entrust my precious person only to the most skilful specialist in each department of medical practice. [6]
It was indicated to newspapers (such as the Mail and State) showing a desire to keep up public interest in the affair that their advertising matter might decrease; Mr. Sherrill's great department store, for instance, did not approve of this sort of agitation. [9]
Willarski was married to a Russian heiress who had a large estate in Orel province, and he occupied a temporary post in the commissariat department in that town. [2]
At the same time, he devoted himself zealously to the duties of his department, and did the country arduous service under circumstances of extreme difficulty. [7]
As commander of this department, should you not be here? [7]
The scope of this department was largely expanded after the death of George William Curtis in the summer of 1892, and the consequent discontinuance of the Editor's Easy Chair. [4]
It is manifest, therefore, that the Post-Office Department may become self-sustaining in a few years, even with the restoration of the whole service. [7]
They take with them a quantity of food, and when the commissary department fails they "skirmish," as Jack terms it in his sinful, slangy way. [5]
You will have the transport furnished with suitable supplies for that purpose, and detail an officer of the Quartermaster's Department, who, under special instructions to be given, shall have charge of the business. [7]
I take from the top shelf of the hospital department of my library--the section devoted to literary cripples, imbeciles, failures, foolish rhymesters, and silly eccentrics--one of the least conspicuous and most hopelessly feeble of the weak-minded population of that intellectual almshouse. [6]
Your selection for the State Department having become public, I am happy to find scarcely any objection to it. [7]
The report of the Secretary of the Navy presents a comprehensive and satisfactory exhibit of the affairs of that Department and of the naval service. [7]
Married life is the school in which the most accomplished artists in this department are found. [6]
An order fixing the quotas of the respective States will be issued by the War Department to-morrow. [7]
To carry out the provisions of the act of Congress of the 15th of May last, I have caused the Department of Agriculture of the United States to be organized. [7]
It is peculiarly the people's department, in which they feel more directly concerned than in any other. [7]
So I transferred the new barometer to the cooking department, to be used for the official mess. [5]
Every department of the government was paralyzed by treason. [7]
The reference to the Galaxy in the foregoing letter has to do with a department called Memoranda, which he had undertaken to conduct for the new magazine. [5]
I therefore approve the finding and sentence of the military commission, and direct that the major-general in command of the department including the place of trial, and wherein the convict is now in custody, appoint a time and place and carry such sentence into execution. [7]
The details of the enlistment and organization will be made known through the Department of the Navy. [7]
Our studies in the department of biblical geography had led us to different conclusions, but our scientific views were constantly intermingled with recollections of the Lennestrasse. [10]
The deficiency in the department for the previous year was $4,551,966.98. [7]
I now learn that your resignation has reached the War Department. [7]
I was told that the Treasury Department was the proper place for me to go to. [5]
Whenever I observed that the head of a department was pursuing a wrong course, I laid down everything and went and tried to set him right, as it was my duty to do; and I never was thanked for it in a single instance. [5]
My wish is that the department may adopt some proper general rule for such cases, and that Mr. Diller may not be made an exception to it, one way or the other. [7]
It was evident that he carried on the State Department, and the wonder to many was that he was not in a position to do it openly. [4]
The President desires that General McDowell retain the command of the Department of the Rappahannock and of the forces with which he moves forward. [7]
He has asked that General Ewing's department be extended to include all Kansas; and I have not determined whether this is right or not. [7]
Imshi Pasha saw that Dimsdale was a dangerous man, as all enthusiasts are, no matter how right-headed; but it comforted him to think that many a reformer, from Amenhotep down, had, as it were, cut his own throat in the Irrigation Department. [11]
I further proclaim that all the volunteers thus called out and duly enlisted shall receive advance pay, premium, and bounty, as heretofore communicated to the governors of States by the War Department through the Provost-Marshal-General's office, by special letters. [7]
The necessity of such a navy-yard, so furnished, at some suitable place upon the Atlantic seaboard has on repeated occasions been brought to the attention of Congress by the Navy Department, and is again presented in the report of the Secretary which accompanies this communication. [7]
He inaugurates his subscription department with my new book in the fall..... Now the doctor has been here and tried to interrupt my yarn about "The Golden Arm," but I've got through, anyway. [5]
That's a department store, too, you know. [9]
Elfonzo and Ambulinia soon repaired to the scene, and fortunately for them both the house was so crowded that they took their seats together in the music department, which was not in view of the auditory. [5]
The cell was somewhat larger than those in the men's department, and might be eight feet by ten square, perhaps a little longer. [5]
Clemens, meanwhile, had sold out his interest in the Express, severed his connection with the Galaxy, a magazine for which he was doing a department each month, and had written a second book for the American Publishing Company, Roughing It, published in 1872. [5]
He was a smooth-faced young man whom a fortnight in the woods might have helped wonderfully--a clerk in the big department store. [9]
That General Schofield shall be relieved, and General Butler be appointed as Commander of the Military Department of Missouri. [7]
And I can't see but what Conrad runs the thing on business principles in his department, and I guess you'll find it so if you look into it. [8]
I transmit the second annual report of the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture, asking your attention to the developments in that vital interest of the nation. [7]
For she was renowned in this department of sport on many fields, both for recklessness and skill. [9]
Whether you shall remain at the head of the Treasury Department is a question which I will not allow myself to consider from any standpoint other than my judgment of the public service, and, in that view, I do not perceive occasion for a change. [7]
Our State Department realises the mistake which we are making, and would like to rectify it, but it has not the power. [5]
The troops recently raised in other States of this department have, without my knowledge, been sent to Kentucky and Kansas. [7]
Starting with the Railway Systems, Steamer Lines, Standard Oil, Ocean Cables, Diluted Telegraph, and all the rest, and winding up with Klondike, De Beers, Tammany Graft, and Shady Privileges in the Post-office Department. [5]
Burlington has the progressive modern city's full equipment of devices for right and intelligent government; including a paid fire department, a thing which the great city of New Orleans is without, but still employs that relic of antiquity, the independent system. [5]
He had a position in the State Department. [4]
It gives me pleasure to report a decided improvement in the financial condition of the Post-Office Department as compared with several preceding years. [7]
Major-General McClellan having personally taken the field at the head of the Army of the Potomac, until otherwise ordered he is relieved from the command of the other military departments, he retaining command of the Department of the Potomac. [7]
During this late period Heinrich Brugsch developed in the linguistic department of Egyptology what I had gained from Lepsius and by my own industry, and I gladly term myself his pupil. [10]
Janet did not pause, but hurried from room to room until, in passing through an open doorway in the weaving department she ran into Mr. Caldwell. [9]
He had not paid much attention before to the advertisements, but now this department seemed the most interesting part of the paper, and he read every announcement, and then came back and read his over and over. [4]
As he betrayed or revealed his personality in his first novel, so in this first effort in another department of literature he showed in epitome his qualities as a historian and a biographer. [6]
I give no opinion of my own, but state the facts, and express the hope that the department will act in this as in all other cases on some proper general rule. [7]
Why not have one's divorce sent, C.O.D., to one's door, or establish a new branch of the Post-office Department? [9]
So, rising from one sphere to another, she at length finds herself the prima donna in the department of instruction in Mr. Silas Peckham's educational establishment. [6]
At the beginning of the present Presidential term, four months ago, the functions of the Federal Government were found to be generally suspended within the several States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, excepting only those of the Post-Office Department. [7]
The third department of the newspaper is that of miscellaneous reading-matter. [4]
The total expenditure of the Navy Department of every description, including the cost of the immense squadrons that have been called into existence from the fourth of March, 1861, to the first of November, 1864, is $238,647,262.35. [7]
Its masonry is of the majestic kind which the War Department usually deals in, and will endure like a Roman aqueduct. [5]
In another department of our consciousness, there is a very familiar name, which we have never found the person to match. [6]
When you think of it, it is astonishing that this department should not be in the hands of the ablest men, accomplished scholars, philosophical observers, discriminating selectors of the news of the world that is worth thinking over and talking about. [4]
The main principle of equivalent for the agency of the department is secured by the postage required to be paid upon the transmission of the certificates, augmenting adequately the post-office revenue. [7]
When a member of Congress has a friend who is gifted, but has no employment wherein his great powers may be brought to bear, he confers him upon his country, and gives him a clerkship in a department. [5]
I understand information of an indictment having been found against him about three years ago, for gaming or keeping a gaming house, has been sent to the department. [7]

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