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Sentences ending with district

Since I saw you at Jacksonville, I have had no more suspicion of the Whigs of Morgan than of those of any other part of the district. [7]
The oration began with a lengthy tribute to the resources and history of his state, and ended by a declaration that the speaker was in Congress at no man's bidding, but as the servant of the common people of his district. [9]
He figures up what all these taxes ought to amount to in a certain district. [5]
I supposed I was appointing for register of wills a citizen of this District. [7]
In 1850 a very clever gentleman by the name of Thompson Campbell, a personal friend of Judge Douglas and myself, a political friend of Judge Douglas and opponent of mine, was a candidate for Congress in the Galena District. [7]
During the war there came to Hawkeye a confederate officer, Col. Selby, who was stationed there for a time, in command of that district. [5]
The writers of the within are good men, residing within the land district. [7]
The first genuine specimen which we came upon was the mansion of a rich farmer and member of the Common Council of the parish or district. [5]
He issued his proclamation abolishing the Suttee in his district. [5]
Abdallah's an awful place, and it's a heavy district. [11]

Short sentences using district

Question by District Attorney. [5]
Oh, rural district. [6]

Sentences containing district two or more times

You see what the Jersey district of heaven is, for whites; well, the Californian district is a thousand times worse. [5]
But they district the city themselves, and the dogs of each district, whether it be half a block in extent, or ten blocks, have to remain within its bounds. [5]
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]
Like the city itself, there was a fashionable district in Winterbourne: unlike the city, this district remained stationary. [9]
In peacetime it is only necessary to billet troops in the villages of any district and the number of fires in that district immediately increases. [2]
Circuit and District Court of the U. S. in and for the State and District of Illinois. [7]

More example sentences with the word district in them

I submit for your consideration the expediency of regaining that part of the District and the restoration of the original boundaries thereof through negotiations with the State of Virginia. [7]
As district attorney you are doubtless known to the local authorities. [9]
The amount of writing against it is no more test of its desuetude, than the number of religious tracts distributed in a given district is a criterion of its piety. [4]
It was a wonderful Indian summer day, the sunlight soft and melting; and the smoke which continually harassed this district had lifted a little, as though in deference to the Sabbath. [9]
Dicky was riding with the mamour of the district, Fielding was a distance behind with Trousers and the Mudir. [11]
I do not wish to say anything as to who shall be the Republican candidate for the Legislature in your district, further than that I have full confidence in Dr. [7]
Once in a while they saw the light of some contemptuous citizen of the residence district who had stayed to laugh. [9]
That field in which the tanks manoeuvre is characteristic of the whole of this district of levelled villages and vanished woods. [9]
It was expected when the District was made out of these two that the result would be something quite extraordinary in the places of public entertainment. [4]
In this district were three large cemeteries, in which during the previous year more than three thousand bodies had been buried. [5]
Early though it was, the narrow streets of the wholesale district reverberated with the rattle of trucks and echoed with the shouts of drivers. [9]
The district, too, was largely rural, and therefore anti-consolidation, and the inability of the Worthington forces to get their bill through had made it apparent that Jethro Bass was as powerful as ever. [9]
The district attorney was ill, and assigned the prosecution to a mild assistant; while a sceptical jury--composed largely of gentlemen who had the business interests of the community, and of themselves, at heart returned a verdict of "not guilty. [9]
The big room was full of red-vested farmers (the Gemeindrath of the district, with the Burgermeister at the head,) drinking beer and talking public business. [5]
A day or two after his second visit to the district attorney's office Mr. Greenhalge had a call from the city auditor and the purchasing agent, who talked about their families,--which was very painful. [9]
She was wont to stare at this lady while dressing and exclaim:--"Say, I hope they put it all over that district attorney! [9]
The bill proposes to repeal the existing legislation prohibiting the circulation of bank-notes of a less denomination than five dollars within the District of Columbia, without permitting the issuing of such bills by banks not now legally authorized to issue them. [7]
What mysterious right to play tyrant is conferred on a district of country, with its people, by merely calling it a State? [7]
I never meant to imply that the witches made no excursions beyond the district which was more especially their seat of operations. [6]
We can't afford to have him district attorney, to let a demagogue like him get a start. [9]
I went downstairs through the tobacco-stale atmosphere of the lobby into the fresh air and sparkly sunlight of the mild February morning, and leaving the business district I reached the residence portion of the little town. [9]
The draft for three years' service to go on in any State or district where the quota is not filled up; but if any officer or soldier in this special service should be drafted, he shall be credited for the service rendered. [7]
Those people say they will hang me, if I ever enter that district again; and I am perfectly satisfied they will, too. [5]
In an hour they were on the Amenhotep, and in two hours they were on the way--a floating hospital--to the infected district of Kalamoun. [11]
He intimated that there would be a vacancy in this congressional district next year, that Grierson was going to resign, and that a man with a long purse who belonged to the soil might have a chance. [9]
The reason why there was so much slaughtering done, was, that in a new mining district the rough element predominates, and a person is not respected until he has "killed his man. [5]
It was even then a thriving little town of log and clapboard houses and schools and churches, and wise men were saying of it--what Colonel Clark had long ago predicted--that it would become the first city of commercial importance in the district of Kentucky. [9]
I would station them on the corners after they had rounded up all the depraved people of the district so they could not escape, and then have them read from their poems to the poor unfortunates. [5]
He has influenced the whole district against Norman and our men. [11]
He was near the river, and in the country; it was a region of fine rural seats--not the sort of district to welcome clothes like his. [5]
That for all the purposes of this act, the jurisdictional limits of Washington are extended to all parts of the District of Columbia not now included within the present limits of Georgetown. [7]
I would assign the most soulful poets to that district, all heavily armed with their poems. [5]
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]
The ores of the mines in this district somewhat resemble those of the Sheba mine in Humboldt. [5]
Then he set the hounds to work and the rebellion in that district was soon over. [11]
Parties connected with the government of the District of Columbia and with the former city government of New York, who may desire to inspect the rings, will be allowed time and every facility. [5]
Fading fast was the glory of that bright new district on top of the second hill from the river where Uncle Tom was a pioneer. [9]
I recommend to the favorable consideration of Congress the interests of the District of Columbia. [7]
The shock of the explosion had been heard at Glencader, but nothing was thought of it, as there had been much blasting in the district for days. [11]
And even before the draft in any district the quota must be fixed; and the draft must be postponed indefinitely if every time a volunteer is offered the officers must stop and reconstruct the quota. [7]
By that time the district had realised that Terry O'Ryan had surrendered to what they called "the laying on of hands" by Molly Mackinder. [11]
On his departure the district attorney's countenance changed. [9]
I would have the Anti-Doughnuts felt in every city and hamlet and school district in this State and in the United States. [5]
But, according to the acceptation of the word in that uninhabited district, they were neighbours, if they so willed it. [14]
So it was that, for a time, Jean Jacques took the place of the Old Cure in the human side of the life of the district, though in a vastly lesser degree. [11]
We thus see that two distinct forms of the same species may co-exist in the same district, and we cannot doubt that if the one had possessed any advantage over the other, it would soon have been multiplied to the exclusion of the latter. [1]
Could it be that the western district of Virginia furnished more business for a judge than the whole State of Illinois? [7]
Could it be that the district attorney was looking calmly on while Mr. Cooke wilfully corrupted the Far Harbor chief-of-police? [9]
The truth was, that District No. [6]
I was executing some tours de force upon it one evening, when the policeman of our district rang the bell sharply, and asked what was the matter in the house. [6]
This meeting, at so unusual an hour, had been convened by Eusebius, the deacon of the district, with the intention of calming the spirits of those who had caught the general infection of alarm. [10]
Then, he was Sergeant Foyle of the Royal North-West Mounted Police, on duty in a district as large as the United Kingdom. [11]
The District Attorney said, with some annoyance; "There--there! [5]
The seventh resolution recommends the holding of district conventions in May next, for the purpose of nominating candidates for Congress. [7]
The fifth resolution recommends that a Whig candidate for Congress be run in every district, regardless of the chances of success. [7]
Resolved, That we recommend to the Whigs of each Congressional district of the State to nominate and support at the approaching election a candidate of their own principles, regardless of the chances of success. [7]
Last year he presided at the convention which nominated the Democratic candidate for Congress in this district, and afterward ran for the State Senate himself, not desiring the seat, but avowedly to aid and strengthen his party. [7]
Of course, the practice of medicine and surgery in a remote country district has its disadvantages, but in my case I am happy in a division of responsibility. [5]
This strange rule possibly owed its rise to the law, which compelled every Egyptian to appear once in each year before the authorities of his district and give an account of his means of subsistence. [10]
The letter that pleased me so much was from Galt Roscoe, who, as he had intended, was settled in a new but thriving district of British Columbia, near the Cascade Mountains. [11]
We maintain this parish house, with its clubs; and at no small inconvenience to ourselves we have permitted the church to remain in this district. [9]
Have it your own way, But the sight of your face in the patent outsides of the country press would be worth half a dozen subscribers in every school district throughout the length and breadth of this fair land. [8]
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]
The McAlerys and other older families who had not decayed with the neighbourhood were rapidly deserting it, moving out to the new residence district known as "the Heights. [9]
Having seen the ores and assays, we are satisfied that the mines of the District are very valuable--anything but wild-cat. [5]
Besides, if any one should get the nomination by such extraordinary means, all harmony in the district would inevitably be lost. [7]
Come, please, at once to Dublin, and give the Lord-Lieutenant and the Government a report upon your district. [11]
Her hands tightened on the rail; suddenly she let it go, and led the way toward the unfrequented district of the south side. [9]
Had your party omitted to make Nebraska a test of party fidelity, you probably would have been the Democratic candidate for Congress in the district. [7]
The inevitable result of these tactics was the modern mansion in the upper part of Warren Street, known as the "residential" district. [9]
The district consisted of several counties, but the unanimous vote of the people of his own county was for Lincoln. [7]
The Thermal-springs District of New Zealand comprises an area of upwards of 600,000 acres, or close on 1,000 square miles. [5]
On the 28th of February of the same year a Democratic District Convention was held at Naperville to nominate a candidate for Circuit Judge. [7]
With lively sensations of curiosity and excitement, tempered by a certain anxiety as to my ability to match wits with the Spider, I made my way to his "lair" over Monahan's saloon, situated in a district that was anything but respectable. [9]
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]
The 'burnt district' of Boston was commonplace before the fire; but now there is no commercial district in any city in the world that can surpass it--or perhaps even rival it--in beauty, elegance, and tastefulness. [5]
He had thought of beginning in a suburb or some remoter district of the city proper. [6]
Mr. Bowles boasted of a catholic acquaintance in all the cities of his district, but before venturing forth to conquer these he had learned his own city by heart. [9]
Even when this occurs, the families inhabiting the same district are probably somewhat social; the chimpanzee, for instance, is occasionally met with in large bands. [1]
All this was objected to by the district attorney, but it was got before the jury, and Mr. Braham did not care how much it was ruled out after that. [5]
Currer Bell is not known in the district, and I have no wish that he should become known. [14]
This office is not confined to my district, but pertains to the whole State; so that Colonel Baker has an equal right with myself to be heard concerning it. [7]
Of course there must be a church convenient to the worshipers in every district. [4]
The District has more than one free colored to six whites, and yet in its frequent petitions to Congress I believe it has never presented the presence of free colored persons as one of its grievances. [7]
That was a misfortune no one could remedy, for the peasants of the district burned their hay rather than let the French have it. [2]
I guess I might have joined the gang if Red hadn't kept talking--about how the boss of his district named Gallagher would come down and get him out,--and sure enough Gallagher did come down and get him out. [9]
This was the Marshal of the Nobility of the district, who had come personally to point out to the princess the necessity for her prompt departure. [2]
If any one man is better qualified for such an office than all others, Dr. Stapp is that man; still, I believe a large majority of the Whigs of the district prefer Mr. Remann, who also is a good man. [7]
He was universally loved and respected in that district where he had lived so long and ably, by rich and poor alike, and those of many creeds saw him to his last resting-place. [9]
We must not lose the district. [7]
Today the soot, like the ashes of Vesuvius, spouting from ten thousand soft-coal craters, has buried that house and the whole district fathoms deep in social obscurity. [9]
Bennigsen was a landlord in the Vilna province who appeared to be doing the honors of the district, but was in reality a good general, useful as an adviser and ready at hand to replace Barclay. [2]
He was supreme judge in his district, and he was jury and executioner likewise--and not only in the case of offences against his employers, but against passing emigrants as well. [5]
At any rate, it was not long before he found himself the head of a large district, or, as it was called by the inhabitants, "deestric" school, in the flourishing inland village of Pequawkett, or, as it is commonly spelt, Pigwacket Centre. [6]
Mr. Blank, who is running for Congress in the First District, has permitted his aged grandmother to go to the town poorhouse. [4]
Again, I have informed Governor Seymour that he shall be notified of the time when the draft is to commence in each district in his State. [7]
The senator's personal influence was not to be ignored; and it had sufficed to carry his district in the last election against the Worthington forces, in spite of the abdication of Jethro Bass. [9]
Of course the individual does little, but if the power evolved by the practice in a district school could be utilized, it would suffice to run the kindergarten department. [4]
In any district in which a species does not exist in large numbers, great assemblages cannot, of course, be held, and the same species may have different habits in different countries. [1]
I would start in at once to elevate, purify, and depopulate the red-light district. [5]

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