Use don in a sentence
Sentences starting with don
- Don Luis, as you know, had gone before to get the house in readiness for his master. [10]
- Don Luis Quijada, with the haughty precision of the Castilian grandee, was passing through the humble folk around him and advancing directly toward her. [10]
- Don Miguel's breast was already bleeding from two wounds, and he now fell by Ulrich's side; a bullet had broken his left arm. [10]
- Don Juan received Ulrich's petition kindly, and invited him to make the journey on the admiral's galley, with the king's ambassador and his secretary, de Soto. [10]
- Don Luis was the tool in every blow which Charles, his master, dealt at my happiness and peace. [10]
- Don Fabrizio thought the picture "startlingly" like the original. [10]
- Don Luis nodded the answer which he desired to receive, and a bright smile flitted over his emaciated, corpselike features. [10]
- Don Luis also soon found a wound in the skull, which appeared to be fractured. [10]
- Don Luis Quijada should provide for its execution. [10]
- Don John cut short her words with the cry, "Mother! [10]
Sentences ending with don
- When the winter is done I will come back home, To the nest swinging under and over, Swinging under and over and waiting for me, Your rover, my snow-bird, your lover-- My lover and rover, don, don! [11]
- After traveling sixteen days on the road that leads to Muscova, Smith reached a Muscovite garrison on the River Don. [4]
- Like the Don! [5]
Short sentences using don
- Don Juan made no delay. [10]
- Don Fabrizio has made inquiries. [10]
Sentences containing don two or more times
- I am proud of every Spanish achievement, from Hernando Cortes's victory at Thermopylae down to Vasco Nunez de Balboa's discovery of the Atlantic ocean; and of every splendid Spanish name, from Don Quixote and the Duke of Wellington down to Don Caesar de Bazan. [5]
- Don Quixote was a fool, a dreamer, but Jean Jacques is no Don Quixote. [11]
More example sentences with the word don in them
- Heaven, she thought, would pour its favour upon her too lavishly if the report that Don John was to be appointed Governor of the Netherlands should be verified. [10]
- The questions which, without heeding his companion, she now with crimson cheeks poured upon Don Luis as if fairly frantic, he answered in brief, businesslike words. [10]
- Barbara had witnessed with very different feelings from Dona Magdalena and her brother how the former regarded every false step of Don John, and especially that of his expedition to England, as a heavy misfortune, and as such bewailed it. [10]
- Yet even while, with one hand resting on the back of the chair and the other pressed upon her panting bosom, she was striving to find the right words, Don John's glance brightened. [10]
- Against his daughter's wish, he had given to the richest and most aristocratic among them, the Sicilian baron Don Fabrizio di Moncada, the hope of gaining her hand. [10]
- And yet she will fly up the stairs to don a fine gown at the first rap of the knocker. [9]
- At Easter the whole city learned that Don Luis d'Avila had eloped with the beautiful Anna Van Hoogstraten, after killing her betrothed bridegroom in a duel on Maundy-Thursday at Hals on his way to Brussels--scarcely twenty-four hours before the wedding. [10]
- We, too, understood what it meant, and Don Luis knew him far better than we. [10]
- That is the way it was, so he said, except in the last sad times, when your father, for the sake of Don Carlos and his rights, near lost his life--ah, I can understand that: to stand by the thing you have sworn to! [11]
- She perceived how waterfall after waterfall was quenching the flames which burned in Don John's honest soul for the supposed welfare of the nation intrusted to him. [10]
- Farnese's bold assault was kindly rebuked by the commander-in-chief, and when the former praised Navarrete's heroic aid before Don Juan, the general gave the bold warrior and gallant trooper, the honorable commission of bearing tidings of the victory to the king. [10]
- While Don Luis was helping Barbara into the chair, she asked in a low tone what she was to think of this act of violence, and where she was being taken. [10]
- The tried Spanish warriors, with whom Don Juan had manned his vessel, hesitated. [10]
- His Majesty usually uttered exactly the opposite of his real opinions, and therefore, in the outline of his abdication speech, he twice emphasized how great a debt of gratitude Don Philip owed him for the Heritage which while still alive he bequeathed to him. [10]
- If any one understands how to defend himself against unauthorized demands, it is Don Philip. [10]
- He did not understand where Don John had found time to learn to speak French, German, and Italian. [10]
- Adrian silently beckoned to him, and led the way into his own room, where he entreated Don Luis to show him the injury. [10]
- When she returned to Ghent, even if Don John had not been appointed governor, she might even have ventured to make her house the rendezvous of the heads of the royalist party. [10]
- Directly after, on the second day of October, Wolf added, the King had presented her son to the court as his Excellency, his brother Don John of Austria! [10]
- He, Don John, the not all unworthy son of the great Emperor Charles, was not born to obey all his life, and allow himself to be turned to account, worn out, and abused for the benefit of another. [10]
- He laughed at the homespun I wore about the farm, saying it was no costume for a gentleman's son, and begged me sneeringly to don leather breeches. [9]
- It came from the heir and regent, Don Philip, in Valladolid. [10]
- As they approached the hamlet, the Marques of Villena, the Count Urena, and Don Alonzo de Aguilar filed off with their battalions, and were soon seen glittering along, the side of the mountain above the village. [4]
- Ulrich now saw the fulfilment of Don Juan's words, that power was an arable field; for there were many full ears in Aalst for them both to harvest. [10]
- The royal lady, the Emperor's favourite sister, was in her own room, adjoining her imperial brother's, talking with Don Luis Quijada, the brave nobleman of whom the Spanish and the Netherland soldiers had spoken with equal warmth. [10]
- While doing so, the dying man had expressed the desire that Don Luis would commend Geronimo to the love of his son Philip. [10]
- At seven o'clock the carriage drove up, and after it was packed Don Luis handed me a little box to put in the vehicle. [10]
- He was glad that he had withheld his refusal; but this matter was so important that the prudent young man, after warmly thanking Don Luis for his good opinion, requested some time for consideration. [10]
- She sat below talking to Annette and singing a little Breton chanson: "Parvondt varbondt anan oun, Et die don la lire! [11]
- Mr. Edwards' first suspicion was that I had allowed Baker to overreach me, as his friend, in behalf of Don Morrison. [7]
- I have read somewhere of the great leap that one Don Alvarado, a Spaniard, made in Mexico, but surely never was a greater leap than you two made that night, landing safely on the other side, and making for the sea-shore. [11]
- As King Philip's sole heir was the sickly Don Carlos----" "His son Geronimo might aspire to the crown," interrupted Granvelle. [10]
- Don Luis looked sharply into the faithful face, and what he found there induced him to admit that he was concealing a wound. [10]
- Ere great Nature shall have doffed her winter's ermine to don the emerald gauds of spring, she shall be mine! [5]
- Yet a dark shadow fell on these radiant joys also; her John's friend and foster-father, Don Luis Quijada, had been wounded in these battles, and died from his injuries. [10]
- Just as Wolf, seated in the writing room, which was always at his disposal, finished the letter, the major-domo, Don Luis Quijada, sought him. [10]
- Yet he had scarcely raised his head again when he started, and in an agitated tone asked, 'And Don Luis--and my dear mother? [10]
- Don Juan was satiated with fame. [10]
- Don Luis is said to have been degraded to the rank of ensign on account of some wild escapades, and who knows what has become of the poor, beautiful signorina. [10]
- Over their heads rose the fine new Cathedral, built by the munificence of Don Andreas Almonaster, and beside that the many-windowed, heavy-arched Cabildo, nearly finished, which will stand for all time a monument to Spanish builders. [9]
- Finally Don Luis rode up to Wolf and informed him that the Queen of Hungary wished to speak to him early the next morning, and that he also had something important to discuss at the earliest opportunity. [10]
- He had also remembered the love of better days, and when Barbara insisted upon learning what he had said of her, Wolf, who had heard it from Don Luis, did not withhold it. [10]
- Don Luis Quijada reappeared with the marquise, and conducted both ladies out of the imperial apartment. [10]
- In the first rank of the brilliant circle of distinguished ecclesiastics, ambassadors and grandees, who surrounded the queen, stood the Austrian archdukes, and the handsome, youthful figures of Alexander of Parma and of Don Juan, the half-brother of King Philip. [10]
- And now he ran to his room to don for Virginia that glorious but useless full dress,--the high bearskin rat, the red pigeon-tailed coat, the light blue trousers, and the gorgeous, priceless shackle. [9]
- Sydenham's "Read Don Quixote" should be addressed not to the student, but to the Professor of today. [3]
- This outdid Don Quixote over and over. [11]
- Don John would prove in the future, by his care for her prosperity and comfort, that he did not forget her. [10]
- The country is precisely as it was when Don Quixote and Sancho Panza were possible characters. [5]
- Our son, Don Philip, will return in three weeks to Valladolid. [10]
- Two galleys stood out to sea in a westerly direction at the same time: a Spanish one, bearing Don Juan's messenger, and a Venetian ship, conveying the courier of the Republic. [10]
- Parvondt varbondt anan oun, Et die don la, la! [11]
- As to the other travellers, the Queen and Don Luis Quijada had made a great mistake in their calculations--the number considerably exceeded a hundred. [10]
- Directly after it opened, and Don Luis Quijada with firm step entered the room. [10]
- Then all at once, like the statue in Don Giovanni, she moved from her pedestal. [6]
- This exciting expectation on the part of the Quijadas lasted nearly a whole year, for it was that length of time before Don Philip finally left the Netherlands and reached Valladolid. [10]
- When he appeared on Don Juan's most refractory steed, among the last of the victor's train, he felt that he was not overlooked, and often heard people tell each other of his deeds. [10]
- At last springing off, he patted Satan, who pranced peacefully beside him, and led him by the bridle to Don Juan. [10]
- At the taking of the oath by which the Cortes recognised Don Carlos as the heir to the throne, John had been summoned directly after the Infant as the first person entitled to homage. [10]
- His first sight of the Alhambra is given in a letter to Mademoiselle Bollviller: "Our journey through La Mancha was cold and uninteresting, excepting when we passed through the scenes of some of the exploits of Don Quixote. [4]
- After the conquest of Cyprus, the Crescent had seriously threatened the Cross in the Mediterranean, and it was Don John who had broken the power of the Turks. [10]
- On the 27th of April, 1852, Senor Don Victoriano de Diego Paredes was received as charge d'affaires of the Republic of New Granada. [7]
- On every similar occasion hitherto he had sent her a few kind words, or, if Don Luis was the messenger, tender ones. [10]
- But the Turks' numbers were greatly superior and threatened to crush the heroes, when Don Miguel Cervantes, Ulrich's friend, appeared with twelve fresh soldiers on the scene of battle, and cut their way to the hard-pressed champions. [10]
- She could do nothing except wait to learn what he desired, and yet she knew perfectly well that Don Luis was not coming to the musician, but to her, and that he was bringing some startling, nay, probably some terrible news. [10]
- The English, he notes, change their fashions every year, and when they go abroad riding or traveling they don their best clothes, contrary to the practice of other nations. [4]
- True, he told no one that he missed Don Luis, but those who surrounded him were made to feel his ill-humour plainly enough. [10]
- Don Luis paid no heed to all this, hastening first to the chapel to ask a young German chaplain to administer the sacrament to Sir Wolf Hartschwert, to whose house he hurriedly directed him. [10]
- This renowned Moslem naval commander had fallen in the battle, and his two sons had been delivered to Don John as prisoners. [10]
- Does not the name suggest a figure of elongated humanity with a touch of ancient mysticism and yet also of the fantastical humour of Don Quixote? [11]
- Now, when that man wanted to don especial dress to honor a public occasion or a holiday, why, he occasionally put on a pair of spectacles. [5]
- In the report made to the Emperor, Don Luis suppressed everything which could offend him; but Charles remained immovable in his determination to withdraw the expected gift of Fate, from its first entrance into the world, from every influence except his own. [10]
- It was Don Luis Quijada, the Emperor's majordomo. [10]
- Soon after Don Luis Quijada was announced. [10]
- Adrian informed Don Luis and then the monarch of all this, and as Quijada knew Massi to be a trustworthy man, and described him to his royal master, Charles entered into negotiations with him. [10]
- Perhaps you would like one of those romances which turned the head of Don Quixote. [6]
- They were no less important personages than Don Carlos himself and Alessandro Farnese, John's nephew, the son of that Ottavio at whose admission as Knight of the Golden Fleece Barbara had made at Landshut the most difficult resolution of her life. [10]
- When, two years later, Don John captured Tunis, the exploit could no longer increase his renown. [10]
- Don Carlos, the king's eldest brother, immediately set up the standard of rebellion, supported by the absolutist aristocracy, the monks, and a great part of the clergy. [4]
- Don Juan had killed the commander-in-chief of the Ottoman force, Ali Pacha, as Farnese hewed down the treasurer. [10]
- Thus ended Don John's meeting with his mother, which he had dreaded as an inevitable evil. [10]
- Let him keep it.--Give me your hand again, Don Juan d'Austria.--[Don John of Austria]--A proud name! [10]
- He pronounced judgments in a grand and airy fashion, but as if he were speaking by a card, the Don Quixote whose mercy would be vaster than his wrath. [11]
- Let Doltaire, the idler, the Don Amato, the hunter of that fawn, save her from the holy ambush. [11]
- He said if I warn't so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. [5]
- General Mabry and his son Joe were acquitted only a few days ago of the murder of Moses Lusby and Don Lusby, father and son, whom they killed a few weeks ago. [5]
- The ambassador and his secretary, de Soto, thought Ulrich an unsocial dreamer; but nevertheless, after they reached Venice, the latter invited him to share his lodgings, for Don Juan had requested him to interest himself in the young artist. [10]
- Don Juan gave him the enlistment money fifteen minutes ago. [10]
- Don Juan let him go, and when fame was the word, Ulrich had no cause to complain of its ill-will. [10]
- Then Philip recalled him and put in his place the gentle Don Luis de Requesens, who had been governor in Milan. [10]
- To be sure, her excellenza also gave Don Luis more than one secret audience. [10]
- On this errand, he was sure of it, Don Luis must have received this serious wound at the same time as Wolf, or even obtained it from the young knight himself. [10]
- The Don horse he was riding was one he had bought from a Cossack during the campaign, and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his head. [2]
- On the stairs he met the Emperor's confessor, Don Pedro de Soto. [10]
- If the pursuers had set out the morning after the departure, and followed him instead of Don Fabrizio's party, Moor might now be safe. [10]
- After the valet had replaced his aching foot in the right position, Don Luis appeared. [10]
- Then Don Philip had been described by his father as a successor whose wisdom equalled his experience. [10]
- But Don Juan had already boarded the vessel commanded by the Turkish admiral, scaled the deck, and with a heavy sword-stroke felled Kapudan Pacha. [10]
- This was willingly granted, and Don Luis even undertook to send Sir Pyramus Kogel, whom he knew by sight, to her. [10]
- Various dignitaries and grandees also went in and out of the studio, and among them frequently appeared, indeed usually when Sophonisba was present, her faithful admirer Don Fabrizio di Moncada. [10]
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