Use draft in a sentence
Sentences starting with draft
- Draft the cartel, and lose no time. [5]
Sentences ending with draft
- The correct case will then stand: the quotas of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth districts fixed at 2200 for the first draft. [7]
- He was telling us how he wrote his novels, and he said, 'pon my soul he did, that he had a secretary or something of that sort to whom he told the plot, and the secretary elaborated, you know, and wrote the draft. [9]
- I was pained to be informed this morning by the Provost-Marshal-General that New Jersey is now behind twelve thousand, irrespective of the draft. [7]
- Four feet of the tops of three chimneys on one house were broken square off and turned around in such a way as to completely stop the draft. [5]
- My view of the principle is that every soldier obtained voluntarily leaves one less to be obtained by draft. [7]
- I further proclaim that all volunteers received under this call, as well as all others not heretofore credited, shall be duly credited and deducted from the quotas established for the next draft. [7]
- There is nothing so bad for this disease as a draft. [5]
- On a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. [2]
- Quiet being restored, Mr. Billings requested, somewhat vehemently, that the case be transferred on the exceptions to the Supreme Court, that the stenographer write out the evidence, and that he might have three weeks in which to prepare a draft. [9]
- I got you exempted --(catching himself) I mean, you were exempted from the draft. [9]
Short sentences using draft
- How's your draft? [5]
Sentences containing draft two or more times
- 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]
- Before I was informed of the passage of the resolution I had prepared the draft of a message stating objections to the bill becoming a law, a copy of which draft is herewith transmitted. [7]
More example sentences with the word draft in them
- Here I finished writing the second draft of the preliminary proclamation; came up on Saturday; called the Cabinet together to hear it, and it was published on the following Monday. [7]
- It is a very delicate matter to postpone the draft in one State, because of the argument it furnishes others to have postponement also. [7]
- I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation policy; and without consultation with, or the knowledge of, the Cabinet, I prepared the original draft of the proclamation, and, after much anxious thought, called a Cabinet meeting upon the subject. [7]
- I cannot consent to suspend the draft in New York, as you request, because, among other reasons, time is too important. [7]
- 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]
- The disparity of the quotas for the draft in these two classes is certainly very striking, being the difference between an average of 2200 in one class and 4864 in the other. [7]
- I got simply the face of my draft, and no extra francs, whereas I had expected to get quite a number of them. [5]
- I shall direct the draft to proceed in all the districts, drawing, however, at first from each of the four districts--to wit, the Second, Fourth, Sixth, and Eighth--only, 2200 being the average quota of the other class. [7]
- As to conducting the draft by townships, I find it would require such a waste of labor already done, and such an additional amount of it, and such a loss of time, as to make it, I fear, inadmissible. [7]
- P. S.--Since writing the above, getting additional information, I am enabled to say that the draft may be made in subdistricts, as the enrolment has been made, or is in process of making. [7]
- The commission conclude that the quotas for the draft should be based upon entire population, and they proceed upon this basis to give a table for the State of New York, in which some districts are reduced and some increased. [7]
- The result was that I put the draft of the proclamation aside, as you do your sketch for a picture, waiting for a victory. [7]
- The draft was still crushed in her hand when she mounted the beloved horse, whose name now was Shiel. [11]
- With sudden anger she crushed and crumpled up the draft for five hundred in her hand. [11]
- Maybe if we scraped her and put her in the draft again--" "Oh, idiot! [5]
- The Consul also said we ought to draft a little address to the Emperor, and present it to one of his aides-de-camp, who would forward it to him at the proper time. [5]
- The determination of said board to be final and conclusive, and the draft to be made in conformity therewith. [7]
- People thought it queer, since a draft on New York could produce greenbacks quite conveniently. [5]
- And I further proclaim that nothing in this proclamation shall interfere with existing orders, or with those which may be issued for the present draft in the States where it is now in progress, or where it has not yet been commenced. [7]
- The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done after the fifteenth of this month. [7]
- It was near one of them that the miraculous draft of fishes is supposed to have been taken, and it was in the desert places near the other that he fed the thousands by the miracles of the loaves and fishes. [5]
- It elaborated itself on his hands;--it became twenty times more complex and formidable than was his first rude draft of it. [5]
- As every man obtained otherwise lessens the draft so much, and this may supersede it altogether, I hope you will push forward your volunteer regiments as fast as possible. [7]
- I do not object to abide a decision of the United States Supreme Court, or of the judges thereof, on the constitutionality of the draft law. [7]
- The draft proceeds, notwithstanding its strong tendency to lose us the State. [7]
- I have lost my old petition, (which was brief) but will draft and enclose another--not in the words it ought to be, but in the substance. [5]
- He also tells me that eight thousand will be about the quota of New Jersey on the first draft; and the Secretary of War says the first draft in that State would not be made for some time in any event. [7]
- Not a reading man but has a draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket. [6]
- 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]
- Be not alarmed if you shall learn that we shall have resorted to a draft for part of this. [7]
- In doing so I laid down the principle to which I purpose adhering, which is to proceed with the draft, at the same time employing infallible means to avoid any great wrong. [7]
- And then we had more racing; and whist and quinze and pharaoh and hazard, until I was obliged to write another draft upon Mr. Dix to settle the wails: and picquet in the travelling-chaise all the way to London. [9]
- When it was finished, I copied it in ink, and if correctly copied from my first draft it should read as follows. [5]
- The arms and equipments now belonging to the General Government will be needed for the troops called out for the national armies, so that arms can only be furnished for the quota of militia furnished by the draft of nine months' men, heretofore ordered. [7]
- After the first draft, the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Twenty-first, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirty-first will be enrolled for the purpose and in the manner stated in my letter of the 7th inst. [7]
- I enclose a draft on Hartford for $25. [5]
- Keep these returns diligently posted, and by them give full credit on the quotas, if possible, on the last day before the draft begins in any district. [7]
- If the draft cannot proceed, of course it will not proceed. [7]
- No bounty to be paid the troops, nor the service charged or credited on any draft. [7]
- I guess he'll be in here in a minute to dictate the draft. [9]
- On Rostov's inquiry as to how the matter stood, he at once produced from under his pillow a paper he had received from the commission and the rough draft of his answer to it. [2]
- The meeting also appointed a committee to draft an address to the people of the State, which address will also appear in the next journal. [7]
- Only once in a great while there is a stately poem in it, or its leaves are illuminated with the glories of art, or they enfold a draft for untold values signed by the million-fold millionnaire old mother herself. [6]
- And I have a draft from you at Ampthill. [9]
- He is, like a barrel of beer, always on draft. [4]
- Governor of ___________________________________ _____________________________________ You are notified that the draft will commence in the____________ _______________________district, at _________ on the ___________ day _____________ 1863, at ________ A.M. of said day. [7]
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