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Sentences starting with english

English auxiliaries were to garrison the fortifications of Alfen and defend the Gouda lock. [10]
English people talk through their noses; we do not. [5]
English people have queer notions about iced-water and ice-cream. [6]
English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolutions--we shoveled them all into the English fences according to their dates. [5]
English strongholds lined our route; they surrendered without a blow; we garrisoned them with Frenchmen and passed on. [5]
English readers did not fancy any burlesque of their Arthurian tales, or American strictures on their institutions. [5]
English ambassadors pay no house rent; they live in palaces owned by England. [5]
English soldiers feared Joan, but they admired her for her great deeds and her unconquerable spirit. [5]
English soldiers and French militia and Indian allies stood ready for our reception. [9]
English Traits: the first European trip, 62; published, 214; analysis, 214-220; penetration, 383; Teutonic fire, 386. [6]

Sentences ending with english

And upon my word, if I have to live under foreign rule, I'd as leave have a French whip over me as an English! [11]
So now the whole council is French, and in all ordinary matters of legislation they vote together and in the French interest, not the English. [5]
French names they were, but their interests and sympathies were English. [5]
On chance news-stands were displayed newspapers in Russian, Bohemian, Arabic, Italian, Hebrew, Polish, German-none in English. [4]
But as we went back to the camp again he told me how the French had tried once to conquer this vast country and failed, leaving to the Spaniards the endless stretch beyond the Mississippi called Louisiana, and this part to the English. [9]
He knew French well, but could speak almost no Jersey patois, so, in compliment to him, Jean Touzel, Ranulph, and Guida spoke in English. [11]
Among the sailors was a Portuguese who knew no English. [5]
They are piteous wails, too, wails of despair; and one of them is an eloquent reproach; it comes from a poor fellow who has been laden beyond his strength by a stupid teacher, and is eloquent in spite of the poverty of its English. [5]
Larue spoke English very well--his mother was English. [11]
Yet was it un- English? [11]

Short sentences using english

It's the English way. [5]
That English face--where was it? [11]
French or English, I dun'no'. [11]
We have her English. [5]
Every body talks English. [5]
Even that is English. [4]
Portugais spoke in English. [11]
What's an average English word? [5]
It was the English soldiery. [5]
You are not English gipsies?! [11]

Sentences containing english two or more times

Of course, or you wouldn't be talking the English language--though I've heard they talk it better in Boston than they do in England, and in Chicago they're making new English every day and improving on the patent. [11]
I don't know whether you were ever at an English watering-place, but if you have not been, you have missed the best opportunity of studying English oddities, both moral and physical. [4]
We fancied that we were going on, as an English writer on "Down-Easters" used to say, as "slick as ile," when this miniature tempest suddenly burst out in a revival of the language and methods used in the redoubtable old English periodicals forty years ago. [4]
Perhaps the man was English and a spy of the English government, for was there not disaffection in some of the parishes? [11]
Then you come to Vincennes on the Wabash, Fort St. Vincent, the English and Canadians called it, for there were a few of the latter who had settled in Kaskaskia since the English occupation. [9]
It causeth me to smile when I read the modifications of my language which have been made in my English editions to fit them for the sensitive English palate. [5]
Colonel Clark plied the priest with questions of the French towns under English rule: and Father Gibault, speaking for his simple people, said that the English had led them easily to believe that the Kentuckians were cutthroats. [9]
Between him and the outer door, against the ardent blue background, stood Sophie Farcinelle--the English faced Sophie--a little heavy, a little slow, but with the large, long profile which is the type of English beauty--docile, healthy, cow-like. [11]
It was in the heart of the English power; its population had been under English dominion so many generations that they were hardly French now, save in language. [5]
He worked with the French and for the French and against the English, and he made the English very tired and the French very happy, and lived to have the joy of seeing the flag he served publicly hissed. [5]

More example sentences with the word english in them

You shall retain your post in the English navy-officer and patriot you shall be if you choose. [11]
You shall have your Buonespoir, good Rozel; but if he plays pirate any more--tell him this from his Queen--upon an English ship, I will have his head, if I must needs send Drake of Devon to overhaul him. [11]
To this the young mother would not consent, and the visitor departed with some chillingly-polite phrases, part English, part French, beyond the exact comprehension of Pierre, and leaving the father and mother and little Marguerite happy. [11]
The English give you the substantials, and better, I believe, than any other people. [4]
During the long years of their union Mrs. Ebers was his active helpmate, many of the business details relating to his works and their American and English editions being transacted by her. [10]
In our senior year the higher classes competed for the Boylston prizes for English composition. [6]
Six days after writing his letter Shelley and his wife were together again for a moment--to get remarried according to the rites of the English Church. [5]
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. [5]
I was to write an introduction to a nobler book--the English translation of the Official Record (unabridged) of the Trials and Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, and make a lot of footnotes. [5]
Then her spirit would rise from her body's ashes, a thousandfold reinforced, and sweep the English domination into the sea, and Cauchon along with it. [5]
I think he would force all this country to speak English in two months. [4]
Then came these words, but hardly audible: "And in a thousand years the English power in France will not rise up from that blow. [5]
Even as I wondered, voices rose in a song, English voices, soldier voices. [9]
We do not wonder that his earlier publication has been received as a valuable addition, not only to English, but to European literature. [6]
I no longer wonder at the English being such excellent caricaturists, they have such an inexhaustible number and variety of subjects to study from. [4]
I opened it with trembling fingers, and poured out, chinking on the table, such a motley collection of coins as was never seen,--Spanish milled dollars, English sovereigns and crowns and shillings, paper issues of the Confederacy, and I know not what else. [9]
Side by side with them the Berkshires cursed and raged and had their way; and when the Sikhs drew over and laid themselves along the English lines a wild cheer went up from the Berkshires. [11]
He speaks English with the ease and purity of a person born to it. [5]
She spoke English with no perceptible accent, as she spoke Spanish, Italian, French, Hungarian and Greek; and there was nothing in her speech marking her as different from the ordinary Western woman. [11]
Your aunt is with him, and his dutiful son, Philip, now broken of his rank in the English army. [9]
I speak English with equally good accent," he added, with the glimmer of a smile; for there was a kind of exhilaration in the little contest, even with so much at stake. [11]
She spoke English with a French accent. [9]
I could have wished to leave untold the story of the English mission, an episode in Motley's life full of heart-burnings, and long to be regretted as a passage of American history. [6]
But what I wish to say is, that notwithstanding certain unfavorable things in the condition of the English laborer and mechanic, his chance is better in the main than it was fifty years ago. [4]
In such regions wise and careful work was necessary, for the English rule had been fair and kindly; and men who have been ruled in that way are not always anxious for a change. [5]
We used to wince and cringe under English criticism, and try to strike back in a blind fury. [4]
A big war will temporarily shut up the Suez Canal some day and the English ships will have to go to India around the Cape of Good Hope again; then England will have to have Bourbon and will take it. [5]
There is something,--I will not stop now to try and define it,--but there is something by which we recognize an American among the English before he speaks and betrays his origin. [6]
An English fisherman's wife said, "When a body was in trouble she didn't send her help, she brought it herself. [5]
A tall fellow, whose gait and clothes proclaim him English, with a hard face and lack-lustre eyes, saunters about; his friends at home suppose he is making his fortune in America. [4]
Are there passages whose English is not poor and thin and commonplace, but is of a quality above that? [5]
The Burgundian party, who were for the English, had stripped them, and done it well. [5]
The English critics, who say we have taken the government from the capable few and given it to the people, speak of universal suffrage as a quack panacea of this "era of progress. [4]
Meantime a stranger, who looked like an amateur detective gotten up as an impossible English earl, had been watching the evening's proceedings with manifest interest, and with a contented expression in his face; and he had been privately commenting to himself. [5]
An English gentleman who had lived some years in this region, said it was the cradle of compulsory education. [5]
An English gentleman who had been living there several years, said: "If you could disguise your nationality, you would not find any insolence here. [5]
So the matter, which was a weighty one, was like to go against the English monarch by default. [5]
This detestable practice, which I was almost proscribed for condemning somewhat too epigrammatically a little more than twenty years ago, came to us, I suspect, in a considerable measure from the English "general practitioners," a sort of prescribing apothecaries. [6]
In the letter which follows the medicine which Twichell was to take was Plasmon, an English proprietary remedy in which Mark Twain had invested--a panacea for all human ills which osteopathy could not reach. [5]
The fact is, where you strike one man in the English settlements that you can understand, you wade through awful swarms that talk something you can't make head nor tail of. [5]
But I laugh when the English come in the town, and when I see Bigot fly to his palace alone to get his treasure-chest I think it is my time. [11]
Years ago, just when the cotton-mills and the linen- mills were doing well, they came over with their English legislation, and made it hard going. [11]
I don't know what the Queen would think of this way of spending Sunday; but if Albert Edward never does anything worse, he does n't need half the praying for that he gets every Sunday in all the English churches and chapels. [4]
Many and great were the difficulties attending the marriage of a Protestant princess in those troublous times, and Elizabeth finally announced that she would become wedded to the English nation, and she wore a ring in token thereof until her death. [5]
Six English vessels were suddenly opposed by a Spanish convoy of 53 ships of war. [4]
Here our men were stationed, where formerly a squad from an English regiment was quartered. [9]
In the hold were more than one hundred and fifty English prisoners. [9]
Illustrations of this were drawn from the Greek, the French, and the English literatures. [4]
If my plan were carried out, and another series of a dozen English trees photographed on the same scale the comparison would be charming. [6]
When the nuts were all gone, he stumbled upon some inviting books in a closet, among them one about the etiquette of the English court. [5]
She knew English well enough to under stand them. [11]
We are pretty well aware that ours is not an ideal state of society, and should be so, even if the English who pass by did not revile us, wagging their heads. [4]
After some three weeks of this life, Powhatan sent this guileless youth down to decoy the English into his hands, promising to freight a ship with corn if they would visit him. [4]
At this point we observed that an English flag had just been placed at half-mast on a building a hundred yards away. [5]
I think that we may fairly claim a superiority in our journals over the English dailies in our habit of making brief, pointed editorial paragraphs. [4]
On this point we have but to read the testimony of English writers themselves. [4]
Harris told them we had made thirty English miles, too. [5]
Many a time we had discussed the pitcher and the deed, and fingered the linen, now talking in French, now in English; for in France, years before, he had been a valet to an English officer at King Louis's court. [11]
And in it we are able to study the origin of the present English taste for the juxtaposition of striking and uncomplementary colors. [4]
The truth doubtless was, that the same precautions would have been taken against any travelers, because the English Company who have acquired the right to excavate Ephesus, and have paid a great sum for that right, need to be protected, and deserve to be. [5]
The English power was tumbling, crash after crash! [5]
Joan of Arc was the only power in France that the English did not despise, the only power in France that they considered formidable. [5]
Ba su, it was the last shot he would ever fire against aught English, here or elsewhere. [11]
The next one was still English, in New England, where they established that principle which remains with us to this day, and will continue to remain with us--no taxation without representation. [5]
The Tenth Article was resentful against her for "pretending" that St. Catherine and St. Marguerite spoke French and not English, and were French in their politics. [5]
Eldon Part's grief was real, and the beautiful English window in the south transept of the church bears witness to it. [9]
The following winter was passed in Rome, among many English and American friends. [6]
I said I was obliged to him for his compliment, since I knew he meant it for one, but that I was not fairly entitled to it, for I did not speak English at all--I only spoke American. [5]
All they brought was notice from the English to Joan that they would presently catch her and burn her if she did not clear out now while she had a chance, and "go back to her proper trade of minding cows. [5]
The English Cafe was not far off, and there the Hunns and others also made night melodious. [4]
No special haste was needful, and, as he loved good wine and did not lack gifts from those who desired an audience with his master, he went first to the English Greeting, where the travelling clergy lodged and often deigned to accost him. [10]
The year 1709 was made ponderous and illustrious in English biography by his birth. [6]
But when I was learning how to use the bayonet from a British sergeant in Picardy I met an English manufacturer from Northumberland. [9]
Even when I was laid up 10 days at Jeypore in India we had the charmingest times with English friends. [5]
All this play was in Dicky's hands for himself to enjoy, in a perfect dress rehearsal ere ever one of the Cairene public or the English world could pay for admission and take their seats. [11]
Immediately a murmur was heard: "A spy, an English spy! [11]
His murderer's name was Bucklaw--an English pirate. [11]
This English knight was at different periods of his life an admiral, a theologian, a critic, a metaphysician, a politician, and a disciple of Alchemy. [6]
But behold, here was a dead wall, and nothing in English history to tell how to get over it. [5]
The Earl of Warwick and the English Cardinal (Winchester) hurried to the castle and sent messengers flying for physicians. [5]
Escaping the English war-ships, she fell in with a pirate craft. [11]
There are no war-clouds anywhere; and as for wool, why, it is the low-spiritedest commodity in the English market. [5]
It was a very lovely family picture; a pretty house, surrounded by attractive scenery; scholarship, refinement, simple elegance, giving distinction to a home which to us seemed a pattern of all we could wish to see beneath an English roof. [6]
I am not very fresh in my geology; but it is my impression that Switzerland was created especially for the English, about the year of the Magna Charta, or a little later. [4]
They appeared in various English magazines, and were written in London far from the scenes which suggested them. [11]
The English never uttered a challenge nor fired a shot. [5]
The guide told us these things, and he would hardly try so hazardous an experiment as the telling of a falsehood, when it is all he can do to speak the truth in English without getting the lock-jaw. [5]
There is to us something pathetic in this and in the surprise of the English critic, that there can be any standard of respectable achievement outside of a seven-miles radius turning on Charing Cross. [4]
His smoothly shaven upper lip and brown whiskers, his erect bearing and energetic manner, reminded one of an English parliamentary leader, but his words sounded almost menacing. [10]
This largely depends upon English prestige in the Orient, and to lose India is to lose the grip. [4]
She drew herself up, and said with dignity and fire: "What I said to them was, 'Ride those English down! [5]
I then wound up with these remarks: "The war with the English nation, as a nation, is at an end. [5]
It is not up to my hopes, it is not up to the promise of the recommendations, still it is English, and I understand it. [5]
The incident lights up the Indian situation electrically, and gives one a vivid sense of the strides which the English had made and the mastership they had acquired in the land since the date of Clive's great victory. [5]
Phips had picked up his sailors in English ports, and nearly all of them were brutal adventurers. [11]
Even Catherine dried up her tears and laughed when she thought of the English getting hold of the French Commander-in-Chief's reason for staying out of a battle. [5]
The English sent up a glad shout and came surging down in strong force to take her, and then for a few minutes the might of both adversaries was concentrated upon that spot. [5]
He came down until he was opposite the spot where his English picket was posted, and then he halted and surveyed his ground. [11]
Her original, spontaneous, undoctored English furnishes ample proof of this. [5]
The French, in undertaking to reconstruct the Suez canal, have had much to encounter from the unfriendly commercial policy of the English and their influence over the internal affairs of Egypt, but the unwearied energy and great talent of Monsr. [10]

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