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There, now, Can't you say-- "In a letter to Mr. Howells of the Atlantic Monthly, Mark Twain describes the reception of the new comedy 'Ali Sin,' and then goes on to say:" etc. [5]
After almost three years' experience, Winslow says, he can scarce distinguish New England from Old England, in respect of heat and cold, frost, snow, rain, winds, etc. [3]
George says he would not part with him for all Tripoli,'" etc. [4]
This rescript began with the words: "Sergey Kuzmich, From all sides reports reach me," etc. [2]
Wakf----Mahommedan Court dealing with succession, etc. [11]
From central station, wires to all the livery stables, messenger stands, provision shops, etc., etc. [6]
For reasons which will presently appear, I will withhold his real name and titles, and call him Lieutenant-General Lord Arthur Scoresby, V.C., K.C.B., etc., etc., etc. [5]
I asked her whether she had ever taken opium, as the description given of its effects in "Villette" was so exactly like what I had experienced,--vivid and exaggerated presence of objects, of which the outlines were indistinct, or lost in golden mist , etc. [14]
I mean here what he says about the fixing of the Rio Grande as her boundary in her old constitution (not her State constitution), about forming Congressional districts, counties, etc. [7]
I cannot describe what a time of it I had after my return from London, Scotland, etc. [14]

Short sentences using etc

After lunch, recitations, songs, etc. [6]
Houzeau, 'Les Facultes Mentales,' etc. [1]
Div., Max., etc., etc. [6]
Believe me, etc., etc. [6]
A Dissertation, etc., etc. [6]
But diet, bathing, etc. [5]
Do you remember--" etc. [11]
A, B, C, D, etc. [1]
Many windows were broken, etc. [10]
Affectionately yours, etc. [6]

More example sentences with the word etc in them

The precious metals were weighed out and used as money in the shape of rings, animals, etc. [10]
The worthy pastor was much affected, etc., etc. [6]
More specifically, she was guilty of contours fortement prononces,--corsage de paysanne,--quelque chose de sauvage, etc., etc. [6]
She thought she was doing right, and they might blame her or not, but her aunt would see that she could not permit any distinction to be set up between her and her husband, etc. [4]
The Poor Relation wanted me to carry, as from her, a copy of "Allein's Alarm," etc. [6]
See also Mr. W. Bagehot's articles on the Importance of Obedience and Coherence to Primitive Man, in the 'Fortnightly Review,' 1867, p. 529, and 1868, p. 457, etc. [1]
A world-famed Stradivarius Violin, for which Mr. Hill, of Bond Street, gave L 1000, etc., etc. [6]
Anticipating, too, the very arrangements I was going to propose to him about providing for your departure, etc. [14]
Van Boodle, E. Van Boodle, Heister, Booster, etc., etc. [6]
Music arouses in us various emotions, but not the more terrible ones of horror, fear, rage, etc. [1]
The Masons gave us a Missouri country breakfast, in Missourian abundance, and we needed it: hot biscuits; hot 'wheat bread' prettily criss-crossed in a lattice pattern on top; hot corn pone; fried chicken; bacon, coffee, eggs, milk, buttermilk, etc. [5]
It has been urged against the views here maintained that it is impossible to say at what point in the ascending scale animals become capable of abstraction, etc. [1]
His reputation rests upon a basis more substantial even than the numerous diplomas with which he is provided, than the membership of the different medical societies which have chosen him as their associate," etc., etc. [3]
They sighed, turned up their eyes, retailed philosophy, such as it was," etc. [5]
He is cried up as a second Garrick, as a reformer of the stage, etc. [4]
The Hamadryas baboons turn over stones to find insects, etc. [1]
I went up to unbonnet, etc. [14]
As an offset to this, the Jethro forces gain on the extreme right, where the Honorable Peleg Hartington is made President of the Senate, etc. [9]
You ask me to send you all the speeches made about "Old Zach," the war, etc. [7]
Mr. Smith wishes to reprint some of Emily's and Annie's works, with a few little additions from the papers they have left; and I have been closely engaged in revising, transcribing, preparing a preface, notice, etc. [14]
Man is liable to receive from the lower animals, and to communicate to them, certain diseases, as hydrophobia, variola, the glanders, syphilis, cholera, herpes, etc. [1]
With kindest remembrances to Mr. Gaskell and all your precious circle, I am," etc. [14]
He went on to explain that he wasn't referring now to that part of the electorate known as the labour element, the men who worked with their hands in mills, factories, etc. [9]
Mr. Drummond wanted time; they could not decide in the heat of debate, etc. [7]
It was in this way that he found out that when a white man robs a sluice-box (by the term white man is meant Spaniards, Mexicans, Portuguese, Irish, Hondurans, Peruvians, Chileans, etc., etc. [5]
Their reason for this is exceedingly sensible, and I recommend it to the aristocracy of Europe: They say it is easy to know who a man's mother was, but, etc., etc. [5]
He came near thinking of it, for he mentions some of the subdivisions himself: "the 12 kinds of Presbyterians, the 17 kinds of Methodists, the 13 kinds of Baptists, etc. [5]
Dinners--all manner of things, including canvas-back duck, apollinaris, claret, champagne, etc. [5]
Riding toward Genessaret, they saw two Bedouins, and "we looked to our pistols and loosened them quietly in our shawls," etc. [5]
We found that there were many such appointments, among which were those in Tazewell, McLean, Iroquois, Coles, Menard, Wayne, Washington, Fayette, etc. [7]
In that case, theory suggests that, while the enemy concentrates at that point, advantages can be gained by crossing smaller forces at other points to cut off his lines, destroy his communication, and capture his rear-guards, outposts, etc. [7]
I thought of the sweet mother of long ago who kept things in her heart," etc. [5]
I thought of the sweet mother of long ago who kept things in her heart,' etc. [5]
Some believed in the scheme to relieve the river, in flood-time, by turning its surplus waters off into Lake Borgne, etc. [5]
I only expressed the opinion that such an aleatory process seemed an unworthy method in arbitrations," etc. [6]
In most of the Lophobranchii (Pipe-fish, Hippocampi, etc. [1]
And while abusing the Daney, those papers did not forget to urge the public to get rid of all their silver stocks and invest in, sound and safe San Francisco stocks, such as the Spring Valley Water Company, etc. [5]
Some believed in the Commission's scheme to arbitrarily and permanently confine (and thus deepen) the channel, preserve threatened shores, etc. [5]
And not only that, but singing-- 'Father in heaven, the day is declining,' etc. [5]
He was at that time far beyond the span of life usually allotted to man, and what I heard him say was hardly worth retaining, for it related to the pleasures of the table, ladies' toilettes, court gossip, etc. [10]
He said that Thackeray described men from the inside, as it were; through his strong power of dramatic sympathy, he identified himself with certain characters, felt their temptations, entered into their pleasures, etc. [14]
I had no terrors, for over my tailor's door was the legend, "By Special Appointment Tailor to H. R. H. the Prince of Wales," etc. [5]
Many instances of such periodic processes might be given, as the gestation of mammals, the duration of fevers, etc. [1]
Signs and scars still remain, as reminders of Vicksburg's tremendous war experiences; earthworks, trees crippled by the cannon balls, cave- refuges in the clay precipices, etc. [5]
One instance will show the extreme slightness which characterizes many of the grounds of inculpation:-- The instructions say, "The government, in rejecting the recent convention, abandons neither its own claims nor those of its citizens," etc. [6]
You see I should like to have a perfect soldier credited to dear old Illinois--no broken bones, scalp wounds, etc. [7]
Gregorig dealt in shirts, cravats, etc. [5]
Then when he ships his crop, the dealer adds his commissions, insurance, etc. [5]
The whole external shell may be considered a rudiment, together with the various folds and prominences (helix and anti-helix, tragus and anti-tragus, etc. [1]
We here see several oblique rows, A, B, C, D, etc. [1]
One who has served with distinction upon such boards as the Railroad Commission, the Board of Equalization, etc., etc. [9]
Emerson's Essays, Lectures, Sermons, Speeches, etc. [6]
At this same season the beak and naked skin about the head frequently change colour, as with some herons, ibises, gulls, one of the bell-birds just noticed, etc. [1]
It is the same with silks, antiquities, shawls, etc. [5]
I suppose you recognized yourself in one of the society columns of the "Household Inquisitor:" "Mrs. E. K., very beautiful, in an elegant," etc., etc, "with pearls," etc., etc.,--as if you were not the ornament of all that you wear, no matter what it is! [6]
Thinking over my plans, as mapped out, I perceived that they did not take in the Furka Pass, the Rhone Glacier, the Finsteraarhorn, the Wetterhorn, etc. [5]
And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea-shore for multitude," etc. [5]
But in certain other tropical groups, and in some of our English butterflies, as the purple emperor, orange-tip, etc. [1]
See the evidence on those points, as given by Lubbock, 'Prehistoric Times,' p. 354, etc. [1]
See, for instance, on this subject, Quatrefages, 'Unite de l'Espece Humaine,' 1861, p. 21, etc. [1]
Across the front of the house, and up the spreading eaves and along the fanciful railings of the shallow porch, are elaborate carvings--wreaths, fruits, arabesques, verses from Scripture, names, dates, etc. [5]
For the infants of the Guaranys, see Rengger, 'Saugethiere,' etc. [1]
The musical critics of the German press praise the Jubilees with great enthusiasm--acquired technique etc, included. [5]
For the Guanas of South America see Azara, 'Voyages,' etc. [1]
Han = kind of grass for the making of ropes, baskets, etc. [11]
Nothing is talked of but armies, navies, battles, etc. [4]
Then followed reports of about one hundred and fifty cases published in England, "demonstrating the efficacy of the metallic practice in a variety of complaints both upon the human body and on horses, etc. [6]
Many days are noted as lucky, unlucky, etc. [10]
I had a note-book that fairly bristled with the names of towns, 'points,' bars, islands, bends, reaches, etc. [5]
His remarks were not germane, etc. [9]
I thought--I will not be certain--that the Little Gentleman winked, as if he had been hit somewhere--as I have no doubt Dr. Darwin did when the wooden-spoon suggestion upset his theory about why, etc. [6]
You did not mention the name of the plaintiff or defendant in the suit, and so I can tell nothing about it as to sales, bids, etc. [7]
He brings foe men to their knees,... etc. [2]
By Charles D. Meigs, M. D., Professor of Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, etc., etc. [3]
I was interrupted many times by the arrival of different generals, aides, etc. [9]
I remember, however, many little particulars which Miss Bronte gave me, in answer to my inquiries respecting her mode of composition, etc. [14]
Our means are limited, etc., etc., etc. [6]
Or if a large part of the western army be brought here to McClellan, they will let us have Richmond, and retake Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, etc. [7]
It was well known in certain circles--the editorial went on to say--that this legislation had been drawn by Theodore Watling in the interests of the Boyne Iron Works, etc., etc. [9]
Sheriff is a kind of titlous sect of people, as Barons, Nobles, etc. [5]
The death-bed was just the same,--breath failing, etc. [14]
He found the junior curate troubling the youthful mind with what their godfathers and godmothers did for them, and begging them to do their duty "in that state of life," etc. [11]
After being introduced in turn to all the prisoners, I was allowed to see some of the cells and examine their food, beds, etc. [5]
Mr. Motley said, in the course of his conversation, "At present, the United States government, while withdrawing neither its national claims nor the claims of its individual citizens against the British government," etc. [6]
Among these gentlemen I will mention A. Stahr, C. V. Holtei, M. Hartmann, E. Hoefer, W. Wolfsohn, C. Leemans, Professor Veth of Amsterdam, etc. [10]
Why, every morning I used to--" etc., etc. [5]
With this view I have suggested a change of climate, a nourishing diet, etc. [6]
The contractors called him into their consultations frequently, as to the character of the country he had been over, and the cost of constructing the road, the nature of the work, etc. [5]
Other folks could have married merchants, if their families was n't as wealthy as them old skinflints that willed her their money," etc., etc. [6]
M. J.P. Durand has lately (1868) published a valuable essay, 'De l'Influence des Milieux,' etc. [1]
Mr. Tallant's newspaper had published many complaints of the age and scarcity of the cars, etc. [9]
The United States government had no insidious purposes," etc. [6]
Take the head from this one, the arm from that, etc. [10]
Seven-tenths of the free population of the country were of just their class and degree: small "independent" farmers, artisans, etc. [5]
To Mrs. Clemens---intended for Howells, Aldrich, etc. [5]
Nothing was heard except Hilton's voice in strong tones saying, "I take thee to be my wedded wife," etc. [11]
I am ashamed every time I think of my bursting out before an unconcerned public with that bombastic pow-wow about burning publishers' letters, and all that sort of imbecility, and about my not being an imitator, etc. [5]
I had rather dreaded this, for Sir David is a man of profoundest science, and I feared it would be impossible to understand his explanations of the mechanism, etc. [14]
Grimy sailors came down out of the foretop placidly announcing themselves as "a handful of private citizens of America, traveling simply for recreation and unostentatiously," etc. [5]
There was no doubt as to the validity of the transfer, for the deed was duly registered au greffe, and it said: "In consideration of one livre turnois," etc. [11]

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