Use excellent in a sentence
Sentences starting with excellent
- Excellent couriers are somewhat rare; if the reader is about to travel, he will find it to his advantage to make a note of this one. [5]
- Excellent drawing is seen in illustrations for books and magazines, in the satirical and comic publications, even in the advertisements and theatrical posters. [4]
- Excellent in cases of sudden syncope or fainting, such as sometimes require the opening of windows, the dashing on of cold water, the cutting of stays, perhaps, with a scene of more or less tumultuous perturbation and afflux of clamorous womanhood. [6]
Sentences ending with excellent
- Resenting therefore the tone he had assumed, I took occasion not only to reiterate my previously expressed opinion somewhat more aggressively, but also went on to insinuate that he was himself distinctly lacking in any real appreciation of what was excellent. [4]
- There was water, there was good air, and for purposes of drill--or defence--it was excellent. [11]
- And out of them I hired one who had been valet to the young Lord Rereby, and whose recommendation was excellent. [9]
- In spite of the torrents of rain and the gale, the invalid's health had been excellent. [10]
- Nevertheless they will take it in corners; and are so ignorant therein, that that which in England is not saleable, doth passe here among them for most excellent. [4]
- There had been some sickness, but the general health of the expedition was excellent. [11]
- Phanes' arrangements had proved excellent. [10]
- You will find it excellent. [5]
- The preached word is well attended, there is a flourishing temperance society, and the schools are excellent. [6]
- Mrs. Ross laid in our wood, wine and servants for us, and they are excellent. [5]
Short sentences using excellent
- They are excellent solvents. [9]
- An excellent observer, Rengger (7. [1]
- That excellent observer, Hearne (22. [1]
- An excellent clue, excellent. [5]
- Boulter was an excellent servant. [11]
- He was an excellent reporter. [5]
- I know your excellent heart. [2]
- Everything was excellent. [2]
- Excellent! [2]
More example sentences with the word excellent in them
- But now--what have you to say of this noble liquor, excellent Gagabu? [10]
- He was a worthy, excellent man before the craze for liberty turned people's heads. [10]
- It occasioned a world of merriment, and was taken in excellent part. [4]
- 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]
- The physician noticed, with warm sympathy, how deeply this mysterious expectation had influenced her excitable nature, ever torn by varying emotions, and the excellent man was ready to aid her as a friend and intercessor. [10]
- The worthy man with the smooth face, firmly-closed lips, and long nose, which offered an excellent straight line to its owner's burin, sat on a throne in the costume of a Roman general, while Vulcan and Bacchus, Minerva and Poinona, offered him gifts. [10]
- I will begin with a few sentences from the excellent little local guide-book of Mr. Satya Chandra Mukerji. [5]
- He commissioned Anselmus Winckler, an excellent notary, and formerly his most intimate school friend, to close the apothecary shop and to sell privately whatever it contained. [10]
- The excellent gentleman whom I had the pleasure of setting right in a trifling matter a few weeks ago believes in the frequent occurrence of miracles at the present day. [6]
- The whole family, whom he had formerly judged severely, now seemed to him to consist of excellent, simple, and kindly people. [2]
- The excellent physician who took charge of my case said positively that my lungs were sound, and the attack was due to the bursting of a blood-vessel. [10]
- Mr. Buxton, however, who had excellent means of observation (11. [1]
- It appears doubtful whether such colours often serve as a protection; but that we may easily err on this head, will be admitted by every one who reads Mr. Wallace's excellent essay on this subject. [1]
- Our own bed where we spread our blankets was excellent in one respect,--there was no danger of tumbling out of it. [4]
- In the town where she lived was a lady of honorable condition, somewhat past middle age, who was possessed of pretty ample means, of cultivated tastes, of excellent principles, of exemplary character, and of more than common accomplishments. [6]
- But this is what we'll do: I have a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince Dolgorukov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now Kutuzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. [2]
- When the Lady Wendula, his master's mother, learned what an excellent reputation Biberli had gained as a schoolmaster, she persuaded her husband to send him as esquire with their sickly son. [10]
- At one farmhouse we got some large peaches of excellent flavor. [5]
- But how can we feel sure that an old dog with an excellent memory and some power of imagination, as shewn by his dreams, never reflects on his past pleasures or pains in the chase? [1]
- As soon as we came out upon the southern slope we found great open spaces, covered with succulent grass, and giving excellent pasturage to cattle. [4]
- Besides, the Ems waters and the excellent advice of the physician to whose care she intrusted herself exerted a beneficial influence upon her ailment. [10]
- The old head-master was suddenly retired, and one of the best educators summoned in his place man who quickly succeeded in making the decaying Kottbus School one of the most excellent in all Prussia. [10]
- The chief mate was an excellent officer--a self-possessed, resolute, fine, all-round man. [5]
- And it so warmed me toward Mr. Brown of St. Louis that I said that if ever I visited that city again, I would seek out that excellent man and kiss the hem of his garment if it was a new one. [5]
- In the second volume, the author gives us an ample supply of excellent brown bread; in his third, only such a portion as gives substance, like the crumbs of bread in a well-made, not too rich, plum-pudding. [14]
- The young man's vivid imagination and excellent memory recapitulated every word the prelate had uttered. [10]
- The scenes were very fine, the boxes carved and gilded in excellent good taste, and both pit and gallery commodious. [9]
- I know a very excellent person who has had trials, and is greatly interested in religious conversation. [6]
- And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. [6]
- I brought the troops notwithstanding, and yet there was Union feeling enough left to elect a Legislature the next autumn, which in turn elected a very excellent Union United States senator! [7]
- And I have told her about Annie's excellent house-keeping, also about the great Bacon conflict; (I told you it was a hundred to one that neither Livy nor the European powers had heard of that desolating struggle. [5]
- Even insects play together, as has been described by that excellent observer, P. Huber (7. [1]
- He instantly expressed to the Ratisbon gentlemen his desire to try the gagliarde himself to such excellent music, and at a sign from the master of ceremonies the dance stopped. [10]
- I presented it to that excellent institution. [5]
- It is gratifying to me to reflect that we traveled in considerable style; we went in the Pioneer coach, and my friend took all his baggage with him, consisting of two excellent silk handkerchiefs and a daguerreotype of his grandmother. [5]
- He always seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality I value most in people. [2]
- In my desire to look like that excellent character I have dressed for the character; I have been playing a part. [5]
- We are indebted to Herr Dr. Walther, in Alexandria, for an excellent photograph of this remarkable piece of sculpture. [10]
- It is time to go to the opera, for the curtain rises at half-past six, or to the beer-gardens, where delicious music marks, but does not interrupt, the flow of excellent beer. [4]
- Our army reported to be in excellent condition. [7]
- I have, nevertheless, thought it just to our excellent minister in Mexico and respectful to the Government of that republic to lay the treaties before the Senate, together with the correspondence which has occurred in relation to them. [7]
- To thy fellow-countrymen thou shalt preach the gospel of the New World, that here, here in our America, is the home of man; that here is the promise of a new and more excellent social state than history has recorded. [6]
- But my point--is this,--I see so clearly, now that it is too late, that two excellent persons may demoralize each other if they are ill-mated. [9]
- I cannot but think that the White Mountains are cheapened a little by the facilities of travel and the multiplication of excellent places of entertainment. [4]
- I told him they were an excellent sort, "The Champion of England. [4]
- What excellent order they kept about that vast depot! [5]
- At either of these places you can get an excellent meal--no, I mean you can go there and see other people get it. [5]
- Whole armies of these excellent beings can be spared from our midst and our polls; they will find a delicious climate and a green, kind-hearted people. [5]
- The voice was the voice of President North; the language was an excellent imitation of that used by Cicero and Julius Caesar. [4]
- I next boiled the thermometer, and got a most excellent result; the mercury went up to about 200 degrees Fahrenheit. [5]
- Wood gives in the 'Student' (April 1870, p. 116) an excellent account of the attitude and habits of this bird during its courtship. [1]
- The management of the school was henceforward in the hands of a man of character, while the extensive knowledge and the excellent method of a well-trained scholar had been obtained for the educational department. [10]
- And where are the millions which this excellent economist saves from his personal expenses? [10]
- Mr. Cooke and the Four, in addition to other accomplishments, possessed excellent voices, and Mr. Drew sang a bass which added much to the melody. [9]
- So stick to the excellent Blue Pike wine and say no more about it! [10]
- Though she received the communion at his hands, with my sisters, she preferred the sermons of the regimental chaplain, Bollert, and later those of the excellent Sydow. [10]
- I went with the American Minister and took dinner this evening with the King's Grand Chamberlain, who is related to the royal family, and although darker than a mulatto, he has an excellent English education and in manners is an accomplished gentleman. [5]
- Including Doctor Parkhurst, that strong and brave and excellent citizen, but superficially educated. [5]
- His interference, in that particular instance, might have been an excellent thing, but to permit it would have been to establish a most pernicious precedent. [5]
- I have said that nature has so shaped our mountains as to furnish most excellent facilities for the working of our mines. [5]
- The excuse was that he had not time to become an athlete, any more than he had time to spend three years in the discipline of the regular army, which was in itself an excellent thing. [4]
- Yet the dish that finally sent us back to our ordinary and excellent way of living is one for which I have no name. [4]
- The countess reported that after her friend's father had been taken back to the watch-tower a few hours before, she had found him in excellent spirits. [10]
- A better decoy than he cannot be imagined, and besides he is nimble and an excellent horseman. [10]
- They laughed and talked with each other in excellent spirits; and one varlet near the coffin, who had slipped off his mask, winked at me repeatedly, as if to inform me that it was not his funeral. [4]
- To-morrow I will take Vaudreuil's place, put your father in Bigot's, your brother in Ramesay's--they are both perfect and capable; I will strengthen the excellent Montcalm's hands in every way, will inspire the people, and cause the English to raise this siege. [11]
- He thought of suggestions that Lady Belward had often thrown out; of those many talks with Sir William, excellent friends as they were, in which the baronet hinted at the security he would feel if there was a second family of Belwards. [11]
- This inhaling of steam is an excellent remedy for these severe catarrhs, and a venerable one besides; for in the oldest writings of Hermes we find it prescribed as an application in such cases. [10]
- And in the spring of '73, when the opportunity was suddenly offered to buy a thousand acres of excellent wheat land adjoining, I made the purchase for him while he was at Williamsburg, and upon my own responsibility. [9]
- We give our Southern army,--for we must remember that it is our army, after all, only in a state of mutiny,--we give our Southern army credit for excellent spirit and perseverance in the face of many disadvantages. [6]
- Billy was the son of my manager, John Marshall, and, like his father, had an excellent reputation as a bushman, and, like his mother, was very good-looking. [11]
- A company of soldiers had encamped in front of the tavern, and the wine of Kbakem, which was grown close by, on the eastern declivity of the Libyan range, had an excellent savor. [10]
- It is excellent so far as it goes; but does it go far enough? [7]
- Though some skeptics smiled when told of Berg's merits, it could not be denied that he was a painstaking and brave officer, on excellent terms with his superiors, and a moral young man with a brilliant career before him and an assured position in society. [2]
- There is a sloping, shallow beach, very broad, of fine, hard sand, excellent for driving or for walking, extending unbroken three miles down to Cape May Point, which has hotels and cottages of its own, and lifesaving and signal stations. [4]
- I am to serve you in your art, and yet, if I understood you correctly, you have already found here another excellent model. [10]
- And so we seemed, in our ignorant state; but there were those among us who afterward learned the grim trade; learned to obey like machines; became valuable soldiers; fought all through the war, and came out at the end with excellent records. [5]
- I need not say how suddenly and completely this affectation was laughed out of sight by the coming of the "humorous" writer, whose existence is justified by the excellent service he performed in clearing the tearful atmosphere. [4]
- Presently my father said: "Samuel is a very excellent name. [5]
- Whatever might be said of Sir William Belward he was an excellent host. [11]
- Such hard, excellent roads to drive over are not to be found elsewhere out of Europe. [5]
- He informed Mr Richard, sir, that he couldn't bear the house after what had taken place; that he was wretched in it; and that he looked upon himself as being in a certain kind of way the cause of the occurrence.--A very excellent lodger Sir. [12]
- Only the best reports should reach home from Keilhau, and I had already obtained excellent ones in Berlin. [10]
- See also some remarks, and the drawings of the ears of the Lemuroidea, in Messrs. Murie and Mivart's excellent paper in 'Transactions of the Zoological Society,' vol. [1]
- Roscoe was always received respectfully, and even cordially, among the salmon-fishers of Sunburst, as among the mill-men and river-drivers of Viking: not the less so, because he had an excellent faculty for machinery, and could talk to the people in their own colloquialisms. [11]
- Every one in Ratisbon or at the court who spoke of Sir Wolf Hartschwert called him an excellent fellow. [10]
- While I was questioning them, Clark rifled the wigwam; and presently, the excitable fellow, finding some excellent stores of skins, tea, maple sugar, coffee, and other things, broke out into English expletives. [11]
- They were to put up at the excellent tavern in Winzer, an hour's journey from Ratisbon, and continue the ride from that point. [10]
- The story is pretty enough, but Mr. Jarves' excellent history says the Oahuans were intrenched in Nuuanu Valley; that Kamehameha ousted them, routed them, pursued them up the valley and drove them over the precipice. [5]
- I refer with pleasure to those portions of his report which make allusion to the creditable degree of discipline already attained by our troops and to the excellent sanitary condition of the entire army. [7]
- I have great pleasure in referring to this excellent movement, which gives our liberal profession a chance to show its liberality, and serves to unite us all, the successful and those whom fortune has cast down, in the bonds of a true brotherhood. [3]
- It seemed a pity that lack of funds should have brought this excellent educational venture to an untimely end. [5]
- Up to this period, since my marriage, I have had excellent health. [14]
- The Arbusers were people of consequence in their day, with a certain social prestige; in fact, the excellent ladies were two generations removed from successful mercantile life, which in the remote prospective took on an old-family solidity. [4]
- He has turned out to be an excellent listener. [6]
- Bowman, one of our most excellent oculists, was then consulted. [6]
- Motley spoke at one of the college exhibitions an essay on Goethe so excellent that Mr. Joseph Cogswell sent it to Madam Goethe, who, after reading it, said, 'I wish to see the first book that young man will write. [6]
- We picked up one excellent word--a word worth traveling to New Orleans to get; a nice limber, expressive, handy word--'lagniappe. [5]
- Lajeunesse was leaning on his bellows, laughing, and holding an iron in the spitting fire; Muroc was seated on the edge of the cooling tub; and Duclosse was resting on a bag of his excellent meal. [11]
- True, the recruiting officer sent to Ratisbon, of whom she was thinking, was by no means a more acceptable suitor, but a handsome fellow, a scion of a noble family, and, above all, an excellent dancer. [10]
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