Use expedition in a sentence
Sentences starting with expedition
- Expedition No. [5]
Sentences ending with expedition
- Smith was a young man of about twenty-eight, vain and no doubt somewhat "bumptious," and it is easy to believe that Wingfield and the others who felt his superior force and realized his experience, honestly suspected him of designs against the expedition. [4]
- And what do you think of the Boulogne expedition? [2]
- They could only whine out execrations on the man who had dared something; who, if he had succeeded, would have been hailed as the great leader of a Revolution, not the scorned and humiliated captain of a filibustering expedition. [11]
- A total of two men murdered on the expedition. [5]
- Then they began to upbraid me for bringing them upon this fatal expedition. [5]
- It was easy to see that that was the grand feature of the expedition. [5]
- Monsieur, you tink this ver' silly thing--this expedition. [9]
- Dr. Tredway, by the way, was a bachelor, and had been Austen's companion on many a boisterous expedition. [9]
- We went with the expedition. [11]
- But he was suddenly silent, for he was astonished to see that she had not come from her room, but, as her dress betrayed, from some long expedition. [10]
Short sentences using expedition
- During the Novara Expedition (23. [1]
Sentences containing expedition two or more times
- In precaution against such a conjuncture, the government had, a few days before, commenced preparing an expedition as well adapted as might be to relieve Fort Sumter, which expedition was intended to be ultimately used, or not, according to circumstances. [7]
More example sentences with the word expedition in them
- The modest fellow would have liked fame thrust upon him for some worthy achievement; it might be for a book, or for the skillful management of some great newspaper, or for some daring expedition like that of Lt. Strain or Dr. Kane. [5]
- 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]
- Being deeply engaged with the details of the expedition to the Soudan, David had not gone to the Palace; and he was unaware of the turn which things had taken. [11]
- The expedition of Winthrop was scattered by a storm, and reached Salem with the loss of threescore dead and many sick, to find as many of the colony dead, and all disconsolate. [4]
- I hope you will all do your duty bravely and promptly, that you may be back in three months to join the main army in the expedition of revenge on the Massagetae. [10]
- If Mr. Percy, who was a volunteer in this expedition, and a man of high character, did send this information, it shows that he sympathized with him, and this is an important piece of testimony to his good character. [4]
- The forces that were gathered by Peter Stuyvesant for the expedition to avenge upon the Swedes the defeat at Fort Casimir, and their appearance on the march, give some notion of the military prowess of the Dutch. [4]
- With so many wealthy corporators money flowed into the treasury, and a great expedition was readily fitted out. [4]
- The word "plague" was used very vaguely, as in the description of the "great sickness" found among the Indians by the expedition of 1622. [3]
- I thought she was over-anxious, and besides, it would disappoint me not to take part in the expedition against the Ethiopians. [10]
- The expedition went up the river to a village called Patowomek, and thence rowed up a little River Quiyough (Acquia Creek? [4]
- Next thing he turns up on that little expedition we took to get Porter to sea again. [9]
- Doltaire had stopped to visit General Montcalm at Montmorenci Falls, on his way back from an expedition to the English country, and had thus himself brought my protection and hurried to his own undoing. [11]
- On the way to the Pastophorium she recalled once more her expedition to the temple and her prayer there. [10]
- I welcomed him to our expedition, and said: "It was fine and brave of you to volunteer, Noel. [5]
- In one expedition to Nansemond, when the Indians refused to trade, Smith fired upon them, and then landed and burned one of their houses; whereupon they submitted and loaded his three boats with corn. [4]
- It is due to Mr. Gridley's memory to mention that the expenses of his sanitary flour sack expedition of fifteen thousand miles, going and returning, were paid in large part if not entirely, out of his own pocket. [5]
- The expedition sent to Jerusalem to seize it got into trouble and could not accomplish the burglary, and so the centre of the mausoleum is vacant now. [5]
- I instructed him to guide himself back by the rope, in case of failure; in case of success, he was to give the rope a series of violent jerks, whereupon the Expedition would go to him at once. [5]
- I instructed him to go to Hospenthal as quickly as possible, and make his grand start from there; to extend his foot expedition as far as the Giesbach fall, and return to me from thence by diligence or mule. [5]
- Chance contrives that though he directs all his efforts to prepare an expedition against England (which would inevitably have ruined him) he never carries out that intention, but unexpectedly falls upon Mack and the Austrians, who surrender without a battle. [2]
- We had followed this ram round and round in a circle all day--a thing which was proven by the discovery that we had watered the Expedition seven times at one and same spring in seven hours. [5]
- The organizing of this expedition was naturally a cause of great excitement among The Teacups. [6]
- On this expedition they sojourned also with the King of Pamaunke. [4]
- On that expedition they murdered a fakeer and twelve beggars. [5]
- On this expedition they found the mouth of the Pamaunck (now York) River. [4]
- What had become, they asked, of the expedition of Citizen General Clark preparing in the North? [9]
- The expedition is, therefore, reduced to two unarmed persons. [4]
- The expedition found there no one of the colony (whether it was fifty or fifteen the writers disagree), nothing but the bones of one man where the plantation had been; the houses were unhurt, but overgrown with weeds, and the fort was defaced. [4]
- I was in the very first act of detailing an Expedition to succor him, when the cord was assailed with a series of such frantic jerks that I could hardly keep hold of it. [5]
- The next day the two went on a long hunting expedition, and the following month Nell Barraway left for Montreal. [11]
- As soon as the rope was tied, the Expedition moved forward with that alacrity which the thirst for vengeance usually inspires. [5]
- She had told the Princess then that she was the daughter of an exiled English gentleman, and was in the care of her aunt, one Mistress Falkingham, while her father was gone on an expedition to Italy. [11]
- This was all the plunder his expedition afforded. [4]
- I was with the Philadelphia Institute expedition in the Bad Lands under Professor Cope, hunting mastodon bones, and I overheard him say, his own self, that any plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hadn't wings and was uncertain was a reptile. [5]
- Hur was telling the newcomer that Moses had gone on a reconnoitring expedition, and Hosea was expressing his regret, because he had important matters to discuss with him. [10]
- He sailed on the New Providence expedition under Commodore Hopkins as first lieutenant of the Alfred, thirty; and he soon discovered that, instead of gaining information, he was obliged to inform others. [9]
- Beside him stood the murderous pilot who was leading in the expedition, the colleague of Olivier Delagarde. [11]
- After breakfast in the morning, the expedition moved on. [5]
- We next find the Major, on the 21st July, 1759, piloting the expedition sent to Deschambault to seize, as prisoners, the Quebec ladies who had taken refuge there during the bombardment--"Mesdames Duchesnay and Decharnay; Mlle. [11]
- His expedition reached the James in August. [4]
- The nature of the expedition was not known in Quebec, for the sailors were not engaged till the eve of starting, and Perrot's men were ready at his bidding without why or wherefore. [11]
- Perfect day for the expedition succeeds perfect day, boatload after boatload sails away from the little marina at the base of the cliff, which we follow with eves of desire, but--to-morrow will do as well. [4]
- He must have the entire responsibility of the expedition which he commanded; for nothing except an important duty that no one would help him bear, gave promise of making him forget everything that usually engrossed his attention, and thus his new object of longing. [10]
- It was on the day of Smith's return from captivity: and that captivity lasted about four weeks if the return was January 8th, for he started on the expedition December 10th. [4]
- But Nahoumhe laid the blame on others, and the Saadat took his word for it, and, instead of a war, there came this expedition of his own. [11]
- The expedition crossed the bay at "Smith's Isles," named after the Captain, touched at Cape Charles, and coasted along the eastern shore. [4]
- The sight of the battlefield had seemed unendurable to the gentle nature of Middendorf he had formed a poetical idea of the campaign as an expedition against the hereditary foe. [10]
- The fury of the baffled Expedition exceeded all bounds. [5]
- All officers of the army and navy to whom this order may be exhibited will aid by every means in their power the expedition under the command of Colonel Harvey Brown, supplying him with men and material, and co-operating with him as he may desire. [7]
- It was said that the expedition, owing to difficulties, had not thoroughly explored a part of the country lying about the head-waters, some four thousand miles from the mouth of the river. [5]
- It was not that I had gone a little lame from a hurt got on the expedition with the governor, but my whole life seemed suddenly lamed. [11]
- It would appear that he declined to go with an expedition of four ship which the Virginia company despatched in 1615, and incurred their ill-will by refusing, but he considered himself attached to the western or Plymouth company. [4]
- It was believed that for once Whiteman's presence was unknown in the town and his expedition unsuspected. [5]
- The object of that expedition, as is well known, was to obtain the person of the Earl of Selkirk, in order to bring about the rescue of the unfortunate Americans suffering in British prisons. [9]
- He also pulls teeth, with an ease and expedition hitherto unknown, and is in no want of patients among this open-mouthed crowd. [4]
- And what was still more, Gering had prevailed upon Phips to allow Mr. Leveret's investment in the first expedition to receive a dividend from the second. [11]
- We had a steamboat or two on the Thames, we had steam warships, and the beginnings of a steam commercial marine; I was getting ready to send out an expedition to discover America. [5]
- The forces you speak of will be of no imaginable service if they cannot go forward with a little more expedition. [7]
- There had been some sickness, but the general health of the expedition was excellent. [11]
- The expedition was so far successful that Gilbert took formal possession of Newfoundland for the Queen. [4]
- We sailed from Smyrna, in the wildest spirit of expectancy, for the chief feature, the grand goal of the expedition, was near at hand--we were approaching the Holy Land! [5]
- The expedition, as Smith predicted, was fruitless: the Indians deceived them and refused to trade, and the company got back to Jamestown, half of them sick, all grumbling, and worn out with toil, famine, and discontent. [4]
- Being thus re-enforced, Smith and Scrivener desired to explore the country above the Falls, and got ready an expedition. [4]
- Powhatan did not show himself, but his brother Apachamo, his successor, promised to use his best efforts to bring about a peace, and the expedition returned to Jamestown. [4]
- Besides his old shoes, the crowned monarch charitably gave Newport a little heap of corn, only seven or eight bushels, and with this little result the absurd expedition returned to Jamestown. [4]
- With Percy he set out on an expedition for corn to the Chickahominy, which the insolent Indians, knowing their want, would not supply. [4]
- He was not sent on the expedition, but went of his own motion. [4]
- Another officer was sent on the expedition for which Jim had been preparing, and he made ready to go upon his lonely duty. [11]
- Still do not send a man if in your judgment it will endanger any point you deem important to hold, or will force you to give up or weaken or delay the Chattanooga expedition. [7]
- In order to save coal, as it was impossible to get that fuel at any point to be touched during the expedition, a look-out was kept for a wood-pile. [5]
- He had the qualities fitting him to be an explorer and the leader of an expedition. [4]
- After many vain projects the scheme was commended to several of the nobility, gentry, and merchants, who came into it heartily, and the memorable expedition of 1606 was organized. [4]
- But, instead of pleasure and booty, I gained on this expedition nothing but discomfort and drenching, which resulted in a violent cold. [10]
- I was much pleased when the American Annex came to me one day and told me that she and the English Annex were meditating an expedition, in which they wanted the other Teacups to join. [6]
- Had I any part or lot in devising this mad expedition? [10]
- Leaving the Expedition outside to rest, I quartered myself in the chalet, with Harris, proposing to correct my journals and scientific observations before continuing the ascent. [5]
- Factious quarrels broke out immediately, and the expedition would likely have broken up but for the wise conduct and pious exhortations of Mr. Robert Hunt, the preacher. [4]
- Well, out of our eight, three were selected to attend to all business connected with the expedition. [5]
- A total of one man murdered on this expedition. [5]
- He had charge on the Bear Grass of building the boats for the expedition, and was likewise a prominent member of that august body, the Jacobin Society of Lexington. [9]
- He was determined on an expedition to capture Fort Comfort, which had been abandoned by the great Company, and was now held by a great band of the Shunup Indians. [11]
- To the young officers who were soiling their uniform with the grease of saws, whose only fighting was against fever and water snakes, the news of an expedition into the Vicksburg side of the river was hailed with caps in the air. [9]
- I suppose you're off on another wild expedition. [9]
- And in course of time I followed them, wondering how this incident might affect our morning's expedition. [9]
- At the end of three weeks the expedition emerged from the forest and looked upon the great Unknown World. [5]
- In the opinion of the other scientists of the Expedition, this seemed to indicate that we had attained the extraordinary altitude of two hundred thousand feet above sea-level. [5]
- The ungrateful cause of the expedition himself occupied another corner. [9]
- He was chaplain of the English colony in Paris when Sir Francis Drake was fitting out his expedition to America, and was eager to further it. [4]
- If the Governor of New Jersey shall furnish any new regiments, might not they be put into such an expedition? [7]
- He was thinking of his absent partner, and the probable results of his expedition. [6]
- On the 10th of December Captain Smith departed on his famous expedition up the Chickahominy, during which the alleged Pocahontas episode occurred. [4]
- On the morning of August 29th he returned home from an expedition, carrying a cross-bow in his hand, while a pouch hung over his shoulder. [10]
- The expedition consisted of 198 persons, including the mules; or 205, including the cows. [5]
- In point of numbers and spectacular effect, it was the most imposing expedition that had ever marched from Zermatt. [5]
- If you have not, then I suggest that, with all possible expedition, the Army of the Potomac get ready to attack Lee, and that in the meantime a raid shall, at all hazards, break the railroad at or near Lynchburg. [7]
- And was it not the strangest of fates which had impelled him to join this madcap expedition of this other man I loved, George Rogers Clark? [9]
- General S. is not moving rapidly enough to make the expedition come to anything. [7]
- Mad Anthony[1] is not a man to be caught sleeping, and he has already attended to a little expedition from the Cumberland. [9]
- The governor of New York did not at once engage in an expedition to the Spaniards' country. [11]
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