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Sentences starting with families

Families now are swamped by the printed matter that comes daily upon the center-table. [4]
Families of twenty, or even twenty-five, are not unknown, and, when a man has had more than one wife, it has even exceeded that. [11]
Families fetched their dinners with them from the country, and eat them in the wagons. [5]

Sentences ending with families

There were no works of human hands save a little Temple of Poseidon, an altar of Isis, the large house owned by Pyrrhus, solidly constructed by Alexandrian masons, and a smaller one for the freedman's married sons and their families. [10]
Fifty thousand people who have lost friends, or who have had friends crippled, receive that Fourth of July, when it comes, as a day of mourning for the losses they have sustained in their families. [5]
Scipio's patrician blood was wont to rise in the presence of those whom he deemed outside the pale of good society, and I fear he ushered Mr. Fairbrother to the street with little of that superior manner he used to the first families. [9]
After all, Macrinus was a capable, serviceable officer, and easier to deal with than the Romans of the old noble families. [10]
In this extraordinary war, extraordinary developments have manifested themselves, such as have not been seen in former wars; and among these manifestations nothing has been more remarkable than these fairs for the relief of suffering soldiers and their families. [7]
Both of them very old families. [9]
It isn't made up of refined or meritorious people--professors and litterateurs, ministers and musicians, and their families. [8]
Well, they froze to me for two hours; and at last, when my chin was so tired it couldn't hardly go any more, I had told them more about my family--I mean the Sawyer family--than ever happened to any six Sawyer families. [5]
The first thing to be done is, some years before birth, to advertise for a couple of parents both belonging to long-lived families. [6]
The house was thrown wide open that day, and in its window lounged young men of honored families. [9]

Short sentences using families

Children came to both families. [5]

Sentences containing families two or more times

By this means he is presently able to group these creatures into families and subdivisions of families by nice shadings of differences observable in their characters. [5]
There were seated families, fearfully and wonderfully painted, who by attitude and grouping represented the families of certain great gods. [5]
Does n't your baker, does n't your butcher, speak of the families he supplies as his families? [6]

More example sentences with the word families in them

We offer you your lives; for the sake of your families, do not reject the gift. [5]
Man is infested with internal parasites, sometimes causing fatal effects; and is plagued by external parasites, all of which belong to the same genera or families as those infesting other mammals, and in the case of scabies to the same species. [1]
Hundreds of families whose men were in the army came to be within touch of the War Office and Aldershot, and the capital of the Empire was overrun by intriguers, harmless and otherwise. [11]
The decorous families who were now allying themselves with St. John's did so at the expense of other churches either more radical or less fashionable. [9]
O friends, we who live in peace and plenty amongst our families, how little do we realize the terror and the misery and the dumb heart-aches of those days! [9]
Besides Russian families who had taken refuge here from the fire with their belongings, there were several French soldiers in a variety of clothing. [2]
They proved it when, to stand by their convictions, they put themselves and their families at the mercy of a problematical future; and when, in advanced years, they undertook the gigantic work of compiling so large and profound a German dictionary. [10]
Fifteen of us were of the great city families, and this day, being the first day of the school-term, we were all neatly clad in fine woollen stuffs of Florence or of Flanders make, and colored knitted hose. [10]
Our fathers said we were disgracing our families, and they commanded us to purge ourselves of our lie, and there was no limit to their anger when we continued to say we had spoken true. [5]
In the dining-room we sat together at the end of a large table set aside for bachelors and small families of two or three, and it seemed as though we had all the humorists and story-tellers in that place. [9]
They made their way without difficulty to the seats reserved for the senators' families, and when they had taken their places, the young man replied but briefly to the sympathetic inquiries as to his health which were addressed to him by his acquaintances. [10]
The Dudley mansion was not a mile from the Doctor's; but it never occurred to him to think of walking to see any of his patients' families, if he had any professional object in his visit. [6]
This additional curtailment was most felt by families of small income, whose earners were at the front or away on other government service. [9]
Some says it was about a horse or a cow-- anyway, it was a little matter; the money in it wasn't of no consequence--none in the world--both families was rich. [5]
The Clemens and Warner families were constantly associated, and The Gilded Age, published in 1873, resulted from the friendship of Warner and Mark Twain. [5]
Such, or something very similar, has been the observation made to me lately, whilst I have been from home, by members of some of the ancient East Lancashire families, whose mansions lie on the hilly border-land between the two counties. [14]
It was at Venice, where I was pursuing my studies, and tried my luck at gambling on many a merry evening with other sons of mercantile families from Nuremberg, Augsburg, and Cologne. [10]
The Honourable Hilary Vane comes from one of the oldest Puritan families in the State, the Vanes of Camden Street--' Here's another. [9]
There was the usual division of the scholars into a first and second set, according to the social position, mainly depending upon the fortune, of the families to which they belonged. [6]
It was an unobtrusive, almost secret aid which she rendered to the Gentile families of the village. [13]
Nobody to go to, nobody that k'yers for him--and all of us is so put to it for to get along and families so large. [5]
The loyal families to whose houses he now went were mostly Southerners, in sentiment against forced auctions. [9]
Minor officials ascended to their several positions through well-earned promotions, and not by a jump from gin-mills or the needy families and friends of members of parliament. [5]
Certain fishes, belonging to several families, make nests, and some of them take care of their young when hatched. [1]
Eliphalet sat next to Miss Belle, and heard the private history of many old families, which he cherished for future use. [9]
Downing, has communicated to me facts which seem to prove that this does occur in certain families of short-horn cattle. [1]
Each was expecting to hear of houses overwhelmed and families destroyed; but each came with the story that his own household was safe. [6]
They kennel together, three families in a room, in unimaginable filth and stench; and disease comes, and they die off like flies. [5]
Respectable young men they were, too--of good families, and brought up in the church. [5]
Their duties carry them into the midst of families, and particularly at times when the members of them are suffering from bodily illness. [6]
They talked of their own youth, of families whose houses had been landmarks on the Second Bank. [9]
Staid citizens with their families occupied the benches, groups were chatting under the spreading linden-tree at the north entrance, and young maidens in white muslin promenaded, looking seaward, as was the wont of Puritan maidens, watching a receding or coming Mayflower. [4]
In many of the two-story Rockland families, and in those favored households of the neighboring villages whose members had been invited to the great party, there was a very general excitement among the younger people on the morning after the great event. [6]
But something of the same fever in a different form reaches a good many non-combatants, who have no thought of losing a drop of precious blood belonging to themselves or their families. [6]
Whole families of the Rostovs' and Bolkonskis' relations sometimes came to Bald Hills with sixteen horses and dozens of servants and stayed for months. [2]
In other words, the millionocracy, considered in a large way, is not at all an affair of persons and families, but a perpetual fact of money with a variable human element, which a philosopher might leave out of consideration without falling into serious error. [6]
How she coveted the many Union families, whose sons and brothers were at the front, this privilege! [9]
The families of the maids of honor soon began to rebel, because there was nobody at home to keep house. [5]
One naturally associated the little secret with some member of one of these delightful families. [11]
The interior of the imperial tent could not be seen from here, but she could overlook the stand of the noble families, and there she saw her cousins Anne Mirl and Nandl Woller, with Martina Hiltner beside them. [10]
What the Barberighi, the Foscari, the Grimaldi, the Giustiniani and the like, are there, the families of Stromer, Behaim, Im Hoff, Tucher, Kresz, Baumgartner, Pfinzing, Pukheimer, Holzschuher, and so forth, are with us; and the Schoppers certainly do not rank lowest on the list. [10]
Yes; many of the first families live there, and would take them in for the night. [9]
But none of the families was prosperous, many were very poor, and some lived only by Jane Withersteen's beneficence. [13]
Circumstances had carried the families apart socially since the death of her father and his brother, but they were on the most friendly terms, and the ties of blood were not in any way weakened. [4]
This was at the extreme southern end, and here some thirty Gentile families lived in huts and shacks and log-cabins and several dilapidated cottages. [13]
The Terror suspected the daughter of one of these families of sending certain anonymous articles of not dissimilar character to the one she had just received. [6]
Iras had ordered the commander of the Mellakes, or youths, a body-guard composed of the sons of aristocratic Macedonian families, to expel the troublesome creatures, and it diverted the thoughts of these devoted soldiers of the Queen to strike at them with their swords. [10]
But Miss Silence, that was, thought that two families, with all the possible complications which time might bring, would be better in separate establishments. [6]
It was so that these Southern families, who were so bitter against Abolitionists and Yankees, entertained them when they were poor, and nursed them when they were ill. Stephen, for his life, could not utter a word. [9]
I sincerely trust that neither you nor any of your readers, and especially none with families, may ever be placed in such seeming direct proximity to death while obliged to decide the one question I was compelled to, viz. [5]
We thus see that in the different coleopterous families the stridulating organs are wonderfully diversified in position, but not much in structure. [1]
First, she heard that Count Ribadavia's splendid palace would be prepared for her son, that the sons of noble families would be assigned to attend him, and that a body-guard of Spaniards and Germans and a train of his own were at his command. [10]
Opposite to the tent stands were erected for the Council, the patrician families, and the other ladies and gentlemen whom the city had invited to the festival. [10]
I had some talk with him about the war times; but presently the discourse fell upon 'feuds,' for in no part of the South has the vendetta flourished more briskly, or held out longer between warring families, than in this particular region. [5]
Out in the suburbs, at the country houses of the first families, people of distinction slept five and six in a room--many with only a quilt between body and matting. [9]
Thus the bias strengthens with each generation, until, as we find, families grow to have habitually more sons than daughters. [1]
The Macedonian families stand by each other. [10]
Behind them, on spirited stallions, rode the wedding marshals, members of royal families, in superb costumes with bouquets of flowers on their shoulders. [10]
He was the son of a Bohemian baron, and his mother, who was dead, had been of one of the noblest families of Hungary. [10]
They were in some sort comparable with the families belonging to the Signoria at Venice, from whom, in the same way, the great council was chosen. [10]
The habit in some families for the members of it to show each other's letters is a most disenchanting one. [4]
But he nodded slightly, and answered: "We members of patrician families cling to old customs; each wants to keep his individuality, as he would share or exchange his escutcheon with no one. [10]
Others thought it should be applied for the relief of the families of soldiers who had fallen in the war. [6]
Here, in a shady grove of mulberry and locust, two hundred families were spread out at their ease. [9]
These opposite principles separated friends, estranged families long united in love, and made themselves felt even in the Schmidt school during the short time that we continued to go there. [10]
Crotch for having sent me many prepared specimens of various beetles belonging to these three families and to others, as well as for valuable information. [1]
Myrtle's only desire seemed to be to labor in some way to help the soldiers and their families. [6]
But no; you see I was an unknown person, among a cruelly oppressed and suspicious people, a people always accustomed to having advantage taken of their helplessness, and never expecting just or kind treatment from any but their own families and very closest intimates. [5]
Among the other scions of royal families were the hereditary Prince Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt and his brother Henry. [10]
Anson Burlingame, U. S. Minister to China, and Gen. Van Valkenburgh, Minister to Japan, with their families and suites, have just arrived here en route. [5]
However, as a rule her conversation was made up of racy tales about the privacies of the chief families of the town (for she went harvesting among their kitchens every time she came to the village), and Tom enjoyed this. [5]
Half a dozen rich French families elect the legislature. [5]
It is a residence admirably adapted to refined families who relish the beauties of Nature and the charms of society. [6]
Wentworth Langdon, Esq., represented a certain intermediate condition of life not at all infrequent in our old families. [6]
I could not remember that there was much furniture in the room when I went to bed, but the place was alive with it now --especially chairs--chairs everywhere --had a couple of families moved in, in the mean time? [5]
I know a regular village of families here in the house, but I never have time to call on them. [5]
In Missouri a recognized superiority attached to any person who hailed from Old Virginia; and this superiority was exalted to supremacy when a person of such nativity could also prove descent from the First Families of that great commonwealth. [5]
He goes on publishing the book and as many of his confederates as choose to go into the conspiracy do so, and they rear families in affluence. [5]
It is also probable that the increased fertility of civilised nations would become, as with our domestic animals, an inherited character: it is at least known that with mankind a tendency to produce twins runs in families. [1]
Each of them presses to the front in battle, and they have no longing to return home and to their families. [10]
They would despair, possibly resign to go and save their families somehow, or die with them. [7]
We transformed the poor creatures into a motionless, miserable mass, and just now they were cleaving the air with their strong wings, proclaiming by proud, glad cries to their families among the reeds their approach with an abundant store of prey. [10]
All of these people stared at me, talked about me, ran into the huts and fetched out their families to gape at me; but nobody ever noticed that other fellow, except to make him humble salutation and get no response for their pains. [5]
He kept the peasant families together in the largest groups possible, not allowing the family groups to divide into separate households. [2]
And you will pardon me for saying that we are accustomed to speak of some persons and families abroad which have the highest rank as being thoroughly bad blood. [4]
Our mothers cried over us and begged us to give back our bribe and get back our honest names and save our families from shame, and come out and honorably confess. [5]
The McAlerys and other older families who had not decayed with the neighbourhood were rapidly deserting it, moving out to the new residence district known as "the Heights. [9]
And suddenly the order went forth for the men to draw up in front of it by companies, with the families of the emigrants behind them. [9]
A Romany tent or a Romany camp, with its families, was the whole territory of their enterprise, designs and patriotism. [11]
He belongs to one of the richest families in Sardis, and only ran away for fear of the powerful satrap Oroetes, with whom he had had a quarrel. [10]
For the friends of Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary were for the most part rich, and belonged, as did they, to the older families of the city. [9]
This was one of those families where illness was hardly looked for among the possibilities of life. [6]
The vast bulk of the national worship is lavished upon Shiva and Vishnu and their families. [5]
The red doublets of the fifty Gentlemen Pensioners--all men of noble families proud to do this humble yet distinguished service--with battle-axes, on either side of her, seemed to Lempriere on the instant like an army with banners threatening him. [11]
The eldest son of one of the richest families in the city, a youth of nineteen, wished to bind himself for life--and to a foreigner--a total stranger. [10]
There was enough of it for the ample support of their six hundred men and their families, too. [5]
The successive development of inherited bodily aspects and habitudes is well known to all who have lived long enough to see families grow up under their own eyes. [6]
When the cry of fire had been first raised, Pentaur was sitting in earnest conversation with the high-priest; he had learned that he was not the son of a gardener, but a descendant of one of the noblest families in the land. [10]
But the moths of certain families, such as the Zygaenidae, several Sphingidae, Uraniidae, some Arctiidae and Saturniidae, fly about during the day or early evening, and many of these are extremely beautiful, being far brighter coloured than the strictly nocturnal kinds. [1]
All the nobles of Britain, with their families, attended divine service morning and night daily, in their private chapels, and even the worst of them had family worship five or six times a day besides. [5]

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