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Sentences starting with family

Family influence deterred the captain from placing this man under arrest, and even Dr. Franklin found trouble, some years after, in bringing about his dismissal from the service. [9]
Family quarrels have something sustaining in them, something of a sense of wrong and even indignation to keep up the spirits. [4]
Family came from Ohio somewhere. [4]
Family is a good thing, but of what use is a crest without the panels on which to paint it? [9]
Family motto: "Don't be dull. [4]
Family portraits. [6]

Sentences ending with family

But wait--how did you come to know so much about this family? [5]
You do not yet know with how sharp a tooth yearning rends the soul of the man whom Fate condemns to live away from his family. [10]
Only one favour would I ask: would the Herr Doctor be so kind as not to ask questions about Schimmel and myself or any member of the honoured Ueberhell family. [10]
He might plead with her in the name of duty, for the sake of her friends, for the good name of the family. [6]
I have shared with her anything I have had since times went wrong with us and our family. [11]
Regards and best wishes to Mrs. Bret and the family. [5]
And these creatures will compare these pins together, and if one is a shade finer than the rest, they will all be thrown on my hands, and I will have to order a new lot to keep peace in the family. [5]
He might be wild and reckless, but he had always been faithful to his art and to his love for his family. [10]
The two men who in the morning had visited the Pastophorium had also followed in the procession with the royal family. [10]
In a little while the waters widened into a lake, which was surrounded by a park, a gift to the city of the Hutchins family. [9]

Short sentences using family

The family went with her. [5]
His family have such pride. [9]
My family very strongly disapproves. [11]
My family won't starve. [10]
He had a numerous family. [9]
She knew of his family. [11]
Had he any family? [4]
Manners and his family. [9]
Heard of your family. [9]
We know the family. [5]

Sentences containing family two or more times

A nicer analysis would detect many alien elements mixed with his individuality, but the family traits predominated over all the external influences, and the personality stood out distinct from the common family qualities. [6]
Many years before, when she was living in a count's family, she had taught the king, as a young prince, to churn, and on the strength of this a petition was drawn up for her by my family. [10]
The Hawkins family were settled there, and had a hard enough struggle with poverty and the necessity of keeping up appearances in accord with their own family pride and the large expectations they secretly cherished of a fortune in the Knobs of East Tennessee. [5]
This paragraph seemed to stand out in the paper as an almost immodest exposure of family life, read furtively at first, and not talked of, and yet every member of the family was conscious of an increase in the family importance. [4]
To be condemned to live as the average European family lives would make life a pretty heavy burden to the average American family. [5]
They have drawing-rooms to foster social pretence, and they have dining-rooms and bedrooms; but they have no room where the family can all come together and feel the sweetness of being a family. [8]
I think that this declaration to improve this orthography of ours is our family cancer, and I wish we could reconcile ourselves to have it cut out and let the family cancer go. [5]
And here were these freemen assembled in the early morning to work on their lord the bishop's road three days each--gratis; every head of a family, and every son of a family, three days each, gratis, and a day or so added for their servants. [5]
Besides the family, there were eight borzoi kennelmen and more than forty borzois, so that, with the borzois on the leash belonging to members of the family, there were about a hundred and thirty dogs and twenty horsemen. [2]
The Consul was surprised when he heard it, and said he knew the young fellow's family very well, and that they were an old and highly respectable family and worth a hundred and fifty thousand dollars! [5]

More example sentences with the word family in them

If the young Zouave of the family looks smart in his new uniform, its respectable head is content, though he himself grow seedy as a caraway-umbel late in the season. [6]
And what is your whole human family but a parenthesis in a single page of my history? [6]
Why, nobody but your own family, of course. [6]
Why, Burlingame, as your family physician, I shouldn't hesitate even to present my account against your estate if, in a tussle with the devil, he got you out of my hands. [11]
I am helping your family congratulate themselves, and am your friend as always. [5]
A party of young Puan bucks had decreed it to be their pleasure to encamp in Mr. Brady's yard, to peer through the shutters into Mr. Brady's house, to enjoy themselves by annoying Mr. Brady's family and others as much as possible. [9]
These were adventurous young gentlemen of family, some of them lawyers and some of them late officers in the Continental army who had been rewarded with grants of land. [9]
More than one young gentleman of family had been known to ride through the Place du Vier Prison, hoping to get sight of her, and to offer the view of a suggestively empty pillion behind him. [11]
My family knows you, I laik to have you hear de truth. [9]
If I ask you what b-o-w spells you can't tell me unless you know which b-o-w I mean, and it is the same with r-o-w, b-o-r-e, and the whole family of words which were born out of lawful wedlock and don't know their own origin. [5]
You are strong, you are brave, and I come of a family that have been strong and brave. [11]
I grieve with you and with your family, dear Lady Stanley, it is all I can do; but that I do out of my heart. [5]
Moody Family, of York, Me., 8,10. [6]
I might have yielded to one of them but for family reasons. [4]
Night caught us yesterday where we had to take quarters in a peasant's house which was occupied by the family and a lot of cows and calves--also several rabbits.--[His word for fleas. [5]
He found a yellow envelope lying on his rickety table, and recognized that it was of a family sacred to the transmission of telegrams. [5]
During those 1500 years, Satan's influence was worth very nearly a hundred times as much to the business as was the influence of all the rest of the Holy Family put together. [5]
For an entire year the suffering Fisher family remained quiet--even satisfied, after a fashion. [5]
I arrived at Wye Island in season to dine with the good judge and his family, and there I made over to his charge the property of Patty and her mother. [9]
Judge Hawkins had written and asked Clay to return home and consult with him upon family affairs. [5]
The family physician would not leave the house. [4]
After that he would have nothing more to do with the family estates. [10]
I suppose he would have called up his family, waked the drum-corps, sent for the Prefect of Police, put on the alert the 'sergents de ville,' ordered under arms a regiment of the Imperial Guards, and made it unpleasant for the Man. [4]
I think we worship wealth a good deal, and we worship family a good deal, but if any one presumes too much upon either, he is likely to come to grief. [4]
It made short work of the experimenter--and of his family, too, if he murdered somebody who belonged up among the ornamental ranks. [5]
Was it not wonderful that for more than thirty years, over a generation, the choicest portion of them had remained in one family, untouched, as if, separated for some great use! [5]
But I come without my family, and with no fell purposes. [11]
John prayed, but without feeling any worse, and then went desperately into the house, and told the family that he was in an anxious state of mind. [4]
It was not without astonishment that the rest of the Holt family beheld them returning together as the gongs were sounding for luncheon. [9]
Amasis laughed heartily with his friends at Gyges' artifice, allowed the young heroes to mix freely with his family, and behaved towards them himself as a jovial father towards his merry sons. [10]
The elephant-hunter's enthusiasm will waste away little by little, and his zeal will perish at last if he plod around a month without finding a member of that noble family to assassinate. [5]
I think he will not be out of place in a family consultation; is it not so, Prince? [2]
A young man will catch the whole family with this flaming message, but where is that sentiment that once set the maiden heart in a flutter? [4]
He has a wife and a nice little family in Jersey. [4]
When the scoundrel whom she had called husband, and for whom her contempt had become too deep for hate, sneeringly assailed her family as having been fed from generation to generation from the corn-bin of the Museum, she bit her lips. [10]
The whole family, whom he had formerly judged severely, now seemed to him to consist of excellent, simple, and kindly people. [2]
And so the whole family was as happy as birds, and nobody could be gratefuler and lovinger than what they was to Tom Sawyer; and the same to me, though I hadn't done nothing. [5]
There is a whole family connection in New England, and that a very famous one, to many of whose members, in different generations, all the products of the dairy are the subjects of a congenital antipathy. [6]
Among the guests who thronged to her house there was no lack of elderly gentlemen who would gladly have married the vivacious, unusual woman, who was so nearly connected with the royal family, and lived in such luxurious style. [10]
The steadfast man, who sat so silently with frowning brow among his family, sometimes attacking the viands on his plate, then leaving them untouched, did not look like one who yields to idle whims. [10]
There were those who said that there were millions of family money back of Jack, and that he had recently come in for something handsome. [4]
But the person who had hitherto instructed her--the family chaplain--was dead. [10]
Once in a while you will come on a house where you will find a family of readers and almost no library. [6]
The wing in which the Regent resided, and which we have already visited, lay away from the river; while the part of the building which was used by the royal family commanded the Nile. [10]
In the cares which Mrs. March shared with her husband that night she was supported partly by principle, but mainly by the potent excitement which bewildered Conrad's family and took all reality from what had happened. [8]
The letter itself, which for the first time broke the guarded seclusion of Irving's heart, is evidence of the tender confidence that existed between him and this family. [4]
The Brahmin blood which came from his grandfather as well as from his mother, a direct descendant of the old Flynt family, well known by the famous tutor, Henry Flynt, (see Cat. [6]
It was early when-he arrived--too early to arouse the family. [5]
Nine years later, when he was twenty-one, I came upon the family in one of the lake towns of New York, and the mother told me about an adventure which her son had been having. [5]
But he softened when he looked at the accounts and saw that I had actually booked the unparalleled number of thirty-three new subscribers, and had the vegetables to show for it, cordwood, cabbage, beans, and unsalable turnips enough to run the family for two dears! [5]
A little of what Mr. Bolton has weakly given to unworthy people would now establish his family in a sort of comfort, and relieve Ruth of the excessive toil for which she inherited no adequate physical vigor. [5]
You know of what consequence our family is in Corinth, and when I think of that, then to be sure--" "Then to be sure? [10]
The whole family were poorly and cheaply dressed; and the clothing, although neat and clean, showed many evidences of having seen long service. [5]
The Sellers family were just starting to dinner when Washington burst upon them with his surprise. [5]
Once his family were his sole thought, but now he goes about thinking of his fish-hooks all the time. [5]
Mahmoud's whole family were comfortably planted around him. [5]
His own quarters were comfortable enough, but when the weather was cold, the family were sure to have his company--nothing could keep him out of the house. [5]
All the family were anxious to get home--Mark Twain most anxious of all. [5]
Honora, when she went to town for the day, generally could be sure of finding some one, at least, of the Holt family at home at luncheon time. [9]
The whole family went to the theatre a good deal, and enjoyed themselves together in their desultory explorations of the city. [8]
They are all well in this family, and we all send love. [5]
I was warmly welcomed by old friends and by the Governor and his family, and I soon set up an establishment of my own in Williamsburg, joining with a merchant there in business, while my land was worked by a neighbouring planter. [11]
In the first week of October Shelley and family went to Warwick, then to Edinburgh, arriving there about the middle of the month. [5]
This is a wedge, going to the centre, of the general shape of a slice of apple-pie in a large and not opulent family. [6]
One evening, as we went home in an open street-car together, after such a departure, Tom blurted out:--"Hugh, I believe I care for your family as much as for my own. [9]
Near the spot we sailed from, the Holy Family dwelt when they sojourned in Egypt till Herod should complete his slaughter of the innocents. [5]
One was that we did not honor a family, or a dynasty, or a title, but a character; and the other was that we did not exalt any living man, but simply the office of President. [4]
She was what we called in those days "intellectual," and had gone in for kindergartens, and after her marriage she turned out to be excessively domestic; practising her theories, with entire success, upon a family that showed a tendency to increase at an alarming rate. [9]
This is the way to live; this is like the Swiss Family Robinson, and all the rest of my delightful acquaintances in romance. [4]
There it all was: not a word about radical morality or immorality; but the tradition of Family, the Commons, Master of the Hounds! [11]
But what it was, no one could tell: it might be some caprice of a sick and half-crazy man, or it might relate to public affairs, or possibly to family concerns. [2]
And meanwhile she was worn out with anxiety for her family, and with increasing fatigue. [10]
But this he was unable to do, for he received tidings that the French had unexpectedly advanced, and had barely time to remove his own family and valuables from his estate. [2]
Accustomed as Janet was to these frequent arraignments of her father's inefficiency, it was gradually borne in upon her now--despite a preoccupation with her own fate--that the affair thus plaintively voiced by her mother was in effect a family crisis of the first magnitude. [9]
The young Doctor was to take the two Annexes in a wagon, and the Tutor was to drive Number Five in a good old-fashioned chaise drawn by a well-conducted family horse. [6]
Sir Thomas Gorges was the builder of Longford Castle, now the seat of the Earl of Radnor, whose family name is Bouverie. [6]
The Colonel's lady was taken in charge by a daughter of that hospitable family to which we had been commended by its head, and I proceeded to inquire for wounded officers at the various temporary hospitals. [6]
The Clemens family was still at Quarry Farm at the end of August, and one afternoon there occurred a startling incident which Mark Twain thought worth setting down in practically duplicate letters to Howells and to Dr. John Brown. [5]
And yet it was remembered that he had been a frank, open-hearted friend, kind to his family, and generous in contrast with some of his close-fisted contemporaries. [4]
At noon everything was ready for her departure, and she would not be withheld from eating in the dining-room with the family. [10]
That hired man was probably regarded with suspicion by the family to the end of his days, and if he had been accused of robbing, they would have believed him guilty. [4]
His father's name was Porosehasp, his mother's Dogdo, and his family boasted of royal descent. [10]
How fond he was of his family, and how charitable about Congress! [4]
But his purpose was not fulfilled, for suddenly, flaming with passionate wrath, she thrust the purse aside, groaning: "Not an obol of the accursed destruction of souls shall come back to Hanno, nor even into the family store. [10]
And yet it was not altogether like home, either, because so many members of the family were away. [5]
Tall Maude Catherwood was most imposing as Rebecca; and her brother George made a towering Friar Tuck, Even little fifteen-year-old Spencer Catherwood, the contradiction of the family, was there. [9]
In Bremen I was most cordially received in the family of Mohr, a member of my corps, in whose circle I spent some delightful hours, and also an evening never to be forgotten in the famous old Rathskeller. [10]
To him life was less a problem than an experiment, and this last act, this nameless repudiation of the laws of family life, was like the sign of a chemist's activity. [11]
The new-comer's name was Karnis and he was the head of a family of wandering singers who had arrived in Alexandria only the day before from Rome. [10]
The ingenious Greek was honored by receiving the king's hand to kiss, his expenses were reimbursed by a magnificent present, and he was urged to take a daughter of some noble Persian family in marriage. [10]
Last week I was going down with the family to Budapest to lecture, and to make a speech at a banquet. [5]
This ingenious plan was frowned on by the whole family, who said they did not want to be waked up every morning by an explosion. [4]
The general confusion was distracting; as the sun rose, the anguish, physical and mental, of the whole family greatly increased, and by noon had reached an appalling pitch. [10]
Now Mrs. Northcutt was Chester's sister, a woman who in addition to other qualities possessed the only sense of humor in the family. [9]
While the coffin was being carried in, 'Pleyel's Hymn' was rendered on the organ by request of the family of the deceased. [6]
His father's family was at this time living in the house No. [6]
The momentous day was at hand--a day that promised to make or mar the fortunes of Hawkins family for all time. [5]
Her family, indeed, was an old one on the island, and was prominent long before the building of the stone bridge on Canal Street over the outlet of Collect Pond. [4]
Standing beside him was a proud father who had dragged his son across two counties in a farm wagon, and who was to return on the morrow to enter this event in the family Bible. [9]
Cousin Eleanor Hanbury was a person, or personage, who took a deep and abiding interest in her fellow-beings, and the old clothes of the Hanbury family went unerringly to the needy whose figures most resembled those of the original owners. [9]

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