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Sentences starting with foreign

Foreign travel, foreign study, and the importation of works of art (still blindly restricted by the American Congress) were the lessons that began to work a change. [4]
Foreign Republican hirelings, sir," exclaimed the Colonel, standing up. [9]
Foreign magistrates are notoriously indifferent as to affairs in another state than their own. [9]
Foreign intervention, openly invited and industriously instigated by the abettors of the insurrection, became imminent, and has only been prevented by the practice of strict and impartial justice, with the most perfect moderation, in our intercourse with nations. [7]
Foreign merchants fled from the imperilled city. [10]
Foreign officers should come to America to teach our army dress and manners. [9]
Foreign youth steer clear of the gymnasium; its rules are too severe. [5]
Foreign locality, likely. [5]
Foreign Residents. [5]

Sentences ending with foreign

Their world is what they can see, and Naples is distant and almost foreign. [4]
It once seemed to us that, if we ever reached it, we should be contented to abide there, in a place so remote, in a port so picturesque and foreign. [4]
We are at the end of a month's administration, and yet without a policy either domestic or foreign. [7]
She staggered to her feet, and he saw she was beautiful and foreign. [11]
The Persians are fickle and inconstant, lovers of everything new and foreign. [10]
It is indeed expected that the princes shall marry in their own family, the Achaemenidae; but the Persians have an unbounded predilection for everything foreign. [10]

Short sentences using foreign

On foreign countries, I think. [5]

Sentences containing foreign two or more times

His official relations with the Foreign Office were courteous and agreeable, the successive Foreign Ministers during his stay being Count Richberg, Count Mensdorff, and Baron Beust. [6]
These exaggerations ran through the city, arousing indignation; and the correspondents of foreign papers, knowing that readers often like best what is most incredible, had sent the accounts to the provinces and foreign countries. [10]
He notices that the English character is losing its insularity, is more accessible to foreign influences, and is adopting foreign, especially French, modes of living. [4]
All we ask is that foreign authors shall enjoy the same privileges we have under our law, and that foreign nations shall give our authors the privileges of their local copyright laws. [4]
In fact, foreign faces and foreign tongues prevailed in Greenwich Village, but no longer German or even Irish tongues or faces. [8]
And then if Europe chose to go on stealing from us, we would say with noble enthusiasm, "American lawmakers do steal but not from foreign authors--Not from foreign authors! [5]
What duty shall be imposed upon foreign products or foreign manufactures is a question of political economy. [4]

More example sentences with the word foreign in them

Need I tell you that amongst the dancers in the foreign quarter nine out of ten are the daughters of outlawed parents? [10]
It--or they, as you please--bowed with elaborate foreign formality, but the Coopers could not respond immediately; they were paralyzed. [5]
Now I wish you just to consider that he was right about that, and that he had his reasons for saying that England did not look upon our Revolution as a foreign war, but as a civil war fought by Englishmen. [5]
More than a year of trial now shows no loss by it in our foreign relations, none in our home popular sentiment, none in our white military force, no loss by it any how, or anywhere. [7]
And this course would be his own course largely, since he had been appointed to be a force and strength in the Foreign Office which his chief did not supply. [11]
The United American Workers (who were half foreigners by birth) passed resolutions denouncing Henderson for employing foreign pauper labor, and organized more than one strike while the house was building. [4]
And upon my word, if I have to live under foreign rule, I'd as leave have a French whip over me as an English! [11]
He had offers without number to take service in foreign armies, but he was not to be tempted. [11]
He is wholly without hope, and is only thinking of throwing away everything and flying to some foreign land. [5]
To repay them with treachery and desertion was foreign to his nature and, drawing a long breath, he sprang to his feet with the conviction that he had chosen aright. [10]
They will rejoice with me in the new evidences which your proceedings furnish that the magnanimity they are exhibiting is justly estimated by the true friends of freedom and humanity in foreign countries. [7]
Mr. Burlingame went with me all the time, and helped me question the men--throwing away invitations to dinner with the princes and foreign dignitaries, and neglecting all sorts of things to accommodate me. [5]
You mustn't trifle with it, you know, or it may turn to pneumonia," she would go on, deriving much comfort from the utterance of that foreign word, incomprehensible to others as well as to herself. [2]
I was received with a deference which was entirely foreign to my experience by everybody whom I met, so that before I got home I had a much higher opinion of myself than I have ever had before or since. [5]
They did not wish to admit foreign troops within the walls, for during the first siege they had proved far more troublesome than useful, and there was little reason to fear that a city guarded by water, walls and trees would be taken by storm. [10]
At last the wife of a foreign trader cried: "Let him give us the gold, and we'll leave the handsome young chief his bleeding sweetheart. [10]
The question is, Why not work him in the field of foreign literature? [8]
Quis cus-(On the whole, as this quotation was not entirely new, and, being in a foreign language, might not be familiar to all the boarders, I thought I would not finish it. [6]
Besides the soldiers who formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. [2]
Think of our Whitcombs, and our Ainsworths and our Williamses writing themselves down in dilapidated French in foreign hotel registers! [5]
To be passive, when David in Egypt had asked for active interest; to delay, when urgency was important to Claridge Pasha; to speak coldly on Egyptian affairs to his chief, the weak Foreign Secretary, this was the policy he had begun. [11]
The cavalry singers were passing close by: Ah lost, quite lost... is my head so keen, Living in a foreign land. [2]
The shop signs were in foreign tongues; in some streets all Hebrew. [4]
His own books were constantly pirated in Canada, and the rights of foreign authors were not respected in America. [5]
I think pilots were about the only people I ever knew who failed to show, in some degree, embarrassment in the presence of traveling foreign princes. [5]
I suggest that we make the local appointments forthwith, leaving foreign or general ones for ulterior and occasional action. [7]
Another very good way to do, and probably not so expensive as the awning, would be to have four persons of foreign birth carry a sort of canopy over you as you hoed. [4]
I thought it was time to put in a word; for I have lived in foreign parts, and am more or less cosmopolitan. [6]
The French ambassador was there, and a foreign prince of the blood who had of late become a frequent visitor of hers, and many brilliant ladies and gentlemen. [2]
Sometimes, when Mavick was over, a party was made up for the East Side, to see the foreign costumes, the picturesque street markets, the dime museums, and the serious, tragical theatres of the people. [4]
I suppose it was not safe to trust the Parisians in the covert of its shades after nightfall, and no one could tell what foreign fanatics and assassins might do if they were permitted to pass the night so near the imperial residence. [4]
For days he was never near the Foreign Office, and then for days he was there almost continuously; yet there was scarcely a day when he did not see Jasmine. [11]
He said it was in a foreign tongue. [5]
The Clemens home was a sort of general headquarters for literary folk, near and far, and for distinguished foreign visitors of every sort. [5]
But, besides, there was a bookcase with an unusual number of books in it, and there was an open colonial writing-desk, claw-footed, brass-handled, and scutcheoned, with foreign periodicals--French and English--littering its leaf, and some pages of manuscript scattered among them. [8]
He said there warn't nothing foreign that warn't taxed but just that one, and so they couldn't be consistent without taxing it, and to be consistent was the first law of politics. [5]
The Minister of War has also in his charge some venerable swivels on Punch-Bowl Hill wherewith royal salutes are fired when foreign vessels of war enter the port. [5]
Why should you want to use foreign words, anyhow? [5]
When General Grant visited foreign courts, he went handsomely and properly ablaze in the uniform of a full general, and was introduced by diplomatic survivals of his own Presidential Administration. [5]
But they are very foreign still, and have all their German institutions. [9]
This is a very different Memphis from the one which the vanished and unremembered procession of foreign tourists used to put into their books long time ago. [5]
At home I venture things that I am not permitted by my family to venture in foreign parts. [5]
Howells and Aldrich used it as their half-way station between Boston and New York, and every foreign notable who visited America made a pilgrimage to Hartford to see Mark Twain. [5]
They who rule us speak with foreign tongue, but their hearts desire our peace and a mutual regard. [11]
The bay-window gave upon a garden that was ablaze with foreign and domestic flowers and flowering shrubs. [5]
How many are trying to save others--others except the distant and foreign sinners? [4]
What other foreign trade did they treat in that way? [7]
There were dancers too in plenty, in the foreign quarter. [10]
The Italian of to-day does not willingly emigrate, is tempted by no seduction of better fortune in any foreign clime. [4]
Through this concession to the navy, that arm is able to do us credit in foreign parts; and certainly that is well and politic. [5]
Eglington had gone to the Foreign Office. [11]
He went straight to the Foreign Office for news, hoping against hope, was received by Count Mensdorff, who merely came forward and laid his arm about his shoulder with an intense sympathy beyond words. [6]
She is grateful to the artists that bring to her this high credit and fill her coffers with foreign money, and so she encourages them with pensions. [5]
Is the fellow to that to be found in literature, ancient or modern, foreign or domestic, living or dead, drunk or sober? [5]
I have proposed to some of the foreign states thus interested mutual conventions to examine and adjust such complaints. [7]
This waistcoat seemed to him of foreign make and peculiar style, but what endeared it to him was its row of metal buttons. [4]
Mr. Atterbury delighted to discuss them with the rector at the dinner parties where they met; none was more zealous for foreign missions. [9]
I understand it to be a principle of Democracy to whip foreign nations whenever, they interfere with us. [7]
But further delay to adopt and prosecute our policies for both domestic and foreign affairs would not only bring scandal on the administration, but danger upon the country. [7]
They were going to a foreign land to fight, many of them to die, not in one of those adventurous campaigns of times gone by, but in the wet trenches or the hideous No Man's Land between. [9]
He sojourned some time in Dresden, whither his reputation had preceded him, and where he was cordially and familiarly received, not only by the foreign residents, but at the prim and antiquated little court of King Frederick Augustus and Queen Amalia. [4]
The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. [5]
The owner of this store had many others scattered about in this foreign country: at Vincennes, at St. Louis, where he resided, at Cahokia. [9]
The forbearance of this government had been so extraordinary and so long continued as to lead some foreign nations to shape their action as if they supposed the early destruction of our national Union was probable. [7]
The owner of this estate holds an important position in the Foreign Office, and the hostess has, by her wit and intelligent grasp of affairs, made an enviable place for herself. [9]
You will not think of us as foreign swill, but as patriots who love our new Vaterland even as you love it. [9]
Any one of these three conditions would stave off recognition by foreign powers, until we had ourselves abandoned the attempt to reduce the South to obedience. [6]
Ah, it is these little touches of nature that move one to tears in these far-off foreign lands. [5]
Let us talk there, and not at the Foreign Office. [11]
For this year there will be no foreign interference with us. [6]
Nowadays they elect them to a higher office, or give them a mission to some foreign country, if they do not do well where they are. [4]
We all admire the tasteful display of flowers in foreign towns: we go home, and carry nothing with us but a recollection. [4]
And, again, by the tariff system the whole revenue is paid by the consumers of foreign goods, and those chiefly the luxuries, and not the necessaries, of life. [7]
The amount of the sums owed by the Eysvogel firm, as well as the names of its creditors in Nuremberg, Augsburg, Ulm, and Regensburg, Venice, Milan, Bruges, and other German and foreign cities, formed the most important portion of his speech. [10]
Only recently has the study of him by English scholars--I do not refer to the verbal squabbles over the text--been proportioned to his preeminence, and his fame is still slowly asserting itself among foreign peoples. [4]
Men stood on the street corners in the rain, reading of the capture of Camp Jackson, and of the riot, and thousands lifted up their voices to execrate the Foreign City below Market Street. [9]
But scarcely had the smith distinguished the foreign words, when fresh anger seized him. [10]
He spoke of the smell of the sea, of the rollicking sailors who surged through the narrow street to embark on his Majesty's men-of-war, and of the King's white soldiers in ranks of four going to foreign lands. [9]
They wandered through the quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities, searching out the tumbledown French houses; and Honora was never tired of imagining the romances and tragedies which must have taken place in them. [9]
Once when resisting the pressure and the threats of war of a foreign diplomatist, he had, after a trying hour, written to Faith in a burst of passionate complaint, and his letter had ended with these words. [11]
Perhaps one of the most satisfactory incidents of his sojourn was a dinner given to him by the staff of Punch, in the historic offices at 10 Bouverie Street where no other foreign visitor had been thus honored--a notable distinction. [5]
For short distances the lowest poverty, the hardest pressed labor, must walk; but March never entered a car without encountering some interesting shape of shabby adversity, which was almost always adversity of foreign birth. [8]
But how could the life of such a foreign adventurer be accepted as surety for the sons of the highest Persians in the realm? [10]
On foreign nations the influence of the proclamation and of these new victories was of great importance. [7]
For some time the House had been aware that he had more than a gift for criticism of the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. [11]
Injuries unforeseen by the Government and unintended may in some cases have been inflicted on the subjects or citizens of foreign countries, both at sea and on land, by persons in the service of the United States. [7]
For sixty years, the foreign tourist has steamed up and down the river between St. Louis and New Orleans, and then gone home and written his book, believing he had seen all of the river that was worth seeing or that had anything to see. [5]
Ambition, hope, youth, the Foreign Office, the chancelleries of Europe, the perils of impending war, were all forgotten, or sunk into the dusky streams of subconsciousness. [11]
His work in the Foreign Office now had but one policy so far as Egypt was concerned. [11]
Those barbarians of the foreign city to the south, drunk with power, were to sack and loot the city. [9]
The next day the foreign ambassadors came, with their gorgeous trains; and Tom, throned in awful state, received them. [5]
Talking seemed like the exercise of a foreign language to her, but her smiling was free and unconstrained, and it belonged to all, without selection. [11]
Indeed, one of the chief attractions and entertainments in the foreign casinos and conversation-halls is the mingling there of all sorts of peoples, and the animation arising from diversity of conditions. [4]
The foreign dress, the change in your hair and the coloring of your eyebrows have altered you wonderfully. [10]
But I know that what we feel, although it may be foreign to our usual sensations, is loftier and more precious than these, not lower. [10]
It is true that there is always a faint foreign fragrance about her speech, no matter what language she is talking, but it is only just noticeable, nothing more, and is rather a charm than a mar, I think. [5]
Our general theory that the exploitation of foreign peoples reacts unfavourably on the exploiters is undoubtedly sound. [9]
I say, then, that one great danger comes from the chance of foreign interference. [6]
I told him that I thanked him, but that I did not desire any foreign appointment. [4]
This is all that his foreign education has done for him! [2]

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