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Sentences starting with general

General Grant and yourself have been conspicuous in our most important successes; and for me to interfere and thus magnify a breach between you could not but be of evil effect. [7]
General Grant wishes you to remain in command of the department, and I do not wish to order otherwise. [7]
General Banks at Williamsport, with his old force and his new force at Harper's Ferry, is directed to co-operate. [7]
General Halleck says we have absolutely no force here fit to go to the field. [7]
General Grant, hard-pressed, was induced by the editors to prepare one or more articles, and, finding that he could write them, became interested in the idea of a book. [5]
General Wool still walked the corridors, inexpansive, with Fort McHenry on his shoulders, and Baltimore in his breeches-pocket, and his courteous aid again pressed upon me his kind offices. [6]
General Grant was utterly ruined; he was left without income and apparently without the means of earning one. [5]
General King telegraphs us from Fredericksburg that contrabands give certain information that 15,000 left Hanover Junction Monday morning to reinforce Jackson. [7]
General Milroy seems to have concurred with General Schenck in the opinion that the force should be kept at Winchester at least until the approach of danger, but he disobeyed no order upon the subject. [7]
General attention was thus drawn to the poor fellow, and a great many people came forward and helped him toward reform with their countenance and encouragement. [5]

Sentences ending with general

A self-sufficient, doughty young man, with the round head that withstands many blows, taking by nature to competition and buccaneering in general. [9]
Of course, with you soldiers the years of warfare count double, and he--Duke Alba said so--was born a general. [10]
Such an event would naturally stir Mark Twain to comment on human nature in general. [5]
Yes, the General would give the Governor a safe-conduct into St. Louis, but his Excellency must come to the General. [9]
You remember them woods, General? [9]
The sergeant's reply was: "Sire, how can a non-commissioned officer dine with a general? [11]
P.S.--Since the above was written we have visited the General. [11]
The pioneer went up to the table, where sat the general of the troops that had just returned victorious from Ethiopia, and several other officers of high rank, There was a place vacant next to the general. [10]
He's seen service, too, General. [9]
Our General trusts to your honour, and you to ours, Monsieur le General. [11]

Short sentences using general

That's the general way. [5]
Z., General Postoffice, Washington. [5]
I'll look up the General. [9]
The general held similar views. [5]
Face a general red flush. [5]
No general fighting recently. [7]
These are General Papineau's orders. [11]
The General looked pained. [9]
General Grant paid me compliments. [5]
The General slept lightly. [9]

Sentences containing general two or more times

And now, suppose you step over at once and let us see General Scott (and) General Cameron about assigning a position to General Fremont. [7]
The Kentucky Legislature would not budge till that proclamation was modified; and General Anderson telegraphed me that on the news of General Fremont having actually issued deeds of manumission, a whole company of our volunteers threw down their arms and disbanded. [7]
At the Hill we have a force of 8000, under General Sherman, and about an equal force of rebels is a very short distance south, under General Buckner. [7]
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]
It depends altogether upon the proposition that the States must, without the interference of the General Government, do all those things that pertain exclusively to themselves,--that are local in their nature, that have no connection with the General Government. [7]
Mr. Watling climbs up on the platform and shakes his fist in General Doby's face, and General Doby tearfully appeals for an honest ballot--to the winds. [9]
The enemy's forces under General Anderson now opposing General McDowell's advance have as their line of supply and retreat the road to Richmond. [7]
One was called U. S., after General U. S. Grant, and the other Bob Lee, after General Robert Lee. [11]
I have sent two letters to General Steele, and three or four despatches to you and others, saying that he, General Steele, must be master, but that it will probably be best for him to merely help the convention on its own plan. [7]
When on the twenty-first of October his general expressed a wish to send somebody to Denisov's detachment, Petya begged so piteously to be sent that the general could not refuse. [2]

More example sentences with the word general in them

Bagration had sent Zherkov to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat immediately. [2]
I also received yours about General Carl Schurz. [7]
Now up gets your General Sherman in the middle of the night,--midnight,--and marches up and down between the counters, and waves his arms. [9]
This is for your general purification. [5]
Come you, comrade, your general gives you to me. [11]
I transmit for your consideration a communication from the Secretary of War, accompanied by one from the Provost-Marshal General to him, both relating to the subject above mentioned. [7]
He did a young man's share of the work; and did his share of conversing and entertaining from the general stand-point of any age--not from the arrogant, overawing summit-height of sixty years. [5]
In any event, you will be able to prevent the main body of the enemy's forces from leaving Richmond and falling in overwhelming force upon General McDowell. [7]
He will show you two letters of mine on this subject, one somewhat General, and the other relating to named persons; they are not different in principle. [7]
Then I tell you there is a general heaving up of old graves and kicking over of old monuments, and scampering of old skeletons for the trees! [5]
As I understand, you telegraphed General Halleck that you cannot subsist your army at Winchester unless the railroad from Harper's Ferry to that point be put in working order. [7]
I will thank you not to make it public until General Fremont shall have had time to receive the original. [7]
I suppose what you have heard a rumor of was not a general battle, but an "affair" at Bristow Station on the railroad, a few miles beyond Manassas Junction toward the Rappahannock, on Wednesday, the 14th. [7]
Now without detaining you any longer, I propose that you help me to close up what I am now saying with three rousing cheers for General Grant and the officers and soldiers under his command. [7]
There is enough yet before us requiring all loyal men and patriots to perform their share of the labor and follow the example of the modest General at the head of our armies, and sink all personal consideration for the sake of the country. [7]
At 11.40 A.M. yesterday General Rosecrans telegraphed from Chattanooga: "We hold this point, and I cannot be dislodged except by very superior numbers and after a great battle. [7]
The difficulty began yesterday afternoon by General Mabry attacking Major O'Connor and threatening to kill him. [5]
Indeed, for many years, if there was any exception to the general toleration it was in the social ostracism of those who held and expressed extreme opinions in regard to immediate emancipation, and were stigmatized as abolitionists. [4]
It was the year in which he entered fully into the publishing business and launched one of the most spectacular of all publishing adventures, The Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant. [5]
Please walk thirty yards, so that I can get a perspective on the thing.... Now, then--your head's right, speed's right, shoulders right, eyes right, chin right, gait, carriage, general style right--everything's right! [5]
The Emperor had written to Count Rostopchin as follows: As soon as Leppich is ready, get together a crew of reliable and intelligent men for his car and send a courier to General Kutuzov to let him know. [2]
When I stopped writing last evening at the summons of the General, I was about to tell you something of the battle of Bentonville on Tuesday last. [9]
And taking the work of General Thomas into the count, as it should be taken, it is indeed a great success. [7]
Or, in other words, what effect is popular education having upon the general intellectual habit and taste? [4]
As to General Wool's command, I understand it is doing for you precisely what a like number of your own would have to do if that command was away. [7]
And he was wont to leave his weighty business affairs to shift for themselves while he attended the diocesan and general conventions of his Church. [9]
Beard, with that wonderful encounter with General Grant which sounded so much like a Fifth Reader anecdote of a chance meeting with royalty. [9]
She admired Henderson, without thinking any too well of the world in general, and she admired him for the qualities that were most conformable to his inclination. [4]
Then, quickly, and without embarrassment, he and Mrs. Townley greeted General Armour, who returned the greetings gravely, but in a singular, confidential tone, which showed his gratitude. [11]
As such, and with what information I have, I hope and believe General Taylor, if elected, would not veto the proviso. [7]
Sleepless, yet filled with triumphant joy, like a general who has won a glorious victory, he watched through the night. [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]
Zdrzhinski, the officer with the long mustache, spoke grandiloquently of the Saltanov dam being "a Russian Thermopylae," and of how a deed worthy of antiquity had been performed by General Raevski. [2]
Taking a skiff with the General, your reporter was pulled up to a little house of two rooms, in which the water was standing two feet on the floors. [5]
Man in connection with the general life of humanity appears subject to laws which determine that life. [2]
Everyone was dissatisfied with the general course of affairs in the Russian army, but no one anticipated any danger of invasion of the Russian provinces, and no one thought the war would extend farther than the western, the Polish, provinces. [2]
That one talking with rapid gestures was General Sherman. [9]
I also remember with much pleasure the royal riding-school in charge of General Meyer. [10]
It is curious, with his tendency to optimism and general expansion of futures, that he says nothing of the possible sales of the new book, or of his expectations in that line. [5]
He inspired her with an instinctive fear; and she tried to imagine, in contrast, the erect and soldierly figure of General Chiltern performing the same office. [9]
Caesar had come with a force by no means equal to theirs, and it might be possible to draw the mighty general into a snare. [10]
The Cossack officers wished to take advantage of this chance to capture some horses, but one of the superior officers, who was acquainted with the higher authorities, reported the incident to a general on the staff. [2]
He was a wise old experienced general, was Fastolfe. [5]
The detail labor will, of course, have to be done by others; but I will be greatly obliged if you will give it such general supervision as you can find consistent with your more strictly military duties. [7]
Quite likely she will soon find that she needs first a more general culture, and fall, in with thy wish that she should see more of the world at some large school. [5]
Such general officers will be supplied as the exigencies of the service will permit. [7]
I suppose it will be safe if I leave General Grant and yourself to decide. [7]
I saw General Wilkinson at the far end of the room; his hand was raised, and there was that on his handsome face which might have been taken for a smile, and yet was not a smile. [9]
As Pierre said, whose wisdom was more to be trusted than his general morality, "It is strange that most men think not enough of themselves till a woman shows them how. [11]
Of a youth whose mind, like mine at that period, possessed some general capability, without perhaps a single prominent and marked talent, a proneness to imitation is sure to be the besetting sin. [6]
Whatever concerns the whole should be confided to the whole--to the General Government; while whatever concerns only the State should be left exclusively to the State. [7]
The hostess succeeds who is able to excite this general play of all the forces at the table, even using the silent but not non-elastic material as cushions, if one may continue the figure. [4]
Many a general who has fought a desperate and victorious fight after a long campaign, and amid all the anxieties and miseries of war, has failed to follow up his advantage, from a sudden lesion of the power for action in him. [11]
The bold general who had gained so many victories, and whom the defeat of Actium had only humbled, was said to have regained his former elasticity. [10]
Here the General, who had been sitting by watching them with a very curious expression, spoke up. [9]
The little light which the General saw was the burning fuse. [11]
The acts to which I have referred were a part of a general system of Compromises. [7]
More than once, when they had met, he had urged the General to prepare his memoirs for publication. [5]
More than once, when the President could not hear him because of the general tumult, he sent persons to listen and report as to whether the orator was speaking to the subject or not. [5]
In an age when nastiness was written as well as spoken, and when most travelers felt called upon to satisfy a curiosity for prurient observations, Smith preserved a tone quite remarkable for general purity. [4]
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]
As these Committees were, however, an important part of the mechanism of the establishment, some general account of their organization and a few extracts from the Report of the one last appointed may not be out of place. [6]
Of what use were they to me without general indexes? [3]
A few stars were shining, but the general heavens were overcast, and the great shaft of the Matterhorn was draped in a cable pall of clouds. [5]
Bundles of candles were procured, and straightway there was a general scamper up the hill. [5]
Clemens and Webster were often at the house of General Grant during these early days of 1885, and it must have been Webster who was present with Clemens on the great occasion described in the following telegram. [5]
Then two gentlemen went to Washington, and the next thing that happened was Brigadier General Lyon, Commander of the Department of the West. [9]
Before General Wilkinson went to New Orleans the Spaniards seized our flat boats and cargoes and flung our traders into prison, ay, and sent them to the mines of Brazil. [9]
If General Cass went in advance of me in picking huckleberries, I guess I surpassed him in charges upon the wild onions. [7]
He had been well provided for by her husband, and General Armour put his hand on hers gently and said: "Lali, without your permission I have read this other letter. [11]
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]
Let him, say we, have general law in advance (guarded in every possible way against fraud), so that, when he acquires a legal right, he will have no occasion to wait for additional legislation; and if he has practiced fraud let the courts so decide. [7]
If at home we wince before any official with a sense of blighted inferiority, it is by general confession the clerk at the hotel office. [6]
To the moment we will rise, and there shall be no question of satisfaction, no discontent anywhere--eh, shall it be so, if m'sieu' the General can spare the time also? [11]
Under this pressure We thinned the line on the upper Potomac, until yesterday it was broken with heavy loss to us, and General Banks put in great peril, out of which he is not yet extricated, and may be actually captured. [7]
On that point we therefore content ourselves with giving the following extracts from the writings of Mr. Jefferson, General Jackson, and the speech of Mr. Calhoun: "To be independent for the comforts of life, we must fabricate them ourselves. [7]
On the 28th we sent General Burnside an order to send all the force he could spare to you. [7]
That day, as we sat on the summit, he gave in great detail the story, the general outline of which is well known. [4]
An hour later we met General Harris on the road, with two or three people in his company--his staff, probably, but we could not tell; none of them was in uniform; uniforms had not come into vogue among us yet. [5]
I suggest that we make the local appointments forthwith, leaving foreign or general ones for ulterior and occasional action. [7]
From this period we hear no more of the favorite body-servant of General Washington until May, 1825, at which time he died again. [5]
And so, whilst we do not go beyond general statements, it may be safely affirmed of these two metaphysical antagonists that each is a good half, but an impossible whole. [6]
So far as we could judge by all we heard, our unpretentious party gave general satisfaction. [6]
In my judgment we can elect nobody but General Taylor; and we cannot elect him without a nomination. [7]
The only safe way is that taught by horticulture, to feed a fruit-tree generously, so that it has vigor enough to throw off its degenerate tendencies and its enemies, or, as the doctors say in medical practice, bring up the general system. [4]
I judged it wasn't so, but it was not for me to contradict a general officer. [5]
The General received Washington with a kindly but reserved politeness. [5]
The news reached Washington of the commencement of hostilities on the Rio Grande, and of the great peril of General Taylor's army. [7]
The third order was: General Campan will move through the wood to seize the first fortification. [2]
His intellectual activity was unremitting, he had no lack of friends, there was only now and then a discordant note in the general estimation of his literary work, and he was the object of the most tender care from his nieces. [4]
While the attorney was thus engaged, the dwarf was groping under the table, muttering desperate imprecations on himself, and mankind in general, and all inanimate objects to boot, which suggested to Mr Brass the question, 'what's the matter? [12]
One day I was there at dinner, and remarked, in a general way, that we are all liars. [5]
Such, at least, was the story I heard after he disappeared from general observation. [6]
Upon consultation, it was the general verdict that there were men in the county who would keep it if they had picked it up. [4]
The general opinion was that Pierre was under his wife's thumb, which was really true. [2]
The general supposition was that he had committed suicide, and, this appearing to be favoured by all the circumstances of his death, the verdict was to that effect. [12]
Them poor things was that glad and happy it made my heart ache to see them getting fooled and lied to so, but I didn't see no safe way for me to chip in and change the general tune. [5]
A general who was standing by the guns shouted some words of command to the officer, and the latter ran back again with his men. [2]
Half an hour was spent over Joan's apparitions--their dress, hair, general appearance, and so on--in the hope of fishing something of a damaging sort out of the replies; but with no result. [5]
What the general was saying was even more clever and to the point, but it was evident that Kutuzov despised knowledge and cleverness, and knew of something else that would decide the matter--something independent of cleverness and knowledge. [2]

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