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Sentences starting with grant

Grant and Sherman were living there before the Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln was an unknown lawyer in the neighboring state of Illinois. [9]
Grant us thy truth to make us free, And kindling hearts that burn for thee, Till all thy living altars claim One holy light, one heavenly flame. [6]
Grant don't seem to know Yeatman very well, but thinks very well of him so far as he knows. [7]
Grant thought he ought to warn me against Johnston. [9]
Grant was no namby-pamby fool, he was a man--all over--rounded and complete. [5]
Grant me the last favor I have to ask of you--I demand it in my father's name. [10]
Grant had his iron hand upon the ramparts of Richmond. [7]
Grant has stuff in him. [9]
Grant that he be brought into Thy Church ere his last hour come. [11]
Grant that for argument's sake. [7]

Sentences ending with grant

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]
All this I willingly grant. [6]
This way General U. S. Grant. [9]
She had begged to come, to share with me these dangers and hardships; but that I could not, would not grant. [11]
I also learn that an active command has been assigned you by General Grant. [7]
What we want still more than Baltimore conventions, or Presidential elections, is success under General Grant. [7]
I did not serve Virginia for gold or land, but I lost my fortune in that service, and before I know it these backwoodsmen will have every acre of my grant. [9]
Above him a sash screamed as it opened, and he heard Mr. Renault's voice say, to some person below: "Is that you, Capitaine Grant? [9]
Fournel had a right to ask a favour of her; and one that was to do her honour seemed the least that she might grant. [11]
Mr. Penhallow then read from a printed paper the decision of the Supreme Court in the land case so long pending, where the estate of the late Malachi Withers was the claimant, against certain parties pretending to hold under an ancient grant. [6]

Short sentences using grant

He will grant your prayer! [10]
I grant it you. [2]
General Grant paid me compliments. [5]
He will grant it. [5]
It reads like Grant. [5]
I have to grant it. [5]
I grant that. [5]
Grant them pardon! [10]

Sentences containing grant two or more times

I grant you, without the slightest unwillingness, that they were a deal more gentle and merciful and just than were the people of Europe of that day; I grant you that they are better than their predecessors. [5]
The Constitution authorizes the Executive to grant or withhold the pardon at his own absolute discretion, and this includes the power to grant on terms, as is fully established by judicial and other authorities. [7]
In case he shall not grant your prayer--" "He will grant it. [5]
Finally, all princes of the blood should have free choice; join that regiment, get that great title, and renounce the royal grant, or stay out and receive a grant. [5]
Howells, in his 'My Mark Twain', tells of going with Clemens to see Grant, then a member of the ill-fated firm of Grant and Ward, and how they lunched on beans, bacon and coffee brought in from a near-by restaurant. [5]
Every one had heard how Lincoln, on being told that Grant drank, remarked something to the effect that he would like to know what kind of whisky Grant used so that he might get some of it for his other generals. [5]

More example sentences with the word grant in them

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]
It seems that your man, Prescott, doesn't come from Brampton, in the first place, and Grant says that while he likes soldiers, he hasn't any use for the kind that want to lie down and make the government support 'em. [9]
I can destroy you, but my name is Clementine and so I will grant you mercy. [10]
General Grant wishes you to remain in command of the department, and I do not wish to order otherwise. [7]
I appeal to you to grant me this favor. [5]
If I tell you that if you ride him you will torture me, I'm sure you'll grant what I ask. [9]
Mr. President, are you going to grant it, or not? [5]
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]
For my sake would he deign to grant them life--and liberty? [10]
And this she would grant him--she esteemed him and would give him the right to protect her, this he felt, with thankfulness and joy. [10]
Look round the World in which you dwell Nor, Snail-like, live within your Shell; And if you see His World aright The Lord shall grant you double Sight. [10]
Beard, with that wonderful encounter with General Grant which sounded so much like a Fifth Reader anecdote of a chance meeting with royalty. [9]
Shall they be withdrawn from Banks, or Grant, or Steele, or Rosecrans? [7]
She thanked him with one fleeting, tearful glance that was as a grant of all her priceless possessions. [9]
She now felt with joyous gratitude, that she could look Peter frankly in the eye, grant him love, and ask love in return. [10]
Endue him plenteously with Heavenly gifts; grant him in health and wealth long to live; strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies; and, finally, after this life, he may attain everlasting joy and felicity. [11]
Ask what you will, and I will grant it you. [10]
Yes, any one will grant that, for it is the truth. [5]
I suppose it will be safe if I leave General Grant and yourself to decide. [7]
Tell Neithotep, in whose hands thou art as wax, that he has found the best means of forcing me to grant demands, which otherwise I should have refused. [10]
After a little while it was whispered from ear to ear that the emperor would only grant a few more audiences; and how many had already waited in vain yesterday, for hours, in the same place! [10]
The tender smile which played on his features filled her soul with the certainty that he would vouchsafe to be gracious; nay, she could believe that he moved those marble lips and promised to grant her prayer. [10]
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]
Mrs. John Grier was to be paid during her life a yearly stipend of twenty thousand dollars from the business; she also received a grant of seventy thousand dollars. [11]
He said there was now but one chance of finding coal against nine hundred and ninety nine that he would not find it, and so it would be wrong in him to make the request and foolish in Mr. Montague to grant it. [5]
The Grant Life was issued in two volumes. [5]
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]
Once General Grant was asked a question about a matter which had been much debated by the public and the newspapers; he answered the question without any hesitancy. [5]
This, she felt, was a noble action; still she urged him again and again to grant her wish, but always in vain. [10]
I've heard he wants to accommodate Chester and grant him admission. [10]
If ever you want to see General Grant, just send in your name. [9]
Last November he walked five blocks in a rainstorm, without any shelter but an umbrella, and cast his vote for Grant, remarking that he had voted for forty-seven presidents--which was a lie. [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]
General Grant was utterly ruined; he was left without income and apparently without the means of earning one. [5]
You have heard us grant that claim, and welcome it. [5]
Show Thy mercy upon us this day, O Lord, and grant us Thy salvation; make the hearts of Thy servants to rejoice in Thy mercy; smite down our enemies and destroy them swiftly beneath the feet of Thy faithful servants! [2]
He went close up to Paula, told her in a low voice that Hiram was safe, and implored her, as she hoped to be forgiven for her own sins, to grant him a few minutes. [10]
I wouldn't live up on Grant Avenue if you gave me Scherer's new house. [9]
Gen. Grant got up and bowed, and the storm of applause swelled into a hurricane. [5]
One was called U. S., after General U. S. Grant, and the other Bob Lee, after General Robert Lee. [11]
A day or two following the return to Hartford, Clemens received a letter from General Grant, in which he wrote: "Li Hung Chang is the most powerful and most influential Chinaman in his country. [5]
Franklin saw Grant tumble from his horse drunk, while reviewing troops in New Orleans. [5]
No one needed to watch Grant or Sherman, they only needed to get out of their way. [7]
Gen. Grant bowed to the people two or three times, then approached my side of the platform and the mayor pulled me forward and introduced me. [5]
Before they came to me this morning I had made a plan to reorganize the shops, to grant many privileges. [9]
We beg you to make some other demand on us, and we will certainly grant it if it lies in our power. [10]
Would you like to grant me the privilege of placing the whole jacquard business of the world in the grip of a single Company? [5]
Are you going to grant me the floor, or not? [5]
You are ready to grant anything but a constitution. [9]
A. Campbell desire to cross my lines, in accordance with an understanding claimed to exist with Lieutenant-General Grant, on their way to Washington as peace commissioners. [7]
They wanted me to come in and spend an evening, after the banquet, with them and Gen. Grant, after this grand pow-wow is over, but I said I was going home Friday. [5]
There he expects to be free from time-killing business, and to grant his mind that which he has long desired and a thousand duties forced him to withhold. [10]
They ought not to be allowed much space among better people--people who did something--I grant that; but they ought at least to be allowed to state why they didn't do anything, and also to explain the process by which they didn't do anything. [5]
It revealed her thoughts plainly enough, and, pleased with the success of his warning, Bias exclaimed: "And Ledscha, you, too, will not grant him that from which you would so gladly have withheld your sister. [10]
I grant you, though, ministers and doctors are very apt to see differently in spiritual matters. [6]
Heaven grant that this which I have been compelled to hear may be no more than a fleeting and foolish whim! [10]
Death has settled this question, and I cannot grant to Publius the first service he has asked of me--asked with great urgency too. [10]
Myrtilus will add this prize to the others, and grant me with all his heart the one for the Arachne. [10]
I suppose you think me silly, but you'll grant, whatever Mr. Hodder may be, he isn't silly. [9]
A note of these gentlemen, subsequently addressed to General Grant, has already been given in Major Eckert's despatch of the 1st instant. [7]
And it was the many, not the few, who got the odious names, they being too poor to bribe the officials to grant them better ones. [5]
You make him the idol, to humble me to a worm; and what you grant the she-wolf--the right of defence when men undertake to rob her of her young--you deny me, and, because I insist upon it, I must be a deluded, unbridled creature. [10]
I've been studying the history of---er--a--let me see--a [then he stopped in confusion, and walked over to Gen. Fred D. Grant, who sat at the head of the platform. [5]
General Grant knew the history of my campaign, for I told it him. [5]
The "Reunion of the Great Commanders," mentioned in the foregoing, was a welcome to General Grant after his journey around the world. [5]
The publication of the Grant memoirs had been its only great achievement. [5]
The publication of the Grant Memoirs had been a dazzling triumph. [5]
She knew that the governor, being a noble, would grant me, another noble, audience; but no, you see, she would not have that, either. [5]
This part of the enemy seem to now be trying to work along the White Oak road, to join the main force in front of Grant, while Sheridan and Warren are pressing them as closely as possible. [7]
The Burgrave deemed the Emperor's desire to maintain the Honourables' willingness to grant the large loan he intended to ask to fill his empty treasury still more weighty than those with which he had repulsed Herr Pfinzing. [10]
But how grant the communion to one who had been publicly cut off from the Church, and was now no more entitled to its privileges than an unbaptized pagan? [5]
Once he reminded the Chairman of his violated promise to grant him (Wolf) the floor, and said, 'Whence I came, we call promise-breakers rascals! [5]
In my estimation the Bishop is a perfectly detestable tyrant, and if I know him at all he will take all she will give and never grant her wish. [10]
I grant you that those who are overworked and underfed, who are burning with the consciousness of wrongs, who have no outlook ahead, are essentially hopeless and miserable. [9]
Within sixty days that quaint and bizarre anomaly, the Royal Grant, would cease to be a living fact, and take its place among the curiosities of the past. [5]
Is this all that love can grant to love--that a betrothed owes to her lover on the very eve of parting? [10]
I grant, further, that it would help somewhat at the North, though not so much, I fear, as you and those you represent imagine. [7]
You smile; and that is punishment for my vanity; and fairly earned, I grant you. [5]
I promised you that I would grant you a wish if your faith in her was justified. [10]
I grant you that I burn less carbon than some years ago. [6]
Another despatch indicates that Grant was moving against Johnston on the 18th. [7]
My recollection is that both General Grant and yourself recommended both H [ovey] and O [sterhaus] for promotion, and these, with other strong recommendations, drew committals from us which we could neither honorably or safely disregard. [7]
I grant you that an unconstitutional act is not a law; but I do not ask and will not take your construction of the Constitution. [7]
Clemens does not tell us here the nature of Carlton's insult, forgiveness of which he was not yet qualified to grant, but there are at least two stories about it, or two halves of the same incident, as related afterward by Clemens and Canton. [5]
I'll send and tell Grant you're here. [9]
All she would take for herself--if the King would grant it--was leave to go back to her village home, and tend her sheep again, and feel her mother's arms about her, and be her housemaid and helper. [5]
He was almost surprised when she denied it, and yet he seemed pleased, and promised to grant her request. [10]
And when the storm has blown out of your path the poor dust, which to-day lives and breathes, loves and despairs, grant it a place in your memory. [10]
I am no statesman, but I know this--if he would restore all our liberties, he will never grant the one thing, without which life is valueless. [10]
The forefathers of some of these gentlemen were in old Egypt under Pharaoh--for whom they could have had no greater respect and fear than their descendants had in New Egypt for Grant or Sherman. [9]
Your heart is so rich in warmth of feeling, grant me but a small share of it and ask tangible gifts in return. [10]
General Grant got slowly up from his table, put his pen down, and stood before me with the iron expression of a man who had not smiled for seven years, and was not intending to smile for another seven. [5]
But since the sin had been committed only in thought, the kindly guardian of her conscience was quickly disposed to grant her absolution if, as a penance, she would repeat a goodly number of paternosters and undertake a pilgrimage. [10]
That is a sin for which I will gladly grant you absolution. [10]
Or if Heaven should grant me a son, his father will raise him to a still greater height, and I have already seen him before me a hundred times as he hangs the Fleece on the red ribbon round his neck. [10]
With passionate eagerness she entreated the emperor to grant a pardon, but he cut her short with the request not to interfere in matters which he alone had to decide and answer for. [10]
It seems I shall have to grant something important; so he had better wait until my birthday, and then, at supper, when the wine has given him courage, he shall whisper in my ear what he is now afraid to utter. [10]
General Lee has sent the Russell letter back, concluding, as I understand from Grant, that their dignity does not admit of their receiving the document from us. [7]
I have just seen a despatch of Grant, of 11 P.M., May 23, on the North Anna and partly across it, which ends as follows: "Everything looks exceedingly favorable for us. [7]
If the queen seems disposed to grant you a wish give her this roll, and entreat her for a letter of pardon. [10]

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