Use grounds in a sentence
Sentences ending with grounds
- I will give you a leader that you will follow to the Barren Grounds. [11]
- Perhaps Mr. Paret would like to look about the grounds? [9]
- The old horse-cars with the clanging chains had disappeared, and you could take an electric to within a block of the imposing grille that surrounded the Dwyer grounds. [9]
- The next morning while her father was gone to consult the chief army- surgeon at Noumea, Marie strolled with Angers in the grounds. [11]
- The gallant dragoons were off to the west, across a little stream which trickled through the grounds. [9]
- He knew he was within five steps of the stile leading into Widow Douglas' grounds. [5]
- It was a warm, pleasant day, and delightful in the grounds. [11]
- Salisbury was formerly very unhealthy, on account of the low, swampy nature of its grounds. [6]
- It was not until later reflection that he realized Mr. Bentley might, by an intuitive sympathy, a depth of understanding, have drained something of his state, since the incidents which followed were to be accounted for on no other grounds. [9]
- Hume then turned to the Indian, and said "Cloud-in- the-Sky, I want you to go a long journey hereaway to the Barren Grounds. [11]
Short sentences using grounds
- They are entering the grounds. [11]
- My suspicions had good grounds. [11]
Sentences containing grounds two or more times
- It stood in the midst of spacious grounds, with its due complement of outbuildings, and the grounds were enclosed by a wall--a wall not for defense, but for privacy. [5]
- The grounds surrounding the American palace are not often large, and not often beautiful, but in the Melbourne case the grounds are often ducally spacious, and the climate and the gardeners together make them as beautiful as a dream. [5]
More example sentences with the word grounds in them
- The best thing you could do would be to burn whole rows of these tenements, they are ideal breeding grounds for disease. [9]
- I have troubled you at this length because my mind is much occupied with the pathology of these cases, and because no case can, on personal grounds, more strongly challenge our attention. [6]
- For instance, none would have pitched a tent in the grounds, slept in it, read in it, and lived in it--when it did not rain. [11]
- A pleasant dinner with the Dean, a stroll through the grounds of the episcopal palace, with that perpetual feast of the eyes which the cathedral offered us, made our residence delightful at the time, and keeps it so in remembrance. [6]
- Among the guests whom I met in the grounds was a gentleman of the medical profession, whose name I had often heard, and whom I was very glad to see and talk with. [6]
- Among the objects which deserve special mention are the shrieking parrots and other birds and the yelping dogs in the grounds of the Society of Acclimatization,--out of the range of which the visitor will be glad to get as soon as possible. [6]
- The grounds on which Caracalla had based the assertion that destiny had compelled him to murder Geta appeared to her young and inexperienced mind as indisputable. [10]
- The Residency grounds were honey-combed with the enemy's tunnels. [5]
- The effect of well-built, well-furnished, well-kept houses and of handsome grounds always maintained in good order about them shows itself in a large circuit around the fashionable centre. [6]
- And how gladly we hearkened while he told us of the great Plato, and gave us to know wherefore and on what grounds his doctrine seemed to him, Herdegen, sounder and loftier than that of Aristotle, concerning whom he had learned much erewhile in Nuremberg. [10]
- There is another way into the grounds through a little hall here. [11]
- To Austen Vane, wandering about the grounds, Mr. Crewe's party presented a sociological problem of no small interest. [9]
- There was a vast crowd in the public grounds that night to hear the band play the "Fremersberg. [5]
- It is not up till midnight, and any action taken before then on any other assumption will give grounds for damages. [11]
- Slowly she walked to the window and looked out across the green grounds where the wind was shaking the wet trees, past the unfinished monument to the Father of her country, and across the broad Potomac to Alexandria in the hazy distance. [9]
- But we've got to submit--on moral grounds. [5]
- Jokingly we got to speaking of it as my office; and amused ourselves with watching "my people" daily in their small grounds and trying to make out what we could of their dress, &c., without a glass. [5]
- For those appealing to me on conscientious grounds, I have done, and shall do, the best I could and can, in my own conscience, under my oath to the law. [7]
- I have only to go a few steps up a narrow, steep street, lined with the queerest houses, where is an ever-running pipe of good water, to which all the neighborhood resorts, and I am within the grounds of the castle. [4]
- Putting her arm through Virginia's, she sauntered off with the pair toward the parade grounds, Clarence maintaining now a distance of three feet, and not caring to hide his annoyance. [9]
- A carriage-road wound through the grounds and up the hill. [5]
- They seem endless, through odorous pine woods and shady lanes, by private roads among beautiful villas and exquisite grounds, with evidences everywhere of wealth to be sure, but of individual taste and refinement. [4]
- In good time they reached that wonderful and pleasant country between the Barren Grounds and the Lake of Silver Shallows. [11]
- The grounds of the two institutions are very similar. [4]
- The centre of the town is the old Spring House and grounds. [4]
- It was, at the same time, an ambition that they perfectly understood, and did not condemn on any ethical grounds. [4]
- The grounds about the palace were fine; the palace was a curiosity. [5]
- I remembered how the omnipresent spire of the great cathedral, three miles away, looked down upon the grounds about the building as if it had been their next-door neighbor. [6]
- As Mallow entered the grounds, the thought of Sheila Llyn crossed Dyck's mind, and the mental sight of her gladdened the eyes of his soul. [11]
- We wandered about the grounds, spoke with the great people, stared at the odd ones, and said to ourselves,--at least I said to myself,--with Hamlet, "The air bites shrewdly, it is very cold. [6]
- From the house-porch the grounds sloped gradually down to the lower fence and rose on the right to the high ground where my small work-den stood. [5]
- A walk through the grounds of Magdalen College, under the guidance of the president of that college, showed us some of the fine trees for which I was always looking. [6]
- Major Stobo met the fugitives under a wind-mill, probably the old wind-mill on the grounds of the General Hospital Convent. [11]
- This was at the fair grounds, and O'Connor told Mabry that it was not the place to settle their difficulties. [5]
- The remainder of the day, if the weather was pleasant, I spent out of doors, usually in the grounds under the leafy trees and groups of shrubs on the shore of the Enz. [10]
- As far as the committee can at present ascertain, the following seem to have been the principal grounds of dissatisfaction in this experiment: (1) The legal responsibility of postmasters receiving newspaper subscriptions, or of their sureties, was not defined. [7]
- The grounds of the Cloistered House and the fruit-decked garden-wall of the Red Mansion were ever within his vision. [11]
- The magnolia-trees in the Capitol grounds were lovely and fragrant, with their dense rich foliage and huge snow-ball blossoms. [5]
- On the evening that Justine Caron called upon Roscoe, I accidentally met Mrs. Falchion in the grounds of the hotel. [11]
- I've told you that I take an interest in pretty much everything, and don't mean to fence out any human interests from the private grounds of my intelligence. [6]
- The man proposed that he should be allowed to cut the grass from my grounds for his cow. [4]
- His attitude of sympathy did not change, but he managed to ask her, in a business-like tone which she welcomed:--"On what grounds? [9]
- There was a stir outside, a clanking of chains, a champing of bits, and the murmurs of the crowd who were gathering fast in the grounds. [11]
- The bungalows (dwellings) stand well back in the seclusion and privacy of large enclosed compounds (private grounds, as we should say) and in the shade and shelter of trees. [5]
- These are the sins which he has never been able to forgive; these are the grounds which led him to carry on war to the death with me directly I had quitted his father's service. [10]
- One instance will show the extreme slightness which characterizes many of the grounds of inculpation:-- The instructions say, "The government, in rejecting the recent convention, abandons neither its own claims nor those of its citizens," etc. [6]
- I said I should be delighted, though I had no idea what grounds were meant. [9]
- There has been shooting in the grounds. [11]
- Do you know," she continued, "I saw you once at the state capital outside of our grounds the day Bob ran after you. [9]
- When, at last, she came to an end of her indictment she appealed to Constantine and Eusebius to defend the proceedings of their co-religionists, and to give her good grounds for confessing a creed which could sanction such ruthless deeds. [10]
- Both men had sensitiveness, and both entered the grounds with a certain sense of pleasure. [11]
- The rising sun sees me more frequently at my station in the hunting grounds than it does many of you, my honoured friends, at the breakfast table. [10]
- The simple question seemed unanswerable except on grounds of humanity. [13]
- It must be remembered that I and the other Teacups, in common with the rest of our fellow-citizens, have had our sensibilities greatly worked upon, our patriotism chilled, our local pride outraged, by the monstrosities which have been allowed to deform our beautiful public grounds. [6]
- I give these references because a reviewer, without any grounds or scruples, has thrown doubts on my statements. [1]
- On social and political grounds the continuance of the Queensland Kanaka Labor Traffic must be a barrier to the true federation of the Australian colonies. [5]
- Mr. Jefferson, however, placed the importance of procuring Louisiana more on political and commercial grounds than on providing room for population. [7]
- He states his own opinions and feelings, and leaves it to be inferred that he has good grounds for adopting them; but he spares the Americans the bitterness which a detail of the circumstances would have produced. [5]
- One memory predominates over all others, in walking through the halls, or still more in wandering through the grounds, of Wilton House. [6]
- My wife pointed out the way to him across the grounds, and watched him leisurely walking among the trees till he was out of sight. [4]
- Knowledge puts faith out of the question, for faith to me means a trusting on spiritual grounds. [9]
- Mr. Chamberlin, none other than he of whom we caught a glimpse some years ago in a castle near Silverdale, owned the wall and the grounds and the palace it enclosed. [9]
- Our house was opposite the north transept, only separated by the road in front of it from the cathedral grounds. [6]
- The time goes on; the crowd gets denser, for there have been steady rivers of people pouring into the grounds for more than an hour. [4]
- The physician went on; and she, heedless of the growing heat, wandered restlessly about the grounds. [10]
- The ostensible grounds on which Mr. Motley was recalled are plainly insufficient to account for the action of the government. [6]
- If it was, on what grounds were the later copyrights granted? [5]
- Pie for sale on the grounds, and rocks to crack it with; and ciRcus-lemonade--three drops of lime juice to a barrel of water. [5]
- When pressed again on other grounds to get rid of Grant, he declared, "I can't spare that man, he fights! [7]
- She opposed it on moral grounds. [4]
- The garden is on high ground in the middle of the town, overlooking the great harbor, and it adjoins the spacious grounds of Government House--fifty-six acres; and at hand also, is a recreation ground containing eighty-two acres. [5]
- Here Mr. Meade of Virginia inquired if Mr. Lincoln understood the President to be opposed, on grounds of expediency, to any and every improvement. [7]
- Trembling young ladies of Union sympathies presented colors to regiments on the Arsenal Green, or at Jefferson Barracks, or at Camp Benton to the northwest near the Fair Grounds. [9]
- With the help of the Indian who had shared the sick man's sufferings in the Barren Grounds, the factor and Hume nursed him back to life. [11]
- In this part of the grounds were the king's storehouses in endless rows, while behind the centre building, in which the Pharaoh resided, stood the barracks for his body guard and the treasuries. [10]
- Like many lawyers of that time, he had a little house in one corner of his grounds for his office. [9]
- On the 9th of September, 1832, he preached a sermon on the Lord's Supper, in which he announced unreservedly his conscientious scruples against administering that ordinance, and the grounds upon which those scruples were founded. [6]
- On either side of it, on the elevated bank of the river, stretch beautiful grounds, with green lawns, fine trees, and well-kept walks. [4]
- The level strip of ground which stretches through and beyond the town is laid out in handsome pleasure grounds, shaded by noble trees and adorned at intervals with lofty and sparkling fountain-jets. [5]
- We were out of bed at break of day, feeling fresh and vigorous, and took a hearty breakfast, then plunged down through the leafy arcades of the Castle grounds, toward the town. [5]
- But he could not resist the solemn assertions respecting its efficacy; he gave way before the outcry of facts, and therefore, instead of denying all their pretensions, he admitted and tried to account for them upon supernatural grounds. [6]
- It was a night of enchantment, and the hotel and its grounds on the dark background of the night were like the stately pleasure-house in "Kubla Khan. [4]
- Also some pieces never before published are here given in an Appendix, on various grounds. [6]
- The great Indian nations were making a frantic effort to drive from their hunting grounds the little bands of settlers there, and these were in sore straits. [9]
- He had the mortification to see her stroll away with Mr. Meigs to a distant part of the grounds, where they remained in confidential discourse until it was time to return. [4]
- Phoebicius had no mind to listen to any speech from Polykarp's mother, but her question suggested to him for the first time a rapid retrospect of all that had occurred, and he could not conceal from himself that his suspicions rested on weak grounds. [10]
- The grounds, which might be very pretty with care, are ill-kept and slatternly, strewn with debris, as if everything was left to the easy-going nature of the servants. [4]
- From the windows might be seen, through the trees in the grounds, the Father of Waters below. [9]
- The resignations of Messrs. Sawyer and Bowen were also offered, and refused upon the same grounds. [5]
- For that's meetin' me on my own grounds. [13]
- Its geometric grounds matched those of the park, itself a monument to bad taste in landscape. [9]
- I told the man that I could not have the cow in the grounds. [4]
- There is a little arbor in the grounds connected with our place of meeting, and sometimes they have gone there for their readings. [6]
- He was a lion who roamed at large over a great variety of hunting grounds, some of which it would be snobbish to mention; for many reasons he preferred Quicksands: a man-eater, a woman-eater, and extraordinarily popular, nevertheless. [9]
- They did not know it, but they knew that the air shuddered, and as they skirted the grounds along the way to the foot-bridge the roar grew in their stunned ears. [4]
- This building and its grounds lay to the south of the City, overlooking the river. [9]
- No fence divides its grounds from the public walk, and on the smooth-shaven lawn between the ornamental flower beds and the walk stand two stern mastiffs of iron, emblematic of the solidity and power of their owner. [9]
- Just outside of it, on the tree-dotted slope of a long hill, was a modern brick building, exceedingly practical in appearance, surrounded by spacious grounds enclosed in a paling fence. [9]
- On these grounds it was that, according to him, the President withdrew all right to discuss the Alabama question from the minister whose dismissal was now only a question of time. [6]
- And which is it most desirable for mankind to have disproved or weakened, the grounds of the threat of M. Babinet, or those of the other infinitely more terrible comminations, so far as they rest on the authority of Jonathan Edwards? [6]
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