Use jersey in a sentence
Sentences starting with jersey
- Jersey was not to be conquered without opposition--no army of defence was abroad, but the elements roused themselves and furiously attacked the fleet. [11]
- Jersey herself was elate, eager to welcome one of her own sons risen to such high estate. [11]
Sentences ending with jersey
- That man was Williamson Breckinridge Caruthers of New Jersey. [5]
- I think you will not see the foe in New Jersey. [7]
- He has a wife and a nice little family in Jersey. [4]
- He was glad to turn to the Chevalier's letters from Jersey. [11]
- He had written to Lorenzo Dow and her grandfather, he said, but had heard afterwards that the vessel carrying the letters had been taken by a French privateer; and so they had not arrived in Jersey. [11]
- I will travel till I fiend respectable quarters, if I have to hoof it to New Jersey. [5]
- The common people think the Indians are in New Jersey. [5]
- The honorable Senator then read several passages from the remarks, as given above, which he had committed to writing, in order to refute such a charge as that of the Senator from New Jersey. [7]
- The militia and the town guard were in ominous force, and although his respect for the island military was not devout, a bullet from the musket of a fool might be as effective as one from Bonapend's-- as Napoleon Bonaparte was disdainfully called in Jersey. [11]
- Eleven years ago the only nephew of the Prince, after some naughty escapades, fled from the Court with Rullecour the adventurer, who invaded the Isle of Jersey. [11]
Short sentences using jersey
- New Jersey! [9]
Sentences containing jersey two or more times
- Tuesday I saw two--that's for joy--and fifty Jersey prisoners of the French comes back on Jersey that day. [11]
- Then came Jersey, everlasting Jersey, stupid irritating Jersey, where the passengers are always asking which line they are on, and where they are to come out, and whether they have yet reached Elizabeth. [5]
More example sentences with the word jersey in them
- In the eleven years since they had been together at the Battle of Jersey, events, travel, and responsibility had altered him vastly. [11]
- Those illustrious adventurers who sailed in her landed on the Jersey flats, preferring a marshy ground, where they could drive piles and construct dykes. [4]
- But I wonder what Boston could have done for the Jersey coast? [4]
- Excitement and adventure were as the breath of life to him, and since he had played his little part at the Jersey battle in a bandbox eleven years before, he had touched hands with accidents of flood and field in many countries. [11]
- He knew French well, but could speak almost no Jersey patois, so, in compliment to him, Jean Touzel, Ranulph, and Guida spoke in English. [11]
- When he got well he set sail for Jersey, was wrecked off the Ecrehos, and everybody knows the rest. [11]
- Mr. Rogers's carriage was waiting for us in Jersey City and deposited me at the Players. [5]
- A little later was ushered into the library of the castle the Comte Detricand de Tournay, who, under the name of Savary dit Detricand, had lived in the Isle of Jersey for many years. [11]
- But the instant warning of the mind that his Highness could never and would never accept the daughter of a Jersey ship-builder restrained him. [11]
- Words he had used many years ago in Jersey kept ringing in his ears--"'Good-bye, Sir Philip'--I'll be more than that some day. [11]
- Three hundred miles up they met New England, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey, hewing their way right and left. [7]
- When, after varied troubles hereafter set down, he went back to Jersey, he made a speech before the Royal Court, in which he told what chanced while Elizabeth was at chapel. [11]
- Ahead lay a treacherous sea, around them roaring winds, and the perilous coast of Jersey beyond all. [11]
- The fool had travelled more swiftly than Jersey justice, whose feet are heavy. [11]
- When I went to the Island of Jersey, in 1897, it was to shake myself free of what might become a mere obsession. [11]
- New Jersey is, to the apprehension of a traveller, a double-headed suburb rather than a State. [6]
- It were endless to recite what I myself have seen, and what I have received acknowledgments of by Letter, not only from the severall parts of this Nation, but also from Ireland, Scotland, Jersey, Garnsey. [6]
- Get you back to my Isle of Jersey, where ye may live in peace. [11]
- I am appealed to in behalf of Richard M. Abrams of Company A, Sixth New Jersey Volunteers, by Governor Parker, Attorney-General Frelinghuysen, Governor Newell, Hon. [7]
- Then he took to humming a ditty the Jersey housewife used to sing as she spun, while Guida disposed of the sweet-smelling fruit. [11]
- I was pained to be informed this morning by the Provost-Marshal-General that New Jersey is now behind twelve thousand, irrespective of the draft. [7]
- A little later the two were standing on that point of land called Grosnez--the brow of the Jersey tiger. [11]
- You may range the seas from the Yugon Strait to the Erebus volcano, and you will find no such landing-place for imps or men as that field of rocks on the southeast corner of Jersey called, with a malicious irony, the Bane des Violets. [11]
- Again they crossed the North River, and he led her through the wooden ferry house on the New Jersey side to where the Rivington train was standing beside a platform shed. [9]
- I appeal to the law of Jersey which is the Custom of Normandy. [11]
- You see what the Jersey district of heaven is, for whites; well, the Californian district is a thousand times worse. [5]
- I got into the habit of locating them in the interior of Pennsylvania as the safest place, though Jersey seemed equally probable to the public. [4]
- Call to mind the contested elections within the last few years, and particularly those of Moore and Letcher from Kentucky, Newland and Graham from North Carolina, and the famous New Jersey case. [7]
- After much persuasion the captain of the frigate agreed to land Madame de Montgomery upon the island of Jersey, but forced De la Foret to return to the coast of France; and Buonespoir elected to return with him. [11]
- I remember all the accounts there given of the battle-fields and struggles for the liberties of the country; and none fixed themselves upon my imagination so deeply as the struggle here at Trenton, New Jersey. [7]
- Thus it was that now no human being in Jersey could vouch that Guida had been married. [11]
- It irked him that he should be fighting with a farmer, as he termed the Seigneur of the Jersey Isle; but there was in the event, too, a sense of relief, for he had a will for murder. [11]
- You should know that hanging the invaders of Jersey would have been butchery. [11]
- At the time that Elie Mattingley, in Jersey, was awaiting hanging on the Mont es Pendus, and writing his letter to Carterette concerning the stolen book of church records, in a town of Brittany the Reverend Lorenzo Dow lay dying. [11]
- Which reminds me that a campaign club in Jersey City wrote a few days ago and invited me to be present at the raising of a Tilden and Hendricks flag there, and to take the stand and give them some "counsel. [5]
- In the Revolutionary struggle few of the States among the Old Thirteen had more of the battle-fields of the country within their limits than New Jersey. [7]
- Hear her sad story: She says that when she was sixteen years old she met and loved, with all the devotion of a passionate nature, a young man from New Jersey, named Williamson Breckinridge Caruthers, who was some six years her senior. [5]
- So he had stoically accepted his fate, and could even smile with a bitter cynicism when ordered to proceed to the coast of Jersey, where collision with a French squadron was deemed certain. [11]
- He was from somewhere in New Jersey. [5]
- So things went softly by for seven years, and then Madame de Montgomery journeyed to England, on invitation of the Queen and to better fortune, and Angele and De la Foret were left to their quiet life in Jersey. [11]
- She recognised the shore: it was the cliff at Plemont in the north of Jersey, and behind the ship lay the awful Paternosters. [11]
- By to-morrow at seven Jersey 'll belong to King Louis. [11]
- They had not seen each other since the year before Rullecour's invasion of Jersey. [11]
- It would almost seem as if the people of Jersey, like the hangers-on of the king of the jungle, care not to approach too near the devourer's head. [11]
- It is like saying that the best daily paper in New York is published out in New Jersey somewhere. [5]
- Once again at Saumur, a week later, Detricand wrote a long letter to Carterette Mattingley, in Jersey, in which he set forth these strange events at Bercy, and asked certain questions concerning Guida. [11]
- And now this same Philip d'Avranche with his new name and fame was on his way to defend the Isle of Jersey. [11]
- When he saw Rullecour and the Governor appear, he chuckled to himself, and said, in Jersey patois: "I vaut mux alouonyi l'bras que l'co," which is to say: It is better to stretch the arm than the neck. [11]
- There was the ring Philip had given her, inscribed with their names; but she was sophisticated enough to know that this would not be adequate evidence in the eyes of her Jersey neighbours. [11]
- I cannot but remember the place that New Jersey holds in our early history. [7]
- Of the true relations between Guida and Philip he knew nothing, but from that last day in Jersey he did know that Philip had roused in her emotions, perhaps less vital than love but certainly less equable than friendship. [11]
- And in a recent letter to New Jersey Democrats we find him warning his party, or more properly the nation, of the domestic social changes necessarily flowing from his international program. [9]
- It seemeth little possible that, if living, he should still remain in that Isle of Jersey. [11]
- So this man, Philip d'Avranche, was to be set against him even in the heritage of his family, as for one hour in a Jersey kitchen they had been bitter opposites. [11]
- The Norman and patois words are printed as though they were English, some of them being quite Anglicised in Jersey. [11]
- There was no parish in Jersey that did not know their goodness, but mostly in the parishes of St. Martin's and Rozel were their faithful labours done. [11]
- There, not far out, between Guernsey and Jersey, was the squadron itself. [11]
- Launched into Jersey, one has a vague notion that he is on many lines and no one in particular, and that he is liable at any moment to come to Elizabeth. [5]
- And of all of the Jersey Isle, I only may have dove-totes, which is the everlasting thorn in the side of De Carteret of St. Ouen's. [11]
- John Wilson Mackenzie, of Rotterdam, Chemung County, New Jersey, deceased, contracted with the General Government, on or about the 10th day of October, 1861, to furnish to General Sherman the sum total of thirty barrels of beef. [5]
- Van Nostrand, Jun., of New Jersey. [5]
- If the Governor of New Jersey shall furnish any new regiments, might not they be put into such an expedition? [7]
- On that Isle of Jersey there you should almost hear the voice of de la Rochejaquelein and the marching cries of our loyal legions. [11]
- The little world of Jersey no longer pointed the finger of scorn at Guida Landresse de Landresse, but bent the knee to Princess Guida d'Avranche. [11]
- Of the years of his captivity the records were few; the book was chiefly concerned with his career in Jersey. [11]
- The tourist does not complain of this, and is grateful that individuality has expressed itself in the great variety of lovely homes, in cottages very different from those on the Jersey coast, showing more invention, and good in form and color. [4]
- St. Ouen's has no head--I said no one man in Jersey could have done it--I'm heavier by three stone than any man in the island. [11]
- These are from New Jersey --I imported them myself. [5]
- She had, however, never listened to flatterers, and only one youth of Jersey had footing in the cottage. [11]
- Jersey, England, the Navy, seemed very far away. [11]
- He also tells me that eight thousand will be about the quota of New Jersey on the first draft; and the Secretary of War says the first draft in that State would not be made for some time in any event. [7]
- The journey was made in little more than an hour, and Rullecour himself was among the first to see the shores of Jersey loom darkly in front. [11]
- Disliked when he lived in Jersey before the invasion years ago, that seemed forgotten now; for word had gone abroad that he was a patriot raised from the dead, an honour to his country. [11]
- Carterette saw Ranulph little oftener than did Guida, but she knew what he was doing, being anxious to know, and every one's business being every one else's business in Jersey. [11]
- I'm going to launch to-morrow the biggest ship ever sent from a Jersey building yard--that doesn't look like trouble, does it? [11]
- Looking round, they laughed meaningly, and then told her that the commander coming presently to lie with his fleet in Grouville Bay was none other than the sometime Jersey midshipman, now Admiral Prince Philip d'Avranche, Duc de Bercy. [11]
- Verges = the land measure of Jersey, equal to forty perches. [11]
- I don't really know anything about cattle, except what I was able to pick up in a week's apprenticeship over in Jersey just before we sailed. [5]
- Rising from his knees, he turned his face towards Jersey. [11]
- I went to Jersey, therefore, with my teeth set, in a way; yet happily and confidently. [11]
- The Isle of Jersey, ever stubbornly loyal to its own--even those whom the outside world contemned or cast aside--jealous of its dignity even with the dead, had come to bury Philip d'Avranche with all good ceremony. [11]
- Be lambs in Jersey, but harry the rest of the world with a lion's tooth, was the eleventh commandment in the Vier Marchi. [11]
- The battle of Jersey was over. [11]
- Few people in Jersey slept the night before his execution. [11]
- Then this New Jersey phantom rose up and bowed and begged pardon, then with the officer beside him, the file of men marching behind him, and with every mark of respect, he was escorted to his carriage by the imperial Cent Gardes! [5]
- I came to Jersey on this very matter. [11]
- No man in Jersey but knew the sacredness of this perquage, though it was ten years since it had been used; and no man, not even the Governor himself, dare lift his hand to one upon that road. [11]
- At the moment it seemed absurd to him that his mind should travel back to the Isle of Jersey. [11]
- All at once it appeared to Ranulph madness that he had not taken his father away from Jersey long ago. [11]
- Rozel at Court is no greater fool than Lempriere in Jersey. [11]
- The reception was in the English department, of course, which is eight hundred and eleven million miles from the New Jersey line. [5]
- The next three hours were spent in tacking, in beating towards the Jersey coast under seas which almost swamped them. [11]
- Lempriere had recovered his heart, and now was set full sail in the course he had charted for himself in Jersey. [11]
- He had spent his early days in a small Jersey manor-house; here he was walking the halls of a palace with the step of assurance, the most honoured figure in a principality next to the sovereign himself. [11]
- She must prevent him from leaving Jersey, from leaving her. [11]
- It was on her initial trip, on, August 11, 1807, that she made her initial trip, when she went from [consults Admiral] Jersey City--to Chicago. [5]
- Last night we held a Whig caucus for the House, and nominated Winthrop of Massachusetts for speaker, Sargent of Pennsylvania for sergeant-at-arms, Homer of New Jersey door-keeper, and McCormick of District of Columbia postmaster. [7]
- Nine months ago he was lurking about Richardson's home in New Jersey, and said he was going to kill Richardson. [5]
- In this letter he was curious to know what the people in Jersey said about their marriage. [11]
- When once more he set forth upon the Channel, he turned his back on Jersey and shaped his course towards France, having sent Elizabeth his last excuses for declining a service which would have given him honour, fame and regard. [11]
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