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Sentences starting with john

John imagines that yonder big thistle is some whiskered villain, of whom he has read in a fairy book, and he advances on him with "Die, ruffian! [4]
John swore he wouldn't walk back, so we rolled a drift log apiece into the Lake, and set about making paddles, intending to straddle the logs and paddle ourselves back home sometime or other. [5]
John prayed, but without feeling any worse, and then went desperately into the house, and told the family that he was in an anxious state of mind. [4]
John returned presently with a carriage, got the broken-hearted artist and the broken-legged statue aboard, and drove off, whistling low and tranquilly. [5]
John A. Gurley, who bears this, and make an order corresponding with the above. [7]
John at once went with the messenger, and Paula drew a deep breath as she saw him depart. [10]
John Lothrop Motley was the grandson of the clergyman after whom he was named. [6]
John said it was splendid, and he would lend it to her, for which she thanked him, and said, with such a sweet expression, she should be so glad to have it from him. [4]
John Brown shivered--there was something so cold-blooded in the suggestion that he might have found arsenic a good thing. [11]
John Brown's effort was peculiar. [7]

Sentences ending with john

A Paul, or with longer hair and a little more youthful aspect, an admirable St. John. [10]
And what honours were bestowed upon her John! [10]
Let me say to you confidentially, that I do not entirely appreciate what the Republican papers of Chicago are so constantly saying against "Long John. [7]
But where were they taking her John? [10]
Movement of adhesion--as they say in the Chamber of Deputies--on the part of the young fellow they call John. [6]
The names of these people were John and Audrey Malbrouck; the Man was known to the makers of backwoods history as Captain John. [11]
So do I,--said the young fellow John. [6]
They're all Bloomers,--said the young fellow called John. [6]
Fact is, it's the on'y thing worth strivin' for, John. [5]
Some member of the council was heard to say: "It follows, then, that we must begin with the bastille St. John, and that will give the English time to--" Joan turned and said: "Give yourselves no uneasiness about the bastille St. John. [5]

Short sentences using john

Brown, John, sympathy with, 211. [6]
Mr. John E. Williams. [6]
John preached in this "Wilderness! [5]
John insisted on stopping awhile. [5]
Such was John Smith. [4]
John Lane Company, publishers. [5]
What would John Paul say? [9]
St. John in Patterson's Island. [5]
John Halifax and others. [5]
Wesley, John, praise of, 306. [6]

Sentences containing john two or more times

I'm thinking that you may be of those who went out to the Arctic Sea with Sir John Franklin--with Sir John Franklin, you understand. [11]
But twice every year he went to yonder point and spoke out the King's words to him: 'John York, John York, where art thou gone, John York? [11]
It scared people well a couple of hundred years ago when Sir John Marsham and Dr. John Spencer ventured to tell their stories about the sacred ceremonies of the Egyptian priesthood. [6]
Whether the paper was written for Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts, or for his son, Governor John of Connecticut, there is no positive evidence that I have been able to obtain. [3]
Old Fuller's schoolmaster was Master Arthur Smith, a kinsman of John, who told him that John was born in Lincolnshire, and it is probable that Fuller received from his teacher some impression about the adventurer. [4]
When that charge was brought forward by the Chicago Times, the Springfield Register [Douglas's organ] reminded the Times that the charge really applied to John Henry; and I do know that John Henry is now making speeches and fiercely battling for Judge Douglas. [7]
John Murphy was the choice, and there never was a better, I am willing to testify; but John Murphy came home with us, in the train that came to succor us, and lived to marry the widow Harris--" "Relict of--" "Relict of our first choice. [5]
I've learned the rest of the history of old John York--the part that never got to England; for here at King's House there's a holy tradition that the real John York belongs to it and to it alone. [11]
John sometimes drove past a brown, tumble-down farmhouse, whose shiftless inhabitants, it was said, were card-playing people; and it is impossible to describe how wicked that house appeared to John. [4]
John Hodder might not read the service, but there was none to tell him that the Gospel of John was not written for this man. [9]

More example sentences with the word john in them

Now, Colonel, can you picture Jefferson, or Washington or John Adams franking their wardrobes through the mails and adding the facetious idea of making the government responsible for the cargo for the sum of one dollar and five cents? [5]
But what are you going to do when you find John Keats an apprentice to a surgeon or apothecary? [6]
The day before yesterday the Elector John Frederick of Saxony and the Landgrave Philip of Hesse had been banned, and with this the war began. [10]
Ah, yes, ten years-- Abroad, John Marcey! [11]
Henceforth, whenever the yearning for the distant John seized upon her with special power, she thought of that night, and loaded the little sons near her with tokens of the tenderest love. [10]
Instead of the yearning for John, of which Wolf had spoken and she, blind fool, believed, he thought of him with petty fears of the claims by which he might injure his favoured brother. [10]
What she now wrote to John could hardly exert much influence upon him. [10]
Heaven, she thought, would pour its favour upon her too lavishly if the report that Don John was to be appointed Governor of the Netherlands should be verified. [10]
And how much would it avail you, if you could, by the use of John Brown, Helper's Book, and the like, break up the Republican organization? [7]
Sir John Herschel would have told them that this made little difference in accounting for the formation of worlds by aggregation, but at any rate it was a comfort to them. [6]
The casual reader would certainly conclude that the Somers Isles were somehow due to the providence of John Smith, when in fact he never even heard that Gates and Smith were shipwrecked there till he had returned to England, sent home from Virginia. [4]
Sun, Herald, Times, World, Harper Brothers and John F. Trow; also to the proprietors of the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe. [5]
I cannot help wondering what brought Emerson and the showy, fascinating John Gourdin together as room-mates. [6]
Barbara had witnessed with very different feelings from Dona Magdalena and her brother how the former regarded every false step of Don John, and especially that of his expedition to England, as a heavy misfortune, and as such bewailed it. [10]
And that night, with the stars jumping and the air biting cold (for we were up in the 40's), and the John wish-washing through the seas at three leagues the hour, MacMuir told me the story of Mungo Maxwell. [9]
Then he retired with less assurance than he had come, and John Paul sprang to his feet and laid his hands upon my shoulders, as was his wont when affected. [9]
When John Grier's will was published in the Press consternation filled the minds of all. [11]
The young fellow whom they call John was in the yard, sitting on a barrel and smoking a cheroot, the fumes of which came in, not ungrateful, through the open window. [6]
The young fellow whom they call John said he knew all about it; he had just lighted a cheroot the other day, when a tremendous conviction all at once came over him that he had done just that same thing ever so many times before. [6]
By John Jones, who saw him once in a street car and twice in a barber shop. [5]
Pauline and she, who lived in different worlds, and yet were tied to each other by circumstances they could not control, would each work out her own destiny after her own nature, since John Alloway had come a-wooing. [11]
By John Smith, who heard him read eight times. [5]
She it was who had a secret passion for Prince Charles, and these letters to Sir John, who had been with the Pretender at Versailles, must prove her ruin if produced. [11]
Among the students who followed his instructions were two Englishmen: one of them, John Locke, afterwards author of an "Essay on the Human Understanding," three years younger than his teacher; the other, Thomas Sydenham, five years older. [3]
They mused a while, with much head-shaking and walking the floor, then Lord St. John said-- "Plainly, what dost thou think? [5]
The work with which Warner himself was least satisfied was his life of Captain John Smith, which came out in 18881. [4]
Of the part which Enderby had played Lord Rippingdale said no more to the King than this: "Sir John Enderby was of these gentlemen who saved your Majesty's life. [11]
Somehow, the room where his mother had sat for so many years, and where he had last seen his father, John Grier, had a coldness of the tomb. [11]
They got drunk whenever they could; then they fought each other or anybody else who came in the way; they cursed and swore always, drunk or sober; John Canty was a thief, and his mother a beggar. [5]
I knew her when she first married John Kame, the dearest, simplest man that ever was. [9]
And at last, when he knew his time was come, he pretended to think a new visitor had entered, and so, with the rattle in his throat emphasised for dramatic effect, he said to the servant, "Shin around, John, and get the gentleman a chair. [5]
It chanced that, when an impasse seemed possible to be broken only by force, a telegram came to John Grier at Montreal telling him of the difficulty. [11]
I remember with what feeling I one day unexpectedly read on a white slab, in the little inclosure of Bonchurch, where the sea whispered as gently as the rustle of the ivy-leaves, the name of John Sterling. [4]
The two brothers were taken on board ship, and Master John Rolfe and Master Sparkes were sent to negotiate with the King. [4]
The entrance doors were once more opened, and my lord, in a temper, at once began: "You press your courtesies too far, Sir John Enderby. [11]
Among the latter were Mrs. Tynan and her daughter and Malachi Deely; among those who held their breath in suspence were John Sibley, Studd Bradley the financier, and the Young Doctor. [11]
In this company were a couple of gallants, lately come over, Gabriel Beadle and John Russell, proper gentlemen, but unused to hardships, whom Smith has immortalized by his novel cure of their profanity. [4]
The Koh-i-noor, as we named the gentleman with the diamond, left us, however, soon after that "little mill," as the young fellow John called it, where he came off second best. [6]
Some years later we have the illustrious John Morgan Twain. [5]
Among the names we find that of Captain John Smith. [4]
Having ascertained that we can get no more information about Baddeck here than in St. John, we go to bed early, for we are to depart from this fascinating place at six o'clock. [4]
While on the way she reflected, for the first time, what John could desire of her for the "weal and woe of his life. [10]
Almeric Tarboe it was--the older brother of Luke Tarboe at John Grier's. [11]
Dr. John Swinnerton was, he says, for many years the principal physician of Salem. [3]
For Carnac there was, duly or unduly, fairly or unfairly, a fate better than that of John Grier. [11]
He, John Hodder, was to live under that cloud, to labour under it. [9]
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]
The day following was the feast of St. John the Baptist. [11]
The Clemens family was still at Quarry Farm at the end of August, and one afternoon there occurred a startling incident which Mark Twain thought worth setting down in practically duplicate letters to Howells and to Dr. John Brown. [5]
To this John was sometimes prefixed, as betokening from the purely animal point of view a certain resemblance to the imputed grimness and earnestness of the great reformer. [4]
About this time was solemnized the marriage of John Laydon and Anne Burrows, the first in Virginia. [4]
To her it was shameful that Carnac should be eliminated from all share in the abundant fortune John Grier had built up. [11]
Once the succession was secure beyond the imbecile Leopold John, then he would certainly declare against the present fiendish Government and for the overthrown dynasty. [11]
Yet John Osgood was not quite at his ease. [11]
But now John was invited to a regular party. [4]
He, John Bickersteth, was going into a world again, where--as he believed--a happy fate awaited him; but what of this old man? [11]
John Minor Botts, was duly received. [7]
The original speech was delivered at a dinner given by the publishers of The Atlantic Monthly in honor of the seventieth anniversary o f the birth of John Greenleaf Whittier, at the Hotel Brunswick, Boston, December 17, 1877. [5]
Now that he was dead, it would be proved in what way he had remembered the son whom, in his solitude, he had learned to love, what life path John had been assigned by his father. [10]
John Hodder's mother was a widow, and to her, in the white, gabled house which had sheltered stern ancestors, he travelled in the June following his experience. [9]
John York's journal was a thing to sit up nights to read. [11]
Andrew, John Albion: War Governor, 223; hearing Emerson, 379. [6]
I think he wanted to give back again all that John Grier had ever paid out to him or for him; and now, at last, he fights the man who gave him birth! [11]
When John Lyon walked away from her door his feelings were very much mixed. [4]
As the train waited, John heard from miles of marshes round about the evening song of millions of frogs, louder and more melancholy and entreating than the vesper call of the bells. [4]
Resolved, That N. W. Edwards, A. G. Henry, James H. Matheny, John C. Doremus, and James C. Conkling be appointed a Whig Central State Committee, with authority to fill any vacancy that may occur in the committee. [7]
For Dorothy had vowed it was her pleasure to see John Paul off, and who could stand in her way? [9]
To-day John had voluntarily approached the stranger to whom he owed his life, but whose passionate caresses at their first meeting had frightened him, to show her the little wooden horse that Adrian had just given him. [10]
Last week through visitors also--the only ones we have had --Dr. Root and John Howells. [5]
Manners thanked him very tactfully for restoring me to them, as she was pleased to put it, to which John Paul modestly replied that he had done no more than another would under the same circumstances. [9]
But there was very little sentiment in all this, and nothing whatever to make John blush at hearing her name. [4]
He felt his veins beating with desire, with anger, disgust, and shame; for there was John Brown, to the applause of the crowd, imitating his old manner, his voice, his very look. [11]
Here died Jan van Eyck, the father of oil painting; and here, in the hospital of St. John, are the most celebrated pictures of Hans Memling. [4]
Mr. John Morley uses the following words: "The horrors of what is perhaps the most frightful idea that has ever corroded human character,--the idea of eternal punishment. [6]
Uncle Dave Hopkins used to always say, 'Turn me into John Calvin, and I want to know which place I'm going to; turn me into Mulberry Sellers and I don't care. [5]
Sir John Fastolfe urged the battle-corps into a gallop. [5]
As we looked upon it that day, John Paul and I, and it lay low against the bright water with its bare oaks and chestnuts against the dark pines, 'twas perhaps as well that the future was sealed to us. [9]
How John rushed up to the line. [9]
We remained there until the spring, and then removed to a house more immediately in the town, a charming old-fashioned mansion, once lived in by John de Witt, where he had a large library and every domestic comfort during the year of his sojourn. [6]
He did not understand where Don John had found time to learn to speak French, German, and Italian. [10]
John buried him under the twin hawthorn-trees,--one white and the other pink,--in a spot where Calvin was fond of lying and listening to the hum of summer insects and the twitter of birds. [4]
His brown eyes under the rough thatch of his eyebrow took in the room with lightning glance, and he nodded respectfully, yet with great friendliness, at John Grier. [11]
It is n't two years,--said the young man John, since that fat fellah was exhibitin' here as the Livin' Skeleton. [6]
John Wagner is two years older than the Rhode Island veteran, and yet has never tasted a drop of liquor in his life--unless-unless you count whisky. [5]
Earlier still--more than two years after Wolf's departure--tidings closely associated with the sorrow inflicted through her John had saddened her. [10]
Five months and two weeks ago McFarland asked John Morgan the time of day, and turned and walked rapidly away without waiting for an answer. [5]
The lady took two or three stalks, and was about to return the rest, when John said: "Please keep it all, ma'am. [4]
Gray, John Hay, Twichell, and others who had a chance to see it thought highly of it, and Hay had it set in type and a few proofs taken for private circulation. [5]
As Lord Rippingdale turned to Charles to raise him, the coach-door was opened upon the other side, a light was thrust in, and over the unconscious body of the King my lord recognised John Enderby. [11]
To tell the truth, I am getting a little perplexed about John the Baptist and his portraits. [5]
John, it is true, did not care much for anything that did not appeal to his taste and smell and delight in brilliant color; and he trod down the exquisite ferns and the wonderful mosses--without compunction. [4]
He got that training from John Grier's firm under another name. [11]
There is a tradition (attributed to John Phenix [It has been purloined by fifty different scribblers who were too poor to invent a fancy but not ashamed to steal one.--M. [5]
Sir John Lubbock took ants from two different nests, made them drunk with whiskey and laid them, unconscious, by one of the nests, near some water. [5]
But he called too late, for the neglected wife died from the shock of her prince's longing message to her, and when, by the same mail, John York knew that, he would not go back to England to the King. [11]
If the man to whom he had listened could pour the light into the dark corners of other men's souls, he, John Hodder, felt the same hot spark within him,--despite the dark corners of his own! [9]
John Canty said to this one-- "Tarry! [5]
As I tramp to the point or swing away back, in summer barefooted, in winter on my snowshoes, to myself I seem to be John York on the trail of the king's bugles. [11]
But the addition to the armies of Germany, France, Styria, and Hungary of John Smith, "this English gentleman," as he styles himself, put a new face on the war, and proved the ruin of the Turkish cause. [4]
When it came to supernatural comprehensiveness in "gobbling," John B. Floyd was without his equal, in his own or any other generation. [5]

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