Use lincoln in a sentence
Sentences starting with lincoln
- Lincoln accepted the suggestion, and the proclamation was postponed. [7]
- Lincoln had common sense. [9]
- Lincoln himself, not knowing how strongly the masses were attached to him, was haunted by dark forebodings of defeat. [7]
- Lincoln saw this clearly; but he saw also that, in a protracted death struggle, it might still have kept disloyal sentiments alive, bred distracting commotions, and caused great mischief to the country. [7]
- Lincoln found himself, by the Constitution, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, but with only a remnant of either at hand. [7]
- Lincoln never kept a grocery anywhere in the world. [7]
- Lincoln reasoned otherwise. [7]
Sentences ending with lincoln
- Is Mr. Flint your example of the fittest type to exist and survive, or Gladstone or Wilberforce or Emerson or Lincoln? [9]
- It was rare with him, and he must have caught it from Mr. Lincoln. [9]
- But no man was ever entrusted with it to whom its seductions were less dangerous than they proved to be to Abraham Lincoln. [7]
- And he had visions of a quiet dinner with Richter under the trees at the beer-garden, where he could talk about Abraham Lincoln. [9]
- Thither came Miss Todd of Kentucky, long before she thought of taking for a husband that rude man of the people, Abraham Lincoln. [9]
- Stephen had learned to love the Judge, and he had never ceased to be grateful to him for a knowledge of that man who had had the most influence upon his life, --Abraham Lincoln. [9]
- It only remains to be told how Stephen Brice, coming to the Brewster House after the debate, found Mr. Lincoln. [9]
- It is certain that they were much better versed in the history of the Association than in that of the Union, in the biography of Excelsior rather than that of Lincoln. [9]
- They began to talk about this man Lincoln. [9]
- She was to see it once again, upon the features of one who bore a cross, --Abraham Lincoln. [9]
Short sentences using lincoln
- A. Lincoln, and Wm. [7]
- Mr. Lincoln looked up. [9]
- Mr. Lincoln guessed the cause. [9]
- Mr. Lincoln was speaking again. [9]
- Again Mr. Lincoln smiled. [9]
- Mr. Lincoln would not wait. [9]
- Just so this Mr. Lincoln. [9]
- Mr. Lincoln ripped it open. [9]
- Mr. Lincoln listened attentively. [9]
- Lincoln, Abraham, character, 307. [6]
Sentences containing lincoln two or more times
- Here it is, from Mr. Noah Brooks's Recollections of President Lincoln in Scribners Monthly: J. H. Hackett, in his part of Falstaff, was an actor who gave Mr. Lincoln great delight. [5]
- Our instructions contemplate a personal interview between President Lincoln and ourselves at Washington City, but with this explanation we are ready to meet any person or persons that President Lincoln may appoint at such place as he may designate. [7]
More example sentences with the word lincoln in them
- The Judge is woefully at fault about his early friend Lincoln being a "grocery-keeper. [7]
- The Endowment Fund will be the most fitting of all the memorials the country will dedicate to the memory of Lincoln, serving, as it will, to uplift his very own people. [5]
- The ugly galoot, who dared to raise his eyes only to the pear, was Mr. Lincoln himself. [9]
- So felt Lincoln when on the field of Gettysburg he spoke those immortal words which Pericles could not have bettered, which Aristotle could not have criticised. [3]
- Mr. Lincoln asked what caused the heat, if it was not party? [7]
- Grant and Sherman were living there before the Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln was an unknown lawyer in the neighboring state of Illinois. [9]
- Everywhere festive guns were booming, bells pealing, the churches ringing with thanksgivings, and jubilant multitudes thronging the thoroughfares, when suddenly the news flashed over the land that Abraham Lincoln had been murdered. [7]
- Here, much bedecked, was the Galena Lincoln Club, part of Joe Davies's shipment. [9]
- When Abraham Lincoln was running for the Legislature the first time, on the platform of the improvement of the navigation of the Sangamon River, he went to secure the votes of thirty men who were cradling a wheat field. [4]
- Now at length was come his chance to be of use in life,--to dedicate the labor of his hands and of his brains to Abraham Lincoln uncouth prophet of the West. [9]
- So Lincoln, at twenty-one, had just begun his preparation for the public life to which he soon began to aspire. [7]
- It has been truly said that Abraham Lincoln knew the human heart. [9]
- The baggage man told him that Mr. Lincoln was at the tavern. [9]
- It was telegraphed to Washington City, and published in the Union, that he was framing his plan for the purpose of going to Illinois to pounce upon and annihilate the treasonable and disunion speech which Lincoln had made here on the 16th of June. [7]
- I have listened to the guns of Five Forks, where Sheridan and Warren bore their own colors in the front of the charge, I was with Mr. Lincoln while the battle of Petersburg was raging, and there were tears in his eyes. [9]
- Mr. Lincoln referred to some official documents emanating from Indiana, and compared the progressive population of the two States. [7]
- I sent you to see Abraham Lincoln that you might be born again --in the West. [9]
- Mr. Lincoln moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed. [7]
- Mr. Lincoln proceeded to rally the Buffalo convention for forbearing to say anything--after all the previous declarations of those members who were formerly Whigs--on the subject of the Mexican War, because the Van Burens had been known to have supported it. [7]
- Lord Rippingdale suggested to his Majesty that one of the gentlemen should ride ahead to guard against surprise or ambush, but the King laughed, and said that his shire of Lincoln bred no brigands, and he rode on. [11]
- Address your letters to Dr. A. G. Henry, R. F, Barrett; A. Lincoln, E. D. Baker, J. F. Speed. [7]
- Mr. Lincoln took three strides in Stephen's direction and seized him by the shoulder. [9]
- But out of these simple elements, when rightly used by the right man, education is achieved, and Lincoln knew how to use them. [7]
- Mr. Napier thought there was no danger of that; and Mr. Lincoln said he had not examined to see what amount of scrip would probably be needed. [7]
- And which among them would declare that Abraham Lincoln, like Stephen, had not seen his Master in the sky? [9]
- But Abraham Lincoln, the uncouth man in the linen duster with the tousled hair, knew it. [9]
- Abraham Lincoln loved the South as well as the North. [9]
- Mr. Lincoln thought the resolutions ought to be seriously considered. [7]
- Mr. Lincoln considered the question of the highest importance whether an individual had a right to sit in this House or not. [7]
- To Abraham Lincoln the people became bound by a genuine sentimental attachment. [7]
- He was in the midst of campaign activities, he said, writing a life of Hayes, and gaily added: "You know I wrote the life of Lincoln, which elected him. [5]
- Meanwhile, his hero, the hewer of rails and forger of homely speech, Abraham Lincoln, had made a little tour eastward the year before, and had startled Cooper Union with a new logic and a new eloquence. [9]
- The compiler of the Dictionary of Congress states that while preparing that work for publication, in 1858, he sent to Mr. Lincoln the usual request for a sketch of his life, and received the following reply: Born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. [7]
- It passed in the closing moments of the session in July, 1864, and Lincoln, instead of making it a law by his signature, embodied the text of it in a proclamation as a plan of reconstruction worthy of being earnestly considered. [7]
- He came from the banks of the Mississippi--from the flatboatmen, pilots, roustabouts, farmers and village folk of a rude, primitive people--as Lincoln did. [5]
- Abraham Lincoln at that time represented the American people as the British Government did not represent the British people. [9]
- Mr. Lincoln thought that the question had better be gone into now. [7]
- It would make that one of Lincoln in Union Square look beautiful. [4]
- The Chair decided that Mr. Lincoln was not out of order. [7]
- It is true that Lincoln did work the latter part of one winter in a little stillhouse, up at the head of a hollow. [7]
- And he said that he would die willingly--after Abraham Lincoln was elected. [9]
- He said, too, that he should not concern himself with Trumbull any more, but thereafter he should hold Lincoln responsible for the slanders upon him. [7]
- Among the invitations that came was one from General O. O. Howard asking him to preside at a meeting to raise an endowment fund for a Lincoln Memorial University at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. [5]
- But when, after that battle, the Confederate army, under Lee, crossed the Potomac and invaded Maryland, Lincoln vowed in his heart that, if the Union army were now blessed with success, the decree of freedom should surely be issued. [7]
- He tried to thank Mr. Lincoln, but that gentleman's quizzical look cut him short. [9]
- He, sat and talked of many things: of the great war that was agonizing the nation; of the strong man who, harassed and suffering himself, was striving to guide it, likening Lincoln unto a physician. [9]
- Resolved, That A. T. Bledsoe, S. T. Logan, and A. Lincoln be appointed a committee to prepare an address to the people of the State. [7]
- But Mr. Lincoln surprised him still further in taking him by the arm. [9]
- He was thoroughly subdued, and thenceforth submitted to Lincoln his despatches for revision and amendment without a murmur. [7]
- Lincoln, our most striking example, grew more between 1861 and 1865 than during all the earlier years of his life. [9]
- Mrs. Lincoln has started home, and I will thank you to see that our coachman is at the Arsenal wharf at eight o'clock to-morrow morning, there to wait until she arrives. [7]
- In writing that speech Stephen had striven to bear in mind a piece of advice which Mr. Lincoln had given him. [9]
- The family of Smith is so "ancient" that the historians of the county of Lincoln do not allude to it, and only devote a brief paragraph to the great John himself. [4]
- Mr. Lincoln was sitting under the lamp, slouched down in his chair, in the position I remembered so well. [9]
- For instance, Mr. Silas Tredway of Ripton, made such a pilgrimage and, as a citizen who had voted in 1860 for Abraham Lincoln (showing Mr. Tredway himself to have been a radical once), appealed to Mr. Henderson to save the State. [9]
- The Captain had seen Lincoln caricatured vilely. [9]
- And Mr. Lincoln seemed to feel Medill's objections, as by mental telepathy. [9]
- When the Judge says he would n't have believed of Abraham Lincoln that he would have made such an attempt as that he reminds me of the fact that he entered upon this canvass with the purpose to treat me courteously; that touched me somewhat. [7]
- But when he saw Stephen, Mr. Lincoln looked up with a smile of welcome that is still, and ever will be, remembered and cherished. [9]
- We come then, said Mr. Lincoln, to the law. [7]
- Whipple, that speech reminded me of Lincoln. [9]
- Lincoln, Abraham, funeral remarks, 242, 243, 307. [6]
- Suddenly Mr. Lincoln recalled himself, glanced at the paper, and cleared his throat. [9]
- See H. J. Raymond: Life of Lincoln, p. 772] which phrase I do not remember using literally or in substance, and which I wish not to be published in any event. [7]
- Mr. Lincoln had preceded him, and was even then listening to a few remarks of burning praise by an honorable gentleman. [9]
- Standing on the platform after the train pulled out, he summoned up courage to ask a citizen with no mustache and a beard, which he swept away when he spat, where was the office of Lincoln & Herndon. [9]
- Men in high places underestimated Lincoln, or did not estimate him at all. [9]
- Mr. Lincoln went over to his desk and sat down before it. [9]
- After it was over they all came out of the cabin together General Grant silent, and smoking, as usual; General Sherman talking vivaciously; and Lincoln and the Admiral smiling and listening. [9]
- That it is original with Lincoln. [7]
- The differences of opinion concerning this subject had only intensified the feeling against Lincoln which had long been nursed among the radicals, and some of them openly declared their purpose of resisting his re-election to the Presidency. [7]
- Having the mind open to other times and to the significance of great men in history, how much more clearly they comprehend Franklin and Grant and Lincoln! [4]
- We have, however, one Fourth of July which is absolutely our own, and that is that great proclamation issued forty years ago by that great American to whom Sir Mortimer Durand paid that just and beautiful tribute--Abraham Lincoln. [5]
- Mr. Lincoln went on to observe that he differed in opinion, in the present case, from his honorable friend from Richmond [Mr. Botts]. [7]
- 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]
- Still another class of Union men, mainly in the East, gravely shook their heads when considering the question whether Lincoln should be re-elected. [7]
- In due course of time Congress passed a bill to organize "Nevada Territory," and President Lincoln sent out Governor Nye to supplant Roop. [5]
- On entering one of these, he perceived Mr. Lincoln sprawled (he could think of no other word to fit the attitude) on a seat next the window, and next him was Mr. Medill of the Press and Tribune. [9]
- Not a few of them actually believed, in 1863, that, if the national convention of the Union party were held then, Lincoln would not be supported by the delegation of a single State. [7]
- The district consisted of several counties, but the unanimous vote of the people of his own county was for Lincoln. [7]
- Memorandum accompanying Letter of President Lincoln to General McClellan, dated February 3,1862. [7]
- Stephen caught glimpses of Mr. Lincoln towering above the knots of country politicians who surrounded him, and every once in a while a knot would double up with laughter. [9]
- At the end of Miller's deposition, Adams asks, "Will Mr. Lincoln now say that he is almost convinced my title to this ten acre tract of land is founded in fraud? [7]
- Seward's fantastic schemes of foreign war and continental policies Lincoln brushed aside by passing them over in silence. [7]
- On the occasion of a Lincoln Birthday service at Carnegie Hall he was chosen to preside, and he was obliged to attend more dinners than were good for his health. [5]
- He had some notion of the multitude of calls upon Mr. Lincoln, especially at that time. [9]
- Abraham Lincoln did not object to being kissed: he had, at least, grown to accept the process as one of the unaccountable mysteries of life. [9]
- Mr. Lincoln was not making an argument for the purpose of convicting the gentleman of any impropriety at all. [7]
- Abraham Lincoln would not have blushed between honest clerks and farmers Why should Stephen Brice? [9]
- If Lincoln is not elected I have lived my sixty-five years for nothing. [9]
- Mr. Lincoln did not appear to hear them. [9]
- But Lincoln repelled no one whom he believed to speak to him in good faith and with patriotic purpose. [7]
- And I have no doubt in this way many retainers came to Lincoln. [7]
- Never was a new ruler in a more desperate plight than Lincoln when he entered office on the fourth of March, 1861, four months after his election, and took his oath to support the Constitution and the Union. [7]
- I have too much respect for Mr. Lincoln to suppose he is serious in making the charge. [7]
- He is very much in the habit, when he argues me up into a position I never thought of occupying, of very cosily saying he has no doubt Lincoln is "conscientious" in saying so. [7]
- And, Steve," said Mr. Lincoln, putting his hand again on Virginia's shoulder, "if you have the sense I think you have, you'll hang on, too. [9]
- The Speaker called Mr. Lincoln to order as being irrelevant; no mention had been made of party heat. [7]
- Stephen told young Mr. Lincoln that he should have to take the first train after his father. [9]
- But from that moment Lincoln and his loyal supporters never faltered in their purpose. [7]
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