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Sentences starting with major

Major Rollins leaves with me very strong papers from the neighbors of these men, whom he says he knows to be true men. [7]
Major Sherman paid them no attention, and the Judge, once launched in an argument, forgot his surroundings. [9]
Major Stobo met the fugitives under a wind-mill, probably the old wind-mill on the grounds of the General Hospital Convent. [11]
Major Rowens, at that time Lieutenant of the Rockland Fusileers, had driven and "traded" horses not a few before he turned his acquired skill as a judge of physical advantages in another direction. [6]
Major Saxton was still reading when a drunken ruffian clambered up the bank behind them and attempted to pass through the lines. [9]
Major Lackland had once been a man of note in the State--a man of extraordinary natural ability and as extraordinary learning. [5]
Major Colfax had made Tom and me sup with himself and Colonel Clark at the inn in Danville. [9]
Major Fairfax was in, and he came out immediately to her carriage. [4]
Major Lewis came in with roast pig on platter. [9]
Major Rowens united in his person certain other traits which help a man to eminence in the branch of public service referred to. [6]

Sentences ending with major

I think a vast deal of Tom, Major. [9]
I've got no strength left," he added, with sudden resolution turning to the sergeant major. [2]
No one had offered to quarrel with the Major. [9]
I reckon I'm obleeged to ye, Major. [9]
To the gallant Major? [4]
There was one good thing about the Major. [4]
Natasha glanced with frightened eyes at the face of the wounded officer and at once went to meet the major. [2]
Sergeant major! [2]

Short sentences using major

Dr. Forsyth Major specifies (41. [1]
If only with Major Fairfax. [4]
Therefore, let Major John J. [7]
The Major was interested. [5]
Not so Major Hay. [9]
Major Colfax had begun wrong. [9]
The Major laughed. [9]
It's Major Lackland's. [5]

Sentences containing major two or more times

He liked the Major, but he vowed him to be a roisterer and spendthrift, and one day, some months after my advent, the Judge asked me flatly how I came to fall in with Major Colfax. [9]
It was soon a matter of common report how Clark had gazed fixedly at the Major when he said this, and how the Major turned pale and trembled. [9]

More example sentences with the word major in them

I always thought you took after old Major Gideon Withers. [6]
And--and--my son, do you remember Major Gideon Withers? [6]
The difficulty began yesterday afternoon by General Mabry attacking Major O'Connor and threatening to kill him. [5]
The Major said yes, he was not in a hurry. [5]
He concluded arrangements with Major Pond to take him as far as the Pacific Coast, and with R. S. Smythe, of Australia, for the rest of the tour. [5]
The episode deals with an easy-mannered gentleman named Potts, who was the agent for a certain Major Colfax of Virginia. [9]
Even Jack Delancy, when the crushing news was brought him at the club, where he sat talking with Major Fairfax, although he saw his own ruin in a flash, said, "It wouldn't have happened if Henderson had lived. [4]
Ten days ago, when I was in the Holston settlements, Major Ben Logan came in. [9]
Two sergeants major were sitting with them and their campfire blazed brighter than others. [2]
Twelve hundred men were landed at Beauport, in the mud and low water, under one Major Walley. [11]
After the ranks were broken, Major Sherman and the Judge went to talk to Captain Lyon and the Union Leader, who was now a Colonel of one of the Volunteer regiments. [9]
He knew very well that this was Napoleon, but Napoleon's presence could no more intimidate him than Rostov's, or a sergeant major's with the rods, would have done, for he had nothing that either the sergeant major or Napoleon could deprive him of. [2]
But Major said we were not in a hurry, and would wait for the car to be put on. [5]
And the Major was willing to unpack his budget. [4]
I congratulate you," was the exclamation of Major Fairfax the first time Jack went down to the Union. [4]
Though the commander was occupied in giving instructions to Major Ekonomov, he could not help taking notice of the soldier. [2]
But the Major was not disturbed. [5]
To Major Sleeman was given the general superintendence of the giant task of ridding India of Thuggee, and he and his seventeen assistants accomplished it. [5]
Here a fire was crackling on the hearth, refreshments were laid out, and the major in command rose from his book to greet me. [9]
As General Wolfe was about to enter the boat which was to convey him to the flag-ship, he saw McGilveray, who was waiting under guard to be taken to Major Hardy's post at Point Levis. [11]
He has a warm welcome in many houses--the French ladies even plead his cause; le beau capitaine is asked out; no entertainment at last is considered complete, without Captain--later on Major Robert Stobo. [11]
It was Sir Walter that made every gentleman in the South a Major or a Colonel, or a General or a Judge, before the war; and it was he, also, that made these gentlemen value these bogus decorations. [5]
Then the Major volunteered some testimony for the defence. [5]
He has never uttered anything which he, Major T., would call disloyalty. [7]
Among the first to welcome them as they landed and strolled up to the hotel was Major Fairfax. [4]
Very glad, indeed, to hear from you Major, and shall be gladder still to see you in November. [5]
I'd ridden in to Fort Desire from another duty, a matter of a hundred miles, whin the major says to me, 'There's murder been done at Moose Horn. [11]
I begin, to-day, to entirely recast and re-write the first two-thirds--new plan, with two minor characters, made very prominent, one major character cropped out, and the Twins subordinated to a minor but not insignificant place. [5]
The back belonged to a, gentleman who was energetically climbing the embankment in front of him, on the top of which Major Sexton, a regular, army officer, sat his horse. [9]
Both rooms belonged to a spacious suite which lay between the harem and the major portion of the Palace. [11]
General York, in this as in every case, inquired if the family desired to leave, informing them that Major Burke, of 'The Times-Democrat,' has sent the 'Susie' up for that purpose. [5]
A note of these gentlemen, subsequently addressed to General Grant, has already been given in Major Eckert's despatch of the 1st instant. [7]
The Major dragged them out and threw them off the car, and we got under way again. [5]
The soldiers in their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. [2]
Buttrick, Major, in the Revolution, 71, 72. [6]
Others took up the question, "How will ye do it, Major Cozby? [9]
And when for the moment he would conquer his mirth, a glance at Major Colfax would set him off again in laughter. [9]
We next find the Major, on the 21st July, 1759, piloting the expedition sent to Deschambault to seize, as prisoners, the Quebec ladies who had taken refuge there during the bombardment--"Mesdames Duchesnay and Decharnay; Mlle. [11]
Edith was showing the Major the view from the end of the veranda. [4]
In one letter the Major said he agreed with Mr. Hawkins that the inquirer seemed not altogether on the wrong track; but he also agreed that it would be best to keep quiet until more convincing developments were forthcoming. [5]
At Neville's Grange the Major kept a somewhat roisterous bachelor's hall. [9]
Panting and puffing, the major grumbled and growled at everybody because he thought he was being pushed and that they were all hurrying when they had nowhere to hurry to and were all surprised at something when there was nothing to be surprised at. [2]
After a little the conductor passed along, and the Major stopped him and asked him a question in his habitually courteous way: 'Conductor, where does one report the misconduct of a brakeman? [5]
Please look into the case, and oblige Major Rollins if you consistently can. [7]
The soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats. [2]
But at noon the adjutant of the regiment came into Rostov's and Denisov's dugout with a grave and serious face and regretfully showed them a paper addressed to Major Denisov from the regimental commander in which inquiries were made about yesterday's occurrence. [2]
The Major remarked that that would suit him. [4]
It seems singular that no command of any importance appears to have been given to the brave Scot; but, possibly, the part played by the Major when under parole at Fort du Quesne, was weighed by the Imperial authorities. [11]
But it transpired that Mrs. Hawkins had never known of this correspondence between her husband and Major Lackland. [5]
She soon gathered that Major Lackland's memoranda seemed to refer to letters which had passed between himself and Judge Hawkins. [5]
I meant to tell you about a gentleman we met in the street car, a Major Sherman who used to be in the army. [9]
No one could tell exactly how the Major lived; no one knew the rigid economy that he practiced; no one had ever seen his small dingy chamber in a cheap lodging-house. [4]
He fought and suffered for his country, and attained the honorable rank of Major in the Continental line. [9]
There are two such Whigs on this floor (Colonel Haskell and Major James) The former fought as a colonel by the side of Colonel Baker at Cerro Gordo, and stands side by side with me in the vote that you seem dissatisfied with. [7]
Such was the state of things when he received an invitation to take tea sociably, with a few friends, at Hyacinth Cottage, the residence of the Widow Rowens, relict of the late Beeri Rowens, Esquire, better known as Major Rowens. [6]
By and by some Revolutionary anecdote came up, and he showed singular familiarity with the lives of the Adamses, and gave many details relating to Major Andre. [6]
Mr. Astley, the showman, being informed of his Lordship's intention, met us on Westminster Bridge dressed in his uniform as sergeant major of the Royal Light Dragoons and mounted on a white charger. [9]
Mrs. Taylor said she thanked Major Burke, but she would try and hold out. [5]
And it was settled that I should meet the Major in seven days at Harrodstown. [9]
So the King sent his men forth under Major General Kalaimoku and the two host met a Kuamoo. [5]
Sellers, and Major Sellers, Captain Sellers, but nobody could ever get it right, somehow; but the minute our bill went, through the House, I was Col. [5]
And the Major seemed to be in charge of the place. [4]
He gave Major Saxton a salute, quick and genial. [9]
Very soon I saw that the Major realised that this was a matter which was in his line; evidently he was turning over his stock of diplomacy in his mind and getting ready. [5]
And then I sat down, with several other gentlemen, at Mr. Wright's board, where there was much guessing as to Major Cozby's plan. [9]
The horse first, regardless of whether it was right or wrong to show fear, snorted, reared almost throwing the major, and galloped aside. [2]
After he had received the desired information, and was about taking his leave, the youth said, "Are you not Major Elfonzo, the great musician--the champion of a noble cause --the modern Achilles, who gained so many victories in the Florida War? [5]
After he had received the desired information, and was about taking his leave, the youth said, "Are you not Major Elfonzo, the great musician [2]--the champion of a noble cause --the modern Achilles, who gained so many victories in the Florida War? [5]
The company commanders ran off to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and hum with voices. [2]
Denisov celebrated his promotion to the rank of major, and Rostov, who had already drunk enough, at the end of the feast proposed the Emperor's health. [2]
Allow me to present to you, Major, Mr. David Ritchie. [9]
The time passed pleasantly enough until one frosty January morning Major Colfax had a twinge of remembrance, cried out for horses, took me into Richmond, and presented me to that very learned and decorous gentleman, Judge Wentworth. [9]
If I had only laid the matter before the major half of the administration on the spot, there would have been no blunder; but I never thought of that. [5]
I've kept tab on you a little the last five years, and when I heard Sherman had sent a Major Brice up here, I sent for you. [9]
The captain was on the roof with a red-headed major from Memphis--a fine-looking man. [5]
At eight years old she fell in love with the high-colored picture of Major Gideon Withers in the crimson sash and the red feather of his exalted military office. [6]
This thin sort of talk was perhaps pardonable after the weariness of a sea voyage, but the Major promptly said it wouldn't do. [4]
Once he heard of him at a hotel in Washington; but the man departed, leaving an empty trunk, the day before the major went there. [5]
The field officers of a regiment in the State militia are one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, and one major, and the company officers are a captain, a first lieutenant, and a second lieutenant. [7]
This morning Major O'Connor was standing in the door of the Mechanics' National Bank, of which he was president. [5]
The Major spoke now, and asked one of them to take his telegram. [5]
The Major knew nothing except Street rumors. [4]
But he did not give her his address, and he only got her letters when the Major forwarded them from the club, which was irregularly. [4]
As we drew near the crest the major warned me not to expose myself. [9]
Villages, woods, whose names came back to me as the major repeated them, lay like cloud shadows on the sunny plain, and the faintest shadow of all, far to the eastward, was Lens itself. [9]
I have given Mr. Hay a commission of major, and sent him to you, with some blank-books and other blanks, to aid in the reconstruction. [7]
The Major was more than civil; he was disposed to be sympathetic, but he had the tact to see that Mrs. Delancy did not wish to be questioned, nor to talk. [4]
Some of the minor prophesies have come true; some of the minor and some of the major ones have not been fulfilled yet, and of course may never be: still, I should be more surprised if they failed to arrive than if they didn't. [5]
Here, too, I met Major Serre, the bold projector of the great lottery whose brilliant success called into being and insured the prosperity of the Schiller Institute, the source of so much good. [10]
Their letter to me was all that the President's instructions contemplated to secure their safe conduct if they had used the same language to Major Eckert. [7]
The villages interested me because of things which Major Sleeman says about them in his books--particularly what he says about the division of labor in them. [5]
Miss Virginia, you may care to thank the Major for the little service he has done you. [9]
And then we march at the head of a slow procession out of the old West Gate, two and two, old members first, then the fox major and the foxes. [9]
Dr. C. Forsyth Major, 'Sur les Singes fossiles trouves en Italie:' 'Soc. [1]
Porridge, for the major was Scotch, and had taught his French cook to make it as the Scotch make it. [9]
See, for instance, Major W. Ross King ('The Sportsman in Canada,' 1866, pp. [1]
About that time Major Sleeman captured Eugene Sue's Thug-chief, "Feringhea," and got him to turn King's evidence. [5]
At that moment Major Sherman came between them. [9]
It reminded the major of the Turners he had admired in his youth. [9]
Timokhin, the red-nosed major of Prince Andrew's regiment, had joined him in Moscow and was being taken along with him, having been wounded in the leg at the battle of Borodino. [2]

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