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Sentences starting with manitou

Manitou condemned the sacrilegiousness of the Protestants, whose meeting-houses were used for "socials," "tea-meetings," "strawberry festivals," and entertainments of many kinds; while comic songs were sung at the table where the solemn Love Feast was held at the quarterly meetings. [11]
Manitou was as much home--nay, it was a thousand times more home--than the shifting habitat of the days when they wandered from the Caspians to John o' Groat's. [11]
Manitou was, however, full of back-water people, religious fanatics, little farmers, guides, trappers, old coureurs-de-bois, Hudson's Bay Company factors and ex-factors, half-breeds; and all the rest. [11]
Manitou was a distributing point for all radiations of the compass, and men were thrown together in its streets who only saw one another once or twice a year-when they went to the woods in the Fall or worked the rivers in the Summer. [11]
Manitou was the best town in the West; it's no good now. [11]
Manitou showed itself antagonistic to progress; it was old-fashioned, and primitively agricultural. [11]

Sentences ending with manitou

And I tell you this, I'd be glad to have a minister that I could follow and respect and love as I respect and love Monseigneur Lourde of Manitou. [11]
Since he came West, since he came to the Sagalac, he's brought work to Lebanon and to Manitou. [11]
Rockwell told him, urging at the same time that he see the Chief Constable as well, and Monseigneur Lourde at Manitou. [11]
The leaders have to be arrested, and it had better be done by one that, in a way, don't belong to either Lebanon or Manitou. [11]
He was at times profane and impecunious, and he had been shifted from one boarding-house to another till at last, having exhausted credit in Lebanon, he had found a room in the house of old Madame Thibadeau in Manitou. [11]
You know what those fellows are over in Manitou. [11]
There's a whole lot of toughs in Manitou. [11]
Then they were lifted to the tall chimneys rising at two or three points on the outskirts of Manitou. [11]
You wanted to know what the wig and the habitant's clothes are for, Berry--well, for me to wear in Manitou. [11]
The Chief Constable keeps me posted as to what's going on here, and pretty fairly as to what's going on in Manitou. [11]

Short sentences using manitou

I'll go to Manitou later. [11]
Mum as Manitou! [11]

Sentences containing manitou two or more times

There had already been collision between his own railway-men and the rivermen from Manitou, whom Felix Marchand had bribed to cause trouble: two Manitou men had been seriously hurt, and feeling ran high. [11]

More example sentences with the word manitou in them

You wouldn't fuss yourself about things here in Manitou and Lebanon, if there wasn't something you wanted to get. [11]
I got in with the French toughs over at Manitou, at Barbazon's Tavern, and I gave them gin--we made it a gin night. [11]
In the days when vast markets would be established for Canadian wheat in Shanghai and Tokio, then these two towns of Manitou and Lebanon on the Sagalac would be like the swivel to the organization of trade of a continent. [11]
Such was Berry when he had under his razor one of Ingolby's business foes of Manitou, who had of late been in touch with Felix Marchand. [11]
Young Marchand says what Manitou says. [11]
At which there was rejoicing at Lebanon, followed by dismay and indignation at Manitou, for one of the smaller merged railways had its offices there, and it was now removed to Lebanon; while several of the staff, having proved cantankerous, were promptly retired. [11]
He saw he was in for a big fight with Manitou, and he had to think it out. [11]
Holy, once Manitou was a place to live in, now it's a place to die in! [11]
Even if it was a mistake for Ingolby to take away the offices from Manitou, he's done a big thing for both cities by combining the three railways. [11]
All these had vowed to "get back at him," but when it became a question of Lebanon against Manitou they swung over to his side and acknowledged him as leader. [11]
He's done harm to Manitou--he's against Manitou every time. [11]
To them the time had come when the reactionary forces of Manitou must receive a check. [11]
By twos, by threes, by tens, men from Manitou came sauntering across the bridge into Lebanon, until a goodly number were scattered at different points through the town. [11]
As though her thoughts had summoned him, she came suddenly upon Felix Marchand at a point where her path resolved itself into two, one leading to Manitou, the other to her own home. [11]
They believed that though his body was on earth his soul was with Manitou, and that it was his soul which came into him again, and gave the Great Spirit's healing to the fingers. [11]
In an hour they were on their way again, and towards sunset they had reached the foot of Manitou Mountain. [11]
At this point they parted, Jeff and Gaspe Toujours remaining, and Hume and his two followers going on towards Manitou Mountain. [11]
But one day there was a terrible railway accident on a construction train, and Lebanon and Manitou made a call upon his skill, and held him in bondage to his profession for one whole month. [11]
I don't think the priests will be able to help much in the end, and if it is to be Manitou against Lebanon, you can't expect a great deal. [11]
Then had come the Mayor's visit to Montreal, the great meeting, the fire at Manitou, and now Ingolby on the way to his tryst with Fleda. [11]
Tied up to the Manitou shore were a half- dozen cribs or rafts of timber which should be floating eastward down the Sagalac. [11]
He had started the first saloon at Manitou, and had grown with the place in more senses than one. [11]
He had heard the criminal hireling of Felix Marchand say that it should be done at midnight, and that the explosive should be laid under that part of the bridge which joined the Manitou bank of the Sagalac. [11]
I guess that the Chief Constable of Manitou and Monseigneur Lourde and old Mother Thibadeau are about the only people that Marchand can't bribe. [11]
The mournful fact that Manitou had never equipped itself with a first-class fire-engine or a fire-brigade was now to play a great part in the future career of the two towns. [11]
It was a strange truth that if Lebanon had saved the whole town of Manitou, it would not have been the same to the people as the saving of the church. [11]
Felix Marchand, the son of old Hector Marchand, money-lender and capitalist of Manitou, had pressed his attentions upon her during the last year since he had returned from the East, bringing dissoluteness and vulgar pride with him. [11]
A moment later someone shouted, "It's the Catholic church at Manitou on fire! [11]
A moment later she was on her way back to Manitou, but she did not get to her father's house before the break of day; and in the doorway she met Madame Bulteel, whose pale, drawn face proclaimed a sleepless night. [11]
Here at Manitou she had tasted a free life which was not vagabondage, the passion of the open road which was not an elaborate and furtive evasion of the law and a defiance of social ostracism. [11]
It was a settlement twenty years before Lebanon had a house, though the latter exceeded the population of Manitou in five years, and became the home of all adventuring spirits--land agents, company promoters, mining prospectors, railway men, politicians, saloon keepers, and up to-date dissenting preachers. [11]
I can just see the toughs at Manitou when they read this stuff, and know about that funeral. [11]
Even the Manitou section were stilled into sympathy with him. [11]
That night they saw Manitou Mountain, cold, colossal, harshly calm; and jointly with that sight there arose a shrieking, biting, fearful north wind. [11]
Lebanon was English, progressive, and brazenly modern; Manitou was slow, reactionary, more or less indifferent to education, and strenuously Catholic, and was thus opposed to the militant Protestantism of Lebanon. [11]
They knew little or nothing of Ingolby the hustler, but they knew more of Fleda Druse and her father than all the people of Lebanon and Manitou put together. [11]
Closing them railway offices at Manitou, and dislodging the officials give him his first good chance. [11]
Following the bank of the river she would have increased her walk greatly, as the stream made a curve at a point above Manitou, and then came back again to its original course; so she cut across the promontory, taking the most direct line homeward. [11]
Since the running of the Rapids, Fleda had filled a larger place in the eyes of Manitou and Lebanon. [11]
There's a lot of Manitou huskies in Lebanon now, and their feet is loaded, if their guns ain't. [11]
Probably there is no country in the world where elementary education commands the devotion and the cash of the people as in English Canada; that is why the towns of Lebanon and Manitou had from the first divergent views. [11]
We are twenty miles from Manitou Mountain. [11]
The roughs of Manitou had not looked for this. [11]
The police in Manitou are straight enough. [11]
The antagonisms between Lebanon and Manitou were unwillingly and unjustly deepened by the very man who had set out to bring them together, as one of the ideals of his life, and as one of the factors of his success. [11]
It was now known that the roughs of Manitou, led by the big river-driver, were about to start on a raid upon Lebanon and upon Ingolby at the very moment the horseshoe did its work. [11]
Another strike was imminent in the factories at Manitou and in the railway-shops at Lebanon, due to the stupidity of the policy of Ingolby's successor as to the railways and other financial and manufacturing interests. [11]
A rifle-shot had, however, been fired across the Sagalac from the Manitou side, and it had been promptly acknowledged from Lebanon. [11]
I talk with her more than with any one else in Manitou. [11]
And sometimes, as he had looked at the old man, his imagination had caught the spirit of the legend of the Indians, and he had cried out, "O soul, come back and give him memory--give him back his memory, Manitou the mighty! [11]
Certainly she would have been considered pure English among the polyglot population of Manitou. [11]
It was a grey enough day at Lebanon, and dark-faced visitors from Manitou felt the need of Winter clothing as they shiveringly crossed the Sagalac by Ingolby's bridge. [11]
The taverns were greatly frequented, which was not good for Manitou and Lebanon. [11]
But if you go to Manitou to-night, how can you have that fiddler? [11]
As they were French Canadians, their retirement became a public matter in Manitou and begot fresh quarrel between the rival towns. [11]
What he had found was not reassuring, because Manitou, conscious of being in the wrong, realized that Lebanon would try to make her understand her wrong- doing; and that was intolerable. [11]
He had seen Fleda only twice since the episode at Carillon, and met her only once, and that was but for a moment at a Fete for the hospital at Manitou, and with other people present--people who lay in wait for crumbs of gossip. [11]
This isn't the first time I've been to Manitou. [11]
Beyond it, a few blocks away, was the Sagalac, and beyond the Sagalac was Manitou, and a little way to the right was the bridge which was the symbol of his policy. [11]
Not that they failed to be shocked sometimes, when, on her wild Indian pony, Fleda swept through Manitou like a wind and out into the prairie, riding, as it were, to the end of the world. [11]
Yet no one ever questioned his bona fides, and if he had attended mass at Manitou in the morning, joined a heathen dance in Tekewani's Reserve in the afternoon, and listened to the oleaginous Rev. [11]
No one had ever asked it directly of her since they had come to Manitou. [11]
This was mainly due to the fact that Felix Marchand, the evil genius of Manitou, had not been seen in the town or in the district for over a week. [11]
They're comin' by driblets, and by-and-bye, when they've all distributed themselves, there'll be a marching column of them from Manitou. [11]
With hands plunged deep in the capacious pockets of his grey jacket, Ingolby walked on, seeing everything; yet with his mind occupied intently, too, on the trouble which must be faced before Lebanon and Manitou would be the reciprocating engines of his policy. [11]
Who raises the cry of 'wolf' in Manitou? [11]
She'll make this country sit up some day-by gorry, she'll make Manitou and Lebanon sit up to-day if she runs the Carillon Rapids safe! [11]
With frequent discord, but with much spirit, the Bleaters, as these musicians were called in Lebanon, inspired the steps of the Manitou fanatics and toughs. [11]
I want to bring these two towns together, to make them a sign of what this country is, and what it can do; to make hundreds like ourselves in Manitou and Lebanon work together towards health, wealth, comfort and happiness. [11]
I escort the brave to the gates of Manitou. [11]
A clot of blood in the heart had been the verdict of the doctors; and Lebanon and Manitou had watched the Ry of Rys carried by his own people to the open prairie near to Tekewani's reservation. [11]
Others again were birds of passage who would probably never see Manitou in the future, but they were mostly French, and mostly Catholic, and enemies of the Orange Lodges wherever they were, east or west or north or south. [11]
The physical collision between the rougher elements of the two towns had brought matters to a head, and nearly every man in Lebanon felt that his honour was at stake, and was ready "to have it out with Manitou. [11]
What had happened between that time and this day of fate for Lebanon and Manitou? [11]
Upon a point below the first rapids of the Little Manitou they waited with their camp-fires burning and their pipe of peace. [11]
Originally Manitou had been the home of Icelanders, Mennonites, and Doukhobors; settlers from lands where the conditions of earlier centuries prevailed, who, simple as they were in habits and in life, were ignorant, primitive, coarse, and none too cleanly. [11]
There was to be a procession of strikers from two factories in Manitou, who would throw down their tools or leave their machines at a certain moment. [11]
He's for Lebanon and we're for Manitou. [11]
Why, if Jim and Osterhaut and Jowett and all the men of Lebanon and Manitou had deserted me, I shouldn't have been surprised; but I'd have had to recast my philosophy if Fleda Druse had turned her bonny brown head away. [11]
While old Berry and Osterhaut and all the others were waiting at Ingolby's house, Jowett was scouting among the Manitou roughs for the Chief Constable of Lebanon, to find out what was forward. [11]
Late Carscallen, Cloud-in-the-Sky, and myself will push on to Manitou Mountain. [11]
He had succeeded, and his belief that Manitou could be swayed in the right direction if properly handled, was correct. [11]
Jealous, envious, narrow and bitter Manitou had been, but she now saw Lebanon in a new light. [11]
Another day passed and at night, after a hard march, they camped five miles from Manitou Mountain. [11]
November and May always found Manitou, as though to say, "upset. [11]
It was noticeable also that though the mills were running in Manitou, there were fewer chimneys smoking, and far more men in the streets than usual. [11]
Ingolby thought of all these things, but in a spirit of understanding, as he went to his tryst with her at sunset on the day when Lebanon and Manitou were reconciled. [11]
To his mind all the troubles come to Lebanon and Manitou had had one source; and now the malign spirit had stretched its hand to spoil those already dispossessed of all but the right to live. [11]
There were only about sixty feet of space between the two processions, when a voice rang out in a challenge so offensive, that the men of Manitou got their cue for attack without creating it themselves. [11]
She had heard a whisper as she wandered among the pine-trees there at Manitou, and it said simply the one word, "Now! [11]
Ingolby had made a tactical mistake in at once removing the office of the merged railway from Manitou, and he saw it quickly. [11]
It was not a good time for reducing wages, or for quarrelling with the Town Councils of Manitou and Lebanon concerning assessments and other matters. [11]
He had been a figure apart from both Lebanon and Manitou, and they did not regard him as a dago, particularly as it was more than whispered that Ingolby "had a lien" on his daughter. [11]

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