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Sentences starting with mention

Mention of the war will wake up a dull company and set their tongues going, when nearly any other topic would fail. [5]
Mention any good thing she had not done; I should like to see you try! [6]
Mention facts as much as you want to, but don't mention names to anybody. [5]
Mention having been made of the dusk of the afternoon, it will be inferred that Mr Brass's task occupied some time in the completion. [12]
Mention has been made already of Mark Twain's tendency to absentmindedness. [5]
Mention was made in Kutuzov's report of the Russian losses, among which figured the names of Tuchkov, Bagration, and Kutaysov. [2]
Mention has already been made of the Ross home being very near to Viviani, and the association of the Ross and Clemens families. [5]
Mention has already been made of the political excitement in Vienna. [5]
Mention has just been made of Mark Twain's walk with Twichell. [5]

Sentences ending with mention

True, I am very anxious for East Tennessee to be occupied by us; but I see and appreciate the difficulties you mention. [7]
Recent events bring up glorious names, and particularly prominent ones; but these I will not mention. [7]
As if the unpleasant people who won't mind their own business were confined to the classes you mention! [4]
I did not trust my own judgment as to those letters, but I took them to an author whose name is known wherever English is spoken, but which I will not mention. [9]
If the grape time has not passed away, she would be pleased to join in the enterprise you mention. [7]
Besides these offences, there were other minor barbarisms too numerous to mention. [9]
Now, my friends, there is one other thing that I feel myself under some sort of obligation to mention. [7]
The distance between the ports is 600 miles, and when the difficulties of navigating the turbulent Missouri are taken into consideration, the performance of the Lucas deserves especial mention. [5]
Guess you have the knack of it better'n some I could mention. [9]
I don't think the Doctor would want his wife to practise medicine, for reasons which I will not stop to mention. [6]

Short sentences using mention

I'll never mention this again. [13]
I won't mention the Vanes. [9]
Would she mention Nancy? [9]
He did not mention me? [9]
Some I shall mention later. [10]
I thought I'd mention it. [12]
And--I won't mention it. [9]
Would, he mention her? [9]
You needn't mention her name. [12]
Don't mention it. [5]

Sentences containing mention two or more times

There is but a brief mention of it in the letter to Orion, and the letter itself is not worth preserving, but as references to the "machine" appear with increasing frequency, it seems proper to record here its first mention. [5]

More example sentences with the word mention in them

The company, don't you see, must not in any way be suspected with having anything to do with it, no mention of its name as a company, no advertisement of the road on a fly-leaf or cover. [4]
Of the reports you mention, I have not the means of seeing any except your own. [7]
Think the lines you mention are by far the best I ever wrote, hey? [6]
Not one of you is to mention Anana's name; do you hear? [10]
Le Baron Russell writes to me of Emerson at a still later period:-- "One incident I will mention which occurred at my last visit to Emerson, only a few months before his death. [6]
For instance, somebody would mention a name. [5]
And it is worthy of passing mention, in regard to his later productions, that his admirable sense of literary proportion, which is wanting in many good writers, characterized his work to the end. [4]
A great many witnesses were introduced and examined, but I shall only mention those whose testimony seemed most important. [7]
Now, mention your wish; my heart is as calmly quiet as the Nile waters which are flowing by so quietly, and I am ready to hear it, be it good or evil. [10]
Of these I will mention two, one of whom I knew personally. [6]
Just here I will mention something that seems curious to me. [5]
If the reader will call at the circulating library and mention my name, he will be furnished with books which will afford him the fullest information concerning Jaffa. [5]
The major-domo to whom these entreaties were addressed, though he was sorry for the wounded, resolutely refused, saying that he dare not even mention the matter to the count. [2]
Is he one who has led a wild and struggling and isolated life,--seeing few but plain and outspoken Northerns, unskilled in the euphuisms which assist the polite world to skim over the mention of vice? [14]
The manner in which she intended to mention the colour should show him the nature of the bond which united them. [10]
That Greek line, which I do not remember having heard mention of as remarkable, has nearly every consonantal and vowel sound in the language. [6]
Among the objects which deserve special mention are the shrieking parrots and other birds and the yelping dogs in the grounds of the Society of Acclimatization,--out of the range of which the visitor will be glad to get as soon as possible. [6]
I laughed out when I got to the mention of Frederika's special accomplishment, given by you with a distinct simplicity that, to my taste, is what the French would call 'impayable. [14]
To these considerations were to be joined other circumstances which we need not here mention, of a nature to add greatly to their force, and which would go far of themselves to determine his action. [6]
If any others were there we have no mention of them. [5]
King Arthur's people were not aware that they were indecent and I had presence of mind enough not to mention it. [5]
It may be well to mention that the Merrill relations, like Sally Broke, had overcome their dislike for Cynthia. [9]
I know full well that many readers would be disappointed if I did not mention some of the grand places and bring in some of the great names that lend their lustre to London society. [6]
I may as well mention that B. F. came to me after breakfast to borrow the pamphlet for "a lady,"--one of the boarders, he said,--looking as if he had a secret he wished to be relieved of. [6]
I may as well mention here that on our whole trip we saw no Bedouins, and had no more use for an Arab guard than we could have had for patent leather boots and white kid gloves. [5]
Then when it was given to her, no mention was made of the delay. [11]
The other arm was broken, you see, but I didn't know it, and she didn't mention it. [5]
He was very warm, and well he might be; for, not to mention the exertion of getting the trunk up stairs, he was closely muffled in winter garments, though the thermometer had stood all day at eighty-one in the shade. [12]
Janet had grown warm at the mention of Ditmar's name. [9]
Did not the Vicomtesse mention it? [9]
It was in vain that I whipped my dull senses; but one conclusion was indicated by all this inference, and I don't care even to mention that: it was preposterous. [9]
But while the trouble with the last century is to find authors to mention, the trouble of this would be to name all that we find. [3]
My excitement was too great to analyze what he meant by this mention of my father.... [9]
Interesting, and easy to understand--except in one detail, which I will mention presently. [5]
In the letter to Twichell, which follows, there is mention of two unfinished manuscripts which he expects to resume. [5]
I mention this to show the state in which we have lived. [5]
If you happen to see him, you might mention the subject to him. [9]
It is due to Mr. Gridley's memory to mention that the expenses of his sanitary flour sack expedition of fifteen thousand miles, going and returning, were paid in large part if not entirely, out of his own pocket. [5]
I have neglected to mention that she too had been away almost continuously since our misunderstanding, for the summer in the mountains,--a sojourn recommended for her mother's health; and in the autumn she had somewhat abruptly decided to go East to boarding-school at Farmington. [9]
I had forgotten to mention that my friend was something of a whip. [9]
We are unwilling to mention names--though we have a man in our eye whom we wish they had in theirs.--New York Tribune. [5]
It is enough to mention Mrs. Farquhar's name to an habitue of the Springs. [4]
It is fair to mention in passing that other young men were in love with Cynthia at this time, notably Eben Hatch--history repeating itself. [9]
I didn't forget to mention how you nursed Blake's poor old mother when she was sick, an' how good you was to Dorn's kids. [13]
I mention this to illustrate and not to criticise. [7]
I only desired to give, the reader an idea of a peculiarity of the "flush times" which I could not present so strikingly in any other way, and which some mention of was necessary to a realizing comprehension of the time and the country. [5]
I shall try to find the paper you mention and carefully consider it. [7]
You'll not have to feel any call to mention that debut in the Atlantic--they've made me pay the grand cash for my box!--a thing which most managers would be too worldly-wise to do, with journalistic folks. [5]
I mention this to encourage you. [5]
It is satisfactory to add, that the views assailed have also been unflinchingly defended by unsought champions, among the ablest of whom it is pleasant to mention, at this moment of political alienation, the Editor of the Charleston Medical Journal. [6]
This mention led to a friendly correspondence between the writer and one of the professors in the theological school at Andover, and finally to the publication of a brief essay, which, for some reason, had been withheld from publication for more than a century. [6]
But why mention this, or the magnificent town hall, or St. Bavon, rich in pictures and statuary; or try to put you back three hundred years to the wild days when the iconoclasts sacked this and every other church in the Low Countries? [4]
I merely mention this to prove to you that I am not unmindful, in spite of the circumstances of my own life, of the unfortunates whose mental equipment is not equal to my own. [9]
Lady Inglis makes this mention in her diary: "Mrs. Bruere's nurse was carried past our door to-day, wounded in the eye. [5]
You probably know this already, but I mention it for your own good if you do not, in the hope that, through you, the Northeastern Railroads may be induced to relax their grip upon the government of this State. [9]
I mention these things to give an idea of how narrow the streets are. [5]
I mention these things because, if, when I convict him in one falsehood, he is permitted to shift his ground and pass it by in silence, there can be no end to this controversy. [7]
I mention these things because they were burnt into my mind at the time. [11]
I mention these things as bearing on the story of my life, with which I must get on. [9]
There ain't a thing you can mention that is happiness in its own self--it's only so by contrast with the other thing. [5]
But I mention these things, not from any sympathy I have with the vegetables named, but to show how hard it is to go contrary to the expectations of society. [4]
Any description of them is impossible; but mention may be made of two characteristic groups, remarkable for execution, and having yet a deeper interest. [4]
Only, some of them don't mention the fact. [9]
He spoke of the young man's much admired work on the subject called Sohar, nor did he omit to mention that Gamaliel's nephew was able to foretell the positions of the stars even on future nights. [10]
She felt that the very mention of them tended to soil the pure garments of her martyrdom. [9]
This very day the unworthy son of the great Rameses had covered his face and trembled like a timid fawn at the bare mention of the sorcerer's name, and to-morrow he might curse him and pronounce a death sentence upon him. [10]
When she met the solicitor, she asked him to send no newspaper to her husband containing any reference to herself, nor yet to mention her in his letters. [11]
I will mention the principal ones which came during the year, for to describe them in regular order would be impossible. [10]
Only don't mention the names of any diseases in English or Latin before me next time. [6]
At mention of the name, Luzanne's eyes took on prejudice and moroseness. [11]
The mention of the name of Gerhardt in the preceding letter introduces the most important, or at least the most extensive, of these benefactions. [5]
This information, and the mention of the Bishop, gave a new course to her proceedings. [10]
None dared mention the matter at such a time. [9]
There crept into the letter somehow a good deal about his daily life, linked, to be sure, with mention of places and people in which she had recently an interest. [4]
As to myself, the last remaining link of the Schopper chain whereof Margery hath many times made mention, I am still with you, my dear ones; and I remain but little changed, inasmuch as that my life has ever flowed calmly and silently onward. [10]
We will let the ingenuous Mr. Gaylord be the first to mention this delicate matter, if possible. [9]
Many provisions of the imperial will were known, but there was no mention of her son. [10]
They talked by the hour upon all sorts of themes, the growth of the tree, the habits of wild animals, the migration of seeds, the succession of oak and pine, not to mention theology, and the mysteries of the supernatural. [4]
Many citizens in the hall were astonished at the cheering which followed the mention of this name. [9]
I hope that the good clergyman, if he ever happens to see what I am writing, will pardon me for making mention of his hidden retreat, which he himself speaks of as "one of the remoter nooks of the old country. [6]
The mention in the foregoing letter of the Napoleon effigy is the beginning of what proved to be a rather interesting episode. [5]
As this was the first time I had ever encountered this species of honor, it seems excusable to mention it, and at the same time call the attention of the authorities to the tardiness of my recognition of it. [5]
He may describe the features, the manner, mention certain traits and sayings, all literally true, but absolutely misleading as to the total impression. [4]
Not to mention the English Garden, in speaking of the outside aspects of the city, would be a great oversight. [4]
The mention of the blood money which Herr Ernst Ortlieb owed the slandering tailor, who had not yet recovered from his wound, induced the Emperor to look at the father of the beautiful sisters. [10]
We needn't mention the articles, Wallis. [9]
His mention of the "caves" in the next is another reference to "The Canvasser's Tale. [5]
It so happens that those which follow were mainly intended for the divinity-student and the school-mistress; though others, whom I need not mention, saw to interfere, with more or less propriety, in the conversation. [6]
Then she whispered that she might mention Nickel's burdened soul to the abbot. [10]
I have had that sensation, thought, emotion, a hundred times, but I never heard it spoken of before, and I never saw any mention of it in print;" and thirdly, anything one likes, provided he can so tell it as to make it interesting. [6]
The guide said that Saewulf was the first to mention it. [5]
And it appeared that Mr. Mecklin knew all about the "little matter," and that the mention of the firm of Watling, Fowndes and Ripon had a magical effect in these parts. [9]
I will mention that I received yesterday a letter from the distinguished M. Guizot, informing me that the first volume of the French translation, edited by him, with an introduction, has just been published. [6]
I confess, madam, that I do something in the way of editing and lecturing, but the other crimes you mention have escaped my memory. [5]
There are things that a woman should not mention, and yet I would tell them without shame to your face were it not for your sister. [9]
This and the tender, with men and divers, were to go in search of the wreck under the command of Bucklaw and the captain of the Swallow, whose name Phips did not mention. [11]
Wetherell was almost tempted to mention his trouble to this man, as he had been to Ephraim: the fear that each might think he wished to borrow money held him back. [9]
I had to tell him some of the side arrangements, some of the--" "You didn't mention me? [5]
I found Betty Tayloe had had a letter, filled with the fashion in caps and gowns, and the mention of more than one noble name. [9]
It would have taken a medal at any European fair, and would have got an honourable mention even at Chicago if it had been saved up. [5]

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