Use minister in a sentence
Sentences starting with minister
- Minister is but the diminutive of magister, and implies an obligation to render service. [6]
- Minister of the Interior, likely? [5]
Sentences ending with minister
- I supposed you would say that he was a minister. [4]
- It was the word, "Temporise," and it came from the Prime Minister. [11]
- Our next move was to shove the screen back and mount the volunteer singers, melodeon and all, upon the platform,--some twenty of them crowded together behind the minister. [4]
- Is it so unpleasant for a man who thinks he is penniless to be told that he has made the year's income of a cabinet minister? [11]
- But to return to Scotty's visit to the minister. [5]
- He is said to be more Napoleon's man than ours, and he is always advising the Minister. [2]
- The masters, both the old prince and the young, and the steward respected him and jestingly called him "the Minister. [2]
- I should have taught school if I had not become a minister. [9]
- The young Englishman stood quietly waiting, his quick eyes going from Dalbarade to the wizened figure by the window, and back again to the Minister. [11]
- They want to send me abroad, as a Consul or a Minister. [5]
Short sentences using minister
- The old minister wore knee-breeches. [6]
- The minister did not succeed. [5]
- Goodwin, H.B., Concord minister, 56. [6]
- Mayhew, Jonathan, Boston minister, 51. [6]
- And now the minister prayed. [5]
- What minister? [2]
- A minister? [2]
Sentences containing minister two or more times
- Anson Burlingame, U. S. Minister to China, and Gen. Van Valkenburgh, Minister to Japan, with their families and suites, have just arrived here en route. [5]
- His son, the Reverend Joseph Emerson, minister of the town of Mendon, Massachusetts, married Elizabeth, daughter of the Reverend Edward Bulkeley, who succeeded his father, the Reverend Peter Bulkeley, as Minister of Concord, Massachusetts. [6]
- Your Minister may perhaps be good as a Minister, but as a general he is not merely bad but execrable, yet to him is entrusted the fate of our whole country.... [2]
- I hope you delivered the letter our minister gave you to the minister of the First Church in Newcastle. [9]
- He was settled as Minister in the town of Harvard in the year 1792, and in 1799 became Minister of the First Church in Boston. [6]
More example sentences with the word minister in them
- It looks like you're cutting out the minister, too. [9]
- 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]
- Don't interrupt, unless you have something to say; though I should like to know how much gossip there is afloat that the minister does not know. [4]
- But it was written by Parson Halleck, a great minister and a sort of Pope in this region for fifty years. [4]
- A Protestant minister would, perhaps, but would Rosalie give up her faith? [11]
- His clothes are worn threadbare; and he looks as thin and poor as a Methodist minister in a stony town at home, on three hundred a year. [4]
- It seemed too wonderful to be true--a free hand in Egypt, and under Imshi Pasha, the one able Minister of them all, who had, it was said, always before resisted the irrigation schemes of the foreigners, who believed only in the corroee and fate! [11]
- Bolkonski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the engagement and his reception by the Minister of War. [2]
- That old Silence Withers would do just as her minister told her,--even chance whether she gives it to the Parson-factory, or marries Bellamy Stoker, and gives it to him after his wife's dead. [6]
- While the minister withdrew to the writing table, the Emperor asked whether a trustworthy horseman could be had, since the Spaniard was disabled; and Reitzenstein, Beust, and Van der Kapellen, in whom implicit confidence could be placed, had been sent off that morning. [10]
- The fair prospects with which Emerson began his life as a settled minister were too soon darkened. [6]
- Jake's comin' up with the minister, an' you're goin' to be married at noon to-morrow. [11]
- And he reflected with satisfaction upon the fact that his wife, who was his prime minister, would be home from the East that day. [9]
- The minister spoke with more ease, and we could hear him better. [4]
- The old minister will be greatly pleased,--poor old man! [6]
- Of that it will be easier to judge after a glance at the conditions and character of the minister and his household. [6]
- The prime minister, whose last breath was spent in scolding his nurse, dies with a magnificent apothegm on his lips, manufactured by a reporter. [6]
- Both as a whole and in detail Charles approved them, and gladly left to the minister the final negotiations with the duke, who intended to leave Ratisbon at noon. [10]
- There are those who prefer a warm bath to a brisk walk in the inspiring air, where ten thousand keen influences minister to the sense of beauty and run along the excited nerves. [4]
- The dissenting minister who argued some theological point with one of the established church was always met with the reply, "I can't see it so. [7]
- The distinguished part which you, Mr. Minister, have acted in the history of that interesting country, is well known here. [7]
- I guess it's what the minister in Dolton used to call a visitation. [9]
- It was just what the minister got --no, it was what he was promised--he generally couldn't collect it. [5]
- Suppose a minister were to undertake to express opinions on medical subjects, for instance, would you not think he was going beyond his province? [6]
- Friends and neighbors were coming in and out; and the next person that came was the old minister, of whom, and of his colleague, the Rev. [6]
- Vaudreuil and Montcalm were at variance, and Vaudreuil had, through his personal hatred and envy of Montcalm, signed the death-warrant of the colony by writing to the colonial minister that Montcalm's agents, going for succour, were not to be trusted. [11]
- First, then, I was to be introduced to his Royal Highness, which office was kindly undertaken by our very obliging and courteous Minister, Mr. Phelps. [6]
- And the minister was sensational and dramatic. [9]
- The old minister was mistaken, as we have before seen. [6]
- When General Sickles was minister to Spain, he always wore, when on official duty, the dress uniform of a major-general. [5]
- Samuel Checkley, Junior, was minister of the Second Church, and his successor, Rev. [6]
- Mr. Byles Gridley was in his place, wondering why the minister did not read his notice before the prayer. [6]
- Unto her it was given to minister here. [11]
- A minister of war was created, and ordered to proceed at once with the formation of a standing army. [5]
- The Minister of War has also in his charge some venerable swivels on Punch-Bowl Hill wherewith royal salutes are fired when foreign vessels of war enter the port. [5]
- The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the Maria Theresa Order of the third grade, which the Emperor was conferring on him. [2]
- He wished the venerable minister to prepare Miss Silence Withers for a revelation which would materially change her future prospects. [6]
- Master Adrian, the valet, had just brought it, but this time Charles glanced over the important expressions of opinion given by the young minister swiftly and without deeper examination. [10]
- The minister, with uplifted hands, was just closing the services. [5]
- The minister got up and led the way towards his study. [6]
- If the New United States Minister to the Sandwich Islands (Hon. [5]
- A minister was trying to create influential friends for a project which might be worth ten millions a year to the agriculturists of the Republic; and our Government had furnished him ham and lemonade to persuade the opposition with. [5]
- Thence he would try to take her to the minister, who had by no means forgotten her superb singing. [10]
- Such was Jethro's torment that morning as he saw her drive away, the minister in the place where he should have been, at her side, and he, Jethro Bass, as helpless as though he had indeed been in the pit among the flames. [9]
- The old minister took it for granted that the Reverend Mr. Fairweather knew the private history of his parishioner's family. [6]
- The story is told of David Osgood, the shaggy-browed old minister of Medford, that he had expressed his belief that not more than one soul in two thousand would be saved. [6]
- So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society. [5]
- He carried it to the Prime Minister, who read it with grave satisfaction. [11]
- The minister came to see me the other day,--Mr. Stoker his name is. [6]
- So I went to my good old minister, and repeated the remarks, as nearly as I could remember them, to him. [6]
- In a letter to his old comrade, Prince Polgorouki, then Russian Minister at Naples, he recalls the days of their delightful intercourse at the D'Oubrils': "Time dispels charms and illusions. [4]
- One would like to have heard the comments of the minister and his suite upon our manners; but perhaps they were too polite to make any even in their seclusion. [4]
- The minister appears to have been watched by somebody in London, as he was in Vienna. [6]
- I am not to blame that the Minister is vacillating, a coward, dense, dilatory, and has all bad qualities. [2]
- The good minister thought the best thing to do would be to call and talk over some of these matters with Brother Fairweather,--for so he would call him at times, especially if his senior deacon were not within earshot. [6]
- I have, nevertheless, thought it just to our excellent minister in Mexico and respectful to the Government of that republic to lay the treaties before the Senate, together with the correspondence which has occurred in relation to them. [7]
- The writer of this, who appeals for his brother, is our minister to Ecuador, and whom, if at all compatible, I would like to have obliged by a special exchange of his brother. [7]
- The minister thought these matters over until his mind was bewildered with doubts and tossed to and fro on that stormy deep of thought heaving forever beneath the conflict of windy dogmas. [6]
- The minister was there, the Reverend Mr. Doddridge, who would have made, in appearance at least, a perfect Puritan divine in a steeple hat and a tippet. [9]
- The Thatchers were there, the Harpers, the Rogerses, Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary, the minister, the editor, and a great many more, and all dressed in their best. [5]
- His widow became the wife of the Reverend Ezra Ripley, Doctor of Divinity, and his successor as Minister at Concord. [6]
- A minister of the United States does not cease to be a citizen of the United States, as deeply interested as others in all that relates to the welfare of his country. [6]
- The minister of the town, Rev. [6]
- But the moment the Spanish minister makes a demand, it is acceded to at once, whether it be just or not. [5]
- And Froebel touched the sensitive spot in the young minister, who was thoroughly imbued with the sacred beauty of his life-task, yet certainly knew the Gospels, his classic authors, and apostolic fathers much better than he did the world. [10]
- You will mount the scaffold, and while the great concourse stand uncovered in your presence, you will read your sappy little speech which the minister has written for you. [5]
- The minister drew the remaining papers together, arranged them evenly, and then raised his head. [2]
- The singers on the platform, all handsome and well dressed, distract our attention from the minister, and what he is saying. [4]
- Nondescript, likewise, seemed the new minister, Mr. Randlett, as he prayed unctuously in front of the flowers massed on the platform. [9]
- Those who occupied the near seats to the right and left of the pulpit had in front of them a blank board partition, and could not by any possibility see the minister, though they broke their necks backwards over their high coat-collars. [4]
- A minister of the navy was appointed, and the whale-boat put in commission. [5]
- It was with the most curious interest that the minister listened to the various heresies into which her reflections had led her. [6]
- He might be the minister of a dauphin or a fool, but he was now only the mysterious Parpon who thrilled them. [11]
- She knows more'n the minister himself, a sight more. [9]
- The duties which the minister had to perform were unusual, delicate, and difficult; but I believe he acquitted himself of them with the skill of a born diplomatist. [4]
- And now, when the meeting-house is crowded as it has never been before, when Jonah Winch has arranged his dinner booth in the corner, Deacon Lysander raps for order and the minister prays. [9]
- The sermon of the elderly minister had to do with beliefs rather than deeds, and was the subject of discussion at luncheon. [9]
- The submission of the dispatch containing an account of the interview, the secretary says, is not inconsistent with diplomatic usage, but it is inconsistent with the duty of a minister not to inform his government of that submission. [6]
- Let him have the Bethel minister to comfort and console him, Brass. [12]
- A minister pronounced the benediction, and the patriotic little gathering disbanded. [5]
- I went with the American Minister and took dinner this evening with the King's Grand Chamberlain, who is related to the royal family, and although darker than a mulatto, he has an excellent English education and in manners is an accomplished gentleman. [5]
- It is clear that the man who advocates the conclusion of a peace, and that the Minister should command the army, does not love our sovereign and desires the ruin of us all. [2]
- His manner was that of the minister who had been outraged, but who overlooked the frailties of a woman. [13]
- They tell me that Minister Stoker is following round after Myrtle Hazard, talking religion at her jest about the same way he'd have liked to with our Susan, I calculate. [6]
- Prince Andrew felt that either the actions of Kutuzov's army interested the Minister of War less than any of the other matters he was concerned with, or he wanted to give the Russian special messenger that impression. [2]
- It is fit that an agent so subtle as electricity should be the minister of it. [4]
- He rose, Gaston thanked him for the meeting, and was about to go, when the Prime Minister, tapping his shoulder kindly, said: "Mr. Belward, you are not playing to the rules of the game. [11]
- I wan' t' tell you somethin' I tol' th' minister t' other day. [6]
- He had been taken off his guard,--for he had supposed the day long past--if it had ever existed--when a spiritual rebuke would upset him; the day long past when a minister could pronounce one with any force. [9]
- The Honorable Heth Sutton drove over from Clovelly attended by his prime minister, Mr. Bijah Bixby. [9]
- So don't be surprised if not only the Minister of War but also his Most August Majesty the Emperor and King Francis is not much delighted by your victory. [2]
- The minister looked straight into the bright, brave, tender eyes, and answered, "Nothing in heaven or on earth could help loving you, Myrtle! [6]
- He went in state to the church on Sunday morning, with the army at his back, and commanded the minister of the treasury to take up a collection. [5]
- And his first startling question was this: "Why should Mr. Lloyd George, instead of getting five thousand pounds a year for his services as prime minister, receive any more than a common labourer? [9]
- There is a splendid stone pillar, a clustered column, right in front of me, and I am as much protected from the minister as Old Put's troops were from the British, behind the stone wall at Bunker's Hill. [4]
- His top was spinning hard, but already the force of the gyration was failing, and he must presently make his exit with what the Prime Minister called his Patent, or turn the key in the lock and enter upon his kingdom. [11]
- On the somewhat specious plea that Holy Writ might have a chastening effect, she was permitted to minister to me in my shame. [9]
- One of the speakers at the Commemoration banquet--the Minister of Public Works-was an American, born and reared in New England. [5]
- Intriguing with a Spanish minister and the Spanish governor of Louisiana to secede from their own people and join the King of Spain. [9]
- He is the son of our present minister to Prussia, who is a close personal friend of Senator Trumbull and myself. [7]
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