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Sentences ending with museum
- Day after day we issued forth from a musty and highly respectable hotel near Piccadilly to a gloomy Tower, a soggy Hampton Court or a mournful British Museum. [9]
- Besides, my time was wholly occupied by my studies in the museum. [10]
- As for the vegetation, it is a museum. [5]
- He had come to us from the schools of Germany, and brought with him recollections of the teachings of Blumenbach and the elder Langenbeck, father of him whose portrait hangs in our Museum. [6]
- I have been to the British Museum. [5]
- It had been then for over a decade the British Museum. [9]
- The blood on the sword which Caracalla had dedicated to Serapis had been shed at the Museum. [10]
- He goes to the Museum. [5]
- I will indemnify the learned men for their useless journey by disputing this question with them and their associates in the Museum. [10]
- No later than the day after to-morrow, I imagine, you may meet there with several companions from the Museum. [10]
More example sentences with the word museum in them
- This she hoped would repay Didymus for the injury which, to her deep regret, had been inflicted upon him, and at least partially repair the loss sustained by the former library of the museum during the conflagration in the Bruchium. [10]
- These simple creatures, whose thoughts are not taken up, like those of educated people, with the care of a great museum of dead phrases, are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. [6]
- The people, of whom you know as little from the musty volumes of the Museum as of 'Ultima Thule'--the people indeed practice it. [10]
- When the scoundrel whom she had called husband, and for whom her contempt had become too deep for hate, sneeringly assailed her family as having been fed from generation to generation from the corn-bin of the Museum, she bit her lips. [10]
- The day came when we had checked off the Posilipo, and the Grotto, Pozzuoli, Baiae, Cape Misenum, the Museum, Vesuvius, Pompeii, Herculaneum, the moderns buried at the Campo Santo; and we said, Let us go and lie in the sun at Sorrento. [4]
- Why, just now, when Caesar is here, and gain and honor be in the streets for such a one as you only to stoop for--why, I say, you should waste precious time on that poring fellow from the Museum, I can not understand. [10]
- Hermon knew him well, for he had listened eagerly in the Museum to the lectures of the famous Herophilus, and his image also had stamped itself upon his soul. [10]
- It is the very way Professor Osborn and I built the colossal skeleton brontosaur that stands fifty-seven feet long and sixteen feet high in the Natural History Museum, the awe and admiration of all the world, the stateliest skeleton that exists on the planet. [5]
- You can get up a museum with those remains that will draw! [5]
- I have heard two very intelligent critics speak of Murillo's Immaculate Conception (now in the museum at Seville,) within the past few days. [5]
- I made but two brief visits to the British Museum, and I can easily instruct my reader so that he will have no difficulty, if he will follow my teaching, in learning how not to see it. [6]
- He has already turned his state-room into a museum of worthless trumpery, which he has gathered up in his travels. [5]
- There is Archias, too; there are the artists and the famous gentlemen of the Museum, the members of the Ephebi, and the priests of the great gods. [10]
- Patience was only too delighted, and took her into her museum of natural history, art, religion, and vegetation. [4]
- Then she asked to see the architect's plan for joining the museum to the sanctuary, and became absorbed in the first sketch, to which he had devoted part of the night and morning. [10]
- He had had to make his outer man fit to appear among Caesar's guests, for--as he boastfully explained--he himself had waded in blood, and in the court-yard of the Museum the red life-juice of the Alexandrians had reached above his horse's knees. [10]
- In proof of this, she would present to the library of the museum the two hundred thousand volumes from Pergamus, one of the most valuable gifts Mark Antony had ever bestowed upon her, and which she had hitherto regarded merely as a loan. [10]
- Verses such as these might very well have been written by Callimachus or some other poet of the circle of the early members of the Museum of Alexandria. [10]
- He scoffed at them as adventures, mountebanks, sideshow riffraff, dime museum freaks; he assailed their showy titles with measureless derision; he said they were back-alley barbers disguised as nobilities, peanut peddlers masquerading as gentlemen, organ-grinders bereft of their brother monkey. [5]
- The land facing the sea and near the museum had been found, but the handsome residence would not be completed until summer. [10]
- The head of the Museum, who bore the title of "high priest," had also appeared there with several members of this famous centre of the intellectual life of the capital. [10]
- He, who, at the Museum, was counted among the skeptics, liked biblical sentences, such as "All is vanity," and "We know but in part. [10]
- So I haunted the museum night after night. [5]
- The cavilers in the Museum might take example from him. [10]
- The men in the Museum fear nothing. [10]
- Two days before, the Emperor had visited the Museum and had carried on learned discussions with the most prominent of the sages and professors there, in the presence of their assembled disciples. [10]
- The bodies of the cats were carefully embalmed and buried, and their mummies are to be found in every museum. [10]
- In the Museum the brains of the great thinkers and investigators are toiling. [10]
- Oh, you'll see that some day, when they have a museum there illustrating the "Science of Religion. [4]
- It may be that she "refuses adulation" when she is not awake, but when she is awake she encourages it and propagates it in that museum called "Our Mother's Room," in her Church in Boston. [5]
- It is from that museum, I think, that the globe must have been supplied with the trees and vines and shrubs that it holds precious. [5]
- We knew some tall men when we were young, but we can see a man taller than any one among them at the nearest dime museum. [6]
- The most famous surgeon of the Museum at the capital had refused his aid under other circumstances. [10]
- I am the spirit of the Petrified Man that lies across the street there in the museum. [5]
- How many chimneys smoked, how many hands were toiling for this edifice, which was to comprise a royal residence, a temple, a peerless library, a museum and a tomb. [10]
- He says, 'I've shoveled acorns enough in there to keep the family thirty years, and if I can see a sign of one of 'em I wish I may land in a museum with a belly full of sawdust in two minutes! [5]
- I saw and said that yesterday, and now I know it for certain--every poison shaft that your malice has aimed at me was forged in the Museum. [10]
- The Emperor had remained in Alexandria longer than in any other place, and was weary of festivities and banquets, of the wordy war with the philosophers of the Museum, of conversing with the ecstatic mystics, the soothsayers; astrologers and empirics with whom the place swarmed. [10]
- I find it quite impossible to imagine Him, in life, standing sponsor for that museum there, and taking pleasure in its sumptuous shows. [5]
- How can we punish worst those whose wickedness has involved the rest in guilt, especially the epigramatists of the Museum? [10]
- Under the same Ptolemies who founded the Alexandrian Library and Museum, and ordered the Septuagint version of the Hebrew Scriptures, the infallible Herophilus ["Contradicere Herophilo in anatomicis, est contradicere evangelium," was a saying of Fallopius. [3]
- Even Timotheus, the priest of Serapis, who as head of the Museum had so often delighted in the piercing intellect of this youth, and had prophesied a great future for him, was silent, and looked at him with troubled gaze. [10]
- In the first place, we moved from our house in the Museum Square into the little palace at Kanopus, and the big, shady garden delighted us. [10]
- I have been personally very hard at work, nearly two years, ransacking the British State Paper Office, the British Museum, and the Holland archives, and I have had two copyists constantly engaged in London, and two others at the Hague. [6]
- Very well; I packed and stored a part of my collection, and the rest of it I placed in the care of the Grand Ducal Museum in Mannheim, by permission. [5]
- She is to-day one vast museum of magnificence and misery. [5]
- If there is one that isn't, I desire to acquire him for my museum, and will pay Dinosaur rates. [5]
- All hands were on deck, all the afternoon, with books and maps and glasses, trying to determine which "narrow rocky ridge" was the Areopagus, which sloping hill the Pnyx, which elevation the Museum Hill, and so on. [5]
- Like the worthies of the Museum, every one in this city is merely a mouth on two legs. [10]
- Schrieber's The Head of the Gaul in the Museum of Ghizeh in Cairo. [10]
- As the habit of retirement grew upon her she created a world of her own, almost as curious and more individually striking than the museum of Cluny. [4]
- To the majority of men I fancy that literature is very much the same that history is; and history is presented as a museum of antiquities and curiosities, classified, arranged, and labeled. [4]
- The exiled sons of learning settled in various cities on the shores of the Mediterranean, and thus contributed not a little to the diffusion of the intellectual results of the labors in the Museum. [10]
- But it did no good, for nobody ever came to the museum at midnight. [5]
- You have heard my opinion of the Museum. [10]
- In the Leyden Museum one of these jointed toys is to be seen, in very good preservation. [10]
- Man is a museum of diseases, a home of impurities; he comes to-day and is gone to-morrow; he begins as dirt and departs as stench; I am of the aristocracy of the Imperishables. [5]
- In the Berlin Museum and all other collections of Egyptian antiquities, numbers of these rings are to be found, many of which are more than 4000 years old. [10]
- We had the misfortune of seeing a painting of his in a collection belonging to one of the French princes, and exhibited at the Art Museum. [6]
- He had often met Philip at the disputations he was wont to attend in the Museum, and had a great regard for him. [10]
- Most of the members of the royal house had often been her guests, and had increased it to a little museum which contained countless milk and cream jugs of every sort and metal, even the most precious, and of porcelain and glass of every age. [10]
- It is a matter of great pride to me to have any word of mine concerning the world's supremest heroine honored by a place in that Museum. [5]
- The historian must make his museum live again; the scholar must vivify his learning with a present purpose. [4]
- Ah, when one looks at our young people, Prince, one would like to take Peter the Great's old cudgel out of the museum and belabor them in the Russian way till all the nonsense jumps out of them. [2]
- The next brief line refers to the manuscript of his article, "Saint Joan of Arc," presented to the museum at Rouen. [5]
- And if you like to look at idols among the pack and jam of temples, there you will find enough to stock a museum. [5]
- It makes him left-handed all around, which is a thing which has never happened before, except perhaps in a museum. [5]
- Prof. Wyman has lately shewn (Fourth Annual Report, Peabody Museum, 1871, p. 20), that this perforation is present in thirty-one per cent. [1]
- One of the last visits we paid before leaving London for a week in Paris was to the South Kensington Museum. [6]
- But even their last day among the Caverns bore fruit; for one of the scholars found in an out-of-the-way corner of the Museum or "Burial Place" a most strange and extraordinary thing. [5]
- It was a kind of museum of objects, such as the woods are full of to those who have eyes to see them, but many of them such as only few could hope to reach, even if they knew where to look for them. [6]
- All by itself it is making foreign eyes familiar with a Flag which they have not seen before for forty years, outside of the museum. [5]
- He said that it had been his purpose to set up the house in his Museum, keep it in repair, protect it from name-scribblers and other desecrators, and leave it by bequest to the safe and perpetual guardianship of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington. [5]
- I wonder if it ever occurs to our dried-up neighbor there to ask himself whether That Boy's collection of flies is n't about as significant in the Order of Things as his own Museum of Beetles? [6]
- Your rhetoric gives it an attractive exterior, and that, too, comes from the Museum. [10]
- He was greatly interested; and after I had talked a while he said my German was very rare, possibly a "unique"; and wanted to add it to his museum. [5]
- Nay, he had intended to strike a death-blow even at the learning to which Alexandria owed a part of her greatness, by decreeing that the Museum and schools should be removed and the theatres closed. [10]
- There was nothing in the room that was alive, except the dainty owner, but it seemed to be a museum of natural history. [4]
- We have driven in the Prado--that superb avenue bordered with patrician mansions and noble shade trees--and have visited the chateau Boarely and its curious museum. [5]
- There was enough in the old town besides the cathedral to interest us,--old buildings, a museum, full of curious objects, and the old town itself. [6]
- Your place is in the Museum, or in the temple of Serapis with your books, and not among the misguided and ignorant. [10]
- On a Stela in the Leyden Museum I have discovered that a certain Psamtik, a member of the fallen dynasty, lived till the 17th year of Amasis' reign, and died at the age of seventy-five. [10]
- It is preserved in the Egyptian Museum at Turin. [10]
- And he added in a gentler tone, as if he had a delightful surprise in store for some old friend: "But silence, perfect silence--do you hear?--till all is ready.--You, Zminis, may begin on the pipers in the stadium and the chatterers in the Museum. [10]
- She liked the idea of travelling with a pack on one's back, the odd shows at the House of the interpreter, the fighting, the adventures, the pleasing young ladies at the palace the name of which was Beautiful, and their very interesting museum of curiosities. [6]
- Did you think I'd put it in a museum? [11]
- For three winters I had been denied visiting the university, the museum, and the libraries. [10]
- I regretted that I could not be with my companion, who went through the Natural History Museum with the accomplished director, Professor W. H. Flower. [6]
- I have made hundreds of friends; and last night in the crush of the opening of the New Guild-hall Library and Museum, I was surprised to meet a familiar face every few steps. [5]
- First Hadrian made him lead him along the seashore by the Bruchiom to the temple of Poseidon, where he performed some devotions, then he looked into the garden of the palace and the courts of the adjoining museum. [10]
- His hand fell heavily even on the members of the Great Academy--the Museum, as it was called--of Alexandria, though he himself had been devoted to the grave labors of science, and he compelled them to seek a new home. [10]
- He, as the head of the Museum, had set high hopes on the youth who had come to such a terrible end. [10]
- As for Philip, he lives on air and philosophy; and, besides, he is fed out of the great breadbasket of the Museum. [10]
- At my left hand sits as singular-looking a human being as I remember seeing outside of a regular museum or tent-show. [6]
- But the door had scarcely closed behind Lucilius when the usher announced a deputation of the members of the museum. [10]
- At Alexandria he had been far better acquainted with the theatre than with the Museum or the school of the Serapeum; nay, as an amateur, he had often sung in the chorus there and acted as deputy for the regular leader. [10]
- Like the other great houses, it is a museum of paintings, statues, objects of interest of all sorts. [6]
- We had a glimpse of the museum, by courtesy of the American gentleman who is curator of it. [5]
- I set aside, for the Museum, those articles which were the most frail and precious. [5]
- We were seized for the debts occasioned by their illness and their funerals, and placed among the attractions of a cheap museum in Berlin to earn the liquidation money. [5]
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