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Sentences ending with nation

Go back to your people as their chiefs, and tell them that through you the Big Knives have granted peace to your nation. [9]
I tender to you, officers and soldiers, the thanks of the nation. [7]
Where Conspicuousness carries with it a Power which, by the light of our own observation and experience, we are able to measure and comprehend, I think our envy of the possessor is as deep and as passionate as is that of any other nation. [5]
From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation. [6]
We know pretty well how much of sincerity there is in the fears so clamorously expressed, and how far they are found in company with uncompromising hostility to the armed enemies of the nation. [6]
He uses his wealth, Wallis says, to maintain the prosperity of the nation! [9]
A man's life"--he watched her closely with his wide, benevolent eyes--"is neither here nor there, nor a few thousands, in the destiny of a nation. [11]
If this expert was quieted, and Fellowes was safely bestowed in his grave, the tragic incident would be lost quickly in the general excitement and agitation of the nation. [11]
A famous one was headed "Shall Wool and Cotton Kings Rule the Nation? [9]
The Knobs Industrial University would be a vast school of modern science and practice, worthy of a great nation. [5]

Short sentences using nation

The Nation was very angry. [9]
Elected by the nation. [5]
It is the nation speaking. [5]
The nation is lost. [5]
The nation is armed. [4]

Sentences containing nation two or more times

Upon what principle, upon what rightful principle, may a State, being no more than one fiftieth part of the nation in soil and population, break up the nation, and then coerce a proportionably large subdivision of itself in the most arbitrary way? [7]
I then wound up with these remarks: "The war with the English nation, as a nation, is at an end. [5]
In two or three little centuries it had converted a nation of men to a nation of worms. [5]
That nation is the most civilized which has the appliances to kill the most of another nation in the shortest time. [4]
And you said that our nation was to be a refuge of the oppressed of this earth, a nation made of all peoples, out of all time. [9]
These have little sympathy with democracy; they have even been heard to declare that we have no right to dictate to another nation, even an enemy nation, what form of government it shall assume. [9]
It marks a signal advance in democracy when liberal opinion in any nation turns for guidance and support to a statesman of another nation. [9]
No nation, no set of men in any nation can quench that fire or make the world that is coming out of this war. [9]
But then he remembered, as they dodged from in front of the horses, what it was not merely a political debate: The pulse of nation was here, a great nation stricken with approaching fever. [9]
The false prophet invented it to tempt his followers to force his lying creed, by might of arms and in mad contempt of death, on nation after nation. [10]

More example sentences with the word nation in them

But we know your strength; we know that the small remnant of our nation, which war and pestilence have spared, cannot resist your vast and well-armed hosts. [10]
I would advise you to drop in there some time when you have nothing to do for--five minutes--if you have never been there: It seems to me the noblest monument that this nation has yet erected to her greatness. [5]
You look around you and you see a nation of sixty millions-- apparently; but secreted in their hands and brains, and invisible to your eyes, is the true population of this Republic, and it numbers forty billions! [5]
It would be worth to the nation a hundred years purchase of peace and prosperity. [7]
He wrote the words L'Empereur Alexandre, La nation russe and added up their numbers, but the sums were either more or less than 666. [2]
Why should we without shame help the nation lie, and then be ashamed to do a little lying on our own account? [5]
The nation purchased with money the countries out of which several of these States were formed. [7]
When a Senator, whose place is in Washington moving among the Great and guiding the destinies of the nation, condescends to mingle among the people and accept the hospitalities of such a place as Hawkeye, the honor is not considered a light one. [5]
They want the whole nation to fall on them--in a word, it's Moscow! [2]
If the spirit which imbued the founders of this nation means anything, Mr. Bass, it means that the able men who are given a chance to rise by their own efforts must still retain the duties and responsibilities of the humblest citizens. [9]
Two years during which a nation struggled in agony with sickness, and even the great strength with which she was endowed at birth was not equal to the task of throwing it off. [9]
The nation is what the majority of its citizens are. [4]
Many and great were the difficulties attending the marriage of a Protestant princess in those troublous times, and Elizabeth finally announced that she would become wedded to the English nation, and she wore a ring in token thereof until her death. [5]
A State may well say to the nation, "If you will do nothing for me, I will do nothing for you. [7]
Your nation as well as mine, Colonel. [9]
You know as well as I do that the whole nation hold as much as three-fifths of the United States Senate in entire contempt.--Three-fifths of you are Dilworthys. [5]
At such times we would sit, or more frequently stand, discussing the affairs of the town and of the nation, for politics was an easy and attractive subject to us both. [9]
As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal. [7]
She perceived how waterfall after waterfall was quenching the flames which burned in Don John's honest soul for the supposed welfare of the nation intrusted to him. [10]
No fight ever was won by man or nation content with half a victory. [9]
The same thing was true of the whole nation at the time our Constitution was formed. [7]
This physician who was one day to tend the sickbed of the Nation in her agony; whose large hand was to be on her feeble pulse, and whose knowledge almost divine was to perform the miracle of her healing. [9]
His whole soul was in it: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. [7]
Yes, the nation was excited, but Senator Dilworthy was calm--what was left of him after the explosion of the shell. [5]
Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. [7]
Our little Oxbow Village, which held itself by no means the least of human centres, was the scene of its own commotions, as intense and exciting to those concerned as if the destiny of the nation had been involved in them. [6]
This is Emerson's view of them as they then were:-- "Of the two great parties, which, at this hour, almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men. [6]
The Syrians are very poor, and yet they are ground down by a system of taxation that would drive any other nation frantic. [5]
It has given us a degree of political freedom far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. [7]
We are looked upon by all the Allies, and I believe justly, as being a disinterested nation, free from the age-long jealousies of Europe. [9]
They all looked unhit, and said they didn't know; that they had never thought about it before, and it hadn't ever occurred to them that a nation could be so situated that every man _could_ have a say in the government. [5]
It was all undesignedly a part of herself, and she was one of a population in a universal nation whose devout citizen she was. [11]
With them were two young men of their own nation. [9]
No nation is truly great without a common ideal, capable of evoking enthusiasm and calling out its energies. [4]
The glory, the true democracy of this nation, lies in its equal opportunity for all. [9]
Whoever dared to transplant the heresy to her soil would be the most infamous of the corrupters of a nation, for the holy Church and the kingdom of Spain are one. [10]
In the whole transaction I was in the hands of the people who had arranged it, and if I can have the same generous co-operation of the people of this nation, I think the flag of our country may yet be kept flaunting gloriously. [7]
By inheritance, by tradition, by habits of thought, Austen Vane was an American,--an American as differentiated from the citizen of any other nation upon the earth. [9]
In my devotion to the Union I hope I am behind no man in the nation. [7]
Do not listen to the advice of this proud caste alone, but read every petition yourself, and, by appointing Nomarchs devoted to the king and beloved by the people, make yourself acquainted with the needs and wishes of the Egyptian nation. [10]
We have got to squash the rebellion soon, or be squashed forever as a nation. [6]
Would you venture to so consider them had they been committed by any nation on earth against the humblest of our people? [7]
One great drawback to Simplified Spelling is, that in print a simplified word looks so like the very nation! [5]
It is easy to see that under the sharp discipline of civil war the nation is beginning a new life. [7]
A member proposed to save three dollars a day to the nation by dispensing with the Chaplain. [5]
It were endless to recite what I myself have seen, and what I have received acknowledgments of by Letter, not only from the severall parts of this Nation, but also from Ireland, Scotland, Jersey, Garnsey. [6]
Well, said I to myself this is getting pretty dull; this is getting pretty dry; there don't appear to be anything going on anywhere; has this progressive nation gone to sleep? [5]
Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? [7]
We shall hope to leave a good impression of America behind us in every nation we visit, from Venus to Uranus. [5]
Shame for consenting to keep his unearned titles, property, and privileges--at the expense of other people; shame for consenting to remain, on any terms, in dishonourable possession of these things, which represented bygone robberies and wrongs inflicted upon the general people of the nation. [5]
She persuaded him to disobey the King in the interest of the nation, and to be reconciled to Count Richemont and welcome him. [5]
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. [7]
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. [7]
He presented them to Captain Bowman and to the French and Spanish gentlemen present, and they were hailed by their own kind as chiefs of their nation. [9]
It is not to be supposed that the Pilgrims had an adequate conception of the continent, or of the magnitude of their mission on it, or of the nation to come of which they were laying the foundations. [4]
It was intended to be a nation in which the welfare of the people is the supreme object, and whatever its show among nations it fails if it does not become this. [4]
He carried it to an extreme impossible to the youth of any nation less "gifted. [4]
Nothing is impossible to a nation with an ideal like that. [4]
In his appendix to "Variolae Triumphatae," he says,-- "There has been a wonderful practice lately used in several parts of the world, which indeed is not yet become common in our nation. [3]
Up to that time I had been every Egyptian's friend, and now I was the enemy of the best men in the nation. [10]
In the olden time he would have lived and died king of his parish, monarch, by Divine right, as the noblest, grandest, wisest of all that made up the little nation within hearing of his meeting-house bell. [6]
Your colonel has thought fit, on his own account and in your name, to say that you are satisfied with the manner in which I have performed my part in the difficulties which have surrounded the nation. [7]
It was as though the nation were entering into a senseless conspiracy to kill prosperity. [9]
It is like this: everything is got ready, and at the appointed moment I, as the official head of the nation, publicly and solemnly proclaim its independence, and absolve it from allegiance to any and all other powers whatsoever. [5]
The selfishness of this unspoiled general of victorious armies, companion of princes, and idol of an applauding and grateful nation, reached but that far and no farther. [5]
Yet was not this people thus marked for destruction, the nation which the Lord had chosen for His own? [10]
Even here, in this highly favored land, we look to her for the security of our institutions, and for our future greatness as a nation. [5]
I do not think it is personal vanity or ambition, though I am not free from these infirmities, but I cannot but feel that the weal or woe of this great nation will be decided in November. [7]
Some people say they couldn't live on the salary, but I could live on the salary and the nation together. [5]
I have tried them a couple of times on the family, and pages 212 and 216 are qualified to fetch any house of any country, caste or color, endowed with those riches which are denied to no nation on the planet--humor and feeling. [5]
All at once the whole nation seems to take a just view of that great character. [14]
The people of the whole nation agree that this question ought to be settled, and yet it is not settled. [7]
Because he feels the weight of a tremendous responsibility on his shoulders, because he knows if it weren't for him and men like him upon whom the prosperity of this nation depends, we'd have famine and anarchy on our hands in no time. [9]
Let me raise the vegetables of a nation, says Polly, and I care not who makes its politics. [4]
On the contrary, the various allied governments had entered into compacts for the transference of territory in the event of victory; and had even, by the offer of rewards, sought to play one small nation against another. [9]
He belonged to the Vanes of Camden Street,--a beautiful village in the hills near Ripton,--and was, in common with some other great men who had made a noise in New York and the nation, a graduate of Camden Wentworth Academy. [9]
To everybody's surprise, the unselfish monopolist immediately reduced the price of spectacles to such a degree that a great and crushing burden was removed from the nation. [5]
But they were the type to which he most wished to appeal; of all of his flock, this family seemed best to preserve the vitality and ideals of the city and nation. [9]
I had neither the time nor the desire to philosophize on this national fever, which animated all my associates: animated, I might say, the nation, which was beginning to get into a fever about games. [9]
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. [5]
Why, it was the spirit of a whole nation hung with crape! [5]
In June of the same year the elements of the Republican party in the nation assembled together in a National Convention at Philadelphia. [7]
Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. [7]
The elevation of the Prussian nation led Langethal also from the university to the war. [10]
Though it be the prosperous capital of New England, it is a city of homes, and the dwellers of it have held stanchly to the belief of their forefathers that the home is the very foundation-rock of the nation. [9]
It is in the political writings immediately preceding and following the Revolution --such as those of Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Franklin, Jefferson that the new birth of a nation of original force and ideas is declared. [4]
I could see the plainest disposition on the part of the other members of the government to debar me from having any voice in the counsels of the nation, and so I could no longer hold office and retain my self-respect. [5]
We have finished the outline sketch of a magnificent nation. [4]
He was probably the only man who could have guided the nation through the perplexities of the reconstruction period in such a manner as to prevent in the work of peace the revival of the passions of the war. [7]
Whereas Stavely was the only individual in the entire nation who was not his cousin. [5]
The disease of the nation was organic, and not functional, and the rough chirurgery of war was its only remedy. [6]
For this use the nation needs these Territories. [7]
The counsels of the nation must proceed without you; if disaster follows, as follow full well it may, be it balm to your sorrowing spirit that by deed and voice you did what in you lay to avert it. [5]
The peace of the nation is as dear to them as to us. [7]
I found that the nation had at first tried universal suffrage pure and simple, but had thrown that form aside because the result was not satisfactory. [5]
Why, what in the nation do you mean? [5]
Why, how in the nation did they ever git into such a scrape? [5]
He apologized in the name of the whole nation, and made Holmes a most handsome bow, and told Constable Harris to see him to his quarters, and hold himself personally responsible if he was molested again. [5]
Those days beheld the most distant lands subjugated by Rameses, and heard Egypt celebrated in the whole world as its first and greatest nation. [10]
It had needed the meeting with Hans Eitelfritz, to remind him that he belonged to a different nation from his comrades. [10]

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