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Sentences starting with official

Official position, no matter how obtained, entitled a man to a place in it, and carried his family with him, no matter whence they sprang. [5]
Official intelligence was made public early yesterday morning that the enemy's iron-clad fleet had attempted to cross the bar and failed, but later in the day it was announced that the gunboats and transports had succeeded in crossing and were at anchor. [7]
Official Egypt was dumfounded. [11]
Official communications have been had on various incidental and occasional questions with General Herran as the minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of the Granadian Confederacy, but in no other character. [7]
Official correspondence has been freely opened with Liberia, and it gives us a pleasing view of social and political progress in that republic. [7]
Official Advice. [5]

Sentences ending with official

Here in Memphis was the centre of administration of his property, and besides the offices for his private affairs were those he needed as a state official. [10]
In the next unmailed letter Mark Twain relieves himself to a misguided official. [5]
The other drew the telegraph-forms towards him and wrote on one, saying as he did so: "My business is important;" then handing over what he had written, and, smiling ironically, added: "Perhaps you will consider that official. [11]
In all the preparations Maximilian Cour was a conspicuous and useful official. [11]
But that would only freshly enrage the arrogant official. [10]
This was the impression he gave, to, John Osgood on the day when the young squatter introduced himself to Rahway, where he had come on a mission to its one official. [11]
There you will find the adjutant on duty," said the official. [2]
Outside the presence Dicky unbuttoned his coat like an Englishman again, and ten minutes later flung his tarboosh into a corner of the room; for the tarboosh was the sign of official servitude, and Dicky was never the perfect official. [11]
I'm no official. [5]

Sentences containing official two or more times

The proper official poured water, the proper official engineered the washing, the proper official stood by with a towel, and by-and-by Tom got safely through the purifying stage and was ready for the services of the Hairdresser-royal. [5]
An official ran out, said some words to a merchant, called a stout official with a cross hanging on his neck to follow him, and vanished again, evidently wishing to avoid the inquiring looks and questions addressed to him. [2]
Instead of being merely an honorary and ornamental official, Mrs. Eddy is the only official in the entire body that has the slightest power. [5]

More example sentences with the word official in them

And how will you word it?--for it must have proper official form. [5]
If I am wrong in making Franklin the father of our curious official clothes, it is no matter--he will be able to stand it. [5]
I was to write an introduction to a nobler book--the English translation of the Official Record (unabridged) of the Trials and Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, and make a lot of footnotes. [5]
The official celebration would begin in the afternoon and last till sundown, so that all the governor's time must be fully occupied. [11]
You saw it with your own eyes, and you are an official of the Court, and have the ear of the Judge, and you look like a saint to a jury. [11]
His official relations with the Foreign Office were courteous and agreeable, the successive Foreign Ministers during his stay being Count Richberg, Count Mensdorff, and Baron Beust. [6]
I am done with official life for the present. [5]
I had been with him in Bermuda on the earlier visit, and as I remember it, there had been some slight oversight on his part in the matter of official etiquette--something which doubtless no one had noticed but himself. [5]
Mr. Motley knew well what was the logical order in an official execution, and saw fit to let the government work its will upon him as its servant. [6]
A French official wearing a scarf came up to the right of the row of prisoners and read out the sentence in Russian and in French. [2]
If at home we wince before any official with a sense of blighted inferiority, it is by general confession the clerk at the hotel office. [6]
About ten o'clock we stopped somewhere, and a large Englishman of official military bearing stepped in. [5]
Softly and calmly we refused to sacrifice, thanked the imperial official, who warned us kindly, and in the same hour and place we fell into the hands of the torturers. [10]
I inquired the way to the office of the conductor: it was closed, but would soon be open, and I waited; and at length the official, a stout Frenchman, appeared, and I secured places in the interior, the only ones to be had to Visp. [4]
The United States was too much accustomed to employing dollar-and-a-half thieves in all manner of official capacities to regard his explanation of the voucher as having any foundation in fact. [5]
The name, "Rest-and-be-Thankful," was the official title given to the summer place at Elmira, but it was more often known as "Quarry Farm. [5]
And again, there was the government official, intrusted with public money, which, in those days, implied that he was supposed to be honest. [6]
At his mercy was the daily bread of every official, every trader, every clerk, every civil servant, big and little, in the whole huge India Company's machine, and the man who hazarded his bread by any failure of subserviency to the boss lost it. [5]
But presently there was silence; for the sheriffs of London, in their official robes, with their subordinates, began to make a stir which indicated that business was about to begin. [5]
No local official was on the platform. [11]
When General Sickles was minister to Spain, he always wore, when on official duty, the dress uniform of a major-general. [5]
What his object was in summoning David for an hour when all the court and all the official Europeans should be already present, remained to be seen. [11]
That his letter was a tissue of vile calumnies, shameless fabrications, and unblushing and contemptible falsehoods, --by whomsoever uttered,--I have stated in a reply to what ought never to have been an official letter. [6]
Celebrities in every walk of life, persons of social and official rank, writers for the press, assembled there on terms hardly possible in any other home in Vienna. [5]
His official wagons wait at the doors of the newspaper offices and scud to him with the first copies that come from the press. [5]
Besides the plunderers, very various people, some drawn by curiosity, some by official duties, some by self-interest--house owners, clergy, officials of all kinds, tradesmen, artisans, and peasants--streamed into Moscow as blood flows to the heart. [2]
That was a very peculiar thing, because every Egyptian official, from the Khedive down to the ghafhr of the cane-fields, took backsheesh in the name of Allah. [11]
The old prince understood from this official report that our army had been defeated. [2]
The population's only two hundred--" "That's all right, that's all right--" "And they hadn't any right to elect me; we're not even a territory, there's no Organic Act, the government hasn't any official knowledge of us whatever. [5]
In fact it turned out to be an official concealment--no blank was provided for its exposure. [5]
Mr. Colvin, the triangulating surveyor of the Adirondacks, killed him in his last official report to the State. [4]
Did Cauchon hint to the English guards that thenceforth if they chose to make their prisoner's captivity crueler and bitterer than ever, no official notice would be taken of it? [5]
The river-driver chose to spend his idle hours in crude, rough sprightliness; the salmon-fisher loved to lie upon the shore and listen to the village story-teller,--almost official when successful,--who played upon the credulity and imagination of his listeners. [11]
Mr. Lincoln referred to some official documents emanating from Indiana, and compared the progressive population of the two States. [7]
This was disconcerting to Madame Lavilette, who had hoped that out of Farcinelle's official position she might reap some praise and pence of ambition. [11]
Washington is getting to have a character of its own; it seems as if it wouldn't be much without its official life, yet the process is going on here that is so marked all over the country--the divorce of social and political life. [4]
Macrinus here tried to excuse the spy, by remarking that this zealous official had only tried to set his services in a favorable light. [10]
I had several times come to the saloon in the days of my apprenticeship in search of some judge or official, and once I had run down here the city auditor himself. [9]
During the whole time that I was connected with the government it seemed as if I could not do anything in an official capacity without getting myself into trouble. [5]
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 origin of this distressful thing was this--and I assert here that every fact in the following resume can be amply proved by the official records of the General Government. [5]
A foreigner of this character they had never before seen, with coat buttoned up like an Egyptian official in the presence of his superior, and this wide, droll hat on his head. [11]
Don't you think there ought to be a public official whose duty it is to enforce the law gratis which I cannot afford to enforce when I am wronged? [4]
The Count Almodovar then introduced me to the Queen in my official capacity, and she received me with a grave and quiet welcome, expressed in a very low voice. [4]
They appear with their wings, of course, because they are on official service, and because the dying persons wouldn't know they were angels if they hadn't wings--but do you reckon they fly with them? [5]
Still, it was their official duty to entertain their influentials after some sort of fashion; and they did the best they could with their limited purse. [5]
Peter sat at the writing-table in full official uniform, with his hat still on his head. [10]
Competitive examinations were the rule and in all official grades. [5]
An instant afterwards the official was making an oration in tangled sentences which brought him a grateful smile and a hand-clasp from Madelinette. [11]
At first, Lapierre the official had been inclined to babble, but at last he relieved his mind by interjections only. [11]
So I transferred the new barometer to the cooking department, to be used for the official mess. [5]
Two witnesses for the mock marriage--Khvostikov, a retired petty official whom Dolokhov made use of in his gambling transactions, and Makarin, a retired hussar, a kindly, weak fellow who had an unbounded affection for Kuragin--were sitting at tea in Dolokhov's front room. [2]
By official measurement the lake in its centre is one thousand five hundred and twenty-five feet deep! [5]
The fact that the individuals composing our Supreme Court have, in an official capacity, decided in favor of the constitutionality of the Bank, would, in my mind, seem a sufficient answer to this. [7]
Perhaps so; since the guards did begin that policy at once, and no official notice was taken of it. [5]
The mansion of the governor--now vacant of pomp, because that official does not exist--is a little withdrawn from the town, secluded among trees by the water-side. [4]
All this within the first two months of Mr. Motley's official residence in London. [6]
The people cheer the dog and laugh: a white-handed official, in gold lace, and without his hat, rushes out to "shoo" the dog away, but is unsuccessful; for the animal dashes between his legs, and approaches the royal and carpeted steps. [4]
This was Boges, the chief of the eunuchs, an important official at the Persian court. [10]
You should remember that you are here only by courtesy, and are without official recognition; officially you are not here at all; officially you do not even exist. [5]
It was observable that these official strongholds were now protected against rushes by bolted gates, and that these were in ward of servants wearing the House's livery. [5]
The one thing that recalled the patriotic fervor everyone had displayed during the Emperor's stay was the call for contributions of men and money, a necessity that as soon as the promises had been made assumed a legal, official form and became unavoidable. [2]
So it was that Hasha, with little inspection, was the least reputable and almost the dirtiest town on the Nile; for even in those far-off days the official Englishman had his influence, especially when Kubar Pasha was behind him. [11]
These two details, taken in connection with the fact that for his extraordinary offense the only punishment he got from the East India Company's Government was a solemn official "reprimand"--suggest the suspicion that he was a European of consequence. [5]
He found a stately dignitary occupying a very official chair behind a long green morocco-covered table, in a room with sumptuously carpeted and furnished, and well garnished with pictures. [5]
I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free. [7]
The Secretary of State will keep a registry thereof, and will, on application, in proper cases, issue certificates of such records in the customary form of official certificates. [7]
The habitant official stared in blank amazement, the landlord took a glass of brandy to steady himself. [11]
An official of standing was rude to me once. [6]
Scotty was a stalwart rough, whose customary suit, when on weighty official business, like committee work, was a fire helmet, flaming red flannel shirt, patent leather belt with spanner and revolver attached, coat hung over arm, and pants stuffed into boot tops. [5]
But now the soldier and official in the other were awake. [11]
I went off, smarting under this insult to my dignity, and asked another local official, supplicatingly, if I couldn't have some poor little corner somewhere in a sleeping-car; but he cut me short with a venomous "No, you can't; every corner is full. [5]
Why the government shut them I cannot see: perhaps it knew nothing of it, and some stupid official took the pompous responsibility. [4]
It was as she thought, he was in his study, where he spent hours sometimes after he came home, reading official papers. [11]
Your name and service shall receive official mention. [5]
She went to Sergeant Tom, opened his coat, felt in the inside pocket, and drew forth an official envelope. [11]
I have since seen the official statistics, and I find that he furnished soldiers and high officers to the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War. [5]
At home the same measures have been fully discussed, supported, criticized, and denounced, and the annual elections following are highly encouraging to those whose official duty it is to bear the country through this great trial. [7]
There's your official salaries--you can't get good men for nothing. [5]
If she really said it I think she only meant she would take off his official head --degrade him from his command. [5]
The annual official returns show that the undertaking is a difficult one. [5]
The Government's Official report, showing that our railways killed twelve hundred persons last year and injured sixty thousand convinces me that under present conditions one Providence is not enough to properly and efficiently take care of our railroad business. [5]
Under the old regime, this important power was vested in a single official, and he usually took care to have a general jail delivery in time for the next election. [5]
An edict was recently issued which commands the removal of every official who can not prove that the union of the parents who gave him life was consecrated by the Holy Church. [10]
In Tasmania I read the entry, in an old manuscript official record, of a case where a convict was given three hundred lashes--for stealing some silver spoons. [5]
Later, after the publication of the 'Dutch Republic' and during the years of official place, he was much in society in England, Austria, and Holland. [6]
Rush suggested the propriety of giving out under his official seal that Irving was the author of "Waverley. [4]
At intervals the presidents of the five corps have a cold official intercourse with each other, but nothing further. [5]
Mela was much present, and was official with the arrangement of the flowers and the welcome of the guests. [8]
He fell in precisely with the view of Mr. Jefferson, and acted upon it under his official oath, in vetoing a charter for a National Bank. [7]
If by any possibility you have managed to take the wrong train, you will be handed over to a polite official who will take you whither you belong and bestow you with many an affable bow. [5]
In 1864 the Pope issued the "Syllabus of Errors," which "must be considered by Romanists--as an infallible official document, and which arrays the papacy in open war against modern civilization and civil and religious freedom. [6]
She holds, in perpetuity, autocratic and indisputable sovereignty and control over every branch Church in the earth; and yet says, in that sugary, naive, angel-beguiling way of hers, that the Mother-Church: "shall assume no official control of other churches of this denomination. [5]
There are kindly people who may suspect a hidden generosity in that By-law; they may think it is there to protect the Official Reader from the suspicion of having written the poems himself. [5]
Our ship and passengers lay under expense and in humiliating captivity all night, under the very nose of the little official reptile who is supposed to protect New York from pestilence by his vigilant "inspections. [5]
It was Donovan Pasha, the young English official, who had sat with him many a time at the door of his but and asked him questions about Dongola and Berber and the Soudanese. [11]
Absorbed in his own thoughts, Hermon waited for the admiral, who at first was claimed by one official duty after another. [10]
We imagine that our queer official costumery was deliberately devised to symbolise our Republican Simplicity--a quality which we have never possessed, and are too old to acquire now, if we had any use for it or any leaning toward it. [5]
Yet the official ordered the Owl's Nest to be searched. [10]
The object was one of great delicacy, in presenting views at the opening of an administration under the peculiar circumstances attending my entrance upon the official duties connected with the Government. [7]

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