Use our in a sentence
Sentences starting with our
- Our guards--two gorgeous young Arab sheiks, with cargoes of swords, guns, pistols and daggers on board--were loafing ahead. [5]
- Our evening meetings, you know, only begin at early candlelight. [4]
- Our armies met; ye were worsted and Cyrus fell. [10]
- Our party, who would have been much surprised if any one had called them an excursion, went away on foot down the carriage road to the Glen House. [4]
- Our weal and woe are in your hands alone. [10]
- Our houses are within a stone's throw, and yet in a whole day, from noon till noon, so old a friend could not find a few minutes to deliver the letters entrusted to him, or to call upon such near neighbors . [10]
- Our soldiers fight with weapons, such as are pictured on the walls of Theban tombs, wearing a newly invented head-gear as old as the days of the Pyramids. [6]
- Our quarrel is with Parliament and the Admiralty; our struggle is with the people of the kingdom, who have not seen to it that our wrongs are put right, that we have food to eat, water to drink, and money to spend. [11]
- Our author wrote with great facility and rapidity when the inspiration was on him, and produced an astonishing amount of manuscript in a short period; but he often waited and fretted through barren weeks and months for the movement of his fitful genius. [4]
- Our world, too, with all its breathing life, is but a leaf to be folded with the other strata, and if I am only patient, by and by I shall be just as famous as imperious Caesar himself, embedded with me in a conglomerate. [6]
Short sentences using our
- This is our young church-keeper? [12]
- That is our way too. [5]
- We accomplished our undertaking. [5]
- Our training has two stages. [3]
- Wait till our turn comes. [6]
- It's our first trip. [5]
- Give our love to Mollie.--Mr. [5]
- It's our turn to begin. [2]
- Our friend denied this. [9]
- Our Katterle brought the coals. [10]
Sentences containing our two or more times
- Look at our youths, look at our ladies! [2]
- The faults of youth are never shed, no, nor the merits, and creeping time convinces ever the more of our impotence, and of the irresistibility of our bias. [6]
- The treasures which your sages painfully seek out we already possess in our scriptures, our law and our moral ordinances. [10]
- If you keep your heart pure, and constantly think of the time which shall be fulfilled for each of us, to our ruin or to our salvation, you will pass unharmed through this great peril. [10]
- I believe with you that our love can bring all that is sweetest into our lives. [10]
- Bless me, if you had gone along there some such nights after twelve you might have seen as many as fifteen of us roosting on one limb, with our joints rattling drearily and the wind wheezing through our ribs! [5]
- A few more years in the service, and our savings and the pension together will be enough to support us there and lay aside a little marriage dowry for our daughter. [10]
- More than a year of trial now shows no loss by it in our foreign relations, none in our home popular sentiment, none in our white military force, no loss by it any how, or anywhere. [7]
- I have watched, year by year, this detestable spirit of greed, this lust for money and power creeping over our country, corrupting our people and institutions, and finally tainting the Church itself. [9]
- If our Government would rebuke some of our shoddy contractors occasionally, it might work much good. [5]
More example sentences with the word our in them
- Still, as you yourself know, our mothers' wish in the first instance. [10]
- General Grant and yourself have been conspicuous in our most important successes; and for me to interfere and thus magnify a breach between you could not but be of evil effect. [7]
- In pious Trust yourself forget For others only toil and fret, Since all we do for fellow Men With right good Will, shall be our Gain. [10]
- Do not consider yourself as confined to discussing only our sad affairs. [14]
- This light within your youthful hearts has beamed, Ripening the germs of all things good and fair; I also fostered them, and joyous dreamed Of future progress to repay our care. [10]
- 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]
- We are enjoying your story with our usual unspeakableness; and I'm right glad you threw in the shipwreck and the mystery--I like it. [5]
- I know not your purposes, but I trust you will not push your advantage"--he waved towards our muskets--"against a private gentleman. [11]
- You'll dig up your pot of money and take it away with you.... What does it matter to you whether our homes are ruined or not? [2]
- It should be your part to entreat her help for our father and brother; but you must not venture where Caesar is. [10]
- The images of your manifold gods are everywhere to be seen; they crowd on our gaze, and yet who knows not that their real is not their apparent significance? [10]
- You yourself, in your law practice, are always insisting upon the sacredness of contract as the very basis of our civilization. [9]
- Take them into your keeping, man; and tomorrow morning we will see who has left this suspicious offering in our vestibule.--You were the first to reach the spot, fair Paula. [10]
- We again offer your Highness our warmest felicitations for the honour that has been conferred on you. [5]
- Clap spurs with your heels, sez I, and down the side of the turf together and give 'em the teeth of our guns! [11]
- I cannot change your hearts--but the wife of my brother's son, the daughter of Ben Akiba, must be a daughter of our people, morning, noon, and night. [10]
- Just think of your having had our head translator for a model. [8]
- Well, I touched your hand then, and you looked at me and nodded, and went musin' into the fire again, not seemin' to hear our gabble. [11]
- I submit for your especial consideration whether our Indian system shall not be remodeled. [7]
- In one of your chapters I found this chance: "In our high Parisian existence, for instance, we find applied to arts and luxury, and to debauchery, all the powers and all the weaknesses of the French soul. [5]
- You have brought your army corps to Pultusk, routed: here it is exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as you yourself reported to Count Buxhowden yesterday, you must think of retreating to our frontier--which do today. [2]
- What romps we youngsters had about the old place whilst our elders talked their politics. [9]
- He dragged our young men with him to Russia, and left them to die moaning on the frozen wastes, while he drove off in his sledge. [9]
- And now, my young friend, let-us shake hands and stop our discussion, which we will not make a quarrel. [6]
- We trust our young friend will take these remarks in good part, for we mean them solely for his benefit. [5]
- I believe the young fellow would take it as a personal insult, if the Little Gentleman should show any symptoms of quitting our table for a better world. [6]
- I hope our young Doctor will take kindly to his wife's (that is to be) teachings. [6]
- Assisted by a young apothecary, Sir Charles washed and dressed the wound, which was in the left groin, and to our anxious questions replied that there was a chance of recovery. [9]
- I'd think of you; of our people that have been here for two hundred years; of the rooms in the old house where mother used to be. [11]
- I swear to you, Sir, I believe that these two centres of civilization are just exactly the two points that close the circuit in the battery of our planetary intelligence! [6]
- I must tell you, mon cher," he continued in the sad and measured tones of a man who intends to tell a long story, "that our name is one of the most ancient in France. [2]
- What ails you, you, miserable hunchback!--Who gives you a right to toss our cloaks into a corner? [10]
- Again I thank you, for our cause as for myself. [11]
- Not one of you would be willing to change our civilization for any other. [4]
- We'll come to you with our spoiled stomachs. [11]
- For some reason you wish to deprive me of our former friendship. [2]
- On the Sahbath you will be able to attend divine service three times, which is expected of our teachers. [6]
- And I tell you what, Sir, if I hadn't more of these qualities that commonly endear man to man, than our articled clerk has, I'd steal a Cheshire cheese, tie it round my neck, and drown myself. [12]
- Now, I tell you what, my gentle spy, if your business hath not concern, I'll stretch you by your fingers there to our public gallows, and my fellows shall fill you with small shot as full as a pod of peas. [11]
- Alors, some of you was out to hurt our friend M'sieu' Carnac here, and I didn't say no to it; but you'd better keep your weapons for election day and use them agin Barode Barouche. [11]
- See, we strain you to our bosoms, And we kiss your lip and brow; Human hearts must have some idols, And we shrine you idols now. [11]
- I must introduce you to Judge Bering, of our State Supreme Court. [9]
- It must interest you to come back, and see the changes in our Western civilization. [9]
- He added, "So you think our society is getting too sensitive and nervous, and inclined to make dangerous mental excursions? [4]
- Let me remind you that your doing so, at our instance, will place you in a safe and comfortable position--your present one is not desirable--and cannot injure your brother; for against him and you we have quite sufficient evidence (as you hear) already. [12]
- And, indeed, if you see what a hopeless tangle our present situation is, where else can the mind logically go? [4]
- Well, what do you say, friends, to being our own Victualling Board out in the open sea, if we can get there? [11]
- And so, as you say, 'bien,' and we each have our way, bedad! [11]
- We haven't told you our names. [11]
- But how knew you our baker was English?--which he is, a prisoner like yourself. [11]
- Has mamma told you of our adventures in getting settled? [8]
- I spoke to you of a secret that will put Paaker into our power. [10]
- I will await you near the little temple of Isis with our travelling chariot and my own horses, will receive Irene, and conduct her to some new refuge while you drive back Fuergetes' chariot, and restore it to the driver. [10]
- Hospitality is sacred; you may not be a prisoner of war, for there is no war between our countries. [11]
- Now I wish you just to consider that he was right about that, and that he had his reasons for saying that England did not look upon our Revolution as a foreign war, but as a civil war fought by Englishmen. [5]
- I am giving you everything, my friends, and I beg you to take everything, all our grain, so that you may not suffer want! [2]
- I wonder if you ever thought of the single mark of supremacy which distinguishes this tree from all our other forest-trees? [6]
- Should any of you doubt this, you have but to read the "Address to the King" of our Congress, then sitting in Philadelphia. [9]
- But what are you doing on our premises at night, sword in hand? [10]
- I know that you do it from thorough conviction, but with other acknowledged great artists and our judges, you, too, demand beauty--always beauty. [10]
- How I wish you could see us felling trees to make bullet-moulds, and forging slugs for canister, and making cartridges at night with our bayonets as candlesticks. [9]
- I propose that you constantly bear in mind that the support you owe to the brave officers and soldiers in the field is of the very first importance, and we should therefore bend all our energies to that point. [7]
- I can remember you coming to our house in Ransome Street, and how I looked forward to your visits. [9]
- And yet when you come to look at it you cannot deny that we would have to go without the services of some of our ablest men, sir, if the country were opposed to --to--bribery. [5]
- I have told you before now how I went with our maid-servant into the Canopic way to the house of my aunt Archidike to look on at the great procession. [10]
- I have troubled you at this length because my mind is much occupied with the pathology of these cases, and because no case can, on personal grounds, more strongly challenge our attention. [6]
- Look in, when you are passing; and whenever I can give you any information about our affairs and pro'spects, I shall be glad to do it. [5]
- Thanks to both you and our friend Campbell for your kind words and intentions. [7]
- How often have you and I stood here at the anvil, the fire heating the iron, and our hammers falling constantly! [11]
- We all send you and all of you our love. [5]
- I will send you a rebel flag captured by our troops in driving the enemy back. [7]
- The sight of yonder shining steeples and roofs seems to make your heart laugh, Sir Wolf, and, by Our Lady, you have good reason to bestow one or more candles upon her, for, besides other delightful things, a goodly heritage is awaiting you in Ratisbon. [10]
- If we had yielded to his views, and if our head man Obedianus had not supported me, we should not have had a single picture in the church, and it would have looked like a barn rather than a house of prayer. [10]
- You could not yield to the discipline of school, where we all must learn to obey if we would afterwards exercise our authority with moderation, and without any orders you left Egypt and joined the army. [10]
- And yet, and yet," he added, half sadly, "how futile has been all our fighting, so far as human eye can see. [11]
- We are not yet so grim as our friends in Massachusetts. [11]
- It was not yet dusk when Master Ulsenius came and broke off our discourse. [10]
- There is enough yet before us requiring all loyal men and patriots to perform their share of the labor and follow the example of the modest General at the head of our armies, and sink all personal consideration for the sake of the country. [7]
- Jason told me yesterday evening that our uncle Alciphron had wooed you for his son Leonax, and was sure of finding a favorable reception from old Semestre and your poor father. [10]
- It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our national Constitution. [7]
- It is two years since I last saw her; at our place we never have time to leave work till it is dark. [10]
- For within five years Paris fell--1436--and our King marched into it flying the victor's flag. [5]
- Now, for many years our international relations have been uncommonly smooth, oiled every few days by complimentary banquet speeches, and sweetened by abundance of magazine and newspaper "taffy. [4]
- During all the years of our married life, he has never said such a thing as that. [9]
- In our senior year the higher classes competed for the Boylston prizes for English composition. [6]
- By the seventh year after our home-coming my hardest cares for the concerns of my trade were overpast, albeit I must even yet keep my eyes open and give brain and body no rest. [10]
- Then we heard Xavier's voice, in French, thanking the Blessed Virgin for our escape. [9]
- I know our Xanthe better than you, and she no more cares for her playfellow than the column on the right side of the hearth yearns toward the one on the left, though they have stood together under the same roof so long. [10]
- Think how it wrung our heartstrings. [5]
- In February, Howells wrote: "If you have got any comfort in regard to our play I wish you would heave it into my bosom. [5]
- We never even wrote you, because we were always so sure, from day to day, that our affairs would finally so shape themselves as to let us get to Scotland. [5]
- The portier also wrote down each day's journey and the nightly hotel on a piece of paper, and made our course so plain that we should never be able to get lost without high-priced outside help. [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]
- Many of our writers show the same tendency,--my friend, the Professor, especially. [6]
- Some of our writers have pressed rather too hard on the tendencies of the human soul toward evil as such. [6]
- They could neither wrestle, shoot, nor climb, so we gave them little thought, and anything like actual flirtation was unknown--we had so many better things in our heads. [10]
- I only meant--I wouldn't do anything to make our friendship the subject of gossip. [9]
- Try as we would, we could not get out of our minds the Thing that lay under the oak. [9]
- Venerable figure-heads, what would our platforms be without you? [3]
- The Kentucky Legislature would not budge till that proclamation was modified; and General Anderson telegraphed me that on the news of General Fremont having actually issued deeds of manumission, a whole company of our volunteers threw down their arms and disbanded. [7]
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