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Sentences starting with persons

Persons who want to pay a hundred dollars for a dead cat are getting rarer and rarer every day. [5]
Persons are free to enter into any business they like. [4]
Persons excluded from the amnesty offered in the said Proclamation may apply to the President for clemency, like all other offenders, and their application will receive due consideration. [7]
Persons who are shut up in that way, confined to their chambers, sometimes to their beds, have a very small amount of vital expenditure, and wear out very little of their living substance. [6]
Persons might be seeking for them even then. [12]
Persons differ in regard to their sensitiveness to cloudy, rainy, and gloomy days. [4]
Persons who, like Miss Silence Withers, believe, not in education, inasmuch as there is no healthy nature to be educated, but in transformation, worry about their charges up to a certain period of their lives. [6]
Persons have been known to remove from the place, after a short residence in it, because they were haunted day and night by the thought of this awful green wall, piled up into the air over their heads. [6]
Persons behind me know what I am doing with my right hand--they will indorse you if you tell correctly. [5]
Persons who saw it at the auction said it was so curiously and wonderfully carved that it was worth the money that was paid for it. [5]

Sentences ending with persons

Obviously no animal would be capable of admiring such scenes as the heavens at night, a beautiful landscape, or refined music; but such high tastes are acquired through culture, and depend on complex associations; they are not enjoyed by barbarians or by uneducated persons. [1]
Thus I listened with increasing fascination to these gentlemen in evening clothes calmly treating the United States as a melon patch that existed largely for the purpose of being divided up amongst a limited and favored number of persons. [9]
Captain Newport arrived with a new supply of seventy persons. [4]
The question is: Who manages her, and how can you get at that person or those persons? [6]
Elsie was naturally what they call a man-hater, and there was very little danger of any sudden passion springing up between two such young persons. [6]
I don't know what definite wrongs he has done to other persons. [9]
The cattlemen's stations were scattered over that profound wilderness miles and miles apart--at each station half a dozen persons. [5]
Ma says there were 10 hearses, with the fire companies (their engines in mourning--firemen in uniform,) the various benevolent societies in uniform and mourning, and a multitude of citizens and strangers, forming, altogether, a procession of 30,000 persons! [5]
In due time we spread our blankets in the warm sand between two large boulders and soon feel asleep, careless of the procession of ants that passed in through rents in our clothing and explored our persons. [5]
But the fact was attested by trustworthy persons. [9]

Short sentences using persons

Five persons, five hours. [4]
Most persons do. [9]

Sentences containing persons two or more times

Anyone who bets that in India, in any three consecutive years the snakes will kill 49,500 persons, will win his bet; and anyone who bets that in India in any three consecutive years, the snakes will kill 53,500 persons, will lose his bet. [5]
For the revoked part I substitute the following: That, all provost-marshals and other military officers do prevent all disturbance and violence at or about the polls, whether offered by such persons as above described, or by any other person or persons whomsoever. [7]
Mr. Ireland's account of Emerson's visits and the interviews between him and many distinguished persons is full of interest, but the interest largely relates to the persons visited by Emerson. [6]
Two persons may not speak at once; two persons may not talk with each other; all talk is to be general and on the topic assigned, and while one is speaking, the others must listen. [4]
They may have no hold upon that class of persons who are defective in moral sensibility, just as other persons are wanting in an ear for music. [6]
To bunch the figures, 17,900 persons to-day do the above-work, whereas fifty years ago it would have taken thirteen millions of persons to do it. [5]
The instability of earthly power, the putting down of the great, their exile and chastening, and their restoration in their own persons, or in the persons of their descendants--this was his subject. [11]

More example sentences with the word persons in them

The voice was youthful, but full of character.--I suppose some persons have a peculiar susceptibility in the matter of voice.--Hear this. [6]
They will fight you--some persons we know. [9]
This fact of yours, which seems so strange to you, belongs to a great series of similar facts familiarly known now to many persons, and before long to be recognized as generally as those relating to the electric telegraph and the slaving `dynamo. [6]
She begged the young persons who had travelled to tell something of their experiences. [6]
Let me tell you a story, adapted to young persons, but which won't hurt older ones. [6]
Eva, the beautiful yet perverse woman, was one of the last persons whom he would have desired to have near him when he took the step into the other world. [10]
The persons struck would respond, and inside of five minutes every man would be locked in a death-grip with his neighbour. [5]
I believe it would have been found that most of these persons were of ardent temperament and of considerable imagination, and that their history would show that Perkinism was not the first nor the last hobby-horse they rode furiously. [6]
The weal and woe of many persons were at stake, her own above all, since, as Wolff's betrothed bride, she belonged to him inseparably. [10]
He took post with Judge Short at the foot of the stair, where, in spite of the protests of the Celebrity and of other well-disposed persons, the two favored the parting guests with an occasional impromptu song and waved genial good-byes to the ladies. [9]
He had talked with all these persons, and knew their speeches and humors. [4]
Europe has 3,800,000, with a population averaging 73 persons to the square mile. [7]
We do, however, wish to know what are the convictions of any such persons in matters of highest interest about which there is so much honest difference of opinion in this age of deep and anxious and devout religious scepticism. [6]
My next incident will be set aside by most persons as being merely a "coincidence," I suppose. [5]
Frau Friedrich, the wife of the man in charge of the fountains, kept a neat inn, in which, however, she by no means dished up to all persons what they would like. [10]
In young persons whose heads have become fixed either sideways or backwards, owing to disease, one of the two eyes has changed its position, and the shape of the skull has been altered apparently by the pressure of the brain in a new direction. [1]
There are persons, whom we all know, to whom human confidences, troubles and heart-aches flow as naturally its streams to a placid lake. [5]
How many persons who shudder at the sound of this word can tell the difference between that doctrine and their own professed belief in the omnipresence of the Deity? [6]
To all persons who shall be so released, and who shall keep their parole, the President grants an amnesty for any past offences of treason or disloyalty which they may have comminuted. [7]
A dozen persons who had business with Pierre were awaiting him in the drawing room. [2]
First, those persons who had been induced to purchase a pair of Tractors. [6]
The same persons who abuse the reformers, and lay all our troubles at their door, are apt to be severe also on what they contemptuously emphasize as "sentiments" considered as motives of action. [6]
There are subjects which must be investigated by scientific men which most educated persons would be glad to know nothing about. [6]
In those animals which have this sense highly developed, such as dogs and horses, the recollection of persons and of places is strongly associated with their odour; and we can thus perhaps understand how it is, as Dr. Maudsley has truly remarked (37. [1]
It maybe questioned whether these views have not interfered with the sound training of certain young persons, sons of clergymen and others. [6]
More than once, when the President could not hear him because of the general tumult, he sent persons to listen and report as to whether the orator was speaking to the subject or not. [5]
I finally did what all persons before me have done, clear back to Adam,--resolved to throw something. [5]
Two thousand persons were present, chiefly young ladies and gentlemen. [5]
The persons who were in the parlor agree substantially as to what occurred. [5]
Two frame houses were built that year, and several persons were added to the population. [5]
Many sick persons were borne to the temple in the hope of cure; so Dion's appearance would cause no special surprise. [10]
Moreover, his newly-acquired wealth would enable her to help many indigent persons in their need and misery. [10]
After the performance we were invited by Mr. Harris to a supper of some thirty persons, where we were the special guests. [6]
We suffer because we feel that we are useless, that other persons are doing our work. [9]
With certain persons we are lifted up, inspired to face the battle of life and overcome its difficulties. [9]
Another very good way to do, and probably not so expensive as the awning, would be to have four persons of foreign birth carry a sort of canopy over you as you hoed. [4]
That is the way all angry greenhorns and incompetent persons attempt to settle matters. [6]
Especially when the water is alive with stars and the young persons are thoughtful and impressible. [6]
This morning I was told, by a gentleman who I have no doubt believes what he says, that in one case of assessments for $10,000 the different persons who paid compared receipts, and found they had paid $30,000. [7]
So an edict was sent forth commanding all persons who owned singing creatures to bring them to the great hall of the palace in the morning of the first day of the new year. [5]
F.] This party was one of those persons whom they call Philosophers. [5]
Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest-looking persons I ever see --except one, and that was Uncle Silas, when he come in and they told it all to him. [5]
The contagion of warlike patriotism reached the most peacefully inclined young persons. [6]
I heard after wards that she was very glad to know that they were in charge of persons who filled their minds with other thoughts than the desire to rule. [10]
The Secretary of War will, however, in his discretion, except from the effect of this order any persons detained as spies in the service of the insurgents, or others whose release at the present moment may be deemed incompatible with the public safety. [7]
In describing a war or the subjugation of a people, a general historian looks for the cause of the event not in the power of one man, but in the interaction of many persons connected with the event. [2]
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]
There is a very opposite class of persons whom anything in the nature of a joke perplexes, troubles, and even sometimes irritates, seeming to make them think they are trifled with, if not insulted. [6]
It always rubbed very hard on my feelings to offer money to any persons who had served me well, as if they were doing it for their own pleasure. [6]
It was buried very deep; not one of his family knew of it: Edward Lambert, and one or two others who had good reason never to speak of it, were the only persons possessing his secret. [11]
Titian has two Venuses in the Tribune; persons who have seen them will easily remember which one I am referring to. [5]
And so of various odors, which are pleasing to some persons and repulsive to others. [6]
The sight of various objects has had singular effects on some persons. [6]
She sought in vain in them for those evidences of spontaneous love, of delight in writing to her of all persons in the world, the eagerness of the lover that she recalled in letters written in other days. [4]
I have written upon the paper round it to warn off all the young persons of my household from meddling with it. [6]
In part scattered upon the ground at the feet of the two men, and in part jumbled together in a long flat box, were the other persons of the Drama. [12]
They were toiling up a long, slanting ridge of snow--twelve persons, roped together some fifteen feet apart, marching in single file, and strongly marked against the clear blue sky. [5]
It follows, that, until a man can be found who knows himself as his Maker knows him, or who sees himself as others see him, there must be at least six persons engaged in every dialogue between two. [6]
It is the unjustness of civilization that it sets up uniform and artificial standards for all persons. [4]
If the Knobs University bill could only go through, what a change would be wrought in the condition of most of the persons in this history. [5]
Those persons are uninteresting, certainly, who have gone so far in culture that they accept conventional standards supposed to be correct, to which they refer everything, and by which they measure everybody. [4]
An honorable man undertook without fear of persons the lost cause of the poor condemned wretch, and never rested till he had restored him to honor and liberty. [10]
It must be understood that our company is not invariably made up of the same persons. [6]
Novelists and lawyers understand the art of "cramming" better than any other persons in the world. [6]
It is not uncommon to meet with persons who faint at the sight of blood. [6]
Besides, Dick had two sides in his nature, almost as distinct as we sometimes observe in those persons who are the subjects of the condition known as double consciousness. [6]
It was determined: Two pounds with the bones to every four persons. [10]
There are only two persons in the world who stand on a solid foundation, the Roman Catholic and the Agnostic. [4]
She had been two different persons in her life, and the first was only a memory to the second. [11]
I believe I turned over a despatch to you from some persons there, asking a suspension, so as for them to be heard, or something of the sort. [7]
I suppose every turn in it, every tree that has a knoll at the foot where two persons can sit, has witnessed a tragedy, or, what is worse, a comedy. [4]
It is a truism to say that when the reader perceives that the author can compel his characters to do what he pleases all interest in them as real persons is gone. [4]
She has been trained and taught as young persons of higher position in life are brought up, and does not belong in the humble station in which we find her. [6]
Three hundred persons took their seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows deepest where the land lies lowest. [2]
Only wait till to-morrow or the day after; something will happen then which will reduce our own precious persons and this beautiful world to that nothingness which to-day is inconceivable. [10]
Indeed Miss Bronte told me that, before publication, she had sent those parts of the novel in which these remarkable persons are introduced, to one of the sons; and his reply, after reading it, was simply that "she had not drawn them strong enough. [14]
Chance has thrown together at the table with me a number of persons who are worth studying, and I mean not only to look on them, but, if I can, through them. [6]
Some persons seem to think that absolute truth, in the form of rigidly stated propositions, is all that conversation admits. [6]
In speaking privately to these young persons, many of whom have literary aspirations, one should be very considerate of their human feelings. [6]
And temptations come to them in places where they don't look for them, and from persons they never thought of as tempters. [6]
From December, 1602, to the December following, the plague destroyed 30,518 persons in London; the same disease that in the sixth year of Elizabeth killed 20,500, and in the thirty-sixth year 17,890, besides the lord mayor and three aldermen. [4]
When the time to show you our work arrives, you will be surprised to discover how differently two persons see and copy the same object. [10]
They read it to several persons, and eventually it fell into the hands of those ladies of whom I spoke a while ago. [5]
That leads me to say that persons with a strong instinctive tendency to contradiction are apt to become unprofitable companions. [6]
He would like to read lectures before institutions or friendly persons who sympathize with his studies. [6]
I have pulled to pieces all the persons I am acquainted with, and put them together again in my characters. [6]
The General deferred to me several times as to the persons and positions of the captives, and asked my suggestions. [11]
Then I retired to make a note to the effect that in Italy persons connected with the drama do not cheat. [5]
I want you to maintain your dignity always with such persons, and I beg you not to go to the study of this clergyman, unless some older friend goes with you on every occasion, and sits through the visit. [6]
Now, in regard to his reminding me of the moral rule that persons who tell what they do not know to be true falsify as much as those who knowingly tell falsehoods. [7]
It was mentioned to her that he would like to call and see how she was, and she consented,--not with much apparent interest, for she had reasons of her own for not feeling any very deep conviction of his sympathy for persons in sorrow. [6]
This article seems to have struck many persons, and has given rise to two remarkable essays and a rejoinder in the 'Spectator,' Oct. 3rd and 17th, 1868. [1]
They are supposed to have no sympathy of feeling or interest with those very persons whom it is their object to convince and persuade. [7]
They are prone to habits,--they frequent reading-rooms,--insurance-offices,--they walk the same streets at the same hours,--so that one becomes familiar with their faces and persons, as a part of the street-furniture. [6]
Thus, the attempt to establish a presumption against giving poisons to sick persons was considered as equivalent to condemning the use of these substances. [6]
I am sorry to destroy the confidence of your youth, but whoever grows grey, with his eyes open, will meet persons who rejoice, nay to whom it is a necessity to injure others. [10]
We now began to creep along flimsy bridges of a single plank, our persons shielded from destruction by a crazy wooden railing, to which I clung with both hands--not because I was afraid, but because I wanted to. [5]
What it is to be acclimated to western fevers no two persons exactly agree. [5]
They drove up to a door round which a crowd of persons were collected, and there stopped. [12]
A vision came through his fancy of himself as standing on a platform, and having persons who wished to look upon him and shake hands with him presented, as he had heard was the way with great people when going about the country. [6]

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