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Sentences starting with province

Province against province, city against city, family against family; it was one vast scene of bickering, denunciation, heart-burnings, mutual excommunication and hatred. [6]

Sentences ending with province

In a letter written when he was only thirty-one, to his uncle, Lord Burleigh, he said, "I have taken all knowledge to be my province. [5]
News comes that within this week Siam has acknowledged herself to be, in effect, a French province. [5]
Suppose a minister were to undertake to express opinions on medical subjects, for instance, would you not think he was going beyond his province? [6]
The Acadia College was pointed out to us at Wolfville by a person who said that it is a feeble institution, a remark we were sorry to hear of a place described as "one of the foremost seats of learning in the Province. [4]
She was ever up to her elbows in some dish, and her butter and her biscuits were the best in the province. [9]
All this I thought my power and province. [6]
Far back from this level land lay the dark, limestone hills, which had rambled down from Labrador, and, crossing the River St. Lawrence, stretched away into the English province. [11]
She had got them honestly; for her mother was descended from an old family of the French province. [11]
This gentleman was the most accomplished and scientific farmer we had in the province. [9]
I shall recall the fact to her Majesty's Government in the report I shall make upon my tour of the province. [11]

Sentences containing province two or more times

Barneveld, who, under the title of Advocate, represented the province of Holland, the most important of them all, claimed for each province a right to determine its own state religion. [6]
The "Spanish" in Ghent heard with terror that all the heads of the royalist party who were at the helm of government had been captured, that province after province had revolted, and would no longer bow to the despot. [10]
It travels about from province to province stopping in the chief towns to administer justice. [10]
No title ever borne among us has filled the mouth quite so full as that of "Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Lord Palatine of the Province of Maine," a province with "Gorgeana" (late the plantation of Agamenticus) as its capital. [6]

More example sentences with the word province in them

It seems only yesterday that, for the first time, on a farm "over the border," from the French province, I saw him standing by a log outside the wood-house door, splitting maple knots. [11]
The regents, leagued with Arsinoe, spread the rumour that Cleopatra would deliver Egypt up to Pompey, if the senate would secure to her the sole sovereignty of the new province, and leave her free to rid herself of her royal brother and husband. [10]
Here was one who might have governed a province and still have been a woman, one who had taken into exile the best of safeguards against misfortune,--humor and an indomitable spirit. [9]
Suppose Mr. Ritchie were to bring him to your Excellency, and he were to give you his word that he would leave the province at the first opportunity? [9]
The Hebrews, who were settled in immense numbers in the province of Goshen, and whom Ani had attached to his cause by remitting their task-work, were now driven to labor at the palaces and fortifications which Rameses had begun to build. [10]
Whether the treatment was free from exaggeration, it is not my province to say. [11]
Just as he was better acquainted with every province than the most experienced governor, with every band of soldiers than the sergeant, so nothing escaped him which concerned the private lives of those whom he valued. [10]
He saw something ulterior in the matter, but it was not his province to interfere. [11]
He wished to traverse the province on foot and on horseback, and Sabina was to follow by boat as soon as the inundation should begin. [10]
And they are too busy with the affairs of the province to be burdened as my executors. [9]
Why from east to west, from north to south in this Province of Quebec my name, my fame, have been all-conquering. [11]
Willarski was married to a Russian heiress who had a large estate in Orel province, and he occupied a temporary post in the commissariat department in that town. [2]
Woman's province in this world is putting things to rights. [4]
But for me there is only one province, and I will lift my standard there, and build a grand chateau of my happiness there. [11]
Their leaders were the worst class in our province, being mostly convicts who had served their terms of indenture. [9]
The epistrategus of the whole province was daily expected. [10]
Great, therefore, was the surprise of the college, and afterward of the Province, when, at the farewell dinner of the graduates, Sleeping Beauty announced, between his little open-eyed naps, that he was going Far North as a missionary. [11]
The Empire of the Spade in the world of history was founded at Nineveh by Layard, a great province added to it by Schliemann, and its boundary extended by numerous explorers, some of whom are diligently at work at the present day. [6]
He wrote from the province of Voronezh where he had been sent to procure remounts, but that letter did not set the countess at ease. [2]
This is distinctly the province of the essayist, and in it Warner always displayed his fullest strength. [4]
I belong to the province of Smolensk. [2]
This Bignold was the man who had taken Marcile away, first to the English province, then into the States, where he had lost track of them, then over to England. [11]
Charlemagne's tavern of the Cote Dorion was known over half a province, and its patrons carried news of it half across a continent. [11]
The first is that you leave the province immediately. [9]
Thus it was that when Jean Jacques' father died, and he came into his own, he found himself at thirty a man of substance, unmarried, who "could have had the pick of the province. [11]
You have seen that the Province is tolerant, religious-wise. [5]
I hope, too, that I may without offence suggest the causes which have often led them out of their own province into one to which their education has no special reference. [6]
On landing at Teos, I heard that you were king no longer, that the mighty Cyrus, the father of yonder beautiful youth, had conquered the powerful province of Lydia in a few weeks, and reduced the richest of kings to beggary. [10]
By the strange telepathy which defies language, to the Honourable Hilary Vane, Governor of the Province, some such unacknowledged forebodings have likewise been communicated. [9]
Rome was already stretching out her hand to add it to the others as a new province. [10]
The embers were stirred from time to time by the priests and augurs of every god of the East and West, who also superintended the sacrifices, while warriors of every province of the empire stood round in prayer. [10]
There must be some reason for your seclusion which curiosity has not reached, and into which it is not the province of curiosity to inquire. [6]
It throws a single ray, separated from the rest,--red, yellow, blue, or any intermediate shade,--upon an object; never white light; that is the province of wisdom. [6]
Egypt, of course, remained the principal province of my work. [10]
But the great question "Materialism or Antimaterialism" still agitated the Georgia Augusta, in whose province the conflict had assumed still sharper forms, owing to Rudolf Wagner's speech during the convention of the Guttingen naturalists three years prior to my entrance. [10]
Is it the province of Mr. Grimes to improve upon the work? [5]
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. [6]
What dignifies a province like a university? [3]
The art whose province it is to heal and to save cannot protect its own ranks from the inroads of disease and the waste of the Destroyer. [3]
Over this bright province Britain raised her flag, but only Medallion and a few others loved it for its own sake, or saluted it in the English tongue. [11]
Throughout the whole province "Uncle" had the reputation of being the most honorable and disinterested of cranks. [2]
The Seigneur was proud of his figure, and, unheeding the passing of fashions, held to the knee-breeches and silk stockings long after they had disappeared from the province. [11]
Under one innocent pretext or another, he invaded this or that special province she had made her own. [6]
But when the poet or the story-teller invades the province of the man of science, he is on dangerous ground. [6]
You see why Patrick Henry, in Richmond, and Samuel Adams, in Boston, were startling the crown officials with the same accents of liberty, and why the Mecklenburg Resolutions had the very ring of the Protest of the Province of Massachusetts. [6]
The two great parties in the Province were led by Frenchmen. [11]
In one nomos or province the shrew-mouse was sacred, and a satirical, obscene papyrus in Turin shows us a war between the cats and mice; the Papyrus Ebers contains poisons for mice. [10]
She was the one who mattered in that thought of escape escape to some other parish, to some other province, to some other country--to some other world! [11]
Is there no one of your province in the town to attest your identity? [9]
And having managed one of the largest plantations in the province, I felt the man, as lads are wont after their first responsibilities. [9]
Of Julius Caesar, on the contrary, long before she met him, she spoke with ardent enthusiasm, though she knew that he would gladly have made Egypt a Roman province. [10]
His Excellency knew of your hiding-place, but is inclined to be lenient, will allow you to-morrow to go to the Rue Bourbon, and will without doubt permit you to leave the province. [9]
And if any of these, my old playmates, could read this manuscript, perchance they might feel a tingle of recollection of Children's Day, when Maryland was a province. [9]
Among the gentry of the province Nicholas was respected but not liked. [2]
The mean temperature of the Province is 62 deg. [5]
It is one of the most sterile regions in the Province. [4]
Other things are of small importance to them; and yet the special discipline first gains value in connection with the rest or the wider province of the allied sciences. [10]
Politically the Province of Quebec was in turmoil. [11]
For every hair of my head there will be one less habitant in this province. [11]
That senseless pride of cast, so deep-rooted in those born in our province, had made itself felt. [9]
This topic is not the selection of the Drawer, the province of which is to note, but not to criticise, the higher civilization. [4]
Such discussions are not the province of a novelist, and may all be found in the files of the Tribune at the State Library. [9]
Yet Gering had no reason to be ashamed of his men that day; they charged bravely, but their enemies were hid to deadly advantage behind trees and thickets, the best sharpshooters of the province. [11]
In passing, I need hardly say that the "Pontiac" of this book is an imaginary place, and has no association with the real Pontiac of the Province. [11]
There is nothing narrow about the Province, politically, or in any other way that I know of. [5]
I ask why my telescopic star-dust may not come together and grow and organize into habitable worlds,--the ripened fruit on the branches of the tree Yggdrasil, if I may borrow from our friend the Poet's province. [6]
And I remember my sensations when in the province of Quebec in the autumn of 1914, looking out of the car-window at the troops gathering on the platforms who were to go across the seas to fight for the empire and liberty. [9]
I gave him my early history briefly, dwelling but casually upon the position enjoyed in Maryland by my family; but I spoke of my grandfather, now turning seventy, gray-haired in the service of King and province. [9]
Naturally the book must lack in something of that magnetic picturesqueness and atmosphere which belongs to the people in the Province of Quebec. [11]
But he had much to learn of Miss Manners if he thought that even one who had been governor of the province could command her. [9]
I have heard much of the colonies, and have read that doggerel 'Sot Weed Factor' which tells of the gluttonous life of ease you lead in your own province. [9]
Wish there were more like 'em in the province. [9]
Cambyses' severity or mildness towards the deputations with whose chiefs he spoke, was proportioned to the obedience of their province and the munificence of their tribute-offerings. [10]
Unfortunately, I rarely met the fair Julie, but, to make amends, I found through her father the way to that province of investigation to which my after-life was to be devoted. [10]
A place of meeting has already been selected in each province, the pass-word will be given, and a day fixed for a general rising. [10]
And I am making the journey, not merely to purge myself from reproach, but to obtain Omar's permission for the future to exact no extortionate payments, but to consider only the true weal of the province. [10]
Princess Mary had made an agreeable impression on him when he had met her in Smolensk province. [2]
Western and Northern life has little of the settled charm which belongs to the old civilization of the French province. [11]
One only had learned from a released prisoner that Milcah's husband was living in the copper mines of the province of Bech, in the neighborhood of Mt. [10]
Bennigsen was a landlord in the Vilna province who appeared to be doing the honors of the district, but was in reality a good general, useful as an adviser and ready at hand to replace Barclay. [2]
The province of labour was found, but with each step forward the conviction of my utter lack of preparation for the new science grew clearer. [10]
Mr. Bordley has just been here, and tells me you are the ablest young man in the province. [9]
The whole Kamaraska Isles are mine, and the best gentlemen in this province do me vassalage. [11]
What was France is now but a British province. [5]
The man's name is George Masson, master-carpenter, of the town of Laplatte in the province of Quebec. [11]
He is great in his field, but is he leaving the intellectual province to woman? [4]
In 1809 Count Ilya Rostov was living at Otradnoe just as he had done in former years, that is, entertaining almost the whole province with hunts, theatricals, dinners, and music. [2]
We must submit if the superior might of Rome renders Egypt a province of the republic, but we can preserve to our city and her council the lion's share of their freedom. [10]
Mr. Carvel, as I have said, was most of his life a member of the Council, a man from whom both Governor Sharpe and Governor Eden were glad to take advice because of his temperate judgment and deep knowledge of the people of the province. [9]
It is three hundred years since Joseph Ribera, more commonly known as Spagnoletto, was born in the province Valencia, in Spain. [6]
And if their honours but knew, he was as good a patriot as any in the province, and sold his wool to Peter Psalter, and he wore the homespun in winter. [9]
Why, sir, I hold it to be within every man's province to make himself what he will, and I early recognized in Learning the only guide for such as me. [9]
So he left his beloved province where he no longer had a home, and though no letters came to him from St. Saviour's, from Vilray or the Manor Cartier, yet he heard the bells of memory when the Hand Invisible arrested his footsteps. [11]
His father called himself the highest noble in the realm, and as such, governed the province of Persia proper, the mother-country, to which this enormous world-empire and its ruler owed their origin. [10]
De la Tour, himself an exile from his province, wandered about the New World in his customary pursuit of peltry. [4]
Bedford had lost heart and decided to waive resistance and go an concentrate his strength in the best and loyalest province remaining to him--Normandy. [5]
The next morning he went with the architect of the province to the scene of the conflagration, and had him mark the spot of ground on which he desired to erect to his Myrtilus a monument to be made in Alexandria. [10]
I knew that he was a rich man, as riches went in our province, but I had never tried to guess at his estate. [9]
He felt that he had trenched upon March's province, and he framed one apology to the editor for bringing him the manuscript, and another to the author for bringing it back. [8]
On the other hand, we have had or have the encyclopaedic intelligences like Cuvier, Buckle, and more emphatically Herbert Spencer, who take all knowledge, or large fields of it, to be their province. [6]

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