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Sentences starting with public

Public opinion in this country is everything. [7]
Public opinion in the old democratic sense is a myth; it must be made by strong individuals who recognize and represent evolutionary needs, otherwise it's at the mercy of demagogues who play fast and loose with the prejudice and ignorance of the mob. [9]
Public opinion made some allowance for frailties in other professions; in the ministry, none: he would be committing himself to be good the rest of his life, and that seemed too vast an undertaking for any human. [9]
Public Improvements was reached, and he straightened. [9]
Public confidence would probably be increased if less were claimed. [5]
Public enthusiasm was measureless. [5]
Public opinion cannot force that kind of men to go to the wars. [5]
Public interest was divided between baseball and the tracking of this criminal to New Zealand. [9]
Public opinion will demand it. [11]
Public prayers had been offered up for them, and many and many a private prayer that had the petitioner's whole heart in it; but still no good news came from the cave. [5]

Sentences ending with public

I contend that we've got a real substantial success to celebrate now; but even if we hadn't, the celebration would do more than anything else to create the success, if we got it properly before the public. [8]
He therefore boldly took the step of self-ennobling, and gave himself forth--as he said, obeying "the voice of the people at large"--as "Lord Timothy Dexter," by which appellation he has ever since been known to the American public. [6]
We can't afford to fly in the face of the dear public. [9]
The trial was to begin in the chapel of the fortress and would be public. [5]
Your answer not to be made public. [7]
It was also thought wise by Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Gorse, and Mr. Grierson, and by Mr. Paret himself that he should not appear in the matter; an aspiring young attorney, Mr. Arbuthnot, was retained to conduct the case in public. [9]
Drifting along from thought to thought, he reflected on the probable consequences of the general knowledge of Maurice Kirkwood's story, if it came before the public. [6]
The advantages of this state of things have never heretofore been properly placed before the public. [5]
So long as this biological law exists, so long the charlatan will keep his hold on the ignorant public. [6]
The physicians think they are moved by regard for the best interests of the public. [5]

Short sentences using public

No public can withstand magnanimity. [5]
It would astonish the public. [4]
Improve the public taste? [8]
I inquired about public schools. [5]
Hence it was public property. [5]
There were no public conveyances. [5]
The public knows it all. [7]
The public method is better. [5]
Would the public be injured? [4]
The public paid. [9]

Sentences containing public two or more times

What I said was that if the public thought I was fool enough to make it our enemy, the public might be d---d (begging your honor's pardon). [4]
The, public astonishment was so great and the public curiosity so intense, that when the justice of the peace opened his court, the place was packed with people and even the windows were full. [5]
The editorial management was going to be kept in the background, as far as the public was concerned; the public was to suppose that the thing ran itself. [8]
I refer you to the report of the Secretary of the Interior, which is herewith laid before you, for useful and varied information in relation to the public lands, Indian affairs, patents, pensions, and other matters of public concern pertaining to his Department. [7]
The Secretary of the Interior reports as follows in regard to the public lands: "The public lands have ceased to be a source of revenue. [7]
It appealed to the British public rather more than 'The Right of Way', and the great public of America and the Oversea Dominions gave it a welcome which enabled it to take its place beside 'The Right of Way', the success of which was unusual. [11]
You ask, in substance, whether I really claim that I may override all the guaranteed rights of individuals, on the plea of conserving the public safety when I may choose to say the public safety requires it. [7]
Her reproach was public, the world knew it, and no woman can forgive a public shame, even was it brought about by a man she loved, or loves. [11]
Then the city of Washington will lose its consequence and pass out of the public view and public talk. [5]
In the absence of that immense variety of popular entertainments which now feed the public taste and appetite, the people found their chief amusement in frequenting the courts and public and political assemblies. [7]

More example sentences with the word public in them

The stockholders of your corporation, perhaps, are bound to suffer some from the fact that you have taken its life-blood to pay dividends, and the public will demand that it be built up into a normal and healthy condition. [9]
I recognize in your arguments that which smacks of his tongue, despite what he says of your reading the public prints and of forming your own opinions. [9]
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]
I am glad you told me my faults plainly in private, for in your public notice you touch on them so lightly, I should perhaps have passed them over thus indicated, with too little reflection. [14]
I can offer you the position of the wife of a man with a public career--for which you are so well fitted. [9]
It is where you say: "The undersigned are unable to agree with you in the opinion you have expressed that the Constitution is different in time of insurrection or invasion from what it is in time of peace and public security. [7]
I will thank you not to make it public until General Fremont shall have had time to receive the original. [7]
I've no doubt you know something about them, and that you would maintain they are justified on account of the indifference of the public, and of other reasons, but I can cite an instance that is simply legalized thieving. [9]
It will hurt you in the public service. [11]
See him if you can, and read this to him; but charge him not to make it public for the present. [7]
As soon as you break the law openly, and set the machinery of public penalty in motion, there is an end of you, so far as this world is concerned. [11]
It takes seven years to complete a book by this method, but still it is a good method: gives the public a rest. [5]
During the earliest years of the new century the political atmosphere had changed, the public had shown a tendency to grow restless; and everybody knows how important it is for financial operations, for prosperity, that the people should mind their own business. [9]
He had been written about considerably, and the public wouldn't have been satisfied without some new facts; and these I meant to have, and I got. [6]
Forty of the wounded were placed upon pallets on the floor of a great public hall, and among these was Henry. [5]
I said we would leave the village at 3 or 4 P.M. on the morrow; meantime he could notify the guides, and also let the public know of the attempt which we proposed to make. [5]
I thought it would be nicer than a public dining-room, and when I got up this morning and saw what the weather was I telephoned. [9]
She makes short work with all the pretenders whose only excuse for appealing to the public is that they "want to be famous. [6]
For any casual work connected with public functions Osterhaut was indispensable, and he would serve as a doctor's assistant and help cut off a leg, be the majordomo for a Sunday-school picnic, or arrange a soiree at a meeting-house with equal impartiality. [11]
So large a work as the "History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic," offered for the press by an author as yet unknown to the British public, could hardly expect a warm welcome from the great dealers in literature as merchandise. [6]
I do not wonder at all that the public support a whole community of pretenders who show the portraits of the patients they have "cured. [6]
I may say, without indiscretion, that I intend from now on to take even a greater interest in public affairs. [9]
We looked on without apprehension, for they were fast getting past ability to go for help against us, and the arena was far enough from the public road to be safe from intrusion. [5]
Still it took with the public, and gave me celebrity, as an original work was something remarkable and uncommon in America. [4]
I am flattered with the personal regard you manifested for me; but I do hope that, on more mature reflection, you will view the public interest as a paramount consideration, and therefore determine to let the worst come. [7]
And Miss Lucretia, with that stern composure with which celebrities accept public situations, follows up the steps as of right and takes the chair he assigns her beside the chairman. [9]
And my experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. [6]
Then Washington said, with earnest compassion in his voice-- "And so, after coming here, against your inclination, to satisfy your sense of patriotic duty and appease a selfish public clamor, you get absolutely nothing for it. [5]
Yet, thoroughly imbued with a reverence for the guaranteed rights of individuals, I was slow to adopt the strong measures which by degrees I have been forced to regard as being within the exceptions of the Constitution, and as indispensable to the public safety. [7]
He said he wished the public would make trouble oftener--it would have a good effect. [5]
Perhaps public opinion will sober you then. [8]
The Semi-Homoeopathic practitioner will gradually withdraw from the rotten half of his business and try to make the public forget his connection with it. [3]
Although this letter will become public at some time, it is not intended to be made so now. [7]
The proposed amendment will advantage all three--the public most of all. [5]
In reviewing the whole course of its history we read a long list of honored names, and a precious record written in private memories, in public charities, in permanent contributions to medical science, in generous sacrifices for the country. [3]
Gentlemen and ladies who were sick, or were taking a siesta, or had dissipated till a late hour and were making up lost sleep, thronged into the public streets in all sorts of queer apparel, and some without any at all. [5]
Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others. [7]
One poor devil who had waddled (failed) in Change Alley had collected under his mattress the letters of Junius, then selling the Public Advertiser as few publications had ever sold before. [9]
After his death, which took place during his defence of a friend in the public court, a temple was erected to him by his countrymen. [10]
The public opinion which sustains these deeds is as un-American, and as guilty as their doers. [4]
The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust. [12]
With the prosperity which he made attend his work he changed the character of the enterprise, and with Fulkerson's enthusiastic support he gave the public an art journal of as high grade as 'Les Lettres et les Arts', and very much that sort of thing. [8]
The dignity with which he appeared in public was truly imperial and unapproachable, and even when he sat with his intimates in his favorite room he was grave, gloomy and taciturn. [10]
When the public which has been present reads the inaccurate report, it loses confidence in the newspaper. [4]
It was expected when the District was made out of these two that the result would be something quite extraordinary in the places of public entertainment. [4]
You can charge what you please; I promise the public no amusement, but I do promise a reasonable amount of instruction. [5]
And this was what impressed the reporters when, in the line of their public duty, they were admitted to her presence. [4]
I can find what I want, if you have it; and what I don't find there I will get at the Public Library. [6]
She asked him what ailed him; he made no reply, but put his hand to his head, so she led him aside into the public garden that lay to their right between the little Stadium and the Maeandrian circus. [10]
If the prisoner were to take advantage of his freedom and attempt to escape, the jailer's feelings would be hurt, and public opinion would hardly approve the prisoner's conduct. [4]
Such as he were thwarted right and left in this career of knavery and public evils. [11]
If the Seigneur were killed in the encounter--he must defend himself now-- what a miserable notoriety and possible legal penalty and public punishment! [11]
The public buildings were heavily draped, and even the homes of the very poor bore outward marks of grief at the loss of their friend and fellow-townsman. [6]
The public gardens were filled by afternoon, and whoever wanted to address the people had no need to call an audience together. [10]
The Pappas Brothers were evidently as happy in this drab environment as they had ever been on the sunny mountain slopes of Hellas, and Janet sometimes wondered at this, for she had gathered from her education in the Charming public school that Greece was beautiful. [9]
Although the pedestrians were but twenty feet away, what Mr. Worthington said never reached them; but the Honorable Heth on public days carried his voice of the Forum around with him. [9]
One might as well set the gentlemen detained in the public prisons to trying each other. [5]
Does he suppose we want to be known and talked about in public as "Teacups"? [6]
Why then shall we spend the public money in such employment? [7]
How often have we seen it in our public prints, that woman occupies a false station in the world! [5]
That in various ways the public had repudiated that compromise and demanded the repeal, and therefore should not now complain of it. [7]
But what it was, no one could tell: it might be some caprice of a sick and half-crazy man, or it might relate to public affairs, or possibly to family concerns. [2]
The editorial, which was written by Mr. Olin Brad, and was in his best Macaulay style, began somewhat humorously by alluding to the curious interest of the public in ancient history, citing Mr. Froude and Mr. Carlyle, and the legend of Casper Hauser. [4]
There Mr. Botcher was wont to sit (when he was not depressing one of the tiles in the rotunda), surrounded by his friends and their tobacco smoke, discussing in his frank and manly fashion the public questions of the day. [9]
Our first care was to create a delay in the trial of the case in order to give the public excitement a chance to die down. [9]
And again, there was the government official, intrusted with public money, which, in those days, implied that he was supposed to be honest. [6]
The 'Jumping Frog' was the first piece of writing of mine that spread itself through the newspapers and brought me into public notice. [5]
Even public sympathy was roused in behalf of Sturgis. [5]
And yet Philip was not allowed to be unduly elated by the attention of his fellow-craftsmen, for he soon found that a man's consequence in this circle, as well as with the great public, depended largely upon the amount of the sale of his book. [4]
When its editor was nominated for public printer, I declined to vote for him, and stated that at some time I might give my reasons for doing so. [7]
All this play was in Dicky's hands for himself to enjoy, in a perfect dress rehearsal ere ever one of the Cairene public or the English world could pay for admission and take their seats. [11]
The big room was full of red-vested farmers (the Gemeindrath of the district, with the Burgermeister at the head,) drinking beer and talking public business. [5]
His career also was denounced by some as wholly vicious in its effect upon the youth of the republic, and as lowering the tone of public morals. [4]
Another reporter, who was assigned to inform the public of the results of a difficult archeological investigation, frankly confessed his inability to understand what was going on; for his ordinary business, he said, was cattle. [4]
Once General Grant was asked a question about a matter which had been much debated by the public and the newspapers; he answered the question without any hesitancy. [5]
The public mind was alarmed and apprehensive, though fortunately not distracted or disheartened. [7]
Willie Haslam's funeral was a public function: he was young, innocent-looking, handsome, and the people did not know what Pierre would not tell now--that he had cheated grossly at cards. [11]
A politician now was a politician, his ways and standards set apart from those of other citizens, and not to be judged by men without the pale of public life. [9]
The Public Library was a central point which brought people together. [6]
The gaiety and warmth of the hut erected in the Public Gardens which houses the British Officers' Club were a relief. [9]
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]
If the public wants science, the papers will give it science. [4]
In the public walks and lounges of a town, people go to see and to be seen, and there the same expression, with little variety, is repeated a hundred times. [12]
He did not wait for the announcement of Carnac's triumph, and he knew his work was done for ever in public life. [11]
Then a whispering voice said across the railing which separated the public from the lawyers: "Charley! [11]
Then in another village they started a dancing-school; but they didn't know no more how to dance than a kangaroo does; so the first prance they made the general public jumped in and pranced them out of town. [5]
That commonest of village sights was lacking here--the public pump, with its great stone tank or trough of limpid water, and its group of gossiping pitcher-bearers; for there is no well or fountain or spring on this tall hill; cisterns of rain-water are used. [5]
They could not venture to refuse this, with the public there to hear. [5]
There was a vast crowd in the public grounds that night to hear the band play the "Fremersberg. [5]
That is a vast change in the Northern public sentiment upon that question. [7]
We are always valuing the soul's temperature by the thermometer of public deed or word. [6]
They are in utter darkness as to his opinions on any of the questions of policy which occupy the public attention. [7]
Mr. Cooke tells us that he entered the public grammar school at the age of eight years, and soon afterwards the Latin School. [6]
The philosopher asked us at once whether we were aware that Theodosius had lately promulgated a new edict forbidding young maidens to appear in public as singers or flute-players. [10]
Illinois had gained upon that State under the public land system as it is. [7]
I have said, upon a former occasion, and I repeat it now, that the course of arguement that Judge Douglas makes use of upon this subject (I charge not his motives in this), is preparing the public mind for that new Dred Scott decision. [7]
And I raised up, garbed as I was, not for public exhibition, right in front of a mirror fifteen or sixteen feet high. [5]
They were coarse, unsubstantial, freckled all over with broad yellow splotches, and could neither stand wear nor public exhibition. [5]
The steadily rising unearned increment of urban and mineral land ought, by appropriate direct taxation, to be brought into the public exchequer; "the definite teachings of economic science are no longer to be disregarded. [9]
I could not understand this, unless it was that he wished to practise moving about deftly, that he might be at least disadvantage in the cafes and public resorts. [11]

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