Use seats in a sentence
Sentences starting with seats
- Seats at it were worth--well, you would never believe the figure, so it is no use to state it. [5]
- Seats were brought in and so was the tea. [2]
Sentences ending with seats
- Mr. Bascom's attack was met valiantly, but unskillfully, from the back seats. [9]
- 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]
- Theocritus will be waiting at the entrance to lead you to your seats. [10]
- We objected loudly to this, for it left us no seats. [5]
- You would like to see, I don't doubt, how we sit at the table, and I will help you by means of a diagram which shows the present arrangement of our seats. [6]
- He sets up to be a practical man, and don't know as much as some of us hayseeds in the back seats. [9]
- Of the murder there could not be the least doubt, or that the prisoner followed the deceased to New York with a murderous intent: On the evidence the jury must convict, and might do so without leaving their seats. [5]
- And there was the Truro Franchise Bill hanging over him, with only a week left of the session, and Lovejoy's and Duncan's men sitting so tight in their seats! [9]
- Do you see the Southern delegates rising in their seats? [9]
- And what was the origin of this majestic city and its efflorescence of palatial town houses and country seats? [5]
Short sentences using seats
- Two seats, diligence, Simplon, morning. [4]
- The seats were for sixteen. [4]
Sentences containing seats two or more times
- All the seats were sold (in a driving rain storm, 3 days ago,) as reserved seats at 25 cents extra, even those in the second and third tiers--and when the last seat was gone the box office had not been open more than 2 hours. [5]
- On top, in the banquette, are seats for eight, besides the postilion and guard; in the coupe, under the postilion's seat and looking upon the horses, seats for three; in the interior, for three; and on top, behind, for six or eight. [4]
- We had engaged our seats two days beforehand, to make sure, and paid the regulation price, five dollars each; but the rest of the company were wiser; they had trusted Baedeker, and waited; consequently some of them got their seats for one or two dollars. [5]
More example sentences with the word seats in them
- The wagons are without seats, and the canvas is too low to admit of sitting upright, if there were. [4]
- Mr. Crewe paused, with his forefinger on the page, and fixed a glassy eye on the remote neighbourhood in the back seats where the disturbance had started. [9]
- He ordered Cilo, who was then the prefect of Rome, to lead me to the seats of the past consuls and the old senators. [10]
- The enterprising group who have taken all the best seats in the bow, with the intention of gormandizing the views, exhibit little staying power; either the monotony or the wind drives them into the cabin. [4]
- The next morning, while a score or more of delinquents sat in the anxious seats, Justice Garry recognized me and gave me precedence. [9]
- The seats we were to have were full, and we had to be stowed where there was any place that would hold us. [6]
- Though the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. [2]
- From our seats we could see the greater part of the assembly,--not quite all, however of the pupils. [6]
- They made their way without difficulty to the seats reserved for the senators' families, and when they had taken their places, the young man replied but briefly to the sympathetic inquiries as to his health which were addressed to him by his acquaintances. [10]
- 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]
- When the service was over, about half of the people departed; the rest remained in their seats and prepared to enter upon their Sabbath exercises. [4]
- The long table was divided into upper and lower messes by a huge salt-cellar; and the consequence of the guests was marked by their seats above or below the salt. [4]
- Overpowered by the warmth and comfort and the fatigue they had undergone, Nelly and the old man had not long taken their seats here, when they fell asleep. [12]
- There were no vacant seats in the galleries next day. [5]
- And finally when ushers come and plead, and beg, and gently and reverently crowd them down into their seats, they say, "Oh, I'm not tired--I could bang along a week! [5]
- I cannot dwell upon this feature; but I suggest a comparison with the correspondence of some of the German, and with that especially of the London journals, from the various capitals of Europe, and from the occasional seats of war. [4]
- But it was underneath the tiers of seats (the whole way around the ring) that the chief attractions lay hid. [9]
- It is quite true that of the senators who passed the Nebraska Bill a majority of the whole Senate will retain their seats in spite of the elections of this and the next year. [7]
- The senators sat trembling on their antique seats of gilt ivory, the relics of departed splendor imitated from those of the Roman senators, looking at each other and shrugging their shoulders while they listened to a letter which had just reached them from the hadi. [10]
- Good places in trees and seats on rail fences sold for half a dollar apiece; lemonade and gingerbread-stands had great prosperity. [5]
- It followed The Trail of the Sword and preceded The Seats of the Mighty, and appeared in the summer of 1895. [11]
- 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]
- They could see too the seats of the grandees, and the barriers which kept the people at a distance from the Regent, the priests, and the nobles. [10]
- Our elders used to threaten to dress us in leather and put sheet-iron seats in our trousers. [4]
- All the seats to sit in, all the statuary to inspect, all the flowers to smell. [4]
- They were unwilling to see the temples of justice and the seats of independent judges occupied by the tools of faction. [7]
- He had withdrawn to one of the back seats to see the performance; for as soon as the theatre was suddenly lighted up, he had become the object of dark looks and threatening gestures. [10]
- Holding one hand to her wildly beating heart, she looked across the bloodstained arena to the rows of seats and the dais decorated for Caesar. [10]
- The laugh seemed to echo and echo through the amphitheatre, and then from the frozen seats, the hillocks of ice and snow, there was a long, low sound, as of sorrow, and a voice came after: "Sleep--sleep! [11]
- The seats, except those saved for the nobility, are soon all taken, and the ladies who come after seven are lucky if they can get within the charmed circle, and find a spot to sit down on a campstool. [4]
- No sooner had they found seats at one end of the car than they unlimbered, and began through their various reluctant instruments to deploy a tune. [4]
- The seats of these members at the theatre had been filled by accommodating townspeople and visitors. [9]
- Some latecomers took their seats in the stalls, and the curtain rose. [2]
- Also fearing for the worst, we telegraphed for a large number of seats in the diligence for Damascus, and horses for the ruins of Baalbec. [5]
- We were of the wise, and had secured lodgings and opera seats months in advance. [5]
- Hope quickened at the vision of hope, the seats of judgment themselves were filled with radiance, and rumour, cowered and fled like the spirit of night. [9]
- The Trail of the Sword is "just not quite," though I think it has charm; but it remained for The Seats of the Mighty to get home, as "W. E. H.", the most exacting, yet the most generous, of critics, said. [11]
- Like great seats the steppes of snow ranged round, and in the centre was a kind of plateau of ice, as it might seem a stage or an altar. [11]
- Sit down in the seats of the State governments and study the methods of treatment of essentially the common institutions of government, of charity and discipline, and you will be impressed with the variety of local spirit and performance in the Union. [4]
- I knew that 'The Seats of the Mighty' and 'The Right of Way' would have a great sale, and after they were written I said as much to my publishers. [11]
- The floor of the room was brick, the table plain boards, and the seats were benches; not much luxury. [4]
- The space behind the rear seats was filled with men standing, and those nearest glanced around with annoyance at the interruption of my entrance. [9]
- The seats for the priests were of ivory, and garlands of lilies and roses hung round the vessel, from its masts and ropes. [10]
- Those who occupied the near seats to the right and left of the pulpit had in front of them a blank board partition, and could not by any possibility see the minister, though they broke their necks backwards over their high coat-collars. [4]
- I noticed that the names of the owners, and sometimes their coats-of-arms, were carved or painted on the backs of the seats, as if the pews were not put up at yearly auction. [4]
- And it being the middle of the dull season, when the quality were at their seats, and the dinner-hour besides, the town might have been a deserted one for its stillness, as tho' the inhabitants had walked out of it, and left it so. [9]
- He was among the men who offered Virginia their seats, and the only one whom she thanked. [9]
- The American steadied the little man by the collar, and began, "I want to secure two seats in the coupe of the diligence in the. [4]
- On that day the judges took their seats in state, and proclamation was made that the court was ready for business. [5]
- Idling members of the House flocked to their seats, nervous gentlemen sprang to their feet, pages flew hither and thither, life and animation were visible everywhere, all the long ranks of faces in the building were kindled. [5]
- His eyes on the great seats of judgment, he said to Pierre: "See, see, how they sit there, grey and cold and awful! [11]
- The legislators in the front seats swung around, and people in the gallery craned forward to see a member standing at his seat in the extreme rear of the hall. [9]
- Mr. Augustus Harris, the enterprising and celebrated manager of Drury Lane Theatre, had sent us an invitation to occupy a box, having eight seats, at the representation of "Carmen. [6]
- They were on the edge of the bluff, and in front of them a little rustic summer-house, with seats on its five sides. [9]
- Austen started for the door, and managed to reach it long before his neighbours had left the vicinity of their seats. [9]
- Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition. [9]
- Then at last the crown-prince and the dignitaries arose from their seats. [10]
- When he paid the conductor and named his objective point, I dropped back several seats, while the conductor was changing a bill, and when he came to me I paid to the same place--about a hundred miles westward. [5]
- The placard announced the coming of Mr. Glover's Company for the following night, and that the Honorable Alva Hopkins of Gosport, ex-Speaker of the House, had bought three hundred and twelve seats for the benefit of the members. [9]
- The seats of the chairs were comfortably depressed. [9]
- In other words, the book will be an illustration of the text, 'He has put down the mighty from their seats, and has exalted the humble and meek. [11]
- We will spare the blushes of the hero of this occasion, who was threatened with suffocation by an inundation from the back seats. [9]
- Mr. Holt closed the Bible reverently, and announced a prayer, whereupon the family knelt upon the floor and leaned their elbows on the seats of their chairs. [9]
- Mrs. Farquhar arranged the affair, and assigned the seats in the carriages. [4]
- It is true that we can all have front seats, and we do not exactly need to dress for it as we do for the opera; but the conditions under which it is to be enjoyed are rather dear. [4]
- I am convinced that the books of mine which have had so many friends as this book, 'The Seats of the Mighty', has had in the English-speaking world were written in just such conditions of temperamental isolation or absorption. [11]
- It is said that some of the country seats have grounds--domains--about them which rival in charm and magnitude those which surround the country mansion of an English lord; but I was not out in the country; I had my hands full in town. [5]
- I had advertised that on this third day the box-office would be opened for the sale of reserved seats. [5]
- There is where that minority becomes an obstruction --but still one can't say it is on the wrong side.--Well, after they have finished the bribery cases, they will take up cases of members who have bought their seats with money. [5]
- Mr. Wetherell noticed that many members turned in their seats as they clapped, and glancing along the gallery he caught a flash of red and perceived the radiant Miss Cassandra herself leaning over the rail, her hands clasped in ecstasy. [9]
- I am afraid that both in The Trail of the Sword, which was the forerunner of The Seats of the Mighty, the well sunk, in a sense, out of which the latter was drawn, I gave my Frenchman the advantage over his English rival. [11]
- Entering, we were taken to the rear of the building, where, in an open courtyard, were a company of soldiers, some seats, and a table. [11]
- After passing the tables of the money-changers, and the stone seats on which the citizens sat in the open air and held their consultations, they arrived at the house of Theopompus. [10]
- Sentiment is not supposed to exist in the orchestra seats. [9]
- The old ladies stopped and shook hands with the twins with effusion, then gave the judge a friendly nod, and bustled into the seats provided for them. [5]
- Weeds and flowers spring from its massy arches and its circling seats, and vines hang their fringes from its lofty walls. [5]
- Elfonzo and Ambulinia soon repaired to the scene, and fortunately for them both the house was so crowded that they took their seats together in the music department, which was not in view of the auditory. [5]
- The father and son took their seats at a table, over which the maid-servant had spread a cloth. [10]
- It was the size of a sleigh, it had six seats and was so low that it seemed to rest on the ground. [5]
- At a given signal thousands of lights appeared round the tiers of seats, and, if the splendor of the entertainment answered at all to that of the Alexandrian spectators, something fine indeed was to be expected. [10]
- After the first shock, an Oakland minister said: "Keep your seats! [5]
- With frantic haste she closes the trunk, which Ephum and Jackson carry downstairs and place between the seats of the carriage. [9]
- If Louisiana shall send members to Congress, their admission to seats will depend, as you know, upon the respective Houses, and not upon the President. [7]
- He had several seats, at which he alternately lived with his many wives and guard of bowmen, the chief of which at the arrival of the English was Werowomocomo, on the Pamunkey (York) River. [4]
- We got front seats, and while the train moved along about fifty yards on level ground, I was not the least frightened; but now it started abruptly downstairs, and I caught my breath. [5]
- The elegantly carved seats were made of ivory, the tables of ebony, and they, as well as the couches, had gilt feet. [10]
- After taking their seats there, the anxious exclamation escaped her lips: "How excited he became again! [10]
- We took our seats in an empty compartment. [9]
- Each row of seats extends in an unbroken curve from one side of the house to the other. [5]
- Those who are seated in the carriage do not observe that they are doing down a declivity of twenty to twenty-five degrees (their seats being adapted to this course of proceeding and being bent down at their backs). [5]
- The members were scattered far and wide through the seats, like an army in open order, listening in silence to the droning voice of the clerk. [9]
- I can hardly say what the reason of it was, but it is very certain that I had a vague sense of some impending event as we took our seats in the Master's library. [6]
- A small party sat on the seats before me: a middle-aged gentleman and his lady, in front, and directly behind them my young doctor and the same very handsome young lady I had seen him walking with on the sidewalk before the swell-fronts and south-exposures. [6]
- On his right sat Mr. Darnley, the stout gentleman, and in the other seats two ladies. [9]
- It holds the same relation to 'The Right of Way' that 'The Trail of the Sword' holds to 'The Seats of the Mighty', that 'A Ladder of Swords' holds to 'The Battle of the Strong', that 'Donovan Pasha' holds to 'The Weavers'. [11]
- In the same row of seats was the Prince of Wales, two chairs off from A----'s seat. [6]
- The delighted community rose as one man and applauded; and when the twins were asked to stand for seats in the forthcoming aldermanic board, and consented, the public contentment was rounded and complete. [5]
- In the drawing room people began arranging the chairs and taking their seats. [2]
- As the audience resumed their seats, two people were observed making their way to the platform. [11]
- The wind was rapidly driving us toward the middle of the pond, and something cold and ticklish was seeping through the seats of our trousers. [9]
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