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Sentences starting with secretary

Secretary of War informs me that the forwarding of transportation, ammunition, and Woodbury's brigade, under your orders, is not, and will not be, interfered with. [7]
Secretary of war? [5]

Sentences ending with secretary

He was about to reply, when a lady came into view, leaning on the arm of an Agency Secretary. [11]
An eternity seemed to elapse before he had a reply, heard his coin jangling in the bog, recognized the voice of the great doctor's secretary. [9]
It did not seem to be a very busy day, and she found no one waiting in the anteroom, and passed into the room of his private secretary. [4]
The reader may remember that during Mark Twain's great lecture engagement in London, winter of 1873-74, Stoddard lived with him, acting as his secretary. [5]
Afterwards there were questions, and a report by Miss Harber, a middle-aged lady with glasses who was the secretary. [9]
Had he needed no other warning of this, the answer to his note asking for an appointment would have been enough,--a brief and formal communication signed by the banker's secretary. [9]
And send for my secretary. [9]
Besides, Wolf's musical knowledge was as remarkable as his usefulness as a secretary. [10]
During this entertainment, he had a letter read to him from the senate, and dictated a reply to a secretary. [10]
You know everything has to be examined and voted on by the Committee," said the cautious Secretary. [6]

Sentences containing secretary two or more times

The Secretary of War will make such general orders or regulations as will insure the proper observance and execution of,, this order, and the Secretary of the Navy will give instructions to officers commanding fleets, flotillas, and gunboats in conformity therewith. [7]
The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy will issue the necessary directions in their respective departments for the execution of this order. [7]
He was telling us how he wrote his novels, and he said, 'pon my soul he did, that he had a secretary or something of that sort to whom he told the plot, and the secretary elaborated, you know, and wrote the draft. [9]
I have called the Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of War, and General-in-Chief together, and submitted it to them, who promise to do their very best in the case. [7]
And the ignorant, sprawling hand is gone; he sports a secretary, evidently--a secretary with a most confident swing and flourish to his pen. [5]
The result of several conferences with Washington was that the Senator proposed that he should go to Washington with him and become his private secretary and the secretary of his committee; a proposal which was eagerly accepted. [5]
Clerk of the Senate Committee on Conchology, Dr. To consultation with Secretary of War ............ $50 To consultation with Secretary of Navy ........... $50 To consultation with Secretary of the Treasury ... $50 Cabinet consultation ...................No charge. [5]
I was private Secretary to his majesty the Secretary and there was not yet writing enough for two of us. [5]
Approved, and the Secretary of the State will transmit the order to the Marshals, to the Lieutenant-General, and the Secretary of the Interior. [7]
He asked her secretary if he had heard aright when the telegram was dictated to him; the secretary said he had, and took the filed copy of it and verified its authenticity by comparing it with the stenographic notes. [5]

More example sentences with the word secretary in them

I shall await your most gracious permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a secretary rather than commander in the army. [2]
I commend to your consideration the suggestions of the Secretary of the Navy in regard to the policy of fostering and training seamen and also the education of officers and engineers for the naval service. [7]
I transmit for your consideration a communication from the Secretary of War, accompanied by one from the Provost-Marshal General to him, both relating to the subject above mentioned. [7]
When I telegraphed you on the 6th, saying you had over 100,000 with you, I had just obtained from the Secretary of War a statement, taken as he said from your own returns, making 108,000 then with you and en route to you. [7]
He was not yet aware of her arrival for, completely absorbed in the subject of their conversation, he was talking with his private secretary Escovedo. [10]
For in the years in which Fellowes had been Byng's secretary his relations with Krool seemed amiable and he had made light of Jasmine's prejudices. [11]
All those are words which my secretary substituted; or mayhap he misheard me or forgot what I said. [5]
In Florence, that winter, Clemens began dictating to his secretary some autobiographical chapters. [5]
Come: if you will, I'll send my secretary to-morrow morning-eh? [11]
Whether our citizens, whose blood was shed, as in his message declared, were or were not, at that time, armed officers and soldiers, sent into that settlement by the military order of the President, through the Secretary of War. [7]
The young lady whom we have known as The Terror, as Lurida, as Miss Vincent, Secretary of the Pansophian Society, had been reading various works selected for her by Dr. Butts,--works chiefly relating to the nervous system and its different affections. [6]
To be passive, when David in Egypt had asked for active interest; to delay, when urgency was important to Claridge Pasha; to speak coldly on Egyptian affairs to his chief, the weak Foreign Secretary, this was the policy he had begun. [11]
The new Secretary was very busy with the work of examining these papers. [6]
When a case was to be made out against him, the secretary wrote, December 30, 1870: "Well might he say, as he did in a subsequent dispatch on the 15th of July, 1869, that he had gone beyond the strict letter of his instructions. [6]
If a paper was rejected by the Secretary, it did not come before the Committee, but was returned to the author, if he sent for it, which he commonly did. [6]
His great house was filled, for there lodged Duke Ernst of Austria, the Hungarian Count of Gara--who through his wife was near of kin to the Emperor, and his Majesty's trusty secretary, Kaspar Slick, and all their people. [10]
In this he was confirmed by his privy secretary, Caspar Slick, whom the Queen had beguiled; and this man, learned in the law, was ready with a decision which the Imperial magistrate gladly agreed to forthwith, as mild yet sufficient. [10]
Instantly the secretary was at her side, and supported her, fainting, to a seat. [4]
The new Secretary was alive with curiosity, and as sagacious a little body as one might find if in want of a detective. [6]
The Secretary of War, you know, holds a pretty tight rein on the press, so that they shall not tell more than they ought to; and I 'm afraid that if I blab too much, he might draw a tight rein on me. [7]
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]
The Secretary of War will suspend the order of General Hunter mentioned within, until further order and direct him to send to the Department a brief report of what is known against each one proposed to be dealt with. [7]
The Secretary of War will issue directions for the execution of this order. [7]
The Secretary of War is wholly free of any part in this blunder. [7]
The Secretary of War is charged with the execution of this order. [7]
His Secretary of War and other officials complained that they never could get deserters shot. [7]
The Secretary of War and General Halleck are very partial to you, as you know I also am. [7]
He arrived in Virginia in 1610 and remained there two years, as secretary of the colony, and was a man of importance. [4]
He talked about Utah, and the Indians, and Nevada, and general American matters and questions, with our secretary and certain government officials who came with us. [5]
Don Juan received Ulrich's petition kindly, and invited him to make the journey on the admiral's galley, with the king's ambassador and his secretary, de Soto. [10]
Twice he moved toward the secretary, and twice he turned away again; but finally he said: "This may be my last night in the world--I must not take the chance. [5]
The secretary was told to write down the resolution of the Moscow nobility and gentry, that they would furnish ten men, fully equipped, out of every thousand serfs, as the Smolensk gentry had done. [2]
A secretary entered, to whom he dictated a telegram which contained these words: "Langmaid has discovered a way out. [9]
I went next to the Secretary of War, who was not inclined to see me at all until he learned that I was connected with the government. [5]
However, he sent to the secretary of the association a letter which might be read at the gathering: To A. [5]
I respectfully refer to the report of the Secretary of War for information respecting the numerical strength of the army and for recommendations having in view an increase of its efficiency and the well-being of the various branches of the service intrusted to his care. [7]
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 tried to question him, but Ulrich did not betray what troubled him, only alluding in general terms to a great anxiety that burdened his mind. [10]
The Secretary had to pay that dollar and a half. [5]
Then he called to one of the so-called "holy fathers," his private secretary, and said: "Draw up at once a document, to be sent to all the priests'-colleges in the land. [10]
Only a determination to make out a case could, as it seems to me, have framed such an indictment as that which the secretary constructed by stringing together a slender list of pretended peccadillos. [6]
Nor is this to induce you to violate or neglect any military order from the General-in-Chief or Secretary of War. [7]
This led him to form a summer acquaintance with the Secretary, who was pleased to give him whatever information he asked for; being proud of the Society, as she had a right to be, and knowing more about it than anybody else. [6]
All he has to do is to say a word to his secretary, and he can make men or ruin them. [9]
I am directed to add that the Secretary of War and the General-in-chief fully concur with the President in these directions. [7]
It came officially through brother Washington, the private Secretary, who appended a postscript that was brimming with delight over the prospect of seeing the Duchess again. [5]
Your despatch of three o'clock this afternoon to the Secretary of War has been received and shown to the President. [7]
Ismail had discovered this, and Dicky had been made a kind of confidential secretary who seldom wrote a line. [11]
A copy of this order, certified by the Secretary of War and delivered to such judge, shall be deemed and held to be a sufficient commission. [7]
The Secretary of this association was getting somewhat tired of the office, and the office was getting somewhat tired of him. [6]
I said these things in the kindest spirit, and yet the Secretary of the Treasury fell into a violent passion. [5]
But this time they stumbled upon the misfortune of an honest Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. James Guthrie), and he spoiled everything. [5]
On the contrary, they must have had many sympathies, and it must have cost the secretary pain, as he said it did, to be forced to communicate with Mr. Moran instead of with Mr. Motley. [6]
The Secretary of the Treasury, pursuing me to the last, drew his pen through all the other items, and simply marked in the margin "Not allowed. [5]
The Secretary of the Treasury sends in an elaborate report--a budget, in fact--involving a complete and harmonious scheme of revenue and expenditure. [4]
The Secretary of the Treasury said: "This is the meddlesome ass that came to recommend me to put poetry and conundrums in my report, as if it were an almanac. [5]
The Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue will please see Mr. Talcott, one of the best men there is, and, if any difference, one they would like better than they do me. [7]
Other information on the subject of the finances will be found in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, to whose statements and views I invite your most candid and considerate attention. [7]
In compliance with the Sixty-fifth Article of War, these whole proceedings are transmitted to the Secretary of War, to be laid before the President of the United States. [7]
By order of the Secretary of War. [7]
The report of the Secretary of War is a document of great interest. [7]
I called on the Secretary of the Treasury. [5]
The report of the Secretary of the Navy presents a comprehensive and satisfactory exhibit of the affairs of that Department and of the naval service. [7]
The report of the Secretary of the Interior, with the accompanying documents, exhibits the condition of the several branches of the public business pertaining to that department. [7]
I have directed the Secretary of State to cause the papers in the case to be communicated to the proper committees. [7]
The recommendation of the Secretary for an organization of the militia upon a uniform basis is a subject of vital importance to the future safety of the country, and is commended to the serious attention of Congress. [7]
Before leaving Carson, the Secretary and I had purchased "feet" from various Esmeralda stragglers. [5]
As Austen took the reins the secretary looked up at him, his mild blue eyes burning with an unsuspected fire. [9]
At last Diomedes, the Queen's private secretary, appeared, to bring him, by her orders, to the mausoleum where she had taken refuge. [10]
Meeting him at the Public Library at a fortunate moment, when there was nobody but the old Librarian, who was hard of hearing, to interfere with their conversation, the little Secretary had a chance to try to find out something about him. [6]
In the meantime the Provost Marshal-General has had access to yours, and has addressed a communication in relation to it to the Secretary of War, a copy of which communication I herewith enclose to you. [7]
And he felt the parting too, felt it deeply; however, I am his confidential secretary, and it would never do for me to tell tales out of school. [10]
The Secretary of the Pansophian Society determined to question the Interviewer the next time she met him at the Library, which happened soon after the meeting when his paper was read. [6]
Ani ordered that the misguided man should be thrown into the dungeon; but so soon as the chief officer had left him, he commanded his secretary to have the dwarf brought into his presence before sundown. [10]
A copy of the letter of Mr. Shufeldt, the consul-general of the United States at Havana, to the Secretary of State on the subject is herewith transmitted. [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]
The Secretary of the Interior has directed a suspension of the payment of the pensions of such persons upon proof of their disloyalty. [7]
At that moment the Governor's secretary handed him a letter. [11]
But I see the government officer coming, and with him the secretary who is to make out passports which will enable you to remain on the Nile unmolested. [10]
The day after the funeral Mr. Henderson's private secretary came to the house, and had a long interview with Mrs. Henderson. [4]
Well, we locked the door, and Miller sent us up a good lunch and wine, After lunch, the Secretary lay on my bed, and we talked things over. [9]
The submission of the dispatch containing an account of the interview, the secretary says, is not inconsistent with diplomatic usage, but it is inconsistent with the duty of a minister not to inform his government of that submission. [6]
By this time the Club was well under way; and from that time forth its secretary kept my off-hours well supplied with business. [5]
I went, with the best intentions in the world, to the Secretary of the Navy, and said: "Sir, I cannot see that Admiral Farragut is doing anything but skirmishing around there in Europe, having a sort of picnic. [5]
The "instructions" commanded that the Secretary regard a paper dollar issued by the government as equal to any other dollar issued by the government. [5]
During the period that he had been acting as Mark Twain's secretary in London, he had taken pleasure in collecting for him the news reports of the celebrated Tichborn Claimant case, then in the English courts. [5]
Will say now that all your despatches to the Secretary of War have been promptly shown to me. [7]
I remain to tell you that Grafton has an appointment at nine with his Majesty's chief Secretary of State. [9]
I wish to take a hint in education from the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, who regards the cultivation of too much land as a great defect in our New England farming. [3]
The Secretary was sworn to obey his volume of written "instructions," and these commanded him to do two certain things without fail, viz. [5]
As Hiram had supposed, the better class of the household were still sitting with their friends, and they had been joined by the guide and by the Arab merchant's head man: Rustem the Masdakite, as well as his secretary and interpreter. [10]
The nomination, the suggestion of Daniel Webster, Tyler's Secretary of State, was cordially approved by the President and cabinet, and confirmed almost by acclamation in the Senate. [4]
Then he rose suddenly and called to the secretary, "Tell that reporter to come back. [4]
The necessity of such a navy-yard, so furnished, at some suitable place upon the Atlantic seaboard has on repeated occasions been brought to the attention of Congress by the Navy Department, and is again presented in the report of the Secretary which accompanies this communication. [7]
Then the United States sternly rebuked the Secretary for disregarding the "instructions," and warned him to correct his ways. [5]
The Secretary of State will keep a registry thereof, and will, on application, in proper cases, issue certificates of such records in the customary form of official certificates. [7]
A secretary of state presented an order of the Council appointing the morrow at eleven for the reception of the foreign ambassadors, and desired the King's assent. [5]
She hastened down stairs, crossed the garden, passing by Rufinus, his wife and the physician, awoke the secretary who had long since dropped asleep, and enjoined him to say: "Yes" to his master, as he expected. [10]
I would invite special attention to the recommendation of the Secretary for a more perfect organization of the navy by introducing additional grades in the service. [7]
General McClellan has sometimes asked for things that the Secretary of War did not give him. [7]

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