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Smith was a young man of about twenty-eight, vain and no doubt somewhat "bumptious," and it is easy to believe that Wingfield and the others who felt his superior force and realized his experience, honestly suspected him of designs against the expedition. [4]
Smith said he would sell $200 or $300 worth himself. [5]
Smith himself continued with the imperial party, in the regiment of Earl Meldritch. [4]
Smith upbraided him with neglect of his promise to supply them with corn, and told him, in reply to his demand for weapons, that he had no arms to spare. [4]
Smith presented him with a suit of red cloth, a white greyhound, and a hat. [4]
Smith said that Wingfield would not have been deposed except for Archer; that the charges against him were frivolous. [4]
Smith professed himself willing to retire to England, but, seeing the new commission did not arrive, held on to his authority, and began to enforce it to save the whole colony from anarchy. [4]
Smith sent men up to their town, a display of force was made by firing four guns, and the Indians kindly traded, giving fish, oysters, bread, and deer. [4]
Smith understands working up a narration, and makes this combat long and doubtful. [4]
Smith wrote his travels in London nearly thirty years after, and it is difficult to say how much is the result of his own observation and how much he appropriated from preceding romances. [4]

Sentences ending with smith

In the company were two Indians, Machumps and Namontack, whose acquaintance we have before made, returning from England, whither they had been sent by Captain Smith. [4]
These several discourses were carefully edited by William Symonds, a doctor of divinity and a man of learning and repute, evidently at the request of Smith. [4]
Among the names we find that of Captain John Smith. [4]
The Oxford tract was also republished by Purchas in his "Pilgrimes," extended by new matter in manuscript supplied by Smith. [4]
The enmity of this man must be regarded as a long credit mark to Smith. [4]
And the smith, the smith! [10]
He lived in the principal cabin, half-way up the divide, along with Dixon and Parker and Smith. [5]
It is in the fall of 1607, just before his famous voyage up the Chickahominy, on which he departed December 10th--that he writes: "The President and Captain Arthur intended not long after to have abandoned the country, which project was curbed and suppressed by Smith. [4]
She clenched her teeth tightly and grasped her girdle, in which she had stuck the knife given her by the smith. [10]
There was a statue to him, and another to De Saussure, in the hall of our hotel, and a metal plate on the door of a room upstairs bore an inscription to the effect that that room had been occupied by Albert Smith. [5]

Short sentences using smith

Ain't it so, Smith? [5]
Lieutenant Commanding Watson Smith. [7]
Such was John Smith. [4]
Ingenious Smith!--gifted Smith!--noble Smith! [5]
Smith, Jones, and others. [5]
Lieutenant Commanding Albert N. Smith. [7]
Then there was John Smith. [5]
Smith returned with his message. [4]
Smith desiring that Capt. [4]
Smith, Sydney, on bishops, 219. [6]

Sentences containing smith two or more times

The casual reader would certainly conclude that the Somers Isles were somehow due to the providence of John Smith, when in fact he never even heard that Gates and Smith were shipwrecked there till he had returned to England, sent home from Virginia. [4]
He inquired also with a merry countenance after the piece of ordnance that Smith had promised to send him, and Smith, with equal jocularity, replied that he had offered the men four demi-culverins, which they found too heavy to carry. [4]
Smith says that the President and Council greatly envied his reputation with the Indians, and wrought upon them to believe, by giving in trade four times as much as the price set by Smith, that their authority exceeded his as much as their bounty. [4]
Smith himself says that Chambers had persuaded the French admiral that if Smith was let to go on his boat he would revenge himself on the French fisheries on the Banks. [4]
Powhatan, according to Smith, threatened death to his followers if they did not kill Smith. [4]
This noble friend of Smith, the Duke of Mercury, whom Haylyn styles Duke Mercurio, seems to have puzzled the biographers of Smith. [4]
The change was made; then Smith noticed that the Kanaka had only changed the saddles, and had left the original blanket on the horse; he said he forgot to change the blankets, and so, to cut the bother short, Smith mounted and rode away. [5]
He was in Jamestown when Smith returned from his captivity, and would be likely to allude to the romantic story of Pocahontas if Smith had told it on his escape. [4]
And this we bear record with words of soberness, that the said Smith has shown unto us, for we have seen and hefted, and know of a surety that the said Smith has got the plates of which we have spoken. [5]

More example sentences with the word smith in them

Night and day you can find him pegging away at Smith, panting with his labor, sleeves rolled up, countenance all alive with enjoyment. [5]
Speed says he wrote you what Jo Smith said about you as he passed here. [7]
That was very wrong, and when he stretched himself out to sleep, the image of the valiant smith stood with tangible distinctness before his soul. [10]
Every body has written about the Grotto del Cane and its poisonous vapors, from Pliny down to Smith, and every tourist has held a dog over its floor by the legs to test the capabilities of the place. [5]
When Smith returned wounded to Jamestown, he was physically in no condition to face the situation. [4]
Lest the envious world should not believe his own story, Smith had Baker, his steward, and several of his crew examined before a magistrate at Plymouth, December 8, 1615, who support his story by their testimony up to a certain point. [4]
Thus he gazed with mute reproach at the smith for some time, then pushed the goblet far away, exclaiming with sincere indignation: "What doings are these, friend Adam? [10]
According to Smith, who is probably correct in this, the fire did not occur till five or six days after the arrival of the ship. [4]
By John Smith, who heard him read eight times. [5]
The work with which Warner himself was least satisfied was his life of Captain John Smith, which came out in 18881. [4]
The London to which Smith returned was the London of Shakespeare. [4]
In an age when nastiness was written as well as spoken, and when most travelers felt called upon to satisfy a curiosity for prurient observations, Smith preserved a tone quite remarkable for general purity. [4]
The smith understood what was passing in his mind, and said: "It is hard for you to go. [10]
Taking stock of what he brought in, Smith found food enough to last till the next harvest, and at once organized the company into bands of ten or fifteen, and compelled them to go to work. [4]
It was at Werowocomoco that Smith observed certain conjurations of the medicine men, which he supposed had reference to his fate. [4]
Before September forty-one were buried, says Wingfield; fifty, says Smith in one statement, and forty-six in another; Percy gives a list of twenty-four who died in August and September. [4]
Among the delegates were Bowen and Kelly of Will; Captain Naper, H. H. Cody, Nathan Allen, of Du Page; W. M. Jackson, J. M. Strode, P. W. Platt, and Enos W. Smith of McHenry; J. Horssnan and others of Winnebago. [7]
In this company were a couple of gallants, lately come over, Gabriel Beadle and John Russell, proper gentlemen, but unused to hardships, whom Smith has immortalized by his novel cure of their profanity. [4]
The bloodstained smith went beside them. [2]
The first night was spent at "Warraskogack," the king of which warned Smith that while Powhatan would receive him kindly he was only seeking an opportunity to cut their throats and seize their arms. [4]
Mr. Smith --that was not his name, but it will answer--questioned us about ourselves and our country, and we answered him truthfully, as a general thing, and questioned him in return. [5]
Old Fuller's schoolmaster was Master Arthur Smith, a kinsman of John, who told him that John was born in Lincolnshire, and it is probable that Fuller received from his teacher some impression about the adventurer. [4]
Just as he was leaving in the early morning a horseman rode rapidly past, and called out to the smith, who was standing in front of the shop: "The battle is lost. [10]
Mr. Smith only was in the room the whole time. [14]
To Mrs. Elizabeth W. Smith, in Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Mo. [5]
Argall lost his voyage; his ship was revictualed and sent back to England, but one may be sure that this event was so represented as to increase the fostered dissatisfaction with Smith in London. [4]
With the other vessel Smith had trouble. [4]
Some species stridulate very loudly, so that when Mr. F. Smith caught a Trox sabulosus, a gamekeeper, who stood by, thought he had caught a mouse; but I failed to discover the proper organs in this beetle. [1]
It has been usually assumed that Strachey cribbed from Smith without acknowledgment. [4]
Meantime Smith, going up to the Falls to look after Captain West, met that hero on his way to Jamestown. [4]
For the first two years Costa had remained far in advance of his pupil, then he was compelled to defend himself in good earnest, and now it not unfrequently happened that the smith vanquished the scholar. [10]
Percy and Cuderington, two gentlemen, volunteered to do it; but Smith sent instead Master Wiffin and Jeffrey Abbot, to go and stab them or shoot them. [4]
His crooked mouth twisted to and fro in strange contortions, not a muscle of his coarse face was till, and this looked so odd and yet so horrible, that Ruth could not help laughing, and the smith asked what ailed him. [10]
Powhatan and the treacherous Dutchmen are represented as plotting to kill Smith that night. [4]
As Smith had traveled all over Europe and sojourned in Morocco, besides sailing the high seas, since he visited Prince Sigismund in December, 1603, it was probably in the year 1605 that he reached England. [4]
During this whole transaction the smith felt like a wild animal in the hunter's toils, and could say neither "yes" nor "no. [10]
Now in James Towne they were all in combustion, the strongest preparing once more to run away with the Pinnace; which with the hazard of his life, with Sakre falcon and musketshot, Smith forced now the third time to stay or sinke. [4]
Smith and I took the deck, and I led off. [5]
The smith then told him what he had provided and arranged, adding: "the picture on the standard--you say you painted it yourself. [10]
I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homoeopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. [5]
The present pilgrim to the old church will find no memorial that Smith was buried there, and will encounter besides incredulity of the tradition that he ever rested there. [4]
Ulrich must go to the monastery, so Benedictus curtly declared with the utmost positiveness, after the smith had finished his work. [10]
Smith, our President, to the Falls, to the little Powhatan, where, unknown to me, he sold me to him for a town called Powhatan; and, leaving me with him, the little Powhatan, he made known to Capt. [4]
They all allude to the envy and detraction to which he was subject, and which must have amounted to a storm of abuse and perhaps ridicule; and they all tax the English vocabulary to extol Smith, his deeds, and his works. [4]
But the addition to the armies of Germany, France, Styria, and Hungary of John Smith, "this English gentleman," as he styles himself, put a new face on the war, and proved the ruin of the Turkish cause. [4]
Smith ordered him to send a boat; Chambers replied that his boat was split, which was a lie, and told him to come off in the Frenchman's boat. [4]
Mr. Smith wishes to reprint some of Emily's and Annie's works, with a few little additions from the papers they have left; and I have been closely engaged in revising, transcribing, preparing a preface, notice, etc. [14]
In one expedition to Nansemond, when the Indians refused to trade, Smith fired upon them, and then landed and burned one of their houses; whereupon they submitted and loaded his three boats with corn. [4]
P. S.--Send same to L. B. Smith and M. A. Blanchard, Portland, Me. [7]
President Wingfield appears to have taken soldierly precautions, but Smith was not at all pleased with him from the first. [4]
Another smith tried to enter the doorway, pressing against the publican with his chest. [2]
The pinnace was to ascend the river twenty miles to Point Weanock, and to await Smith there. [4]
We are able to add also that the rector of the Willoughby Rectory, Alford, finds in the register an entry of the baptism of John, son of George Smith, under date of Jan. 9, 1579. [4]
Smith they conducted to a long house, where thirtie or fortie tall fellowes did guard him, and ere long more bread and venison were brought him then would have served twentie men. [4]
For the first time, the smith wasn't up and ready. [5]
Smith awoke in time, seized his arms, and others coming to his rescue, they cleared the house. [4]
Smith at that time replied little, but afterward combined with Powhatan to kill Capt. [4]
When Smith perceived this treachery he fired into the "naked devils" who were in sight. [4]
The result of this modern investigation has been to discredit much of the romance gathered about Smith and Pocahontas, and a good deal to reduce his heroic proportions. [4]
It was during this last effort of Sigismund to regain his position that the Earl of Meldritch, accompanied by Smith, went to Transylvania, with the intention of assisting Georgio Busca, who was the commander of the Emperor's party. [4]
The answer to this is that the hostility was exhibited by the captivity and the intimation that Smith was being fatted to be eaten, and this was permitted to stand. [4]
Smith had acknowledged this in his "True Relation," where he referred to her as the "nonpareil" of Virginia. [4]
Smith signaled that they would charge on the east of the town in the night, and at the alarum Ebersbraught was to sally forth. [4]
As it was, they slunk away in twos and threes, leaving at last only the good smith with us. [9]
The first of these accounts is taken from "The True Relation," written by Captain John Smith, composed in Virginia, the earliest published work relating to the James River Colony. [4]
The smith is their only friend. [10]
The next day, the weather being foul, they ran so near the Frenchman as to endanger their yards, and Chambers called to Captain Smith to come aboard or he would leave him. [4]
The arrangement for the Villa Papiniano was not completed, after all, and through a good friend, George Gregory Smith, a resident of Florence, the Villa Quarto, an ancient home of royalty, on the hills west of Florence, was engaged. [5]
The lad with the turned-up sleeve gave the smith a blow in the face and cried wildly: "They're fighting us, lads! [2]
John Smith, of the Smiths of Cruffley, Co. Lancaster, in 1629, and describes it: "Vert, a chev. [4]
But scarcely had the smith distinguished the foreign words, when fresh anger seized him. [10]
The next morning the smith again sought the charcoal-burner, and this time found him. [10]
Fourteen months ago the prisoner told Archibald Smith that he was going to kill Richardson. [5]
The smith asked the poacher's opinion, and the latter growled: "That will, doubtless, be a good plan. [10]
Ratcliffe, Archer, and the others who were awaiting trial conspired against him, and Smith says he would have been murdered in his bed if the murderer's heart had not failed him when he went to fire his pistol at the defenseless sick man. [4]
In obedience to the orders to explore for the South Sea, on the 22d of May, Newport, Percy, Smith, Archer, and twenty others were sent in the shallop to explore the Powhatan, or James River. [4]
So chained by the necks in gangs of twenty they marched to the city of Constantine, where Smith was delivered over to the mistress of the Bashaw, the young Charatza Tragabigzanda. [4]
Powhatan then contrasted the liberality of Newport, and told Smith that while he had used him more kindly than any other chief, he had received from him (Smith) the least kindness of any. [4]
Smith, still holding the King by the hair, made them a bold address, offering peace or war. [4]
In this strait, the ingenious John Smith, who was present in the reconnoitering army in the regiment of the Earl of Meldritch, came to the aid of Baron Kisell, the general of artillery, with a plan of communication with the besieged garrison. [4]
Smith, who knew the Indians and their ostentation, told Newport that the intention was to cheat him, but his interference was resented. [4]
He had all the imperiousness of a soldier, and in an altercation with Captain Newport, occasioned by some injurious remarks the latter made about Sir Thomas Smith, the treasurer, he pulled his beard and threatened to hang him. [4]
At one of the hot discussions in 1623 preceding the dissolution of the Virginia Company by the revocation of their charter, Smith was present, and said that he hoped for his time spent in Virginia he should receive that year a good quantity of tobacco. [4]
He had expected the greatest success from his Polyphemus hurling the rock at Odysseus escaping in the boat, and a gigantic smith had posed for a model. [10]
By reason of the foul weather the pirate could not board Smith, and his master, mate, and pilot, Chambers, Minter, and Digby, importuned him to surrender, and that he should send a boat to the pirate, as Fry had no boat. [4]
Captain John Smith, the first of an honored name, had this double good fortune. [4]
In speaking of the exploration of the James River as far as the Falls by Newport, Smith, and Percy, we have followed the statements of Percy and the writer of Newport's discovery that they saw the great Powhatan. [4]
The smith and the doctor believed the charcoal-burner, when he told them that all the vehicles in the village were in use, but he would find one elsewhere. [10]
As one of the Council, Smith would undoubtedly favor their going. [4]
He was in the condition so longed for by Sydney Smith on a very hot day; namely, with his flesh taken off, and sitting, or rather standing, in his bones. [6]
This supply contented the company, who feared nothing so much as starving, and yet, says Smith, so envied him that they would rather hazard starving than have him get reputation by his vigorous conduct. [4]
The smith pulled the cart, and Ruth pushed, Hans Eitelfritz, with his sword-bearer, walking by her side. [10]
A baboon at the Cape of Good Hope, as I have been informed by Sir Andrew Smith, recognised him with joy after an absence of nine months. [1]
Amidst unparalleled excitement the ballot was now taken, and J. W. Smith elected U. S. Senator; Dilworthy receiving not one vote! [5]
Smith said: "Here, that won't do! [5]
Mr. Wingfield charged that the three--Ratcliffe, Smith, and Martin--forsook the instructions of his Majesty, and set up a Triumvirate. [4]
The Kanaka protested that he was perfectly willing to trust the gentleman with the saddle that was already on the animal, but Smith refused to use it. [5]
Smith apologizes for temporizing with the Indians at this time, by explaining that his purpose was to surprise Powhatan and his store of provisions. [4]
Smith proposed to surprise Powhatan, and seize his store of corn, but he says he was hindered in this project by Captain Winne and Mr. Scrivener (who had heretofore been considered one of Smith's friends), whom he now suspected of plotting his ruin in England. [4]
We may be sure that Smith found many auditors for his adventures and his complaints. [4]

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