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Sentences ending with so-called
- Mr. Stanley Weyman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and a good many others were following the fashion, and many of the plays at the time were also historical-- so-called. [11]
Short sentences using so-called
- Again so-called chance accompanies him. [2]
More example sentences with the word so-called in them
- It was late when we turned in, our heads upon our saddles, for the Cadi had been more than amusing--he had been confidential, and some political characters were roughly overhauled for our benefit, while so-called Society did not escape flagellation. [11]
- This conclusion agrees well with the belief that the so-called moral sense is aboriginally derived from the social instincts, for both relate at first exclusively to the community. [1]
- There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that Achilles could never catch up with a tortoise he was following, in spite of the fact that he traveled ten times as fast as the tortoise. [2]
- And all this was found in Alexander I; all this had been prepared by innumerable so-called chances in his life: his education, his early liberalism, the advisers who surrounded him, and by Austerlitz, and Tilsit, and Erfurt. [2]
- Mr. Motley's case was a striking illustration that the renal disease of so-called Bright's disease may supervene as part and parcel of a larger and antecedent change in the blood-vessels in other parts than the kidney. [6]
- The first carriage was a so-called harmamaxa, drawn by four horses decked out with bells and tassels; a two-wheeled cart followed, and last in the train was a baggage-wagon drawn by mules. [10]
- I haven't any use for your so-called intellectual woman. [9]
- One of Mark Twain's friends was Henniker-Heaton, the so-called "Father of Penny Postage" between England and America. [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]
- It is enough to make a graven image laugh, to see apparently rational people, away down here in this wholesome and merciless slaughter-day for shams, still mouthing empty reverence for those moss-backed frauds and scoundrelisms, hereditary kingship and so-called "nobility. [5]
- It had something to do with a so-called secret marriage, and it would be good to get hold of the man, Roudin, as soon as possible. [11]
- It is hard to conceive of Emerson in either of the other so-called learned professions. [6]
- It is charitable to believe that they do not seriously contemplate or truly understand the meaning of the words they use, but rather play with them, as certain so-called "learned" quadrupeds play with the printed characters set before them. [6]
- He was nothing, this so-called king: the queen was the only power there. [5]
- Another branch of this activity is the so-called syndicating of the author's products in the control of one salesman, in which good work and inferior work are coupled together at a common selling price and in common notoriety. [4]
- The habiliments of the west, the sack coats and sweaters, the slouch hats and caps, the so-called Derbies pulled down over dark brows and flashing eyes lent to these peasant types an incongruity that had the air of ferocity. [9]
- In historic events the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. [2]
- In our time the majority of so-called advanced people--that is, the crowd of ignoramuses--have taken the work of the naturalists who deal with one side of the question for a solution of the whole problem. [2]
- With respect to the exciting causes we can only say, as when speaking of so-called spontaneous variations, that they relate much more closely to the constitution of the varying organism, than to the nature of the conditions to which it has been subjected. [1]
- Instead of developing the colonial simplicity on lines of dignity and harmony to modern use, we stuck on the pseudo-classic, we broke out in the Mansard, we broke all up into the whimsicalities of the so-called Queen Anne, without regard to climate or comfort. [4]
- The controversy between the claims of the practical life and the intellectual is as idle as the so-called conflict between science and religion. [4]
- It happens, therefore, that there is great sympathy with the career of the lawbreakers, many people are hanging on them for support, and among them the so-called criminal lawyers. [4]
- It was known that the Seigneur had been requested to disband his so-called company of soldiers with their ancient livery and their modern arms, and to give them up. [11]
- The light was such that the room was revealed to its farthest corners, and Sibley noted that three men were evidently carefully watching the bank, and that one of the men was Studd Bradley, the so-called boss. [11]
- Look at the so-called Venus of Milo. [6]
- Those of my sister's records which refer to the revolutionary period begin with a mention of the so-called potato revolution, which occurred ten days after the opening of the General Assembly, though it had no connection with it. [10]
- When, therefore, we say that one of the worst characteristics of modern fiction is its so-called truth to nature, we mean that it disregards the higher laws of art, and attempts to give us unidealized pictures of life. [4]
- You are quite right, and if I were seeking examples of happy marriages, I should not begin my search among the so-called fashionable set of the present day. [9]
- These so-called political reformers have upset the market and started a lot of legal complications that's why I'm here to-night. [9]
- As to the recognition of the so-called Southern Confederacy, it is not to be made a subject of technical definition. [7]
- There is much reason to believe that the Union men are the majority in many, if not in every other one, of the so-called seceded States. [7]
- Poetry is to prose what the so-called full dress of the ball-room is to the plainer garments of the household and the street. [6]
- But on the other hand, it is far from uncommon to meet with persons among the so-called "liberal" denominations who are uneasy for want of a more definite ritual and a more formal organization than they find in their own body. [6]
- The so-called tear-sacks, or suborbital pits, come under this head. [1]
- The certain end of yielding to this so-called practical spirit was expressed by a member of a Northern State legislature who said, "We don't want colleges, we want workshops. [4]
- Portion of one of the secondary wing-feathers near to the body, shewing the so-called elliptic ornaments. [1]
- A frequent form of so-called malignant disease proves to be only a collection of altered epithelium-cells. [3]
- The alleged results of observation may be set aside; first, because the so-called facts are in their own nature equivocal; secondly, because they stand on insufficient authority; thirdly, because they are not sufficiently numerous. [3]
- A third class of historians--the so-called historians of culture--following the path laid down by the universal historians who sometimes accept writers and ladies as forces producing events--again take that force to be something quite different. [2]
- The nation is now in debt for money applied to the benefit of these so-called seceding States in common with the rest. [7]
- But were they not, he asked himself, franker than many of these others, the so-called pillars of the spiritual structure? [9]
- The doctrine of Mulder, so widely diffused in popular and scientific belief, of the existence of a common base of all albuminous substances, the so-called protein, has not stood the test of rigorous analysis. [3]
- It consisted of more than eight hundred members, divided into five classes, and conducted by three so-called Prophets. [10]
- Not all the money in the world, nor the intellect, nor the philanthropy--the so-called interests of life, will satisfy me for its denial. [9]
- To a proposal made by General Campan (who was to attack the fleches) to lead his division through the woods, Napoleon agreed, though the so-called Duke of Elchingen (Ney) ventured to remark that a movement through the woods was dangerous and might disorder the division. [2]
- Instead of the little knobs of the electric bells, a so-called "bell-rope," about the width of one's hand, provided with a brass or metal handle, hung beside the doors. [10]
- Peter Petrovich Konovnitsyn, like Dokhturov, seems to have been included merely for propriety's sake in the list of the so-called heroes of 1812--the Barclays, Raevskis, Ermolovs, Platovs, and Miloradoviches. [2]
- All these so-called laws apply equally to man and the lower animals; and most of them even to plants. [1]
- Intercourse of any kind with the so-called commissioners is liable to be construed as a recognition of the authority which appointed them. [7]
- How long is it since a play has been written and accepted and played which has in it any so-called literary quality or is an addition to literature? [4]
- And I think it also follows that the so-called usurpations with which history is littered are the most excusable misdemeanors which men have committed. [5]
- They received perhaps invited--into their State large bodies of troops, with their warlike appointments, from the so-called seceded States. [7]
- They formally entered into a treaty of temporary alliance and co-operation with the so-called "Confederate States," and sent members to their congress at Montgomery. [7]
- Perhaps the most inane thing ever put forth in the name of literature is the so-called domestic novel, an indigestible, culinary sort of product, that might be named the doughnut of fiction. [4]
- The scandalous pictures in the so-called kiosk of Medinet Habu, the caricatures in an indescribable papyrus at Turin, confirm these statements. [10]
- Mr. Burrows indulges in slight but effective sarcasm of sham reformers and so-called business men who perform the arduous task of cutting coupons and live in rarefied regions where they can only be seen by the common people when the light is turned on. [9]
- The settling of high rank even in the popular mind does not necessarily give currency; the so-called best authors are not those most widely read at any given time. [4]
- Why had he hesitated to initiate his son into many of the so-called duties of a railroad lawyer? [9]
- The fine wool-like hair, or so-called lanugo, with which the human foetus during the sixth month is thickly covered, offers a more curious case. [1]
- For ages, any expression of so-called irreverence from their lips has been sin and crime. [5]
- His vanity, however, did not come from an increasing admiration of his own personal appearance, a weakness which often belongs to middle age; but from the study of his so-called philosophy, which in time became an obsession with him. [11]
- We have all decided that this is a war for the under dog, whether he comes from Belgium or Armenia or that so-called land of Democracy, the United States of America. [9]
- For if Same cures Same, then every poison must be its own antidote,--which is neither a part of their theory nor their so-called experience. [3]
- One of its consequences was that my portrait was sketched by "Old Unger" in the so-called "Bergwacht Book," which contained the likenesses of all my predecessors. [10]
- The so-called Scythian brought a message from his master. [10]
- We read English books, or imitations of the English way of looking at things; we even accepted the English caricatures of our own life as genuine--notably in the case of the so-called typical Yankee. [4]
- Hitherto recognition has been moved only on the assumption that the so-called Confederate States are de facto a self-sustaining power. [7]
- These three marks, b, c, and d, with the intervening bright shades, form together the so-called elliptic ornament. [1]
- Just so far as we can recognize the ordinary modes of operation of the common forces of nature,--gravity, cohesion, elasticity, transudation, chemical action, and the rest,--we see the so-called vital acts in the light of a larger range of known facts and familiar analogies. [3]
- Of course there are people who think they never lie, but it is not so--and this ignorance is one of the very things that shame our so-called civilization. [5]
- I have seen and smelled the so-called "Frenchman's oil" with which the posts were smeared, that its really diabolical odour--I don't know from what horrors it was compounded--might preserve the crops. [10]
- It was not an individual or mortal mind acting upon another so-called mind that healed us. [5]
- In the free action of individual thought and expression grew eccentricities of belief and of practice, and a crop of so-called "isms," more or less temporary, unprofitable, and pernicious. [4]
- Mr. Froude, with a singular, reactionary ingenuity, has sought to prove that the progress of the century, so-called, with all its material alleviations, has done little in regard to a happy life, to the pleasure of existence, for the average individual Englishman. [4]
- The so-called culture, a mere fastidiousness of taste, is a barren flower. [4]
- Mr. Motley says:-- "It was, as I supposed, understood before my departure for England, although not publicly announced, that the so-called Alabama negotiations, whenever renewed, should be conducted at Washington, in case of the consent of the British government. [6]
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