Use son in a sentence
Sentences starting with son
- Son of the working-people as he was, Beaton had never cared anything about such matters; he did not know about them or wish to know; he was perhaps too near them. [8]
- Son of a Nile crocodile, if he has escaped, thou too shalt escape from Egypt--into Fazougli. [11]
- Son of Sheitan and slime of the Nile, have I not spared Harrik all these years! [11]
Sentences ending with son
- Coello called the youth to the easel, and pointing to the sketches in color, containing numerous figures, on which he was painting, said: "Look here, my son. [10]
- The youth by your side is my son. [5]
- To please her, you would deceive her son. [10]
- Ay, then, but you shall speak, or I'll break my word to her, to do right by her son. [11]
- Then how did you know it was written by my son? [9]
- I rejoice that you did not kill his Lordship, my son. [9]
- And how are you called, my son? [9]
- With what tender yet pitiless hand had she laid bare the lives of her husband and her son! [11]
- The old woman would not be likely to have another such favorable opportunity of supplicating the all-powerful man who stood before her, without the hindrance of witnesses, to exercise his magnaminity and clemency towards her son. [10]
- If Isaac D. Worthington had but chosen a worldly wife, he might have had a more worldly son. [9]
Short sentences using son
- You are Senator Whipple's son. [9]
- He was a weaver's son. [10]
- Her son had triumphed indeed. [11]
- Dear son, breast the sea. [11]
- My son discovered that section. [9]
- How is your son? [7]
- Is this his son? [2]
- Air--"The Major's Only Son. [5]
- I am his son. [5]
- You know my son. [10]
Sentences containing son two or more times
- You cannot forget who Number Seven is if I inform you that he specially prides himself on being a seventh son of a seventh son. [6]
- The king himself urged Mena's suit, for he loves him as his own son, and when I represented your prior claim he commanded;--and who may resist the commands of the sovereign of two worlds, the Son of Ra? [10]
- He was Perry Upson's eldest son, His father loved his noble son, This son was nineteen years of age When first in the rebellion he engaged. [5]
- He's only about twelve years older than my son, but, like my son, there's no holding him, there's no control of him that's any good. [11]
- He is the true son of the dead Mohar, and the foul traitor Paaker is the gardener's son. [10]
- You--you ask me to yield to them, when you have lost your son, when they're willing to sacrifice--to murder my son on the field of battle? [9]
- Minutes passed as they studied, felt, and admired the skin, the hunter proud of his son, the son alive with a primitive passion, which inflicts suffering to get the beautiful thing. [11]
- Right gladly will they serve the son of him who hath done so generously by them--and the more that that son is himself as poor and as forlorn as any that be sheltered here this day, or ever shall be. [5]
- Know then, that the man who gives himself out for the son of Cyrus, sent me hither; he promised me rich rewards if I would deceive you by declaring him to be Bartja, the son of the Achaemenidae. [10]
- He then named the gem-cutter Heron, his son Alexander, and his daughter Melissa, the Alexandrian senator Polybius, his son Diodoros, and the wife of Seleukus. [10]
More example sentences with the word son in them
- The money for your son shall be conveyed to you to-day before sunset. [10]
- I hope that your son is doing well. [9]
- Do you shrug your shoulders at that, son of the pious Erigone? [10]
- You have put your own son to him. [9]
- Polybius's son is your master henceforth. [10]
- I cannot change your hearts--but the wife of my brother's son, the daughter of Ben Akiba, must be a daughter of our people, morning, noon, and night. [10]
- I will remain your ally in this matter; for, as Cambyses' dying father appointed me the counsellor of his son in word and deed, I venture occasionally a bold word to arrest his excesses. [10]
- Come, I think your account with my father is squared; and I want you to vote to put my father's son in Parliament, and to put out Barode Barouche, who's been there too long. [11]
- Pyrrhus and his youngest son were just pushing a boat into the water to release from the sands another which had run aground in a shallow near the neighbouring island. [10]
- He was a younger son, and poor. [9]
- He was a younger son of an impoverished earl. [9]
- He was the young son of an Ohio nabob and was out there for recreation. [5]
- Such as the young man was now the old man must have been, and what the son should one day be might be seen--and I rejoiced to think it--in his father's figure and face. [10]
- Pretty Pierre and Young Aleck had talked together, and the old man had heard his son say: "Remember, Pierre, it is for the last time. [11]
- She prayed for you, the son of Severus. [10]
- Tomorrow morning early you shall receive twelve Attic talents in gold, and, with the help of my son, later in the day I will take up the picture, pack it, and when it grows dark, carry it away. [10]
- And--and--my son, do you remember Major Gideon Withers? [6]
- This hour makes you my son, makes me your mother. [10]
- Why, I knew you for a born son of luck the minute I saw you. [5]
- That is what you do, my son is it not? [10]
- I don't say you can be, mind, but I say with work and brains it's as easy for the son of Hilary Vane as for anybody else. [9]
- His affection for you as his brother's son is great. [9]
- He has given you a son whom all men may look in the face, of whom you need never be ashamed. [9]
- They had not yet decided whether to demand a full pardon or only a mild sentence for the man who had wounded the "King of kings," the son of the sovereign. [10]
- You have not yet broken the wonderful son of the desert of shying, as you promised. [10]
- Jason told me yesterday evening that our uncle Alciphron had wooed you for his son Leonax, and was sure of finding a favorable reception from old Semestre and your poor father. [10]
- Emerson was sixty-three years old, the year I have referred to as that of the grand climacteric, when he read to his son the poem he called "Terminus," beginning: "It is time to be old, To take in sail. [6]
- For her the years had given many compensations, and so she told the Cure, one midsummer day, when she brought to visit him the orphaned son of Paulette Dubois, graduated from his college in France and making ready to go to the far East. [11]
- In that same year, having left home on one of his last lecturing trips, he met his son, Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson, at the Brevoort House, in New York. [6]
- Here it was written why those who asked should receive, and those who sought should find: "For what man is there of you whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? [10]
- The old man would not look into the empty room where he had last seen his son alive; he turned his face away and hurried by the door. [8]
- After all, she would make such a wife for his son as few men possessed. [9]
- And if you would like to know wherein the son of Severus resembles the giant of Macedon, you shall hear. [10]
- The imperial crown would lapse to his brother; Ferdinand's son, Maximilian, now Charles's son-in-law, was destined to succeed his father, while the Infant Philip must in future be content with the sovereignty of Spain, the Netherlands, Charles's Italian possessions, and the New World. [10]
- To acknowledge it would be ruin, for all the world knows that Captain Philip d'Avranche of the King's navy is now the adopted son of the Duc de Bercy. [11]
- A simple Greek would be more welcome to me than this son of a mighty monarch. [10]
- She understood Isaac Worthington, now, as well as his son understood him. [9]
- He was the worst son of a thief that ever drawed breath. [5]
- Come now, what world you have done, if your son had been in question? [9]
- His horses had worked their way with the sleigh through the deep snow in the ravine with much difficulty, and, half-frozen, he went directly to the refectory and there asked for his son. [10]
- Hur confirmed these words, adding that the tireless zeal and heroic scorn of death displayed by the son of Nun could not be denied. [10]
- In all these words she saw only that the danger threatening her son would not soon be over. [2]
- He kept his word to you--at the risk of his life, and, as his son, I take a greater pride in him to-day than I ever have before. [9]
- It was the word of the Son of Heaven that this should be. [11]
- Grafton had a word and a smile for every one about the old place, but little else, being, as he said, but a younger son and a poor man. [9]
- Anna Mikhaylovna, practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself and her son. [2]
- You, a false witness, may accuse Hiram, but I will proclaim you, you the son of this house, as the thief! [10]
- A half-mad woman, without memory, knew again whence she came and whither she was going; and bewildered and happy, with a hungering tenderness, moved her hand over the head of her poor dwarf, as though she would know if he were truly her own son. [11]
- He learnt everything without any trouble and at the same time worked as hard as a poor man's son. [10]
- Mr. Martin followed with: "He reported that I do slack the service in the colony, and do nothing but tend my pot, spit, and oven; but he hath starved my son, and denied him a spoonful of beer. [4]
- Let us out with it--Hilary Vane had a wild son, whose name was Austen. [9]
- Your aunt is with him, and his dutiful son, Philip, now broken of his rank in the English army. [9]
- She pictured herself with her son and daughter as enjoying Mena's estate, freed from debt and increased by Ani's generosity, and then a new, intoxicating hope came into her mind. [10]
- It was opened with great care, and Zeno took from it a paper which lay on a rose-coloured silk pad and on which Doctor Melchior had written in large Roman characters: "To my son Zeno Ueberhell. [10]
- A ship wreathed with flowers was sent to fetch the honored old man, and at the head of the deputation was his own brave, strong son, now crowned with glory and fame. [10]
- Aunt Caroline said with feeling that Dr. Hilliard's death was a blessing, after all, since it brought a long-separated father and son together once more. [9]
- She presented him with an only son, whom he named after his father Rameses. [10]
- An old widow with an only son who looked like a Spaniard and acted like an imp! [4]
- I am cabining with a young fellow named "Sammy" Hillyer, about twenty-five, the only son of his mother--like me--and loves her dearly, and writes to her every week--part of which is like me. [5]
- Still, I cannot wish that he were my son. [10]
- Like every other wish of her son, Barbara had fulfilled with quiet indulgence his desire that she would not again enter the Netherlands and Ghent. [10]
- I shall never win over this soldier's son to our peaceful handicraft, but he shall not remain on the mountain among these queer sluggards, for there he is being ruined, and yet he is not of a common sort. [10]
- Ring for Mrs. Willis, my son. [9]
- The king was willing, but the Board, who were all well-born folk, implored the king to spare them the indignity of examining the weaver's son. [5]
- Your own son will one day know you well enough, if he does not now. [9]
- My pious son will not let the gallows become empty in this land of heretical exaltation. [10]
- You know I will not force your inclinations, but, if I am to lose Mopsus, I should like a pleasant son. [10]
- The Emperor's last will had a codicil, which concerned a son of his Majesty; but, a few days before his end, Charles had also remembered Barbara, and commissioned Ogier Bodart, Adrian's successor, to buy a life annuity for her in Brussels. [10]
- What has a widow except her only son? [10]
- The queen mother, whose position, in the eyes of the people, is nearly as high as that of the monarch himself, will do nothing to thwart the happiness of her youngest and favorite son. [10]
- Mr. Silas Tredway, whose list of directorships is too long to print, also undertook to remonstrate with the son of his old friend, Hilary Vane. [9]
- His own son, whom he had never known, was to fight him at the polls! [11]
- The first son, who was but a year older, and was as dark as he was fair, had inherited--had seized--all his father's wealth. [11]
- Her oldest son, who on account of hip disease was not fit for hard work, helped her, and the youngest was Ortel, who had carried Eva's basket on the day of her dead mother's consecration. [10]
- Your son Orion, who married the emperor's daughter," laughed the negress. [10]
- Mr. Jervas Bellamy, who laid dead with his son, the lieutenant, hand in hand, near the southernmost wall of the prison. [5]
- The proud woman, who had unbent little in her lifetime, whose eyes had looked out so coldly on the world, who felt for her son Ian an almost impossible aversion, drew down his head and kissed it. [11]
- She it was who had taught her son Orlando the tunefulness of Meyerbeer and Balfe and Offenbach, and the operatic jingles of that type of composer. [11]
- The poor woman, who had no cause to doubt her son, but every reason for relying on his honesty and truth, was staggered, notwithstanding, by his not having advanced one word in his defence. [12]
- A love-sick fool who accompanied her drew his sword in her defence, raised his hand against the son of Caesar, and wounded him. [10]
- He had already whispered this intention to Myrtilus, when he heard Daphne's companion say to Thyone, "Philotas will accompany us, and on this voyage they will plight their troth if Aphrodite's powerful son accepts my sacrifice. [10]
- New entertainments, in which the Queen commanded her to participate, awaited her in Pithom, but pleasure at the return of her famous son appeared to double her power of endurance. [10]
- Behind the gun-carriage, which bore the body, walked the nephew of the great Dakoon, then came a clear space, and then Pango Dooni, and Cumner, and behind these twenty men of the artillery, at whose head rode McDermot and Cumner's Son. [11]
- The velvet pall wherewith his parents covered the bier of their beloved and firstborn son was so costly, that the price would easily have fed a poor household for years. [10]
- One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first colored regiment, "If he accepts it I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot. [7]
- Nine years later, when he was twenty-one, I came upon the family in one of the lake towns of New York, and the mother told me about an adventure which her son had been having. [5]
- I know too what you lack most since you heard the fair words of the senator's son. [10]
- Florette now knew what her son had experienced in life, what had moved his heart, his soul, and could not contradict him, when he told her that power was the highest prize of existence. [10]
- The news of what had happened had found its way to her solitary apartments, and, notwithstanding the hour, she had risen in order to try and discover the truth and warn her son against pronouncing a too hasty decision. [10]
- If you yourself were such a son, and your ear had not perfectly caught the parting counsels of the dying-how many talents of silver would you not pay to be able to supply the missing words? [10]
- If my son were alive, I know where he would seek a wife. [10]
- If my son were a thousand times a criminal, nevertheless I would ache to take him by the hand. [11]
- The good Horus went out to fight against Seth, the murderer of his father, and the horrible enemy wounded Horus in the eye in the struggle; but the son of Osiris conquered, for good always conquers evil. [10]
- When the Lady Wendula, his master's mother, learned what an excellent reputation Biberli had gained as a schoolmaster, she persuaded her husband to send him as esquire with their sickly son. [10]
- Then the Lady Wendula remembered her eldest son, and the fraternal tendance which Biberli had given him. [10]
- He knew men well, and he knew that youths of various birth take a blow in the face in various ways; now, the Emir's son had demeaned him as one of his rank, and had stood the ordeal! [10]
- My daughter is well settled and my son is making his own living. [6]
- Victoria heard how well Mrs. Jenney's oldest son was doing in Springfield, and how the unmarried daughter was teaching, now, in the West. [9]
- But he was well cared for, and if she was still his clear daughter, she must treat Herr Pyramus Kogel kindly this time, for he had proved a faithful son and good Samaritan to him. [10]
- He was a welcome guest at the first houses in the city, and in the palace and the villa of the Senator Justinus, an old friend of his father, he was as much at home as a son of the house. [10]
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