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Sentences starting with sons

Sons of the same father! [11]
Sons of two dukes tried to get it, as we know. [5]

Sentences ending with sons

Amasis laughed heartily with his friends at Gyges' artifice, allowed the young heroes to mix freely with his family, and behaved towards them himself as a jovial father towards his merry sons. [10]
The third kills two daughters and keeps one, as also her three sons. [1]
Sitting here among those who were devoted to him, he looked with kind and fatherly pride at his blooming sons. [10]
The gods gave the old man three sons. [10]
Have you forgotten that those were Melchites who slew your two dear brothers--our two noble sons? [10]
He had three sons. [11]
Selene shrugged her shoulders, but Arsinoe said: "Tryphon's shipyard lies just below and we often pass it; but we do not know him or his sons. [10]
And so he served his sons. [5]
We have had many heroes, many youths of promise, and men of note, whose names are our only great and enduring riches; but no one of them all better illustrated, short as was his career, the virtues we desire for all our sons. [4]
The second retains her six sons. [1]

Sentences containing sons two or more times

Most eldest sons, though they may be weak in body or mind, marry, whilst the younger sons, however superior in these respects, do not so generally marry. [1]
The doctor's and the post-master's sons became 'mud clerks;' the wholesale liquor dealer's son became a barkeeper on a boat; four sons of the chief merchant, and two sons of the county judge, became pilots. [5]
They made Thug gee a hereditary vocation and taught it to their sons and to their son's sons. [5]
In making clothes for habitant farmers, and their sons and their sons' sons, and jackets for their wives and daughters, he had had the keenest pleasure of his life. [11]
Conclude the war as speedily as possible, for war is a perversion of nature; in peace the sons outlive the fathers, but in war the fathers live to mourn for their slain sons. [10]
Driscoll was promptly and indignantly flung on the heads of Sons in the next row, and these Sons passed him on toward the rear, and then immediately began to pummel the front row Sons who had passed him to them. [5]

More example sentences with the word sons in them

In marrying us you style us, 'the mistress of the house,' and if the elders of the citizens grow infirm, in this country it is not the sons but the daughters that must be their mainstay. [10]
Henceforth, whenever the yearning for the distant John seized upon her with special power, she thought of that night, and loaded the little sons near her with tokens of the tenderest love. [10]
There were no works of human hands save a little Temple of Poseidon, an altar of Isis, the large house owned by Pyrrhus, solidly constructed by Alexandrian masons, and a smaller one for the freedman's married sons and their families. [10]
Asarja and Michael, with their sons, who grudged the power of Moses and Aaron, had even gone from one to another to try to persuade them, ere departing, to summon the elders again and charge then to enter into fresh negotiations with the Egyptians. [10]
Now ye shall wit that that very duke and his six sons are they whom but few days past you also did overcome and send to Arthur's court! [5]
Her sister-in-law, the widow of a magistrate, Frau Pauline Schmidt, shared the care of the pupils and the beautiful, large garden; while her pretty, bright young sons and daughters increased the charm of the intercourse. [10]
Nay, what father whose two bright young sons had been murdered, but would have done as he did? [10]
Old grave-haunting Kusaja, who had been dragged away from the sepulchre of her kindred, was sitting in a cart with other infirm folk, waving her veil and joining in the hymn of praise Elkanah and Abiasaph, the sons of Korah, had begun. [10]
Only my letters--in which I complain of the piratical sons of the desert who fall upon the messengers--will reach the king. [10]
That the sword which had slain thousands of their sons should have been dedicated to Serapis, and accepted by the god, alienated many of the citizens from the patron divinity of the town. [10]
It maybe questioned whether these views have not interfered with the sound training of certain young persons, sons of clergymen and others. [6]
Still another explanation when husbands and sons and brothers come back across the Channel for a few days' leave after long months in the trenches, nothing is too good for them. [9]
At last, here were the "wild, free sons of the desert, speeding over the plain like the wind, on their beautiful Arabian mares" we had read so much about and longed so much to see! [5]
I think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out there as he. [2]
His two sons were in Thessalonica, and a ship, just arrived from thence, brought the news-only too well substantiated, that fifteen thousand of the inhabitants of that town had been treacherously assassinated in the Circus there. [10]
His two sons were at present absent on their travels. [10]
Falsehood and hypocrisy were as unfamiliar to her as fishing is to the sons of the desert. [10]
Every morning he went down to the Euphrates with Cambyses and the rest of us, and enjoyed watching the sons of the Achaemenidae at their exercises. [10]
Silent as he was, however, he had a large and cheerful heart, and nodding his head he laughed the deep, quaint laugh which Rodney himself of all his sons had-- and he was fonder of Rodney than any. [11]
A fourth bed was waiting ready for the Captain, but not one word had been heard of him, though inquiries had been made in the towns from and through which the father had brought his two sons and the lieutenant-colonel. [6]
All that did was to enwich the pwiests' sons and thieves and wobbahs...." Count Ilya Rostov smiled blandly and nodded approval. [2]
But no foe was seen or heard, and the Hebrews found some tokens of the thirst for vengeance of the sons of the wilderness in their ruined houses, the superb palm-trees felled, and little gardens destroyed. [10]
The taxes for wars were wrung out of the sons of labour and sorrow. [11]
Then the widow waded out to a bare rock in the river, and everybody went away but her sons and other relations. [5]
It was at Venice, where I was pursuing my studies, and tried my luck at gambling on many a merry evening with other sons of mercantile families from Nuremberg, Augsburg, and Cologne. [10]
His mother and two noble sons were snatched from him in a day; and he would again have had recourse to poison as a refuge from all, if a dim ray of hope had not permitted him to believe in their escape. [10]
Then," he added, turning to Honora, "I should have both my sons settled on the place. [9]
Another was going to scalp such Bedouins as fell to his share, and take his bald-headed sons of the desert home with him alive for trophies. [5]
Gout, however, seems to fall under our rule, for it is generally caused by intemperance during manhood, and is transmitted from the father to his sons in a much more marked manner than to his daughters. [1]
It had seemed to Cleopatra a crime to claim the blood of the noblest sons of the city for a cause which she herself deemed lost. [10]
It is used to awaken the young sons of the Persian nobles, who are brought up at the gate of the king. [10]
At the proper time Mr. Jones made his little speech, in which he thanked the widow for the honor she was doing himself and his sons, but said that there was another person whose modesty-- And so forth and so on. [5]
Not futile was thy toil, if thou canst see That for thy sons fruit from one seed appears. [10]
His brave sons throng around him. [5]
The sons of those who owned them have built westward, and west-ward again, until now they are six miles from the river. [9]
Generous-hearted people would think that these grown- up sons and daughters should have returned the old people's long toil and care by buying up the farm and handing it back to them, their rightful refuge in the decline of life. [11]
Her father thought they would probably have a dance there, for the young sons of the Burgrave would act as hosts. [10]
This is not the only hereditary fraud (if fraud it is--which I have before repeatedly remarked is not proven) that is being quietly handed down from generation to generation of fathers and sons, through the persecuted Treasury of the United States. [5]
Whether or not the old seigneur knew it at the time, three of his own sons were among the coureurs du bois--chieftains by courtesy--when they were proclaimed. [11]
Beyond the pyramids the mist deepened into a vast deep cloud of blue and purple, which seemed the end to some mystic highway untravelled by the sons of men. [11]
How she coveted the many Union families, whose sons and brothers were at the front, this privilege! [9]
But how could the life of such a foreign adventurer be accepted as surety for the sons of the highest Persians in the realm? [10]
These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates. [6]
I should think the feeling to be much like that of the old man whose sons, gone to distant places, have created their own plantations of life and have themselves become the masters of possessions. [11]
He had left the examination of the students, citizens' sons, and peasants to his lieutenant; but there were also three noblemen, from whom large ransoms could be obtained. [10]
The sons of the elder Margery, the young Waldstromers, had much in them of the hasty Schopper temper, and a voice for song; and all three have done well, each in his way. [10]
He banged at the door, and presently the heads of the old man and his two stalwart sons were thrust from windows. [5]
In the mines the desire to set snares for husbands and sons soon vanishes. [10]
The sons of the desert had fought their way forward so far that the missiles of the slingers and bowmen could scarcely reach them. [10]
The sons of the desert flew to arms; they retired before the close order of the Egyptian troops, who followed them, confident of victory, to a point where the valley widens and divides on each side of a rocky hill. [10]
Iras had ordered the commander of the Mellakes, or youths, a body-guard composed of the sons of aristocratic Macedonian families, to expel the troublesome creatures, and it diverted the thoughts of these devoted soldiers of the Queen to strike at them with their swords. [10]
There they sat, the brave sons of a little nation, the stately leaders of a small community, poor in numbers and means of defence, which had undertaken to bid defiance to the mightiest power and finest armies of its age. [10]
The widow resolved that her sons should make their way by their own industry, like her brothers, who had almost all become able officials in the Dutch colonial service. [10]
First, she heard that Count Ribadavia's splendid palace would be prepared for her son, that the sons of noble families would be assigned to attend him, and that a body-guard of Spaniards and Germans and a train of his own were at his command. [10]
Ptolemy Lagi married Thais; her daughter was called Irene, and her sons Leontiskus and Lagus. [10]
But he must talk with him for the sake of his twin sons, whose heritage he had so shamefully gambled away. [10]
Mrs. Willard could talk of Grenville and Townshend as knowingly as her husband, the rich factor, and Francie Willard made many a speech to us younger Sons of Liberty on the steps of King William's School. [9]
Tell her to take care that her twin sons resemble their father as little as possible. [10]
Isabella Siebenburg, the sufferer's daughter, had already gone with her twin sons, in obedience to her husband's wish, to Heideck Castle. [10]
Thus the bias strengthens with each generation, until, as we find, families grow to have habitually more sons than daughters. [1]
Go to your sons, you anxious, troubled fathers, and assure them of my mercy and favor. [10]
One of the sons, who was lounging on the veranda, was at last induced to put up the horses; a very old woman, who mumbled and glared at the visitors, was found in the kitchen, but no intelligible response could be got out of her. [4]
We were his sons, but though Fabian is a little bit like him in appearance, I'm not, and never was. [11]
Two of Powhatan's sons who were present expressed a desire to see their sister, who had been taken on shore. [4]
Three of his sons were ministers, and one of these, William, was pastor of the church at Concord at the period of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. [6]
Our three grown sons ran frightened to report the crime. [5]
Exceedingly dangerous these sons of the desert are. [5]
All the fashionable sons of the burghers complain of your repellent coldness. [10]
The nest of Sons of Liberty that Driscoll landed in had not a sober bird in it; in fact there was probably not an entirely sober one in the auditorium. [5]
Gorgias and the sons of her uncle Arius had disturbed her a short time. [10]
I buried three sons in the prime of manhood, and two have been slain in battle. [10]
One of my sons has left me. [11]
Of my four sons but one remains. [11]
He was the son of a clergyman in a neighboring town,--in fact I may remark that I knew a good many clergymen's sons at Andover. [6]
Every year or so somebody was shot, on one side or the other; and as fast as one generation was laid out, their sons took up the feud and kept it a-going. [5]
With dignified composure, she asked to have the sons whom she had given to Antony--not Caasarion--acknowledged as Kings of Egypt. [10]
Two of their seven sons, Thomas and Edward, removed from Portland to Boston in 1802 and established themselves as partners in commercial business, continuing united and prosperous for nearly half a century before the firm was dissolved. [6]
And yet I say: the sheltering care of Amon Is better succor than a million men, Or than ten thousand knights, or than a thousand Brothers and sons though gathered into one. [10]
Frau Rosalinde rarely saw the twin sons of her daughter Isabella, who took the veil after her husband's death to pray for his sorely imperilled soul. [10]
When the duke saw he might not escape the death, he cried to his sons, and charged them to yield them to Sir Marhaus. [5]
But his father said: "Nay, my son, rather behave in such a manner that all fathers shall wish their sons had red hair. [4]
Col. Selby, he said, belonged, gentlemen; to what is called the "upper classes:" It is the privilege of the "upper classes" to prey upon the sons and daughters of the people. [5]
Then Sir Marhaus said to the duke, Cease thy sons, or else I will do the uttermost to you all. [5]
In silence they rode awhile, and at last the hillsman said: "If fathers be brothers-in-blood, behold it is good that sons be also. [11]
I learned to read and write, and all that is usually taught to the priests' sons, but never to accommodate myself to my lot, and I never shall.--Well, when my beard grew I succeeded in escaping and I lived for a time in the world. [10]
The news had reached him too that the sons of the desert were preparing for a new incursion, and he cried to Talib angrily but decidedly, as he turned his back upon Hermas, "You must ride alone to Klysma, and try to capture her. [10]
We must cease raving if we are sons of our Fatherland! [2]
He recounted how Raevski had led his two sons onto the dam under terrific fire and had charged with them beside him. [2]
Argument upon the question is already exhausted by the abler, better informed, and more immediately interested sons of Maryland herself. [7]
Every spring the queen comes out of the hive and flies away with one of her sons and marries him. [5]
Two sons of Pyrrhus were now numbered in the crews of the recently built war ships. [10]
Sometimes these ex-students positively refuse at first to work; and more than once parents have openly expressed their regret that they ever allowed their sons to be inveigled to school. [5]
Only the stately phraseology and the measured speech of the sons of the Prophet are suited to a venerable antiquity like this. [5]
The wild tumult penetrates even into this room which is so far from the street, and your sons take delight in the disorders of the heathen! [10]
His brother, a pastor in the Thuringian village of Griesheim on the Ilm, died, leaving three sons who needed an instructor. [10]
Yet for the past two years an investigation had threatened Satabus, the distinguished head of the family, and during this period he, with his ships and his sons, had avoided Tennis and the Egyptian coast. [10]
Now they have passed us, home for home, And matched us town for town; Their daughters to our sons now come-- Our feud it weareth down. [11]
We both gave our sons in this war. [9]
But Rameses sat on the throne, held the sceptre with a strong hand, and thirteen young sons promised to his house the lordship over Egypt to all eternity. [10]
An honor conferred on the first or eldest sons of English Sovereigns. [5]

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