Use spain in a sentence
Sentences starting with spain
- Spain is all that Cathy had pictured it--and more, she says. [5]
- Spain is the only nation the Moors fear. [5]
- Spain chastised the Moors five or six years ago, about a disputed piece of property opposite Gibraltar, and captured the city of Tetouan. [5]
- Spain closes the Mississippi, arrests our merchants, seizes their goods, and often throws them into prison. [9]
- Spain has sowed it in our gardens. [10]
Sentences ending with spain
- It was not yet dawn, however, for the clocks were only striking three as the assembly, in winter coats and soft wraps, fluttered out to its carriages, chattering and laughing, with endless good-nights in the languages of France, Germany, and Spain. [4]
- From there I was to sail for Spain. [11]
- The little house was gone; but that I scarcely minded, for I had suddenly come into possession of my wife's castle in Spain. [4]
- It would be very tiresome staying here, and so four of us ran the quarantine blockade and spent seven delightful days in Seville, Cordova, Cadiz, and wandering through the pleasant rural scenery of Andalusia, the garden of Old Spain. [5]
- The duties imposed upon him by the service compelled him to live apart from his beloved, young, and beautiful wife, Dona Magdalena de Ulloa, who had remained at his castle Villagarcia in Spain. [10]
- That is not the way in Spain. [11]
- Intriguing with a Spanish minister and the Spanish governor of Louisiana to secede from their own people and join the King of Spain. [9]
- North America is separated by Spain. [5]
- His grandfather, Sir Richard Wingfield, was buried in Toledo, Spain. [4]
- His letters to Prince Dolgorouki and to Mademoiselle Antoinette give a most lively and entertaining picture of his residence and travels in Spain. [4]
Short sentences using spain
- Could Spain stop them? [9]
Sentences containing spain two or more times
- In this chest is a castle in Spain, a real one, and not only in Spain, but anywhere he will choose to have it. [6]
More example sentences with the word spain in them
- 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]
- True, the duke would have preferred to induce her to go to Spain, and tried to persuade her to do so by the assurance that the King himself desired to receive her there. [10]
- In Spain this would have been enough to deliver her to the Holy Inquisition. [10]
- In Spain there would always be some woman whom he could cajole; some comrade whom he could betray; some priest whom he could deceive, whose pocket he could empty by the recital of his troubles. [11]
- They had served with Nicholls in Spain, but not having eaten King Louis's bread, eyed all Frenchmen askance, and were not needlessly courteous to Iberville, whose achievements they could scarce appreciate, having done no Indian fighting. [11]
- She said it with a voice also charged with fear; for she was by nature a landfarer, not a sea-farer, though on the rivers of Spain she had lived almost as much as on land, and she was a good swimmer. [11]
- He had a wholesome respect, not to say fear, of her; for when all else had failed, it was she who had arranged his escape from Spain, and who almost saved Carvillho Gonzales from being shot. [11]
- Let those who went up through Spain make the best of it --these dominions of the Emperor of Morocco suit our little party well enough. [5]
- For instance, next week you may find me the guest of a grandee of Spain, or you may find me off for Venice, or flitting toward Dresden. [5]
- The ship which was to bear the loyal companion of her youth to Spain was wrecked just before the end of the voyage, and Wolf went down with it. [10]
- In Spain she was received with the utmost consideration by the Marquis de la Mota, Dona Magdalena de Ulloa's brother, and later by the lady herself. [10]
- When General Sickles was minister to Spain, he always wore, when on official duty, the dress uniform of a major-general. [5]
- When his beard was first beginning to grow, he was given by our gracious Duke to Chevalier von Brand as his esquire, and sent to Spain, to buy Andalusian horses. [10]
- If war was waged against the Smalkalds, the allied Protestants of Germany, Spain, which had been taught to regard the campaign as a religious war, was ready to aid Charles with large subsidies of money and men. [10]
- He had been used to the Catholic religion in Ireland; he had seen it in France, Spain, Italy and elsewhere; but here was something essentially primitive, archaically touching and convincing. [11]
- Have you a treaty with Spain in your pocket or a declaration of war? [9]
- Whoever dared to transplant the heresy to her soil would be the most infamous of the corrupters of a nation, for the holy Church and the kingdom of Spain are one. [10]
- No one has told me so; but if he seeks in Spain the rest for which he longs, the thought of Geronimo--I am sure of that--is not the least powerful cause which draws him thither. [10]
- She silently resolved to undertake the pilgrimage to Compostella, at the World's End,--[Cape Finisterre]--in distant Spain, though she did not know how it would be possible to accomplish this with her mutilated foot. [10]
- He never returned to Spain, and he never wrote of it. [5]
- On his return to Spain he had made his grandson's acquaintance in Valladolid. [10]
- He had intended to send Wolf, the friend and housemate of his victim, to Spain to become the instructor of his deceived wife. [10]
- He might try to kill her, but she had seen death in many forms far away in Spain, and she would not be afraid till there was cause. [11]
- If Spain was to give up the plaything, the Youngest Child among the Nations ought to have it. [9]
- Cathy has elected to abide with Spain and her aunt. [5]
- When South America threw off the thraldom of Spain, his speeches were read at the head of her armies by Bolivar. [7]
- For Charles says this Falkland business with Spain will blow out of the touch-hole. [9]
- The wider became the watery expanse between him and Spain, the farther receded Isabella's memory, the less alluring and delightful grew the thought of possessing her hand. [10]
- Have you heard the Senorita sing the song of Spain, m'sieu'? [11]
- Today, at noon, the flag of Spain was lowered from the staff at the headquarters. [9]
- Thus, by degrees, the city emerges the banners of the haughty chiefs of Spain, and flaunted in triumph through these Moslem halls. [4]
- War was at that time threatening between Spain and our country, and Lieutenant Clayton had been sent to Europe on military business. [5]
- The reason is that Spain sends her heaviest ships of war and her loudest guns to astonish these Muslims, while America and other nations send only a little contemptible tub of a gunboat occasionally. [5]
- Can you believe that in all Spain there is no fresh butter to be had, either for bread or in the kitchen for roast meat, but instead rancid oil, which we should think just fit for burning? [10]
- In France and Spain we attracted some attention in these costumes. [5]
- Queen Isabella of Spain sold her watch and chain and other millinery so that Columbus could discover America. [5]
- Do you know, Spain keeps her ports fast locked against foreign traffic three-fourths of each year, because one day she is scared about the cholera, and the next about the plague, and next the measles, next the hooping cough, the hives, and the rash? [5]
- Our war with Spain in 1898, however, was fought for an idea, and, despite the imperialistic impulse that followed it, marks a transition, an advance, in international ethics. [9]
- A treaty with Spain ceding back Louisiana to France after forty years. [9]
- Washington died in Spain almost broken-hearted. [5]
- They lived in Spain a year or two, then went to France. [5]
- So he had soon regained the calmness which, in Spain and on the journey here, he had expected to test at their meeting. [10]
- In Spain alone some of the best men--those who doubted and questioned, and without doubting there can be no progress--were eliminated during three centuries at the rate of a thousand a year. [1]
- He, Wolf, had set off for Brussels with the grand prior that very day, and, as his ship sailed from Spain before any other, he had succeeded in being the first to bring this joyful news to the Netherlands and to her. [10]
- His Catholic Majesty sent word from Spain to Mr. Jefferson that he was sorry his Intendant had been so foolish. [9]
- If he were sent packing to Spain, now, or to Pontus, there would be an end of his gladness. [10]
- It must have seemed so in the awakening of the sixteenth century, when Europe, Spain leading, began that great movement of discovery and aggrandizement which has, in the end, been profitable only to a portion of the adventurers. [4]
- This is the second time that 'The Tribune' (no doubt sincerely looking to the best interests of Spain and the world at large) has done me the great and unusual honour to propose me as a fit person to fill the Spanish throne. [5]
- He returned by sea to Spain, and arrived in Madrid richer than he had gone away, but with impoverished confidence in his own powers, and doubting the omnipotence of Art. [10]
- In August she saw King Philip set out for Spain, and Margaret of Parma, her son's sister, assume the government of the Netherlands as regent. [10]
- Therefore, for the sake of Spain, a higher justice compels me to offend the secular one. [10]
- The Emperor had sailed for Spain, Queen Mary had retired from the regency, and Duke Emanuel Philibert of Savoy had taken it in her place. [10]
- She thinks she remembers Spain, but that is not very likely, I suppose. [5]
- For the like reasons Spain had to banish him four hundred years ago, and Austria about a couple of centuries later. [5]
- Their affiliation is rather with the new literatures of France, of Russia, of Spain, than with the modern fiction of England. [4]
- Quijada is now preparing the penitential cell, and it is neither in the burning Thebais nor in the arid sands of the desert, but in one of the most delightful and charming places in Spain. [10]
- Perhaps the best plan would have been for her to put an end to this misery, and, instead of returning, make a pilgrimage to Compostella in Spain, and while doing so try to find her John in Leganes. [10]
- Was there a place in Europe from Spain to Greece, where the American could once be warm --really warm without effort--in or out of doors? [4]
- At Constantinople, at Pisa, in the cities of Spain, are great mosques and cathedrals, whose grandest columns came from the temples and palaces of Ephesus, and yet one has only to scratch the ground here to match them. [5]
- When he had picked her up in Spain she was already a cripple and in sore distress. [10]
- He is private physician to the Queen of Spain. [2]
- But when she persisted that she must go to Spain, he remembered that a bond of love had once united her to his friend Wolf Hartschwert, and in bewilderment he asked if it was the knight who attracted her there. [10]
- When she was once on board a ship, she would be obliged to submit to being carried to Spain, whence her return could easily be prevented. [10]
- Whether the spot on which the blood of our citizens was shed, as in his message declared, was or was not within the territory of Spain, at least after the treaty of 1819, until the Mexican revolution. [7]
- A castle founded on such a rock was not a castle in Spain! [9]
- We were soon on board, and within the hour the white city and the pleasant shores of Spain sank down behind the waves and passed out of sight. [5]
- Despite the supineness of Washington, the American nation will soon be at war with Spain. [9]
- Texas, principally south of the line, and west of Arkansas, though originally within the purchase from France, had, in 1819, been traded off to Spain in our treaty for the acquisition of Florida. [7]
- For the whole of that portion of my subject in which Holland and England were combined into one whole, to resist Spain in its attempt to obtain the universal empire, I have very abundant collections. [6]
- He thought much of Spain, and but little of his daughter. [11]
- Even furious foes of Spain desired to see a power which could be relied upon at the head of the community, even though it were a tool of the abhorred King. [10]
- On the 7th of October, 1571, the young hero, now twenty-four years old, as commander of the united fleets of Spain, Venice, and the Pope, gained the greatest victory which any Castilian force had ever won over the troops of the infidels. [10]
- Without the struggle of Holland and England against Spain, all Europe might have been Catholic and Spanish. [6]
- Towards the close of his residence in Spain, Irving received unexpectedly the appointment of Secretary of Legation to the Court of St. James, at which Louis McLane was American Minister; and after some hesitation, and upon the urgency of his friends, he accepted it. [4]
- It stood here, of course, a giant, when Columbus sailed from Spain, and perhaps some sentimental traveler will attach the name of Columbus to it. [4]
- Napoleon, by dint of certain screws which he tightened on his Catholic Majesty, King Charles of Spain, in the Treaty of San Ildefonso on the 1st of October, 1800, got his plaything. [9]
- Had I not obtained leave to read the invaluable and, for my purpose, indispensable documents at Brussels, I should have gone to Spain, for they will not be published these twenty years, and then only in a translated and excessively abbreviated and unsatisfactory form. [6]
- But I see now what the glory of Spain must have been when it was under Moorish domination. [5]
- We are going now to King Philip of Spain. [10]
- But we are not without peculiar types; not without characters, not without incidents, stories, heroisms, inequalities; not without the charms of nature in infinite variety; and human nature is the same here that it is in Spain, France, and England. [4]
- Imperialistic cynics were not lacking to scoff at our protestation that we were fighting Spain in order to liberate Cuba; and yet this, for the American people at large, was undoubtedly the inspiration of the war. [9]
- While she did not forget her household, her mind was constantly in Spain. [10]
- But this is not all, nor the most striking thing, nor the greatest contrast to the empires of Rome and of Spain. [4]
- He regarded with no favor the pretensions of Spain toward Kentucky. [9]
- Beggar was the name given to the patriots by those who sympathized with Spain. [10]
- Jago; Spain, blood, murder, fire, pillage]--but Navarrete was silent, striding onward, erect and haughty, as if he were proof against the bullets, that whistled around him on all sides. [10]
- He has been much in Spain, also in South America; I have read some travels, "Reise Skizzen," of his--printed, not published. [6]
- He publishes a monograph on the painters of Spain, artificial, confident, rhetorical, acute: as fascinating as a hide-and-seek drawing-room play-- he is so cleverly escaping from his ignorance and indiscretions all the while. [11]
- But at that moment Berg came to Pierre and began insisting that he should take part in an argument between the general and the colonel on the affairs in Spain. [2]
- She might easily meet him again there, and she longed to see his face once more before the departure for Spain, which would remove him from her sight forever. [10]
- Longing often urges me back to Spain like a scourge. [10]
- The reason arable land is so scarce in Spain is because the people squander so much of it on their persons, and then when they die it is improvidently buried with them. [5]
- It was already known in Spain, in France, and in Italy, and no doubt had begun to make its way in the Orient. [4]
- The area of its drainage-basin is as great as the combined areas of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Turkey; and almost all this wide region is fertile; the Mississippi valley, proper, is exceptionally so. [5]
- Whether that spot is or is not within the territory which was wrested from Spain by the revolutionary government of Mexico. [7]
- He led Spain into a dance of great expectations, which ended in her gorgeous ruin. [4]
- Massi, the most intimate friend of their house, also expected to return to Spain in the Infant Philip's train, to spend the remainder of his days there in peace. [10]
- I thought it insane to take Soldier Boy to Spain, but it was well that I yielded to Cathy's pleadings; if he had been left behind, half of her heart would have remained with him, and she would not have been contented. [5]
- As he sat in this improvised woodland prison he had had visions of a hundred glades and valleys through which he had passed in days gone by-- in England, in Spain, in Italy, in Roumania, in Austria, in Australia, in India--where his camp-fires had burned. [11]
- I'll meet her in the Mediterranean after my kick-up, and it'll be all O. K. Jacques and I will ride down through Spain to Gibraltar, and meet the Kismet there. [11]
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