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Sentences starting with state

State House affairs were far removed from most of these, and the sickness and corruption of the body politic. [9]
State policy was involved, and, if De la Foret might be a counter, the pledge of exchange in the game, as it were, the path would once more be clear. [11]
State legislatures were emboldened to pass mischievous and restrictive laws, and much of my time began to be occupied in inducing, by various means, our courts to declare these unconstitutional. [9]
State it. [5]

Sentences ending with state

I had forgot your state. [9]
Report to me your opinion upon the availability for good of the enrolled militia of the State. [7]
And I tell you as I hope for happiness here and hereafter, that if Worthington succeeds in what he is trying to do, if the railroads win in this fight, there will be no mercy for the people of that state. [9]
In short, that you are the coming man in this section of the state. [9]
In those thirty years, by a sane and steady growth, Hilary Vane had achieved his present eminent position in the State. [9]
But if you would like to defeat Buchanan and his gang, allow me a word with you: Does any one pretend that Fillmore can carry the vote of this State? [7]
I thought I would just give you a hint, as you are going to see Mr. Parr, that he is in rather a nervous state. [9]
No; but I would have criminals believe, and society believe, that in going to prison a man or woman does not pass an absolute line and go into a fixed state. [4]
I believe my work is in this State. [9]
By examination it will be found that the first thirty-three lines, being precisely one third of the whole, relate exclusively to the distribution of the stock by the commissioners appointed by the State. [7]

Short sentences using state

From the State Tribune. [9]
In a pure state? [5]
I, not the State. [5]
They have the State printing. [9]
What a state of things! [5]
The state dinner. [5]
No--it's a State. [5]

Sentences containing state two or more times

And, by a wise provision in the Constitution of our glorious American Union, no one state could tie the nuptial knot so tight that another state could not cut it at a blow. [9]
Whatever concerns the whole should be confided to the whole--to the General Government; while whatever concerns only the State should be left exclusively to the State. [7]
The practices by which you have controlled this State, Mr. Flint, and elected governors and councillors and State and national senators are doomed. [9]
Besides, the law was that the State should pay half when a crossing was eliminated, and the State could not afford it. [9]
But, before he took his seat, he would remark that the Senate during the present session had passed a bill making appropriations of land on that principle for the benefit of the State in which he resided the State of Illinois. [7]
He will go to the State, and the State will see that he haf voark, and that he haf foodt. [8]
It proposes simply to co-operate with any State by giving such State pecuniary aid"; and he thought that the resolution, as proposed by him, would be considered rather as the expression of a sentiment than as involving any constitutional question. [7]
That is what the state at large was beginning to wonder, and the state at large was looking on at a drama, too. [9]
The account of the Ripton meeting, substantially as it appeared in the State Tribune, was by a singular coincidence copied at once into sixty-odd weekly newspapers, and must have caused endless merriment throughout the State. [9]
The people in the north end of the State were for stronger measures of opposition than we of the central and southern portions of the State, but we were all opposed to the Nebraska doctrine. [7]

More example sentences with the word state in them

The quota of your State would be ______. [7]
Get emancipation into your new State government constitution and there will be no such word as fail for your cause. [7]
In each of your letters to us, you will state the number of certain votes both for and against us, as well as the number of doubtful votes, with your opinion of the manner in which they will be cast. [7]
I submit for your consideration the expediency of regaining that part of the District and the restoration of the original boundaries thereof through negotiations with the State of Virginia. [7]
A very interesting young married woman, detained at home at the time by the state of her health, was bitten in the entry of her own house by a rattlesnake which had found its way down from The Mountain. [6]
There sat the young King, under a canopy of state, five steps away, with his head bent down and aside, speaking with a sort of human bird of paradise--a duke, maybe. [5]
I must introduce you to Judge Bering, of our State Supreme Court. [9]
I observe that you say 'causes necessary to state,' but you have omitted to state them. [5]
What a state you are in. [10]
Missouri would not yield the point; and Congress that is, a majority in Congress--by repeated votes showed a determination not to admit the State unless it should yield. [7]
Thenceforward for sixty-one years, and until, in 1848, the last scrap of this Territory came into the Union as the State of Wisconsin, all parties acted in quiet obedience to this ordinance. [7]
At nearly fifteen years old, when she was growing fast, and in an irritable state of mind and body, she had had a governess placed over her for whom she had conceived an aversion. [6]
During the four years of his residence the country was in a constant state of excitement and often of panic. [4]
His letter is written to a burglar named Williams, who is serving a nine-year term in a certain State prison, for burglary. [5]
I did not write intimately of my state, for I was not sure my letters would ever pass outside Quebec. [11]
But what security would there be for any calculations in life in a state of things in expectation of a revolution any moment? [4]
And what effect would it have on the conflict for the mastery of a state which was to be waged from now on? [9]
The whole state would have risen to their rescue. [9]
The news was worth a good deal, for instance, to Mr. Peter Pardriff (brother of Paul, of Ripton), who refrained, with praiseworthy self-control, from publishing it in the State Tribune, although the temptation to do so must have been great. [9]
As the month wore on, and the time drew near for him to go back to the war, a state that was not quite estrangement, and yet something very like it, set in. [9]
John prayed, but without feeling any worse, and then went desperately into the house, and told the family that he was in an anxious state of mind. [4]
I write it with pride, that at these suppers I was sometimes asked to speak; and, having been but lately to England, to give my opinion upon the state of affairs there. [9]
Old-fashioned bookcases lined with musty books filled the walls, except where a steel engraving of a legal light or a railroad map of the State was hung, and the Honourable Hilary sat in a Windsor chair at a mahogany table in the middle. [9]
During her conversation with Mrs. Kame she had more than once suspected, in spite of her efforts, that the lady had read her state of mind. [9]
He deals unfairly with me, and tries to make the people of this State believe that I advocated dangerous doctrines in my Springfield speech. [7]
Furnished, of course, with letters of introduction to the most distinguished individuals, and with the still more influential recommendation of his own reputation, he was received in full drawing- room style and state from one end of the Union to the other. [5]
Here's Adam Hunt with his back up, declaring he's a reformer, and all his section of the State behind him. [9]
The oration began with a lengthy tribute to the resources and history of his state, and ended by a declaration that the speaker was in Congress at no man's bidding, but as the servant of the common people of his district. [9]
They are done with a competent and discriminating art, and are faithful to the requirements of a state direction's proper and lawful office, which is to inform. [5]
And I'm entirely willing to discuss with him and defend any measures passed in the legislature of this state by a Republican majority. [9]
It is my will--and now I see my way to its good fulfilment--that I remain no longer in that virgin state wherein I have ever lived. [11]
Really gentlemen--' 'Well, will you have the goodness to state your business then, Mr Brass? [12]
If any one will read my speech, he will find I mentioned that as one of the points decided in the course of the Supreme Court opinions, but I did not state what objection I had to it. [7]
And if one will overwhelm the national treasury, so the other will overwhelm the State treasury. [7]
I'll be a Will o' the Wisp, now here, now there, dancing about you always, starting up when you least expect me, and keeping you in a constant state of restlessness and irritation. [12]
Besides, all you will have to do will be to state what you have seen, and then, if I possibly can, I will bring you back under the tender escort of this arm, to your mother once more. [10]
You and I will do this: the Church will bless us, the State will thank us; your home and country will be safe and happy, your father and brother honoured. [11]
I'm Carnac Grier's wife by the laws of New York State. [11]
This covers the whole ground, from the settlement of a Territory till it reaches the degree of maturity entitling it to form a State Constitution. [7]
Even the Professor, who was traveling in the interest of Reform, couldn't wake up a discussion out of such a state of mind. [4]
It is he who has brought the Empire to its most precarious state. [9]
No man can, who does not give the Abolitionists an argument to deny the obligation enjoined by the Constitution to enact a Fugitive State law. [7]
From this client while in a state of abject subjection, Berry, whose heart was hard that day, but whose diplomacy was impeccable, discovered a thing of moment. [11]
Many of them, Whigs and Democrats are my constituents and personal friends; and I thank them,--more than thank them,--one and all, for the high imperishable honor they have conferred on our common State. [7]
Thrice-blessed State, in which there were now three reform candidates for governor! [9]
The same law which organized the Supreme Court in 1824 also established and organized circuit courts to be held in each county in the State, and five circuit judges were appointed to hold those courts. [7]
The illness from which Maurice had suffered left him in a state of profound prostration. [6]
The Assembly to which many of these gentlemen belonged was in a righteous state of opposition to the Proprietary and the Council concerning the emoluments of colonial officers and of clergymen. [9]
For the quarrel which came near being a civil war, which convulsed the state, and cost Barneveld his head, had its origin in a difference on certain points, and more especially on a single point, of religious doctrine. [6]
It mattered little whether most people were changed or not because one state of their minds could not be less or more interesting than another; but a change in Laura. [11]
They were shocked when they heard him cap an argument upon grave affairs of state with a story about "a man out in Sangamon County,"--a story, to be sure, strikingly clinching his point, but sadly lacking in dignity. [7]
I was present when my honorable and reverend patron, the Lord Bishop of London, Doctor King, entertained her with festival state and pomp beyond what I had seen in his great hospitality offered to other ladies. [4]
And they laughed when Mr. Clarence tried to explain that he had not long since been the dapper captain of the State Dragoons. [9]
No one knew what to do, for no one knew well the state of Henderson's affairs. [4]
Do you know what State we are in now, and what its laws are in matters of this kind? [5]
I mean here what he says about the fixing of the Rio Grande as her boundary in her old constitution (not her State constitution), about forming Congressional districts, counties, etc. [7]
Away to the west, on the line of the Pacific railroad that led halfway across the state, was another camp. [9]
Seats at it were worth--well, you would never believe the figure, so it is no use to state it. [5]
Welcome and home were mine within this State, Whose vales I leave--whose spires fade fast from me And cold must be mine eyes, and heart, and tete, When, dear Alabama! [5]
Grant and Sherman were living there before the Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln was an unknown lawyer in the neighboring state of Illinois. [9]
All of them were in a state of incessant activity, as if perpetually seeking something and never finding it. [6]
And his lands were at once confiscated by the state. [9]
Incoherent though it were and incomplete, in her present state of mind she was able to add but a few words as a postscript. [9]
Many of them were "gentlemen" adventurers, turbulent spirits, who would not work, who were much better fitted for piratical maraudings than the labor of founding a state. [4]
You might as well, if you're going to let the unions run the state. [9]
They remembered perfectly well the omniscient snobbishness of Thomas Mavick when he held a position in the State Department at Washington and was at the same time a secret agent of Rodney Henderson. [4]
A State may well say to the nation, "If you will do nothing for me, I will do nothing for you. [7]
He ain't very well known around the State, and he was bound to run--and I just couldn't let him come out without any clothes on. [9]
We are pretty well aware that ours is not an ideal state of society, and should be so, even if the English who pass by did not revile us, wagging their heads. [4]
For a whole week after her instalment Honora was in a continual state of excitement and anticipation, and the sound of wheels and voices on the highroad beyond the hedge sent her peeping to her curtains a dozen times a day. [9]
In the evenings we would have political arguments, for the Confederacy was in a seething state between the Federalists and the Republicans over the new Constitution, now ratified. [9]
But in 1803 we purchased Louisiana of the French, and it included with much more what has since been formed into the State of Missouri. [7]
The second day, we made the acquaintance of Mr. Street (since deceased) and put on white shirts and went and paid a state visit to the king. [5]
Mr. Tooting, as we know, had abandoned the law office of the Honourable Hilary Vane and was now engaged in travelling over the State, apparently in search of health. [9]
We aren't worrying, we know you'll do the right thing, but we feel that it would have a good deal of influence in some other parts of the state if they declared themselves. [9]
In our State, we know the thing is engineered by Douglas men, and we do not believe they can make a great deal out of it. [7]
In our civilization we have not yet arrived at this state of justice. [4]
They had to watch over his health, of which, whatever was its state, he seldom complained. [14]
It comprised the Watauga settlement among the mountains of what is now Tennessee, and was called prosaically (as is the wont of the Anglo-Saxon) the free State of Franklin. [9]
Each state barge was towed by a tender. [5]
At his side was the Sire d'Albret, proxy for the Constable of France, bearing the Sword of State. [5]
Here in Memphis was the centre of administration of his property, and besides the offices for his private affairs were those he needed as a state official. [10]
Perhaps the historian was right; but where the object in question is the state and its advantage, what we here regard as worthy of a free man appears to be considered of little moment at the court of Octavianus. [10]
Indeed; he himself was never able to account satisfactorily for the state of things which his bookseller's account made evident to him. [6]
But here, indeed, was Man, perfectly preserved, in a fossil state. [5]
When the map was laid on the table, the General drew a pencil from his pocket and pointed to the state of Kentucky. [9]
I suppose it was intended by Congress that this government should execute the act in question without dependence upon any other government, State, city, or county. [7]
So Washington's mind was in a state of turmoil; there were more interests at stake than it could handle with serenity. [5]
The whole house was in a state of alarm and commotion. [2]
His own mind was in a perpetual state of exaltation produced by the stirring scenes in which he had taken a part, and the quickened life of the time in which he lived. [3]
Although the King was hungry and chilly, he was also so tired and so drowsy that these latter influences soon began to get the advantage of the former, and he presently dozed off into a state of semi-consciousness. [5]
His son Preston was here last month, and was taken out to the yacht every night in an unspeakable state. [9]
An internal-improvement convention was held there since we met, which recommended a loan of several millions of dollars, on the faith of the State, to construct railroads. [7]
Senator Dilworthy, who was from a neighboring state, had been a Unionist in the darkest days of his country, and had thriven by it, but was that any reason why Col. [5]
Not that she was formal,--or I: our intercourse seemed eloquent of an intimacy in a tantalizing state of suspense. [9]
Perfection in husbands was evidently a state not to be considered by any woman in her right senses. [9]
Just now he was content and kind, for although he had done all that lay in his power, the entertainment had not lasted long enough, for him to arrive at a state of intoxication which could make him surly, or to overload his digestion. [10]
After breakfast he was conducted, with regal ceremony, attended by his great officers and his guard of fifty Gentlemen Pensioners bearing gilt battle-axes, to the throne-room, where he proceeded to transact business of state. [5]
Fortunately, a murder was committed in one of our suburbs, creating a mystery that filled the "extras" for some weeks, and this was opportunely followed by the embezzlement of a considerable sum by the cashier of one of our state banks. [9]
Witness after witness was called by the state, and questioned at length; but the cross questioning was brief. [5]

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