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Sentences ending with substitute

The sooner the two poisoned lads recover the better, of course; yet the Benedictio Mensae need not remain unsung on account of their heedlessness, for little Hannibal showed me the best substitute. [10]
If the young man should offer an emerald it was therefore to be closely examined, to see whether it were the original stone or a substitute. [10]
Then I was drafted into the Abe Lincoln Volunteers; I paid a substitute. [9]

Sentences containing substitute two or more times

Whether the world at large will ever be cured of trusting to specifics as a substitute for observing the laws of health, and to mechanical or intellectual formula as a substitute for character, may admit of question. [3]

More example sentences with the word substitute in them

With what fiery zeal Wolf persuaded him, how convincing was his assurance that a substitute for Johann of Cologne, and a most admirable one, was actually to be found here in Ratisbon! [10]
The dishes were vicarious, a substitute for that greater destiny out of which Hannah had been cheated by fate. [9]
The writers of universal histories and of the history of culture are like people who, recognizing the defects of paper money, decide to substitute for it money made of metal that has not the specific gravity of gold. [2]
I was constrained to substitute something for it myself. [7]
He now purposed to make her a present--as in some degree a substitute for the representation his friend had projected, and which had come to nothing--of the picture which she had hoped to find pleasure in reproducing. [10]
To work by this rule in literary criticism is to substitute something definite for the individual tastes, moods, and local bias of the critic. [4]
The substitute was the same size and shape, and I was not suspicious. [11]
After the useless search, I resumed my journey, fortified with a note of introduction to Dr. Letterman; also with a bale of oakum which I was to carry to that gentleman, this substance being employed as a substitute for lint. [6]
But Judge Douglas says that he himself moved to strike out that last provision of the bill, and that on his motion it was stricken out and a substitute inserted. [7]
On the plains, sage-brush and grease-wood grow about twice as large as the common geranium--and in my opinion they are a very good substitute for that useless vegetable. [5]
This mental and physical strain for sixteen consecutive hours, with scant sleep, so demoralized him that he was obliged once in two or three months to hire a substitute and go away to sleep. [4]
For the revoked part I substitute the following: That, all provost-marshals and other military officers do prevent all disturbance and violence at or about the polls, whether offered by such persons as above described, or by any other person or persons whomsoever. [7]
For the sake of the first person that came to you as a poor substitute for our lost daughter, you are ready to go to your death, and to drag me with you into the gloom of Hades. [10]
The journals (papyri) of the day ("Tempora Quotidiana,"--"Tribuinus Quirinalis,"--"Praeco Romanus," and the rest) gave abstracts of it, one of which I have translated and modernized, as being a substitute for the analysis I intended to make. [6]
There are makers of beer who substitute for the clean bitter of the hops some deleterious drug, and then seek to hide the fraud by some cloying sweet. [4]
Instead of speaking of a woman as a lady, you substitute clean and say she's a clean person. [5]
But the tendency now is to push analysis of individual peculiarities to an extreme, and to substitute a study of traits for a representation of human life. [4]
Cleverness as the modern substitute for feminine virtue did not appeal to her, but she let it pass. [9]
It seemed to me to merely propose to substitute one inadequacy for another; a sort of patching and plugging poor old dental relics with cement and gold and porcelain paste; what was really needed was a new set of teeth. [5]
The youth whose love she must give up would be able to comfort himself with the thought that many others had had much worse to bear, and he would find no difficulty in getting a substitute, though not so beautiful a one. [10]
My substitute was killed in one of the last skirmishes--in fact, after Lee's surrender--and I've took care of his family, more or less, ever since. [8]
His hated colleague, Kandaules, whom he had used as a substitute for himself, had been already executed, by the king's command, for negligence, and on the supposition that he had accepted a bribe; Nitetis was not only ruined, but certain to die a shameful death. [10]
Can we wonder if the Almighty has at last disdained and rejected the wretched substitute, and claims once more for His Nile that which was formerly given? [10]
I fear you have found a very unsatisfactory substitute for what you sought in coming up here. [10]
Still, he would have found a substitute that would answer. [5]
At first he had shown a positive enmity to her, and even asked Sister Hildegard for another nurse; but no suitable substitute for Eva could be found. [10]
The name here given is a substitute for the one actually attached to the pamphlet. [5]
Subsequently the senator from Georgia [Mr. Toombs] brought forward a substitute for my bill, which, after having been modified by him and myself in consultation, was passed by the Senate. [7]
They substitute humanitarianism for the gospel. [4]
The best substitute for such rambles as one can take through these mouldy boroughs (or burrows) is to be found in such towns as Salem, Newburyport, Portsmouth. [6]
Now substitute Holland for Herr Matanesse, and Spain for the grandee, and you will know what I mean. [10]
Were I to do so, the convention would have a right to re-assemble and substitute another name for mine. [7]
Now he had carefully drawn up a bill embracing these three separate propositions, which he intended to propose as a substitute for all these bills in the House, or in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, at some suitable time. [7]
For "novel" you can substitute "Calvin's Institutes," if you wish to be virtuous as well as happy. [4]
Adrian was inaccessible, because his master could not spare him a single hour, but she saw his substitute, Ogier Bodart, who had served the Emperor in Ratisbon. [10]
The tea-cup will be a cheerful substitute for the funeral urn, and a freshly made infusion of the fragrant leaf is one of the best things in the world to lay the dust of sad reflections. [6]
We were infested at one time with a set of ominous-looking seers, who shook their heads and muttered obscurely about some mighty preparations that were making to substitute the rule of the minority for that of the majority. [6]
When boiled it answers as a passable substitute for bread. [5]
A substitute, yes, and perhaps become something of a mania, like her father's Bumpus papers.... Janet left the room swiftly, entered the bedroom, put on her coat and hat, and went out. [9]
True, you disagree among yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. [7]
If I could always provide such a substitute you would wish I might eat up your breakfast every day. [10]
There was something about those minutely faithful details that was a sufficing substitute for food. [5]
They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute, "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States. [7]
She found but a dangerous substitute in the spiritual companionship of a saint like the Rev. [6]

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