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Sentences starting with thomas

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, then editor of Every Saturday, had not met Mark Twain, and, noticing the verses printed in the exchanges over his signature, was one of those who accepted them as Mark Twain's work. [5]
Thomas Tilman Lacey, the despised waster of his patrimony and of other people's treasure, is now, O son of the fig-flower, richer than Kaid Pasha and all his eunuchs. [11]
Thomas Connor, a private in the First Veteran New York Cavalry, is now imprisoned at hard labor for desertion. [7]
Thomas Scott, author of the Commentary? [6]
Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, New York, that we get up a monument to Adam, and that Mr. Beecher favored the project. [5]
Thomas Hardy is melodramatic; Joseph Conrad is melodramatic; Balzac was melodramatic, and so were Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, and Sir Walter Scott. [11]
Thomas Carlyle, third in the line of descent, finds an audience very different from those which listened to the silver speech of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the sonorous phrases of Samuel Johnson. [3]
Thomas Babington Makorlay graduated at Harvard and then studied law, he was raised to the peerage as baron in 1557 and died in 1776. [5]
Thomas Everest, [Dr. Curie speaks of this silly pamphlet as having been published in 1835. [3]
Thomas Jefferson is commonly recognized as the first to proclaim before the world the political independence of America. [6]

Sentences ending with thomas

He would bear in mind the commission given him by the daughter of the illustrious Thomas. [10]
That is how he came to go to the new island we have bought--St. Thomas. [5]
Take me, me and not the daughter of Thomas! [10]

Short sentences using thomas

Gould, Thomas R., sculptor, 68. [6]
Emerson, Thomas, of Ipswich, 38. [6]
Captain Thomas T. Craven. [7]
Chalmers, Thomas, preaching, 65. [6]
Carlyle, Thomas, 294, 302, 317. [6]
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. [6]
Clarkson, Thomas, 220. [6]
It's Thomas Sawyer. [5]

Sentences containing thomas two or more times

I went immediately to the recorder's office to examine Adams's title, and found that the land had been entered by one Dixon, deeded by Dixon to Thomas, by Thomas to one Miller, and by Miller to Gen. Adams. [7]
No sooner was my father safely on his way to his office than Thomas Jefferson was reported to be in the alley, where we assembled, surveying with some misgivings Thomas Jefferson's steed, whose ability to haul the Petrel two miles seemed somewhat doubtful. [9]
Among the distinguished men who accompanied them were Thomas Hariot, the mathematician, and Thomas Cavendish, the naval discoverer. [4]

More example sentences with the word thomas in them

And taking the work of General Thomas into the count, as it should be taken, it is indeed a great success. [7]
Among the students who followed his instructions were two Englishmen: one of them, John Locke, afterwards author of an "Essay on the Human Understanding," three years younger than his teacher; the other, Thomas Sydenham, five years older. [3]
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]
Shortly after he was with Sir Thomas Gates in South Holland. [4]
The other name was Thomas Mavick. [4]
Sir Thomas Gorges was the builder of Longford Castle, now the seat of the Earl of Radnor, whose family name is Bouverie. [6]
Mr. Thomas Mavick was socially one of the most desirable young men of the day. [4]
But with this was published, as an appendix, an account of the proceedings of the Virginia colonists from 1606 to 1612, taken out of the writings of Thomas Studley and several others who had been residents in Virginia. [4]
It is old Uncle Thomas Campbell of Spring Creek--(Berlin P.O.). [7]
During the past two years I have been reading through a group of writers who seem to me to represent about the best we have--Sir Thomas Malory, Spenser, Shakespeare, Boswell, Carlyle, Le Sage. [5]
Many a time, too, was Punch displayed in the full zenith of his humour, but all this while the eye of Thomas Codlin was upon them, and to escape without notice was impracticable. [12]
You cannot doubt to what three I refer: Samuel the First, Samuel the Second, and Thomas, last of the Dynasty. [6]
He has been to the new island St. Thomas, but he says he thinks things are unsettled there. [5]
From time to time I dipped into old Sir Thomas Malory's enchanting book, and fed at its rich feast of prodigies and adventures, breathed in the fragrance of its obsolete names, and dreamed again. [5]
Jackson, Dr. Charles Thomas, anaesthesia, 403. [6]
The next instant Thomas Tilman Lacey's drawling voice broke the silence. [11]
The name of Thomas Sydenham is as distinguished in the history of medicine as that of John Locke in philosophy. [3]
He said that Thomas Leffingwell was constitutionally honest. [9]
On this sum Thomas Jefferson compromised. [9]
Another example is Thomas Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd. [4]
In 1616 Sir Thomas Dale returned to England with his company and John Rolfe and Pocahontas, and several other Indians. [4]
The story is this: Dixon sold and deeded the land to Thomas; Thomas sold it to Anderson; but before he gave a deed, Anderson sold it to Miller, and took Miller's note for the purchase money. [7]
I cannot help thinking this century has Thomas for its model. [6]
They did so think, and David Thomas said it was abundant. [4]
In the vestibule they met Mr. Austen Vane and Mr. Thomas Gaylord, the latter coming forward with a certain palpable embarrassment. [9]
The information was then given of the loss, and that the rider had met David Thomas just before it was discovered, on the mountain beyond the Toe. [4]
The historians find themselves "justified in believing" that the young Shakespeare poached upon Sir Thomas Lucy's deer preserves and got haled before that magistrate for it. [5]
This was not the white horse which Mr. Thomas Hughes has made famous, but one of much less archaic aspect and more questionable history. [6]
They lay on the Thomas River, a few hours' horseback travelling from Spanish Town, the capital, and they had the advantage of a plateau formation, with mountains in the far distance and ravines everywhere. [11]
Six shoulders upheld the rear end of the Petrel, others shoved, and Thomas Jefferson's rickety horse began to move forward in spite of himself. [9]
This Rider of the Plains was Sergeant Thomas Gellatly, familiarly known as Sergeant Tom. [11]
The daughter of the noble Thomas has condescended to weave it with the help of that woman--a skilled weaver, she--to spread it before us in order to mislead us, and so to save her faithful servant from imprisonment, from the mines, or from death. [10]
Mr. Thomas was the least excited of the group as he took his position on the sidewalk, conscious of the dignity of the occasion and that he was about to begin a duel in which both reputation and profit were concerned. [4]
Neither Short nor the landlord nor Thomas Codlin, however, was in the least surprised, merely remarking that these were Jerry's dogs and that Jerry could not be far behind. [12]
He had all the imperiousness of a soldier, and in an altercation with Captain Newport, occasioned by some injurious remarks the latter made about Sir Thomas Smith, the treasurer, he pulled his beard and threatened to hang him. [4]
Captain Martin of the Council was till then ignorant that only store for thirteen and a half weeks was in the hands of the Cape Merchant, or treasurer, who was at that time Mr. Thomas Studley. [4]
Conjectures are made that she was an inmate of the house of Sir Thomas Dale, or of that of the Rev. [4]
He was aware that his son had far less rigid opinions than himself; that he even defended Wolfe Tone and Thomas Emmet against abuse and damnation. [11]
The register of that church has this record: "1616, May 21 Rebecca Wrothe Wyff of Thomas Wroth gent A Virginia lady borne, here was buried in ye chaunncle. [4]
In the Canterbury Tale it gives account of King Alfred on his way to the shrine of Thomas Bucket. [5]
Thomas, the youngest son by his first wife, married Emma, a daughter of John Wait, the first Sheriff of Cumberland County under the government of the United States. [6]
The character of Sir Thomas Warren is excellent; consistent throughout. [14]
The commission of Sir Thomas Gates was read, and Mr. Percy retired from the governorship. [4]
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]
Eyes are straining, scouts are watching at the back of the hall and in the street, for the first glimpse of the dreaded figure of Mr. Thomas Gaylord. [9]
Also same against same sureties for Thomas A. Ireland. [7]
Without pretending to rival the alleged cases of life prolonged beyond the middle of its second century, such as those of Henry Jenkins and Thomas Parr, we can make a good showing of centenarians and nonagenarians. [6]
I had been reading a number of books about an ideal condition of society,--Sir Thomas Mores 'Utopia,' Lord Bacon's 'New Atlantis,' and another of more recent date. [6]
Among the most prominent of them are Benjamin Bond, Esq., of Carlyle, and Thomas, Esq., of Galena. [7]
You remember Thomas Prince's "Chronological History of New England," I suppose? [6]
But it was pleasing to Sir Thomas Dale, who was a man to appreciate the high motives of Mr. Rolfe. [4]
There is some pleasant correspondence between Irving and Miss Mary Fairlie, a belle of the time, who married the tragedian, Thomas A. Cooper; the "fascinating Fairlie," as Irving calls her, and the Sophie Sparkle of the "Salmagundi. [4]
Besides, he was personally acquainted with the great founders of my science, Thomas Young and Francois Champollion, and had obtained an insight into deciphering the hieroglyphics. [10]
Among these were 'Pepys's Diary', Suetonius's 'Lives of the Twelve Caesars', and Thomas Carlyle's 'French Revolution'. [5]
He makes a passing reference to Thomas a Becket as "the old Cocke of Canturburie," who did crow in behalf of the see of Rome, and the "young cockerels of other sees did imitate his demeanour. [4]
But secrets leak out, even the profoundest; and this was wafted across the English Channel to the ears of Mr. Rufus King, American Minister at London, who wrote of it to one Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States. [9]
The camps in our part of Missouri were under Brigadier-General Thomas H. Harris. [5]
It is humor or fun such as one expects, let us say, from the peasants of Thomas Hardy, outside of Hardy's books. [5]
It was an open secret that the scene of the story was the birthplace of the author--a lovely village that was brought into notice a summer ago as the chosen residence of Thomas Mavick and his family. [4]
Thomas, indeed, stood on the brink of the grave; but he was inspirited and sustained by the hope of seeing his daughter. [10]
Gray, Thomas, Elegy often quoted, 316, 317, 416. [6]
The noble daughter of Thomas is my promised bride! [10]
A brief biography of Thomas Campbell was also written about this time, as introductory to an edition of "Gertrude of Wyoming. [4]
In the letter of the Governor and Council of Virginia to the London Company, dated Jamestown, July 7, 1610, signed by Lord De La Ware, Thomas Gates, George Percy, Ferd. [4]
Under the patronage of that saint of American Jacobinism, Thomas Jefferson, a Jacobin society was organized in Philadelphia,--special guardians of Liberty. [9]
Towards the end of May, 1609, there sailed from England nine ships and five hundred people, under the command of Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, and Captain Newport. [4]
At the age of fifteen he was bound apprentice to Mr. Thomas S. Tendall of Lynn. [4]
J. Mitchell, Commissioner of Emigration, E. M. Thomas, the chairman, remarked that they were there by invitation to hear what the Executive had to say to them. [7]
It was born of an outside suggestion --Sir Thomas and my old Captain. [5]
The nearest biographical notice of him in point of time is found in the "History of the Worthies of England," by Thomas Fuller, D.D., London, 1662. [4]
Although he had not risen above the position of paying teller, Thomas Leffingwell had a unique place in the city of his birth; and the esteem in which he was held by capitalists and clerks proves that character counts for something. [9]
Julien Wantage, and niece of the late Eustace Wantage, Esq., to Captain Thomas Fairing, of the Royal Fusileers--" Charley snatched at the top of the paper and read the date "Tenth of February, 18-! [11]
In some the name of Thomas Watson is given as the author, in others "A Gentleman of the Colony," and an apology appears signed "T. H.," for the want of knowledge or inadvertence of attributing it to any one except Captain Smith. [4]
He says that my oath would not be taken against the bare word of Charles H. Lanphier or Thomas L. Harris. [7]
Then I beat my man, young Smith beat his man, and Thomas beat his. [5]
Having said this much, I add that in my individual judgment the appointment of Mr. Thomas would be the better. [7]
The next morning Mr. Thomas Gaylord, the younger, was making his way towards the office of the Gaylord Lumber Company, conveniently situated on Willow Street, near the railroad. [9]
That before these movements Thomas and Sherman shall respectively watch but not attack Zollicoffer and Buckner. [7]
The poet Thomas Moore spent several months in Bermuda more than seventy years ago. [5]
You who will may look at the plat made by William Clark, Surveyor for the Board of Commissioners, and find sixteen acres marked for Thomas McChesney in Section 169, and two hundred more in Section 3. [9]
He accuses its master, Thomas Hunt, of attempting to rob him of his plots and observations, and to leave him "alone on a desolate isle, to the fury of famine, And all other extremities. [4]
Yes, such a man, David Thomas by name, had just ridden towards Bakersville. [4]
Colonel Thomas will make this order. [7]
Outside of this list I must place the name of Thomas Wilkinson, who was complained of, is 1676, for practising contrary to law. [3]
Sir Thomas Gates left Virginia in the spring of 1614 and never returned. [4]
The R. E. Lee was commanded by Captain John W. Cannon, and the Natchez was in charge of that veteran Southern boatman, Captain Thomas P. Leathers. [5]
Sir Thomas Gorges, Knight of Longford Castle, may or may not have been of the same family as the well-remembered grandiose personage of the New England Pilgrim period. [6]
There you are, Jim Barager; there you are, Bill Riley; there you are, Mr. William John Thomas McLeary. [11]
The whole system is the sharp invention of Thomas Jefferson and others, by which crafty demagogues can rule. [4]
What is meant is simply that Murad Ault was fighting for position, and that for some reason, known to himself, Thomas Mavick stood in his way. [4]
The Emperor then inquired how his brother Sir Thomas Dale fared, "and after that of his daughter's welfare, her marriage, his unknown son, and how they liked, lived and loved together. [4]
It is included in this set with the courteous permission of the author and of Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Company. [7]
The corporators named in the second colony were Thomas Hankam, Raleigh Gilbert, William Parker, and George Popham, representing Bristol, Exeter, and Plymouth, and the west counties, who were authorized to make a settlement anywhere between the 38th and 48th degrees of latitude. [4]
I discovered that in the deed from Thomas to Miller, although Miller's name stood in a sort of marginal note on the record book, it was nowhere in the deed itself. [7]
The colony was in such extremity in May, 1610, that it would have been extinct in ten days but for the arrival of Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Somers and Captain Newport from the Bermudas. [4]
I've been interested in all I've heard to-day, especially in the romances recounted by Mrs. Thomas, which reminds me that I have a romance of my own in my autobiography, which I am building for the instruction of the world. [5]
Mr. Thomas and I were the contestants. [5]
You've done the honest thing, Mr. Thomas, as was expected of you. [4]
Mr. Thomas kept his luck, and won the game, and later the championship. [5]
Thomas, again, believes him to be an artful rogue, we will say; therefore he is, so far as Thomas's attitude in the conversation is concerned, an artful rogue, though really simple and stupid. [6]

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