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Short sentences using well-known
- It is too well-known, Burlingame. [11]
More example sentences with the word well-known in them
- Rummel, a well-known writer of the same school, speaks of curing a case of jaundice in thirty-four days by Homoeopathic doses of pulsatilla, aconite, and cinchona. [3]
- A well-known writer, who had spent some weeks at Arrowhead Village, was generally suspected of being its author. [6]
- Nevertheless it is well-known that I have given up to the town a larger measure of time and labor and moneys than many a town-mayor and captain of watch. [10]
- M. Double, a well-known medical writer and a physician of high standing in Paris, had occasion so long ago as 1801, before he had heard of Homoeopathy, to make experiments upon Cinchona, or Peruvian bark. [3]
- It is a well-known law that widely-ranging species are much more variable than species with restricted ranges; and the variability of man may with more truth be compared with that of widely- ranging species, than with that of domesticated animals. [1]
- It is a well-known fact that Mr. Bijah Bixby came over from Clovelly, to request the place of superintendent of the funeral, a position which had already been filled. [9]
- Independently of the well-known causes which raise or depress the standard of vitality, there seems to be,--I think I may venture to say there is,--a rhythmic undulation in the flow of the vital force. [6]
- His own theory was that the Milky Way was an emigration of lightning bugs; and he supported and reinforced this theorem by the well-known fact that the locusts do like that in Egypt. [5]
- But such a war does not fit in under any rule and is directly opposed to a well-known rule of tactics which is accepted as infallible. [2]
- Looking to a very remote period in the history of the world, we find, to use Sir J. Lubbock's well-known terms, a paleolithic and neolithic period; and no one will pretend that the art of grinding rough flint tools was a borrowed one. [1]
- Such is the vehemence of these attacks, that the unfortunate subjects of them are often driven backwards for great distances at immense speed, on the well-known principle of the aeolipile. [6]
- The well-known theory upon which Rousseau's superstructure rests is that society is the result of a compact, a partnership between men. [4]
- Did you speak to me, Sir?--Here the young man struck up that well-known song which I think they used to sing at Masonic festivals, beginning, "Aldiborontiphoscophornio, Where left you Chrononhotonthologos? [6]
- When you come to handle life and death as your daily business, your memory will of itself bid good-by to such inmates as the well-known foramina of the sphenoid bone and the familiar oxides of methyl-ethylamyl-phenyl-ammonium. [3]
- How many a time have I rested under its well-known trees and silently looked back on the past. [10]
- In proof of this there is the fact that the majority of the council voted for such a retreat, and above all there is the well-known conversation after the council, between the commander in chief and Lanskoy, who was in charge of the commissariat department. [2]
- He had pleaded this engagement the day before to a well-known society. [11]
- To his mind there was nothing horrible or incongruous in the idea that a well-known author should be a defaulter. [9]
- The speaker was the well-known Mark Tully, Eq.,--the subject Old Age. [6]
- Then there is the well-known example of the honest clerk on a small salary who was ruined by the gift of a repeating watch--an expensive timepiece that required at least ten thousand a year to sustain it: he is now in Canada. [4]
- I mean, is the man so well-known to you that no mistake is possible? [10]
- Deeply moved by the firmness with which Charmian witnessed the approach of death, Barine listened in silence, but suddenly started as the sharp tones of a well-known voice called her friend's name and, as she turned, Iras stood before her. [10]
- Two weeks after the day he left Mr. Braden's presence in the Ripton House the principal newspapers of the country contained the startling announcement that the well-known summer colony of Leith was to be represented in the State Legislature by a millionaire. [9]
- Napoleon was in that well-known after-dinner mood which, more than any reasoned cause, makes a man contented with himself and disposed to consider everyone his friend. [2]
- Was it surprising that the Gazette should contain a poem with the doctor's well-known ear-marks upon it? [9]
- It deserves notice that several writers, including the well-known arachnologist Walckenaer, have declared that spiders are attracted by music. [1]
- It was said that all was quiet, and we had the well-known proclamation, "To my dear people of Berlin. [10]
- These, to be sure, were cut short by her coming, by reason that she was well-known to these five noble gentlemen, who all, as in duty bound, assured her of their surprise and pleasure in greeting her once more, here in the town. [10]
- She was going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of Mademoiselle Bourienne aroused her. [2]
- The Reverend Dr. Sprague's valuable and well-known work, "Annals of the American Pulpit," contains three letters from which we learn some of his leading characteristics. [6]
- Surprised, irresolute, and speechless she stood for some time behind the young man, and looked at the strongly illuminated and beautiful features of the newly-formed bust, which was only too like its well-known prototype. [10]
- One might alter Shenstone's well-known epitaph to suit such a case:-- Hen! [6]
- Whenever he or she, by way of example, mentioned any well-known work of art, she imitated, as if involuntarily, its pose and action with surprising fidelity, frequently also in admirable caricature, whose effect was extremely comical. [10]
- Mrs. Bloomfield Moore sent her carriage for us to take us to a lunch at her house, where we met Mr. Browning, Sir Henry and Lady Layard, Oscar Wilde and his handsome wife, and other well-known guests. [6]
- They used to say that he preferred as his table-cloth on the floor a certain well-known church journal; but this was said by an Episcopalian. [4]
- We reached the Ring pharmacy--a little house in the Potsdam Platz occupied by the well-known writer, Max Ring--in a very few minutes. [10]
- On the other question, how the battle of Borodino and the preceding battle of Shevardino were fought, there also exists a definite and well-known, but quite false, conception. [2]
- The name is probably identical with that of the Chicheles or Chichleys, a well-known Northamptonshire family. [6]
- But the well-known phrase, belonging to the pugilist rather than to the priest, brought me back from the ideal world into which my imagination had wandered. [6]
- They were well-known persons, and too great clemency would only aggravate the virulence of audacious tongues. [10]
- All the well-known people of that period, from Alexander and Napoleon to Madame de Stael, Photius, Schelling, Fichte, Chateaubriand, and the rest, pass before their stern judgment seat and are acquitted or condemned according to whether they conduced to progress or to reaction. [2]
- He said its pedigree was on record in the Kennel Club, and that it was a well-known dog. [5]
- In 1867 the owners of the Press purchased the Courant, the well-known morning paper which had been founded more than a century before, and consolidated the Press with it. [4]
- The house droned out the eight words in a massed and measured and musical deep volume of sound (with a daringly close resemblance to a well-known church chant)--"You are f-a-r from being a b-a-a-a-d man. [5]
- It has invented others which form the basis of long series of well-known composite substances. [3]
- The pyramid is only the cone in which Nature arranges her heaped and sliding fragments; the cone with flattened Surfaces, as it is prefigured in certain well-known crystalline forms. [6]
- If it would only send away its first-rate men, instead of its second-rate ones, (no offence to the well-known exceptions, of which we are always proud,) we should be spared such epigrammatic remarks as that which the gentleman has quoted. [6]
- The well-known fable of Pandora owes its origin to Simonides. [10]
- The well-known humanity of our tars, however, induces me to the former conclusion. [4]
- Two well-known graduates of one of our great universities are living examples of this precocious but enduring intellectual development. [6]
- If his brother now, the farmer Demetrius--who was standing by the horses' heads--or some well-known agitator had held the reins, it would have been a pleasure and a profit to back such horses. [10]
- This was the now well-known phenomenon of color-blindness. [6]
- At last the music sounded the well-known summons, and the floors began to ring to the tread of the dancers. [6]
- Some of the most important old men were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully to hear the voices of well-known men. [2]
- They had gone more than once to the capital, where their family had been well-known fifty years before, but few doors had been opened to them. [11]
- Still later, another message came from our Philadelphia friend, saying that he was seen on Friday last at the house of Mrs. K________, a well-known Union lady in Hagerstown. [6]
- The "Mr. Church" mentioned was Frederick S. Church, the well-known artist. [5]
- A very intelligent medical student, Mr. William D. Chapin, whose excellent project is indorsed by well-known New York physicians and professors, proposes to publish a yearly index to original communications in the medical journals of the United States, classified by authors and subjects. [3]
- The grandee's well-known mansion on the English Quay glittered with innumerable lights. [2]
- This stout young man was an illegitimate son of Count Bezukhov, a well-known grandee of Catherine's time who now lay dying in Moscow. [2]
- He visited the Loan Exhibition, and wrote a careful criticism on the pictures and sent it to a well-known journal. [4]
- This sort of literature being the fashion in both sections of the country, there was opportunity for the fairest competition; and as a consequence, the South was able to show as many well-known literary names, proportioned to population, as the North could. [5]
- Appended to a letter of September 9, 1814, is a list of twenty well-known mercantile houses that had failed within the preceding three weeks. [4]
- He did not know that Brad himself was a reader for a well-known house--which had employed him on the strength of his newspaper notoriety--and that very likely he had already praised the quality of the work and damned it as lacking "snap. [4]
- He had been in Washington, and there were slight sketches of well-known characters in Congress and in the Government; he had been in Chicago, and even as far as Denver, and there were little pictures of scenes that might amuse her. [4]
- He was dressed in the well-known clothes which he had worn since the day he first declared himself at Gabriel Druse's home, and, compared with his friends around him, he showed to advantage. [11]
- The great incident in the old jailer's life had been the rescue of a well-known citizen who was confined on a charge of misuse of public money. [4]
- A step sounded in the hall, a knock, and the well-known gaunt form and spectacled face of McCrae appeared in the doorway. [9]
- A good color in his face, eyes clear, with the well-known expression of sweetness, and the old clear-peering aspect quite the same. [6]
- One evening while I was living in Charles Street, I received a call from Dr. S., a well-known and highly respected Boston physician, a particular friend of the late Alexander H. Stephens, vice-president of the Southern Confederacy. [6]
- He now remembered how general sympathy went out to a well-known county family when it was announced that two of its members were lost in the Arctic regions. [11]
- The ancient, well-known houses along the sides of the streets brought her back to reality and its demands. [10]
- When he found himself confronting all the the well-known faces, he remembered what it was he was called upon to do. [10]
- It seemed to him that it was a very long time ago, almost a day, since he had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. [2]
- The mist had hidden us from their sight, and we found them all at breakfast: the gentlemen and Ann, the lady Abbess and a novice who was the youngest daughter of Uncle Endres Tucher of Nuremberg, and my dear cousin, well-known likewise to Ann. [10]
- I will remark here, in passing, that certain ancestors of mine are so thoroughly well-known in history by their aliases, that I have not felt it to be worth while to dwell upon them, or even mention them in the order of their birth. [5]
- The well-known Loni, her former employer, had besought him to win her back to his company, complaining loudly of her loss, because it was difficult to replace her with an equally skilful young artist. [10]
- He had ordered helmets, shields, and lances to be made after well-known Macedonian patterns and to be distributed to the new Hellenic legion. [10]
- The story of Helen Keller, who wrote it, is told in the well-known illustrated magazine called "The Wide Awake," in the number for July, 1888. [6]
- Many deaths have happened in a neighboring large city from that well-known complaint, Icterus Invidiosorum, after returning from a visit to the Music Hall. [6]
- Forasmuch as she had danced with him the Dance of Honor or first dance, it was his part to beg her hand for the last dance--the "grandfather's dance;"--[Still a well-known country dance in Germany. [10]
- This was willingly granted to so well-known a man; and the way was quite free for the moment, because the imperial cartage had not followed immediately on the soldiers who had now all marched past. [10]
- A drum in front of me began to play a well-known derisive air of the French army, The Fox and the Wolf. [11]
- Two well-known specialists from the Massachusetts General Hospital made significant the hegira now taking place that threatens to leave our country, like Britain, almost doctorless. [9]
- I will take, for instance, the statements of Andral (and I am not referring to his well-known public experiments in his hospital) as to the result of his own trials. [3]
- See Dr. A. Farre's well-known article in the 'Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology,' vol. [1]
- It goes to every well-known merchant, and railway official, and manufacturer, and capitalist, and Mayor, and Congressman, and Governor, and editor, and publisher, and author, and broker, and banker--in a word, to every person who is supposed to have "influence. [5]
- There is little doubt that but for the curse invoked upon the person who should disturb his bones, in the well-known lines on the slab which covers him, he would rest, like Napoleon, like Washington, in a fitting receptacle of marble or porphyry. [6]
- The well-known old door handle, which always angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely as ever. [2]
- Often, however, it does not go so far as this, and there is nothing more than mere insensibility to the cause of other people's laughter, a sort of joke-blindness, comparable to the well-known color-blindness with which many persons are afflicted as a congenital incapacity. [6]
- A fire was crackling in the hall, and before it my hostess was conversing amusedly with a well-known sculptor--a sculptor typical of these renaissance times, large, full-blooded, with vigorous opinions on all sorts of matters. [9]
- In the first court of the House of Rameses there stands--now broken across the middle--the wonder of the traveller, the grandest colossus in Egypt, made of the hardest granite, and exceeding even the well-known statue of Memnon in the extent of its base. [10]
- He was in conference throughout the afternoon with several well-known leaders from the North Country. [9]
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Dudley Warner, and other well-known writers were within easy walking distance; Twichell was perhaps half a mile away. [5]
- A few interesting chapters might be made out of the letters I have kept,--not only such as are signed by the names of well-known personages, but many from unknown friends, of whom I had never heard before and have never heard since. [6]
- When the auctioneer came to the Carvel list, and the well-known name was shouted out, the crowd responded with a stir and pressed closer to the stand. [9]
- A man of bold and vigorous bearing comes from the office of a well-known solicitor. [11]
- Here is Mr. Bernard Quaritch just come from his well-known habitat, No. [6]
- Once, the year before, she had had a strange experience with a well-known painter, who, in an impulsive note, had admitted following her home and bribing the concierge. [9]
- Sellers, who had become a well-known character, and wise remarks upon the machinery of private legislation for the public-good, which greatly entertained Philip in his convalescence. [5]
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