The house is plain and poor, and has a strangely unfamiliar look to our English eyes, but it is of the deepest interest to us as the birthplace of Thomas Edison.
On the west coast of Scotland stands what is to-day the busy, thriving, seaport town of Greenock--the birthplace of James Watt.
Your birthplace in this world disappears by fire the night before you foreclose a mortgage upon a gentleman's daughter.
It was the birthplace of Marion Delorme, who there passed a tranquil childhood before becoming acquainted with the feverish life of the courtesan.
The Capetians often returned to thebirthplace of their dynasty and it is to them that the town owes its chief buildings.
Naples, the birthplaceof his favourite master, he visited more than once for the same reasons.
Indeed the desert may be almost said to have been the birthplace of poetry.
Thus Islam was born not far from the birthplace of Judaism, of which in many features it is a close imitation.
A caravan of pilgrims crossing the desert to visit the birthplace of the prophet, is a proof that religious enthusiasm still lives even in this unbelieving age.
This eastern side of the Red Sea has been the birthplace of religions.
The same process that gave to Irving a birthplace in Devonshire, furnished one also to him in the Isle of Man.
This assumed birthplace in the Isle of Man enabled the English journalists that were offended with Cooper's strictures upon their country to speak of him, as at one time they often did, as an English renegade.
But do not suppose that because you are at the birthplace of your choice Havanas, you will get those articles at a cost comparatively next to nothing.
The Madama has resided only a few years in Cuba; her birthplacebeing some neighbouring island where English and French are spoken: these languages being perfectly familiar to the old lady.
His birthplace was a spot which he himself calls Bonavem Taberniæ, and which in all probability may be identified with the modern Kirkpatrick, between Dumbarton and Glasgow.
His birthplace was a palace; the country seat of Gorhamsbury, near Saint Albans' village, is in the midst of the most charming rural scenery in England, or in the world.
His birthplace was Hussinetz, a village of Bohemia.
The road passes next through the Kohala district, in which the town of that name is of interest as the birthplace of Kamehameha the Great.
Her other name and birthplace the deponent did not know; but only that when the regiment was in Barcelona, the said Don Maria dwelt in the Calle Nueva del Asalto.
Berkeley was the birthplace of Dr Edward Jenner (1749), who is buried in the church.
The infant settlement was known as Cochichewick until 1646, when it was incorporated as a town under its present name, after the Andover in Hampshire, England, the birthplace of some of the settlers.
The storied "Alba Longa," from which Rome sprang, is an interesting spot, but the newly discovered spiritual birthplace of America may excite deeper emotions.
From her birthplace we see, across the Firth of Clyde, the beetling mountains of the Highlands, where she afterward dwells and southward the great mass of Ailsa Craig looming, a gigantic pyramid, out of the sea.
There is but one other room pertaining to the genuine birthplace of Robert Burns: it is the kitchen, into which we now went.
Magadha (the modern Behar), the birthplaceof Buddhism.
One of them, engraved on a pillar erected by Acoka to commemorate the actual birthplace of Buddha, was discovered only at the close of 1896.
Here the master varies a little his frequent signature--for Petrus de Chastro Plebis pinxit gives as his birthplace the little Umbrian city of Città della Pieve.
The site of Ur of the Chaldees, the birthplace of Abram, has been discovered, and excavations have been made among the ruins of its temples.
It never entered into the old man’s thoughts, that one of those who were interested in knowing his birthplace was becoming a bosom friend.
The American veneration for the birthplace of Shakespeare is well known, and it has just taken practical shape by the presentation to the town of a public drinking fountain and clock tower, the gift of an American citizen, Mr. George W.
From the summit the prospect extended on one side towards Arpinum, where the prince of Roman orators was born, and on the other towards Aquinum, already celebrated as the birthplace of Juvenal.
Opposite to Eleusis was Salamis, the birthplace of Ajax, Teucer, and Solon.
All these islands are famous for temples and the birthplace of celebrated men.
Among the cities were Veii and Tarquinii, the latter the birthplace of Tarquinius Priscus, and the former the powerful rival of Rome.
At Lichfield, his birthplace and his early home, he had inherited some friends and acquired others.
Immediately above, reached by a precipitous stairway, is the bleak and barren chamber, dimly lighted, the legendary birthplace of the poet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "birthplace" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: birthplace; brooder; cradle; home; hotbed; nest; nursery; origin; rookery; root; source
