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Example sentences for "brougham"

Lexicographically close words:
brotherly; brothers; brothir; broths; broucht; broughams; brought; broughte; broughten; broughtest
  1. For as a matter of fact the brougham also was here then--just outside the next-door office.

  2. To that I responded by asking him with whom he had communicated before sending for me, and who was the person in the brougham which he had twice entered.

  3. She hurries to him with all possible secrecy, keeping her carriage blinds down; he dashes into the brougham to describe the disaster, taking his case with him in his frantic desire to explain things fully.

  4. I had no doubt that it was the meeting in the brougham that Hewitt wished reported, and I remembered his rule was never to watch a man a moment after the main object was secured.

  5. The brougham resumed its slow progress, and I loitered, keeping it in view, though the blinds were drawn so close that it was impossible to guess who might be Samuel's companion, if he had one.

  6. An elegant brougham having followed these carriages, another guest alighted, and Madame Moufflon announced: "M.

  7. In a quarter of an hour Mr. Lindsay's brougham had followed the other vehicle into the lamp-lit ways of Calcutta and only the native table servants remained in somewhat resentful possession of what was left.

  8. They were gathered in the hall, the carriages were driving to the open door, the Barberrys' glistening brougham whisking them off, and then the battered vehicle in Hilda's hire.

  9. The house is so dull, I thought I'd take the brougham and call upon the Lawlors.

  10. I said, sir, that the brougham was at the door.

  11. If you please, sir, the brougham is at the door.

  12. And as she rose from her low chair, holding out her hand to the faithful Patty, the wheels of the brougham crunched over the gravel in front of the windows.

  13. Various Roman roads lead from it, and much of the materials of the outworks were built into the original Brougham Castle.

  14. In the northern part of the county, on the military road to Carlisle, are the ruins of Brougham Castle, built six hundred years ago.

  15. He thought about it intermittently all the way down to the office and until the brougham stopped at the sidewalk and he got out.

  16. His brougham drew up to the sidewalk when he caught sight of Gilderman and his friends.

  17. Gilderman sat leaning back in the brougham smoking and looking out upon the hot bustle of the street.

  18. Inquire if the brougham is waiting," she continued, turning to her maid.

  19. They left the brougham at the corner of Bond Street.

  20. What was his offence, he asked himself, as his brougham glided along the Embankment.

  21. They walked to the corner of the street and stood waiting while the brougham came round to them.

  22. Then he handed the girl into the electric brougham which was waiting at the door.

  23. The brougham glided away, swung in and out of the traffic, and ran smoothly along the Embankment, westward.

  24. He drove as swiftly as his electric brougham could take him to the corner of Red Lion Square.

  25. But the part which Brougham played in the separation, both as counsel and in society, infuriated Byron, who wrote of him in his letters with the utmost bitterness.

  26. But seeing Rendel standing speaking to Stamfordham at the door of the brougham he conceived that he was probably coming in again directly, and made up his mind to go in and see Gore at any rate if possible.

  27. Doctor Morgan," and she left the room hastily as a doctor's brougham stopped at the door.

  28. Stamfordham's brougham had drawn up again, and Thacker, who was standing hanging about the hall with a secret intention of being on the spot if tremendous things were going to happen, had instantly rushed out.

  29. He was recalled from his absorption to a more pressing calamity, as he recognised, with an acute pang of self-reproach, the doctor's brougham still standing before the door.

  30. Lord Brougham said long ago that the Common Law of England for women, and all the statutes based on such principles, were a disgrace to the Christianity and civilization of the nineteenth century.

  31. Lord Brougham said: "The laws for women [in England and America] are a disgrace to the civilization of the nineteenth century.

  32. Lord Brougham has obviously expended his chief labour on the life of this favourite philosopher, of whom, fifty years ago, every Scottish economist was a devoted pupil.

  33. Lord Brougham mentions that his father was one of Banks's associates at this period, and that they employed themselves together in natural history.

  34. Lord Brougham commences his life of Sir Joseph Banks by a species of apology, for placing in the ranks of philosophers a man who had never written a book.

  35. The biography of Adam Smith gives Lord Brougham an opportunity of pouring out, at the distance of nearly half a century, that knowledge of Political Economy which first brought him into notice.

  36. The life of a later philosopher, the unfortunate Lavoisier, gives Lord Brougham an opportunity of rendering justice to an eminent foreigner, and of vindicating the claims of his own still more memorable countrymen, Black and Watt.

  37. Lord Brougham has resumed his memoirs of the eminent writers of England; and every lover of literature will feel gratified by this employment of his active research and of his vigorous pen.

  38. Lord Brougham quotes Tillotson; but the archbishop had earned his mitre by other means than the vigour of his understanding, and often trifles like other men.

  39. But Lord Brougham is himself the head of a school: his ipse dixit demands acquiescence, and none can doubt that, if he is singular in his dogmas, he deserves attention for the vigour of his advocacy.

  40. Lord Brougham justly reprobates the suspicious silence of the celebrated Carnot on this occasion, and the still more scandalous apathy of Fourcroix, who had been the pupil and panegyrist of the great chemist during many years.

  41. He lived hospitably, and entertained good society, but he wrote no more; he was growing old, and Lord Brougham evidently thinks that the duties of his office exhausted his spirits and occupied his time.

  42. Victor Berard and Valerie were together in a hired brougham on their way to the Theatre Moliere, where they had previously secured a box.

  43. A short distance away the brougham was standing without any one to look after it, the horse grazing quietly at the roadside.

  44. If anyone should find the brougham outside it would strike them as strange, wouldn't it?

  45. We see Jack Thriftless prancing in the park, or darting in his brougham down Pall Mall: we eat his dinners served on his miraculous plate.

  46. An article as necessary to a lady in this position as her brougham or her bouquet is her companion.

  47. When Lord Brougham attained the position of Lord Chancellor he was greatly addicted to the habit of writing during the course of counsel's argument of the case being heard before him.

  48. When counsel at the Bar, a witness named John Labron was thus cross-examined by Brougham at York Assizes: "What are you?

  49. According to the same authority, Brougham was at one time very anxious to be made an earl, but his desire was entirely quenched when Lord John Russell gave an earldom to Lord Chancellor Cottenham.

  50. We bought a field in a very beautiful situation overlooking the ruins of Brougham Castle and the confluence of the Eden with the Lowther, and proceeded to build a house on the higher part of it.

  51. In this connection it will be interesting, as a matter of history, to preserve the master rebuke of Lord Brougham to the unconditional abolitionists of Boston, who invited him to be present at the John Brown anniversary of the past year.

  52. Here we entered the brougham awaiting us, and after a drive of nearly three miles, descended before the splendid old mansion which Burton Blair had bought two years before for the sake of the shooting and fishing surrounding it.

  53. Poor Mabel left this morning and drove in the brougham to Euston Station.

  54. He began modestly enough by taking rooms at a quiet London hotel, where, his fame having spread through the city, he soon had the pleasure of giving a séance to two such distinguished personages as Lord Brougham and Sir David Brewster.

  55. After Brougham and Brewster came a long succession of other notables, including the novelist Sir Bulwer Lytton, to whom a most edifying experience was granted.

  56. So far as Brougham was concerned, this undertaking was speedily forgotten in the pressure of the many activities into which he plunged with all the ardor of his impetuous nature.

  57. J] Had Lord Brougham lived to study the statistics of this remarkable census of hallucinations, he might have formed a higher opinion of his ghost; but he would also have been in a better position to deny its supernatural attributes.

  58. In the Brougham case the exciting cause of the hallucination seems to have been the death pact.

  59. Stuart lost no time in going to bed; but Brougham decided to wait until a hot bath could be prepared for him.

  60. Lord Brougham The difference between one boy and another lies not so much in talent as in energy.

  61. All this may seem to indicate success; and, to a certain extent, Brougham was successful.

  62. Brougham was in the maturity of his strength, and the hey-day of his fame.

  63. But Brougham has been frequently described, and we therefore pass him by.

  64. He followed her for a few steps, and then Martin met her, opened the hall-door, and saw her put into the brougham by her footman.

  65. Well," said her mother, when the brougham got upon the wood pavement.

  66. She said that she did not wish for the motor-brougham or a carriage.

  67. The brougham was quite still, and the long string of vehicles which were passing in the other direction were motionless also.

  68. Immediately on reading this the vicar had dispatched his senior curate in his motor-brougham to make final arrangement with the Teacher about Sunday evening.

  69. We had a pleasant interview with Lord Brougham also.

  70. Mr. Birney made a most graceful speech in presenting the memento, and Lord Brougham was equally happy in receiving it.


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