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Example sentences for "brought home"

  • He was likewise directed to burn such as could not be brought home, and to take the best care he could to prevent embezzlements.

  • His success in this enterprise, and the immense mass of wealth he brought home, naturally raised much comment throughout the kingdom; some highly commending, and some as loudly decrying him.

  • This is brought home, parched, and mixed with coarse sugar, butter, and curds.

  • This is a large branch or a whole tree, which is decked with ears of corn, brought home on the last waggon from the harvest-field, and fastened on the roof of the farmhouse or of the barn, where it remains for a year.

  • In the neighbourhood of Danzig the person who cuts the last ears of corn makes them into a doll, which is called the Corn-mother or the Old Woman and is brought home on the last waggon.

  • Generally the Wolf is brought home on the last waggon with joyful cries.

  • Some specimens of these I brought home, and handed to Doctor Dawson.

  • I brought home a sample of this wheat for inspection.

  • A sample of the ashes I brought home, and handed to Doctor Dawson.

  • Nothing that she could have done, nothing that she had done, brought home to him like this the inner significance of her act.

  • It brought home to onlookers the consciousness that dangerous forces were at work.

  • This fact, more than any other, brought home to James the real danger of the situation.

  • Brought home a prisoner from his third expedition, 715; speech of Lieut.

  • He is told that the world wishes him well, and this is brought home to him through representations of the tenderness of Christ, and through the direct ministerings of those who mediate it.

  • When God is most real to him, brought home to him most vividly, or consciously obeyed, in these moments he is most religious.

  • That which is brought home to him is the illusoriness and hollowness of things when taken in the spirit of active endeavor.

  • Whoever takes up said NEGRO and secures him in any Gaol, so that I may get him again, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges, if brought home, paid by Robuck Lynch.

  • Whoever will secure said fellow in any gaol and give notice to the subscriber, so that he may have him again, shall receive the above reward, and reasonable charges if brought home.

  • Sometimes they stand for certain ideas existing in our own minds, and for nothing outside of them; sometimes for things simply external to us, brought home to us through the experiences and informations we have of them.

  • T was these small matters which, as it were, brought home to him a sense of his dignity, and made him feel the possession of station and authority.

  • Lordship would be brought home in about an hour's time or so, in company with a medical man.

  • Something happy and easy, something above all unconscious, in the way he said this, brought home again to his companion the facility of his attitude and the enviability of his state.

  • In his own ships he brought home hides, ginger, sugar, and some pearls.

  • He depends in part upon some reports of Spanish officers, which exist in manuscript in Spain, and upon some which are in England, brought home by English cruisers.

  • In the mean time the five Indians brought home by Waymouth had been in training for use in connection with colonization under the supervision of Gorges.

  • And with regard to the unsatisfactory character of some of the earliest manifestations of the belief, this point is brought home to us, with startling vividness, in the beginnings of the doctrine in ancient Greece.

  • Such things, however intensely they may be brought home to us, are not conductors to the imagination.

  • What he represents is brought home to the bosom as a part of our experience, implanted in the memory as if we had known the places, persons, and things of which he treats.

  • One day he rode up to Exeter, spent a week there, an' brought home a wife.

  • And oh, Daddy, I brought home a souvenir of Wagner's grave!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    broken down; brought about; brought away; brought back; brought before; brought here; brought home; brought near; brought nearer; brought out; brought over; brought the; brought thee; brought them; brought unto; called definitions; could trust; cure them; dont know; its place; just happened; last message; remote period; second vice; swear fealty; third edition