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Example sentences for "bureau"

Lexicographically close words:
burdensome; burdock; burdocks; burds; bure; bureaucracy; bureaucrat; bureaucratic; bureaucrats; bureaus
  1. The United States Bureau of Fisheries maintains an extensive aquarium of fresh and salt-water fishes.

  2. The Philippines Pavilion, designed by the Bureau of Architecture, is one of the Exposition places which no one should miss.

  3. The best of the joke was, that when I remonstrated with him the woman told me she 'didn't want no Bureau 'terference with her ole man!

  4. The whole village was in an uproar; none of us who had old-fashioned possessions fairly knew where we were living, so many of them were in the Shaw house; we were short of dishes and bureau drawers, and counterpanes and curtains.

  5. Muff went with a jump upon the bureau in the corner of the room, her tail as big as Paul's arm, and her back up.

  6. The corners of the room were full of dark moving shades, as the lamp-flame danced; while the tall bureau and bookcases looked in their black solemnity the repositories of mysteries untold.

  7. After waiting a couple of hours, most of which he spent wandering about the old house, Septimus Hardon took his old place in the little dining-room, opposite to the sealed-up bureau and cupboards.

  8. The Bat god of the Maya race; in Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin 28, pp.

  9. Venus period in the picture writings of the Borgia Codex group; in Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin 28, pp.

  10. Aids to the study of the Maya codices; in Bureau of Ethnology, 6th annual report, pp.

  11. Tortoise and shell in Maya literature; in Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin 28, pp.

  12. Mounds in Northern Honduras; in Bureau of Ethnology, 19th annual report, part 2, pp.

  13. Antiquities from Guatemala: in Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin 28, pp.

  14. A clay vessel with a picture of a vampire-headed deity; in Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin 28, pp.

  15. The Pleiades among the Mayas; in Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin 28, pp.

  16. The Day Gods of the Mayas; in Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin 28, pp.

  17. The representative of the Bureau of the Budget, Herman P.

  18. He jerked forward the flask and Rigg went to a fine old oaken bureau with his keys.

  19. It was called, I think, Board of Trade Labour Emergency Bureau (or something equally lucid and concise), and professed to find work for everybody.

  20. Last but not least comes the International Secret Service Bureau with headquarters in Belgium, a semi-private concern which procures reliable information for anyone who will pay for it.

  21. She worked for Germany and for the Service Bureau in Brussels.

  22. The Bureau de Placement des Deux Sexes was presided over by a very large woman at a very small table.

  23. And how important we felt to be taking a flat and going to a bureau de placement to engage a servant!

  24. In summer at the Bureau Central the intermediate peak nearly disappears in the profound afternoon depression, but it is still recognizable.

  25. The resemblance between these curves is much closer than that between the Bureau Central's own winter and summer curves.

  26. It presents a remarkable resemblance to the adjacent curve, which gives the diurnal variation at mid-winter at the Bureau Central.

  27. At Karasjok and Kremsmunster the seasonal variation in a1 seems comparatively small, but at Potsdam and the Bureau Central it is as large as at Kew.

  28. Winter" includes October to March at Sodankyla, Greenwich and Batavia; November to February at Kew and Bureau Central; November to January at Karasjok, and December and January at Perpignan.

  29. There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous!

  30. There was a case for the secret-service bureau of the railroad, and it took little time to find the right detectives, husky enough to get out into the fields and work for four long weeks as farmhands.

  31. The emigrant bureau did its part of the work; the railroad went further and set itself to develop every inch of available land along its lines.

  32. Thanks in part to the painters' bureau (E-dokoro) in the palace, Japanese painters began to be ranked with their Chinese teachers.

  33. Theobald Smith of the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, found that the fever was caused by the presence in the infected cattle of a minute Sporozoan parasite (Piroplasma bigeminum).

  34. Bureau of Entomology) should be read and studied by all who are interested in this subject.

  35. Indeed, there on the bureau lay the blue-and-white drawing which only the night before he had been studying.

  36. John had turned to the bureau for a handkerchief.

  37. But it had to be done, so, getting out a nightgown from a bureau drawer, she proceeded to wake the sleeper.

  38. A crushed hat-box lay on the floor, the bureau drawers were wide open and contained but a few things.

  39. There was a bureau with a wide plate-glass mirror, also a wash-stand with a white ewer and basin.

  40. Then, standing up, he turned to the bureau and began to search the littered top of it.

  41. And for me," said little Jack, "I will go now and look under the bureau for the lost cent, and will have it for my own.

  42. He said that in our Bureau we had never had any credit for the Rio Grande successes, that they were all our thunder; because THEN he could laugh about this horrid thing.

  43. But with this for his only comfort, he returned to the bureau to seek Beverly and his father.

  44. Matty took a street car for the east and south, and Beverly went his ways to the Bureau of Internal Improvement to report for duty to his father.

  45. He was then chief clerk in the Bureau of Internal Improvement, as he was now Commissioner there.

  46. Trebou gives full credit to the Bureau of Internal Improvement for the skill with which they executed the commission given them in a department quite out of their line.

  47. So it was that when, as always, the keys jingled out from his trousers pockets upon the floor, and the money as well, one cent rolled under the bureau unseen by Mr. Starr.

  48. The bureau people waited for him till two, and he did not come.

  49. Never a knob, spring or projection met the thrilling finger-tips; unyielding the old bureau stood, stoutly guarding its secret, if secret it really had.

  50. Swiss and cheese-cloth sash curtains are particularly attractive decorated in this way, and swiss bureau and pin-cushion covers are very dainty.

  51. Then he went straight to the private bureau of General Markoff and told him what he had done.

  52. I sent him, through the Bureau of Detective Police, the message to wire me details to the Esplanade Hotel in Berlin, and at midnight left by the ordinary train for the German frontier.

  53. He may have been exiled here and escaped," remarked the chief of police, as we were returning to the bureau at the side of the house.

  54. Such an action stood to his credit in the bureau of the Ministry of the Interior at Petersburg!

  55. With the knowledge that any telegrams to me would be copied and sent to the Bureau of Secret Police, he had wisely omitted any reason for my return to London.

  56. My Dear Senator:--You will understand, without any explanation from me, that my little home bureau was entirely inadequate to deal with the immense flood of telegrams and letters that poured in upon me after the election.

  57. I referred to the organization of a national bureau of labor, to a bill providing for arbitration, and other measures in the interest of labor.

  58. McPherson, a known Blaine man, was chief of the bureau of engraving and printing, which employs some seven hundred people.

  59. Bureau continued to enjoy themselves at the inn till the fifteen pieces which the stranger had left, were exhausted.

  60. Bureau for some days, and in the meantime he ordered a supper, that he might, on his return, have the pleasure of supping with these two gentlemen.

  61. Besides other enterprises, the Bureau publishes a monthly periodical which contains information on the commerce, new enterprises, and general development of each republic.

  62. The Third Pan-American Congress, at Rio Janeiro Bureau of Pan-American Republics Founded.

  63. The other bureaus, such as the Bureau of Statistics, Bureau of Standards of Weights and Measures and Coast and Geodetic Survey, were transferred from the other departments.

  64. The Bureau of the Pan-American Republics.

  65. Secretary Root determined to make this bureau an efficient agency for bringing about better relations between the two continents.

  66. The International Bureau of American Republics was founded as a result of the first Pan-American conference.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bureau" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.