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Example sentences for "chapters"

Lexicographically close words:
chappie; chappies; chappit; chaprassi; chaps; chaque; char; chara; character; characterisation
  1. The former gave to it three chapters in his original edition, in 1858, which, by a little condensation, make a single one in his final revision, but without material change.

  2. The diplomacy of the war and the final negotiations for peace, form the subjects of the opening chapters of the succeeding volume of the present History.

  3. The former book gives a full examination of Arnold's career during his command in Philadelphia (chapters 12-14).

  4. His treatment of these topics is brief, but the chapters contain much more information on the subjects than can generally be obtained from American histories.

  5. The division of the Koran into 114 chapters dates from Osman.

  6. This work being from the beginning one in idea, I place here together the titles of the fifty-six chapters composing it.

  7. I have required ten chapters to give even a slight account of the effects produced upon the Christian Church by the wandering of the northern nations to the time of St. Gregory the Great.

  8. There may be among my readers some who will read the early chapters and will then stop.

  9. Most of my chapters should, indeed, have been volumes.

  10. Even if it be not so, that the early chapters still seem to be hard, is it not better to hear such things from a friend than from an enemy?

  11. If any candid reader will first read carefully the first two chapters of Matthew, noting all the details, and then likewise the first two chapters of Luke, he will see that they are wholly irreconcilable in their details.

  12. There's lots of chapters before the last.

  13. It has been stated in former chapters that the changes of weather accompany the movements of what are called cyclones and anti-cyclones, the cyclone being accompanied by low barometric pressure and the anti-cyclone by a higher one.

  14. In one of the chapters on the subject of light in Vol.

  15. In our next and following chapters we will try to answer this question.

  16. The reader is referred to the chapters on heat in Vol.

  17. Much of the history of those times is a sealed book, but the persevering energy of the glacialist and archaeologist is gradually turning the leaves of this old book and revealing new chapters of the wonderful story of the ice.

  18. Originally there was a good deal about Munich in the new book, and some of the discarded chapters might have been retained with advantage.

  19. Enough of its plan and purpose has been given in former chapters to make a synopsis of it unnecessary here.

  20. I have got in two or three chapters about Wagner's operas, and managed to do it without showing temper, but the strain of another such effort would burst me.

  21. It was one of the happiest chapters of their foreign sojourn.

  22. Some requested him to sit down and copy a few chapters from The Innocents Abroad for them or to send an original manuscript.

  23. Concerning the remaining chapters of the book, they are also literature, but of a different class.

  24. For full text see Appendix] Clemens worked at the Yankee now and then, and Howells, when some of the chapters were read to him, gave it warm approval and urged its continuance.

  25. Day before yesterday my shovel fetched up three more chapters and laid them, reeking, on the festering shore-pile of their predecessors, and now I think the yarn swims right along, without hitch or halt.

  26. I have been knocking out early chapters for more than a year now, not because they had not merit, but merely because they hindered the flow of the narrative; it was a dredging process.

  27. Fortunately the earliest of these chapters were preserved, and, as the reader may remember, furnished much of the childhood details for this biography.

  28. All the chapters are interesting in a high degree.

  29. What its author has aimed at has been the reproduction of the atmosphere in which Johnson lived; and he has succeeded so well that we shall look with interest for other chapters of Johnsonian literature which he promises.

  30. This apostasy, foretold by Paul and other apostles, is represented symbolically in the Revelation of St. John, the twelfth and thirteenth chapters of which are particularly pertinent in this connection.

  31. An account of the relations between Moses and his father-in-law, Jethro the Midianite, may be found in the second, third and eighteenth chapters of Exodus.

  32. Read also the fifteenth, sixteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first chapters of Third Nephi.

  33. Some further discussions of the relations of art and personality will be found in each of the five following chapters devoted to the individual arts; and more extended discussion is given in the general summary of Chapter VII.

  34. The derivation of the three heterologies elucidated in the three chapters of the Essai, is the inevitable consequence of the fundamental heterology of an “absolutely” two-fold universe.

  35. Smith's comical reciting of the Koran chapters was such a whim.

  36. Many chapters of the Koran I have learned from Smith.

  37. He was friend and brother to several Arabs with doubtful characters, he could recite whole chapters of the Koran by heart, and knew a great deal about Morocco.

  38. But occasionally he would straighten up and sit down beside me, talking of strange things, reciting whole chapters of the Koran.

  39. I listened then complacently to the reading of those chapters of his romance which he had composed during the week.

  40. These descriptive chapters from a missionary's life in Burma are of exceptional vividness and rich in an appreciation for color.

  41. Carver has prepared in these chapters the fruit of many years' study.

  42. A manual for teachers, with outlines of lessons and courses, detailed studies of animal and plant life, and chapters on methods and the relation of nature study to expression.

  43. Meanwhile she wrote the last chapters of her book, sitting on the beach among drying nets and boats, in some fishing cove up the coast.

  44. She occasionally struggled in vain with a modern novel, which she usually renounced in perplexity after three chapters or so.

  45. I am humbly grateful of the assurances received from many quarters that these chapters have aided many parents and teachers in such study.

  46. The biological aspects of sex and also interesting chapters on sex education, the ethics of sex, and sex and society.

  47. In the three succeeding chapters I shall sketch the political conditions in the state during the same period.

  48. The favorite readings in the Bible were the first and second chapters of Joel.

  49. Indeed, the argument running through the three following chapters cannot be fully appreciated unless their perusal is preceded by that of chapters ix.

  50. If language proves anything, it proves that these savages must have lived continuously in a savage condition” (Farrar, Chapters on Language, pp.

  51. Some instances of them have already been given in the present chapter: further and better instances will be given in the chapters which are to follow.

  52. The evidence being much too copious for quotation, I must content myself with referring to the excellent and most forcible epitome which is given of it by Archdeacon Farrar in his works on the Origin of Language and Chapters on Language.

  53. Now, of course, if any vestige of real evidence could be adduced to show that this “must have been” the case, most of the foregoing chapters of the present work would not have been written.

  54. I will, however, try as far as possible to avoid repeating myself, and therefore in the three following chapters I will assume that the reader is already acquainted with my previous work.

  55. Birds and Mammals in various parts of the chapters devoted to these animals.

  56. It will be my aim in this chapter to take a broad view of Articulation as a special development of the general faculty of sign-making, reserving for subsequent chapters a consideration of the philosophy of Speech.

  57. In subsequent chapters I will adduce direct evidence upon this head.

  58. Whalley Harper’s excellent book on the Power of Greek Tenses;” and recurs to the subject in his more recently published Chapters on Language, p.

  59. There are chapters in the volume which have not appeared in print hitherto, and such portions as have been already published have been thoroughly revised.

  60. The "settled results" of criticism were greatly ridiculed when further investigation pronounced that only chapters xl.

  61. The preceding chapters end with a historic survey of events that happened in the lifetime of the great Isaiah of Jerusalem, and then suddenly the whole outlook and atmosphere change.

  62. In the book which bears his name, and especially in chapters xl.

  63. The critical reconstruction of this prophecy therefore places chapters xl.

  64. A Reference Table at the end connects the Selections with the volumes of the Modern Reader's Bible from which they are taken, and with the chapters and verses of the ordinary versions.

  65. The last few chapters come nearly or even quite up to the mark, but as for most of the rest, I advise you to take them as read.

  66. A number of chapters end with an interesting collection of charters.

  67. Winsor's History of America, and the chapters on discovery and surveying for Clowes's History of the Navy.

  68. The nails used in the making of the toys described in the following chapters are made of very fine wire, with fine points.

  69. If it is desired to attach movable wheels to any of the toys described in the following chapters (in the early chapters for greater simplicity the wheels are gummed to sides of carts, or to matches, etc.


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