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Example sentences for "citation"

Lexicographically close words:
cists; cistus; cita; citadel; citadels; citations; cite; cited; citee; citees
  1. The Archbishop replied that the Bishop had been captured in arms, and that the King thought it inexpedient to serve the citation on his prisoner, but would send envoys with explanations.

  2. And on August 18, he wrote that, on the prayer of Bruce by his envoys, Sir Edward de Mambuisson and Sir Adam de Gordon, he had granted suspension of the personal citation and of the publication of the sentences till the 1st of April next year.

  3. Luther could not be prepared to answer this question, for the imperial citation had only mentioned a desire to be informed as to his doctrine and books.

  4. Philocalia is due not to its authors but to an early editor, since it is the only citation not referred to Origen.

  5. Its usual form of citation is "Peter in Clement" (apud Clementem).

  6. In Scots law, citation is used in the sense of a writ of summons.

  7. Unless proclamation were to be made for an absentee, the citation of a suspected heretic was made in secret.

  8. The misrepresentation made is a serious one, and the citation as corrected deprives Mr. Carlyle's thunder of its noise, and extracts from his sarcasm all its sting.

  9. It is a question that long was answered only with an hypothesis, but which Professor Haeckel to-day professes to be able to answer with a decisive and affirmative citation not of theories but of facts.

  10. The accused was served with a citation to appear before the tribunal and kept in prison pending his trial.

  11. His most significant official honor came in 1974, when the Pulitzer Prize Committee issued a special citation naming him "one of the most musical composers of the century.

  12. He dropped out of high school to enlist in the Army and spent four years compiling a distinguished service record, including a presidential citation and three battle stars.

  13. Since this expedition was--with all deference to the efforts of Fray Crespi--much more carefully and exhaustively recorded than the Fages trip of 1772, it merits extended citation and analysis.

  14. Reference to the purely routine correspondence is here omitted and citation is made only of those letters containing matter of intrinsic interest.

  15. Asked to rise in their places, the ten seniors, thus to be honored, listened to a citation of their good deeds which made their cheeks burn and their hearts beat faster.

  16. In some marvelous manner those who had received the honor of citation had been instrumental in ending the estrangement of long standing between the college and the great-niece of its reverend founder.

  17. I love to think of one citation which would never have been made by an idolizing biographer, so sharply did it bring out the folly of the opinion expressed.

  18. And in Chapter XVI he devoted five pages to citation from, and comment on, Tacitus, and paid him one of the most splendid tributes one historian ever paid another.

  19. The book was Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, the chapter that wonderful citation of the "Imperfections of the Geological Record.

  20. This citation of observations, which when once pointed out seemed almost self-evident, came as a revelation to the geological world.

  21. Such, for example, were, in his opinion, the proving and administration of wills, the citation and consideration of cases of slander and libel and other matters of this nature.

  22. So she dismissed them, and went at once to their house, where she found her brother, in his chamber, on his knees before his crucifix, and the citation lying at its feet.

  23. It authorised Dom Diego to suspend his colleague from all Church offices, and to despatch him to Goa as soon as practicable, and it contained a citation from the Inquisition to appear.

  24. He found her gazing on a slip of paper, which contained a citation to her to appear as a witness upon her sister's trial in behalf of the accused.

  25. I had pretty well forgotten how real to them "the man in the next street" is, till your citation of their horribly absurd dogmas reminded me of it.

  26. To render this feasible, large numbers of the more purely scientific letters are omitted, or represented by the citation of a few sentences.

  27. He always commences with a citation from Scripture, grouping around it all the ideas theological, moral, and political which it suggests to his mind, resting these in their turn upon fresh Biblical texts.

  28. Our limits will permit but slight citation from the body of Southwell’s poetry.

  29. But Mr. Gladstone's citation of Cuvier and Sir John Herschel about the Creation myth, and his ignorance of all the best modern writings on his own side, produced a great impression on my mind.

  30. I am very sorry for the interpolated "in," because citation ought to be accurate in small things as in great.

  31. Anything better worth citation than such crude sonorous snatches of lyric style I have not found here, except in chap.

  32. At least the prelude so strangely selected for citation and thrown loose upon the pages of the biography in so crude and inexplicable a manner, may now be seen to have some tangible or presumable sense.

  33. The following is the citation in part: "In chemico-legal cases it is sometimes of importance to ascertain the nature of the ink used, to compare it with specimens of writing of known history, and to ascertain the relative ages of the writings.

  34. Many of the tests specified in the Allen citation to determine the character of ink constituents, if made alone are practically valueless, because the same behavior occurs with different materials employed in the admixture of ink.

  35. On the 12th of May a citation was issued against the King of England, summoning him to appear by person or proxy at a stated day.

  36. The citation was delayed for a few weeks.

  37. The apparitor of the Bishop of London went with a citation into the shop of a mercer of St. Bride's, Henry Clitheroe by name.


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