When a woman marries after havingcommenced a suit, the suit abates; but the husband may in equity sue her for his marital rights in her property; marriage of a female partner dissolves the partnership (Bouv.
For this chapter we are indebted to Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, who moved into this State from New York in the spring of 1855 with her husband, who commenced the practice of law in Council Bluffs, where they have resided ever since.
As the minutes rolled on the crowd of ladies commenced to pour in, and by 8 o'clock the hall contained some fifty representatives of the gentler sex of the Crescent City.
After graduation Laura Ross spent two years in study abroad, and, returning, commencedpractice in Milwaukee, where she has been ever since.
She commenced lecturing in 1868, and during that and the two succeeding years traveled over much of the State, speaking upon temperance and woman's rights.
Swisshelm commencedthe publication of a liberal sheet in the District of Columbia, known as The Wasp.
As soon as the boards were sufficiently dry, Mr. Smear commenced operations.
I beg to state," commenced the agitated and innocent Adolphus.
With a beating heart he walked direct to the shop of Mr. Griggs, but as his engagement commenced the next morning, he did not intend to present himself to his future employer that afternoon.
Now commenced a strenuous time of replying to advertisements in the Daily News.
Then he seated himself at the end of the table, and commenced opening the newspapers that lay there.
Till five minutes to twelve all was quiet as the grave, and then commenced the slamming of the doors and knockings, and thumpings, as if done with the instrument the paviours use to beat down the stones they pave with.
I was standing outside the veranda, when she entered and seeing it was a stranger, was going off, when she commenced a favorite air of mine, and I was spell bound!
We now commenced our march for Kingston, under the guard of a company of the Glengarians and a party of Indians.
When near, they commenced firing muskets at us, to drive us below.
We waited for a warm, but dark and rainy night in May, before we commencedour new movement.
That afternoon these vessels commencedgiving liberty to their men.
Tom began to bail again, and I commenced hallooing.
This gale commenced in the afternoon, and blew very heavily all that night.
I had still the ten dollars given me by Sir Thomas Hardy, and I commenced operations by purchasing shares in a dice-board, a vingt et un table, and a quino table.
Some person among the American prisoners--a soldier it was said--commenced counterfeiting Spanish dollars.
On the 27th May, the army got into the batteaux, formed in two divisions, and commencedpulling towards the mouth of the Niagara.
The guard on the main heard him, and commenced firing, and of course we swam all the harder.
And, ten minutes later, the attack commenced with fury upon the gates of Vannes, Rennes, and that by the river.
The sailors were not to begin their work until the attack on the town commenced in earnest.
As soon as they commenced to do so, Leigh called up the men with muskets from each flank, and sent word to the main body to descend the hill again, as the cannonade would cease as soon as the attack began.
After ten days' delay, the Vendeans commenced their march towards the coast.
The Vendeans were far better armed than when theycommenced the struggle.
Beresford, having overlapped the French right, commenced a vigorous attack in front and flank on the village of S.
At daybreak on the 27th Beresford, with the left wing, commenced the action by turning the enemy’s extreme right at S.
On seats being resumed, the master of ceremonies and the sedan chair lady arose: he led her to the centre of the room, Foote's minuet struck up, when the pair commenced the movements with an attention to time.
After some skirmishing, in which the chief, habited as an officer of rank, was conspicuous, the drums beat to arms, and the battle commenced in earnest.
After spending, with his assistants, the whole night in a fruitless search after the fugitives, the shepherdcommenced his return home.
All these were dogs, and their duty was to defend the walls from an attacking party, whose movements now commenced the operations of the siege.
He helped himself to bread and meat and commenced his meal, but never a word did Dudgeon speak.
The Beech-hill Industrial School had not yet commenced operations, and he had nothing on earth to do the greater part of the time.
The amateur commenced operations, but the saw did not work as well as he expected.
We were thoroughly sobered by our dangers, and commenced our careers at this ancient institution founded by the first Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts.
Our little vocalist commenced rehearsing for her chosen profession the very minute that she first saw the light, and she certainly continued the development of her lungs with marvelous persistency.
The priest commenced the ceremony; he was a fine old man with white hair, and whose melancholy countenance showed the traces of his daily functions.
Emmy's head sank down, and for almost the last time in which she shall be called upon to weep in this history, she commenced that work.
Wesley, in his reformation, soon commenced the work of reforming the singing.
In the autumn of 1819, Ullmann commenced lecturing at Heidelberg, taking for subjects Exegesis and Church History.
What necessity is there for supposing that the solidification of the crust commenced before the matter of the globe had been reduced throughout to about the temperature of incipient fusion?
The men who sympathized with the 'Millenary Petition,' were the men who commenced under James the Parliamentary struggle which was conducted to a triumphant issue under Charles.
Unluckily they commenced operations among the sn's--a combination which no Spaniard can ever pronounce without an antecedent e.
What a fit scene for disillusion it must have presented to Moore and his army as they here turned their backs upon victory and commenced their disastrous retreat!
The Augustan age of Salamanca commenced in the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella; and was perhaps already declining when Gil Blas visited it with his adventurous young mistress masquerading in her doublet and hose.
A few lashes sent the party a-scampering; and thus commenced the first breach of the peace between the house of Ellangowan and the gipsies of Derncleugh.
Even so the Laird of Ellangowan ruthlessly commenced his magisterial reform, at the expense of various established and superannuated pickers and stealers who had been his neighbours for half a century.
I refused the payment of it, and he commenced an action for the amount, and obtained a verdict for a great part of his charge.
At length, after some difficulty, Mr. Cobbett procured me an attorney in London, who commenced an action against the firm of Hobhouse and Co.
The year 1818 commenced with a great public dinner at the City of London Tavern, to celebrate the third centenary of the Reformation, at which dinner one thousand five hundred persons attended.
He commenced learning Latin before he was six, under the guidance of a Nonconformist minister, who also taught him to write.
Thompson appears now to have given up business and commenced the study of medicine under Dr.
Young supposed that the ring surrounding the royal names in the hieroglyphic inscription had the same value as the phonetic mark in Chinese, and from the symbols in the name of Ptolemy he commenced to construct a hieroglyphic alphabet.
Having practically retired from business, Franklin intended to devote himself to philosophical studies, having commenced his electrical researches some time before in conjunction with the other members of the Library Company.
In 1733 Franklin commenced studying modern languages, and acquired sufficient knowledge of French, Italian, and Spanish to be able to read books in those languages.
He continued to take lessons in drawing, dancing, riding, and music, and commenced learning the clavichord.
It was in 1821 that he commenced his great discoveries in electricity.
And he commenced hastily to talk of other things, to Dale's disappointment.
Something within her that was hard like rock commenced to soften and soften and grow warm and glow all through her.
Then throwing it aside, she said she had a great mind to put the bookshelves in order--a business which she commenced with great spirit.
She commenced this task with her usual diligence; but was somewhat discouraged in the outset by the difficulty of finding a rhyme to Saxon, whom she indulged the unpatriotic wish that the Danes had laid a tax on.
When the parcels of work arrived, Charlotte with exultation seized the larger one, and without a minute's delay commenced her charitable labors.
Not finding him in the house, Bob Smithers commenced a search; and soon distinguished his voice in high altercation with some one, as he approached the door of the store, where he overheard the following dialogue.
I must shake off the thoughts of her:" and with that amiable determination he commenced whistling a popular air to delude himself, while he turned to his companion, who had in the meantime stopped in his walk to watch his abstractedness.
Suddenly it commenced spluttering and rising with incredible rapidity, causing a general stampede among our company, who all moved around to the windward side of the geyser.
The boiling commenced when the water had risen half way to the surface, occasionally breaking forth with great violence.
Four days later commenced the struggle which ended in repealing that Congressional prohibition.
It commenced with the earliest struggles for national independence.
The North sought to evade it; following the instincts of their natural character, theycommenced with the fraudulent fiction that fugitives were entitled to habeas corpus, entitled to trial by jury in the State to which they fled.
In Germany a bier was placed in the midst of the lists, accuser and accused stood respectively at the head and foot, and remained for some minutes in profound silence before they commenced fighting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commenced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
