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Example sentences for "confreres"

Lexicographically close words:
confounding; confounds; confraternities; confraternity; confrere; confront; confrontation; confronted; confronting; confronts
  1. We supped with one of our confreres of the Academy,--a great nobleman and wit.

  2. Ye'er confreres iv that gr-reat city is worn out with their exertions, an' ye'll find plenty iv wurruk to do.

  3. Spalding and his confreres to let me get possession of the club.

  4. But later he and his confreres saw reason to change their minds.

  5. He and his confreres had attributed her sickness to the fact that she was enceinte, and to the effect of her child's death upon her while in that condition.

  6. By developing his small potentialities to their highest actuality he has achieved as much as his confreres have by extraneous tricks and appearances.

  7. His work at first was much less radical than that of his confreres and gave greater evidence of depth because it had never completely shaken off perspective.

  8. In 1886 Anche reported to his confreres in Bordeaux a rare accident of this nature that occurred to a carpenter.

  9. Lebeau then presented to each of his confreres a sealed envelope, containing no doubt a bank-note, and perhaps also private instructions as to its disposal.

  10. We may trust to the confreres of our council to enlist Poles and Italians; Gaspard le Noy will turn out the volunteer rioters at his command.

  11. And the day may be nearer than the world thinks, when my confreres will be so numerous that they will have to shoot down each other for the sake of cheese to their bread.

  12. Such a thing is quite practicable, and has been done successfully by our more enterprising confreres in Canada and the United States.

  13. The world may have misused them; but they misuse their confreres in their thoughts.

  14. He had not followed the local treasury dealings very closely, nor had he talked to either of his confreres since the original conference between them.

  15. No sooner was I in the musicians' foyer than I was blown like a feather into my confreres arms, which I grabbed as hard as I could, for I now understood the trick.

  16. Therese was given at the gala performance before an audience which included members of the Institute, confreres of his Serene Highness, a member of the Academie des Sciences.

  17. I shall always remember the delightful and inspiring days passed at the Chateau de Chantilly with my confreres at the Institute Leon Bonnat, Benjamin Constant, Edouard Detaille, and Gerome.

  18. Here are the handy men of the army--the divisional engineers with their great pontoons, and their confreres the signallers--wise men with buzzers and telephones and other signalling paraphernalia bedecking their horses and waggons.

  19. Crowder had seen her several times, the doctor had come, the chambermaid, one or two of her confreres from the theater.

  20. Her confreres were puzzled; it was quite a new phase.

  21. It was he, however, who towards the end of dinner got up and left the room, and his absence, rather to our surprise, seemed to make certain of our German confreres slightly uneasy.

  22. Their only means of vengeance lay in joining themselves to the Savoyard nobles, who, under the name of Confreres de la Cuiller, ravaged the possessions of the Genevese, and the environs of their town.


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