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Example sentences for "conspicuous part"

  • He had acted a conspicuous part in the recent intestine struggles between the Suddozye brothers; but he had no love for the royal family—none for the Barukzyes.

  • But as the remarks on his writings are there confined to his Cronica de Nueva Espana, it may be well to add here some reflections on his greater work, Historia de las Indias, in which the Peruvian story bears a conspicuous part.

  • A few years later, when tranquillity was restored to the country, Pizarro's remains were placed in a sumptuous coffin and deposited under a monument in a conspicuous part of the cathedral.

  • The Licentiate Espinosa was a respectable functionary, who had filled the office of principal alcalde in Darien, and since taken a conspicuous part in the conquest and settlement of Tierra Firme.

  • He had for his companions two youths, both destined to a conspicuous part in the history of the times.

  • The year 1570 may be regarded as the period of the last auto da fe in which the Lutherans played a conspicuous part.

  • In the great controversies of the fourth s and fifth centuries they take no conspicuous part.

  • He long acted a conspicuous part in the affairs of France, but on the fall of Napoleon was banished, and some years previous to his death was reduced to a state of idiocy.

  • He was a dissenter, and took a conspicuous part in the politics of the day, particularly in the cause of William of Orange, whom he crowned.

  • He bore a conspicuous part in public affairs during a period of 50 years; and retired at the close of the revolution.

  • He bore a conspicuous part in the political history of France, was often employed in important missions, and was the author of many political publications.

  • In 1862 he took a conspicuous part in starting Sabbath School Conventions in this country, which have since been attended by many blessings to the young.

  • Throughout the whole of this fruitless insurrection Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski played a conspicuous part.

  • He takes a conspicuous part in the proceedings of the Young Men's Christian Association of Toronto, and frequently presides at public meetings held for social and philanthropical objects.

  • Mr. Norquay is a native of the Red River country, and has taken a conspicuous part in public affairs ever since the admission of the Province of Manitoba into the Confederation in 1870.

  • In the war legislation that was now brought forward in Congress, Mr. Davis' military education enabled him to take a conspicuous part.

  • Mr. Davis took a conspicuous part in the presidential campaign of 1844, and was chosen one of the Polk electors.

  • The year that witnessed this disheartening defeat of the Anti-Masons, welcomed into political life a young man of great promise, destined to play, for the next forty years, a conspicuous part in the history of his country.

  • Gross, who had served a term in Congress, also bore a conspicuous part.

  • His maternal grandfather, Major John Davidson, was one of the signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration, and acted a conspicuous part in the Revolution.

  • He took a conspicuous part in these engagements, and was mentioned with credit in the reports of them.

  • Manigault's brigade bore a conspicuous part at Murfreesboro, and its operations in connection with that battle will now be described.

  • In this engagement, Haskell's battalion took a conspicuous part.

  • In the defense of the center and left, Anderson's brigade, under Jenkins, bore a conspicuous part.

  • Shortly after he entered the service he acted a conspicuous part in the battle of Brandywine where he was wounded and disabled for six weeks.

  • He took a conspicuous part in the debates upon the Articles of Confederation and was listened to with great attention.

  • From the time of his return to that of his last illness, La Fayette took a conspicuous part in the civil and military departments of his country.

  • Among those who took a conspicuous part in its perils was Horatio Gates who was born in England in 1728.

  • The Barisal Hitaishi refers also to the Durga festival, in which the weird and often horrible and obscene rites of Skakti worship not infrequently play a conspicuous part:-- What have we learnt from the Shakti Puja?

  • Arthur Balfour took a conspicuous part in the attack made upon the Liberal Government in 1882 on the subject of the once famous Kilmainham Treaty.

  • He has taken a conspicuous part in every debate upon subjects of foreign policy, of national education, and of political advancement.

  • And all these seem to indicate a fabric in which metal plays at least a conspicuous part.

  • This success was soon afterwards followed by the capture of Guadaloupe, in which the Ninetieth bore a conspicuous part.

  • The events of the war are so much a matter of history, that we forbear to detain the reader with more than a mere enumeration of those in which the Forty-second bore a conspicuous part.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    all such; bank account; become the; cold perspiration; common property; considerable force; conspicuous feature; conspicuous part; conspicuous place; could imagine; food supplies; had you; her long; little bell; mercurial barometer; might redeem; might require; modern geology; shedding tears; simply couldn; small quantities; this generation; world politics; would vote