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Example sentences for "fourth"

Lexicographically close words:
foursome; foursquare; fourteen; fourteene; fourteenth; fourthe; fourths; fourtie; fourty; fous
  1. This was on the fourth day of November and was a very rare thing for bees to be working at that time of the year in this section of the country.

  2. Now this skunk skin was spoiled so far as the looks went, if not in real value, and it at least gave the dealer a good excuse to put that pelt in the third or fourth grade.

  3. Well, three dozen of eggs would get a pound of shot, a fourth of a pound of powder and a box of G.

  4. This was the fourth county we had been in since we had taken the bear's trail.

  5. We could only get within about one and a fourth miles of the camp with a wagon, so we had to leave it there and go on with only the horses.

  6. On the fourth day we intended to cut wood all day, and were at it before it was fairly light, but before 10 o'clock it began to snow.

  7. These fish ran in weight all the way from one-fourth pound up to twenty pounds each, and occasionally a buffalo or yellow catfish much larger.

  8. A man by the name of Nelson lived about a fourth of a mile away, who had a large bulldog.

  9. Meyer, claimed that one-fifth or one-fourth of catatonics really get well.

  10. On the fourth day the condition changed, and it will be advisable to describe her state in the form of abstracts of each day.

  11. It will be observed that in the fourth period the patient presented two days of typical stupor with the idea that she was dead.

  12. Mr. Henry Hewitt's one tree that blooms the fourth of July, at an elevation of 1,000 feet, is evidence of the possibilities in this direction.

  13. In European countries walnuts come into bearing from the sixteenth to the twenty-fourth year; in Oregon, from the eighth to the tenth year; grafted trees, sixth year.

  14. Trees of the fourth generation from this tree are in bearing near McMinnville and are producing fairly good nuts, some better than the original tree, demonstrating that the seedling walnut tree can be improved here by seed selection.

  15. Another tree of his buds out the fourth of July and yields a full crop as early as any of the other varieties.

  16. The fourth one is in regard to the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.

  17. And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.

  18. I took the well-known sounds of earth, and out of them came a fourth sound, nay not a sound--but a star.

  19. The wind blowing in the night where it listed--must we authenticate every verse of the Fourth Gospel before we believe that he listened to it also and caught something?

  20. So we read at the beginning of the Fourth Gospel, and the historical critic may tell us that he does not think that John the Baptist said it.

  21. The exact relations of history and interpretation in the Fourth Gospel--the methods and historical outlook of the writer--cannot yet be said to be determined.

  22. Great as has been, and must be, the influence of the Fourth Gospel, in the present stage of historical criticism it will serve our purpose best to postpone the use of a source which we do not fully understand.

  23. The fourth group are those who cannot make up their minds.

  24. This is not to abandon the Fourth Gospel; for it is a document which we could not do without in early Church History, and which has vindicated its place in the devotional life in every Christian generation.

  25. In the plays of the Athenian comic poets of the third and fourth centuries B.

  26. This is put directly in the Fourth Gospel (7:17), and in parable in the Synoptists.

  27. He says: "The plan suggests that the original pueblo was built about three sides of a rectangular court, the fourth or southeast side, later occupied by the mission buildings, being left open or protected by a low wall.

  28. The color of the fourth was not determinable, but evidently, from its position relatively to the others, was once green.

  29. He secured the collaboration of the celebrated French dramatist Eugene Scribe, who apparently went to work at this libretto by writing the fourth act first and then forcing the preceding situations to fit together as best they would.

  30. Unlike many operas in which the fourth act is the greatest, the finale of "The Huguenots" is of sustained intensity and not an anti-climax.

  31. The great feature of the fourth act is the scene between Hamlet and his mother, but there is much besides.

  32. Scribe is on terra firma in the fourth act, which is really the nucleus of the plot, and is perhaps the most dramatic love-scene of any grand opera.

  33. The orchestra plays through several pages of sixty-fourth and thirty-second notes, after which the interesting and important Arsaces enters with two slaves who bring a casket.

  34. The first scene of the fourth act reveals a hall in the palace.

  35. The matter added to the present volume equals nearly one-fourth of the work.

  36. I propose, in the fourth place, to show that the institution of slavery is full of mercy.

  37. His fourth Scripture reference is, to the intention of Abraham to give his estate to a servant, in order to prove that servant was not a slave.

  38. A fourth principle involved in the proposition that all power is of God is, that the magistrate is invested with a divine right.

  39. The same proportion holds good in Essex county, and the fact is the more startling when it is remembered that the blacks do not at present number more than one-fourth of the whole population.

  40. If not, and a fourth hand is wanted at a rubber, or if the rest of the company sit down to a round game, you will be deemed guilty of a want of politeness if you refuse to join.

  41. Wilber, Company G, One Hundred Fifty-fourth New York, low with chronic diarrhoea and a bad wound also.

  42. All devices to restore the young mother's failing strength were in vain: soon after giving birth to the fourth daughter, Ann Eliza, she died.

  43. I lived on the third floor of a modest lodging, and all the wrecks of art that neither first, second, nor fourth would buy, found their way into my parlor, and stayed there at my expense.

  44. After this to Minister Lincoln's Fourth of July reception.

  45. Have still my Fourth of July poem to write, and wish to write a poem in memory of Edwin Booth.

  46. Subject, 'A Proper Observance of the Fourth of July.

  47. Left after Act Fourth to attend Mrs. Gardner's musicale, at which Busoni pounded fearfully.

  48. There were other visitors, among them Count Salome di Campello, a cheery guest who cooked spaghetti for her, and helped the granddaughter to set off the Fourth of July fireworks, to her equal pleasure and terror.

  49. I am now in the fourth week of my infirmity, and I really think that the offending, or rather offended, muscles have almost recovered their natural power of contraction.

  50. It was held in a small room in the third or fourth story.

  51. One man is a Cromwell, another a Frederick, a third a Goethe, a fourth a Louis XV.

  52. If both the cards are stated to be in the fourth row, it is evident that they must be the tenth pair, or those placed under the letter "C.

  53. The fourth man who in the first round is the last player will do wisely to hold aces or low cards for the purpose, especially when it is necessary to score a few holes in play, or when the only chance of securing game is to play out.

  54. A third player, having a card of like value, snaps; and a fourth player, being equally fortunate, snorums.

  55. My fourth and last you'll find to be The title of a nobleman of high degree.

  56. Say now that you will select a fourth card, which shall be the jack of diamonds, and leisurely examine the cards on the table, finally taking up the ace of spades, the position of which you have borne in mind.

  57. Chapter X The next day the renegade commenced his fourth voyage in the following words.

  58. At the end of the fourth month, they had all died except the chief harpooner, a fat porpus of an Englishman, and myself.

  59. The fourth morning dawned, and none could say that either by gesture, sigh, or look, they had been distinguished by even a shadow of preference.

  60. Such, your highness, is the history of my Fourth Voyage.

  61. In the fourth place, if a man happens to be wronged by our decision, he deserves it as a punishment for his other misdeeds.

  62. On the fourth morning I heard a dispute among the men, some of them swearing that they would not remain, and that the ship ought to go to sea immediately.

  63. Unfortunately the allowance became more and more stingy; during the last month every one received one pound every third or even fourth day.

  64. One had a bad headache, another was in bed, a third was nursing her baby, a fourth was sitting up by her sick mother, and so on.

  65. Besides, the farmers had to deliver to the Kommandantur as many eggs as they had hens every fourth day.

  66. She did not move instantly; but he heard the bell ring for the fourth hour, the time when the session of the council ended, and left the room without looking back at her.

  67. On the closing night Mr. Gladstone rose at midnight to deliver his fourth speech on the Bill.

  68. He was delighted with what he saw, the more when he learned that the young artist had not heard a sound since his fourth year.

  69. The third misses entirely; the fourth strikes but does not remove the peg from the ground; while after them in quick succession come two or three who carry it off triumphantly.

  70. There was that queer thrill and twitching in his fingers, which he recognized at once, and words, not searched for by him, but coming from some other source, began to trace themselves on the blank fourth page.

  71. The American Missionary Association was obliged to reduce the appropriation for our work by one-fourth this year.

  72. The fourth which came between Sea and Mermaid was Alleged.

  73. Mellish'll probably run you in to the Old Man,' said White, the fourth occupant of the study.

  74. He generally set one of the upper fourth book-papers.

  75. That afternoon he spent industriously, copying out the fourth book of The Aeneid.

  76. She generally stands on three legs, her fourth lifted up like a classical lion that has lost its marble ball.

  77. It is very beautiful, and may well rank as the third or fourth cascade of Switzerland, for variety, volume of water, and general effect.

  78. This was the fourth time I had crossed the lake of Brientz, but the first in which I visited the justly celebrated falls, towards which we now steered on quitting the shore.

  79. Fashion has, however, been stronger than the royal will; and noble ranges of rooms are to be hired here at a fourth of the prices that are paid for small and crowded apartments near the Tuileries.

  80. The generals having come to their senses on the fourth day, formed their army, and suddenly remembering that it would be in accordance with the usages of war to demand a capitulation, dispatched an officer with a flag of truce.

  81. They now spent three days in close consultation on the precise language necessary in addressing the king at the first audience, which he had signified his readiness, to grant on the morning of the fourth day.


  82. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fourth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    degree; diapason; farthing; fifth; fourth; halftone; interval; note; octave; quarter; quarto; second; seventh; sixth; step; third; tone


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fourth book; fourth brother; fourth century; fourth dimension; fourth edition; fourth inch; fourth inches; fourth month; fourth part; fourth pound; fourth teaspoon; fourth time; fourth voyage; fourth year; fourths inches