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Example sentences for "gens"

Lexicographically close words:
genos; genoux; genral; genre; genres; gensdarmes; gent; gente; genteel; genteeler
  1. Cest le plus bryef That is the shortest Que on puise dyre That one may saye Aux gens en saluant.

  2. Les monnoyes sont bien desirees, The moneyes ben well desired, Si que les gens se mettent en peril So that folke put hem in peryll 36 Destre dampnes.

  3. Reinach had alleged that the gens Fabia was originally a totem clan, Mythes et cultes, i.

  4. In all probability it was originally the land on which a gens had settled, though settlement produces changes, and the land of gens and pagus was not identical in later times.

  5. For the alleged extinction of the gens Potitia, and the legend connected with it, Livy i.

  6. He had now ceased to be director of Les Gens du monde; but he was engaged as ordinary caricaturist of Le Charivari, and, whilst making the fortune of the paper, he made his own.

  7. Gradually he gave greater attention to this more congenial work, and finally ceased working as an engineer to become the director of the journal Les Gens du monde.

  8. These literary gens du monde have the tact to observe, but not the patience, perhaps not the time, to investigate.

  9. In addition to this, their own gens would give them appropriate receptions.

  10. As the members of a gens stood on equal footing, this tract would be still further divided for individual use.

  11. The council of the gens is the supreme ruling power in the gens.

  12. A gens has certain rights, duties, and privileges which belong to the whole gens, and we will consider some of the more important in their proper place.

  13. An Indian could not, of his own will, transfer himself from one gens to another.

  14. He, therefore, suggests that the names of these twenty days are the names of the twenty gens of the aboriginal people from whom have descended the various civilized tribes under consideration.

  15. It is known that a tribe of Indians is divided into smaller bands, which are called gens or clans.

  16. He remained a member of the gens into which he was born.

  17. Thus seven of the days have the same meaning as the names of seven of the nine gens of the Moqui tribe in Arizona.

  18. But, as the tribe did not have any land of its own, except for some official purpose, this implies that each gens would have to set aside a small part of its territory for such purpose.

  19. They had common rights, duties, and privileges, as well as common supplies; and hence the idea arose that the property of the members of a gens belonged to the gens.

  20. One of the cardinal principles, we must remember, is that all the members of a gens stand on an equal footing.

  21. The Irish sept and the Scottish clan are the same in meaning as the gens of other tribes.

  22. From what we know of the gens we feel confident that they would be perfectly, independent in religious matters as well as in other respects.

  23. So early as 1757, Voltaire roundly affirms that there are only a few Calvinists left: "tous les honnĂȘtes gens sont dĂ©istes par Christ.

  24. The Natche-Kutchin, or Gens de Large, dwell to the 'north of the Porcupine River.

  25. About Fort Selkirk they have been called Gens des Foux.

  26. The Han-Kutchin, An-Kutchin Gens de Bois, or wood people, inhabit the Yukon above Porcupine River.

  27. The Tutchone Kutchin, Gens de Foux, or crow people, dwell upon both sides of the Yukon about Fort Selkirk, above the Han Kutchin.

  28. The list of names was numerous: among them some one wrote, "Tous les honnetes gens de la ville d'Avignon.

  29. The Peloponnesus will not have them, and the peasants, who elsewhere aid the brigands, here aid the gens d'armes.

  30. They had also secured the company of three gens d'armes, who galloped along the dusty road beside us.

  31. At sunset we started homeward, the carriages all open, the gens d'armes galloping, the dust playing a thousand solid antics, and writing hieroglyphics of movement all over our garments and faces.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    blood; body; breed; brood; caste; clan; class; colony; commonwealth; commune; community; family; folk; gens; house; kind; line; lineage; moiety; nation; order; people; race; sept; settlement; society; species; stem; stirps; stock; strain; totem; tribe