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Example sentences for "inventories"

Lexicographically close words:
inventions; inventive; inventiveness; inventor; inventoried; inventors; inventory; invents; inverse; inversely
  1. Wills and Inventories of the Archdeaconry of Richmondshire (Rev.

  2. Wills and Inventories of the Archdeaconry of Richmondshire.

  3. Wills and inventories of the Archdeaconry of Richmondshire.

  4. I immediately made all the orders necessary to carry into effect the terms of this convention, devolving on General Schofield the details of granting the parole and making the muster-rolls of prisoners, inventories of property, etc.

  5. This is proved by the extant inventories of the Athenian dockyards.

  6. Piraeus had been constructed with a number of slabs bearing inscriptions, which, on examination, turned out to be the inventories of the ancient dockyard of the Piraeus.

  7. In later inventories the word seems to have been used both for shell and Oriental porcelain.

  8. In French mediaeval inventories the word 'pourcelaine' is often found, and evidently denoted a substance which could be sculptured.

  9. Men get hired to build it and they're paid money to spend in retail trade and that moves inventories and industry picks up.

  10. They get more money for retail trade and to move inventories and keep factories going and get more people hired.

  11. And when men are laid off they don't have money to spend, so retail trade slacks off some more, and that backs up inventories some more, and that backs up orders to factories and makes unemployment and hurts retail trade again.

  12. Various house furnishings have been listed in the inventories or are listed hereafter.

  13. The more affluent planters owned numerous horses mentioned in wills and, also, in inventories along with bridles, bits, stirrups and saddles.

  14. In looking over the inventories of the seventeenth century planters, observation is inevitable that the kitchen area alone maintained its distinct character.

  15. Two Gentlemen of the Councill, Two Merchants, and the Collector, have the Charge of all the Cargo, and they are preparing Inventories of every thing, which shall be sent to your Lordships by the next Ship.

  16. This concentration or compression of the Services into one book is the natural result of time, and the further we go back the more numerous are the books which our old inventories show.

  17. Any similar collection of wills and inventories would (I believe) give the same results, which fully agree with the independent evidence of contemporary writers.

  18. Those lines were written before the Aldgate days; and the hints which can be gathered from surviving inventories and similar sources make it very improbable that the poet was lodged with anything like such outward magnificence.

  19. In many of the inventories printed by Brabo, one comes across the entry `Deudas', showing a sort of account current between the towns for various articles.

  20. A loose-leaf book is preferred by some people for inventories and accounts.

  21. Mr. Shoppee has surmised that this is a portrait of John Bancks, but though his portrait was ordered to be painted, I do not find that it ever was, and it is not once mentioned in any of the numerous early inventories of pictures.

  22. There are old inventories and wills in existence which shew that some value and importance was attached to these primitive contrivances, which at this early period in our history were the luxuries of only a few persons of high rank.

  23. On the 20th of January the inventories of the churches were commenced, under the 3rd clause of the Separation Act, for the purpose of assessing the value of the furniture and other objects which they contained.

  24. He was already known as the compiler of several invaluable inventories of its manuscripts.

  25. At the north-west corner of the precinct is a building of limestone, the [Greek: porinos oikos] often mentioned in the inventories of the treasures of the Delian shrine.

  26. Within the precinct there were found many statues and other works of art, and a very large number of inscriptions, some of them giving inventories of the votive offerings and accounts of the administration of the temple and its property.

  27. The Inventories are given in extenso among the "Inventories of the Goods and Ornaments of the Churches in the County of Surrey in the reign of Edward VI," carefully edited by J.

  28. WAX COVER TO THE SAME, WITH SEAL] In the royal inventories of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, above all in those of Charles V.

  29. In England, where the use of the word glass in this sense probably came in somewhat later, we find more than once in inventories of the fourteenth century the quaint combination, 'un verre de glass.

  30. Such inventories as I have had an opportunity of examining show the laborious trifling entailed by these instructions.

  31. The instructions are not clear as to whether he is expected to seize the papers or merely to make inventories of them, but there can be little doubt that whatever he laid his hands on was kept.

  32. Under one shed, notaries are diligently committing to parchment elaborate inventories of tribute received.

  33. Little mention of white work was made in the inventories of Henry VIII.

  34. Though lamps occasionally appear on early inventories and lists of sales, and though there was plenty of whale and fish oil to burn, lamps were not extensively used in America for many years.

  35. In the inventories of the property of the early settlers of Maine there is but one churn named.

  36. In many inventories of the estates of the settlers the brass-ware formed an important item.

  37. I have often seen the item wine-taster in colonial inventories and wills, but never bleeding-basin; while porringers were almost universal on such lists.

  38. Sidenote: The visitors instructed to make inventories of the property, and to bring away the superfluous plate.

  39. Several sales of vessels, dining the year 1753, were made here, where the inventories were posted.

  40. The Merchants' Coffee House, where the inventories were posted, had become the recognized place with the merchants for the transaction of all kinds of business, and many sales of ships and prizes taken by the privateers were made here.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inventories" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.