Avoid the affectations and mis-pronunciations exemplified in the following list of words which are often mispronounced.
Tis the very thing I want," she said; "Read me a listof the wounded and dead.
Reading the List Reflections on the Tomb of Shakespeare.
Only a listof the wounded and dead," Was the man's reply, Without lifting his eye To the face of the woman standing by.
Did you ever stand in the crowded street, In the glare of a city lamp, And list to the tread of the millions feet In their quaintly musical tramp?
That of all his friends, not even one Was there to list to his last faint moan, Or point the suffering soul to the throne Of grace.
His novels are so well known that any list of their titles is superfluous.
In 1638 there was a list of bills that reached a second reading, but never passed.
His name stood first on the list of directors elected, and he became president of the Directory.
The list of his works closes with his Opere sacre, a series of treatises on spiritual subjects.
In 1863 he was awarded a small civil list pension, which was after his death continued to his widow.
He retired from the active list in 1904 on reaching the age limit, and devoted himself with the greatest energy to critical military literature.
A list of lives or studies on Lamennais would fill several columns.
But if you recollect I begged that you would have the goodness to omit me from the list of your acquaintance for the future; and when we met in public, that you would not take the trouble to recognize me.
I have a passion for those resplendent titles which are not conferred by a sovereign and would not be the open sesame to the courts of royalty, yet which are as opulent in impressive adjectives as any Knight of the Garter's list of dignities.
One set believes in wholesome ways of living, and another must have a great list of specifics for all the soul's complaints.
The great-grandfathers of Mr. Emerson at the sixth remove were thirty-two in number, unless the list was shortened by intermarriage of relatives.
As for all manner of superstitious observances, I used once to think I must have been peculiar in having such a list of them, but I now believe that half the children of the same age go through the same experiences.
Here is a young man writing to me from a Western college, and wants me to send him a list of the books which I think would be most useful to him.
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
Old volumes are then ransacked promiscuously, and every morbid sensation or change that anybody ever said was produced by the drug in question is added to the list of symptoms.
Sometimes I run over a string of rhymes, but generally speaking it is strange what a short list it is of those that are good for anything.
The chronicler Gomara furnished a long list of the native articles which Grijalva brought back in 1519 from Potonchan and the neighboring coast.
Standing foremost in the list of things that have actually done most to promote our national progress in all material ways is the item of inventions.
We come now to consider the list of more modern inventions, those inventions from which the element of uncertainty is wholly eliminated, and which are represented in the patent records of our government.
Nor, considering the indeterminateness of points of health, capacity, and character, could any certain list be drawn up of persons bound to have issue.
I now establish the following list of measurements of the plan in connected natural numbers.
I therefore told the Koordi that I had the list of the captives, and he must send for some responsible native to receive them and take them to their homes.
Thirty-two men reported on the sick list this evening.
The following list of words will afford a fair example of the differences in language of the various tribes between Gondokoro and the equator: Lobore.
Going through the entire list of gases and vapours in this way, we find radiation and absorption to be as rigidly associated as positive and negative in electricity, or as north and south polarity in magnetism.
Now at the very foot of the list of liquids stands water, signalising itself above all others by its enormous power of absorption.
For the first six substances in the list of liquids examined, the radiant and absorbent powers augment as the number of atoms in the compound molecule augments.
Each of them kindly furnished me with the list of Mayer's publications, and one of them [Clausius] was so friendly as to order them from a bookseller, and to send them to me.
Ere the fire pierce you: enter in; and list Attentive to the song ye hear from thence.
The General having received the list of our names, which he had requested, he now desired, that we might all come to his office, and receive the right of citizenship from his hand, as a reward for what we had done.
He then requested a list of our names, saying, that if we would accept it, he would give each one of us the right of citizenship in his country.
The next movement was to make out a list of our names, and appoint officers.
The General had been much surprized to find my name in the list furnished him; but as I entered the room, he arose hastily from his seat and shook my hand in a friendly manner, after which I introduced him to the consul.
In Jeremias may be found the list of the gods who up to the present are known to have had the power to resuscitate the dead; it is probable that this power belonged to all the gods and goddesses of the first rank.
On the Assyrian monuments we frequently see scribes taking a list of the spoil, or writing letters on tablets and some other soft material, either papyrus or prepared skin.
Tammuz-Adonis is the only one known to us among this longlist of the lovers of the goddess.
Smith's list is the fragment of a chronicle in which the VIth, VIIth, and VIIIth dynasties only are almost complete.
While the foregoing list gives a comprehensive suggestion of the wide reach of Glen Alpine's territory there are several especial peaks and lakes that are peculiarly its own.
Given the slightest list from the perpendicular when the heavy, wet snow falls upon it, it is bound slowly to be forced over.
Then followed toasts, such a list of toasts as only men inured to tests of strength could take.
They also draw up a list of farms and dwellings which have been confiscated and sold by order of the courts; for these too come within their province.
The Council also, speaking broadly, cooperates in most of the duties of all the other magistrates; and this ends the list of the functions of that body.
Accordingly they drew up a list of three thousand citizens, to whom they announced that they would give a share in the constitution.
They also bring up before the law-courts the list of farms and houses claimed as state-property; and if it is decided that they are so, they deliver them to the Commissioners for Public Contracts.
They hand over to the Hipparchs and Phylarchs the list of those whom they have enrolled, and these officers take it and bring it up before the Council, and there open the sealed tablet containing the names of the cavalry.
Whenever a payment of instalments is to be made he takes from the pigeon-holes the precise list of the sums which are to be paid and struck off on that day, and delivers it to the Receivers-General.
They are willing to put Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha on the list of true religious leaders.
In 1823, he was appointed to the Revenge, Sir Harry Neale's flag ship, in the Mediterranean, and placed on the admiralty list for advancement.
I furnish you, as requested, with two replies to the objection of a respectable workman that I am paid above the list price.
Death's scythe for him (at the list price) to thin the labor market?
A respectable workman was with me yesterday, and objected that you receive from Mr. Cheetham a higher payment than the list price.
He did not mention it to you till he had exhausted thelist of other available houses.
The number of the house we are going to is 79, and the presumption is that there are other houses in the terrace, with people living in them, yet there is no list of them in this directory.
Since then he had been communicating to the Executive Committee, now a list of new suspects, now the details of a contemplated arrest, now a copy of some secret circular to the gendarme offices of the empire.
Godfather introduced him to several other "radicals," who gave him underground prints and a list of legitimate books for a course of "serious" reading.
Of course judgments differ widely in these matters, as there are no inflexible criteria for the scoring of quality; yet this extensive list is probably our soundest approach to the subject.
There are many odd varieties of apple not found in anylist but about which questions are likely to arise.
But we may have before us a compiledlist by way of interesting suggestion.
Lintner, State Entomologist of New York, compiled a list of 356 insects that feed on the apple-tree.
To propitiate Octavius, she brought out a list of all her private treasures, and delivered it to him as a complete inventory of all that she had.
One of her treasurers, however, named Zeleucus, who was standing by, said to Octavius that that list was not complete.
Jules Verne's list of stories already ran then to some twenty volumes--a number which has since grown to almost Dumasien proportions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "list" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
