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Example sentences for "mackintosh"

Lexicographically close words:
macht; macintosh; mackarel; mackerel; mackinaws; mackintoshes; macrocosm; macrocosmic; macroeconomic; macron
  1. He had a stately chat with Mrs. Siddons, and Sir James Mackintosh he called "the best talker I have ever seen; the only man I have yet met in England who appears to have any clear or definite notions of us.

  2. Edward Povey looked in admiration at the trim little figure clad in its well-made white mackintosh that reached almost to the heels of the tiny brown walking boots.

  3. Edward Povey buried his chin more deeply between the storm-collars of his mackintosh and waited, pacing up and down in the raw, damp mist.

  4. The Laird of Mackintosh brought five hundred clansmen from Inverness shire, the Marquis of Huntly had five hundred horse and two thousand foot, and the Earl Marischal had a thousand men.

  5. The army lay doing nothing for weeks, and just before we were expecting a movement, the company I belonged to was sent with a force of Highlanders under Mackintosh to join the army under the Lords Derwentwater, Kenmure, and Nithsdale.

  6. Colonel Mackintosh had charge of a post at a windmill; and the fourth was in the centre of the town.

  7. The proper cheap mackintosh has a blue and white sheen as of steel or iron; it gleams like armour.

  8. And there is really something in the mackintosh of the military qualities of the Highlander.

  9. Strathdee seems the most desirable place for him, if he has a mackintosh and rubber boots.

  10. Sir James Mackintosh places them beyond Reynolds's in some ways.

  11. Sir James Mackintosh has written one of his delightful criticisms upon the book:-- The cultivation of every science and the practice of every art are in fact a species of action, and require ardent zeal and unshaken courage.

  12. The flannel is pinned snugly on the outside as the wet cloth goes next to the skin with the mackintosh between.

  13. Directions: Wring two thicknesses of cheesecloth from cold water, place over the painful part, and quickly cover with a mackintosh and two thicknesses of woolen blanket bandage.

  14. In the old mackintosh cape was a pouch, from which the detective drew a small wallet of crocodile leather, much worn, together with two letters.

  15. Upon a peg behind the door hung another old grey mackintosh belonging to old Gregory--an exact replica of which had been worn by the man who had so mysteriously met his death.

  16. It is very necessary therefore to allow Mr. Mackintosh for the overseeing the Trust's Servants at Darien.

  17. Burke was a metaphysician, Mackintosh a mere logician.

  18. In less than fifty years after Mackintosh wrote those words, Calcutta was within thirty days of London.

  19. Poor James Mackintosh was in virtual exile in Calcutta at that time, and he wrote this in his journal: 'A boat propelled by steam has gone a hundred and fifty miles upon the Hudson in thirty-six hours.

  20. This loan gave Mackintosh a particular reason for desiring to have peace made.

  21. I got my bicycle, my watch, and my father's mackintosh out of pawn and rented a typewriter.

  22. I pawned my watch, my bicycle, and a mackintosh of which my father had been very proud and which he had left to me.

  23. When night came Little Nell thought best not to go to bed until late, because he recognised the mackintosh as but a feeble comfort.

  24. However, the mate, a bearded philanthropist, flung after him a mackintosh and a bottle of whisky.

  25. He took his mackintosh and his bottle of whisky and invaded Cuba.

  26. He casually buttoned up his mackintosh and turned to the Tunneller.

  27. Mr. Parker, coming beaming into the hall, with his mackintosh one great drip, laughing and rubbing his hands.

  28. He entirely declines to put on any mackintosh or overcoat.

  29. Still the secret had oozed out, and the dowager Lady Mackintosh sent a boy to warn her daughter-in-law and the Prince.

  30. Lady Mackintosh was a Farquharson of Invercauld; in her husband's absence she raised a body of mixed Farquharsons and Mackintoshes, several hundred strong, for the Prince.

  31. The scholar Parr was called by flatterers the Whig Johnson, and Mackintosh enjoyed in Whig society a reputation as a brilliant talker, and an encyclopædic mind which reminds us of Macaulay's later fame.

  32. He developed this view first in his Memoir of Mary Wollstonecraft, then in the preface to St. Leon, and finally in the pamphlet which answered Mackintosh and Dr.

  33. Mackintosh says:"The Saxon chiefs, who were called.

  34. Mackintosh says, "It was understood by the simplest of the unlettered age for whom it was intended.

  35. Mackintosh says, "the first act of the House of Commons composed and recorded in the English tongue," was in 1415, two centuries after Magna Carta.

  36. Sir George had taken off his mackintosh and cap and, with a candle and a deck of cards, was preparing for solitaire on the top of the keg.

  37. I did not recognise him until he took off his mackintosh at the lodge.

  38. But the strange thing was that as he went into the house a lightning flash lit up his figure, and he had his mackintosh over his arm!

  39. Sir James Mackintosh followed in his footsteps, and in 1822 proposed to the House that measures should be adopted "for increasing the efficiency of the Criminal Law by mitigating its vigour.

  40. Augusta, opening her mackintosh and revealing her pretty evening-dress.

  41. She sank down on a garden seat, wrapped her mackintosh round her, and tried to think; but her head was giddy, and her brain in a whirl.

  42. The fellow would tread upon him if he took a few steps in the right direction, but his mackintosh was much the color of the withered grass and his face and hands were hidden.

  43. In the meantime, the chill of the wet soil crept through his mackintosh and his hands got numbed.

  44. His boots and mackintosh were wet, he was lunching on sweet biscuits and gingerbread, and did not know where he would spend the night, although it would not be at a comfortable hotel.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mackintosh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    corduroy; cotton; fabric; nylon; overcoat