He affected the same sort of reserve in mentioning them as is generally shown by Orientals.
My only reason formentioning the ceremony (which was otherwise uninteresting) is, that I scarcely ever in all my life saw any phenomena so ridiculous as the meekness and gravity of those three young men whilst being “led to the altar.
If Racey had hoped to gain any effect by mentioning "Chin Whisker" he was disappointed.
There are, however, a few exceptions, which are worth mentioning in a separate article.
No better man ever walked the earth than Job Malden, and not one of the Dean family is worth mentioning in the same breath.
Wilkinson commanded every one to remain in his place, and then desired Hamilton to begin the search, carefully refraining from mentioning the object in quest.
Sometimes he indicated the name, but more often he confined himself to mentioning the street, the number, and flat.
Cyril[466] (in the fourth century) in mentioning the Praetorium states that 'it is now laid waste.
I must also take this opportunity of mentioning another Shop-bill connected with this edifice, communicated to me by Henry Smedley, Esq.
On page 121, in mentioning his visit to the Tower, he states that neither in going nor returning did his boat pass under the Bridge; for the tide being running up, there was a fall of more than two feet.
And I think you shocked her by mentioning my clothes.
He drew an affidavit setting forth what he knew about the man, particularly mentioning extenuating circumstances which seemed to entitle him to the generosity or leniency of the government.
I can truthfully say that one of the Abes was frightened on this occasion, but modesty forbids my mentioning which of us is entitled to that distinguished honor.
At the end of the four years of his power, in 1872, the debt was nearly fifty millions of dollars, the assets had all disappeared, and there was nothing worthmentioning to show for the one or the other.
Jeffrey wrote to Mr. Murray on the subject, without mentioning Carlyle's name: Mr. Jeffrey to John Murray.
There was a rascally paragraph in the Times of Friday last mentioning the prosecution, and saying the magazine was a work filled with private slander.
I wish it had been accompanied by the additional favour ofmentioning the name of the writer, at which I only guess: it is difficult to read the poem without desiring to know.
I have several other literary schemes, but defer mentioning them till I come to London, which I sincerely hope will be in the course of a month or six weeks.
If you object to say anything about politics you can omit mentioning the subject.
DEAR SIR, I cannot refrain, notwithstanding my fears of intrusion, from mentioning to you a conversation which Lord Byron had with H.
You will oblige me by notmentioning this to anybody.
I arranged for a serial tale by sending the first two or three chapters to the editor, and mentioning that it would last a twelvemonth, more or less.
It will be very difficult to avoid mentioningit to your mother!
After that, he refrained from mentioning the war in his sister-in-law's presence.
A Frenchman of scrupulously correct behavior will sometimes quite innocently make an English lady blush by mentioning something that is unmentionable in polite society in England though quite mentionable in France.
In mentioning these examples specially I do not mean to imply that there are no similar crudities and popular fallacies upon the other political side.
The old writers were entirely wise when they talked of the equality of men; but they were also very wise in not mentioning women.
Luther carefully refrained from mentioning the countless number who were able to control the impulses of nature without in any way touching the moral filth to which, in his cynicism, he is so fond of referring.
That I denied; mentioning several instances in which I had conquered the most intractable tempers among the sex.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mentioning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
