Montelius[514] mentions a Swedish specimen, and A.
Sir Thomas Browne mentions slickstones among electric bodies, and implies that in his time they were of glass.
Wilde mentions one in the museum of the Royal Irish Academy, 10 3∕4 inches long, which is said to have been recently in use.
Pausanias, who lived contemporaneously with Antinous, and might have seen him, though he tells us that he had not chanced to meet the youth alive, mentions the temple of Antinous at Mantinea as the newest in that city.
Curiously enough, Nägeli mentions the formation of galls in plants among his instances of purposeful reactions under external stimuli.
Schinz mentions a bearded vulture which was seen sitting on a rock upon a glacier near Grindelwald, and the oldest men in Grindelwald had, when boys, seen the same bird sitting on the same rock.
The Saga mentions the same thing, saying that the land "became indented with coves.
Mr. Kendal mentions the story of a ship's anchor having been found there at an early day.
Then he also mentions his being a pupil of Philip Em.
Fetis mentions twenty operas by Bononcini, but he doubtless wrote more.
Fetis mentions eight of his operas which were written partly for Bologna and partly for Venice.
Gerber mentions him as a violoncellist, which must be a mistake, since in the Parisian Opera orchestra, up to 1727, as far as is known, only gambists were employed.
Gerber mentions in his musical Lexicon a Parisian gambist of the eighteenth century of the name of Forcroix, or Forcroy, "whose delightful playing Quantz, who was in Paris in 1726, admired.
With charming frankness the historian of this pioneer tour mentions that they nowhere saw any wild animals.
Rush mentions a patient of his who thought himself wonderfully abstinent because he drank no spirituous or fermented liquors, except a bottle of wine or so, after dinner!
The doctormentions the taciturnity of the American Indians as a case in point.
Luther, in all simplicity, assures his friend that the whole past had taken the words of Christ in the sense he mentions (“Sic est hucusque autoritas ista exposita et intellecta.
The way to resignation which he mentions in the same connection is no less questionable.
In another writing the same opponent accuses him openly of having indulged in the grossest vice during his academic years, and mentions as his informant one of the comrades who had, later on, accompanied Luther to the gates of the monastery.
Among the works of the latter, he mentions a silver inkstand in basso rilievo, "fatica d'anni venti sei!
After eating, we surveyed the shore of the bay where, after about a league with no water, we came upon some salt marshes which without doubt are those which Sergeant Amador mentions in his diary.
Anza mentions 6 villages in the same distance, most of which were north of Irvington.
The text of the letter mentions only one rancheria, the one at or near Pinole or Selby, to which Canizares (on the strength of four visits) ascribes a population of 400.
XIX: 39-40), Jose Arguello mentions a second expedition by Sergeant Peralta "to the sierra where the Indians were who attacked Father Cuevas.
Schenck also cites Father Narciso Duran who, in 1817, mentions the Chupcanes as holding this territory.
Long mentions a gentleman who came upon a party who were busy broiling a human heart, when he with difficulty prevailed upon them to desist.
A missionary mentions a woman, who, during the absence of her husband, formed a new connexion.
It is impossible to determine when the wild grey lag goose ceased from breeding in England, but it certainly did so towards the end of the 18th century, for Daniell mentions (Rural Sports, iii.
One of the earliest mentions of the use of gold in a woven fabric occurs in the description of the ephod made for Aaron (Exod.
Writing in the same year, 1753, hementions assisting "Mr Henry Fielding in taking from under one roof upwards of seventy lodgers of both sexes.
El-Jabartee mentions a fete celebrated on the occasion of the circumcision of a son of the Kadee of Cairo, in the year of the Flight 1179 (A.
He mentions an island called by this name, in the Sea of 'Oman; and describes its inhabitants as cannibal Sheytans, like men in form, and riding on birds resembling ostriches.
The document merely mentions his name among those who were unable to attend.
He mentions many strange schismatics, both in religion and in Masonry--But he never once mentions an Illuminatus.
Ptolemy, however, mentions it as a small lake, and not as the recipient of these rivers.
In describing the battle of Arbela, Arrian mentions eight distinct squadrons of Macedonian heavy cavalry, which was known by the name of the Companions.
Neither Herodotus nor Ctesias mentions an invasion of India by Cyrus; and according to Arrian (Indica, 9), the Indians expressly denied that Cyrus attacked them.
These essays on rhetoric were composed by Cicero when he was about one and twenty years of age, and he mentions them afterwards in his more elaborate treatise De Oratore, (Lib.
The sailing directions describe the inhabitants as 'hostile,' and Sir Edward Belcher mentions that some of them tried to cut off the boats sent from a man-of-war for water.
There are not many instructions about landing, either in Captain Cook or Findlay, but the latter mentions that houses are to be found on the south side of the island.
The same distinguished traveller mentions having seen a lad of six years old suckled, amongst the Tungooze of East Siberia.
Humboldt mentions this dark-coloured water as prevailing in some of the swamps of the Cassiquares, at the junction of the Orinoco and Amazon, and gives much curious information on its accompanying features of animal and vegetable life.
Mr. Daniell, in his admirable essay on the climate of London, mentions 17 degrees as the maximum effect of nocturnal radiation ever observed by him.
He mentions the game under its original and corrupted appellations, and clearly alludes to its characteristic feature, as the following extract will show.
Godwin, mentions as a merit that the Bishop walked a mile to his duties at the prison.
Now the text follows the order of observation, so to speak, and mentions the outward facts of Jotham's success before it goes deeper and accounts for them.
Again, the World Encompassed mentions that Drake was badly wounded in the face with an arrow by the natives in the island of Mocha, about which the Famous Voyage is altogether silent, but Nuno da Silva confirms this statement.
Historical Manuscripts Report" we find some very interestingmentions of Hutchinson in the letters that passed between "Single Speech" Hamilton and Edmund Sexten Pery.
The part of this law which mentions that it shall be determinable, at the King's pleasure, has the prohibition for its object, and does not lessen the force of the argument in favour of Ireland.
Wills[74] gives Provost Hely Hutchinson a very high place amongst the eminent men of the country, and mentions his eloquence and college reforms as well as his greed.
He mentions also Ormond's noble enterprise in establishing at Clonmel the flourishing Walloon woollen manufactory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mentions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
