Theopompus then took him on one side and endeavored, by liberal promises, to obtain the freedom of the prisoner.
It is everywhere much easier for a wealthy merchant to obtain the privilege of trading in a town-corporate, than for a poor artificer to obtain that of working in it.
In order to obtain the honours of graduation, it is not necessary that a person should bring a certificate of his having studied a certain number of years at a public school.
We were glad to obtain the endorsement of an influential proprietor to the testimony of practical planters.
Uncle Jack was advised to obtain the liberation of his wife.
Efforts are now making to obtain the repeal of the law which makes marriages performed by sectarians (as all save the established church are called) void.
At an early day after our arrival we called on the Governor, in pursuance of the etiquette of the island, and in order to obtain the assistance of his Excellency in our inquiries.
Besides this, Cato himself was by nature altogether unfit for the business of canvassing, as he was more anxious to sustain the dignity of his life and character, than to obtain the office.
So that it is a little wonderful, how a man so severe and harsh upon all occasions should, notwithstanding, obtain thename of the Good.
If it be the chiefest thing in a general to obtain the obedience of his soldiers by good-will, Lucullus was despised by his own army, but Cimon highly prized even by others.
The courtiers who had been so well treated by the unhappy man, did everything they could with the judges and the King to obtain the release of the accused.
He had tried hard at Ryswick to obtain the dismissal of James II.
Afterwards he sent the Duke of St. Albans to our King openly, in order to compliment him upon the marriage of the Duc de Bourgogne, but in reality to obtain the dismissal.
Father Tellier and his friends had had the art and the audacity to obtain the publication of it without submitting it to them.
There is no doubt that either legally or irregularly Latini did migrate to Rome and did so obtain the citizenship, but we know no more.
Livy mentions a law which enabled a Latin to obtain the franchise by migrating to Rome and being enrolled in the census, provided he left children behind him to fill his place.
At this crisis the Senate sent for Metellus and tried to obtain the aid of the Samnites, who, as we have seen, joined Marius and Cinna.
It also provided that anyone not a citizen who won his suit against an official should by virtue of doing so obtain the citizenship.
Whatever may have been the wishes of Colonel Burr, it is certain that they were so far under his own control as to prevent him from entering into any negotiation, bargain, or intrigue to obtain the presidency.
As yet, the charge of intriguing and negotiating with the federalists toobtain the presidency in opposition to Mr. Jefferson had not been made.
We must improve, and not abuse them, toobtain the blessing.
Boiscoran's family, and that you counted upon him to back you in your efforts to obtain the hand of one of his cousins.
But it was not Peveril's good fortune to obtain the advice or countenance of this distinguished person.
Who, however, does not see that this article that by faith we obtain the remission of sins, is most true, most certain, and especially necessary to all Christians?
The very voice of the Gospel is this, that by faith we obtain the remission of sins.
Do they still dare deny that by faith we obtain the remission of sins, or that faith is a part of repentance?
To obtain the flavour of the lemon-rind properly, a few lumps of the sugar should be rubbed over it, until some of the yellow is absorbed.
Alert American newspaper men, who practically constituted a secret service of some efficiency, managed to obtain the letter.
It was necessary first to decide and then to obtain the consent of Spain with regard to the great unsettled question of the disposition of the Philippines.
Here however, the United States would have to use territory belonging to other nations, and to obtain the right of transit and security agreement was necessary.
The fruit appeared either to have been soaked, or roasted and broken, to obtain the kernels; for which purpose we invariably found large flat stones and pebbles to pound them with.
Since there was at this time no mechanism for locking them when closed, it was difficult for the experimenter to prevent him from escaping by way of the entrance door or from raising the exit door sufficiently to obtain the food.
After the orang utan had made two or three futile attempts to obtain the food he came to the experimenter, who was standing in one corner of the cage, took him by the hand, and led him to a point directly under the banana.
Within this period he made upward of a dozen fairly well directed attempts to obtain the food.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obtain the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
