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Example sentences for "our country"

  • In one respect, however, our country acted as became her.

  • And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

  • And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.

  • We stand in a situation very honourable to ourselves, and very useful to our country, if we do not abuse or abandon the trust that is placed in us.

  • Forasmuch as I am returned into my kingdom and am set in the throne of my ancestors, and have gotten the dominion, and have overthrown Demetrius and possessed our country, 10:53.

  • And as to thy complaints concerning Joppe and Gazara, they did great harm to the people, and to our country: yet for these we will give a hundred talents.

  • Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal, And with him pour we, in our country's purge, Each drop of us.

  • Tis not his new-made bride shall succour him; And as for Clarence, as my letters tell me, He's very likely now to fall from him For matching more for wanton lust than honour Or than for strength and safety of our country.

  • There she lay--the huge sea-castle--bearing the unconquerable flag of our country.

  • A small sturdy barefooted Mussulman is examining the cart with some feelings of envy: he is too poor to purchase a ride for himself and the round-faced puppy-dog, which he is hugging in his arms as young ladies in our country do dolls.

  • This period of history, which I have run over briefly, is, I presume, as familiar to most of this assembly as any other part of the history of our country.

  • A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.

  • They are our own citizens, or persons employed by our citizens, preying on the commerce of our country.

  • In the clearing of our country since, this excellent plan has fallen into desuetude, for want of any pious Captain Smith in the logging camps.

  • The American deer, in the free atmosphere of our country, and as yet untouched by our decorative art, is without self-consciousness, and all his attitudes are free and unstudied.

  • If the labor that has been expended here, only to erect platforms for the soil to rest on, had been given to our country, it would have built half a dozen Pacific railways, and cut a canal through the Isthmus.

  • Even this emulation in mental struggles has called forth (as the glorious history of our country tells us,) the fairest blossoms of humanity, science, and art.

  • We are fighting a great moral battle for the benefit not only of our country, but of all mankind.

  • To you, Mr. Chairman, belongs the high privilege of transmitting, unimpaired, to posterity the fair character and liberty of our country.

  • Standing securely upon our conscious rectitude, and bearing aloft the shield of the Constitution of our country, your puny efforts are impotent; and we defy all your power.

  • Now I have no mind to make an inquiry into the laws of other nations; for the custom of our country is to keep our own laws, but not to bring accusations against the laws of others.

  • As there is no wainscot in the rooms, which are divided by stone partitions and the floors and cieling are covered with brick and stucco, fires are of much less dreadful consequence here than in our country.

  • A certain noble lord, of our country, when he was yet a commoner, on his travels, involved himself in a dilemma of this sort, at the court of Lorrain.

  • The laws of honour in our country do not oblige him either to slay the person from whom he received the injury, or even to fight to the last drop of his own blood.

  • There used to be that rule in our country,' said Robert, 'when my father was a little boy.

  • In our country,' said the Queen scornfully, 'a king would not reign a day who had only one wife.

  • In our country,' said Robert suddenly, 'more than 3,000 children are burned to death every year.

  • In our country it's not a crime to leave a bit of paper about.

  • Freits follow them that freits fear," said Randal, in our country speech.

  • But Gifford Pinchot is the man to whom the nation owes most for what has been accomplished as regards the preservation of the natural resources of our country.

  • It was right and necessary that this life should pass, for the safety of our country lies in its being made the country of the small home-maker.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also present; both before and after; mental processes; our author; our best; our citizens; our ears; our fellow; our government; our hearts; our little; our master; our men; our midst; our minds; our modern; our new; our party; our religion; our said lord the; our senses; our ship; our side; our situation; our way; would result