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Example sentences for "our people"

  • I inscribed a name that lacks arrogance, and brings honor to our people: The Deeds of God through the Franks.

  • An idler or dissolute person has not the sympathies of our people; he has no connection with the industries of the society; as he does not work, he can hardly be so brazen as to ask for supplies.

  • Two hired workmen would do as much as three of our people," said a Shaker to me; and at Amana they told me that three hired men would do the work of five or even six of their members.

  • In this sort did I see the mortality of divers of our people.

  • Do we often stop to think what influence, direct or other, the scholar, the man of high culture, has today upon the great mass of our people?

  • I don't suppose they are any better than our people, and I've no doubt I should miss a good deal there after a while--a certain tonic and purpose in life.

  • But, do you know, it is pleasant sometimes to be with people who haven't so many corners as our people have.

  • The right to intervene may be justified by the very serious injury to the commerce, trade and business of our people, and by the wanton destruction of property and devastation of the island.

  • For they have prophesied that if your blood flows, and your heart is offered at the hour of noon to-morrow on the altar of Tezcat, our people shall be victorious over the Teules, and utterly destroy them.

  • It may happen that in this shame I hoped to find love if only for one short hour, and that I purposed to vary the custom of our people, and to complete my marriage by the side of the victim on the altar, as, if I will, I have the right to do.

  • You are not of our people, yet my heart goes out to such a man.

  • You went hence, and twenty thousand men, the flower of our people, followed you to Tenoctitlan.

  • Because of some small matter he quarrelled with the English who were always the friends of our people, and brought the Zulus to the dust.

  • For a while neither of us said anything after the taciturn habit of our people even on the veld, and indeed I was fully occupied in listening to the truculent talk of a little party of mounted Boers behind us.

  • There are many more of our people coming, and we will kill you in the night when you cannot see to shoot us.

  • Our people, thank God, have never learnt to regard a prisoner as a mere convict--A 234.

  • There are probably more scientific books treating of diabetes or of gout than there are dealing with the great social malady which eats out the vitals of such numbers of our people.

  • The right of entry into the gaols has already been conceded to our people in Australia, where they have free access to, and communion with, the inmates while under going their sentences.

  • Henceforth, I expect that their single purpose shall be to serve the whole Nation by policies designed to stabilize the economy and encourage the free play of our people's genius for individual initiative.

  • Our people, of course, deserve and demand of their Federal Government more than security of personnel.

  • XI We have surveyed briefly some problems of our people and a portion of the tasks before us.

  • We felt the disgrace to our people with a keenness that no one can appreciate who has not been in like circumstances.

  • Our people ain't used to that and won't stand it.

  • Such a pity she is not one of our people.

  • It is through such as them that we must come up--our people, I mean.

  • Peace and friendly intercourse with all nations are as much the desire of our Government as they are the interest of our people.

  • You began with that question, I apply it to the history of our people.

  • Many of our people are on a footing with the best, and there's been a good filtering of our blood into high families.

  • You would remind me that I may be under an illusion--that the history of our people's trust has been full of illusion.

  • I spoke; I went to men of our people--to the rich in influence or knowledge, to the rich in other wealth.

  • In that way I have come to know a little of our religion, and the history of our people, besides piecing together what I read in plays and other books about Jews and Jewesses; because I was sure my mother obeyed her religion.

  • Our people intend to abide by the Monroe Doctrine and to insist upon it as the one sure means of securing the peace of the Western Hemisphere.

  • Our people as a whole will profit, for successful home-making is but another name for the upbuilding of the nation.

  • Indeed, from every quarter of the civilized world we received, at the time of the President's death, assurances of such grief and regard as to touch the hearts of our people.

  • The captains of industry who have driven the railway systems across this continent, who have built up our commerce, who have developed our manufactures, have on the whole done great good to our people.

  • The forest reserves should be set apart forever for the use and benefit of our people as a whole and not sacrificed to the shortsighted greed of a few.

  • Such a course would be in entire opposition to the spirit of the age, the liberality of our people, and the policy of rapidly developing our resources as a means of diminishing the burden of our public debt.

  • The battle was engaged with great disadvantage to our people, for those of the other part were in such numbers as was marvellous; and on our side there were but one hundred and forty knights, without counting the mounted sergeants.

  • These Greeks did not dare to defend themselves, so our people entered in and took quarters; so at last were they in safety.

  • We have lost the Emperor Baldwin and Count Louis, and the larger part of our people, and of the best.


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