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Example sentences for "our race"

  • The history of our world, and of our race in this lower life, is but a span in the eternal years.

  • Now, if we had a complete revelation of the destiny of our race, possibly that would involve a history of some or many of those worlds; for the affairs of this world may be largely involved in theirs.

  • But was the eternal destiny of the great majority of our race to depend on the whim of men?

  • What are we that we should arrogate to ourselves any assumption of certainty on a matter unrevealed, that takes us into the eternities, and fixes the doom of uncounted millions of our race?

  • Would He not have resorted to it if He foresaw that His choice lay between eternal extinction and eternal fire, for the great majority of our race?

  • But the full development of this subject, which throws intense light upon the growth of miracles in the biographies of so many benefactors of our race, must probably be left to others.

  • Do you ask if the Negro has advanced intellectually, I need only to refer you to the showing made by the men and women of our race to-day.

  • Speaking of the women of our race, we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

  • The Freedmen's Aid and Southern Educational Society has educated hundreds and thousands of men and women of our race, and has an average attendance of over seven thousand young men and women of color in its schools every year.

  • Young women like you always fill my heart with hope for the future of our race.

  • But this prejudice, by impacting us together, gives us a common cause and brings our intellect in contact with the less favored of our race.

  • But," asked Mr. Forest, "you expressed fears about the future of our race.

  • If that be so," replied Marie, "our race-life corresponds more to the follies of youth than the faults of maturer years.

  • It would have been infinitely better for our race, if these facts had been presented before us half a century ago--we would have been now proportionably benefitted by it.

  • Our race is to be redeemed; it is a great and glorious work, and we are the instrumentalities by which it is to be done.

  • You shall return, and I will teach you all the craft of our race, which is much craftier than the race of that pettifogger the fox, so that you may be able to cope with your rival.

  • But," said the prince, "not until I am king can I give thee my sister in marriage; for thou knowest that my sire would smite me to the dust if I asked him to give the flower of our race to the son of the herdsman Osslah.

  • There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the Past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

  • Virtually we are men; we might be, we ought to be, men; but practically we do not succeed in realizing the type of our race.

  • If our race vexes us, let us keep a decent silence on the matter.

  • Our race is by far the most destructive, the most hurtful, and the most formidable, of all the species of the planet.

  • To emphasize the importance of these effects it is only necessary to recall that the constellations register the oldest traditions of our race.

  • Some on the earth recognize the same truth in reference to our race," I said.

  • This malady would doubtless increase and I should have to look out for him, and at the same time fill the arduous position of the only sound representative of our race in Mars.

  • Thorwald," asked the doctor, "could you not give us a brief sketch of your career, so that we may compare it with that of our race?

  • They are right," Thorwald answered, "in believing that Mars is very old, and so our race is nearing its maturity.

  • It declares that the atonement is sufficient to redeem not only a portion of our race, but all who will put themselves in right spiritual relations with it.

  • It was impossible to exterminate them wholly till that discovery which constitutes the power and sustains the civilisation of our race.

  • No people on the earth can have greater incentives to arouse them to action, than the colored people of this country now have; I trust therefore, that our future independence and prosperity, will suffer nothing from the inactivity of our race.

  • The convention which continued in session three days, was largely attended by all classes of people, and many interesting subjects were ably discussed; but the most prominent object was the elevation of our race.

  • Were any special standard of spiritual excellence required, our race has, in Josiah Henson and Sojourner Truth, sufficing models for our men and our women respectively.

  • But it is as a poet that posterity will hail her in the coming ages of our Race.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after seeing; given only; narrow neck; our arrival; our family; our fathers; our guide; our hands; our history; our holy; our home; our horses; our house; our line; our mind; our national; our new; our opinion; our part; our senses; our side; our souls; our system; our times; our view; our work