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Example sentences for "pamphlets"

Lexicographically close words:
pampero; pamphlet; pamphleteer; pamphleteering; pamphleteers; pan; pana; panacea; panaceas; panache
  1. They were pamphlets about the early Church.

  2. And I have brought a couple of pamphlets for you, Dorothea--in the library, you know; they lie on the table in the library.

  3. These latter represented the orthodox as divided into Tritheists and Nominalists, and the press teemed with pamphlets setting forth with more or less ability the usual arguments against the Trinity.

  4. Numberless essays and pamphlets appeared, reflecting all shades of educated opinion, with much to say on questions of social morality and the duties of Churchmen and citizens.

  5. I use the shelves for my old china and porcelains, and the drawers for pamphlets and the thousand and one things that are too flimsily bound for bookshelves.

  6. The built in shelves have cupboards beneath them for the flimsy papers and pamphlets that do not belong on open shelves.

  7. There were printed pamphlets from God-knows-where, and letters from America, that made pretense at explanations; and there were spies who whispered.

  8. You would not believe how many pamphlets reached us, printed in our tongue and some of them worded very cunningly.

  9. Propagandist pamphlets were piled in heaps against the walls.

  10. Mademoiselle Lalouette and her four cats lived on an annuity of fifteen hundred francs, one half of which she spent in printing pamphlets on Louis XVII.

  11. One still comes upon one of his pamphlets occasionally on the old bookstalls.

  12. He took up the little green pamphlets of the London School of Mnemonics.

  13. He practised Concentration, Observation, and something the pamphlets called Intensive Excogitation, which nearly made him cross-eyed.

  14. You paid your guinea, and in due course, in due secrecy, and under duly sworn promises to divulge no hint of their contents to a living soul, you received a number of refined-looking pamphlets containing a couple of thousand words each.

  15. He had picked up the first half-dozen pamphlets in his fiancee's home.

  16. For the modern reader the Discourse concerning Ridicule and Irony is the most satisfactory of Collins's many pamphlets and books.

  17. The Reverend Mr. Matthias Earbery sets up for a great Satirist and Drole upon the swearing and Low-Church Clergy, in numerous Pamphlets of late, more particularly in his "Serious Admonition to Dr.

  18. I soon expect from Elmsly a cargo of books; but you may bring me any new pamphlets of exquisite flavour, particularly the last works of John Lord Sheffield, which the dog has always neglected to send.

  19. In one of his pamphlets Mr. Bourassa favoured his readers with his views on the justice and injustice of war.

  20. When Mr. Bourassa issued the pamphlets referred to, some four hundred thousands volunteers had already enlisted.

  21. Our institutions were held up to dislike; and if you had believed the speeches and pamphlets of discontented patriots, you would have thought we were the most spiritless and down-trodden, the most unmerciful and dishonest, nation in the world.

  22. Cromwell stands forth the solitary instance of a man of the people virtually seizing the crown; and the ballads and pamphlets of the time show how the comparative humility of his birth excited the scorn of his contemporaries.

  23. Does your school receive copies of the pamphlets issued by the state board of health?

  24. And wearily she dropped the pamphlets and reflected how sad it all was: people, women, girls.

  25. And she cleared away Ovid and Petrarch and Hare's guidebook and locked them up in her trunk and took out the novels and pamphlets which had appeared that year about the woman movement in Holland.

  26. If the resemblance of his pamphlets to speeches gives the force and fire, it is certain that the resemblance of his speeches to pamphlets accounts for that 'dinner-bell' effect of his which has puzzled some people and shocked others.

  27. In all these points they resemble more than anything else the pamphlets of Paul Louis Courier, and there can be no higher praise than this.

  28. No age in English history was more fertile in pamphlets than the reigns of William and of Anne.

  29. His two most famous and most effective pamphlets were the so-called Legion Letter and The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (given here), to which may perhaps be added the Reasons against War with France.

  30. But the anti-republican pamphlets of Kotzebue increased in number and gained a fatal influence upon the minds of rulers.

  31. With the animosity and diligence of political, religious, and personal enemies, the adherents of the hostile factions circulated these pamphlets among the people, who became greatly excited.

  32. Pamphlets were widely circulated, abusing the American Government and upholding the British cause.

  33. Such, in brief outline, was the beginning of the famous "Batture Controversy," in which Jefferson and Livingston waged a war of pamphlets for years.

  34. This process was hastened by a furious battle of pamphlets which broke out in 1815.

  35. Before the Chief Justice left for Richmond, the Massachusetts Senator had lent him pamphlets containing part of John Adams's "Cunningham Correspondence.

  36. Capito, the Strassburg preacher, in a letter to a colleague, writes lamenting that the pamphlets and discourses of Luther had contributed not a little to give edge to the bloodthirsty vengeance of the princes and nobles after the insurrection.

  37. Amongst other writings the pamphlets of Thomas Münzer especially fascinated him.

  38. Of all the pamphlets about petitioning, it was by far the most widely read.

  39. Corroboration that the pamphlet was in circulation before the end of February comes also from L'Estrange's bookseller Henry Brome, who first advertised Citt and Bumpkin for sale as already published in a list of pamphlets dated 27 February.

  40. The author abandons any attempt at parody, and instead borrows details of setting from the popular Letter from Legorn pamphlets which appeared that year.

  41. Published in 1680 when the Plot crisis was at its peak, Citt and Bumpkin is one of a series of pamphlets by Sir Roger L'Estrange written to support the policies of Charles II and to defend the government from attacks by the Whig Opposition.

  42. In particular, three pamphlets were issued, replying directly to Citt and Bumpkin and attacking L'Estrange personally.

  43. Although Citt and Bumpkin was the first of L'Estrange's Popish Plot pamphlets written in dialogue, he was thoroughly familiar with the form and had often employed it in his polemic skirmishes during the Civil War.

  44. For there are comparatively few who have neither read any of the Fabian pamphlets nor seen or read any of Bernard Shaw's plays in which the same standpoint is represented.

  45. Pamphlets descriptive of the engagement were published and disseminated, in which the casualties of the English were put down in numbers imposingly enormous.

  46. The press inflamed the public mind with innumerable pamphlets and invectives against the government, and the journals regularly reported the proceedings and debates of the Assembly.

  47. Private schools were organized, and pamphlets and books were distributed.

  48. Goodwin A primer of information about the various operations employed in binding pamphlets and other work in the bindery.

  49. In order that the pamphlets may be of the greatest possible help for use in trade-school classes and for self-instruction, each title is accompanied by a list of Review Questions covering essential items of the subject matter.

  50. A Course of Six Lectures to Working Men," published in six pamphlets by Hardwicke, and later as a book.

  51. The six "Lectures to Working Men," published in six pamphlets and in book-form in 1863.

  52. He often talked for victory, but except, perhaps, in the political pamphlets he always wrote for truth.

  53. He was needlessly loyal, and dedicated poems and pamphlets to nobility, right and left, in a way that would have caused a smile were not nobility so hopelessly bound in three-quarters pachyderm.

  54. He had circulated pamphlets purporting to be written by a Catholic, upholding the Pope, and ridiculing most unmercifully the pretenses of Protestantism, declaring it a compromise with the devil, made up of the scum of the Catholic Church.

  55. Pamphlets which he had been refused permission to publish in Paris were printed at Rouen and were setting all Paris by the ears.

  56. There were plenty of reasons for locking him up--heresy and treason have ever been first cousins--and pamphlets lampooning Churchmen high in office were laid at his door.

  57. Then they fell into a controversy, done in Caslon old-style, thundering against each other's theories in pamphlets across seas of misundertandings.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pamphlets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.