In some dances the participants engage in a monotonous chant, in others there are pauses in which the young men must quickly improvise verses on some subject suggested by one of the lassies.
The General Slaughter was rendered with a faithfulness to details which reflects the highest credit upon the late participants in it.
Then the following brief conversation took place, as learned afterwards from the lips of the participants themselves.
Who can gauge the effect upon the participants of this interview, in such a place, at such an hour, and amid so many singular circumstances?
It was a dull day, with gray skies and mist and rain, but the weather could not dampen the enthusiasm of the participants in the fete.
All participants agreed that the conversion of logistical LVTs to assault craft made the difference between victory and defeat at Betio.
Other useful Tarawa information can be gleaned from the MCHC’s Oral History Collection, which contains recollections by such participants as General Smith; Eugene Boardman; Major Henry P.
Many pleasant excursions and picnics were given by this battalion, which are well remembered by many, now living, who were participants and enjoyed them.
None might enter these holy entrances except those having to do, as actual or probationary, participantsin the sin offering.
Some had come as idle spectators, and there was not the slightest evidence from any source that any of them had been guilty of having turned the switch, or were participants in the stoning of the train.
This class of people here referred to, who were shot at on the hill side, were not rioters orparticipants in the riot.
Not that their principles have been endorsed, but that, just as in 1877, the active participants in the great riots have been allowed to go practically unpunished.
I will detain you no longer from listening to the eloquent words of those who were participants in the bloody struggle--the sharers alike in its danger and its glory.
Both were at the time members of Congress, and the casus belli was language reflecting upon the conduct of some of the participants in the then recently fought battle of Buena Vista.
Even the domestic hearthstone was invaded and antagonisms engendered that knew no surcease until the last of the chief participants in the eventful struggle had descended to the tomb.
To the inquiry, "Which of the participantswas the victor?
Accepting the challenge conditionally, Southey added: "In affairs of this kind, the participants ought to meet on equal terms.
A rush is made upon the crowd of spectators through whom the participantsin the orgies force their way, regardless of consequences.
It involves hardship at times, and occasionally the participants even mutilate themselves in their enthusiasm.
The dearth of accessible records of a detailed character rendered it practically impossible to present more than a very imperfect list of the Jewish participants in the Revolutionary struggle.
To the above may be added the following testimony of General Julius Stahel, one of the active participants in the Hungarian Revolution, and who subsequently made a distinguished military record in our civil war.
The active co-operation of Jewish citizens in the non-importation movement of 1763 has already been adverted to, but even before that time we find references to prominent Jewish participants in the public defense.
Then the mob, without further demonstration, broke up; the participants going their several ways.
The participants marched in costume to the City Hall during a meeting of the Council, usurped the Government, elected a Queen--Mrs. O.
After a fine repast and a flow of brilliant eloquence, principally devoted to extolling our climatic wonders, the participants dispersed.
A story of the escape of one man from the valley, notwithstanding elaborate plans to prevent his doing so, has been preserved, not in the testimony of repentant participants in his persecution, but in his own words.
The Mormons have always considered this "massacre," as they called it, the crowning outrage of their treatment in Missouri, and for many years were especially bitter toward all participants in it.
The fury of the mob was directed against these men as the supposed participants or accessories in the murder of a city officer.
Knowing, however, that the Executive of the United States had become in fact a party in this disreputable transaction, he endeavored to manifest at least a respect for those officers of Government who had become participants in it.
One of the latter was wounded; but this particular wounded man seemed to have more sense than the other participants in the chain of wrong-doing, and discriminated among the whites.
The contractors who furnish poor materials to the army or the navy in time of war stand on a level of infamy only one degree above that of the participants in the white slave traffic themselves.
These are simply four communications, from four participants in the conference.
I had understood that this provision as it stands had been accepted by the representatives of the association simply as participants in the conference.
It contains, therefore, some provisions which are, in our judgment, neither theoretically sound nor according to modern usage abroad nor satisfactory to particular participants in the conference.
I have called as many as I knew of the participants in the conference who cared to say anything at this stage in favor of the bill.
The list of participantsin the conference included two associations that might be interested or were certain to be interested in these importation provisions.
Kossuth was saying formally, "It has been agreed, then, that the gentlemen participants shall be restricted to this ring measuring twenty feet across.
The conflict shall begin upon General Armstrong calling commence, and shall end upon one or the other, or both, of the gentlemen participants falling to the ground.
But neither of the two participants was troubled over this sensation, Geraldine being unconscious, and Standish too much absorbed in her to heed aught else.
The reader will move in sympathy with the participants of this romantic tale, through all their trials, and gladly share the sorrows and the joys of the heroes, both men and women, whose love was tried by the fire of war.
Nor is it possible for any one to describe this conflict satisfactorily even to all historians, to say nothing of the participants who still live and entertain the most positive and contradictory convictions.
Southern leaders came over from Canada and even representatives of the Sons of Liberty, a group of Northwesterners who were resisting the National Administration, were participants in the convention.
By dint of observing and listening, one who is not in the actual game often sees what is really happening or going to happen before some, at least, of the participants are entirely aware of it.
To commence a judicial investigation against the participantsof the conspiracy of June 28, who are on Serbian territory.
In a costume play like this that had been planned, the participants naturally make a very brilliant spectacle wherever they appear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "participants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
