She was talking about the large number of prizes she had won for her master at the various shows she had been at.
Yes, the dog won nineteen first prizes and cups in little over three months, which was very fair for those days.
The tourniquet is held steady till he is firmly fixed, with each of his feet resting on one of the side ropes, and his hands clasping the centre one; and then he is left to make his way to the prizes at the other end.
The divine Emilie's forte was science and mathematics--and on these themes she wrote much, competing for prizes and winning the recognition of various learned societies.
Women, like men, often do not know that the big prizes gravitate where they belong; instead, they set traps for them, lie in wait and consider prevarication and duplicity better than truth.
Seldom, indeed, is there a man who prizeshis thoughts more than a polite appearance.
You may put in the pair of bays that won the best prizes at the last races.
The Latin prototype of the Belgravian mother must have had grievous cause of complaint when the state bestowed prizes on such as were at once husbands and fathers.
They were often elegant poets, and indeed frequently carried off prizes in rhyming contests.
The merchants of Ann Arbor gave prizes for these contests, some contributing medals, while one firm gave two boxes of cigars and another "the best hat in the store.
For these first and second prizes were awarded at public exhibitions, which never failed to arouse great interest.
Then the ones with which we won the Ferberton prizes looked a good deal better yet.
Shortly after this the member of Congress from the district in which Clintonia was included, Mr. Ferberton, offered prizes open for competition to all the boys of the district for the best radio sets made by the boys themselves.
Having gained a booty of between seven and eight thousand dollars from the prizes captured, the pirates sailed away from Charleston Harbor to the coast of North Carolina.
As there no longer existed prizes upon the sea, they must be gained upon the land, if they were to be gained at all.
The prizes were to be assigned at intervals of ten years, dating from the 18th Brumaire, and the jury which was to allot them was to consist of members of the Institute.
He thenceforth cherished a prejudice against all Italian music, and the influence of this was felt when the distribution of the decennial prizes took place.
He took a fancy to Lessueur, and lost his temper at the time of the award of the decennial prizes because the Institute did not proclaim this musician worthy of the prize.
He has nothing of the modern sympathy with failures, nor does he propose that the prizes should always be given on moral grounds to those who come in last in the race.
There is also this to be remembered--that the prizesof the world degrade a man as much as the world's punishments.
Every contest decided by examinations and prizes is ultimately an immoral method of training.
He believed that all competition was a false basis of stimulus, and every distribution of prizes a false means.
It's going to be the biggest affair of the kind ever held, and there are several prizes offered.
There are also prizes for the largest ship, and for the smallest, and for the oddest one.
You know there are two prizes of twenty-five hundred dollars each.
I knew I could gather some prizes there, and probably keep Stahel's cavalry from coming to the front, by giving them plenty to do in their rear.
The fame of the exploits of my men, and the rich prizes they won, aroused his martial ambition; and he determined to quit the forge and become a warrior bold.
If we couldn't have real vocational instruction, at least we might have school gardens, with volunteer instruction and prizes awarded, perhaps, by the Grange.
The Grange voted small money prizes as an incentive to the children.
Their prowess is illustrated by the prizes distributed by Lady Ashley, at the inspection of the 1st London Corps, in the West India Docks, on February 9th last.
These prizes were brought to Southampton, "from whence the king shortly set forth with a fleet of 1,500 ships, the sails of his own vessel being of purple silk, richly embroidered with gold.
He had dismissed his prizes when near the mouth of the river, and had allowed them to perceive where he was entering.
If the prizes of life could have been won by that fiery rush, he would have won them; but as it was, he was fain to fall back among the ranks nameless, and let the plodders rush on towards the golden goal.
Every house contains prizes which had been won in such contests on former occasions.
The convention lasted several days, and the villagers won a large proportion of the silver-ware, chess-boards, and other prizes offered for victory.
It was most exciting, and though Hefty never had any prizes to show for it, he always came in first, and so won a great deal of local reputation.
It was submitted for and received one of the Actonian prizes recently awarded by the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
We got back to the Port-au-Prince at daylight, and just as we came alongside we saw the first of the prizes blow up.
Remember that whales as well as prizes must be sought after you double Cape Horn, and that I rely upon your good judgment not to engage an enemy's ship if you think she is better armed than the Port-au-Prince.
But if you meet my other ship, the Lucy, and with her can take away some richprizes from the Spaniards--why, well and good.
The prizes gained by the Crathes stock count by the hundred.
He has twenty breeding cows, and has carried almost every medal and prize at the Banff and Turriff shows for polled cattle, as well as many of the highest prizes at the Royal Northern and Highland Society's shows.
The prizes gained by the Ballwyllo herd were very numerous.
Mr Hector, late in Fernyflat, was a very celebrated breeder of polled cattle, and his stock was of the very highest order, and gained many prizes at our national shows.
He has also had his fair share of prizes for bulls, heifers, and bullocks.
At the Rheims Meeting in October of 1911 the Government offered approximately a quarter of a million dollars in prizes for aerial feats and in orders for machines.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prizes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
