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Example sentences for "returns"

Lexicographically close words:
returnes; returnest; returneth; returning; returnless; retyre; retyred; reueale; reuealed; reuenge
  1. In which examples of equality he who as a possessor in the earth shares his returns and his fruits with the fraternity, while he is common and just in his gratuitous bounties, is an imitator of God the Father.

  2. Aquinas returns to the question of slavery in another passage, which is interesting as showing that he continued to make use of the analogy between slavery and property which we have seen in the Fathers.

  3. The problem remains, however, as to the nurture of the children so obtained, and historical study returns us a very clear answer as to the relative merits of the polygamous family and the monogamous family.

  4. At these moments, too frequent in his life, he contemns authors, and returns to sink back into all the self-complacency of aristocratic indifference.

  5. Do whatever makes you happiest," returns he, secretly pleased that the ice will be broken for him before his prepares for his mauvais quart-d'heure in the library.

  6. Well, no doubt there is a great deal in that," returns he, evasively, hard put to it to answer his inquisitor with discretion.

  7. I do," returns Sartoris, slowly, but with his eyes upon the ground.

  8. I hope not, my lord," returns she, steadily, although his voice has meaning in it.

  9. So Dorian returns to town, and stays there until the annual hunt ball, of which he is a steward, summons him back to Pullingham.

  10. I never made a joke in my life; I hope I never shall," returns Branscombe, reproachfully.

  11. This was no place for it," returns he, sternly.

  12. She wished for it," returns Branscombe, curtly.

  13. No, I cannot," returns he with a brusquerie foreign to him.

  14. Yet I would answer you if I knew how," returns she, in a voice as subdued as his own.

  15. Foregone conclusions seem to be in your line," returns Dorian, with a shrug.

  16. Yes, certainly, with all my might," returns he, with unusual and therefore doubtful alacrity.

  17. Have mind that eild aye follows youth; Death follows life with gaping mouth; Sen erdly joy abidis never, Work for the joy that lastis ever; For other joy is all but vain, And erdly joy returns in pain.

  18. It shall be just as you please," returns he, haughtily.

  19. Lord Hastings, I apprehend, returns only to see whether he can get any better appointment than the mission to Naples, which, as he intended to go to Vienna, not a little disappoints him.

  20. He has to-day gone down to Dropmore, and returns to-morrow.

  21. That is, he returns to greatest eastern elongation and can be seen in the evening sky about every one hundred and sixteen days, and the same length of time elapses between his appearances in the morning sky at greatest western elongation.

  22. That is, the planet returns to the same position with relation to the sun and the earth at intervals of about that length.

  23. Equal returns I can never make, tho' I should write to you by every post; for the pleasure I receive from one of yours is more than you can have from two of mine.

  24. But now the right of making such returns is denied, and they are punished as breaches of the peace; while the right of abusing seems to remain in full force, the laws made against it being rendered ineffectual by the liberty of the press.

  25. I know how to make you ample returns for such favours, by giving you the pleasure of building me a house.

  26. Returns to Pyrrha and sits by her] Bia.

  27. Famette puts up bar, then returns to her hut and sinks at door] Fam.

  28. If Fortune's love returns with heat That makes you conqueror, by that same sun Her pride will melt, and you will find her meek As gosling in your hand.

  29. Blackbeard thinks at this point that he has gone far enough in cross-examination and returns to his periodicals and pamphlets.

  30. Armstrong bows stiffly and David, standing with one well-shaped foot in a neat boot on the curb of the fireplace, looks up and returns the bow.

  31. If the Country returns a great majority favourable to that concession, you must bring in a Bill for eliminating the sex distinction in the suffrage.

  32. Honoria had said as he departed "Do try to run up against Vivie somewhere abroad and tell her I shan't be happy till she returns and takes up her abode among us once more.

  33. She now returns this knowledge in a message to all lovers.

  34. He returns to his room and opens fire upon the outlaws.

  35. My dear father, does he live still--as a star that for a while sets below the horizon but returns again?

  36. It returns to the source, to the pleroma or fulness of being and light whence it emanated, and loses itself in the one urn of splendor!

  37. The returns required by law were in many cases wholly neglected, and in others they were inaccurately made.

  38. Returns were received from only ninety-nine towns, showing an annual average expenditure of one dollar and ninety-eight cents for each pupil.

  39. The following table, prepared from the returns of 1832, shows the relative standing and cost of public and private schools in a part of the principal towns.

  40. The returns received furnish a series of interesting facts for the year 1826.

  41. The result of this extraordinary effort was seen in returns from only ninety-nine of three hundred and five towns, and even a large part of these were confessedly inaccurate or incomplete.

  42. Some lands may be exhausted for particular crops in a single year; others in five years, others in ten, while others may yield undiminished returns for twenty, fifty, or even a hundred years.

  43. By rubbing the end of the abdomen against the edge of the wing-cases it produces a gentle chirping sound like the cheeping of nestlings when the mother-bird returns to the nest with food.

  44. After taking a turn round the top of the bell-glass the robber of the dead returns to the victim, squeezes it once more, and licks its mouth until the last trace of honey has disappeared.

  45. At intervals he returns to the orifice, always tail first, and always raking and sweeping.

  46. No sign of the probe appears, so quickly and discreetly does it work; nor is any trace of it to be seen when, the egg having been properly deposited, the implement ascends and returns to the abdomen.

  47. We have, in fact, seen that he returns to the surface long before the female.

  48. When twilight returns they resume their frolics.

  49. For some weeks it flies feasting from oak to oak, giving vent to its joys and its emotions in a voice like that of a strangling cat; then, its mission accomplished, it returns to the North whence it came.

  50. When the food is broken up and exhausted of its meagre juices it returns to the surface and renews its store.

  51. There is one thing certain, if the returns are correct, and that is that Moses did not take his own medicine in the little matter of keeping the commandments.

  52. He lent to merchants when their vessels failed to bring them returns in time to meet their engagements.

  53. It is worth mentioning, that long ere this, the paternal government of Peru kept a register of all the births and deaths throughout the country; exact returns of the population being made every year by officers appointed by the state.

  54. But the stain of illegitimacy clung to his methods, and as it was, his returns at best could be only a paltry few thousands—fifty or sixty or even a hundred thousand at most.

  55. There, messenger boys hurry about with the reports to the different wire-operators, who wire the returns to the company’s different subscribers.

  56. He gets all the race returns at the club house, and then sends them on by private ’phone to his other two pool-rooms.

  57. Frances quietly waited, amid the hubbub and crowding and commotion, until the wire report had been duly verified and the full returns posted.

  58. He has a day at his disposal, and he loses no time, but goes up the river by an afternoon train, and returns by the evening "accommodation" with uneasy heart.

  59. His own room is but a few paces away, and thither he hastens; returns speedily with a goblet of ice-water in his hand, and a slender flask of cologne tucked under his arm.

  60. When he returns a feeble hand gropes its way towards him, and Hollins looks up appealingly.

  61. It is late that evening when Major Abbot returns to Willard's.

  62. He writes a line of congratulation to Abbot, and begs him to be sure and send word when he will come through, so that they may meet, and then returns to his patient overhauling of the garbled accounts of the quondam quartermaster.

  63. One afternoon he returns from a drive with his father; they have been out to visit friends in camp, and talk over home news, and now he comes somewhat slowly up the stairs of the crowded hotel to the quiet of the upper corridors.

  64. A sample of foul-smelling Limulus blood full of bacteria will become colorless on standing in a test tube for 10 to 15 minutes, but the blue color quickly returns if shaken with air.

  65. If the H{2}S is driven off by boiling the colorless methylene-blue solution, the blue color again returns on cooling.

  66. The side walls are divided into five spaces by piers; an arched corbelled cornice terminating in mouldings runs along them, and returns up the slope of the east wall.

  67. Next, some power of work returns to him, accompanied by jumping headaches.

  68. She will not forfeit her share in her father's inheritance if she returns to her father's house, or if she leaves a child in her father's house to be brought up or if she keeps up a close connection with her father's house.

  69. Nor will he turn back after once setting out; if he has forgotten anything it is sent after him, he never returns for it.

  70. He then descends from his dizzy post, assisted by his henchmen, and returns to the devâla with the tom toms and the crowd.

  71. A few, it is said, have died, but these she raises from the kingdom of death and returns again to the world to fulfil their rightful time.

  72. A month ago he came up from the great city, has now finished his business, and returns homeward by way of Damascus.

  73. He returns to the castle before Malvina's brother and urges forward his marriage; then Aubrey comes back and finds the bride adorned and the chapel prepared.


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