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Example sentences for "setters"

Lexicographically close words:
sette; settee; settees; setten; setter; settest; setteth; settin; setting; settinge
  1. It is this man's duty, with his assistant, to prepare for the type-setters all the articles which come from the City Department.

  2. The Foreman of the type-setters makes copies of these on narrow strips of paper with a hand-press, and sends them down to the Editor-in-Chief.

  3. The man reading it corrects the variations from copy, and corrects all the other mistakes which he can discover, and then the type-setters have to change the type so as to make it right.

  4. Oh, let 'em be," said Rolph, patting one of the setters on the head.

  5. He glared at it resentfully, disinclined to move, but at the second ring rose reluctantly with a grunt of annoyance, pushing the drowsy setters to one side.

  6. Wearing an old tweed coat he lounged comfortably in a big chair, a couple of sleepy setters at his feet, a foul and ancient pipe in full blast.

  7. The type-setters did not have to wait for copy; Stowe had quantities.

  8. They were good layers, good setters and good mothers.

  9. The Sporting Dogs, for instance, are usually divided into two classes—the Running Dogs or Hounds, and the Setters or Pointers.

  10. Setters generally lie down and wait for the sportsman, while the Pointers stand.

  11. But before the question could be answered, the gentle Irish Setters gazed into her eyes beseechingly, and nosed her sleeve, confident of a caress.

  12. When we met at Last Chance on the way back, Blatchford nearly cried when he told me how those setters had saved his hands from freezing.

  13. There are the four dogs, Gordon setters of the best breed--and Gordon's setters in fact.

  14. Once we heard the baying of a hound, at which all four setters came suddenly to life from beneath the robes and barked vindictive response.

  15. Craven" says, that in his opinion Russian setters are better than English, in nose, sagacity, and every other qualification that a dog ought to possess.

  16. Setters are known to be subject to strange freaks.

  17. Setters are difficult to break; but when well broken are invaluable as sporting dogs, for they will work all day if they can occasionally find water.

  18. The Irish breed of setters is considered better than either the English or Scotch, and a fine brace has been frequently known to fetch fifty guineas.

  19. Both of these, together with the Spaniels, Setters and the sagacious Poodles make up the Spaniel group.

  20. Remains of the Neolithic in Switzerland disclose skulls closely resembling our hounds, setters or spaniels.

  21. Type setters with an ordinary education will improve as they progress.

  22. More girls are employed as type setters in Boston than any other city of the United States.

  23. The girls employed as type setters in the office receive $3 per week while learning.

  24. Jilson Setters This ballad was written by fifty-year-old Adam Crisp who lived in Fletcher, North Carolina, at the time of Collins' death.

  25. Setters and Spaniels had been used to find and drive birds into nets, but as the Spanish Pointer became known it was apparently considered that he alone had the capacity to find game for the gun.

  26. Descendants of Bang have delighted the lone colonist on Cape partridge and quails, and Pointers suit the climate, whereas Setters do not.

  27. Amongst the oldest and most successful owners of Setters who have consistently competed at field trials may be mentioned Colonel Cotes, whose Prince Frederick was probably the most wonderful backer ever known.

  28. Pointers and Setters who had been thus broken were found to deteriorate in steadiness in the field, and it gradually came to be realised that even the Spaniel's capacity for retrieving was limited.

  29. St. Bernards, Pointers, Setters are notable for the usual strength of their families.

  30. It has been suggested that all Irish Setters are too headstrong to make really high-class field trial dogs.

  31. Possibly some strains may have been established in this way, and not differ very much in make and shape from those obtained from the cross with the Spaniel, as it is well known that Setters and Spaniels have a common origin.

  32. A breaker may doubt which of his pointers or setters possesses the greatest olfactory powers, but a short trial tells him which of his retrievers has the finest nose.

  33. They make their pointers and setters hunt almost as close as spaniels.

  34. The utility therefore is obvious of introducing spaniels at an early age to close covers and hedge-rows, and setters and pointers to heather and stubble.

  35. Setters and Pointers naturally hunt with their noses sufficiently close to the ground,--they want elevating rather than depressing.

  36. As a rule, setters have harder, tougher feet than pointers.

  37. On one occasion I had a brace of setters to instruct, which had come to me perfectly untaught, at far too advanced an age to make their education an easy task; they had also been harshly treated, and were consequently shy and timid.

  38. Even Mr. Black and the type-setters worked with energy, and so did Mr. Bones, and there was no longer any doubt that the Eagle would be printed on time.

  39. There was to be some press-work done that forenoon, and the pony-engine had steam up when the foreman and the two type-setters reached the office.

  40. The Duke’s breed, both of setters and hounds, is celebrated throughout the kingdom.

  41. The setters were in the next division, and really they were quite lovely.

  42. Besides, an Earl of great account commended publicly the Jesuits in the Parliament House, as persons wise, learned, and of sincere conscience, and great setters forwards of peace.

  43. For they were the setters on of the suit for peace, and the Agent always used their counsel, and without their credit and friends he had never gone so forward.

  44. She leaned over and looked down at the two setters lying at her feet.

  45. Take the setters all through, they were very good.

  46. The setters invariably seemed to know what it meant, would raise their heads, lash their tails upon the floor, showing evident signs of understanding the situation.

  47. A young man at the same hotel had two setters and a black-and-tan terrier.

  48. The Auctioneers and their Setters retire to the next Tavern, where they drink their Healths, and join in a Chorus for getting rid of their crazy Furniture, &c.

  49. A few hundred yards up the beach she recognized The Laird, striding briskly along, swinging his stick, and with his two English setters romping beside him.

  50. We always had some good retrievers, and we decided to increase the size of our kennels, and to raise and break a certain number of retrievers and setters for the market.

  51. The grooming of sporting dogs, especially of setters and retrievers is most important, and cleanliness, assisted by a good disinfectant, will be found after all the chief element in kennel management.

  52. Now you come out here in the thing and I will have the little mare and the buggy hooked up, a good lunch and the setters in, and--" I heard him laugh derisively.

  53. Now the little mare would be fully an hour making it, and then dead tired for a long drive back, with a pointer and two setters crowding us out of the buggy.

  54. He, of course, was silent as to the practice of the Bone-setters in reducing fractures, and their treatment of cases which never came under the care of the faculty at all, and which were satisfactory to the patients.

  55. Undoubtedly, as far as the metropolis is concerned, but some of the Lancashire Bone-setters had a far more extensive practice.

  56. Howard Marsh’s dogmatic assertions with respect to the method of practice by modern Bone-setters I find at the same medical jubilee, Mr. R.

  57. When professional attention was publicly drawn to the subject many instances came to light which showed that Bone-setters proceeded on true scientific which were neglected by, if not unknown to the faculty at large.

  58. The faculty have evidently much to learn ere they can successfully compete with Bone-setters in the special cases to which they devote their time, abilities and attention.

  59. I am sorry to say many cases of this kind come to Bone-setters which have not been properly treated before, owing to their not having been recognised, especially hip-joint disease.


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