We had had a few short discussions, and I had been vanquished, apparently by her logic, but chiefly by reason of her better mastery of the language, and because I defended all sorts of things in joke.
Another friend who came to Taine at all sorts of times was Gleyre, the old painter, who had been born in French Switzerland, but was otherwise a Parisian.
This was a bond between him and Hello, who claimed the same extraordinary power, and had foretold all sorts of singular events.
She began to take an interest herself in this eldest pupil of hers, who at 24 years of age looked 20 and who was acquainted with all sorts of things about conditions, countries, and people of which she knew nothing.
When he was twenty-one, he tried to raise himself from this rank to that of a journalist, and succeeded; he sent all sorts of articles to three newspapers.
Their food consists of all sorts of fruits, as well as grass, and the cultivated crops of the natives.
The Irish National Theatre and Three Sorts of Ignorance.
The next day was Sunday, bringing with it all sorts of quiet, sober pleasures of its own, only alloyed by the thought that it was the last day of Percy's and Herbert's visit.
Herbert was very quiet, but looking as happy as the rest, and quite entering into their mirth, and showing all sorts of little gentle attentions to Ellen, who had seemed to shrink from his eye, more than from all the others.
It's a sort of stone that they make up into all sorts of jewels that women wear.
Sandstone, you know, is made of sand, pressed, and sand is all sorts of rocks ground down fine.
In the large chemical and physical laboratories at Washington the boy found samples of metals and minerals of all sorts being tested and analyzed.
Indeed, it is not altogether easy to say exactly what the alchemists did mean by these terms, and the question is complicated by the fact that very frequently they make mention of different sorts of "sulphur" and "mercury.
Instead of allowing itself to be overcome by hunger, by cold, by all sorts of ill-treatments, does it not overcome them?
Cicero and Fenelon remark that there are three sorts of societies among men: the first comprises the whole of humanity; the last, which is the most circumscribed, is what is called the family.
How can we improve the heart and soul when want impels us to all sorts of temptations?
These sorts of passion scarcely ever stand the test of time and circumstances, and are generally followed by a painful reaction.
No; the life of man is too important; they would proceed with more consideration; the law has not left it subject to the decision of all sorts of people; but only to that of the judges, whose integrity and sufficiency have been ascertained.
In reducing these sorts of animals to servitude, and in making of them companions and help-mates in our work, we thereby deliver ourselves from dangerous enemies.
Hence all sortsof eccentricities, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
Walsh was pestered with all sorts of suggestions, and a deputation waited upon him, urging the "claims" of the General Hospital.
As they withdrew from the hall, groans, hisses, cat-calls, and all sorts of wordy invectives were hurled at them.
The most esteemed sorts were grown west of Funchal, near Cama de Lobos, and Estreita.
The magnetic observations were taken in a hut erected for that express purpose on the little plateau behind the settlers' huts, where at the same time various sorts of useful trees were planted by the Expedition.
Hitherto four sorts of vines have been cultivated in the island, namely, the Bual and Tinta, both of which were brought from Burgundy, the Sercial from the Rhine, and the Malvasia or Malmsey from Candia.
An excursion which was got up one morning to the South side of the island, in a fisherman's boat, was rewarded in a few hours with some fifty different sorts of denizens of the deep, some of which weighed twenty to twenty-five pounds each.
Why, Sam dear, we could have roses and strawberries and all sorts of fun out there!
Seems to me, Lizzie, you keep a big stock of all sorts of groceries on hand for so small a family as yours.
Indeed I was coming to condole with your dear mother and to wish you all sorts of happiness.
Continuing with the illustration already given, the returning officer, instead of taking from A's heap the 800 papers last filed, takes the whole of A's heap and sorts all these papers according to the next preferences.
It wasn't the ceremony of it--I've become quite used to standing in line through all sorts of formalities.
They were very popular; they opened their house for all sorts of community gatherings and all went merry as a marriage bell till Poppy Andrews came home for a visit.
Perhaps Miss McDonald would come, too, though she's so used to going to all sorts of places.
Of the two sorts of fear, Delia's and Maggie's symptoms were subjective.
She's probably got all sorts of stuff spoiling in the locked part.
Then come the dulce-men, the sellers of sweetmeats, of meringues, which are very good, and of all sorts of candy.
It is without sleeves, but has straps; the hair plaited in two behind, and the plaits turned up and fastened together by a diamond ring; long earrings, and all sorts of chains and medals and tinkling things worn round the neck.
There are different sorts of bananas, and they are used in different ways; fresh, dried, fried, etc.
On the table before him lay a number of guns, swords, pistols, and all sorts of arms.
He wished for a grand palace of white marble, and then he wished for all sorts of things to fill it--the finest that could be had.
The statue was dressed like a queen: she wore a golden crown on her head, and upon her body hung golden robes, set with diamonds and emeralds and rubies and sapphires and pearls and all sorts of precious stones.
And let there be servants and attendants in the palace of all sorts and kinds--men and women.
Then he wished for gardens and orchards and lawns and flower-plats and fountains, and all kinds and sorts of things, until the sweat ran down his face from hard thinking and wishing.
I have all sorts of things in my head," said Patty.
If she continues to look as poorly and as sadly out ofsorts next week I shall take her to the seaside.
Services are held in all sorts of places and on every possible occasion.
The boat hook was a weapon of sortsand it was better out of the men's way; the knife was different.
The vague scent of the tobacco threaded up all sorts of things in the girl's mind: Madame de Warens, the streets of Paris, the deck of the yacht.
Then the muscles of her throat did all sorts of queer things on their own account and a violent feeling of sickness seized her that would have ended in an attack of vomiting had it not passed as quickly as it came.
They talked for half an hour or so on all sorts of subjects connected with the ship.
Then she got on her feet and, taking her seat on the side of the open hatch, looked about her at the dingy deck cumbered with a whale boat and all sorts of raffle.
There were all sorts of birds here, those tiny birds from the African coast one sees in the shops of the Riviera, canaries and parrots.
We have to fight allsorts of things that don't care in the least for us and we have to work.
Then there was another thing about him, he found food of all sorts where Bompard and La Touche had found nothing; he brought in crabs and cray-fish and penguins eggs, he brought down rabbits with stones.
Mixed with the voice of the sea came the voices of the gulls and all sorts of sea echoes from the cliffs.
Basalt planed and smoothed by the seas of countless ages, level as a ball-room floor and broken by rifts and pot holes, between tide marks these pot holes serve as traps for all sorts of sea creatures.
All sorts of wares were spread out before us--minute bridges modeled after the famous Emperor's Bridge at this place.
The rivers teem with all sorts of junks filled with all sorts of wares going to market, and it was upon the quays that we found for sale the finest carved things, the richest embroideries, the most delicately wrought wares.
The fullness in the front is absolutely essential for them to squat as they are so accustomed to do while performing all sorts of work, such as washing, ironing, or, in the market place, selling all conceivable kinds of wares.
You see, there are all sortsof professions and trades.
Not by me; I am not going to run into all sorts of expenses which a house always entails,' said Amy.
We should get into all sortsof muddles; besides, people would not be so kind to us!
You know, I suppose, that the Bank of France has never issued but two sorts of notes; those of one thousand livres--and those of five hundred livres.
All sorts and conditions of men are dealt with--adherents who have come over from the Royalist camp, as well as those who have won their way upwards as soldiers, as did Napoleon himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
