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Example sentences for "tanner"

Lexicographically close words:
tanks; tannage; tannages; tannate; tanned; tanneries; tanners; tannery; tannic; tannin
  1. Untill the tanner scarce could heave His weapon in the aire; But Robin would not him bereave Of life, and left him there.

  2. It seems to me--" The tanner got up and interrupted him.

  3. The tanner was a disgruntled man; he believed himself entitled to be a Nineteener, but he couldn't get recognition.

  4. She knows all about you now; about you and Baldwin Tanner and you and Ernst, and about that pitiful young Russian.

  5. And it's true that Baldwin Tanner behaved as he shouldn't; but he was a weak creature and she'd disillusionized him so and made him so miserable that he just got reckless.

  6. How much more, therefore, does the splitting and shaving that the tanner carries out in order to bring the skin to an even substance destroy the strength of the product.

  7. The skins used by the tanner were usually obtained direct from the butchers.

  8. It is enough for one day to have heard how the son of an Andernach tanner became assistant sovereign of a province in India.

  9. I deemed it wise to join him in execrating the reprobate, whose evil conduct had forced the honest old tanner to end his life on the green branch over our heads.

  10. Second, the law of the land, or statute law, and Tanner is recreant to both.

  11. In this case it is the only defense the ladies have, for Tanner neither feared God nor regarded man.

  12. There was one named Arlotte,[B] the daughter of a tanner of the town, whose countenance and figure seem to have captivated the young baron.

  13. Mr. Fletcher was a wealthy tanner in Norton Bury.

  14. The lad answered that he had not, and to many other questions with which the tanner plied him he returned straightforward answers.

  15. The way which Tanner must take lies over Chapel mountain; before he'd get to headquarters and back again to his starting place an hour would be lost.

  16. Let me know at once whether Tanner was willing to go or not.

  17. Hartmut tore open the envelope, the wind nearly blew the papers from his hand, so that it was with difficulty he could master their contents, while the baroness continued: "Joseph Tanner had a small office at Ostwalden.

  18. And under this cell, Bishop Tanner says, there was a small nunnery situated at Rottington, about a mile from St. Bees.

  19. And soon before our king they came, And knelt down on the ground: Then might the tanner have been away, He had liever than twenty pound.

  20. The tanner he pulled, the tanner he sweat, And held by the pummel fast: At length the tanner came tumbling down; His neck he had well-nigh brast.

  21. A fair russet coat the tanner had on, Fast buttoned under his chin, And under him a good cow-hide, And a mare of four shill-ing.

  22. The tanner would fain have been away, For he weened he had been a thief.

  23. When the tanner he was in the king's sad-elle, And his foot in the stirrup was; He marvelled greatly in his mind, Whether it were gold or brass.

  24. The tanner he took his good cow-hide That of the cow was hilt; And threw it upon the king's sad-elle, That was so fairly gilt.

  25. Viewing the scene of battle strategically, Tanner struck on an idea which was certainly original.

  26. Tanner has a fine exuberant habit of expressing his opinions for the benefit of all around him.

  27. Thus, to confine ourselves to the confession of January 20th, with which we are particularly concerned, we have the following variations: Tanner transcript.

  28. For our knowledge of these mysterious documents we have to depend on transcripts of portions of them among the Tanner MSS.

  29. John Tanner Davy, of Rose Ash, England, the Editor of the English Devon Herd Book, inherited the herd of his father, who had carefully bred the Devons for fifty years.

  30. The First Herd Book of the Devons was published in 1851, by John Tanner Davy, of Rose Ash, near Southmolton, Devon, England.

  31. Friends of the Governor in the Legislature came to me and announced that Tanner had quit the race, and later Mr. Cannon and Mr. Hitt came to my room and announced their withdrawal.

  32. Tanner was very loyal to me then, and for many years I considered him my closest and most devoted political friend.

  33. Mr. Tanner replied that he could not, that I had a sufficient number of votes in the country outside of Cook to defeat every candidate; whereupon he declined to consider the possibility of election at all.

  34. The opposition to me in the convention was by Governor Tanner and his friends, he being the only avowed candidate against me.

  35. I believe it was mainly through the efforts of Governor Tanner and his friends that the Hon.

  36. I had enough votes to defeat the secret ballot proposition, as many of the supporters of Tanner were really in favor of my re-election.

  37. With these words the tanner went into his bower, where he kept a good store of materials in moss; and the plaited ivy of the narrow entrance shook with his voice, and steps, and the decision of his thoughts.

  38. Sharp words again had passed between the farmer and the tanner concerning her, and the former believed that his brother-in-law would even encourage the outlaw still.

  39. The tanner obeyed, and bought a snug little place about ten miles from the old premises, which he called, at the suggestion of the parson, "Byrsa Cottage.

  40. That old fool of a tanner knows it, and has no more right feeling than if he were a boy.

  41. The tanner partly suspected this; and it put his nature upon edge; for he always drove his opinions in as if they were so many tenpenny nails, which the other man must either clinch or strike back into his teeth outright.

  42. But the tanner only frowned, and squared his elbows, and stuck his knuckles sharply out of both his breeches pockets.

  43. The tanner in the bower gave approval with a cough, like Cupid with a sneeze; then he turned it to a snore.

  44. Tanner gives us the following account: "Shortly after this, I killed an old she-bear, which was perfectly white.

  45. And I'll bet you a level tanner she's in bed now.

  46. Xavier Gregoire, the Belgian tanner of Jodoigne, obtained this pear in 1762 when it fruited for the first time.

  47. This aroused interest, and in the summer of 1621 a Capuchin named Tanner ascended to the cave, blessed, and consecrated it as a place of pilgrimage.

  48. But at the end of that time Tanner returned to Appenzell, and interested the parish priest Ulmann in it.

  49. His father was a respectable tanner in the neighbouring town, who, wishing to make his son a gentleman, sent him to college.

  50. The tanner was so angry that he snarled: "Don't you ever let me catch you around the tannery again, or I'll make you into a muff for my daughter.

  51. Everybody laughed when they saw that the tanner hadn't paid money for his information, and so, presumably, didn't like it.

  52. Of these the tanner was the ringleader, and he said to the other grumblers, "If we can get that lying cat off the pump, we can then take his money.

  53. He learned, however, that Tanner had been shot on the other side of the Kei in a conflict with the tribes there.

  54. The matter came under discussion one autumn evening, before a turf fire in the room used by the tanner and his wife.

  55. For, indeed, the tanner and his wife adored Louis, their only child, and never contradicted him in anything.


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