I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.
Not many girls in your position ever have such an opportunity to rise in the world.
Sallie is the most entertaining person in the world--and Julia Rutledge Pendleton the least so.
In the second century I vowed that I would give all the treasures in the world to my deliverer; but he never came.
My name is Agib, and I am the son of a king called Cassib, who reigned over a large kingdom, which had for its capital one of the finest seaport towns in the world.
The vizir took back this news to Scheherazade, who received it as if it had been the most pleasant thing in the world.
But our lucky star having guided us to this door, we took the liberty of knocking and of asking for shelter, which was given to us at once with the best grace in the world.
Besides, I have late experience, that errant thieves are not the worst men in the world to have to deal with.
Heaven, I will strip thee of every maravedi thou hast in the world, before three days are out!
Who but would cast his pomp away, To take my staff and amice grey, And to the world's tumultuous stage, Prefer the peaceful Hermitage?
This expansion would lead to racial conflict which would culminate in the survival of the fittest through the victory of the white over the colored races of the world.
From this time on, a thriving trade developed between Ghana andthe world of Islam, including the beginnings of a slave trade.
With the disappearance of the Western frontier, missionary-minded Americans felt compelled to carry the benefits of their civilization to backward areas of the world.
Although blacks were in the minority in Europe and America, it pointed out that most of the world's population was colored.
It was a masterpiece of its kind, and bid defiance to all the projectiles of the world.
It is worthy of yourselves, worthy of the antecedents of the Gun Club; and it cannot fail to make some noise in the world.
In the world's view he is a worthier man than he was before, but HE didn't achieve the change--the merit of it is not his.
Is the mind exercising an intellectual function when it examines and accepts the evidence that the world is round?
She is a wee little creature, but she builds a strong and enduring house eight feet high--a house which is as large in proportion to her size as is the largest capitol or cathedral in the world compared to man's size.
Finally, as academic research moves forward on the PPP method, we hope to convert all GNP/GDP estimates to this method in future editions of The World Factbook.
In an effort to expand international ties, Tirane has reestablished diplomatic relations with the major republics of the former Soviet Union and the US and has joined the IMF and the World Bank.
From there she was to lead us to the summit of the cliffs, from where it would require both wondrous wit and mighty fighting to win our way through the very heart of the stronghold of the Holy Therns to the world without.
Yes," she replied, "naught that passes in the world we have left is unknown here.
If we could but reach the ramparts we might find that the pirates somewhere had thinned the guarding forces and left a way open to us to the world without.
The fatal marksmanship of the therns had snatched from our companions whatever slender chance they had of gaining the perilous freedom of the world without.
The world is very different now, for man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger; I do not shrink from this responsibility.
Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you.
His Word gives me no encouragement to believe; yea, himself hath shut me up in this iron cage; nor can all the men in the world let me out.
So he told me that his house was maintained with all the dainties in the world; and that his servants were those of his own begetting.
That proverb, 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush', is of more authority with them than are all the Divine testimonies of the good of the world to come.
The end of the world is compared to our harvest; and you know men at harvest regard nothing but fruit.
And I thought, moreover, that at the day of doom, we shall not be doomed to death or life according to the hectoring spirits of the world, but according to the wisdom and law of the Highest.
They are the most conceited creatures in the world, and think themselves of so much importance!
Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried.
That seemed to her the wealth of the world, and she did not hesitate to leave her attic on the Quay St. Michel for a more comfortable flat on Quay Malaquais, which de Latouche gave up to her.
It was scarcely likely, though, that Sophie-Victoire should consent to her own rights being frustrated by this illegal clause, particularly as this man belonged to the world of the "old Countesses.
And with these thoughts came a realization of how unimportant to the life and happiness of the world is the existence of any one of us.
Does not the strange fauna and flora which we have seen convince you that you are not in the world of your birth?
Still neither could I reconcile the things which I had seen to a belief that I was still in the world of my birth.
The world was at least ignorant of its bereavement, while to me it was a real and terrible actuality.
Much hath been said of the united strength of Britain and the colonies, that in conjunction they might bid defiance to the world.
In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was, there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throw mankind into confusion.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the world" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
