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Example sentences for "these parts"

  • I have viewed all the Russian labors in these parts; have had the assault on the Hagelsberg narrated to me; been on the grounds;--and own I had a better opinion of Marshal Munnich than to think him capable of so distracted an enterprise.

  • I guess its worth ary half dozen in these parts, let tothers be where they may.

  • The transference of her spirit from the Caves of Kor to this temple was a miracle, that is, to our western minds, though the dwellers in these parts of Central Asia would not hold it so.

  • Indeed it is to be instructed as to the right way of walking therein that we have been miraculously directed by a dream to seek you out, as the most pious, the most saintly and the most learned of all the Lamas in these parts.

  • This may be true, as our records tell us that about two thousand years ago an army sent by that invader penetrated to these parts, though of his being with them nothing is said.

  • Gifford and Langston, who are both of these parts, know him well.

  • I would not desire to be a shipwrecked man in these parts, and if I had a Scottish or a French tongue in my head so much the worse for me.

  • Cisses are plenty in these parts as rowan berries.

  • I say that Mrs. Talbot speaks more Christian words than are often heard in these parts," returned he.

  • Such Houses are common in these Parts, and especially where there is Indian Towns, and Plantations near at hand, which this Place is well furnish'd withal.

  • An' I've been in these parts nigh on sixty years.

  • He is but lately arrived in Dover, and is setting down in business in these parts.

  • I take it you be a stranger in these parts, sir, or else you would know that it's as easy for a miner to speak to a mainmaster, as it is for me to pick coal with this here clay.

  • And you, comrade, you are a traveller in these parts, eh?

  • I take it you be a stranger in these parts, sir," said Master Nixon, following up this remark by a most enormous puff.

  • My service to you, sir; I'm glad to see you in these parts again.

  • I think the world is turned upside downwards in these parts.

  • In Russia I should have got off with a lighter sentence than here, for the folk in these parts are, one and all, evil, barbaric scoundrels.

  • It does so because long ago Maliar of Kostroma banished his evil sister, Fever, to these parts.

  • Us here--you and myself--all Russian folk who may happen to be in these parts.

  • I be the oldest man in these parts 'cept David Relf, an' 'e died last year.

  • By the way, they tell me George himself is in these parts--incog.

  • You seem very well acquainted with these parts," said I.

  • One of my neighbours at Murucupi was a hunter of reputation in these parts.

  • The people of these parts seemed to be above working for wages.

  • The people at Caripi would not touch a morsel, saying it was not considered fit to eat in these parts; I had read, however, that it was an article of food in other countries of South America.

  • The general doesn't know what he is dealing with in these parts; he'll make himself hated, don't you see?

  • From the fate which overtakes nearly all the girls of her age in these parts.

  • An' you've got to suffer fer Al's sins, though Al was as good as any man who ever prospered in these parts.

  • Yes, he's the biggest man in these parts, since poor old Al's took to failin'.

  • But what's right don't always prevail in these parts.

  • In the year twelve hundred and thirty[469] these parts of India were ruled by a greater monarch than had ever reigned.

  • The chronicle of Nuniz opens with the following sentence: -- "In the year twelve hundred and thirty these parts of India were ruled by a greater monarch than had ever reigned.

  • At Guifla, according to Valery Mayet, they killed an ostrich twenty years ago--a rara avis in these parts.

  • Barbed wire, herald of civilization, is almost unknown in these parts.

  • One realizes how useless it would be to construct a good road in these parts, since every storm would drown it.

  • His pièce de résistance is a Jewish tradesman whom he has lately supplied with an admirable glass eye--a thing almost unheard-of in these parts.

  • I have determined not to omit mentioning those occurrences worthy of note which happened in these parts in our days.

  • The natives of these parts, actuated by continual enmities and implacable hatred, are perpetually engaged in bloody contests.

  • A short time before our days, a circumstance worthy of note occurred in these parts, which Elidorus, a priest, most strenuously affirmed had befallen himself.

  • We leave to others the relation of those frequent and cruel excesses which in our times have arisen amongst the inhabitants of these parts, against the governors of castles, and the vindictive retaliations of the governors against the natives.

  • I ought not to omit mentioning the falcons of these parts, which are large, and of a generous kind, and exercise a most severe tyranny over the river and land birds.

  • I never guessed that he lived in these parts: indeed I did not know where he resided.

  • A robbery, in these parts, is done and forgotten; but a murder rouses the whole country.

  • Do you mean to imply, that yourself, and the lawless associates you say you have joined, are lying out now for plunder in these parts?

  • To say the truth, I am a little afraid of encountering those industrious gentlemen who have been lately somewhat notorious in these parts; and it may be better for all of us to ride in as strong a party as possible.


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