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Example sentences for "these was"

  • The principal of these was St. Tyrannio, bishop of Tyre, who had been present at the glorious triumph of the former, and encouraged them in their conflict.

  • One of these was childbirth, to denote the impurity of man's origin by his being conceived and born in sin.

  • One of these was a miraculous cure wrought on a lame soldier, the truth of which he attests from his own knowledge, both of the fact and the person, who published it everywhere.

  • One of these was a retired doctor, who was attempting to farm on scientific principles, and who, I believe, soon afterwards gave up the attempt and migrated elsewhere.

  • The arrival of these was an event that was long remembered.

  • One of the most important of these was caused by the rapid development of the Autocratic Power.

  • The first of these was, that the abolition of the Slave Trade would operate to the total ruin of our navy, and to the increase of that of our rivals.

  • The first of these was conspicuous in their transportation.

  • The first of these was, A brief Treatise of the principal Fruits and Herbs that grow in Barbados, Jamaica, and other Plantations in the West Indies.

  • Next to these was Abishai, Joab's brother; for he in one day slew six hundred.

  • But this is a thing that has happened to many inventors; and one of these was Samuel F.

  • But each of these was like a little nation of its own; each had its own government, made its own laws, and fought its own fights.

  • One of these was a narrow region, lying between Washington and Richmond, the two capital cities.

  • One of these was on a steep hill called Churubusco, which they charged up in the face of the Mexican guns.

  • The first of these was that of human slavery.

  • One of these was Gonzalo de Guzman, who had remained in the island after his removal from office, and who was never weary in mischief-making.

  • One of these was Panfilo de Narvaez, a soldier and the leader of a company of thirty expert crossbow-men who had been serving in Jamaica but were no longer needed by the governor of that island, Esquivel.

  • And the third of these was thinking: "There isn't man in the room who looks enough like Dicky Smith to be his tenth cousin.

  • And the second of these was thinking: "If he's been in Europe for the past ten years, there's not one chance in fifty that I ever have laid eyes on him.

  • The first of these was thinking: "It isn't Van Rensselaer Livingstone, any more than I am; though he certainly looks like him.

  • One of these was Newton's epoch-making discovery of universal gravitation.

  • One of these was a commentary on the Arithmetica of Diophantus.

  • The most distinguished of these was Descartes, to whom she was deeply attached, and with whom she had planned great things for science in Sweden, when his career was cut short by a premature death.

  • One of the most noted of these was Elizabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine.

  • One of these was to take a book home and to work there, staying away from synagogue as often as I could invent a plausible pretext.

  • One of these was a graduate of Normal College.

  • A respectable jury having been sworn, the first of these was upon a man named John Sullivan.

  • The most noted of these was "the Kellymount gang.

  • To these was prefixed a book treating the subject comprehensively, and of a prefatory nature.

  • The most eminent of these was Polybius, who lived for years on terms of intimacy with Scipio and Laelius, and imparted to them his own wide views and varied knowledge.

  • One of these was literature, as represented by the literary class, consisting of men to whom letters were a profession not a relaxation, and who now first appear prominently in Rome.

  • One of these was a notary, named Guillen de la Loa, and the rest attended him to witness the act.

  • One of these was Cannabo, the chief cacique of that island in the late disturbances, who was himself a Carib and not a native of that island.

  • The tenor of these was, "To return as soon as we had procured all the gold which could be had.

  • Each of these was a separate plain, stretching from the river's bank to the rocky foot of the mountain.

  • One of these was so steep, that for a while the travellers feared they would not be able to follow the stream any farther.

  • One of these was at Cahors, his birthplace, and the other was at Perugia, at that time in the Papal States.

  • One of these was at Montpelier, the other at Paris.

  • The first of these was founded at Nantes in 1648.

  • The latter of these was a mere child, and during the minority the government of the country was in the hands of Catharine de' Medici, his mother, who became regent of France.

  • The former of these was born at Bologna, entered the Dominican novitiate at an early age, was the author of several polemical works directed against the Lutherans and Calvinists, and was created cardinal (1728).


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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