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Example sentences for "this account"

  • This he acknowledged, but argued that the captains on this account insisted on buying the wood so much cheaper, and that the loss all came upon the chopper.

  • But not on this account can I, nor on this account will any Englishman, reconcile himself to the savor of dollars which pervades the atmosphere of New York.

  • I do not say that on this account he is now false to advocate the war.

  • This account of a place near the mouth of the river Belus in Phoenicia, whence came that sand out of which the ancients made their glass, is a known thing in history, particularly in Tacitus and Strabo, and more largely in Pliny.

  • This account I have given the reader, not so much with the intention of commending the Romans, as of comforting those that have been conquered by them, and for the deterring others from attempting innovations under their government.

  • On this account it was that he also confirmed Hyrcanus in the high priesthood.

  • The sultan was too much surprised at this account not to desire a sight of me, and therefore said, "Do what I command you, and bring me speedily that wonderful ape.

  • I did not, on this account, upbraid them.

  • This account put my husband into a violent passion.

  • On this account I retired to a good snug house behind the Banchi, where I worked for all the friends I had acquired.

  • Still I did not on this account neglect my own fine art of jewellery; and so both the one and the other wrought me much profit and more credit, and in both of them I continued to produce things of marked originality.

  • On this account I refused to give those fruits of my enormous labours to the church of S.

  • On this account, O how excellent are the Scriptures to thy soul!

  • It is on this account that I was instructed to inform you of your transfer, and to report to them whether you intended to keep your promise.

  • Marie Antoinette knew that the people hated the Polignacs on this account, and she wanted at least to put her friends in a place of safety.

  • Yet she was all the more perplexed and excited on this account.

  • I have told you that we are going to London next week; it is mostly on this account.

  • On this account, and for the first time in his life, Owen made a point of concealing from her the real state of his feelings with regard to the unhappy transaction.

  • Amelia was a little comforted at this account, and vented many grateful expressions to the colonel for his unparalleled friendship, as she was pleased to call it.

  • The colonel smiled at this account, and bid the servant make haste back to contradict it.

  • His lordship expressed great concern at this account, and very kindly promised to take some opportunity of calling on him at his cousin Ellison's, when he hoped, he said, to bring him comfortable tidings.

  • Poor Amelia became a pale and motionless statue at this account.

  • Almagro and his companions listened with undisguised amazement to this account of his associate, and of a change in his fortunes so rapid and wonderful that it seemed little less than magic.

  • This account is not confirmed, as far as I have seen, by any other writer.

  • This account, when reported by Hernando to his brother, caused the latter much anxiety.

  • This account being a little incoherent, Giles went forward towards the spot from which the girls had retreated.

  • On this account there is at present no broad distinction in this respect between the leisure-class character and the character of the common run of the population.

  • It would on this account be misleading to attempt an analysis of devout demeanor by referring all evidences of the presence of a pecuniary standard of reputability back directly and baldly to the underlying norm of pecuniary emulation.

  • This account is furnished by General Charles H.

  • This account may be found in Schoolcraft.

  • This account is doubtless true, but the inferences may be incorrect.

  • The remark regarding truthfulness will apply to this account in common with the former.

  • Booth was now a little alarmed at this account, and, parting with Miss Matthews, went along with the colonel in search of his wife.

  • Amelia promised she would, though indeed she wanted not any warning for her journey on this account; for when she packed up herself in the coach, she packed up her all.

  • This account tallied so well with the ideas he had imbibed of Booth's extravagance in the country, that he firmly believed both the husband and wife to be the vainest, silliest, and most unjust people alive.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    became first; this afternoon; this area; this article; this belief; this branch; this character; this church; this fellow; this general; this generation; this history; this hour; this instrument; this island; this kingdom; this letter; this meeting; this neighbourhood; this one; this order; this poem; this point; this stage; this valley; this world