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Example sentences for "this family"

  • The Hindoos, one of the latest members of this family, were in India several thousand years before Christ.

  • But as the Incas were the ruling tribe, their name should have been given to this family of languages.

  • Long before the times of Abraham, the fertile plains of Chaldea were the home of powerful tribes of this family.

  • Do you know, that I observe a great change in one of this family--a very extraordinary change?

  • I am not going to sit here, a member of this family, to be taken no notice of.

  • Mr Pilkins here, who from his position of medical adviser in this family--no one better qualified to fill that position, I am sure.

  • We have but too much reason to suppose, my dear child, that if an effort had been made in time, in this family, a train of the most trying and distressing circumstances might have been avoided.

  • Before the Chiefship could come into this family, the descendants of Kenneth of Inverinate, third son of John Mackenzie of Brea, and immediate younger brother of Alexander, XI.

  • But the last male representative of this family failed, a few years ago, in the person of his third and last surviving son, Thomas Mackenzie, W.

  • THIS family is descended from Roderick, second son of Colin, third son of Murdoch Mackenzie, V.

  • THE representative of this family, if alive, would succeed to the Chiefship after the male representative of the family of Glack, but there is no trace of any heir male of Loggie for two centuries.

  • At all hazards, therefore, Gabriel must be the only person present at the appointment made with the descendants of this family, a century and a half ago.

  • All the members of this family possess, or should possess, a bronze medal bearing the following inscriptions: Victim of L.

  • But other persons have an immense interest that none of the descendants of this family be at Paris on the 13th February, except Gabriel Rennepont, priest of the foreign missions.

  • Rodin read on: "'To forward or secure the affair in question, it is necessary to give some private and secret particulars respecting the seven persons who represent this family.

  • It is supposed that only seven descendants remain of this family, which underwent strange vicissitudes since; its present representatives are found in all ranks of society, from the sovereign to the mechanic.

  • Grant him a little time, and why should he not become a recognised friend of this family?

  • To wait, to establish himself in the confidence of this family, to make sure his progress step by step, that was the course indicated from the first by his calm reason.

  • In the course of conversation Peak learnt that Miss Moxey was the guest of this family, and that she had been at Budleigh Salterton with them only a day or two.

  • I have wavered a long while as to the innocence of this family; I could not believe that any judges would have condemned to a fearful death an innocent father of a family.

  • I dare to say that I am as sure of the innocence of this family as I am of my own existence.

  • We shall therefore readily commence by speaking of this family, as it after all affords an excellent clue for a beginning.

  • It appears that nothing could be more frightful than the poverty of this family, who lived in a wretched garret in the Rue du Temple!

  • I have offered my room to this family, to spare them the sad sight of the corpse; hence it is, probably, in my chamber you will find the artisan and his daughter.

  • We will not attempt to describe the gratitude and surprise of this family, so abruptly snatched from a fearful fate; in the first burst of happiness, even the death of the little girl was forgotten.

  • Often afterwards did the Gors Goch folks have the company of this family.

  • This family obtained a bad report throughout the island.

  • I give you all this information, prince, in order to make it clear to you that I am personally recommending you to this family, and that in so doing, I am more or less taking upon myself to answer for you.

  • A man might well be content to die without lands or gold when eight sons and sons-in-laws were to be men of such capacity, character, and training as are found in this family.

  • Some of the most eminent official city attorneys of Philadelphia, New York and Chicago have been found in this family.

  • The Pacific steamship line and fifteen American railway systems have had as president, superintendent, or otherwise active in the management one of this family.

  • James Bryce in his comments upon America places one of this family at the head of legal learning on this continent.

  • The legislative action of New York, by which the first insane asylum of the state was built, was largely the result of a physician of this family.

  • Male and female (Drake and Duck) alike, which is the exception to the rule in this family.

  • I speak of this Marsh Wren now so that you may remember it with the rest of this family of Mockers and Scolders.

  • Female: not so handsome as the Drake, and the middle tail-feathers so much shorter that she is not over two feet long; but the neck is longer and slenderer than usual in this family in proportion to her size.

  • You must hear a little about that first, and let your American Goldfinch take his turn with his brothers and cousins, for Rap's Rose-breasted Grosbeak belongs also in this family.

  • It is a tradition that the first of this family was a son of Yoritomo, who in the year A.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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