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Example sentences for "this head"

  • See subsequent chapters for something more on this head.

  • On this head, there are some remarkable documents that may be consulted.

  • I am no coward, but what to make of this head-peddling purple rascal altogether passed my comprehension.

  • I thought I was universally condemned on this head.

  • I oscillate much on this head, but generally return to my belief that the direct action of the conditions of life has not been great.

  • Thus the difficulty on this head, which before seemed so great, disappears.

  • Before going into the details on this head (printed in small type), I may mention, that when reading a memoir on coral formations by MM.

  • On this head, it is well known that the accredited seminaries of learning have, until a recent date, held a conservative position.

  • But those members of respectable society who advocate athletic games commonly justify their attitude on this head to themselves and to their neighbors on the ground that these games serve as an invaluable means of development.

  • On this head of purity of speech, as at other points where a conventional usage rests on the canons of archaism and waste, the spokesmen for the usage instinctively take an apologetic attitude.

  • I have elsewhere given evidence on this head, and if required could give more.

  • They have flinch'd at Nothing on this Head.

  • What is Cobbett's "clear principle" on this head?

  • These causes, therefore, upon a review of the laws on this head, were abrogated; but the edge in other respects was rather sharpened than abated.

  • One letter indeed was written to him by a learned person on this head, of which a copy has been preserved, and it is with great pleasure that I give it to my readers, it runs thus: A letter from the Reverend Dr.

  • Act, which was rendered perpetual by another made in the seventh year of the reign of Queen Anne, all our proceedings on this head are at this day grounded.

  • The question of the king's personal visit to the provinces was now again mooted, and all the difficulties which had formerly been raised on this head appeared to vanish before the present emergency.

  • I have sometimes felt as much difficulty, though of a very different kind, on this head, as in the case of an organ as perfect and complex as the eye.

  • Nor will this surprise any one who reflects how ignorant we are on this head, even in regard to mankind, so incomparably better known than any other animal.

  • Amongst existing Vertebrata, we find but a small amount of gradation in the structure of the eye, and from fossil species we can learn nothing on this head.

  • But insuperable difficulties, as it seems to me, prevent us coming to any just conclusion on this head.

  • The observations on this head by Hugh Miller, and by that excellent observer Mr. Smith of Jordan Hill, are most impressive.

  • Owing to the doubts on this head, I tried whether the two would mutually fertilise one another.

  • So much and too much on this head; but my geese are always swans.

  • Ah, my dear Hooker, you were very soft on this head, and justify what I say about not caring enough for your own fame.

  • Lyell seemed rather to doubt on this head) (The meaning of the sentence in parentheses is obscure.

  • No notice of this point was taken, as far as I remember, in the early reviews of the 'Origin,' and I recollect expressing my surprise on this head in a letter to Asa Gray.

  • Disputes had long existed between the Court and the Parliaments with respect to the extent of the Parliament's authority on this head.

  • Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters, but with regard to myself I am perfectly easy on this head.

  • Sarsefield reluctantly assented to the truth of my arguments on this head.

  • On this head, these people professed utter ignorance, and were either unable or unwilling to direct me to any person in the city who knew more than themselves.

  • On this head I had, indeed, entertained somewhat of religious scruples.

  • In this head, too, the mouth actually droops at the corners, giving a perhaps unintended look of seriousness to the face.

  • There is a variant type of this head which is much more suggestive of poetical inspiration.

  • It will be observed that the hair of this head is not worked out in detail, except at the front.

  • Yet it is incumbent upon us to ignore our convictions and perceptions on this head.

  • The great dramatist's contemporaries entertained similar views on this head.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this head" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    reefed foresail; this area; this argument; this bill; this child; this course; this difference; this evening; this game; this generation; this gentleman; this girl; this incident; this instance; this life; this people; this period; this regard; this section; this sense; this style; this system; this truth; this vast; this view; this world