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Example sentences for "this incident"

  • The proprietors, alarmed at this incident, held several general courts, and appointed a committee to inspect the state of their affairs.

  • This incident was no sooner known than the princes abandoned their enterprise; and leaving their sick and wounded to the mercy of the Piedmontese, marched back to Demont.

  • I quote freely from General Sherman on this incident, as I do not want to do General Palmer an injustice.

  • This incident afforded me no hint from which I might conjecture my state.

  • The abruptness of this incident, and the preternatural exertion of my strength, left me in a state of languor and sinking, from which slowly and with difficulty I recovered.

  • I was startled at this incident, and, stopping, crouched close to the wall, that I might not be discovered.

  • My sensations on this incident cannot be easily described.

  • This incident, simple enough in reality, the novelist Fenimore Cooper has made the germ of one of his exquisite sea-tales, "The Pilot.

  • Note: This incident, and Burley's exclamation, are taken from the records.

  • McCrie objects to this incident, which is merely borrowed, one may conjecture, from the death of Archbishop Sharpe.

  • I understand that you wrote to your son upon the day when this incident occurred.

  • I could not myself see the bearing of this incident, but I clearly perceived that Holmes was weaving it into the general scheme which he had formed in his brain.

  • If only you two know of this incident, there is no reason why it should go any farther.

  • My father often spoke with delight of this incident.

  • An interesting version of this incident is given by Mr. Arnold: "There lived at this time in the most pretentious house in Springfield a prominent citizen named George Forquer.

  • One of the neighbors has said of this incident: "Well do I remember the day the Lincolns left for Illinois.

  • Be this as it may, the Clear Grits in the West promptly made use of this incident to attack the government on the ground that it had failed to make a full investigation into the circumstances of the riot.

  • This incident was in some respects without parallel in Canadian parliamentary history.

  • The natural result of this incident was to increase the feeling of indignation already aroused by the apathy of the British government during this national calamity.

  • Welsh bundling couple, that it seems admissible to refer the colouring given to this incident to Welsh sources.

  • And let us recall the fact that the hypothesis which finds a Christian origin for the whole legend has no explanation to offer of this incident.

  • This incident happened in the minority of Richard.

  • The inhabitants of the English seaports, informed of this incident, fitted out a fleet of sixty sail, stronger and better manned than the others, and awaited the enemy on their return.

  • This incident passed a few days before his death; and these were, in a manner, his last words to his people.

  • In only two versions is this incident varied (No.

  • This incident of actual primitive custom also obtains in folk tales, thus showing its strong hold upon popular tradition, and hence increasing the probability that it would reappear in games.

  • This incident of actual primitive custom also obtains in folk-tales, showing its strong hold on popular tradition.

  • The Song of Roland, a real Homeric poem in its great beauty, and yet rude and simple as became its national character, bears witness to the prolonged importance attained in Europe by this incident in the history of Charlemagne.

  • Peter, though probably he was not thinking of this incident, has put the whole philosophy of it into plain words in his own letter, when he says, 'You who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.

  • And in this incident before us, we see represented not only the endless patience of God's pitying love, but the method which it needs to take in order to reach the heart.

  • Now, in the next place, notice, as coming out of this incident before us, the thought that forgiveness is an exclusively divine act.

  • The lessons of this incident, so far as the chronicler has simply borrowed from his authority, belong to the exposition of the book of Samuel.

  • Possibly among the children of Ephraim who dwelt in Jerusalem after the Return there were descendants of these men, from whom the chronicler obtained the particulars of this incident.

  • David at once perceived the significance of this incident: Jehovah had indicated the site of the future Temple.

  • Footnote 30: In this incident again it is necessary to follow the Brussels MS.

  • This incident reappears in the Life of Flannan (CS, 647).

  • The misplacing of this incident in LB is probably due to a transposition of the leaves of the exemplar from which it was copied.

  • This incident is told in all four lives, and it is instructive to note the differences of detail which they display.

  • We are reminded by this incident of an English sovereign lying on his death-bed in the famous chamber at Westminster, which still bears the name of Jerusalem.

  • So then in its accompaniments, not less than in its main idea, this incident at Bethel is a type of the Gospel of Christ.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this incident" 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:
    considerable booty; retail trade; thee knows; this age; this also; this arrangement; this group; this kind; this marriage; this name; this new; this old; this our; this people; this point; this portion; this present; this singular; this situation; this spot; this statement; this sudden; this they; this thing; this way; this year