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Example sentences for "three persons"

  • He tells you about this or that dog who was seen running mad, that he had bitten two or three persons, one of whom has since died of hydrophobia, and adds with a peculiar relish that "the dangerous animal is still at large!

  • Not only does revelation as they view it demand belief in the personality of God, but it demands the belief that in God are three persons--the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

  • About twelve or one the same afternoon, three persons (two of whom were dressed as French officers) drove slowly over London Bridge in a post-chaise, the horses of which were bedecked with laurel.

  • The election of members is always by ballot, and every applicant must be recommended by three persons, who have been members of the house for at least two years.

  • My little family, consisting of three persons, all of whom were usefully employed, was not expensive to support.

  • God does not decree to be holy, nor to exist as three persons in one essence.

  • We do not say that one God is three Gods, nor that one person is three persons, nor that three Gods are one God, but only that there is one God with three distinctions in his being.

  • Yet the Greek trinity, while it gives us three persons, does not give us oneness of essence.

  • The following receipts are furnished by a lady who for many years solved the problem of providing nourishment for a family of three persons upon a very small income.

  • This vessel was only fifty tons burden, and carried a crew of thirty-three persons.

  • Since we, however, only render homage to one God in Three Persons, and consequently may not adore the discoverers of new lands, it remains for us to offer them our admiration.

  • At that time the court awarded him, on presentation of the required "Certificates," the usual allotment for the transportation of three persons.

  • At this time Martin's Hundred was reported to have twenty-three persons, but twenty-eight had died within the year, two being killed.

  • A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons.

  • Defn: A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons.

  • Defn: A discourse or colloquy by three persons.

  • Whether the Evidence of Two or Three Persons Suffices?

  • For they include in one article the three about the three Persons; because we have one knowledge of the three Persons: while they divide the article referring to the work of glorification into two, viz.

  • My Letters mention particular Circumstances of two or three Persons, who had the good Sense to retire of their own Accord, and notified that they were withdrawn, with the Reasons of it, to the Company, in their respective Memorials.

  • She tells me that she intends they shall wear Swords with their next Liveries, having lately observed the Footmen of two or three Persons of Quality hanging behind the Coach with Swords by their Sides.

  • A discourse or colloquy by three persons.

  • A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons.

  • The following are the heads of the plan: The settlement was divided into four districts, over each of which was placed a watch consisting of three persons, one principal and two subordinate watchmen.

  • Thus therefore worship thou the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, in three persons or properties and one Godhead.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but always; slowed down; three bays; three books; three brothers; three cards; three children; three classes; three dimensions; three estates; three fifths; three hard; three hundred and fifty; three hundred and sixty; three knots; three lions; three measures; three miles; three minutes; three other; three places; three rows; three sides; three stars; three wire; three words