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Example sentences for "under which"

  • We raised a flagstaff and an awning, under which we assembled at twelve o'clock, with all the party parading under arms.

  • At length about a quarter of a mile above the falls he found a deep ravine where there were some shelving rocks, under which he took refuge.

  • Hence arose a confusion, under which many of the crowned heads in Europe were judged uncharitably as dissemblers or as traitors to their engagements.

  • Cape Elizabeth, under which we fetched at half-past five in the afternoon.

  • One of the balls broke a cocoa-nut tree in the middle, under which a party of them were sitting; and the other shivered a rock that stood in an exact line with them.

  • We stretched over to the western shore, and fetched within two leagues of the south end of the low land, or island before mentioned, under which I intended to have taken shelter till the gale should cease.

  • We also observed several sheds, under which some of their canoes were secured from the sun and weather; but there were no habitations, except towards the eastern point.

  • The circumstances, under which it passed into the possession of Franklin, were another proof of the flaming zeal with which many of the foremost inhabitants of France espoused the cause of the Colonies.

  • He was at length seized with paralysis: tried by long and heavy affliction, under which he was very graciously sustained.

  • He met with many uncommon afflictions, under which he generally appeared easy and cheerful.

  • July At five o'clock in the evening of the 13th, we made the island of Fayal, one of the Azores, and soon after that of Pico, under which we spent the night in making short boards.

  • Under which complication of distractions, to which a waitress with a tray at this moment adds herself, I sink, and leave off.

  • Its ancient name, from which also it derives its present, was Gabala, under which name it occurs in Strabo, and other old geographers.

  • It consists of three aisles, and has in the middle a handsome cupola, under which is a pavement of mosaic, equal to, if not exceeding, the finest works of the ancients of that kind.

  • At the entrance of Ampthill Park there is a pear tree, under which it is reported that Sir Philip Sydney wrote a part of his Arcadia.

  • The mansion, on a verdant lawn, bordered by a shrubbery, presents a handsome elevation of fine white stone, having a noble Ionic portico, under which is the carriage entrance.

  • This was made in great quantities by exposing to the sun a basin full of water, covered over by another basin of glass, under which was a little vase containing rose-leaves.

  • In downright English the administration of government and law is execrable, and there can be little hope of a resurrection for Persia until the system under which she is impoverished be reformed or swept away.

  • The whole is covered with a conical roof of carved slabs of red stone, under which runs an Arabic inscription.

  • Although the correct name of this river is undoubtedly Kurang, I have throughout adopted the ordinary spelling Karun, under which it is commercially and politically known.

  • He was sometimes styled Cadmilus, another name for Hermes; under which he was worshipped in Samothracia, and Hetruria.

  • Proteus was an Egyptian title of the Deity, under which he was worshipped, both in the Pharos, and at [622]Memphis.

  • Scylla then, under which character we are here to understand the chief priestess of the place, was no other than a handsome island strumpet.

  • This is the kind of constitution, under which, (according to the slave argument,) we lived until 1808.

  • No one, in a court of justice, can claim any rights founded on a construction different from that which these rules would give to the contract, statute, or constitution, under which he claims.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    because the; chronic constipation; dilute acid; grown person; mayst thou; twelve stones; under any; under color; under colour; under cultivation; under date; under each; under heavy; under obligation; under pain; under penalty; under similar; under some; under the present system; under them; under those; understand anything; understand each; understand thee; understanding heart; understood afterwards