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Example sentences for "warr"

Lexicographically close words:
warpath; warped; warper; warping; warps; warrand; warrant; warrantable; warrantably; warranted
  1. Coventry reckons, besides those left behind, eighty-nine men of warr and twenty fire-ships, though we cannot hear that they have with them above eighteen.

  2. Warr says it was the best opening speech he ever listened to, but by no means the best speech.

  3. Charles Dilke used to say that Fawcett and Warr had between them cured him of that priggishness which he often recalled with amusement.

  4. Warr is a candid critic whom I dread, so that I am glad he was satisfied.

  5. I bought up all that I found have relation to warr and fighting.

  6. Men of warr are not soe easily put to a retreat; it suites not with their repute.

  7. She thinks of proposing Lady de la Warr and Lady Abercorn by and by as the two Ladies, but these she will sound herself through other people, or Lady Canning, or Lady Rosslyn, in case these others should not take it.

  8. Sir Robert Peel may also tell Lord De la Warr that it is unnecessary for him to appear in uniform, as the Queen always dispenses with this in the country.

  9. Lord La Warr also conveyed to the purchasers by the same deed some fulling mills in Ancoats, where there are various evidences of the early practice of textile industries.

  10. Lord La Warr promised that no more mills should be erected within or about the manor of Manchester, and thus ensured to the schools the monopoly of the grinding of the corn and malt for the town.

  11. He discourses very freely of a warr with Holland, to begin about winter, so that I believe we shall come to it.

  12. All our discourse is of a Dutch warr and I find it is likely to come to it, for they are very high and desire not to compliment us at all, as far as I hear, but to send a good fleete to Guinny to oppose us there.

  13. De La Warr was a man of note and worth, old privy councilor of Elizabeth and of James, soldier in the Low Countries, strong Protestant and believer in England-in-America.

  14. Lord De La Warr was sent out in person to deal with matters but died on the way; and Captain Yeardley, now knighted and appointed Governor, was instructed to proceed against the incorrigible Argall.

  15. A new town was begun at the falls, in the fond belief that two mines were near, and De la Warr took up his residence there.

  16. But De la Warr undertook another part of his instructions.

  17. This plan originated with the London managers of Virginia affairs, and men had been sent with De la Warr who were supposed to be skillful in "finding out mines.

  18. Whenever Lord De la Warr went to church at Jamestown he was attended by the councilors, captains, and gentlemen, and guarded by fifty men with halberds, wearing De la Warr's livery of showy red cloaks.

  19. With all the formalities thought necessary at that time, De la Warr took possession of Jamestown, now become a forlorn ruin full of dead men's bones.

  20. The meeting with De la Warr was bitterly regretted by the old settlers, who preferred the desperate chance of a voyage in pinnaces on a shipless sea with but a fortnight's provision to facing again the horrors of life at Jamestown.

  21. In spite of the sickness that wasted the colony in 1610, Lord De la Warr sent an expedition to dig gold on the upper James, but the warlike up-river tribes soon drove the prospectors back.

  22. To escape from the anarchy which resulted from a system that sank the interest of the individual in that of the community, it had been needful to arm De la Warr with the sharp sword of martial law.

  23. But Dickie's heart it grew so great That never a bitt of it he dought to eat; But Dickie was warr of ane auld peat-house, Where there al the night he thought for to sleep.

  24. Lastly, That noe difficulty has at any time heretofore been made of permitting Straingers Men of Warr to weare their Pendants in presence of ye Comand^r in Cheife in ye Downes, noe more than elsewhere.

  25. Next, That at this day ye weareing of a Pendant at ye Maintopp is yt which is everywhere become ye Marke of distinguishing a Man of Warr from a Merch^t man.

  26. Mr. Warr went in, and being offered a choice in varnishes, selected cold gin.

  27. Mr. Warr was here, under solemn articles not once to varnish the work of art until the run of the piece was over.

  28. He signed this document with a great sprawling flourish, and Darco and Paul having appended their names to it also, Mr. Warr wrote the date of the transaction across the receipt stamp, and handed the paper to his employer with a solemn bow.

  29. There were hard-boiled eggs and cold sausages on the marble-topped counter, and Mr. Warr fell to work among them, and mumbled gratitude with his mouth full.

  30. Mr. Warr drifted before the storm, and found a harbour in the painting-room, whence he was blasted five minutes later half shipwrecked and wholly demoralized.

  31. Paul went to meet this phenomenon, and from the train Mr. Warr of the Nonconformist printing-office stepped out, carrying the work of art before him like an oriflamme.

  32. Mr. Warr presented himself at Darco's lodging next morning wrapped in a perfume of gin and cloves.

  33. Mr. Warr borrowed sixpence on the plea of sudden and severe internal pains, and went out to varnish the work of art.

  34. Mr. Warr turned on Paul, and told him he must go outside and wait until such time as the meeting thus summoned was over.

  35. There came an especially memorable afternoon when Mr. Warr in a four-wheeled fly drove to Darco's lodgings, and announced the sudden sickness of the juvenile lead.

  36. There is no fear of that, sir,' Mr. Warr answered.

  37. Mr. Warr was despatched in the fly to gather the members of the company.

  38. Lord De La Warr wrote to the Earl of Salisbury in England in 1610: "I sent fishermen out to provide fish for our men, to save other provision, but they had ill success.

  39. The warr begane in the end of the harvest, as said is, and conclusioun was tackin that Wark[665] should be asseged.

  40. The warr continued till mydd September; and then was send doune the old Duck of Northfolk,[193] with such ane army as a hundreth yearis befoir had not come in Scotland.

  41. That no bandis of men of warr shalbe layed in garnesoun within the town of Edinburght.

  42. That no bandis of men of warr should be layed in garneshing within the town of Edinburght.

  43. Lord De La Warr speaks of their "late injuries and murthering of our men.

  44. At noon to the 'Change to inquire what wages the Dutch give in their men-of-warr at this day, and I hear for certain they give but twelve guilders at most, which is not full 24s.

  45. Ascue he chiefly spoke that the warr and trade could not be supported together, and, therefore, that trade must stand still to give way to them.

  46. By and by was called a Council of Warr on board, when come Sir W.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    warrant officer; warrant thee; warrant you