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Example sentences for "wheelwright"

  • This was the issue upon which Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson were banished, soon after.

  • John Wheelwright and several of his followers had already spent the winter about Piscataqua.

  • Broken ice was still in the rivers, when in March a coaster started from Boston with Mrs. Wheelwright and her five children and also friends of hers with their children.

  • Wheedled therewith, by woman's quick device, The Wheelwright let his ears betray his eyes.

  • But had his cousin, with Asmodeus-flight, beheld Clement during the subsequent hours which he spent alone, it is possible that the wheelwright had felt amply repaid for his trouble.

  • Charles Coomstock, nephew of the widow of that name already mentioned, was a wheelwright by trade and went lame, owing to an accident with hot iron in youth.

  • Farmer’s edition, who holds to the forgery of the Wheelwright deed of 1629; Provincial Papers as above, pp.

  • The independent settlement at Exeter was made in 1638 by John Wheelwright and others; and of these pioneers Wheelwright himself with some companions had been banished from Massachusetts in the previous year.

  • Wheelwright then removed to Wells, in the Province of Maine.

  • We also started a wheelwright establishment and the manufacture of good wagons and buggies; and the white people came to our institution for that kind of work.

  • On the next morning Mr. Wheelwright wished his daughter good-bye, leaving her where they had camped over night.

  • When it got a little nearer one of the men said: "Why, Alfred, it is the old man Wheelwright and his girl Stella.

  • Mrs. Wheelwright said: "Stella, there have been millions of women who have died deaths of untold agony through being in bondage to their sexual natures.

  • Mrs. Wheelwright went to Stella and pressed her to herself, and kissed her many times.

  • When David was called to dinner, it certainly did his eyes and stomach good to see on the table such a spread of luxuries and dainties, which were so seldom partaken of by the Wheelwright family, as they lived very simply.

  • About a week before the day set for Stella's wedding, Mrs. Wheelwright went to Roseland and called on her sister, Mrs. Marston.

  • At the supper table he was given the seat of honor, Mrs. Wheelwright being on his right and Stella on his left.

  • Mrs. Wheelwright said to Stella: "I am so glad you found a man worthy of your love, and he certainly is.

  • Cotton recanted, Vane returned to England in disgust, Wheelwright was tried and banished and the rank and file either followed Cotton in making submission or suffered various minor punishments.

  • Mrs Hutchinson was supported by Governor Vane, Cotton, Wheelwright and the great majority of the Boston church; opposed to her were Deputy-Governor John Winthrop, Wilson and all of the country magistrates and churches.

  • At a general fast, held late in January 1637, Wheelwright preached a sermon which was taken as a criticism of Wilson and his friends.

  • My good fellow," he said to the ostler, "is there a wheelwright here?

  • The wheelwright had noticed at a glance that the tilbury was a hired vehicle; he shrugged his shoulders.

  • He said: "I have this to say: That I was a wheelwright in Paris, and worked for Master Baloup.

  • The ostler and the wheelwright replied simultaneously--, "No.

  • Finding he could raise no capital in his own country for railway enterprise in Argentina, William Wheelwright came to England and interested Thomas Brassey, one of our railway pioneers.

  • Before long we saw Clairmont reappear with two servants, one of whom invited me, on behalf of his master, to await the arrival of the wheelwright at his house.

  • A servant came and told me that the wheelwright had arrived, and that he would take four hours to mend my carriage, so I went downstairs.

  • The next day we set out intending to travel all night and not to stop till we got to Avignon, but about five o'clock the chain of the carriage broke, and we could go no further until a wheelwright had repaired the damage.

  • I had regarded the Splash as a lost boat; and I was delighted with my success in raising her, and with the prospect of having her again as good as new; for the wheelwright assured me she was not materially injured in her timbers.

  • We hauled her up on the shore, and got the water out of her; and the wheelwright went to work upon her at once, assisted by his journeyman.

  • Both Wheelwright and Halsey are dead; but Mr. Hale, who was contemporary with them, and was the pioneer commission merchant and importer, still lives.

  • The Wheelwright controversy, with special reference to political phases; ib.

  • Nineteen years later, Wheelwright and his followers (banished from Massachusetts) settled on the New Hampshire coast and adopted an agreement similar to the Mayflower document in occasion and character.

  • The Wheelwright document follows from Hazard's State Papers, I, 463.

  • The Rector turned upon him wonderingly, while the wrath of the wheelwright was quelled by the calm, stern words of the little man who now stood before them.

  • Biggins pointed over his shoulder with his thumb, and the wheelwright nodded.

  • There is a pretty wheelwright's wife--no, hang it, I mean the pretty wife of a wheelwright there.

  • The wheelwright had listened with growing indignation to these words on either side, and now, flushed and excited, he spoke out.

  • It was quite dark before the wheelwright had finished his work in the garden, and went in to the evening meal, to be met by his wife's searching look.

  • This is the same in principle, as if the wheelwright had first dug the rut in which your carriage upset, and then charged you the $500.

  • Suppose I am a wheelwright in a small village, and the only one of my trade.

  • It consisted of the wheelwright and his wife, both very old, half a dozen labourers, with their wives, and two or three children.

  • Being under sentence of banishment, Mr. Wheelwright withdrew to the territory of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, where, having obtained a patent, he founded the city of Welles.

  • For this offence Wheelwright had been judged guilty more than nine months before, but sentence had been deferred; he was now sentenced to disfranchisement and banishment.

  • Next day Winthrop continued his attack, insisting that Wheelwright must necessarily believe in a "personal union.

  • As a consequence the church would not elect Wheelwright in the face of an objection from so prominent a member as Winthrop.

  • Mr. Wheelwright was appointed to take charge of a church at Mount Wollaston, but his forced withdrawal from Boston was a source of irritation to his numerous friends.

  • The wheelwright was poor, industrious, and God-fearing.

  • LXIV Having left the wheelwright and gone back to Flanders, he must hire himself as apprentice to a shoemaker who liked better to stay in the streets than to wield the awl in his workshop.

  • While the wheelwright was repairing the carriage, Alfred engaged him in conversation concerning the stable-boy, all of whose statements the man corroborated.

  • Oh, yes," he answered, "it belongs to the wheelwright to whom I am taking you.

  • The same repairs were required by the wheels of the remaining drays and those of the light carts, and the smith and wheelwright continued their work with activity and zeal.

  • The wheelwright and Mortimer came into the camp at 6 A.


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