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Example sentences for "who can"

  • I now leave you here, and whether I ever shall see you Here again,--who can tell?

  • Let us then, in the first place, inquire amongst the good people Unto whom the maiden is known, who can tell us about her.

  • Wherever we may think of such speculations, we can hardly deny that they have been more rife in this generation than in any other; and whither they are tending, who can predict?

  • Who can be at enmity with one who loves them, who that is himself gentle and free from envy will be jealous of one in whom there is no jealousy?

  • Who can doubt, that the happiness of the people in both countries would be promoted by competent authorities in the proper hands, to provide the revenues which the necessities of the public might require?

  • If this be the design of it, who can so properly be the inquisitors for the nation as the representatives of the nation themselves?

  • If it should break forth into a storm, who can insure us that in its progress a part of its fury would not be spent upon us?

  • It may be, said I, who can tell, These things shall be my less despair?

  • Some bays, perchance, or myrtle bough For difference crowns the brow Of those kind souls that were The noble martyrs here: And if that be the only odds (As who can tell?

  • Who can advise, is prayed his lore to shew, That we may learn the best, and that pursue.

  • With the exception of Ducrow, who can scarcely be classed among them, who ever knew a rider at Astley’s, or saw him but on horseback?

  • Who can be insensible to the outpourings of good feeling, and the honest interchange of affectionate attachment, which abound at this season of the year?

  • If you speak the sense of an angel, in bad words and with a disagreeable utterance, nobody will hear you twice, who can help it.

  • I send you the inclosed letter of recommendation to Mr. Smith the King's Consul at Venice; who can, and I daresay will, be more useful to you there than anybody.

  • Fools, who can never be undeceived, retain them as long as they live: reflection, with a little experience, makes men of sense shake them off soon.

  • I never go into a skrimmage, friend mariner, without thinking of this great ally, who can do more in battle than all the battalions of the 60th, were they brought into a single line.

  • We shall have all right under Jasper, I make no doubt, who can find a trail on Ontario as well as a Delaware can find one on the land.

  • But speaking of water, it reminds me of my young friend, Jasper Western here, who can claim to know something of these matters, seeing that he has passed his days on Ontario.

  • Who can give me back my liberty, who can give me back my good name, who can give me back my innocent niece?

  • Who can assure me, that I shall be more successful than you have been?

  • Ease yourself then of the camels, and leave them to me, who can manage a hundred as well as one.

  • Who can't be silent, and who will not lie.

  • He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

  • Is it not to be presumed, by all the charters of the Universities and the foundations of grammar-schools, that he who can speak a dead language must be a fortiori conversant with his own?

  • Thus he who can keep up four brass balls does this to perfection; but he cannot keep up five at the same instant, and would fail every time he attempted it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    natural causes; she didn; took position; who had always been; who had been appointed; who have; who lived; who made; who sat; whoever they; whole being; whole lot; whole passel; whole people; whole race; wholly thine; whom also; whom belong might and; whose daughter; whose eyes; whose family; whose hand; whose hands; whose land; whose portrait; whose soul