Sentence Examples

1. They were called the Hand of the Gods because after they attacked a colony for the first time, press reports quoted a Marine general saying it has been turned to ash by the hand of the Gods, and the press loves a good nickname.
2. Passepartout was now the only person left in the car, and the Elder, looking him full in the face, reminded him that, two years after the assassination of Joseph Smith, the inspired prophet, Brigham Young, his successor, left Nauvoo for the banks of the Great Salt Lake, where, in the midst of that fertile region, directly on the route of the emigrants who crossed Utah on their way to California, the new colony, thanks to the polygamy practised by the Mormons, had flourished beyond expectations.
3. Long ago this mysterious colony quitted Spain, and settled on the tongue of land on which it is to this day.
4. Another, the great King Clone, was a creosote bush colony in the heart of the Mojave Desert.
5. In Goose Pond, which lay in my way, a colony of muskrats dwelt, and raised their cabins high above the ice, though none could be seen abroad when I crossed it.
6. My friend has now a whole colony of sparrows, and his flies and spiders are almost obliterated.
7. Like a colony of people that seemed to avoid being outside.
8. Singapore is distant some thirteen hundred miles from the island of Hong Kong, which is a little English colony near the Chinese coast.
9. Ships are sent with the first opportunity the natives driven out, or destroyed their princes tortured to discover their gold a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people.
10. But the scout, who had placed his chin in his hand, with an expression of cold indifference, gradually suffered his rigid features to relax, until, as verse succeeded verse, he felt his iron nature subdued, while his recollection was carried back to boyhood, when his ears had been accustomed to listen to similar sounds of praise, in the settlements of the colony.