Sentence Examples

1. Pepper plants replaced the prickly hedges of European fields sago-bushes, large ferns with gorgeous branches, varied the aspect of this tropical clime while nutmeg-trees in full foliage filled the air with a penetrating perfume.
2. He knew several French and English songs, and resolved to try them upon the Japanese, who must be lovers of music, since they were for ever pounding on their cymbals, tam-tams, and tambourines, and could not but appreciate European talent.
3. Beautifully maintained historic buildings along with outdoor cafes contributed to its European flair.
4. She had received a thoroughly English education in that city, and, from her manners and intelligence, would be thought an European.
5. The holocaust that almost saw the extermination of European Jews had been a prolonged event brought on by forces that had taken years to rise to power.
6. As chance did not favour him in the European quarter, he penetrated that inhabited by the native Japanese, determined, if necessary, to push on to Yeddo.
7. What was her astonishment to find herself in this carriage, on the railway, dressed in European habiliments, and with travellers who were quite strangers to her!
8. The panorama passed before their eyes like a flash, save when the steam concealed it fitfully from the view the travellers could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles south-westward from Benares, the ancient stronghold of the rajahs of Behar or Ghazipur and its famous rose-water factories or the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, rising on the left bank of the Ganges the fortified town of Buxar, or Patna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, and high chimneys puffing clouds of black smoke heavenward.
9. The same thing happened as they passed a troupe of European Apprentices.
10. He found himself at first in a thoroughly European quarter, the houses having low fronts, and being adorned with verandas, beneath which he caught glimpses of neat peristyles.