Sentence Examples

1. I had before me the suit thou didst send me, and the coral beads my lady the duchess sent me round my neck, and the letters in my hands, and there was the bearer of them standing by, and in spite of all this I verily believed and thought that what I saw and handled was all a dream for who could have thought that a goatherd would come to be a governor of islands?
2. Elton had been determined to go on, and had said in a very particular way indeed, that he was going on business which he would not put off for any inducement in the world and something about a very enviable commission, and being the bearer of something exceedingly precious.
3. The lamp bearer touched the flame of his lamp to another that sat in a niche cut into the wall, igniting it.
4. Run to Torlonia, draw from him instantly four thousand piastres, and give them to the bearer.
5. Fix instinctively took the passport, and with a rapid glance read the description of its bearer.
6. I asked the bearer if His Majesty had afforded a sum in aid of my travel expenses.
7. Anselmo was deep in love with a high-born and beautiful maiden of the same city, the daughter of parents so estimable, and so estimable herself, that he resolved, with the approval of his friend Lothario, without whom he did nothing, to ask her of them in marriage, and did so, Lothario being the bearer of the demand, and conducting the negotiation so much to the satisfaction of his friend that in a short time he was in possession of the object of his desires, and Camilla so happy in having won Anselmo for her husband, that she gave thanks unceasingly to heaven and to Lothario, by whose means such good fortune had fallen to her.
8. Blade emblazoned with the House crest of a ship tossed about by a stormy sea, the dagger was a distinctive weapon meant to mark the bearer as a member of House Staerleigh.
9. The next morning he saw Albert pass and repass, holding an enormous bouquet, which he doubtless meant to make the bearer of his amorous epistle.
10. Jack had happily accepted the duties of ring bearer.