Sentence Examples

1. Without ceremony, and with a rough hand, he twirled the supple Gamut around on his heel, and more than once affirmed that the Hurons had done themselves great credit in the fashion of his costume.
2. He affirmed that on returning one night from the neighboring village of Sing Sing, he had been overtaken by this midnight trooper that he had offered to race with him for a bowl of punch, and should have won it too, for Daredevil beat the goblin horse all hollow, but just as they came to the church bridge, the Hessian bolted, and vanished in a flash of fire.
3. He approved of the tradition mentioned by the honorable member who spoke before, and affirmed, that the two yahoos said to be first seen among them had been driven thither over the sea that coming to land, and being forsaken by their companions, they retired to the mountains, and degenerating by degrees, became in process of time much more savage than those of their own species in the country whence these two originals came.
4. The smells affirmed my estimation of the place as some sort of bake shop.
5. The artist himself was at that time busy upon two great designs the first to sow land with chaff, wherein he affirmed the true seminal virtue to be contained, as he demonstrated by several experiments which I was not skillful enough to comprehend.
6. Two days later the duke told Don Quixote that in four days from that time his opponent would present himself on the field of battle armed as a knight, and would maintain that the damsel lied by half a beard, nay a whole beard, if she affirmed that he had given her a promise of marriage.
7. Yet a stirring deep , deep in my subconscious, which affirmed the emotions coming from her of our previous encounters.
8. The first affirmed, the justest method would be to lay a certain tax upon vices and folly, and the sum fixed upon every man to be rated after the fairest manner by a jury of his neighbors.
9. He affirmed their collective responsibility for the boy and sent them home smiling.
10. They were soon mingled with voices calling to each other in an Indian dialect, which the hunter, in a whisper, affirmed to Heyward was the language of the Hurons.