Sentence Examples

1. The rich brother-in-law near Bristol was the pride of the alliance, and his place and his carriages were the pride of him.
2. At half-past eleven still proceeding nearly South, we obtained our first view of the Bristol Channel and, in fifteen minutes afterward, the line of breakers on the coast appeared immediately beneath us, and we were fairly out at sea.
3. And all the grandeur of the connexion seemed dependent on the elder sister, who was very well married, to a gentleman in a great way, near Bristol, who kept two carriages!
4. Whereupon, the malicious rogue, watching his opportunity, when I was walking under one of them, shook it directly over my head, by which a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face but I received no other hurt, and the dwarf was pardoned at my desire, because I had given the provocation.
5. He stood in line while Madeline coached an old gal item by item through a request for a death certificate and spent minutes convincing the next fellow that she had no more access to the property map of some parcel in Massachusetts than he did, and that his best course was to inquire of Bristol county by telephone.
6. I obtained it on my final visit to Gareth Delingpole, once I tracked his new identity to a bedsit in Bristol.