Sentence Examples

1. Power, government, war, law, punishment, and a thousand other things had no terms wherein that language could express them which made the difficulty almost insuperable to give my master any conception of what I meant.
2. that a prince possessed of every quality which procures veneration, love, and esteem of strong parts, great wisdom, and profound learning indued with admirable talents for government, and almost adored by his subjects, should from a nice unnecessary scruple, whereof in Europe we can have no conception, let slip an opportunity put into his hands that would have made him absolute master of the lives, the liberties, and the fortunes of his people.
3. Dantès possessed a prodigious memory, combined with an astonishing quickness and readiness of conception the mathematical turn of his mind rendered him apt at all kinds of calculation, while his naturally poetical feelings threw a light and pleasing veil over the dry reality of arithmetical computation, or the rigid severity of geometry.
4. And as to ideas, entities, abstractions, and transcendentals, I could never drive the least conception into their heads.
5. An early poem is only remarkable when it displays an effort of reason, and the rudest verses in which we can trace some conception of the ends of poetry, are worth all the miracles of smooth juvenile versification.
6. The great difficulty that seemed to stick with the two horses, was to see the rest of my body so very different from that of a yahoo, for which I was obliged to my clothes, whereof they had no conception.
7. I shall now proceed to lay before you the result of an attempt so apparently audacious in conception, and, at all events, so utterly unparalleled in the annals of mankind.
8. I assured him how extremely desirous I was that he should be satisfied on every point but I doubted much, whether it would be possible for me to explain myself on several subjects whereof his honor could have no conception because I saw nothing in his country to which I could resemble them.
9. We were going to have to revise our conception of what we were up against.
10. The soldiers could see nothing they heard sighs and groans they stumbled over dead bodies, but as they had no conception of the cause of all this, they came forward jostling each other.