29 examples of blane in sentences

Truly, though cynically, wrote Sir Gilbert Blane, 'If superior beings make a sport of the quarrels of mortals, they could not have chosen a better theatre for this magnificent exhibition, nor could they ever have better entertainment than this day afforded.

BLANE (Niell), town piper and publican.

Jenny Blane, his daughter.

In Barcelona he became acquainted with his uncle, the rich and talented financier of the Blanes family,one of his mother's brothers, proprietor of a great hardware shop situated in one of the damp, narrow and crowded streets that ran into the Rambla.

The Blanes family had gone much to sea.

The Blanes had never seen these extraordinary creatures.

Besides them there were only the carbineers installed in the barracks and various calkers making their mallets resound on the hull of a schooner ordered by the Blanes brothers.

Over there on the coasts of Catalunia lived his brothers-in-law, the Blanes, genuine wolves of the sea.

The Blanes of the coast showed a gloomy fatalism.

She was the daughter of a Blanes (the only poor one in the family) who had commanded his relatives' ships, and had died of yellow fever in a Central American port.

His cousin, Joaquin Blanes, proprietor of a factory for knit goods, urged him repeatedly to follow his example.

Blanes was entering local politics with the enthusiasm of a middle-class man for novel adventure.

The manufacturer, Blanes, stammered with astonishment.

This relative was his nephew, a son of Blanes, the manufacturer of knit goods, who had fled from Barcelona at the outbreak of the war with other boys devoted to singing Los Segadores and perturbing the tranquillity of the "Consul of Spain" sent by Madrid.

Blanes had asked the captain to see his son.

Blanes explained like a knight-errant the impulse that had called him to the war.

Blanes, the son of a middle-class citizen, used to admire him for his more distinguished family.

The enthusiastic Blanes had already fired his gun against the assassins of Roger de Flor.

LINKS, J. G. File on Bolitho Blane.

File on Bolitho Blane.

By Eugene Blane, Jr. & Arthur I. Winard.

LINKS, J. G. File on Bolitho Blane.

File on Bolitho Blane.

By Eugene Blane, Jr. & Arthur I. Winard.

That evening we all supped together at the Chaval Blane, and of what we did or said after supper I have but a confused remembrance.

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