16526 examples of chosen in sentences

He was bidden welcome by an eleven-year-old pupil in well-chosen and significant words.

And what nobler than to be self-chosen executors of Heaven's vengeance.

They were men whom we thought well qualified for the work, probably just the men we would have chosen.

" Two men were chosen by the churches in 1861.

The two men chosen as pastors were examined, ordained, and installed by this body.

Mrs. Talmage has since returned to the Talmage Manse at Amoy and taken up afresh her chosen work in educating the ill-privileged and ignorant women of China.

R65365, 8Aug50, Hewette Elwell Joyce (A) POEMS OF AMERICAN PATRIOTISM, chosen by Brander Matthews; illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.

R59406, 13Mar50, Glenn Clark (A) MAP OF CHINA, FRENCH INDO-CHINA, SIAM, MALAYSIA AND CHOSEN, by Rand, McNally and Company.

And because the Balkan peoples have chosen the less evil of two kinds of war, and will use their victory to bring a system based on force and conquest to an end, we who do not believe in force and conquest rejoice in their action, and believe it will achieve immense benefits.

This is a hard road, but it is the road the Western world has chosen; and it is better than the other.

These men by degrees built themselves comfortable, roomy houses, and their lives were very pleasant; at a little later period Clark, having abandoned war and politics, describes himself as living a retired life with, as his chief amusements, reading, hunting, fishing, fowling, and corresponding with a few chosen friends.

The officers were elected by the men and when there was no immediate danger of war they were chosen purely for their social qualities.

Lewis and Clark Chosen.

The two officers chosen to carry through the work belonged to families already honorably distinguished for service on the Western border.

During his holiday at Weimar he called upon Wieland, then seventy-eight years old, who, probably prompted by Mrs. Schopenhauer, tried to dissuade him from the vocation which he had chosen.

Then, after the conversation had continued for some little time, Wieland declared warmly that he thought that he had chosen rightly.

On the contrary, the memory is to be specially exercised, as it has its greatest strength and tenacity in youth; however, what has to be retained must be chosen with the most careful and scrupulous consideration.

Art was regarded merely as a means and instrument of mediaeval religious feeling, and consequently ecclesiastical subjects alone were chosen for its themes.

[M. d'Argenson] whom Censor Cato's ghost Might well have chosen for his vacant post, O Marc Rene!

If I had wanted to hide, this spot was what I should have chosen.

Veneers were cut and applied, not as some have supposed for the purpose of economy, but because by this means the most beautifully marked or figured specimens of the woods could be chosen, and a much richer and more decorative effect produced than would be possible when only solid timber was used.

"It was a rattlesnake on a white ground, with the motto, 'Don't tread on me!'" I told them of the new flag that our Congress had chosen, describing it in detail.

There was the difference between Schuyler, who picked his man, told him what he desired, and left him to fulfil it, and Gates, who chose a man, flung his inexperience into his face, and bade him twirl his thumbs and sit idle until headquarters could teach him how to do what he had been chosen to do, presumably upon his ability to do it!

Wondering why they had chosen me if they thought me a blundering and, perhaps, mischievous zealot, I picked up a parcel, undirected, and broke the string.

Who he might be, what might have been his past history, what rank he might have borne, what part played in the great warfare of life, was all of course sunk in the oblivion of his religious profession, where, as at the grave, a man laid down name and fame and past history and worldly goods, and took up a coarse garb and a name chosen from the roll of the saints, in sign that the world that had known him should know hint no more.

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