1609 examples of commencements in sentences

"Oh yes you must,'les commencements sont toujours difficiles,' and you will learn.

Think what refuge there is for one, before August is over, from college commencements and society that isolates!

Mr. Drury rarely missed commencements at Cartwright, and naturally he could not stay away this year.

She saw the dates, the "dear George" at the commencements, and the doctor's name subscribed, before she would believe they were real; it was then the truth appeared to break upon her in a flood of light.

"But, having established a single word, we are enabled to establish a vastly important point; that is to say, several commencements and terminations of other words.

On days of festival, such as the kalends or commencements of their months, these images are placed in order around their idol houses, and the Moals enter in and bow themselves before these images, to do them reverence.

So that affliction is a school or academy, wherein the best scholars are prepared to the commencements of the Deity.

After this he went to several Commencements for me, and ate the dinners provided; he sat through three of our Quarterly Conventions for mealways voting judiciously, by the simple rule mentioned above, of siding with the minority.

He had heard a number of such compositions at commencements which had inspired him with glowing hopes for the future of the authors, which he had never seen realized, and he had come more to gratify Mr. Thomas than to please himself.

This process he repeats with an incessant simplicity of renewed commencements, which is almost like the blind acting of instinct leading the insect, which is conscious of its coming change, to spin afresh and afresh its ever-broken cocoon.

It described what Mr. Tyrrel chiefly feared; and what in its commencements he thought he already felt.

I bestowed more honorary degrees on them than the average small college does in ten commencements.

People call to request him to deliver addresses at the dedication of churches, schoolhouses, colleges, flag-raisings, commencements, and anniversaries, re-unions, political meetings, and all manner of reform movements.

The year of this autobiographical record marked the commencement of Gissing's reclamation from that worst form of literary slaverythe chain-gang.

ORIGINE, f., principe, commencement; extraction; provenance.

You 'd be left at the latter end the same as at the commencement.

Congress had passed an Act prohibiting the importation of slaves, which was to begin to take effect at the commencement of the year 1808.

And on an auspicious day, suitable for the commencement of a sacrificial ceremony, Saryati ordered the erection of a sacrificial shrine of an excellent description and splendidly furnished with all desirable things.

Those who speak for glory or philanthropy are always in demand for college commencements and Fourth of July orations, hence much of Miss Anthony's eloquence, as well as my own, was utilized in this way.

This meeting of Eugene and General Bonaparte was the commencement of the acquaintanceship between Bonaparte and Josephine.

He felt that he was only at the commencement, and not at the end of his conquering career; he constantly heard ringing in his ears the notes of the battle-clarion, summoning him to renewed triumphs and to other paths of glory.

Car les enfants des rois sont ainsi; leurs fronts blancs Portent un cercle d'ombre, et leurs pas chancelants Sont des commencements de règne.

They have cleared little ground and cultivated so little that they are still in the very commencements.

To a friend writing of this same speech he said, "with great pleasure I received the information respecting the commencement of my nephew's political course.

The commencement of the two seasons, the range of the thermometer, the duration of the different winds, the liability to earthquakes, are subjects upon which the North is at variance with the East, and the West with both.

1609 examples of  commencements  in sentences