254 examples of demonstratives in sentences

The crowd was more demonstrative than is usual with popular assemblies in the East, but the note struck was not one of jubilation so much as of thankfulness at the relief from an insufferable bondage of bad government.

Dorn seemed strangely gay and unusually demonstrative; apparently he forgot the war-cloud in the joy of the hour.

Alone, therefore, neglecting the treatise of Plato, which contains all the good of the first philosophy, and which may be called the summit of the whole theory, you will be deprived of the most perfect knowledge of beings, unless you are so much infatuated as to boast on account of fabulous fictions, though an analysis of things of this kind abounds with much of the probable, but not of the demonstrative.

For this kind of discourse is not demonstrative, but entheastic, or the progeny of divine inspiration; and was invented by the ancients, not through necessity, but for the sake of persuasion, not regarding naked discipline, but sympathy with things themselves.

It would be hard not to be," said demonstrative Linnet.

But, my lords, I am willing to confess that they cannot judge of events to come with such unerring and demonstrative knowledge as their opponents can obtain of them after they have happened; and they are inclined to pay all necessary deference to the great sagacity of those wonderful prognosticators, who can so exactly foresee the past.

Some of Dr Kennedy's acquaintances wished to hear him explain, in "a logical and demonstrative manner, the evidences and doctrines of Christianity"; and Lord Byron, hearing of the intended meeting, desired to be present, and was accordingly invited.

It is true he has defects; but who has not?unless it be a deacon;still there is something in his style which indicates earnestness, something in his language, demonstrative of culture and eloquence.

She had a great respect and liking for Mr. Bright, but he was sometimes rather too demonstrative to suit her taste.

Mrs. Sandford, less demonstrative in manner than her sister-in-law, and less brilliant in conversation and personal attractions, was yet a most winning, lovable woman,a companion for a summer ramble, or a quiet tête-à-tête, rather than a belle for a drawing-room.

He was more demonstrative than his companion in the joyousness of this wild life.

TEMPERAMENTThe Great Dane is good-tempered, affectionate, and faithful to his master, not demonstrative with strangers; intelligent, courageous, and always alert.

By these Steps, from so mean a Beginning, did this great Man reduce, what was only before Noise, to one of the most delightful Sciences, by marrying it to the Mathematicks; and by that means caused it to be one of the most abstract and demonstrative of Sciences.

Who knows therefore but Motion, whether Decorous or Representative, may not (as it seems highly probable it may) be taken into consideration by some Person capable of reducing it into a regular Science, tho not so demonstrative as that proceeding from Sounds, yet sufficient to entitle it to a Place among the magnify'd Arts.

The juniors were enthusiastic, but not so demonstrative as the sophomores.

In Berlin, during the winter semester of 1859-60, there were no less than three hundred and forty-six courses in all, besides the clinics, demonstrative and practical courses, philological exercises, and the like.

Now I think of it, there were two couples who had come so far with us, but at the Rhone Glacier they exchanged their mutually demonstrative adieux, and I thought the couple who came on would never have done waving to the couple who stayed behind.

The lordly, triumphant manner with which he bantered Gladstone for his dealings in the Straits of Malacca, the demonstrative confidence with which he took victory for granted, and the magnetism of his personal bearing, made an impression on me quite unique in my experience of men.

On the other hand, the evidence of what is wrong is rather demonstrative; for when we would expose a particular error, we exhibit it in contrast with the established principle which it violates.

3.Murray says, "Perhaps the words former and latter may be properly ranked amongst the demonstrative pronouns, especially in many of their applications.

This, that, former, latter, both, neither, are termed demonstratives; because they point out precisely the subjects to which they relate.

numb, universally employed in reference to the Supreme Being Demonstratives, from the class, pronominal adjectives Derivation, as a topic of gram., what explains importance of a knowledge of what languages will throw light on the subject of Eng. Desiring, verbs of; see Commanding Desisting, verbs of; with part., in stead of infin.

The distributives, demonstratives, and indefinites, cannot strictly be called pronouns; since they never stand instead of nouns, but always agree with a noun expressed or understood: Neither can they be properly called adjectives, since they never express the quality of a noun.

GRAMMAR REVIEW.-LESSON XVII Demonstrative pronouns.

She bent her blushing face over his, and the caress surprised as much as it delighted himshe was so shyly demonstrative.

254 examples of  demonstratives  in sentences