1960 examples of making one in sentences

"Besides, I'm making one hand wash the other.

If 2 are dressed, a little variety may be made by making one of them green with a little chopped parsley mixed with the bread crumbs.

After making one, which, as Sir John Hawkins informs us, extended no further than the promised annuity, Johnson's final disposition of his property was established by a Will and Codicil, of which copies are subjoined.

After the President departed I made a note of the interview, in which among other things I wrote: "I am convinced that he is making one of the greatest mistakes of his career and will imperil his reputation.

I was a Pagan slave, employed among the women about the queen, and making one of her special attendants.

For a day or two no very satisfactory anchorage could be found, and the weather was rather unsettled, so, making one of the chiefs a present of an English sow and boar, and a male and two female goats, the ship bore away to the northwards.

Our duty is to cherish all whom he honors without concerning ourselves overmuch about the kind of men they are, but making one thing determine our friendship for them,the fact that they please the emperor."

I always like to read old Darwin's 'Loves of the Plants;' bosh as it is in a scientific point of view, it amuses one's fancy without making one lose one's temper, as one must when one begins to analyse the microscopic ape called self and friends.

They were making one of those heart-stopping turns.

Will your honour give me a trifle towards making one up?" "No, I won't; if you belonged to this village you would know that I cannot afford to fling money about.

And before they got him through the door he had nearly disabled three of his assailants, making one of them bite his tongue in a manner most uncomfortable.

The greatest depth was exactly one hundred and two feet, to which may be added the five feet which it has risen since, making one hundred and seven.

This she soon did, making one stretch to the southward, until in a line with the boat, when she tacked, and came toward us, with her yards braced up, but having the wind nearly abeam.

The Maryland Court of Appeals at the December term 1813 (see case of Stewart vs. Oakes,) decided that a slave owned in Maryland, and sent by his master into Virginia to work at different periods, making one year in the whole, became free, being emancipated by the law of Virginia quoted above.

[case of Stewart vs. Oakes,] decided that a slave owned in Maryland, and sent by his master into Virginia to work at different periods, making one year in the whole, became free, being emancipated by the law of Virginia quoted above.

The man who said this of course did not realize that he was making one of the most shameful remarks recorded in history.

Mathilde, making one last grasp at self-control, said: "They wouldn't be so horrid to you, Pete, if they understood" But the muscles of her throat contracted, and she never got any further.

I farmed in Forrest City, making one crop, and then I entered the ministry, and then I preached at Spring Park for two years.

In making one of the composites I gave two-thirds of the total time of exposure to the first portrait, and one-third to the second portrait.

I have got so far, and I should prefer making one effort of it.

Sometimes I will find her in the garden seated in front of her easel, making one of her delicate water-colour sketchesfor she was once a student in Paris and has romantic Latin-quarter memories.

In some respects they remind one of the hermit-crab, who annexes some beautiful ready-made house, instead of making one for himself.

Would it not employ a Beau prettily enough, if instead of eternally playing with a Snuff-box, he spent some part of his Time in making one?

I was excessively out of order with a pain in my stomach, which I had had for ten days, and was fitter to write verses like a Poet Laureate, than for making one; however, I was going home to dinner alone, and at six I sent her some lines, which you ought to have seen how sick I was, to excuse; but first I must tell you my tale methodically.

All poetry, to be poetry at all, must have the power of making one, now and then, involuntarily ejaculate: 'What made him think of that?'

1960 examples of  making one  in sentences