609 examples of momentous in sentences

We had no sooner got back to the tennis ground than one felt something momentous was taking place between Godmamma and the Baronne.

My Lords, I have detained you longer than I could have desired; but I felt it absolutely necessary to give your Lordships an opportunity of fully considering this momentous subject.

" Samarendra bowed himself out with precipitation and, on returning home, sent for his factotum, Bipin, to whom he related this momentous interview, with an injunction to raise Rs. 10,000 more by hook or by crook.

The year 1848 was a momentous one to Morse in more ways than one.

The first and most momentous of these is that such a road would be a powerful bond of union between the States east and west of the Rocky Mountains.

Wisely limited and restrained as is his power under our Constitution and laws, he alone can accomplish but little for good or for evil on such a momentous question.

The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union.

Let us pause at this momentous point and afford the people, both North and South, an opportunity for reflection.

She liked to decide things for herself, and choose what she would do; but Mrs. Burton always needed someone to lean upon and to settle momentous questions for her.

The long hard day which had held so many momentous happenings was wearing to a close, and so far she had found no chance at all to speak to the stranger about what he had to fear.

The subject of the Creeds of the Reformed Churches was one of his many specialties in the field of Church History, and he had a reverence for those venerable documents, whose articlesso dry and formal to otherssuggested to his imagination the centuries of momentous controversy which they summed up, and the great champions of the faith who had borne their part therein.

Although Natty Bumppo had certainly made hundreds of more momentous shots, at his enemies or his game, yet he never exerted himself more to excel.

(The side door opens; FAUST is seen stretched upon a couch) HOMUNCULUS (amazed) Momentous! (The phial slips from WAGNER's hands, hovers over FAUST, and sheds a light upon him) Girt with beauty!Water clear

He was alone in the most private of all his private offices, and when interrupted had been engaged in what, of all undertakings, is the most momentous.

But even this consummation must have the most momentous results, and entirely modify the whole anti-slavery movement of the nation.

Europe lay weltering and tossing in seemingly aimless agitation, yet in real birth-throes; and the issue was momentous and memorable, namely: The People.

A half-hour later, during which time a momentous mist of silence hung over the house, I heard steps approaching.

To shield him and other officers who are liable to impeachment from consequences so momentous, except when really merited by official delinquencies, the Constitution has most carefully guarded the whole process of impeachment.

Living at a period of great excitement and of moral and political revolutions, engaged in many of the important events which fixed the attention of the world, and invited to guide the destinies of France at two of the most momentous eras of her history, his political integrity and personal disinterestedness have not been called in question.

In the debate, in the first Congress, February 11th and 12th, 1789, on the petitions of the Society of Friends, and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, Mr. Parker, of Virginia, said, "I cannot help expressing the pleasure I feel in finding so considerable a part of the community attending to matters of such a momentous concern to the future prosperity and happiness of the people of America.

A decision involving such momentous consequences, so well calculated to startle the public mind, so hostile to the established order of things, demands of us, as the official representatives of the American Society, a statement of the reasons which led to it.

We are not abruptly asked to give up all that we most care for, in view of the momentous issues before us.

An ox was almost a sacred beast in Damara-Land, not to be killed except on momentous occasions, and then as a sort of sacrificial feast, in which all bystanders shared.

A new and possibly momentous chapter has opened in the history of the War by the attempt to force the Dardanelles.

What he said he did not know, only that he verged towards the momentous subject, and committed himself so far that he must either come plainly to the point or apologize and withdraw as best he might.

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