13186 examples of repeats in sentences

It was only at the banquets and great repeats that sweet dishes and dorures appeared, and they seem to have been introduced for the purpose of exhibiting the power of the imagination and the talent in execution of the master-cook.

A law of 1291 repeats, "That games with dice be forbidden."

Mr. Watts, turning round to the Diwans, says excitedly, that it is impossible to do anything with me, and repeats to them word for word all that has passed between us.

Uncle John reads them, and Aunt Maria repeats responses whenever she thinks best, as she can't hear a word; but I suppose she counts up, and, from long habit, just says "Amen" when she gets to the end ofthirty, sayfancying that will be right; and it is generally.

A. He waits until the serpent raises its head, and then strikes him with his wing, and repeats the blow until the serpent is killed.

One of the children is placed before the gallery, and repeats aloud, in a kind of chaunt, the whole of the school repeating after him; One and one are two; two and one are three; three and one are four, &c. up to twelve.

The following method is adopted:The picture being suspended against the wall, and one class of the children standing opposite to it, the master repeats the following passages: "And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren; and they hated him yet the more.

those too which are neither injurious nor profitable; and if he repeats nothing more than once; and if he does not at once begin with that topic which was last mentioned;and the imitation of brevity takes in many people, so that, when they think that they are being brief, they are exceedingly prolix, while they are taking pains to say many things with brevity, not absolutely to say but few things and no more than are necessary.

It also repeats the moral argument for the existence of a supreme reason, thus supplementing physico-theology, which is inadequate to the demonstration of one absolutely perfect Deity; so that the third Critique, like the two preceding, concludes with the Idea of God as an object of practical faith.

But, since history ever repeats itself, the maxims that guided the policy of Rome in her advance to sovereignty are not without application here.

Michel Angelo's forehead repeats itself in the dome of St. Peter's.

I felt like a horrid woman in a village who repeats spiteful gossip and says, 'I'm telling you because I think you ought to know what's being said.'

The President again repeats that he begs his Cabinet to consider the proposed measure as his own, in the support of which he shall require no one of them to make a sacrifice of opinion or principle.

" "He still keeps behind us," repeats Jasper, looking back, "is he to follow us?"

In his dreams he repeats it night after night, and sees the sights that wounded his eyes, and feels the thoughtsthe haunting spirits of the thoughtsthat tore his heart as he rode through hell to find those whom he was seeking.

Sometimes Mr. Farron repeats, weeks afterward, something I've said, word for word, the way I said it.

The drum corps, it beats it, The echo repeats it, The bass-drummer brings it out strong, And we speak, and we talk, And we dance, and we walk, To the notes of that popular song.

Glory to God, who whispers peace, And bids our hope and faith increase; Glory to God, be echoed then, 'Till earth repeats the long amen.

So, in some instances, repeats the import of a preceding noun, and consequently partakes the nature of a pronoun; as, "We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.

Spencer, whose Grammar abounds with useless repetitions, repeats his note elsewhere, with the following illustrations: "E. g. Olmstead's and Comstock's Philosophies.

Thus the word fours or tens, unless some arithmetical number be prefixed to it, signifies nothing but a mere plurality which repeats indefinitely the collective idea of four or ten. OBS.

Of each member of the Biffin circle Captain GRAHAM tells (nay, repeats) some anecdote that forms a tribute at once to the fertility of his research and the industry of his invention.

Dr. Adam Clarke repeats what he very properly calls "a foolish tradition," that the stone on which Jacob rested his head was afterwards brought to Jerusalem, thence carried after a long lapse of time to Spain, from Spain to Ireland, and from Ireland to Scotland, where it was used as a seat on which the kings of Scotland sat to be crowned.

The Medium asks, 'Will the Spirit rap at the other side of the room,' and, after twelve seconds, and again after forty-three seconds, repeats the inquiry.

He claims to have seen other slaves suspended by their thumbs for varying periods; he repeats, though, that these were not Campbell's practices.

13186 examples of  repeats  in sentences