1012 examples of steads in sentences

In their stead rolled an angry brown flood whirling in almost unbroken surface from bank to bank.

" "If 'twas me in your stead, I'd be thinking of other things than coffee at this hour," says Barbro.

When Isak came driving down over the moors, 'twas no little event, for he came but rarely, Sivert going most ways in his stead.

Upon her first coming into my Family, she turned off a parcel of very careful Servants, who had been long with me, and introduced in their stead a couple of Black-a-moors, and three or four very genteel Fellows in Laced Liveries, besides her French woman, who is perpetually making a Noise in the House in a Language which no body understands, except my Lady Mary.

Hark ye, Norsemen, hear great tidings: Odin, Thor, and Frey are dead, And white Christ, the strong and gentle, standeth peace-crowned in their stead.

" Now, in Provence, at the time when Félix lived, no one had ever heard of such a thing as a Christmas tree; but in its stead every cottage had a "crèche"; that is, in one corner of the great living-room, the room of the fireplace, the peasant children and their fathers and mothers built up on a table a mimic village of Bethlehem, with houses and people and animals, and, above all, with the manger, where the Christ Child lay.

Nevertheless, twenty-five years ago I advocated Conscription in a carefully-reasoned article that appeared in Mr. Stead's Pall Mall Gazette.

Gods of Olympus, can ye not restore To outraged Rome her dignity of old? 'Twere better Jove and Juno to adore Than in their stead to worship only Gold!

This king had a cousin named Macbeth, who being the bravest general in Scotland, was employed by Duncan to fight all his battles for him, when he was too old to fight them himself; but Macbeth, although a brave man, was not a good man, and besides that, he had a very wicked wife, who wanted to be a queen, and therefore she tried to persuade her husband to kill Duncan, that he might be made king in his stead.

Rumor also says, that Mr. T. Hartley Crawford, of Pennsylvania, is appointed in his stead.

The famous divine of the Middle Ages, John Duns Scotus, was born in this parishthat of Embleton; the group of buildings known as Dunston Hall, or Proctor's Steads, is supposed to have been his birthplace, and a portrait of the learned doctor is to be seen there.

Oh! that such opposers of Abolitionism would put their souls in the stead of the free colored man's and obey the apostolic injunction, to "remember them that are in bonds as bound with them."

Here the plain with its tertiary deposits ended, and in its stead commenced the long series of schistous rocks wildly heaped up and twisted out of their stratification, by which the Tarn is hemmed in for seventy miles as the crow flies, and nearly twice that distance if the windings of the gorge be reckoned.

Perhaps the latter, which had been for some time present to my imagination, for that reason appeared the more obvious of the two; and I found an appearance of complexity, which the mind did not stay to explain, in substituting the other in its stead.

And straight before her stood the angel of God in white garments, the same she had seen at the church-door; but he no longer carried the sharp sword, but in its stead a splendid green spray full of roses, and he touched the ceiling with the spray, and the ceiling rose up high, and where he had touched it there gleamed a golden star.

But in their stead may sweet content, A consciousness of life well spent, A trusting heart to thee be given, And last of all a crown in heav'n.

A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun.

But, in stead of correcting its faults, this zealous reformer has but run into others still greater.

A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun.

A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun.

A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun.

A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun.

A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun.

The consequence is what might be expected in the circumstances, that go to most farm-steads, and the surprise will be to meet a single fowl of any description in good condition, that is to say, in such condition that it may be killed at the instant in a fit state for the table, which it might be if it had been treated as a fattening animal from its birth.

"'On two days it steads not to run from the grave, The appointed and the unappointed day; On the first, neither balm nor physician can save, Nor thee, on the second, the Universe slay.'

1012 examples of  steads  in sentences