178 examples of sweeny in sentences
* Sweeny's New Charter.
Would OAKEY HALL and PETER B. SWEENY put such a slight upon these bastard allies of the O'BRIENS and MORRISSEYS whose columns are open to the highest bidder, and whose lips reek venom while their hands are ever ready to strike a victim in the back, as to pass them by while they were on the war-path?
Standing, left to right: Tommy Pierre, Tommy Windich, James Kennedy, James Sweeny.
A slave man fled from his master, (Mr. Sweeny) and being closely pursued by the overseer and a son of the owner, he stepped a few yards in the Bernard and placed himself upon a root, from which there was no possibility of his escape, for he could not swim.
To this Elder Beil Wardle had replied, somewhat testily: "Well, now, since these valleys of Ephraim have got a little fattened a whole lot of us have got the sweeny, and our skins are growing too tight on our flesh."
Growth and development of the young child, by Winifred Rand, Mary E. Sweeny & E. Lee Vincent.
Mary E. Sweeny (A); 2Apr62; R293347. RAND, MCNALLY & CO.
SWEENY, MARY E. Growth and development of the young child.
Charles Sweeny (C); 17May71; R505752. SWIFT, JONATHAN.
By Winifred Rand, Mary E. Sweeny & E. Lee Vincent.
Mary E. Sweeny (A); 11Oct73; R561034. R561035.
Nor must we forget Major Folliot Lally's bravery at Cerro Gordo; Second Lieutenant Thomas W. Sweeny, a brigadier-general of the Civil War and the planner of the Fenian invasion of Canada in 1866; Lieutenant Henry B. Kelly of the 2nd Infantry, afterwards a Confederate colonel; Captain Martin Burke of the 1st Artillery, killed at Churubusco; nor Lieutenant William F. Barry of the 2nd Artillery, a brigadier-general in the Civil War.
Cornelius Hartnett, Hugh Waddell, and Terence Sweeny, all Irishmen, were members of the Court, and among the members of the provincial assembly I find such names as Murphy, Leary, Kearney, McLewean, Dunn, Keenan, McManus, Ryan, Bourke, Logan, and others showing an Irish origin.
Thus it was that Glover reached California, and Thurstane and Sweeny Fort Yuma.
It must be understood that the fatigues and sufferings of that terrible pilgrimage through the desert had bothered the constitution of little Sweeny, and that, after lying in garrison hospital at San Francisco for several months, he had been discharged from the service on "certificate of physical disability."
As the family were sitting at breakfast Sweeny's voice was heard in the veranda outside, "colloguing" with another voice which seemed familiar.
"the divil have ye been up to?" demanded Sweeny.
" "I've been blowin' glass, Sweeny," replied the sniffling voice of Phineas Glover.
" "I don't belave that nuther," asseverated Sweeny, anxious to clear himself from the charge of credulity.
ye're lousy wid money," commented Sweeny.
" "Thunder, Sweeny!
"Come in, Sweeny.
You can start Sweeny on his farm.
" "Och, he's a thousin' times welkim," put in Sweeny, "though I'm afeard
He'd tache the cattle to trade their skins wid ache other, an slather me wid lies till I wouldn't know which was the baste an' which was Sweeny.