307 examples of tanner in sentences

If you would be, for instance, a great statesman, be first an alderman; if a great warrior, be firstwell, say a tanner.

"Marry come up with a murrain!" cried the Tanner, for he, too, had talked himself into a fume.

" "Nay, I pass not for length," answered the Tanner.

At last Little John struck like a flash, and"rap!"the Tanner met the blow and turned it aside, and then smote back at Little John, who also turned the blow; and so this mighty battle began.

" At last Little John saw his chance, and, throwing all the strength he felt going from him into one blow that might have felled an ox, he struck at the Tanner with might and main.

And now did the Tanner's cowhide cap stand him in good stead, and but for it he might never have held staff in hand again.

"Wouldst thou strike a man when he is down?" "Ay, marry would I," quoth the Tanner, giving him another thwack with his staff.

"Hast thou had enough?" asked the Tanner grimly, holding his staff aloft.

"Then thou mayst go thy ways; and thank thy patron saint that I am a merciful man," said the Tanner.

"A plague o' such mercy as thine!" said Little John, sitting up and feeling his ribs where the Tanner had cudgeled him.

"What may be thy name, good fellow?" said Robin, next, turning to the Tanner.

"Men do call me Arthur a Bland," spoke up the Tanner boldly, "and now what may be thy name?" "Ha, Arthur a Bland!"

" "How!" cried the Tanner, "art thou indeed the great Robin Hood, and is this the famous Little John?

"Mrs. Tanner said last week that she was sure he was going to have another, because the spire which he felt he was directed in his last dream to put on the little chapel was all complete, and the missionary outfit which he had believed himself called upon to provide was ready and gone to the South Seas, and he naturally looked for more work.

"So he has," assented Bessie; "and I was inclined to be impatient at this one, since it brought me home in the heat, and the house seemed so lonely, because Mrs. Tanner was still in the country with her married daughter.

Mrs. Tanner never dreams: she's opposed to it.

"Mrs. Tanner thinks it was something about a journey, and she is quite out of sorts on the subject: for, as she says, the house can't be shut up without worriment, and as to staying in it alone she really has not got the nerve.

" Both seemed threateningthe preparations and the name; and when Mrs. Tanner asked where Miss Bessie was, and heard that she had gone out, she shook her head and said that she was afraid her pa wouldn't like it.

Before I could answer, Mrs. Tanner at the door said, "Here's Mr. Tom, bless his heart!

I cried dramatically; and then I really and truly did faintstone dead, as Mrs. Tanner said afterwardfor I was not used to telling lies, and even white ones were exciting things to tell, and scarcely justified themselves to my conscience by the magnitude of the good they were to do.

Mr. Haines and Uncle Pennyman went out to their commentaries, Mrs. Tanner to see to her buns:

There was none in Amalon; not Jarom Tanner, six feet three, who became a helpless, grinning child in her presence; nor Moroni Peterson, who became a solemn and ghastly imbecile; nor Ammaron Wright, son of the Bishop, who had opened the dance of the Young People's Auxiliary with prayer, and later tried to kiss her in a dark corner of the room.

His father taught him the tanner's trade; but a restless disposition drove him to frequent changes of scene and effort when he grew to manhood.

TANNER, WILLIAM M. Correct English; first course.

William M. Tanner (A); 6Mar61; R271917.

307 examples of  tanner  in sentences