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Example sentences for "almanac"

Lexicographically close words:
ally; allying; allyl; allzeit; almaist; almanack; almanacks; almanacs; almandine; alme
  1. He looked like the Picture you see in the Almanac entitled, "Before Taking.

  2. After Bernice had heard these Almanac Wheezes 26 or 28 times, she would sit still and look at the Center-Piece while Lover was performing.

  3. I quoted from the patent medicine almanac occasional, just so he wouldn't forget he was takin' treatment.

  4. As my bookseller has not sent me an almanac for the present year, we must henceforth reckon for ourselves.

  5. This almanac abounded with aphorisms and quaint sayings, the influence of which tended mightily to economy, and it was translated into foreign languages, in fact was the most popular almanac ever printed.

  6. I will briefly describe those parts of the almanac which are useful to the observer.

  7. We will now take the planets in the order of their distance from the sun: we shall see that the information given by the almanac is very important to the observer.

  8. Partridge: an almanac maker of Pope's day who was given to prophesying future events.

  9. Shortly before this poem was written Swift had issued a mock almanac foretelling that Partridge would die on a certain day.

  10. In a Franciscan convent I met, it is true, with an old monk who drew up the almanac for all the provinces of Venezuela, and who possessed some accurate knowledge of astronomy.

  11. An almanac of saints' days, which is often printed in combination with the menu of a restaurant, was lying on the table.

  12. But she looked often at the clock, as they remembered afterwards, and studied over a copy of the Farmer's Almanac which was lying in the kitchen, with a somewhat singular interest.

  13. First in years, repute, and high utility must be placed 'The British Almanac and Companion.

  14. The 'British Almanac and Companion' maintains its reputation as being the very best work of the kind published.

  15. To the letter Mr. Jefferson replied as follows: "I thank you sincerely for your letter of the 19th instant, and for the Almanac it contained.

  16. No," replied the Deputation; "and the same painful omission is observable in the Almanac de Gotha.

  17. It was disappointing to His Highness, but not to the Editor of the Almanac de Gotha, who found a revised edition of his excellent periodical was, at least for the present, unnecessary.

  18. By reference to the almanac a large amount of territory will be discovered upon which its rays also fell.

  19. He made a patent-medicine almanac into a roll and fitted it with unprofitable carefulness about his finger.

  20. And then the almanac lied, and said that spring had come.

  21. This was the first Almanac ever made in this country.

  22. The Almanac is the production of my arduous study.

  23. I took up my pen to direct to you, as a present, a copy of an Almanac I have calculated for the succeeding year.

  24. Lincoln walked slowly toward the jury-box and gave the almanac to the foreman, an intelligent farmer.

  25. Then he took note on a slip of paper of the moon's rising on the night of August 9 and 10, and handed back the almanac to Lincoln, who slowly laid it face downward on the table in front of him, open at the place of its testimony.

  26. Then he began once more: "But, may it please the court, before proceeding with the witness I would like to have the jury look at the almanac which I hold in my hand.

  27. In order to take away the life of an innocent man he has invented this atrocious web of lies, to the falsity of which the very heavens above bear witness, as this almanac shows you.

  28. The screw, upon which the movable almanac turned, was constantly getting loose.

  29. And though I take to city life, I'm lonesome after all For that old yellow almanac upon my kitchen wall.

  30. It is of the same style of time-keeper, and shows how our forefathers liked to know not only the time of day but the period of the month; and how they watched the moon's changes, and in a word made an almanac of their watches.

  31. In 1685, when a printer in Philadelphia printed something in his almanac which displeased the Council, he was forced to blot it out.

  32. No book, pamphlet, or almanac could be printed without permission.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "almanac" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.