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Example sentences for "amongst other"

  • Amongst other charges, it was proved that he had 'entered into a contract with the Government for the exportation of convicts to Virginia and Maryland, and gave the usual bond to the sheriff for so doing.

  • And, amongst other things, she reproached him that he had wickedly pretended a journey in order that he might try her, and that he was a coward and a recreant, unworthy to have such a wife as she was.

  • But three or four days after that, without alluding to the conversation they had had, he demanded of the young man, amongst other things, what dish he preferred, and he replied that no dish pleased him so much as eel pasties.

  • Amongst other, many other, great men produced by this Abbey of Malmsbury was that famous scholar and historian, William de Malmsbury.

  • Gourlay, amongst other whims, took it into his head to write against the poor laws, saying that they were a bad thing.

  • Amongst other things, I said that I liked the plain names of farmer and husbandman better than that of agriculturist; and, the prospect I held out to them, was that of a description to catch their applause?

  • Abauzit's study, amongst other rooms, was made tidy and set in order.

  • Amongst other things, Abauzit devoted much study to the barometer and its variations, with the object of deducing the general laws which regulated atmospheric pressure.

  • For these, amongst other reasons, habits of business are necessary to be cultivated by all women, in order to their being efficient helpers in the world's daily life and work.

  • The students, amongst other privileges, would not suffer their trunks to be searched by customhouse authorities, and no ordinary policeman would have dared to arrest one of them.

  • Amongst other things, he informed me that I ought not to study too hard, because the air in Calabria was very heavy, and I might become consumptive from too close application to my books.

  • Amongst other things he assured me that the Siamese ambassadors were cheats paid by Madame de Maintenon.

  • The abbe being intimately acquainted with them, I gathered from him all the information I required, and, amongst other things, I heard that the young countess had a brother, then an officer in the papal service.

  • Amongst other works, I remember that he had tried to cut a canal from the River Vicol to the Bay of Ragay.

  • Yellow Ochre is found in Batangas, Camarines, Albay, Leyte and Antique, amongst other places.

  • Amongst other duties of the Guardia Civil in bygone years was the making of periodical expeditions against the remontados and the hill tribes, officially designated Talas, or cuttings down.

  • Our village was blessed, amongst other things, with a well-endowed school.

  • Whilst I was at Vandalia, I saw in a list of lands for sale, amongst other lots to be sold for taxes, one of Mr. Flowers'.

  • Neither was he intimate with any of the other bigger boys, who were warned off by his oddnesses, for he was a very queer fellow; besides, amongst other failings, he had that of impecuniosity in a remarkable degree.

  • And here, amongst other daughters of the house, was the very proud daughter of the house, the Warwick Dowager who married the Spectator, and led him the life of a dog.

  • I then questioned him about the places which he had mentioned, and found he knew a great deal about them, amongst other things he described Cleopatra’s needle, and the At Maidan at Constantinople with surprising exactness.

  • Footnote a: The charter granted by the Crown of England in 1609 stipulated, amongst other conditions, that the adventurers should pay to the Crown a fifth of the produce of all gold and silver mines.

  • Amongst other things, I begged her to have done with her family, and I believe she has never spoken to them since.

  • The latter reminds one too much, amongst other things, of the blood of the martyrs.

  • Amongst other things, that your Majesty would totally cancel the edicts you have suspended, and freely pardon all the Christaudins.

  • Amongst other things, he wrote: Here, I doubtless touch upon a point that is distinctive of your criticism.

  • It contained, amongst other things, the couplet which provoked his war with Lady Mary and Lord Hervey.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acquiring knowledge; amongst many; amongst other; amongst others; amongst the; amongst them; amongst whom; beautiful manner; before stated; buffalo meat; chronic bronchitis; dear marquis; eighty feet; equal proportions; false idea; good crop; inch square; loving people; miniature painter; open warfare; potassium iodide; right living; through them; water resources; what wilt; written from