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Example sentences for "anonymous"

Lexicographically close words:
anomalous; anomaly; anon; anone; anonymity; anonymously; anoon; anorexia; anorthic; anos
  1. The Subscribers cannot be expected to feel satisfied with the unrevised performance of an anonymous editor.

  2. What could Louie have to ask of advice or information from the anonymous editor of the Young People's Monitor?

  3. About this time an anonymous letter of Burton's appeared in The World, but we forget upon what subject.

  4. Footnote 329: It cannot, however, be supposed that this anonymous writer fabricated the story; he must have copied it from some other writer, or put down what he had learned by hearsay.

  5. Laboureur translated the work of an anonymous writer of St. Denis, of whose character nothing is known.

  6. How strangely vivid the picture of this anonymous city is, and how we can yet see the maidens coming down to the fountains, the wearied travellers toiling up, and the voluble abundance of the directions given them!

  7. Although so little is known in regard to the Anonymous plan, there seems to be sufficient evidence to negative the idea propounded by Vertue that it was the work of Aggas.

  8. Mr. Dodd goes on to point out that Hakluyt also refers to Clement Adams as an engraver on wood, and he might have been the author of such a large map, which may be the Anonymous woodcut plan.

  9. Altogether I am inclined to think that there was such a plan of London existing before Braun's, and that the Anonymous plan is a coarse copy of one of those made in Holland for popular sale some time before 1580.

  10. My anonymous critic, of whom I told you, is intoxicating with eulogy.

  11. She added, half laughing: 'I am reminded by the boat, I have unveiled my anonymous critic, and had a woeful disappointment.

  12. He was too rich, and that stood for every vice, and every crime pointed him out for anonymous vengeances, cruel and incessant enmities.

  13. At first he took it to be one of the many anonymous denunciations he received daily.

  14. The anonymous letter had taken their place.

  15. And the anonymous correspondent;--had her exhortations any influence on his decision?

  16. Ferrers drew his chair to the fire, and read his own production with all the satisfaction of an anonymous author.

  17. Finally we come to Sturm und Drang, the work of an anonymous writer.

  18. The anonymous author of The Judgment of the City is a sort of bad Blake.

  19. By the tideless sea at Cannes on a summer day,' says their anonymous author, 'I had fallen asleep, and the plashing of the waves upon the shore had doubtless made me dream.

  20. There was another source of great profit, which must not be forgotten, namely, the number of anonymous communications Grimaldi received, enclosing sums of money, and wishing him a happy retirement.

  21. By to-day's post I have dispatched to London an anonymous letter for M r.

  22. He took up the pen; laid it down again; and read the anonymous letter for the third time, shaking his head over it suspiciously.

  23. Don't ask me about this anonymous letter until you have thought for yourself, and have given your own opinion first.

  24. The letter which the postman had just delivered into the housekeeper's hands was no other than the anonymous letter addressed to Noel Vanstone by Captain Wragge.

  25. My exertions in training Miss Vanstone for the coming experiment have been varied by the writing of two anonymous letters in that young lady's interests.

  26. The blank space in the advertisement was filled up, and Mrs. Lecount's acknowledgment of the captain's anonymous warning was now on its way to insertion in the Times.

  27. And the Bolderby Old Crome was gone--Dumetrius had got it--all because that anonymous letter had put it out of his thoughts.

  28. If only he could get at that anonymous letter-writer, he would teach him not to meddle and stir up mud at the bottom of water which he wished should remain stagnant!

  29. He had nothing but this torn-up letter from some anonymous ruffian, whose impudent intrusion into his private life he so violently resented.

  30. Not being a public man, Soames had never yet had an anonymous letter, and his first impulse was to tear it up, as a dangerous thing; his second to read it, as a thing still more dangerous.

  31. And now this anonymous ruffian, with nothing to gain, apparently, save the venting of his spite against foreigners, had wrenched it out of the obscurity in which he had hoped and wished it would remain.

  32. Zuazo and the Anonymous Conqueror came the nearest to a respectable estimate, because they did not much more than double the probable number.

  33. The Gospel of "Matthew" is an anonymous composition which, on analysis, has been found to incorporate nearly fifty per cent of what is found in Mark.

  34. I thought that one of the oddest charges an anonymous letter-writer could bring.

  35. Many years ago, I received an anonymous letter, which abused me heartily for my want of moral courage in not speaking out.

  36. It is not strange that the great anonymous writer should have been willing at that time to leave the country which had been so powerfully stirred by his eloquence.

  37. At first, both the anonymous opponents observed the laws of propriety.

  38. The style of Francis bears a strong resemblance to that of Junius; nor are we disposed to admit, what is generally taken for granted, that the acknowledged compositions of Francis are very decidedly inferior to the anonymous letters.

  39. And, showing his love by more than words, he resolutely set about another literary enterprise, anonymous this time for very fear's sake; but Providence saw fit to bless his efforts with success.

  40. Again, the anonymous Bishop returned his outlay in subscriptions at a fraction over L400 a year.

  41. From the anonymous school I proceeded to an anonymous university, where the medical world was dominated by the bland majesty of Sir Omicron Pie (the name is Trollope's, but it will serve).

  42. We have apostolic authority for holding that Bishops should be given to hospitality, and it is satisfactory to know that the travel-worn clergy and laity of the anonymous diocese are not sent empty away.

  43. From De Quincey we learned that Murder may be regarded as a Fine Art, and from an anonymous poet we acquired the immortal verse which narrates the latter end of Mr. William Weare.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anonymous letter; anonymous letters