Our real error consists, not in neglecting to send articles to rival the rich fabrics and wares of this Continent, but in sending too few of those homely but most important products in which we unquestionably lead the world.
I believe I have thus far been among the most industrious visitors, and yet I have not yet even glanced at one-half the articles exhibited, while I have only glanced at most of those I have seen.
The week will probably close before the fixtures will have all been put up and the articles duly arranged for exhibition.
That judgment, I firmly believe, will demonstrate that, in proportion to the extent of its contributions, no other country has sent more articles to the Exhibition by which the whole world may be instructed and benefited than our own.
It is said that the greater part of the Russian articles intended for the Fair are yet ice-bound in the Baltic.
The Queen and Prince Albert spent an hour in the American department a few mornings since, and appeared to regard the articles there displayed with deep interest.
We now returned to Paris, and found the King well satisfied that we had made a peace; though not, however, pleased with the articles concluded in favour of the Huguenots.
The treaty was continued for several days, the conditions of peace requiring much discussion, especially such articles of it as related to religion.
In half an hour Mrs. Hollister had found all that she wanted, and packing the articles in a "trade" chest, I had it passed on deck and lowered into the boat.
For they had read the illuminating series of articles to which I refer, and felt very savage.
The articles were, as I have said, very charmingly written, especially the descriptive passages.
The house consisted of three rooms, and had been made extremely comfortable by articles of cabin furniture.
Did the "Special Commissioner" know that these articles would lead to much misery and suffering?
He was highly delighted when he was placed on the articles at the usual rate of wages paid to native seamen--£3 per month.
Let me cull a few only of the statements in one of the articles entitled "The Trader's Prospects".
I was retained in the case in behalf of the trustees, and had them immediately adopt articles of incorporation and file the same as provided by the statutes of the state.
Finally the house of representatives brought in articles of impeachment, containing thirty counts, and the senate ordered Mr. Brown arrested and brought before them for trial.
I only recite these matters here because the secretary for his own purposes saw proper to make a number of virulent attacks upon me in various scurrilous articles that he published.
The charge in the articles of impeachment was that this was a bribe to Mr. Brown that had induced him to certify fraudulently and falsely to the solvency of the bank.
Upon several of the articles it appears that some of the senators voted "guilty" upon a very slim and unwarranted basis.
These articles of the State Register created, of course, quite an inquiry among the friends of prohibition in the state, and they wrote a number of letters to Mrs. A.
Every book and magazine contains many advertisements; sometimes fully half of a big magazine is covered with notices or pictures of articles for sale.
New York also has other Exchanges, where different articles of merchandise are purchased and sold, such as corn, coffee, cotton, etc.
It appeared that the rat had committed great havoc in his household, stealing and damaging various articles of food; when at last it was caught the man nailed its feet to a board, as a warning to other rats.
I saw the various articles in the basket, from which the cover had fallen.
Just when he had almost emptied it, and was stooping to reach the last articles from the bottom, a happy thought came into the brave woman's mind.
You remember what I said: the time was ripe, just publish a few biographical articlestelling people what he was, and Jethro Bass would snuff out like a candle.
Hated it, too, as a mart where men were bought and sold, for the wording of those articles ran in her head as though some priest of evil were chanting them in her ears.
Cynthia," she said, "those articles were written by politicians, in a political controversy.
I read two articles from the Newcastle Guardian about you--about your life.
Mr. Flint found time, too, to write some carefully worded but nevertheless convincing articles for the Newcastle Guardian, very damaging to certain commanders who had proved unfaithful.
They have not found in England any of that hostility which they were told to expect, apart from a few blackguardly articles in low-class journals.
The brook rises now and then, and they live in a roaring flood; all the small articles have more than once been washed away.
I looked around; there was my color-case rifled and empty, and the other articles were scattered on the ground.
I had various small articles of finery ready as farewell gifts, which should act as sponges to absorb her tears.
The auctioneer went on with the sale, assisted in his description of the various articlesby Monsieur De Vlierbeck, who informed the bidders of their origin, antiquity, and value.
In the dim corners of the canvas armorial bearings of the house of De Vlierbeck might be seen, and many of the articles of furniture were embellished with the same blazonry.
As he refolded the articles one after the other, a smile betokened that he was pleased with his examination.
While some of the articles were remarkable for the richness and elegance of their modern style, there were chairs, tables, and cabinets whose sombre hue and elaborate carving denoted an antiquity of several centuries.
The salt-cellars and other small articles of table-service, which were mostly of the same metal, were all subjected to a similar process, and soon glittered brightly in the feeble lamplight.
I suppose I am next to be told that the delicious but mysterious articles of food which come by the pneumatic carrier from the restaurant or are served there are likewise made out of paper.
The idea of washing and cleaning articles of bodily use and using them over and over again would be quite intolerable.
This was done by adulteration and scamped work, and the practice extended in the nineteenth century to every branch of industry and commerce and affected pretty nearly all articles of human consumption.
A vast army of laborers was constantly engaged in manufacturing an infinite variety of articles and appliances of elegance and ostentation which mocked the unsatisfied primary necessities of those who toiled to produce them.
That means, I suppose, that rubbers too as articles of wear have been sent to the museum?
On one particular occasion Carducho mentions that the host of the meeting-place was engaged in arranging some {195} articles for an exchange he was negotiating with the Admiral of Castile, a great art patron, whom he was expecting.
We both humbly beg of your Majesty that you will confirm these articles soon, and press earnestly for our speedy return.
The Spanish ambassador for respect of the Pope will present to you the articles as they came from Rome, as likewise to require that the delivery of the Infanta may be deferred till the spring.
Olivares himself exacted from viceroys and Spanish officers abroad presents of tapestries and articles of virtu.
Two ragged, red-haired lads led a gaunt pony, drawing a creaking cart, stored with the same kind of articles of tin, which the women bore.
The dinner when it appeared was excellent, and consisted of many more articles than I had ordered.
It was a very small room upstairs, in the back part of the house; and I make no doubt was the chamber of the two poor girls, the landlady’s daughters, as I saw various articles of female attire lying about.
As they had a long way to go, it was late before they had brought in all the articles collected.
Leaving the letter on the table, with a bundle of clothes and a few other articles in his hand, he slipped silently downstairs, thankful to find that his father was not yet stirring.
The first thing to be done was to secure all the articleswhich came on the beach, before another tide should float them off.
Among the articles picked up had been a half-minute glass, and a long line having been fitted, her speed could be ascertained.
Outside the hut he had built a storehouse, in which he placed all the articles which had been cast on shore.
He might at all events find something useful among the articles thrown up.
Before, however, Lord Reginald took him into the berth he got him rigged out in a uniform supplied by the purser, which, with other articles of clothing belonging to Voules, made up his outfit.
There were, however, a number of articles and masses of wreck floating or cast on shore, while the bows of the ship still hung together at the end of the reef.
Remembering that several articles had been thrown up on the beach of the smaller bay on which Lord Reginald had been cast, he thought that he would ascertain if there were any things worth having among them.
The New Schaff-Heizog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge has excellent articles on the various religions.
The worship of wells consisted in throwing precious articles into them, or hanging such offerings on the surrounding trees, and asking some boon from the deity.
Robertson Smith's The Old Testament in the Jewish Church, and articles in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
He cited St. Gregory the Great and St. Irenæus, quoted numerous articles of the Canon Law and whole paragraphs from the Decretals.
He was conscious of a bond of sympathy between himself and the Barnabite, and took a delight in embarrassing and disturbing his peace of mind with objections against divers articles of the Christian faith.
A dealer in fancy articles was offering his laces, a seller of cooling drinks, his portable cistern on his back, was tinkling his bell; little girls were showing off their airs and graces.
Quitting the precincts of the court, he passed along the great gallery of the Palace and halted in front of the shops where articles of every sort and kind were exposed for sale in the most attractive fashion.
Very often," Beauvisage put in his word, "it is with articles that are not toys at all that children like best to play.
The Provost was instructed to restore all these differentarticles to her, and as regarded myself, I willingly let her have the portrait, though it was worth a good deal more than the ten louis mentioned.
The day following he went out to meet the corps, when it had just left some formation, and, calling a halt, delivered a speech on the basis of the Articles of War, a copy of which he brandished before his audience.
It is the habit in ships of war to allow one or more boatmen of a port the privilege of bringing off certain articles for private purchase; such as the various specialties of the place, and food not embraced in the ship's ration.
He lived by writing a few articles on commercial affairs, and contributed to one of those encyclopedias brought out by speculation and not by learning.
The flesh meats and the cereals, which contain the largest amounts of this requisite of organic life, are always the dearest articles of consumption.
Twenty-two millions of dollars for articles which are popularly accounted neither fuel, nor clothing, nor food!
They thus fill a place in the wants of humanity which common articles of food cannot, inasmuch as they satisfy the cravings of the spirit as well as of the flesh.
At least one-third of all the known chemical elements exist in some part of the human economy, and are taken into the stomach hidden in our various articles of food.
It saves them, too, the waste of those nitrogenized articles of food which require so much labor and forethought to procure.
Men’s collars are among those articles that one had come to regard as useless as soon as they are torn or worn, and therefore at the first sign of disrepair to be replaced by new ones.
Beaded bags, hat-bands, belts and ornaments are all expensive articles to purchase, but they are quite easy to make, and the materials cost but a little.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "articles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
