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Example sentences for "certain persons"

  • Certain persons, who confessed God the Son consubstantial to the Father, denied the divinity of the Holy Ghost.

  • If a king, being offended at certain persons, had banished them, and their friends offer him a rich garland for them, will not he be moved to release their punishment?

  • Wilson, upon informations given him by certain persons of that country, inserted his name on this day; in the second edition of his English Martyrology.

  • From the circumstances of persons or acts, rash judgment of mortal sin may be only venial; for it sometimes happens that certain kinds of serious sins are not considered very ignominious in certain persons or conditions.

  • In fact, certain persons are by nature disposed to certain virtues (e.

  • While the lords were employed in this inquiry, the commons examined certain abuses which had crept into the management of the navy; and some censures were passed upon certain persons concerned in contracts for victualling the seamen.

  • He promised pardon, and even rewards, to all those who should return to their duty, and to procure in his first parliament an act of indemnity, with an exception of certain persons * whom he now enumerated.

  • FIRST, For the gift of the Father there is this to be considered, to wit, the gift itself; and that is the gift of certain persons to the Son.

  • These are the things, as I think, which first moved the heart of Luther to set himself boldly against the intolerable insolence of certain persons.

  • Some, which I found had offended the oversensitive and irritable tempers of certain persons, I struck out.

  • But at length, his patience being worn out by the unreasonable demands of certain persons, he departed from his usual practice on the subject of the surrender of Ascalon.

  • Certain persons in the township act on their behalf, much as directors might act for a body of shareholders.

  • Certain persons have a right to imprison other people, and it is not false imprisonment.

  • Again, during the prevalence of a murrain about the year 1629, certain persons proposed to stay the plague with the help of a celebrated "cureing stane" of which the laird of Lee was the fortunate owner.

  • Certain persons on certain occasions forbidden to touch the ground with their feet.

  • Tabooed persons not allowed to see the sun; certain persons forbidden to see fire.

  • Certain persons of his acquaintance rebuking him for not confessing, he blasphemed God and the Saints with such fury and malice that he appeared like a demoniac.

  • I beg the reader to bear this last fact in mind, as there will soon be occasion to show that there was a strong disposition in certain persons to forget it.

  • Nevertheless, it was clearly of the last importance to certain persons at Ravensnest to frighten me from complaining, since their crimes could only lead them to the State's prison, were justice done.

  • Acts for the admission of emigrants to the rights of citizenship, and prohibiting the migration of certain persons to that Commonwealth.

  • Declaring estates of certain persons forfeited, and themselves incapable of being elected to any office.

  • Prohibiting the migration of certain persons to that Commonwealth, &c.

  • To vest land, late property of James Holmes, in certain persons in trust for the benefit of a public school.

  • It is a power attributed to certain persons, or claimed by certain persons, of seeing things not visible to the eye, or things at a distance.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain characters; certain class; certain degree; certain destruction; certain directions; certain diseases; certain distance; certain knowledge; certain members; certain moments; certain number; certain parts; certain phases; certain pleasure; certain points; certain portions; certain position; certain price; certain resemblance; certain sections; certain species; certain standard; certainly will; dear brother; rejoiced greatly; seated myself