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Example sentences for "many persons"

  • Many persons of both sexes were in the royal bedchamber when the child first saw the light but none of them enjoyed any large measure of public confidence.

  • Nevertheless, to the dismay of the ministers, many persons on whose votes the court had absolutely depended were seen moving towards the door.

  • I stopped at the Fifth Avenue hotel, where great numbers of politicians called upon me, but I was charged with having interviews with many persons whom I did not see.

  • This, also, is objectionable to many persons, from the idea that it compels us to enter the money markets of the world to discount our own paper.

  • Many persons wishing to advance their particular industries appeared before the committee and succeeded in having their views adopted.

  • I quote a few extracts from it: "It has been said by many persons of both political parties that this is to be a campaign of education.

  • Many persons, preferring the pleasure of eating to those of playing or dancing, were seated in another room at a table loaded with meats and delicacies.

  • Undoubtedly, the dread of some awful revelation has brought here many persons, as out of five hundred invited guests only a few do not attend Madame Killer's soiree.

  • Picking pockets has been reduced to a science here, and is followed by many persons as a profession.

  • Many persons coming to the city yield to the temptation to visit these places, merely to see them.

  • It will give you access to many persons, and give you an influence over those whom you could otherwise never approach; much less, whose feelings and purposes you could never hope, in any measure, to control.

  • A government by many persons, of whatever order or class.

  • A general morbid condition induced by the crowding together of many persons, esp.

  • These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain.

  • This man's death proved a cause of death to many persons, who were taxed with being pleased at his demise.

  • Many persons, fearing that on account of some such possession they may incur jealousy or danger, do much that is unworthy of themselves, expecting by such behavior to live in greater security.

  • A ruler can not please all: on the contrary, even an exceedingly upright sovereign must inevitably make foes of many persons.

  • No act of yours will ever be in private, but all of them will be performed in the midst of many persons.

  • All composites are better looking than their components, because the averaged portrait of many persons is free from the irregularities that variously blemish the looks of each of them.

  • By one or other of these ways, the power of seeing the whole of an object, and not merely one aspect of it, is possessed by many persons.

  • Topical aids to memory are of the greatest service to many persons, and teachers of mnemonics make large use of them, as by advising a speaker to mentally associate the corners, etc.

  • Many persons, especially women and intelligent children, take pleasure in introspection, and strive their very best to explain their mental processes.

  • Many persons of the first rank use the bast in some shape or other; it exhilarates the spirits, and raises the imagination as violently as opium.

  • These letters have been preserved for a long time afterwards, and have been viewed by many persons, who have deposed the truth judicially in the process of the canonization of the saint.

  • This more sensuous character of white flowers is fairly obvious to many persons who do not experience from them any specifically sexual effects.

  • But I believe that they are a source, not only of curiosity and wonder to many persons, but also objects of admiration.

  • Many persons, in all times, in all lands, have possessed the gift of looking into the future.

  • Many persons "travel in the astral" during ordinary sleep.

  • There is nothing unusual about this case, for it has been duplicated in the experience of many persons.

  • This case is interesting because it is typical of many cases of a similar nature within the experience of many persons.

  • In fact, many persons of but slight clairvoyant power, who cannot sense the auric colors, are able to perceive this prana-aura without trouble.

  • A correspondence has also been established with many persons in other parts of the world whose character and situation rendered it probable that they would contribute valuable information.

  • The terms signs and symbols are often used interchangeably, but with liability to misconstruction, as many persons, whether with right or wrong lexical definition, ascribe to symbols an occult and mystic signification.

  • Looking and acting as if I were giving out a specific order to many persons, and threatening punishment on those who should resist my authority, even the punishment of death.

  • Many persons, both Jews and Christians, expressing their astonishment, flocked to the place, where for the greater part of the day she remained motionless, that no possible doubt might be entertained of the miracle.

  • These cards were laboriously made by many persons at home, for their household use.

  • Many persons were "presented" under this law, men boot-wearers as well as women hood-wearers.

  • It was believed by many persons that if a man ate them every day, he could not live seven years.

  • There was a great desire for glass, a rare novelty to many persons at the date of colonization.

  • The industry and good-will with which the Indians assisted us on our church were soon repaid to them by our fathers, when a general malady prevailed among them, causing the death of many persons.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but sometimes; drink offerings for the; little doll; many cases; many causes; many copies; many countries; many critics; many enemies; many forms; many generations; many gods; many leagues; many localities; many months; many nations; many others; many prisoners; many regions; many soldiers; many sorts; many stamens; many teachers; many weeks; many works; many young