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Example sentences for "masters"

Lexicographically close words:
mastering; masterless; masterly; masterpiece; masterpieces; mastership; masterships; mastersingers; masterwork; masterworks
  1. I have studied to their depths the masters of color.

  2. You are floating between two systems,--between drawing and color, between the patient phlegm and honest stiffness of the old Dutch masters and the dazzling warmth and abounding joy of the Italians.

  3. Once outside the bushes, they formed fours and went forward, still leading their horses-as these were less likely to snort with their masters at their heads.

  4. That an Ireland severed by force of arms from the British Empire and annexed to the German Empire would be ill-governed by her new masters is inconceivable.

  5. The old German masters are fond of representing him as entering by a door in the background, while the serene Virgin, seated in front, seems aware of his presence without seeing him.

  6. Footnote 1: There are also most charming examples in sculpture by Luca della Robbia, Donatello, and other masters of the Florentine school.

  7. It is clear, then, that since nine hundred and ninety men, urged by want, will crowd upon the supports which would only maintain a hundred, the ten capitalists will be masters of the market.

  8. One of your own class has energetically said: "When two workmen run after a master, wages fall; when two masters run after a workman, wages rise.

  9. If they say to you: The serfs of Poland work without wages-- Reply: The loss is theirs and the gain is ours, since their labor is deducted from the price of the grain which their masters sell us.

  10. Without, then, giving up entirely to arguments, which I am yet in doubt whether to look upon as fairly reasoned, or as paradoxical, I will at least seek enlightenment from the masters of the science.

  11. Why don't you bring all the bad masters here and serve them out too?

  12. They work for their masters and only get what they eat and wear, and their masters very often sell them and send the men away from their wives and children, and their babies away from their mothers and fathers.

  13. Adams, "the implicit faith of those two old colored people was an example that might well be followed by the masters now.

  14. The prowlers sensed it and they paced about the town in the dark of night; watching, listening, on ceaseless guard against the mysterious enemy their masters waited for.

  15. Prowlers developed something like a telepathic rapport with their masters and could sense their thoughts and understand relatively complex instructions.

  16. The gentle mockers sensed the anticipation of their masters for the coming battle and they became nervous and apprehensive.

  17. The Emperor Constantine caus'd them to be remov'd afterwards to Constantinople, but the Venetians brought them back again, after they had made themselves Masters of that City.

  18. Post Masters of Saxony clad in white with yellow Lace, the whole edg'd with Silver, as were also the Housings of their Horses, which were all over black.

  19. You know, Madame, that the Allies attempted to make themselves Masters of Toulon, during the last War.

  20. The Germans on their Part made themselves Masters of almost all Sicily, so that the King of Spain seem'd almost reduced to a Necessity of demanding Peace, and that very soon.

  21. Subjects and slaves are not even the masters of their bodies.

  22. If their English masters went to church and read the Bible, they did the same.

  23. His masters have ever been unjust to him.

  24. They wanted to be like their English masters in every way.

  25. They thus came to enjoy the confidence of their masters and imitated their vices.

  26. If the English masters indulged in free-thinking, they did the same.

  27. The raving of their masters against northern abolitionists was, to them, quite sufficient evidence that somehow the war had its origin, near or remote, in northern antagonism to slavery.

  28. They were not at all the masters of ideas.

  29. Political liberalism abolished, the inequality of masters and servants: it made people masterless, anarchic.

  30. Subordination was retained, only the Christian State recognized that man cannot serve two masters (the lord of the manor and the prince, etc.

  31. Thus men have not become masters again of the thought "right," which they themselves created; their creature is running away with them.

  32. Four Masters the Virgil of Ireland, eight of whose poems have survived, containing in all about 1000 lines.

  33. Against eight to ten ranks of such men the best cavalry in the world, relying only on their swords, were helpless, and for the time (towards the close of the 15th century) infantry remained masters of the field on the continent of Europe.

  34. Chappe d'Auteroche had discovered that Siberia was not a paradise, and had observed that the Russians were dirty in their habits, and that masters whipped their servants, male and female.

  35. When we are invited to the Mysteries the masters use another tone.

  36. Masters are usually willing to fling a few crumbs to their fawning dogs.

  37. A wonderful and terrible thing is happening in the largest empire on earth; a downtrodden people is engaged in a death-grapple with its merciless rulers; and never were masters so inhuman, and never were people so heroic.

  38. Just as even the greatest masters of fiction adapt but do not originate.

  39. I would for this reason advise all masters and mistresses to carry it with great moderation and condescension towards their servants till next Michaelmas, lest the superiority at that time should be inverted.

  40. He saunters in and out of school when he likes, and looks at the masters and other boys with a listless grin.

  41. And they are thorough masters of ridicule--the most powerful weapon known to humanity.

  42. No two masters would or could treat the same plot in precisely the same way, and yet the method of each would be correct.

  43. It is this impressionistic method which is most used by masters to picture those characters which seem to us real persons.

  44. The modern short story is essentially an American product; and our masters of its art have established precedents for literary workers of the old world.

  45. The rules and principles here presented embody not what I conceive to be right, but what the great masters of the short story have thought to be right, and what they have proved to be at least successful.

  46. Those early masters of the short story, Irving, Hawthorne and Poe, had a tendency toward a diffuse, almost discursive style, which is not much in vogue now.

  47. If it were ours, we might become the masters of the world.

  48. The Burgundian heroes were the masters of the field, and on the morrow they turned their faces joyfully towards Rhineland.

  49. It was now crowded with men--masters and managers in black coats mingled with workmen, to the front the parson in his white.

  50. She sent for one of my old Jesuit masters at Stonyhurst, a man who had been a great friend of Father Lewin's and happened to be at that moment in Brussels.

  51. He paused a moment; and when he resumed, his voice shook: "Among the masters there was a certain Father Lewin.

  52. They were no longer their own masters in their own homes.

  53. Some masters might have give me the sack for it," he said, "when I got back to work.

  54. A proper Gentlewoman, Sir, and a Kinswoman of my Masters Prin.

  55. That if he really did leave Spain, the Romans would be masters of it all before he could pass the Iberus.

  56. By this they became masters of all the surrounding country.

  57. Perolla, the son of Calavius, was the only person who could not be won either by the solicitations of the masters of the house, or those which Hannibal sometimes employed.

  58. For you will in truth attack the walls of a single city, but in that single city you will have made yourselves masters of all Spain.

  59. To the slaves also who followed their masters he promised freedom, and that he would give two slaves in place of each of them to their masters.

  60. They made themselves masters of the three camps on that day.


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