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Example sentences for "meetings were"

  • During the winter and spring religious meetings were established in private houses, Rev.

  • This Society had already erected a comfortable frame Church, and the neighborhood had become famous as the locality in which the Milwaukee District Camp-Meetings were held.

  • A number of meetings were held in support of the bill.

  • Meetings were held, and a large number of petitions circulated.

  • Meetings were held in every part of the Union to express the public feeling in the matter.

  • Meetings were held on the subject of British spoliations.

  • Meetings were held, at which the Baron Steuben, as senior officer, presided.

  • The day before the election immense meetings were held in all the chief cities.

  • Meetings were held in the spacious parlors every week, where Mrs. Phelps also gave many pleasant receptions, breakfasts, luncheons, and dinners.

  • It was often at much sacrifice and discomfort that such meetings were held, and preachers and people alike were in terrible earnest.

  • During the visit of the excellent lady who bore with becoming modesty the somewhat formidable title above given, the interest deepened, meetings were of nightly occurrence, and large numbers were gathered into the fold.

  • Family prayer-meetings were held in each tent at the early dawn; public preaching by the most gifted speakers during two hours or more of the forenoon.

  • Before the summer was over similar meetings were held at Wells, South Creake and Swaffham, which were attended by thousands of people.

  • The night before the poll our meetings were attended by hundreds and speakers flocked to our platform.

  • Meetings were held in every county and in almost every township of the state.

  • Meetings were held, congratulations uttered in the evening of that day.

  • Meetings were held in many of the counties and cities of the state, and resolutions adopted expressing their preference.

  • Meetings were held in halls, churches and parlors in all parts of the State and many articles were published explaining the scope of the amendment.

  • Thirty-six regular meetings and four mass meetings were held by the suffrage association during the year.

  • Meetings were held in the most remote towns, and even the farmer's wife far away in some mountain nook did her part toward securing the suffrage.

  • It must be remembered, in this connection, that the woman suffrage organization had not a dollar to pay for newspaper influence, had no advertising to bestow, and that even the notices for meetings were gratuitous.

  • Meetings were held in the Cabanne Branch Library and before the end of the year the members had increased to 275.

  • They crowded the corridors and the large portico until two great overflow meetings were held in the open air at either end of the broad stairway leading up to the entrance.

  • A State ratification mass meeting at Asbury Park in August opened the campaign and local meetings were held in every county.

  • Meetings were held at the fashionable hotels on the north and south shores and outdoor meetings at the popular beach resorts.

  • Meetings were held by the mob, who decided upon attacking the soldiers, and driving them out of Boston.

  • While they were occupied in this work, the details of which were as yet unknown, meetings were held in all parts of the country, for the purpose of getting up petitions in support of their policy.

  • Meetings were held at his residence, in which nobles and commons alike concerted together the means of making the peace unpopular, and bringing Bute into still greater contempt with the public.

  • Meetings were held to celebrate its anniversary in different places, and also for the discussion of politics.

  • Meetings were held in Norwich, and resolutions were passed, and petitions to parliament adopted, against the proposed additional duties on malt and on foreign wool.

  • Meetings were held in the Guildhall, St. Andrew’s Hall, the Public Library, and other buildings.

  • The camp always rested on Sundays, and if the weather would permit, meetings were held.

  • However, the people had received a taste of the gospel and they wanted more, so meetings were held in private houses.

  • When the weather would permit, meetings were held in a grove near the temple, there being no room large enough to hold the large crowds of people.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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