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Example sentences for "presentment"

Lexicographically close words:
presenting; presentium; presentlie; presently; presentlye; presentments; presents; preseruation; preserue; preserued
  1. I suppose my pale face and weak condition made a very fair presentment of a colonel demoralized by fright.

  2. Let us for instance take Paulsen's presentment of the "View of Life under Christianity.

  3. The submission of Christian thought to a religious, teaching authority, recognized as infallible in all matters pertaining to its domain, while not an exhaustive presentment of this principle, is its perceptive and concrete effect.

  4. Governor Murray’s letter to the Lords of Trade, written a few days after the presentment of the jury is a fair and statesman-like view of the difficult period.

  5. It seemed the clearest presentment ever offered in the matter of predestined circumstance--predestined from the instant when that primal atom felt the vital thrill.

  6. It was proposed by the latter to make one Presentment serve for the whole parish, mother-church and chapels together; and the rector of Grasmere stated that it was only through a mis-conception that separate Presentments had been made.

  7. The ritual of the chapel is disclosed in a Presentment of its wardens for 1732, preserved among the general accounts.

  8. This fact is not only shown by the accounts of the Rydal Hall agent and of the churchwardens, but it is expressly declared by one of the answers made by the wardens at the Presentment of 1723.

  9. The wardens' presentment of 1729 states "Our expected Rector is not yet Instituted and Inducted, the Cure is duly Supplyed by a Curate; we know not what Salary is allowed him.

  10. A catastrophe is disclosed by the presentment of 1798, when the "least bell" was "burst and unringable.

  11. Five years later a Presentment for the whole parish cost 13s.

  12. But the presentment of 1707 certainly discloses the serious condition of one bell, which was then cracked; and the reliance of the wardens on the "discretion" of their rector was misplaced, as nothing was done.

  13. But it possesses a still higher claim to our admiration in the presentment of at least one character of true nobleness.

  14. In this respect it differs from the frequent presentment of the miserly character in Roman satire, and in most modern works of fiction.

  15. A phantasmagoric presentment of Great Coram Street and Wimbledon ran rapidly across the background of his mind.

  16. Here then it is time to recall the presentment of ancient, recent and contemporary evolution already outlined in the part of this paper previously read (Vol.

  17. They are not unrelated, but correspond each as the negative to that fourfold presentment of ideals we have hitherto been raising.

  18. He had replaced it by an accurate presentment of himself as he really was.

  19. Mr. Gresley did know it, but he felt no particular satisfaction in his wife's presentment of the fact.

  20. He writes for his own enjoyment, perhaps, but he publishes that his skill and power of presentment may be recognised and applauded.

  21. The Federal grand jury lately in session in New York City dealt with this subject and made a presentment which states the situation briefly and forcibly and contains important suggestions for the consideration of the Congress.

  22. This presentment is included as an appendix to the report of the Attorney-General.

  23. Descriptions are hazardous and available words often inadequate to the veracious presentment of beauty, and yet there is ever in perfection a challenge to the pen.

  24. Both have the homely beauty, greatness and dignity of character that are essential to the presentment of this national inspiration.

  25. Beach, whose emancipated and vigorous manner is exactly suited to the presentment of these strong ideas.

  26. Well, we have to consider the constitutional provision that one cannot be put upon trial for an infamous crime "unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury".

  27. Their infusion of foreign element into his nature aided his pictorial presentment in motley form and garb, as seen in the old miracle-plays.

  28. Tchaikovsky has not given a very powerful musical presentment of this daring and passionate Cossack, who defied even Peter the Great.

  29. Undoubtedly the masterpiece of the opera is the musical presentment of the Miller.

  30. That look (and he at intervals had beheld it afterwards) was the true presentment of the soul of the woman whose body was his.

  31. The strength of each was impressive, yet this Mr. Brooks seemed to me the bodily presentment of a set of values which I would have kept constantly before my eyes.

  32. I not been a fool to accept the presentment she had given me?

  33. That is why the presentment of the latter may be seen up to this day on the frieze of a building in the frowsiest part of Paris.

  34. Those curious in such matters may see Bouginier's presentment in a medallion on the frontispiece of the Passage du Caire, amidst the Egyptian divinities and sphinxes.

  35. It never struck the good man, content with his own scholarly presentment of deep theological truths, that the accidental rising was an undoubted evidence of non-attention on the part of his congregation.

  36. There was something pitiable in this new presentment of a strong, earnest, self-confident nature, and even Vanbrugh was touched by it.

  37. Thus we have the presentment of a young girl whose nature was joyous, and to whom life was sweet.

  38. We find it in every presentment that Rembrandt gives us of another figure which constantly inspired his brush--the figure of Christ.

  39. Some strange presentment of his own fate," says M.

  40. They wanted a presentment of the face and figure of each member of the company who had subscribed a hundred florins.


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