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Example sentences for "relates"

Lexicographically close words:
relapsing; relate; related; relatedness; relater; relateth; relatif; relatifs; relating; relatio
  1. The front of the 1st Life Guards was broken by a fire of this sort, and Gronow relates how the cuirassiers made a dash at the opening.

  2. Vivian himself relates how his orderly alone cut down five or six in swift succession who were trying to bayonet the British cavalry general.

  3. Grandpapa relates a circumstantial account of the purchase of the turkey, with a slight digression relative to the purchase of previous turkeys, on former Christmas-days, which grandmamma corroborates in the minutest particular.

  4. This publication is really filled with a great variety of curious historical detail--throughout which is interspersed much that relates to "romaunt lore" and romantic adventures.

  5. There are few things in life more gratifying than the conviction of living in the grateful remembrance of the wise and the good; and THAT gratification it is doubtless my happiness to enjoy--as far as relates to Mons.

  6. Izaac Walton relates how George Herbert helped a poor man whose horse had fallen under his load, laying off his coat for that purpose, aiding him to unload, and then again to load his cart.

  7. Mr. Darwin also relates the following incident, as illustrating the lack of truthfulness and candor on the part of another: "I must have been a very simple fellow when I first went to school.

  8. Both are semi-sacred; neither is quite secular; either relates the deeds of an avatar of Vishnu; ages have done their work upon them, to lift them into the region of things sacrosanct.

  9. Southey relates the history of a girl of twenty who, without previous delirium or high temperature, suddenly became unconscious, and died in half an hour.

  10. Many entozoa also belong to the protozoa, but these, so far as relates to man in a medical point of view, appear unimportant, and will therefore not here enter into consideration.

  11. Opitz[19] relates an interesting case in which convulsions suddenly occurred with unconsciousness, followed by hemiplegia of the left side of the body and the corresponding side of the face.

  12. Palmer relates a case complicated with erysipelas and peritonitis in Boston Med.

  13. DaCosta relates one in his valuable paper upon cerebral rheumatism in which, although the temperature was 110 degrees, no cerebral symptoms nor cardiac affection existed.

  14. Fendick[7] relates an instance of impaction by a fish-bone near the anus, causing obstruction requiring surgical interference; which illustrates the importance of examining carefully all cases of acute piles and threatened abscess.

  15. Watson[60] relates a case of gastric cancer in which increasing dyspnoea and palpitation were such prominent symptoms that he was led to diagnose fatty heart with portal congestion as the sole trouble.

  16. Blumenthal relates a case in which the vomited material amounted to sixteen pounds.

  17. Litten[46] relates a case of gastric ulcer which simulated for a time pernicious anaemia.

  18. The information in this chapter relates to many different sets of goals, problems, and kinds of people.

  19. Whatever validity the critics' argument may have, it relates particularly to this area of emotional suffering that falls under the heading of adjustment disorders.

  20. Confidentiality as it relates to the treatment of emotional or psychological difficulties is a thorny issue, one that worries many people.

  21. As it is the work of such an applauded wit, is exceedingly scarce, and relates entirely to the poem which I am illustrating, I shall here insert the introduction, and some extracts from the piece itself.

  22. Mr. Cook agrees so far as relates to Minos, but he supposes Pasiphae to be a sky-goddess or sun-goddess rather than a goddess of the moon.

  23. It relates how a beast, doffing its animal shape, lives as a human husband or wife with a human spouse.

  24. He then relates two examples of the gentleness of this animal, or rather of his confidence in man.

  25. Happily, however, we have volumes of more recent date, which inculcate the same principles, with perhaps more accuracy of detail in all that relates to science.

  26. Linnaeus himself relates the occurrences which took place during this interview: "'Do you wish to see my plants?

  27. Pray tell me who Perses was, what countryman, and who is the author that relates his introducing peaches into the European gardens?

  28. He then gives a general account of the oviparous quadrupeds, particularly of the Egyptian crocodile and the chameleon, concerning which he relates many interesting circumstances.

  29. Their chief interest is a derivative one; we are pleased with any letter, good or bad, which relates to men of such eminent talent; and sometimes the subjects discussed have a separate interest for themselves.

  30. There is a memorable correspondency throughout all members of Protestant Christendom in whatsoever relates to literature and intellectual advance.

  31. Further, to enjoy relates to the last end.

  32. In this way, then, there were four opinions among philosophers concerning intensity and remission of habits and forms, as Simplicius relates in his Commentary on the Predicaments.

  33. Now God is concerned not only with the sacrifices that are offered to Him, but also with whatever relates to the fitness of those who offer sacrifices to Him and worship Him.

  34. Luke relates Our Lord's sermon as addressed to the multitude (Luke 6:17).

  35. I answer that, The Stoics and Peripatetics disagreed on this point, as Augustine relates (De Civ.

  36. Moreover this union is in keeping with the demands of love: for as the Philosopher relates (Polit.

  37. Marquette relates that the Illinois bought firearms of the Indians who traded directly with the French, and that they went to the south and west to carry off slaves, which they sold at a high price to other nations.

  38. All that relates to the Indian tribes of Wisconsin," says Dr.

  39. Of another plant, Oexmelin relates an instance of a negro girl being poisoned by a rejected lover, by merely putting some of its leaves between her toes when asleep.

  40. Oexmelin, the most intelligent of the few Buccaneer writers, relates his own success in training four pigs, whom he taught to follow at his heels like dogs, to play with him, and obey his orders.

  41. Oexmelin relates a story of an Englishman who gave 500 crowns to his mistress at a single revel.

  42. Charlevoix relates an amusing instance of the governor's contumacy.

  43. Oexmelin relates several instances of the daring escapes of the Buccaneer hunters from the blood-thirsting pursuit of the Fifties.

  44. Oexmelin relates an instance of a sick slave being employed to turn a grindstone on which his master was sharpening his axe; being too weak to do it well, the butcher turned round and clove him down between the shoulders.

  45. Edmund Pendleton relates that when on his way to the Continental Congress in 1774 he stopped at Mount Vernon, "She talked like a Spartan mother to her son on going to battle.

  46. A Norristown lady who paid her a call in the little stone house that still stands beside the Schuylkill relates that "as she was said to be so grand a lady, we thought we must put on our best bibs and bands.

  47. Custis relates that one day when out with a gun he met on the forest road an elderly gentleman on horseback who inquired where he could find the General.

  48. He relates that in returning from one of his voyages, he found seven other families of the Tzequil nation, who had joined the first inhabitants, and recognized in them the same origin as his own, that is, of the Culebras.

  49. All that follows probably belongs to the Chichimec period much later, and relates to the kings of Culhuacan].

  50. The learned Abbe relates that the men with whom Votan conversed concerning the tower of Babel, assured him 'que cet edifice etait le lieu ou Dieu avait donne a chaque famille un langage particulier.

  51. Diodorus Siculus relates that the Phoenicians discovered a large island in the Atlantic Ocean, beyond the Pillars of Hercules, several days' journey from the coast of Africa.

  52. Guillemot relates that some Peruvian families fled northward along the Cordilleras.

  53. This means that the intellectual activity which relates and generalises the intuitions or presentations does not depend upon them, but is as much a condition of experience as are the presentations themselves.

  54. In a single volume Thucydides relates what could scarcely be compressed into eight volumes of a modern history.

  55. History can never be other than an approximation to the truth, even when it relates to the events and characters of its own age.

  56. It relates the miraculous conception of the Indian sage, by the descent of a spirit on his mother, Maya,--a woman of great purity of mind.

  57. Ward Lamon, once Lincoln's law partner, relates a story which places Lincoln's high sense of honor in a prominent light.

  58. One old settler relates that for a survey made for him by Lincoln he paid two buckskins, which Hannah Armstrong "foxed" on his pants so that the briars would not wear them out.

  59. Judge Arnold, in his "Life of Abraham Lincoln," relates that Lincoln and Anderson did not meet again until some time in 1861.

  60. An applicant for a sutlership in the army relates this story: "In the winter of 1864, after serving three years in the Union Army, and being honorably discharged, I made application for the post sutlership at Point Lookout.

  61. Dana, who was Assistant Secretary of War under Mr. Stanton, relates the following: A certain Thompson had been giving the government considerable trouble.

  62. Judge Herndon, in his "Abraham Lincoln," relates that as a mimic Lincoln was unequalled.

  63. General MacMaster relates that he once watched a fine black cat basking in the sun, and noticed that in particular lights the animal exhibited most plainly the regular brindled markings of the ordinary gray wild or semi-wild cat.

  64. In one instance he relates that a Californian grey whale and the young one were assaulted; the Orcas killed the latter, and sprang on the mother, tearing away large pieces of flesh, which they greedily devoured.

  65. Professor Owen relates that an eminent engineer, to whom he showed a hyaena's jaw, remarked that the strong conical tooth, with its basal ridge, was a perfect model of a hammer for breaking stones.

  66. Carl Vogt relates an instance of a landed proprietor in France who destroyed every mole upon his property.

  67. McMaster relates he "saw one carry off a fowl nearly as large as itself, shaking it savagely meanwhile, and making a successful retreat in spite of the abuse, uproar, and missiles which the theft caused.

  68. Brigadier-General McMaster also relates how he and two friends, whilst coursing, watched for a long time four jackals trying to force one of a small herd of young bucks to separate from the rest.

  69. Jerdon relates a story of a small dog belonging to an officer of the 33rd M.

  70. It relates to the electromagnet of a Morse receiver of the pattern habitually used on the French telegraph lines.

  71. The same writer relates that many independent chiefs of Yemen bear /Madallas/ as a mark of their independence.

  72. Plutarch, in his /Table Talk/, relates that people dressed themselves in skins before they became acquainted with stuffs.

  73. This recalls another occurrence, which, however, relates only indirectly to the Pope's stay in Paris.

  74. The conversations are almost always delightful, and her Majesty frequently relates anecdotes which a word from one or another of us recalls to her.

  75. Surely he who recalls and relates his souvenirs is not forbidden to attach some importance to those which most nearly concern himself.

  76. Nevertheless, I cannot remember positively whether this anecdote relates to the visit of 1813, or one made previously.


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