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Example sentences for "sage"

Lexicographically close words:
sagaciously; sagacity; sagamite; sagamores; sagas; sagebrush; sagely; sages; sagesse; sagest
  1. A few days afterwards the latter informed the Sage of Ferney that he had tried it again and provoked the exclamation, "Once a philosopher: twice a sodomite!

  2. Le Sage (of Gil Blas) is said to have converted many of the tales of Mukhlis into comic operas, which were performed at the Théâtre Italien.

  3. As the Sage watched the stars, the semblance clear, i.

  4. But methinks the sage of Ferney might have said far more.

  5. Thus he mused For him, the cynic in the Sage had play A hazy moment, by a breath dispersed; To think, of all alive most wedded they, Whom time disjoined!

  6. This was the strong grey head of laurelled name, And in his bosom an inverted Sage Mistook for light of morn the light which sank.

  7. Invulnerable Prince of Myrmidons, He sparkled, by no sage Athene schooled.

  8. This one is used with a roll at each end and is covered with genuine Empire satin in six-inch stripes of canary yellow and sage green divided by two narrow black stripes and a narrow white stripe between them.

  9. PLATE XXIII In another suite we have a boudoir done in sage greens and soft browns.

  10. For those interested in these early types of American output, the Sage and other collections in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, give a delightful object lesson, and there has been much written on the subject in case any data is desired.

  11. Lazarus came to a proud sage, and the sage said to him: "I already know all the horrors that you may tell me, Lazarus.

  12. Only a few moments passed before the sage realised that the knowledge of the horrible is not the horrible, and that the sight of death is not death.

  13. How, the sage has asked in every age, should a Being so transcendently kind, have allowed of so large an admixture of evil in the condition of his creatures?

  14. In this Hôtel is the cabinet of the royal school of mineralogy, which Mr. Le Sage has been four and twenty years in forming and analyzing; it is contained in a magnificent building, with a dome and gallery almost entirely of marble.

  15. On one side is represented a woman sitting, leaning with her left arm on a large open book, at her right is a cock perched on half a fluted column; and the inscription round these figures is, Le Fevre, Le Sage et Compie.

  16. Opening his pocket book, he took out a paper in which he had wrapped some withered but fragrant sage leaves.

  17. Your sage leaves," said he in answer to her questioning glance.

  18. On our way home, as the sun was hot, I collected some sage leaves from the side of the road for you to put into your hat and thus prevent headache.

  19. The sage lived many years, revered and beloved, and on his death-bed told this history to my father as a lesson and a warning.

  20. But little cared the sage for such things; he, was rejoiced to be at home and at peace, and near his own early gains of hiaqua and treasure buried in a place of security.

  21. Boswell had expected to draw the sage on the subject of matrimony, having promised himself, as he says, a good deal of instructive conversation on the conduct of the married state.

  22. He was encouraged by the sage to publish his account of his travels in Corsica--'you cannot go to the bottom, but all that you tell us will be new.

  23. Yet every one had had enough, and the youngest Cratchits, in particular, were steeped in sage and onion to the eyebrows!

  24. With his French admiratrices the sage exchanged merry, picturesque letters.

  25. He resisted longer than old Franklin, and with a stiffer pen than that of the Philadelphia sage he would note down his persisting suspicions and his reluctance to admit the possibility of generous motives inspiring the French nation's policy.

  26. If they were sage grouse, I might not get near enough to them to shoot sure with my one arrow.

  27. They watched us curiously while we hustled and scraped a pile of dead sage and grass and rubbish, and set it to smoking and made the Elks' "O.

  28. These were so far away, below me, that I couldn't make out whether they were sage grouse, or the blue grouse, or the fool grouse.

  29. In the West cedar makes the best coals, the cleanest flame; sage makes a very hot fire, and burns to ashes which hold the fire, but it does not give hard coals.

  30. Out Fitz staggered, and up the opposite slope, through sage and bushes.

  31. After we crossed the gorge the top of the mesa or plateau was flat and gravelly, with some sage and grass, and we made good time.

  32. If they did, Hetty Green wouldn't be where she is and Russell Sage would be in the Old Ladies' Home.

  33. If a single man pulls up a sage tree at midnight on Christmas Eve a storm will arise and the man's future wife will appear.

  34. If a man or woman plants a sage tree and it thrives, the one who planted the tree will rule the house.

  35. This should be the wish of every man, and is of the most wise and knowing, Le Christien plus humble et plus sage et mieux recognoissant que c'est que de luy se rapporte a son createur de choisir et ordonner ce qu'il luy faut.

  36. Turned the sage again: "Now this one is a devil, "And this one is me.

  37. XI In a lonely place, I encountered a sage Who sat, all still, Regarding a newspaper.

  38. The sage chicken are as tender and delicious as partridge before they begin to feed upon wild sage in the fall, but one short day in the brush makes them different birds and wholly unpalatable.

  39. The moonlight was wonderfully bright, and for a long distance objects could be seen, and bunches of sage bush and Spanish bayonet took the forms of horsemen, and naturally I saw danger in every little thing we passed.

  40. The hunting is excellent, too, and Faye and Captain Rives often bring in large bags of mountain grouse and young sage hens.

  41. While at this sidetrack we took a stroll over the hills one day and found a sage hen's nest with the old hen setting.

  42. We waited around nine days, grazing the steers on sage brush in daytime and penning them nights till they got so thin we had about concluded to drive back and keep them for another year, when the cars came.

  43. My hoss was bounding over rocks and sage brush.

  44. But he was a magnificent animal and in less time than it takes to tell I was out of gunshot, and then I dropped that shrieking little Injun devil on a sage bush and galloped off in the gathering darkness.

  45. I will not go into the question of what were the sources from which Le Sage drew his story.

  46. The day after our successful failure, equipped as before, we took our way over the hills and through the sage brush, reaching our destination about nine o'clock.

  47. My horse went scrambling through the thick sage brush, catching his toes in the roots and threatening to throw me over his head every few minutes, until finally he stopped at the bank of the river.

  48. We kept away from the river, traveled over high ground, and through an upland of black sage brush that would rival the mesa between Pueblo and Canyon.

  49. I asked him if he expected that trout roosted like sage hens, and informed him that if such had been his experience, it had not been mine, and that I was going to find water.

  50. Now butter with a leaf of Sage is good to purge the blood, Fly Venus and Phlebotomy for they are neither good.

  51. Alas, poor Humphrey, Get thee some wholsome broth with Sage and Cumfrie: A little oil of Roses and a Feather To noint thy back withal.


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