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Example sentences for "trials"

Lexicographically close words:
triad; triads; triage; trial; triall; trian; triangle; triangles; triangular; triangulation
  1. He was a man of athletic constitution, and well adapted to cope with the trials on the frontier.

  2. He could bear up with fortitude under all trials and privations, except those of a religious kind.

  3. I've had some sore trials in life,--not so much on my own account as because of those who were too dear to me.

  4. Two trials followed, and at the second trial three persons were convicted, the verdict against them amounting, with expenses and costs, to six thousand dollars.

  5. After two trials the accused were heavily sentenced, and remanded to jail until their fines should be paid.

  6. While he was in the height of his glory, Crassus died, Cotta was banished, our public trials were intermitted by the Marsic war, and I myself made my first appearance in the Forum.

  7. Similar trials with toads and salamanders produced the same results.

  8. Similar trials were repeated in sand, and with the same results.

  9. These trials must be made by day-light; artificial light not permitting that just estimation of the changes by which the presence of a small excess of acid or alkali is to be determined.

  10. They bring into action all the resources of human ingenuity; all the aids of fortitude and enterprise; all the trials of patience and perseverance; all the equanimity demanded by the constant mutations and rotations of fortune.

  11. This was confirmed by repeated trials on salamanders, frogs, and toads.

  12. These had, hitherto, regarded monastic life as one of work for the good of the poor, and as affording for those who wished it a tranquil retirement from the trials of the world.

  13. But she also, in the main, kept her pledge to endure patiently, as she had borne her hunger on the mountain, and many privations and trials of their lot.

  14. Does not experience show that disasters and trials more often visit us, like the "thief in the night," unexpectedly?

  15. Yes," said she; "but you welcome afflictions and trials of your patience.

  16. However partial at first I might be to these lives and trials, it was not long before they became regular trials to me, owing to the whims and caprices of the publisher.

  17. In the compilation of my Lives and Trials I was exposed to incredible mortification, and ceaseless trouble, from this same rage for interference.

  18. The trials were entertaining enough; but the lives—how full were they of wild and racy adventures, and in what racy, genuine language were they told!

  19. Moreover, some of my best lives and trials which I had corrected and edited with particular care, and on which I prided myself no little, he caused to be cancelled after they had passed through the press.

  20. I had experienced such beneficial effects from the ale I had drunk on that occasion, that I wished to put its virtue to a frequent test; nor did the ale on subsequent trials belie the good opinion which I had at first formed of it.

  21. By dint of incredible diligence, I at length discover the dingy volume containing the lives and trials of the celebrated two who had brooded treason dangerous to the state of Denmark.

  22. After more trials I sometimes brought myself to believe, that I saw changing spectra of lights and shades moving in my eyes, after turning round for some time, but did not imagine either the spectra or the objects to be in a state of gyration.

  23. I have no love for Garret and his firebrand doctrines; but he will be the means of betraying the whole brotherhood, an he be not steadfast; and who knows how such an one will meet the trials which will beset him?

  24. In the sweet security of home we will seek to forget those trials and troubles which have gone before.

  25. An ox was being roasted whole in one place, where dinners were served at midday, and trials of strength and skill went on uninterruptedly in the wide meadows round the city, some being the property of the town, and others of the university.

  26. Thus the Almighty had been pleased to preserve me through many trials and diseases, conducting me in the end to the fellowship of those who had abandoned me, that I might lead them over the bays and rivers that obstructed our progress.

  27. It lay with those about him to make this event a deep injury to him, instead of the blessing which all trials are meant by Providence eventually to be.

  28. They remained unshaken and fought undismayed to the last, although their courage was subjected to trials of the most exhausting character.

  29. This is the key to his life--the belief that trials and strength, suffering and consolation, come alike from God.

  30. Trials at that time were carried in the last resort to Spires.

  31. He returned thither with all he had dearest in the world, his wife, Charlotte Arbaleste de la Borde, his worthy partner in all his trials-- trials of prosperity as well as adversity.

  32. Mrs Verloc’s mother’s complexion had become yellow by the effect of age and from a natural predisposition to biliousness, favoured by the trials of a difficult and worried existence, first as wife, then as widow.

  33. I was fearful if I left this place I could not readily obtain another, and I toiled on, never informing my mother of the trials to which I was daily subjected.

  34. Nor in the earlier Scotch trials recorded by Pitcairn does this charge appear amongst the accusations against the witches.

  35. In 1664 occurred the celebrated witch-trials which took place before Sir Matthew Hale.

  36. The recorded witch trials teem with charges of having prophesied what things were about to happen; no charge is more common.

  37. It can be easily understood that these trials created an intense excitement in Scotland.

  38. Reason for peculiarity of trials of 1590.

  39. Her talents and her really sweet disposition have rendered my office easy to me; but when I was young, before I married, my trials were severe, poignant.

  40. Mr. Moore had also certain reminiscences about the trials of his revered mother.

  41. He touched briefly, but scoffingly, on the trials and the conviction; he passed thence to the gossip of the neighbourhood, and ere long he attacked Moore on his own personal concerns.

  42. He armed himself with all his courage, and resigned himself to endure with resolute soul all the trials which the love, real or pretended, of the Marquise reserved for him.

  43. Many of the Lord's people too, in years gone by, have had to pass through fiery trials such as these.

  44. In trials by jury, the oppressed had but little hope, for the majority were to decide.

  45. There is no doubt that new trials are too often granted in the United States in favor of those who have been convicted of crime.

  46. The power of the judge to expedite trials is also much less in the United States than in most countries.

  47. The right of trial by jury was limited at common law to trials of what are called "issues of fact;" that is, of the truth of a statement of material facts made by one party and denied by the other.

  48. Her highest court was one "for the trials of impeachments and the correction of errors.

  49. Footnote: See Paper on "New Trials for Erroneous Rulings upon Evidence," by Professor J.

  50. They sat as a court of review, to grant new trials or review judgments.

  51. Trials for these reasons are longer in the United States than in England.

  52. In jury trials of civil causes the judicial function is, so far as possible, divided into two distinct parts.

  53. In bringing on criminal trials there is little delay, unless at the request of the accused, and for what seems good reason.

  54. From the number of trials which Llorente extracts from the registers, he compares the morals of the different religious orders, and finds, in figures, a very natural result that might be guessed without the help of arithmetic.

  55. Trials of this description were conducted with closed doors, and condemnations were hushed up in secret little autodafes.


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