Sentence example with the word 'twain'

twain

Definition n. two items of the same kind

Last update: October 23, 2015


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If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York State, or the equally desolate Salisbury Plain in England; if casually encountering each other in such inhospitable wilds, these twain, for the life of them, cannot well avoid a mutual salutation; and stopping for a moment to interchange the news; and, perhaps, sitting down for a while and resting in concert: then, how much more natural that upon the illimitable Pine Barrens and Salisbury Plains of the sea, two whaling vessels descrying each other at the ends of the earth--off lone Fanning's Island, or the far away King's Mills; how much more natural, I say, that under such circumstances these ships should not only interchange hails, but come into still closer, more friendly and sociable contact.   [Please select]

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Booted the twain and staved.   [Please select]

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Truest bedthanes they twain are, for Horne holding wariest ward.   [Please select]

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Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.   [Please select]

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John Russell Young and Mark Twain, Millet, Palmer, Hutton, Gilder and a lot more were there.   [Please select]

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Between 1795 and 1800 so many came that the Northwest Territory was cut in twain and the new territory of Indiana was organized in 1800.   [Please select]

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The prey by poll; a maid or twain what parted have not they.   [Please select]

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The prey to each a maid or twain Divided have not they.   [Please select]

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But Captain Smith's "True Relation" impresses us, like Mark Twain's "Roughing It," with being somehow true to type.   [Please select]

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Mark Twain, in one of his least inspired moments, selected Cooper's novels for attack.   [Please select]

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This, then, was "Europe" after all--another "fake" until this shrewd river pilot who signed himself "Mark Twain" took its soundings.   [Please select]

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