Missionary

Examples

• Again I tell you it is not the insignificant private individual--the mere man, with the man's selfish senses--I wish to mate: it is the missionary. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Sherman carried the end of Missionary Ridge, and his right is now at the tunnel, and his left at Chickamauga Creek. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We read in Hue's Travels how perplexing he and his fellow missionary found this possession of a common tradition of worship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Rosamond a missionary's wife? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He wanted to marry me only because he thought I should make a suitable missionary's wife, which she would not have done. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I was perfectly willing that the enemy should keep Lookout Mountain until we got through with the troops on Missionary Ridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The missionary spirit had departed from education throughout Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They then disappeared behind foot hills, and did not come to the view of the troops on Missionary Ridge until they met their assault. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sherman at once formed his troops for assault on Missionary Ridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Who is to be the missionary? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The ruthless exploitation of India becomes the civilizing fulfilment of the white man's burden; not infrequently the missionary, drummer, and prospector are embodied in one man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Hooker reports two thousand prisoners taken, besides which a small number have fallen into our hands from Missionary Ridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sir Pitt that pattern of decorum, Sir Pitt who had led off at missionary meetings--he never for one moment thought of not going too. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The missionary enterprises of the papacy in Mongolia ended in failure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He is right to choose a missionary's career--I see it now. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It is even related that in the third century B.C. Buddhist missionaries came from the court of King Asoka in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is the statement of missionaries, that, of all races of the earth, none have received the Gospel with such eager docility as the African. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It is right that there should be schoolmasters, and missionaries, and all such men, she replied. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• To the court of Tai-tsung came an embassy from Byzantium, and, what is more significant, from Persia came a company of Nestorian missionaries (631). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They had a number of brilliant travellers and missionaries at work, but no substance of population behind them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Missionaries tell me that they hear encomiums like that passed upon people every day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the seventh century Christian missionaries were converting the English, both in the north from Ireland and in the south from Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Missionaries and evangelists went continually from place to place. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The atmosphere is light; you feel none of that moral oppression which hangs over the usual settlement as over a gathering of missionaries. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• For a time Japan welcomed European intercourse, and the Christian missionaries made a great number of converts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It would certainly be a greater self-denial to receive heathen among us, than to send missionaries to them; but I think we would do it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The English in America were colonists; the French were explorers, adventurers, agents, missionaries, merchants, and soldiers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The missionaries who have attempted to convert them to Christianity all complain of this as one of the great difficulties of their mission. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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