Wilkes

How To Use Wilkes In A Sentence

• The Wilkesite radicals were typically small businessmen, craftsmen, and artisans.
• Wilkes' trademark vocal sound is a dry megaphone rasp, and he alternates it with savage harmonica outbursts.
• Yet Wilkes, convinced of his cartographical abilities, refused to hire non-naval surveyors. United States Exploring Expedition
• Sir," said he, "had Wilkes's mob prevailed against government, this nation had died of _phthiriasis_. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780
• There are ice-free coastal areas that include parts of southern Victoria Land, Wilkes Land, the Antarctic Peninsula area, and parts of Ross Island on McMurdo Sound (the site of the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station). Antarctica
• President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
• Wilkes had stabbed Christie while resisting arrest, for which he was indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang.
• (N.B. -- This ejaculation denotes the kind of snuffle which lent peculiar energy to the dicta of Mr. Culpepper.) "Ring the bell, then, and summon the landlord," said, very pertinently, one of the three disputants upon the character of Wilkes. The Disowned — Volume 07
• I am Mrs. Wilkes, " answered Melanie, rising and for all her smallness, dignity flowed from her.
• If Franklin had lucked into a royal audience, might he have persuaded the King to ignore firebrands like Wilkes and do the right thing by America?