How To Use Wilkes In A Sentence
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The Wilkesite radicals were typically small businessmen, craftsmen, and artisans.
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Wilkes' trademark vocal sound is a dry megaphone rasp, and he alternates it with savage harmonica outbursts.
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Yet Wilkes, convinced of his cartographical abilities, refused to hire non-naval surveyors.
United States Exploring Expedition
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Sir," said he, "had Wilkes's mob prevailed against government, this nation had died of _phthiriasis_.
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780
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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
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President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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Wilkes had stabbed Christie while resisting arrest, for which he was indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang.
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(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
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I am Mrs. Wilkes, " answered Melanie, rising and for all her smallness, dignity flowed from her.
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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?
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But Wilkes said they can offer something unique to their practice because of their direct experience of oppression.
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Hertford's rakery, and Mr. Wilkes's religious deportment, and constant attendance at your chapel.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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The diary of the 747th Tank Battalion indicates that the unit conducted tactical problems with the 29th Infantry Divi - sion, but Homer Wilkes judged this preparation to be inade - quate.
Steel Victory
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But this story begins with the most famous assassination in history. Abraham Lincoln's killer John Wilkes Booth kept a diary.
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At the junction of the two stands London's only cross-eyed statue, a memorial to 18th century libertarian John Wilkes.
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And so, in a way, she's asking a jury to assume the mantle of Annie Wilkes, the mad fan in Stephen King's "Misery" who punished an author who dared to deep-six her favorite character.
Contract Killings on the Sets of Soaps and Sitcoms
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When I was in Chichester in 1935, I walked around the north transept of the cathedral and saw a tablet on the wall to the memory of Thomas Wilkes, some time organist of the cathedral.
History of Christmas Music
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John Wilkes writes brilliantly in defence of press freedom to report on Parliament, only to be discredited by a dirty poem written as a young rake.
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His radical Westminster constituents returned him again, but he failed to become a second Wilkes.
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Perhaps surprisingly, given his genuine good keen man externals, Wilkes also happened to be a lover of ballet and opera - he once went to Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman at Sydney Opera House - and he was a good friend of the artist Tony Fomison.
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But it was the trendy social-worker Labourite vocabulary I was lamenting, not the facts ... "communities," "religious identities", etc. John Wilkes
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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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?
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Acalypha wilkesiana, the Fijian fire plant, is the parent of many modern cultivars and is in itself a showy ornamental.
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The JOIDES Resolution expedition to Wilkes Land is investigating some of these, such as the Pliocene, about 3 million years ago, when the world was on average 3 C (5.4 F) warmer than today.
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A cigar chomping, poker obsessed chauvanist whom all his buddies assume is getting plenty of "poontang" wouldn't go near any hookers provided by his good buddy Wilkes, the defense contractor.
Hullabaloo
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Tear gas thrown by an unknown party disrupted that event and was the major factor in canceling future shows at the facility, but Wilkeson blamed Skynyrd’s no-show on an extended jam by members of the Steve Miller Band and Box Scagg’s group.
LYNYRD SKYNYRD Shapes Long Show « Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie
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In this situation, many women find their minds turning to horror stories such as that of Marie Wilkes.
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He was assassinated shortly after the end of the war by John Wilkes Booth.
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On the night of 14 April, as he sat with his wife at Ford's Theatre in Washington, he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and rabid Confederate supporter.
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The sales team pushes back at Wilkes, arguing that the new products undercut their efforts to sell brokers and lenders on the exchange.
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If you were to look at the region through an azimuthal projection, you would see that, loosely speaking, Wilkes Barre is in southeast PA.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More judicial corruption in S.E. PA:
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He once worked in kinesiology, the study of movement, and helped such athletes as tennis star Tracy Austin and basketball players Bill Walton and Jamaal Wilkes.
Breeders' Cup results
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Against such descriptions, he juxtaposes the opinions of racists, embodied in the seedy character of Wilkes, the boastful character of Williams, and in the ‘other hangers-on’ and ‘tars’ at the Virginian tavern and Marine Coffee-House.
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“Sir,” said he, “had Wilkes's mob prevailed against government, this nation had died of phthiriasis.
Life of Johnson
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If this stunt is a success, think of some of the other celebrations we might be subjected to: Southern Nationalists holding John Wilkes Booth Days complete with reenactments of his most famous moment in a theater, Timothy McVeigh Days with a reenactment of the last moments of the Murrah daycare center, and, of course, Mohamed Atta Days with what horrors I'll leave you to imagine.
Jesus Wept
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Adapted by Simon Moore the gripping play will star Helen Norton as Annie Wilkes and Jonathan Ryan as Paul Sheldon.
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Marks continued by saying, in confidence, and 'quite as between you and me, dear Mary Grace', that Miss Wilkes was a 'minx'.
Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
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Wilkes was eulogized as a caring, helpful man and a good father.
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John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
