Lot Sentence Examples
Certainly she had been under a lot of stress.
I just didn't see any point in spending money on new clothes when my old ones still had a lot of wear in them.
You've got a lot of spunk, you know that?
They looked a lot alike in some ways.
You've got a lot of room to talk.
He had a lot of friends in Texas.
I know life would have been a lot simpler for me.
This would be a lot easier on my ATV.
I think we've both had a lot on our minds lately.
I've got a lot on my mind.
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He did a lot of researching before he talked to me.
You have a lot of friends there, don't you?
Aside from offering beautiful scenery and exciting activities, this island is also home to a lot of appetizing restaurants.
He's a lot like his father - in a LOT of ways, but don't tell him that.
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In the beginning, she was simply sleeping a lot.
You're Carmen, and that's a lot.
Her plan was to approach the building from the back parking lot.
You've been through a lot.
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A lot had happened in the last few months.
There are a lot of good people in the world.
He had a lot of investments and...
A lot can happen in two blocks, you know.
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Well, he did spend a lot of time with his mother.
That covers a lot of bad guys.
There are a lot of misconceptions out there.
Tell your dog you've got a lot of explaining to do.
There's a lot of blood.
Bumpin' Bertha here doesn't make very good time but she's been getting the job done for a lot of years.
Bertha and I are a team, and she's a lot cheaper than renting one of those pricey new Jeeps.
It's a lot tough nine months of the year.
A lot of sounds-like, seems-like conversation followed until consensus settled on Mulligan.
I knew a lot more information that might help you.
That list has to be a lot smaller than who disappeared sometime between 1890 and last month.
We've accomplished a lot and we certainly haven't forgotten our promise to you.
It's a lot to think about.
He did a lot of bad things, and his mother was a demoness, a powerful one who seduced his father.
You've learned a lot but not everything.
I.ve got a lot to figure out.
A lot has changed in so short a time.
He.d lost a lot of blood.
I like it a lot.
I have to drink a real lot to get a hangover, so, with no downsides and a whole lot of up, why wouldn't I drink to my heart's content, plus it tastes awesome and warms my soul.
She just drank a lot of vodka.
He's a good looking man with money, and there are a lot of women out there who would jump at the chance to take him away from you.
They had learned a lot since they came, and they were obviously proud of it.
A lot of people from the Huston area have reason to know the Medena's – some even have reason to dislike them.
Ananus incited the people against these robbers, who arrested, imprisoned and murdered prominent friends of Rome, and arrogated to themselves the right of selecting the high priest by lot.
In addition, how food affects us unquestionably has a lot to do with genetic factors, and because everyone has a different genetic makeup, different foods affect each of us differently.
Mechanization and automation—both of which are about to get a lot better.
And every few years a new lot is laid down and run over; so that, if some have the pleasure of riding on a rail, others have the misfortune to be ridden upon.
Whether for a walk in the woods, a steaming lobster dinner or a wintertime ski trip, Maine has a lot to offer you all year.
It is a good option for those who want to do the rodizio thing without spending a lot of money.
For those who don't have a lot of time in the city, however, it may be difficult to see everything the area has to offer.
The focus of these dishes is on fresh ingredients that provide a lot of flavor without a lot of calories such as fresh vegetables and herbs.
The restaurant has wheelchair accessibility and a parking lot on the street.
Pennsylvania has a lot to offer to visitors who love exploring the outdoors.
Take a two-mile hike on an unimproved trail from the parking lot and spend the day hunting for fossils along the beach.
The steaks are large, and the seafood is fresh, plus there are a lot of options to choose from at this restaurant.
When you get to our house parking is available on the street and in a nearby lot.
They both care a lot.
Apparently he spent a lot of time on the back of a horse, riding his range in all kinds of weather - a fact that prompted more than one comment by townsfolk that he had wasted a good college education.
I know, but there are a lot of people who don't understand.
But then, a lot of things had changed since that day.
It has a lot of character.
We have a lot of left-overs and Scruffy is getting ridiculously fat.
Cade's tone was a little startled and a lot amused.
He was a man who said little, but felt a lot.
His mother says there was a lot of experimental stuff done on him while he was out of it.
When I sleep normally, it takes a lot more than that to rouse me.
A lot of store fronts were boarded up.
It's changed a lot; almost completely, but I'm a hundred percent certain I visited Brockville.
I've seen a lot of places and people in these visions but never anyone I knew.
A lot of jurisdictions aren't in a hurry to get us involved.
Someone took a lot of time and did a real number on him with a knife.
The Buick with its stolen plates turned up in the San Diego Airport parking lot wiped clean.
Yeah, but remember a lot of guys go in the joint and a lot of guys get out.
There must be a lot of people answering a national tip line.
After is getting a lot of hits.
Four murders are getting a lot of interest but those are out of the question too.
A lot are cases of runaway or lost and many are children found quickly.
It was clear she'd overheard a lot of information and as I was fearful she might confide in someone else, I admitted to her that Howie was the person the world was seeking, the so-called psychic tipster.
I get a lot of phone calls from people snooping for more information but I tell them I print everything I know.
It was supposed to be in a parking lot nearby.
The kids dress a lot better here.
I'm not sure she knows the answer herself but a lot of marriages are built on far less.
We're all under a lot of pressure.
It's not a solution but it will help a lot more than doing nothing while this guy may be getting closer.
He wore a mask and spent a lot of time in the apartment.
It was a whole lot easier when I was back on the job.
I don't know a whole lot Julie, but I understand the police at the time had a strong suspect but couldn't prove anything.
I've been doing a lot of fishing, of both kinds this week.
That garnered a lot of attention.
I can't say the same for Whiskers and Harry and a lot of you others.
I gave a lot of thought to that question because of all the fingers pointing at me.
There were a lot of tourists in town, probably for the autumn equinox, which drew people from around the world every year.
Jonny had entrusted her with a lot.
I'm getting reports from the recruitment team that a lot of their newly flagged Guardians are getting whacked as soon as they make the list, Damian said.
Damian had a lot of cars, and she found the black BMW whose lights flashed when she clicked the key fob.
I've seen you around a lot the past couple of days.
That says a lot for someone, you know?
In an organization of less than five thousand, that's a lot.
She's a lot like you.
You will soon learn that those who lose deals with me are a desperate lot.
The bond creates more than dependency; it gives you a helluva lot of influence over him.
All you have to do is smile a lot and go kiss some babies.
Caleb and me—when he and his family stayed here at Bird Song—we played a lot together.
I tried to make a photographer out of my godson Billy, but I'm afraid at his age there are a lot more interesting things to do, and they all have female names.
We're putting a lot of trust in what a little ten-year-old girl said, aren't we?
Someone went to a lot of trouble to set this up.
The number fell to three when a dinnertime caller remembered someone opening their purchase in the parking lot.
She certainly shares our opinion that the current day Dawkins are a sorry lot.
The Lucky Strike tin is a common one, but some containers sell for a whole lot more than that.
It's a lot to tell.
As she watched Cora, Deidre began to think she'd missed a lot over the past few months despite trying to pay attention to the human world.
There's a lot more, isn't there?
We used to talk a lot, you know.
As she entered the parking lot, she spotted Lori's car.
There were a lot of trucks out there like his.
If not, she could do a lot more damage by accusing him of something he wasn't doing.
They shared a lot of dreams, the way Carmen and Alex did.
It was still her house and there were a lot of good memories attached to it.
The way he had rescued her from the dogs, and from the fox in the chicken house - yes, there were a lot of wonderful memories on this farm.
She had endured a lot with Josh.
Surely he's seen you in a lot less than that.
But then, a lot of women didn't suspect their husbands of... or was that only on TV?
He's put up with my attitude for a lot of years.
I've got a lot going on.
The man standing in the weedy area of the lot was tall and thick, dressed in a trench coat, black clothing and heavy boots.
I get that a lot, too.
Her eyes went to the sand in front of the lot.
The sound came from the deserted lot.
I've heard a lot about you.
She didn't wait for him but flipped off her sandals and jogged down the beach, towards the abandoned lot nearby.
It was parked in the driveway of the neighboring lot, where she'd seen no lights or activity all weekend.
I've seen a lot during my years as a doctor.
A lot has changed.
He's helped me through a lot over the past few years.
You were a helluva lot easier to bed in your past life.
She wanted to ask more about them and what happened after Death claimed someone, but it was a lot to deal with.
You have a lot of nerve.
You've done a lot of interfering for someone who believes in free will.
It takes a lot to prepare yourself to die, Gabriel, which you of all people should appreciate.
She was in a lot of trouble, but at least, if Wynn left, he'd tell Gabriel where to find her.
She guided the car to the lit parking lot near the metro station, her destination.
I have a lot of trouble sleeping lately, probably because --
Getting a lot of good info out of this one.
The hallway led into an open area with one car in the large parking lot and a medieval stone wall and turrets surrounding the entire hacienda.
We could do a lot together.
The rest is a lot to think about.
It really would mean a lot to me.
I've been spending a lot of time here working with it.
And I'll admit, a lot of these are you.
He has a lot on his shoulders.
I know it's a lot to ask after your … ordeal.
I guess I shouldn't be snoopy either, but we've had a lot of guests in the last six months and I've never felt this uncomfortable about any of the others.
We're running an inn and we see a lot of different people.
You can make fun of that stuff, but a lot of wild things happened around this old mining town a hundred years ago.
You could stick the junk in a box and mail it a whole lot cheaper than having them fly out here.
There are a lot of places where numbers follow other numbers.
Then he added, I don't know a whole lot about her.
He has a lot of experience in these matters.
With the ice climbing festival about to open a lot of the climbers are arriving early.
I haven't found any new replacement letters, but I've eliminated a lot of possibilities.
As the group pulled into the parking lot at Mountain Village, the upper portion of the ski area, Donnie began to look nervous for the first time.
Dean hurried to return his skis while the others took the gondola back to the parking lot.
She dumped the lot in the trash.
Ice seems a whole lot less permanent.
It would be a lot more successful.
I keep hearing the name 'Miss Worthington' a lot lately.
Usually there were few cars at the site but now, with the early festival climbers in town, the parking lot at the curve of the county road was filled.
The mountains haven't changed and there are a lot of buildings still standing from the last century.
The business didn't stop, although there was a lot of talk in the newspapers about closing down all the bars and clubs.
Any admission by her usually means a lot more than what she says.
I been trying to find out some poop about that guy on the Internet but it's a whole lot easier checking out hundred year old folks than living ones.
I don't know why, but a lot of the dames let him.
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
There's a lot to do around here with Janet AWOL and a bunch of newly empty rooms.
She sure gives a lot of detail, the borrowed knife, him looking up, her wearing a disguise.
The paper didn't give a whole lot of details but the boys got in trouble and Edith saved the youngest one, Donnie.
It's a damn shame she's dead but so are a lot of things in life.
She needed a lot more than you could give her.
I was a cop for a lot of years.
There are a lot of questions about Edith Shipton I can't answer, but they don't make any difference.
You can't expect all this perfection to happen without a lot of work.
This stuff and what you've got is the lot of it.
He'd be taking a big risk and going to a lot of trouble just because I took a couple of swings at him.
It's a bit confusing and a lot of it's speculation on my part, but bear with me and I think I have enough of the answers to make some sense of what happened.
I'll grant you, it is confusing and there's a whole lot more about their relationship we don't know and probably never will know.
She was a lot like Annie.
You will be drinking a lot once you feel the effect.
He stood in the parking lot searching for her and sniffed the air.
He paced around the parking lot for a few minutes cursing the first woman to ever deny him, and then stormed back into the bar, grabbed the red head, forced her to look into his eyes and growled, "You will not scream."
I bet there are a lot more than that.
There was a lot of "oohing" and "ahhing."
Yeah, we've been through a lot together.
I guess I owe them a lot more than bread then.
No I'm not, I've just had a lot more practice.
That means a lot to me, I don't feel much like hunting though.
Yes, my metabolism is a lot faster than a human, so my temperature runs about a hundred and two degrees.
That's a lot of friggin' carving there.
He considered the first night they met and how differently it would have played out if he had caught up to her in the parking lot.
Yes, I am going to need a lot of scotch, please.
This is going to be a lot more cumbersome than my usual costume.
If she were turning him willingly, it would be a lot easier for both of them.
I'm afraid they will know something is different about me and ask a lot of questions.
Yes, it means a lot to me.
Maybe the reality is a lot better than what you imagine.
I have a lot more in here.
Alex had a lot going for him.
You sound like you've given the idea a lot of thought.
But seriously, there are a lot of women who love men shorter than them.
It depends on heredity, what you feed them, time of the year and a lot of other factors.
Oh, there are a lot more breeds.
I mean, we grew up together, so we have a lot in common, but...
Thanks a lot for training him to hunt my chickens.
The truth is, you've been a lot of help to us.
The barn door was open and the goats were scattering, forcing the dog to race from one end of the lot to the other.
Slowly she made her way down the hill and into the barn lot.
We have a lot more reasons than that, don't we?
There are a lot of good men out there.
It's been a lot of work, but it's all beginning to pay off now.
It sounds like a lot of fun - and expensive.
I thought maybe yesterday... but I guess he had a lot on his mind.
A lot of men started out not wanting children, but when they saw their own children it was another story.
No reason except the fact that she was losing a lot of sleep.
A whole lot better than she had imagined.... yet still a blow.
He's going to need a lot of stitches, but other than that, I think he's all right.
It's worth a lot to me, little sister.
We still have a lot to discuss.
His truck was in the parking lot, so he had been back to the house.
There's a lot of shit going on over here.
There's a lot more going on than we expected.
Heat rolled over him as he was flung towards the weed-infested parking lot.
Because he meant a lot more than she thought he should.
He'd had a lot of women throw themselves at him, most of them more interested in the genetically altered body that made him as good in bed as he was in battle.
And, the government chose to pursue the PMF rather than risk another civil war by going after people with a lot of influence and money.
She couldn't tell what was happening, but it seemed like there were a lot more guns in the fight than there had been a minute ago.
The parking lot was empty, and the only sign of unusual activity was the open gate.
Greenie could've done a lot of damage with the Twelfth Army at his command.
Still a lot of us trying to deal with not having light at night or our favorite foods.
Were there a lot of them, I wonder?
Seems there are a lot of them along the river.
You helped a lot of people that way.
There are a lot of swamps in Arkansas, so just stick as close to the roads as you can.
Wow, Gabe. You're friend must've meant a lot to you.
I'm not promising any miracles. We got a lot to do to prepare the world for Hazel.
The group homes were harder because there were a lot of kids living there and the kids were meaner than the adults.
I needed a lot of things.
After turning the knob once to confirm it was locked, he paused, somewhat unsteadily, and glanced across the motel parking lot.
A scattering of cars dotted the parking lot but due to the late hour the avenue beyond was nearly devoid of traffic.
His health was excellent and he had never expressed more than mild displeasure with his lot in life.
Parking wasn't a problem if you didn't mind paying the price of a good country dinner, but Dean didn't have time to hunt down a bargain so he reluctantly pulled into the closest lot.
This here case may be a lot more complicated than you think.
The circumstances have a lot to do with it too.
That would answer a lot of questions.
I thought about it a lot.
There's a lot more angles to this here caper—options we ain't touched on yet.
I know I'm asking a lot, but....
In any event, there's a lot of money missing and both sides are at war over it.
There in the blur of a passing auto and mirrored in descending waves of rain was the huddled figure of Cynthia Byrne stumbling across the parking lot toward the road and the beach beyond.
Dean half-felt his way across the parking lot in his bare feet, cursing the pebbles and splashing through ankle-deep puddles at curbside before stumbling into the absolute darkness of the beach-side path.
Her added weight, though slight, caused the parking lot gravel to cut even deeper into his aching feet.
That's a lot of heat for a lousy two or three million.
But it's a lot more than the money—pride's involved here.
Cleary looked a lot older.
No, Dean had a lot of difficulty getting busy.
Every time something starts to make sense, up pops ten other perfectly logical answers that make a lot more sense.
He opened the refrigerator but there was no more beer—only a lot of empty cans scattered around the room.
Vinnie started a lot of action.
It took a pot and a half of coffee and a lot of patience before Dean learned just how complicated the Scranton excursion and return trip had been.
But those rigs can go for a lot of dough.
But no, Fred O'Connor was a lot of things, but loose-tongued wasn't one of his failings.
Yeah. He calls a lot but I don't think Ma likes it—him being married and all.
He wanted something a hell of a lot stronger—a double bourbon and leave the bottle but he knew the return trip to Parkside lay before him.
Your husband is alive and has a lot of money.
He chased after her, in time to catch a glimpse of yellow as she barged out the door toward the parking lot.
I'm truly sorry but I'm not sure how it could have played out a whole lot better.
There's a lot of damn fool crazies in the world, ain't there?
It was after 4 a.m. when the pair slid into the brightly lit parking lot of the Philadelphia hospital.
Ms. Nightingale murmured a room number and motioned down a hall crowded with bodies like the day after Gettysburg while white-coated figures strolled among the moaning, clip boards in hand With wide-eyed Fred following behind, Dean ran the gauntlet until he found the room, a small office packed with five men and a lot of smoke, three of them in Philadelphia Police uniforms.
The government was inclined to believe the nervousness was due to Arthur's need for a lot of money in a hurry.
Just as they reached the outside and were nearly at the parking lot, Fred let out a yell, startling the dickens out of Dean.
Physically, he was feeling a whole lot better than he had in years.
You gotta admit, it gives me a lot better chance of checking out the crowds for Byrne.
And I spent a lot of time wondering why there weren't any fingerprints on a gun that had just been used by a guy not wearing gloves.
He needed a lot of dough in a hurry so he started putting the squeeze on everyone in sight, including Cynthia Byrne.
I have a lot more resources.
But I've got to say, this whole gig would have gone a lot smoother if you and the old man hadn't been so nosy.
I spoke with a lot of people who knew Jeffrey Byrne— Jonathan Winston didn't.
There's lot's of bikers.
You're smart—a lot smarter than Winston.
He was taking on a lot of responsibility – maybe more than he could handle.
It would take a lot of money to complete, but Alex had money.
Actually, Alex did look into her eyes a lot – and his gaze wandered over her face sometimes in a way that left her wondering what was on his mind.
Needless to say, we have a lot of work to do.
You're spending a lot of time over here now.
Then again, maybe he had given a lot of thought to her argument.
I can get a lot of stuff done here at the house, and I need to do some shopping.
It would take a lot of money to repair the roof and erase the water damage.
He must have had a lot of energy to keep up with two women.
You might as well accept the fact that I'm a whole lot easier to lead than I am to push.
Was it something that came natural to him, or did he have a lot of experience riding?
I just have a lot on my mind.
You and a lot of others have put a lot of work into it.
Ten thousand is a lot of money.
But then, Alex had spent a lot of nights alone.
I haven't noticed, but Brutus has been here a lot, so I guess the goats have been too.
In the first place, he didn't actually earn a lot of that money on his own.
That indicated his parents had a lot of faith in him.
I have a lot of paperwork from the clinic and from investments.
Sometimes it takes a long time and a lot of praying, but I'm living proof it can happen even after many years.
I can get there a lot faster by plane.
He said he'd get something to eat later because with the weather front coming through, there might be a lot of turbulence.
Learning which ones probably took experience – a lot of it.
There are a lot of people down here wondering what happened to you... and if you'll ever get back down this way again.
She and Alex spent a lot of time on that window seat, admiring their combined efforts and property.
Even so, Alex was waiting outside when she pulled into the parking lot.
It was a lot easier ... and final.
It brings back a lot of memories — some of them not so good.
You've had a lot on your mind lately.
That explained a lot of things, like why he had insisted she keep the farm in her name, and his anger that day in the barn.
It's just going to make me a lot more frustrated.
A lot could happen in two weeks.
You must miss her a lot.
She was in a lot of pain before she passed away?
I'm hearing a lot of I's here.
That night she did a lot of thinking about the baby, Lori and Alex.
For a woman who adamantly insisted from childhood that she didn't want children, an infant was a lot of responsibility.
A lot going on.
There are a lot of different paths I'm following.
It's a lot like love.
I've had a lot on mind.
There was a lot Sofi wasn't saying, this much he sensed.
There's a lot riding on the choices you make as the Grey God.
I meant to say, you probably know a lot more than I do because I've been with one woman only, he said when he'd swallowed.
I've got a lot to learn about being a dad.
They had been through a lot, and she had stood beside him.
You must have had a lot on your mind tonight.
Money means a lot to some people.
People assumed a lot about others.
Alex had endured a lot of embarrassment because of the relationship between his mother and biological father – and now this.
Yes. You helped me with my homework a lot.
Meaning she's had a lot of practice?
I suppose dancing that well would require a lot of practice.
Then you must have a lot of confidence in Gerald.
I didn't think I was being negative, but there's a lot to think about, Alex.
His complexion was dark for a blonde man, as if he spent a lot of time outside.
I see copperheads a lot around these bluffs.
He's been through a lot and I haven't been the best influence.
It seems to me that Katie has a lot of influence on both of you.
He's had a lot on his mind lately.
She knew a lot about the safari animals, mentioning a few things that even Carmen didn't know.
Sure, they were fighting a lot, but they always worked things out.
He had a lot on his mind.
Did Morino have a lot of money?
You thought a lot of your parents, didn't you?
She was the prettiest woman he'd ever seen – and he'd seen a lot of good looking women.
You could do a lot worse than Denton.
At first she had been infatuated with Denton, but in the last year she had learned a lot about him.
You two have a lot in common.
There's a lot to be said for experience.
Denton might have a lot of girls fooled, but she knew him too well.
Of course, a lot of people knew her on sight - people she didn't even know.
I think that takes a lot of guts.
After all, he was merely doing his job - playing out a part that probably meant a lot to his career.
Do a lot of people come here?
Gee, now I feel a lot better.
He seemed to know a lot about Arkansas.
I suppose it would be a lot of trouble to get ready, and you must be tired.
I haven't yet, but then you're used to heat a lot worse than this, aren't you?
You and Justin are seeing a lot of each other, aren't you?
We enjoy each other's company and we have a lot in common.
There are a lot of people in California who would pay dearly for a weekend or two away from the rat race.
Since she returned, she had a lot of time to think about things.
You two look a lot alike.
No, he caught me in the parking lot and said you were helping a friend, but you wanted to invite me to this party.
You're a lot alike, you know - you and Dad.
You've got a lot of guts, you know that?
Sounds a lot like you.
But she is a lot like you.
A lot of these sudden celebrities are.
He's a lot more than that.
She tossed her salad and stood in line to get him his coffee then walked across the parking lot to the Barnes and Noble.
They kept to one side of the busy parking lot.
Jessi settled into the passenger seat, her seatbelt barely on when Xander throttled the car out of the parking lot.
It says a lot about both of you.
It says a lot about me, not him.
She parked in a back lot, far away from any other car, so no one dinged the doors of the sleek automobile.
It's a lot to take in.
Jonny took me to meet one who seemed to know a lot about the necklace.
While he was able to do a lot of things with his power, floating above the ground wasn't one of them.
No. It's a lot to take in, and don't you ever make a decision like that on my behalf again, without consulting me.
His early years were spent in the performance of such labour as fell to the lot of every farmer's son in the new states, and in the acquisition of such education as could be had in the district schools held for a few weeks each winter.
The principal affluents are the AriCge, the Tarn with the Aveyron and the Agout, the Lot and the Dordogne, which descends from Mont Dore-lesBains, and joins the Garonne at Bec-dAmbez, to form the Gironde.
The three principal regions for the production of tobacco are the basin of the Garonne (Lot-et-Garonne, Dordogne, Lot and Gironde), the basin of the Isre (Isre and Savoie) and the department of Pas-de-Calais.
The department which is to elect a senator when a vacancy occurs is settled by lot.
Entering the department of Lot, it abandons a south-westerly for a westerly course and flowing in a sinuous channel traverses the department of Dordogne, where it receives the waters of the Vezere.
By a happy lot, all persons travel to an end free of toil.
The rest of the continent gets a lot of rain so it can be considered well watered.
Orange however did not despair, and resolved to throw in his lot for good and all with the rebel province of the north.
Theodoret's chief importance is as a dogmatic theologian, it having fallen to his lot to take part in the Nestorian controversy and to be the most considerable opponent of the views of Cyril and Dioscurus of Alexandria.
He thus threw in his lot with the Scottish philosophy, and his first dissertations are, in their leading position, adaptations from Reid's Inquiry.
Some clue to this enigma might be found by asking a lot of questions.
The Norman power in Sicily was founded on a strong distinction between the ruling people and the many nations which they kept in peace and prosperity by not throwing in their lot with any one among them.
In not a few of the Italian cities nobility had an origin and ran a course quite unlike the origin and the course which were its lot at Venice.
Every five years they selected by lot one of -the tribesmen as a messenger to the god.
The young Saul was chosen by lot and gained unanimous recognition by delivering Jabesh in Gilead from the Ammonites.
When at length Tiglathpileser died, in 7 27, the slumbering revolt became general; Israel refused the usual tribute to its overlord, and definitely threw in its lot with " Egypt."
Each man slew his wife and children; ten men were selected by lot to slay the rest; one man slew the nine executioners, fired the palace and fell upon his sword.
Such vicissitudes were the ordinary lot of the Jews for several centuries, and it was their own inner life - the pure life of the home, the idealism of the synagogue, and the belief in ultimate Messianic redemption - that saved them from utter demoralization and despair.
On the 21st day of the sale of Bullock's Museum in 1819, Lot 38 is entered in the Catalogue as "The Tail Feather of a magnificent undescribed Trogon," and probably belonged to this species.
In the partition of the Greek empire after the capture of Constantinople by the Latins in 1204, Crete fell to the lot of Boniface, marquis of Montferrat, but was sold by him to the Venetians, and thus passed under the dominion of that great republic, to which it continued subject for more than four centuries.
This was the origin of the Brethren of the Common Lot (or Common Life).
Finally, his relations with Guenevere are revealed to Arthur by the sons of King Lot, Gawain, however, taking no part in the disclosure.
After the capture of Troy, Cassandra, the daughter of Priam, fell to his lot in the distribution of the prizes of war.
As a natural result of this belief we find the view that the operations of nature are conducted by a multitude of more or less obedient subordinate deities; thus, in Portuguese West Africa the Kimbunda believe in Suku-Vakange, but hold that he has committed the government of the universe to innumerable kilulu good and bad; the latter kind are held to be far more numerous, but Suku-Vakange is said to keep them in order by occasionally smiting them with his thunderbolts; were it not for this, man's lot would be insupportable.
It has fallen to the lot of no other patron of literature to have his name associated with works of such lasting interest as the Georgics of Virgil, the first three books of Horace's Odes, and the first book of his Epistles.
The name is taken from that of a Gallic tribe, the Cadurci, and was applied to a small district watered by the Dordogne, the Lot and the Tarn.
Its administration was in the hands of three praefecti aerarii militaris, at first appointed by lot, but afterwards by the emperor, from senators of praetorian rank, for three years.
They were to be elected for five years by seventeen of the tribes chosen by lot from the thirty-five; the imperium was to be conferred upon them by the lex curiata, together with judicial powers and the rank of praetor.
Those employed in workshops, whose overseers were themselves most commonly of servile status, had probably a harder lot than domestics; and the agricultural labourers were not unfrequently chained, and treated much in the same way as beasts of burden.
Thus, out of every lot of 100 shipped from Africa 17 died in about 9 weeks, and not more than 50 lived to be effective labourers in the islands.
About 25 men and 48 women also left and cast in their lot with the society at the Foundery.
The lot assigned to him after death is the result and consequence of his life upon earth.
Should the evil and the good be equally balanced, the soul passes into an intermediary stage of existence (the Hamestakans of the Pahlavi books) and its final lot is not decided until the last judgment.
Revelations concerning the last things and the future lot, whether bliss or woe, of human souls, promises for true believers, threatenings for misbelievers, his firm confidence as to the future triumph of the good - such are the themes continually dwelt on with endless variations.
The hardships of their lot, and, above all, the system by which the strongest of their sons were carried off as recruits for the corps of janissaries, frequently drove them to brigandage, and occasionally to open revolt.
In Constantinople itself sedition and profligacy were rampant, the emperors were the tools of faction and cared but little for the interests of their subjects, whose lot was one of hopeless misery and depravity.
They threw in their lot (c. 1530) with the pirate Khair-ed-Din, and subsequently received a Turkish garrison.
The Vivarais mountains and the northern Cevennes approach the right banks of the Rhone and Saone closely, and on that side send their waters by way of short torrents to those rivers; on the west side the streams a y e tributaries of the Loire, which rises at the foot of Mont Mezenc. A short distance to the south on the same side are the sources of the Allier and Lot.
Already in October 1879 it was clear enough that he had thrown in his lot with the Liberal party, but it was not till March 1880 that he publicly announced this change of allegiance.
Until the reform of the comitia centuriata (probabl' during the censorship of Gaius Flaminius in 220 B.C.; *see Comitia),` the equites had voted first, but after that time this privilege was transferred to tine cenfury selected by lot from the centuries of ' the equites and the first class.
Although this measure was bound to set senators and equites at variance, it in no way improved the lot of those chiefly concerned.
He that is contented with his lot.
In November Admiral Mello left Rio de Janeiro in the armoured cruiser " Aquidaban " and went to Desterro, the naval forces in Rio Bay being left in charge of Admiral Saldanha da Gama, an ardent monarchist, who had thrown in his lot with the insurgent cause.
He built places of worship in many different districts, and at length became the recognized chief of the people among whom he had thus strangely cast his lot.
Siena is divided into seventeen contrade (wards), each with a distinct appellation and a chapel and flag of its own; and every year ten of these contrade, chosen by lot, send each one horse to compete for the prize palio or banner.
This ideal lot, from the native point of view, drew such numbers of immigrants from disturbed districts that with the natural increase of population in thirty years the native inhabitants increased from about ioo,000 to fully 350,000.
The lot of the slaves was also somewhat ameliorated by the law forbidding their exportation.
In 1496 Varady, archbishop of Kalocsa, one of the few good prelates, declared that their lot was worse than that of brute beasts.
Josephus providentially drew the last lot and prevailed upon his destined victim to live.
Then followed the dramatic " Lot's Wife," in marble (1878), and" Artemis " (1880), which for grace, elegance and purity of taste the sculptor never surpassed.
It fell to his lot as war minister to obtain the duke of Cambridge's resignation of the' office of commander-in-chief; but his intended appointment of a chief of the staff in substitution for that office was frustrated by the resignation of the ministry.
The ceaseless movement of the two children in the car caused a lot of stress during the road trip.
These communications had been severed on the Ottoman Empire throwing its lot in with the Central Powers three months after the commencement of the struggle.
Compared with the congested districts in the other provinces of India, with the exception of Assam, the lot of the Burman is decidedly enviable.
Soon after the Joyeuse Entrée a serious feud began between the citizens and the patrician class, and eventually the duke threw in his lot with the latter.
But this connexion was not found to obtain as a rule in life, and the difficulties arising from this conflict between promise and experience centred round the lot of the righteous as a community and the lot of the righteous man as an individual.
The priori and other officers were drawn by lot from among the Guelphs over thirty years old who were declared fit for public office by a special board of 98 citizens (1329).
Its importance, however, dates from the time of Rao Surjan, who succeeded to the chieftainship in 1554 and by throwing in his lot with the Mahommedan emperors of Delhi (1569) received a considerable accession of territory.
But the task of carrying out these threats fell to the lot of his successors; the work of the prophet was to be the subjugating and uniting of Arabia.
War between Great Britain and Russia was declared on the 27th of March 1854, and it thus fell to the lot of the most pacific of ministers, the devotee of retrenchment, and the anxious cultivator of all industrial arts, to prepare a war budget, and to meet as well as he might the exigencies of a conflict which had so cruelly dislocated all the ingenious devices of financial optimism.
At that period the first Afghan War was at its height, and in crossing over from Persia through Afghanistan the Aga Khan found opportunities of rendering valuable services to the British army, and thus cast in his lot for ever with the British.
Thence, after a short stay, Abram with his wife Sarai, and Lot the son of Haran, and all their followers, departed for Canaan.
Here he dwelt for some time, until strife arose between his herdsmen and those of Lot.
Abram thereupon proposed to Lot that they should separate, and allowed his nephew the first choice.
He is a god who lives among men, miraculously reborn each day by the fire-drill, by the friction of the two sticks which are regarded as his parents; he is the supreme director of religious ceremonies and duties,and even has the power of influencing the lot of man in the future world.
Such statues were animated with sense and full of spirit, they foresaw the future, and foretold it by lot, through their priests, in dreams and in other ways.
This page gives an overview of all articles in the 1911 Brittanica which are alphabetized under Lot to Luc.
On the outbreak of the great rebellion, Lenthall threw in his lot with the parliament.
The afternoon sermon, which fell to the lot of the canon in residence, had usually been delivered in the choir, but soon after Liddon's appointment it became necessary to preach the sermon under the dome, where from 3000 to 4000 persons used to gather to hear the preacher.
The defeat of the Carthaginian army in 206 led him to cast in his lot with Rome.
See further Ishmael, and note that the pair Isaac and Ishmael correspond to Abraham and Lot, Jacob and Esau.
There is also a clause which exempts from seizure for debt the homestead, not more than two hundred acres of land in the country, or a house of any value in a city or town on a lot or lots not exceeding five thousand dollars in value at the time of its designation as the homestead.
The German rulers took Luther's advice with terrible literalness, and avenged themselves upon the peasants, whose lot was apparently worse afterwards than before.
A householder with a family may, by recording the proper declaration in a registry of deeds, hold exempt from attachment, levy on execution, and sale for the payment of debts thereafter contracted an estate of homestead, not exceeding $800 in value, in a farm or lot with buildings thereon which he lawfully possesses by lease or otherwise and occupies as his residence.
From this time to the establishment of the Thirty (462404 B.C.) the Areopagitic council, degraded still further by the opening of the archonship to the Zeugitae (457 B.C.) and by the absolute use of the lot in filling the office, was a political nullity.
Plutarch (Pericles, II) suggests that Pericles by this means rid the city of the idle and mischievous loafers; but it would appear that the cleruchs were selected by lot, and in any case a wise policy would not deliberately entrust important military duties to recognized wastrels.
He did a lot of research so he is not confused by the enigma of the pain that comes with the disease.
The old view that the Lares were the deified ancestors of the family has been rejected lately by Wissowa, who holds that the Lar was originally the protecting spirit of a man's lot of arable land, with a shrine at the compitum, i.e.
A homestead consisting of a lot of land with one or more buildings, and properly designated as such in the office of the county clerk, but not exceeding $1000 in value, is exempt from forced sale so long as it is owned and occupied as a residence by a householder having a family or by a married woman, except to recover the purchase money, to satisfy a judgment obtained before it was designated as a homestead, or to collect taxes upon it.
He subsequently fell under the spell of the rising impressionist movement and threw in his lot with Monet and his friends, who were at that time the butt of public ridicule.
The new constitution provided for a boule whose members were to be recruited by lot from all citizens above thirty; the functions of this body to be exercised by four sections succeeding one another by yearly rotation and serving without pay; all high officials to be chosen by it out of its own members.
After the British occupation of Bloemfontein he cast in his lot with the Imperial Government, realizing that it had fought for those very principles which President Brand and he had laboured for in bygone years.
The Free Staters were practically bound, under the offensive and defensive alliance, in case hostilities arose with Great Britain, either to denounce the policy to which they had so unwisely been secretly party, or to throw in their lot with the Transvaal.
Recognized causes for divorce are adultery, extreme cruelty, wilful desertion, wilful neglect, habitual intemperance or conviction for felony, The homestead of a head of a family consisting either of a farm not exceeding 160 acres or $2500 in value, or of a house and lot - the lot not exceeding 4 acre, and the house and lot not exceeding $2500 in value - is secured against debtors except in case of judgments obtained before the homestead was recorded as such, in case of labourers', mechanics' or vendors' liens, and in case of a debt secured by mortgage; if the owner is a married person the homestead cannot be mortgaged without the consent of both husband and wife.
Painful toil shall be the lot of man; subjection and pangs that of woman.
It is true that he is sometimes swayed by prejudice, but this is the common lot of great historians; they cannot altogether avoid sharing in the feelings of the past, for they live in it, and Freeman did so to an extraordinary degree.
In the Civil War, after considerable hesitation, he threw in his lot with Caesar, who made him proconsul of Achaea in 46.
The voice of the god might be uttered in omens which the skilled could read, or conveyed in the inspired rhymes of soothsayers, but frequently it was sought in the oracle of the sanctuary, where the sacred lot was administered for a fee by the sadin.
In Athens there were ten, chosen annually by lot, five of whom took charge of the city and five of the Peiraeus.
The emigres then began to throw in their lot with the Vendeans.
There were no manifestations of triumph or exultation on the part of the victors, the lot of the vanquished was made as easy as possible, and after a short time the armies melted into the mass of the people without disturbance or disorder.
This statement has a lot of ambiguity.
On its right hand the Garonne is swelled by its two chief tributaries, the Tarn, near Moissac, and the Lot, below Agen; farther down it is joined by the Drot (or Dropt), and on the left by the Ciron.
The senior judge presides as chief justice and in case two or more have served the same length of time one of them is chosen by lot.
Yahweh's ever-present kingship in Israel, which was the chief religious idea brought into prominence by the national revival, demanded a more continuous manifestation of His revealing spirit than was given either by the priestly lot or by the rise of occasional seers; and where could this be sought except among the prophets?
The revelation thus looked for may be found in natural omens, in the priestly lot or some similar sacral oracle, or, finally, in the words of a seer who is held to be in closer contact with the deity than common men.
The lot fell upon Hesione, who was chained to a rock to await the monster's coming.
In addition to this simple meaning it has also, both in the philosophical and the colloquial speech of India a technical meaning, denoting "a person's deeds as determining his future lot."
For a moment it seemed as if the author had definitely chosen the lot of a literary man, not to say of a literary hack.
He was saved from their fate by two divine messengers who spent the night in his house, and next morning led Lot, his wife, and his two unmarried daughters out of the city.
Lot and his daughters passed into Arabic tradition from the Jews.
The electoral body was composed of 17 tribes selected by lot from the whole body of 35.
Anticipating the order of chronology slightly, it may be mentioned here that in 1873 Prince Edward Island (q.v.), which had in 1865 decisively rejected proposals of the Quebec conference and had in the following year repeated its rejection of federation by a resolution of the legislature affirming that no terms Canada could offer would be acceptable, now decided to throw in its lot with the Dominion.
The constitution of 1901 exempted a homestead of 80 acres of farm land, or of a house and lot not exceeding $2000 in value, from liability for any debt contracted since the 30th of July 1868 except for a mortage on it to which the wife consented; personal property to the value of $l000 is exempted.