Sample Sentences forContinental Congress (auto-selected)
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His ruddy cheeks and his long, old-fashioned nose, in combination with the prematurely white hair, gave him the amiable look of a lesser founding father, some minor member of the Continental Congress teleported to the twenty-first century.† (source)
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—LETTER FROM JOHN HANCOCK, PRESIDENT OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, TO GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON† (source)
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For the past month he had been arguing that Alexander the Great sided with the big bankers at the Continental Congress and tried to undercut Mr. Jefferson.† (source)
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"I've got about as much of a plan as the Continental Congress had in 1775," Tyler said.† (source)
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And in the War of the Revolution the shilling of the Continental Congress hadn't been worth, in the British phrase, a Continental damn.† (source)
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But to win the Germans over, the Continental Congress printed German translations of some of its deliberations, including the Articles of Confederation, and German Americans did support the Revolution.† (source)
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John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress, was thirty-nine, John Adams, forty, Thomas Jefferson, thirty-two, younger even than the young Rhode Island general.† (source)
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Their business wholly domestic, and subject to the authority of a Continental Congress.† (source)
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The Continental Congress met for the first time in Philadelphia in 1774.† (source)
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"It is not in the pages of history, perhaps, to furnish a case like ours," Washington informed John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress.† (source)
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The master and his friends could complain about the Continental Congress at such length I feared my ears might drop off.† (source)
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When, in September, an emissary from the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, Richard Penn, arrived in London with an "Olive Branch Petition" in hand, expressing loyalty to the Crown and requesting, in effect, that the King find a way to reconciliation, George III refused to have anything to do with it.† (source)
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In less than a year's time, as a delegate to the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, he had emerged as one of the most "sensible and forcible" figures in the whole patriot cause, the "Great and Common Cause," his influence exceeding even that of his better-known kinsman, the ardent Boston patriot Samuel Adams.† (source)
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One of his strongest admirers and mentors was Samuel Ward of Rhode Island, a delegate to the Continental Congress, who was also the uncle of Nathanael's wife Katherine and presumably used his influence.† (source)
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THE ROUTE JOHN ADAMS and his young companion would take to Philadelphia that January of 1776 was the same as he had traveled to the First Continental Congress in the summer of 1774.† (source)
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As he wrote to his friend Samuel Ward at the Continental Congress, the prospect was deeply disturbing, "when you consider how raw and undisciplined the troops are in general, and what war-like preparations are going on [in] England."† (source)
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