Sample Sentences for
Daniel Webster
(auto-selected)

Show 3 more sentences
  • Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster believed that this compromise would heal the rapidly growing breach between the North and the South.†  (source)
  • Tappan's first choice was Daniel Webster, the best known and perhaps most respected lawyer in the nation.†  (source)
  • —REPORT OF DANIEL WEBSTER'S SPEECH IN THE U. S. SENATE, ON THE APPLICATION FOR THE ERECTION OF A BREAKWATER AT NANTUCKET.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more
  • Daniel Webster preferred to risk his career and his reputation rather than risk the Union.†  (source)
  • This pattern holds from the Elizabethan Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus through the nineteenth-century Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust to the twentieth century's Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and Damn Yankees.†  (source)
  • "And, if I am, I'll still be Daniel Webster," said Dan'l.†  (source)
  • Cannon boomed from Mount Wollaston, bells rang, and the procession that carried the casket from the Adams house to the church included the governor, the president of Harvard, members of the state legislature, and Congressman Daniel Webster.†  (source)
  • After Daniel Webster.†  (source)
  • Lewis Tappan had appealed to the new Secretary of State, Daniel Webster, to see if the President could be persuaded to provide transportation to the tribesmen anyway.†  (source)
  • His story is told in Chapter V. III — Daniel Webster.†  (source)
  • They had died "amid the hosannas and grateful benedictions of a numerous, happy, and joyful people," and on the nation's fiftieth birthday, which, said Daniel Webster in a speech in Boston, was "proof" from on high "that our country, and its benefactors, are objects of His care."†  (source)
  • How could Henry Clay then hope to win approval to such a plan from Daniel Webster of Massachusetts?†  (source)
  • Unlike the acts of Daniel Webster or Edmund Ross, it did not change history.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)