1 Some, like Ellen, were members of old families who had found life intolerable in their former homes and sought haven in a distant land.
2 Several of the proud mothers of members of the militia were standing close by and overheard the remark.
3 But you girls must stand up for me if the church members want to run me out of town for doing it.
4 That afternoon the Elsing home was crowded with soldiers on leave and men from the hospitals, members of the Home Guard and the militia unit, and matrons, widows and young girls.
5 Graybeards in the Home Guard and members of the state militia, safe in Atlanta, insisted they could have managed the campaign better and drew maps on tablecloths to prove their contentions.
6 Once her sudden entrance abruptly terminated a conversation about what had happened to the members of Quantrill's band of guerillas, and she caught the names of Frank and Jesse James.
7 The other members of the Ladies' Sewing Circle for the Widows and Orphans of the Confederacy eagerly laid down their needles and edged their rocking chairs closer.
8 Great care had to be taken to avoid putting members of warring factions on the same committees.
9 To the remaining members of the party Lily gave no special thought; wherever they were, they were not likely to interfere with her plans.
10 It was Selden himself who unwittingly fused the group by arresting the attention of one of its members.
11 Most of the Jolly Seventeen were young married women, with their husbands as associate members.
12 The other members were Dr. Westlake, Lyman Cass, Julius Flickerbaugh the attorney, Guy Pollock, and Martin Mahoney, former livery-stable keeper and now owner of a garage.
13 All members of the social, financial, scientific, literary, and sporting sets were at No.
14 She went up to bed proving to herself that the members of the school-board were superior men.
15 Her first acquaintances were the members of the Tincomb Methodist Church, a vast red-brick tabernacle.