Example sentences for: thoreau

How can you use “thoreau” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Concord’s literary heritage is rich indeed, for it was the cradle of Transcendentalism and the place where Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry David Thoreau all wrote.

  • One wonders how gaumy the dough was that Thoreau mentions when he tells us that his mother left a bowl of dough overnight to rise, only to find the cate the next morning comfortably enthroned on the dough.

  • Here, Henry David Thoreau, philosopher, essayist, poet, and friend of Emerson, lived in a cabin from 1845 to 1847, and wrote Walden.

  • In the 19th century it became a literary light when Ticknor and Fields, the publisher of Emerson, Longfellow, and Thoreau operated here from 1832 to 1865 and when the Atlantic Monthly was the most famous magazine of the day.

  • In a recent column you quoted Thoreau: "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."


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