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Sentences starting with against

Against his daughter's wish, he had given to the richest and most aristocratic among them, the Sicilian baron Don Fabrizio di Moncada, the hope of gaining her hand. [10]
Against this mound was backed a little temple in the rear of the Palace. [11]
Against all human versions of its own or any other authority. [6]
Against one of these the Emperor was leaning stroking the blood-hound, whose prompt and vigorous watchfulness had pleased him greatly. [10]
Against the mountainside there seemed to hang one bunch of flame like a star, large, red, and weird. [11]
Against the wall stood a huge stone mantel of the Tudor period, and the ceiling was of wood. [9]
Against Sir Sagramor, so weaponed and protected, a thousand knights could accomplish nothing; against him no known enchantments could prevail. [5]
Against the flushed sky above the city were silhouetted the high chimneys of the power plant. [9]
Against every such question there should be written the one word, "Wait. [11]
Against his wild picturesqueness and brawny strength, her perfectness of animal beauty, curbed and rendered delicate by her inner coldness, showed in fine contrast; and yet both were matched in the fine natural prowess of form. [11]

Sentences ending with against

What was she struggling against? [9]
Their speed was slow, however, because pitfalls were somewhat common, and had to be guarded against. [5]
Unless the record shown me is defectively made out I think it can be successfully defended against. [7]
Yet a lump of puddingstone is a thing to look at, to think about, to study over, to dream upon, to go crazy with, to beat one's brains out against. [6]
They two derelicts of life had much in common--the communion of sinners who had been so much sinned against. [11]
In spite of myself, how awkwardly I do jumble words together; and how often I do use three words where one would answer--a thing I am always trying to guard against. [5]
Mr. Warner, the lively parson with my Lord March, desired to press my hand, declaring that he had won a dozen of port upon me, which he had set his best cassock against. [9]
Oh, far from it; he certainly was the last Frenchman that any Briton had a right to bring that charge against. [5]
They add that if Congress cannot do so itself, Congress cannot confer any power to do so; and hence any effort by the Territorial Legislature to do either of these things is absolutely decided against. [7]
Now, whom does he make that charge against? [7]

Short sentences using against

It goes against you--so there! [11]
I am against this. [7]
I protest against this assertion. [7]
It's against all rules. [12]
Are you against me? [4]
Per-- against a lawyer? [5]
I am against it. [5]
I've nothing against him. [4]
Luck was against him. [11]
Against my Lord Eglington! [11]

Sentences containing against two or more times

But I work with might and main against his Immigration bill, --as pertinaciously and as vindictively, indeed, as he works against our University. [5]
He was received with good feeling, but in the workers' view it was "class against class--labour against capital, the man against the master. [11]
The wise abbot wished to avoid anything, that would cause excitement, during this time of rebellion against the power of the Church, but the magistrate claimed the right to commence proceedings against the doctor. [10]
If my mind was tuned to shun thee, I gave proof that it was willing to take thee at thine own worth, even against the will of my father, against the desire of David, who knew thee better than I--he gauged thee at first glance. [11]
For Bigot I was to be a weapon against another; for Doltaire, against myself. [11]
While her heart was daily growing more bitter against him, he had been fighting his vessel against great odds, and at last had been shipwrecked and carried off a prisoner. [11]
The rich shall warrant the poor against planless production and the ruin that now follows, against danger from without and famine from within, and the poor--" "No, no, no! [8]
Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. [5]
As we looked upon it that day, John Paul and I, and it lay low against the bright water with its bare oaks and chestnuts against the dark pines, 'twas perhaps as well that the future was sealed to us. [9]
Charley's soul rose up in revolt against the danger that faced him--not against personal peril, but the danger of being dragged back again into the life he had come from, with all that it involved--the futility of this charge against him! [11]

More example sentences with the word against in them

You've got coin, you've got sense, you're a bit distinguished-looking, and I'll back your heart against a thousand bishops. [11]
You have raised your voice against it, and I respect and honour and thank you for it, the more because you have done it without resorting to sensation, and apparently with no thought of yourself. [9]
I rebel against your system of forced publicity. [6]
You long for your sister; go to her, I have nothing more to say against it. [10]
If you enter your name on the Visitor's Book at Government House you will receive an invitation to the next ball that takes place there, if nothing can be proven against you. [5]
If you open your mouth against me only once after that time you can't travel so far but I will find you. [5]
Someone has poisoned your mind against me. [11]
In each of your letters to us, you will state the number of certain votes both for and against us, as well as the number of doubtful votes, with your opinion of the manner in which they will be cast. [7]
But in detaching your force the President directs that it be done in such a way as to enable you to hold your ground and not interfere with the movement against Chattanooga and East Tennessee. [7]
Why, Burlingame, as your family physician, I shouldn't hesitate even to present my account against your estate if, in a tussle with the devil, he got you out of my hands. [11]
Consider, then, whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves, and your charge of destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations. [7]
I have watched your battle against beauty in behalf of truth, and rejoiced, though I often saw you and your little band of young disciples shoot beyond the mark. [10]
Make the Mohar your ally, and it may easily happen that your rat-bites may be paid for with mortal wounds, and Rameses who, if you marched against him openly, might blow you to the ground, may be hit by a lance thrown from an ambush. [10]
Smith was a young man of about twenty-eight, vain and no doubt somewhat "bumptious," and it is easy to believe that Wingfield and the others who felt his superior force and realized his experience, honestly suspected him of designs against the expedition. [4]
Soon Appelles arrives, young and vigorous and full of enthusiasm: he has led a host against the Persians and won the battle; he is the pet of fortune, rich, honoured, believed, 'Master of Palmyra'. [5]
I am not you; I am a physician, one who has nothing to do except to take the field against suffering and death. [10]
I will show you, that there is only one man in Persia who deserves the name of king;--only one who can venture to take the field against the Ethiopians;--only one who can bend this bow. [10]
The trouble with you, my dear Hugh, is that you have never failed," she went on, "you've never had a good, hard fall, you've always been on the winning side, and you've never had the world against you. [9]
He is against you, and he is dangerous. [11]
He marched against you, and as I approved his cause. [10]
But I thought you were all only trying to make it easier for me, and I heard Warbeck say to Rockwell, when they thought I was asleep, 'It's ten to one against him. [11]
We all wish you to reconsider the question of resigning; not that we would wish to retain you greatly against your wish and interest, but that your decision may be at least a very well-considered one. [7]
I would advise you to pray betimes to Mithras for eternal youth, and for his protection against the wrinkles of age! [10]
Is the knot you tie safe against picking and stealing? [11]
Everybody will tell you that; and one day when a stranger threw a stone at it, not knowing it was your cat, the village rose against him as one man and hanged him! [5]
Let me remind you that your doing so, at our instance, will place you in a safe and comfortable position--your present one is not desirable--and cannot injure your brother; for against him and you we have quite sufficient evidence (as you hear) already. [12]
Suppose I told you that Austen Vane has avoided me, that he would not utter a word against you or in favour of himself? [9]
He was credited, you may well believe, with calumnies against King George, and once my Uncle Grafton and Mr. Dulany were for clapping him in jail, avowing that he taught treason to the young. [9]
Even Croesus, who you know is one of Amasis' well-wishers, and advises peace whenever it is possible, had not a word to say against it. [10]
I now send you herewith what I suppose will be an ample defense against any such charges. [7]
We know that you have armed a vast host against us, and we are ready to buy peace and liberty by a yearly tribute. [10]
I only wonder you don't find me more worn out, for what can be more excruciating for a woman, that to be obliged to enter the lists for manly decisiveness against a man who is defending a perfectly antagonistic view? [10]
In the daytime you can hitch it up against the wall, out of the way--and then you have a big unencumbered and most comfortable room to spread out in. [5]
No, really, have you anything against me? [2]
True, he had yielded reluctantly to this arrangement of his parents' old friend, and neither she nor Daphne had hitherto succeeded in soothing the fierce resentment against fate which filled his soul after the loss of his sight and his dearest friend. [10]
He had not yet been admitted to Dion's presence, but this did not appear to vex him, for he stood leaning quietly against the wall beside the door, gazing at the broad-brimmed sailor's hat which he was slowly turning in his hands. [10]
And yet and yet against the tumult and beating of this passion striving to throb down thought, thought strove. [9]
In the stern Xavier stood immovable against the tiller, his short pipe clutched between his teeth, the colors of his new worsted belt made gorgeous by the rising sun. [9]
Then the angry, wronged heart rebelled against such humiliation. [10]
If these are wrong reasons, then I have been wrong; but I have certainly not been selfish in it, because in my greatest need of friends he was against me, and for Baker. [7]
The amount of writing against it is no more test of its desuetude, than the number of religious tracts distributed in a given district is a criterion of its piety. [4]
Don't fail to write me instantly on receiving this, telling me all--particularly the names of those who are going strong against me. [7]
He said he would secure us a hotel if he could, but if they were all full he would ask them to build another one and hurry up and get the paint and plaster dry against we arrived. [5]
Her pious heart would run her little head against the wall if matters came to that and, like the noble Moorish steeds, she would drop dead in her tracks rather than stop. [10]
At first he would not; but when Caroche said that it was only his fun, that he meant nothing against Francois, the young man recited the words slowly--an epitaph on one who was little better than a prize-fighter, a splendid bully. [11]
He said he would march against the dragon in the morning. [5]
He, Berthold Vorchtel, would make no complaint against him, for he knew that Wolff had been forced to cross swords with his Ulrich. [10]
His very manservant would have cried aloud against it. [9]
Perhaps the preacher would have a sermon against war, and the preacher should see how soldierlike he would take this attack on him. [4]
I thought he would fly to the front, and be brave and noble, and stand up for me against all the world, and defy my enemies, and wither these gossips with his scorn! [5]
And the viper would fasten on his hand--it had fastened on his hand, and he had struck it off; but it would come again, the dark thing against which he had fought in the desert. [11]
Then the King would fain cruise at once against the French, but Queen Dorothy must needs go with him. [9]
Albeit methought it would be a happy chance if we might stand at the altar at the same time with Herdegen and Ann, Gotz's impatience, which had waxed no lesser even during his journeyings, was set against our waiting for my brother's coming. [10]
I think it would be a good lesson for the young gentlemen to be spread-eagled against the mists of their future. [11]
Yes, all the world knew it was going to be in reality a duel between Merlin and me, a measuring of his magic powers against mine. [5]
How charming the world is when you go with it, and not against it! [4]
To Jim the world became a sea of maddening forces which buffeted him; a whirlpool of fire in which his brain was tortured, his mind was shrivelled up; a vast army rending itself, each man against the other. [11]
What is the workmen's vote against it? [9]
We want to work three days more; if we don't find anything, we won't bring in no bill against you. [5]
Joan set to work at once, and concerted a plan with Guillaume de Flavy, captain of the city--a plan for a sortie toward evening against the enemy, who was posted in three bodies on the other side of the Oise, in the level plain. [5]
Under her loving words of consolation he soon regained his composure, and, still struggling against the rising tears, he cried: "Thank Heaven, there can be no more foolish talk of flight! [10]
He pass the word against me, he hunt me out of the mountains, he call-- tete de diable! [11]
I looked in wonderment at the gesticulating figures grouped against the light, Madame imploring, the youthful profile of the newcomer marked with a cynical and scornful refusal. [9]
The former is wonderfully strong; a confined bird will at the proper season beat her breast against the wires of her cage, until it is bare and bloody. [1]
Joan had resumed woman's dress without protest; also she had been formally warned against relapsing. [5]
The arguments against woman suffrage have always taken the easy form of prophecy. [5]
The heart of woman is in unconquerable rebellion against it. [6]
And then a woman in deep mourning emerged from a tiny shop and took her bicycle from against the wall and spoke to me. [9]
What could one woman do against the accepted demoralizations of her social life? [4]
To-day the good woman could not quite make up her mind whether it would be wiser to warn Dada against Marcus and desire her to repel any advances he might attempt to make, or to let bygones be bygones. [10]
Productions without talent, without spirit, without discrimination, flat and pitiful eulogies, exaggerations surpassing the limits of the most robust faith, invectives against such as dared to doubt the dogmas which had been proclaimed, or catalogues of remedies; of such materials is it composed! [3]
He had died without knowing the truth, and her heart was hardened against him who had brought misery upon her. [11]
We looked on without apprehension, for they were fast getting past ability to go for help against us, and the arena was far enough from the public road to be safe from intrusion. [5]
That you sympathize with these agitators who incite class against class! [9]
He was seized with terror, and, in a kind of convulsion, hurled what he thought had become a living head against the wall. [10]
His eyes, wet with tears of grateful joy, sought the young man's, and, though he had just warned him plainly enough against courting his daughter, his sparkling gaze now asked whether he had ever met an equally bewitching marvel. [10]
The wounded, bandaged with rags, with pale cheeks, compressed lips, and knitted brows, held on to the sides of the carts as they were jolted against one another. [2]
She tortured herself with questions, and the less peace her aunt gave her, the more unendurable her headache became, the more plainly she felt that the fever, against whose relaxing power she had struggled for days, would conquer her. [10]
Some summer insect, with no escape into the air, flew blindly to and fro, beating its body against the walls and ceiling, and filling the silent place with murmurs. [12]
Jim was sitting with Nancy on his knee, her head against his shoulder, Sally at his side, her face alight with some inner joy. [11]
Sometimes I sat with my back against the dunes watching the drag of the outgoing water rolling the pebbles after it, making a gleaming floor for the light to dance. [9]
I have arranged with Mr. Carroll, the barrister, to take your cause against your uncle, so that you will lose nothing when I am gone. [9]
After my talk with McCann I was sitting on the forecastle propped against the bitts of the Maria's anchor-chain, and looking at the swirling foam cast up by the tug's propeller. [9]
A picture flooded with light, standing forth in radiant relief against the darkness of the heavy, majestic forms surrounding it in a wide circle. [10]
Great maples, heavy with leaves, stood out against the soft blue of the sky, and the sunlight poured over everything, bathing the stone walls, the thatches of the farmhouses, extracting from the copses of stunted pine a pungent, reviving perfume. [9]
Adrian hurried home with his vial, and in his joy at bringing the sick lady relief, forgot her headache and struck the knocker violently against the door. [10]
He was kneeling with his forehead against the rocky wall and his emaciated hands were closely clasped over Magdalena's ring. [10]
Richards, sitting there with his chair tilted back against the wall and his chin between his knees, heard something fall. [5]
Therefore his relations with his brother-in-law, whose prudent caution he considered avarice, and whose earnest protests against his often unprecedented demands frequently roused his ire, became more and more unfriendly. [10]
He was vexed with himself, that he could feel so little anger against a criminal, whose guilt was deserving of death, and reproached himself for lukewarmness. [10]
Hunger was not with him, nor composure, nor speech, and when he twisted in frequent unquiet movements the heavy guns that he had not removed knocked against the table-legs. [13]
She was standing with her hands behind her, her back against a great walnut trunk, the crusted branches of which hung over the bluff. [9]
Then Washington said, with earnest compassion in his voice-- "And so, after coming here, against your inclination, to satisfy your sense of patriotic duty and appease a selfish public clamor, you get absolutely nothing for it. [5]
So it was with Cynthia leaning against the entry wall, her arms full length in front of her, and her hands clasped as she prayed for strength to withstand the temptation. [9]
He had quarrelled with Bigot, and had conquered, but at great cost; for Bigot had such power, and the Governor had trouble enough to care for himself against Bigot, though he was Beaugard's friend. [11]
I paused once with a twinge of remembrance before the long line of the Ursuline convent, with its latticed belfry against the sky. [9]
The gates closed with a bang, and a patter of bullets beat against them like rain. [9]
They do not wish to array themselves against all the Lamartines and Grimeses in the world. [5]
She did not wish him to be prejudiced against her. [11]
The best and wisest has his defects, and sometimes they would seem to be very grave ones if brought up against him in the form of accusation. [6]

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