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Sentences starting with large

Large school of whales in the distance. [5]
Large tears now trickled down from his eyes, which he slowly shut and opened, his colossal frame shivered convulsively, and falling on his side he expired. [5]
Large rooms; a surpassingly comfortable ship. [5]
Large bats hovered softly on their delicate wings over the whole, and sounds of mirth and song echoed from the river. [10]
Large warehouses stood round the harbor of this Greek colony, and slightly-built dwelling-houses, into which the idle mariners were lured by the sounds of music and laughter, and the glances and voices of painted and rouged damsels. [10]
Large vessels of richly wrought gold and silver were brought into the hall on wheels, and set on the side-boards. [10]
Large drops of rain soon began to fall, and, as the storm clouds came sailing onward, others supplied the void they left behind and spread over all the sky. [12]
Large specimens have often the 26th, 30th, and 64th chapters of the Book of the Dead engraved on them, as they treat of the heart. [10]
Large animals are not common in these woods now, and you seldom meet anything fiercer than the timid deer and the gentle bear. [4]
Large empires have many and diverse customs. [5]

Sentences ending with large

The gift of working miracles was not bestowed upon His Church at large. [5]
I must insist upon the honesty--it is an essential of successful business, taken by and large. [5]
Not a single unwounded straggler came back to White House from the field, and the number of wounded reaching there up to 11 A.M. Saturday was not large. [7]
But he felt too that she needed greater wisdom, and he was ready to give it--a friendly characteristic of the big open spaces "where life is so simple and so large. [11]
The term is too large. [5]
Nobody to go to, nobody that k'yers for him--and all of us is so put to it for to get along and families so large. [5]
The revenue from this source is not large. [5]
Even in England this cult has made considerable progress, and now that it is favored by the two great Universities, the time is not far away when Ballarat English will come into general use among the educated classes of Great Britain at large. [5]
These clients paid their bills, but they were neither large nor influential, as a rule, with the notable exception of the Gaylord Lumber Company, where the matters for trial were not large. [9]
The teachings of the two Professors in the great schools of Philadelphia are sure to be listened to, not only by their immediate pupils, but by the Profession at large. [3]

Short sentences using large

In large measure, yes. [5]
These large apartments were tombs. [5]
Large, deep, and ragged. [5]
One, yes--a large one. [5]
The island is not large. [5]
It is not large. [4]
It is a large sum. [5]
That is a large reservation. [5]
It is a large question. [5]
It was a large place. [5]

Sentences containing large two or more times

Mr. Carvel's hand was large and his heart was large, and he was respected and even loved by the patriots as a man above paltry subterfuge. [9]
So we filled two large tin canteens with water (since we were not acquainted with the locality of the spring said to exist on the large island), and started. [5]
That is what the state at large was beginning to wonder, and the state at large was looking on at a drama, too. [9]
It requires, therefore, the cooperation of a large number of individuals to do the work, and a large amount of money to pay for making its results public through the press. [3]
It is got out in large irregular-shaped blocks and transported to the factories, where it is carefully split by hand, and the laminae, of as large size as can be obtained, are trimmed with shears and tied up in packages for market. [4]
His shoes were of undressed leather, with large spikes in the soles; and on his white hat he wore a large quantity of gauze, which fell in folds down his neck. [4]
They look large of course--they look large to a novice, but to a man who has been all his life accustomed to large operations--shaw! [5]
This place is not so large as Ireland or America, but it is large enough to give assurance we shall not meet. [11]
We have a large population, but we have not a large enough one, by several millions, to furnish that man. [5]
Mr. Flint was large and very ugly, big-boned, smooth-shaven, with coarse features all askew, and a large nose with many excrescences, and thick lips. [9]

More example sentences with the word large in them

He is a young man of a sterling though undeveloped character, who has been hampered by an indulgent parent with a large fortune. [9]
He was very young for the captain of a large New Orleans packet. [9]
Everybody liked the young fellow, for how could they help liking one of such engaging manners and large fortune? [5]
Had the lady you mean a large semi-circular scar just under the hair, exactly in the middle of her forehead? [10]
His regard for you is probably unchanged, but the interests he has at stake are too large to admit of sentiment as a factor. [9]
Arrived in New York, Ed found his way to Commodore Vanderbilt's business quarters, and was ushered into a large anteroom, where a score of people were patiently awaiting their turn for a two-minute interview with the millionaire in his private office. [5]
They had not yet gone to rest, for loud laughter fell upon her ear from the large sheds, open on all sides, which stood over the dyers' vats. [10]
And only last year I had cheated him in a trade, giving him a large fish-hook which was partly broken through for three small sound ones. [5]
It had a yard, and an orchard which Emerson said was as large as Dr. Ripley's, which might have been some two or three acres. [6]
A great green wreath, which must have cost the parent oak a large fraction of its foliage, was an object of special admiration. [6]
He fancied they would see from his looks that he was already on the way to a great crime, and hid himself behind the projecting gate of a large Egyptian house. [10]
A scholar who would not leave his garret and his books to take a place in a business house at a large salary. [5]
Millions upon millions would not have seemed to him too large a price for this object. [10]
The grand total would have been twice as large, but the streets were very narrow, and hundreds who wanted to bid could not get within a block of the stand, and could not make themselves heard. [5]
Charley said he would go with me,--Charley, my Captain's beloved friend, gentle, but full of spirit and liveliness, cultivated, social, affectionate, a good talker, a most agreeable letter-writer, observing, with large relish of life, and keen sense of humor. [6]
How thin and worn he was, and how large the eyes were in the face grown hollow with suffering! [11]
But the plasterer works some hair into the mortar which he is going to lay in large sheets on the walls. [3]
There were no works of human hands save a little Temple of Poseidon, an altar of Isis, the large house owned by Pyrrhus, solidly constructed by Alexandrian masons, and a smaller one for the freedman's married sons and their families. [10]
The piece of work was only half unrolled, but Orion at once saw the spot whence its crowning glory was now missing--the large emerald which, as he alone could know, was on its way to Constantinople. [10]
And all the work of this he did with his own hands, even to the polishing of the floors and the carved work of the large fireplaces. [11]
So large a work as the "History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic," offered for the press by an author as yet unknown to the British public, could hardly expect a warm welcome from the great dealers in literature as merchandise. [6]
Any fine, large word would have answered just as well: psychosuperintangibly --electroincandescently--oligarcheologically--sanchrosynchro- stereoptically--any of these would have answered, any of these would have filled the void. [5]
It is the word that thy life shall carry large plumes. [11]
There is no word that is large enough or long enough. [5]
I shelled the woods in which they were, and they in return threw a large number of shells into the lines and tents from which I moved last night to take up a stronger position. [7]
He wore a woman's loose gown of frieze, blue trousers, and large torn Hessian boots. [2]
She was a woman with a large heart, with charity. [9]
It was not without its natural influence upon him; but he regarded it most as a comfortable advertisement, and he lamented every day that this never- failing gas well was not near a large population, and he still its owner. [11]
So again, species within the same large genus by no means resemble each other to the same degree: on the contrary, some of them can generally be arranged in little groups round other species, like satellites round planets. [1]
The first army, with which was the Emperor, occupied the fortified camp at Drissa; the second army was retreating, trying to effect a junction with the first one from which it was said to be cut off by large French forces. [2]
The material difficulties with which the head-master had had to struggle after the erection of the large new buildings were also removed when Froebel's prosperous brother in Osterode decided to take part in the work and move to Keilhau. [10]
With these, and with the world at large, her manner might best be described as difficult; and I was often amused at the way in which she contrived to keep them at arm's length and make them uncomfortable. [9]
His large hands with the square-pointed fingers had obtrusive veins, but they were not common. [11]
I talked recently with the driver of a street-car in a large city. [4]
Her eyes, red with tears, were fixed on the shells with which the path was strewn, and she was using her long ruler, at first to stir them about, and then to write the words: "Paula," and "Paula, Mary's darling," in large capital letters. [10]
He was endeavoring, with loud cries, to prevent a number of men of his own class from carrying a large chest out of the house. [10]
Dahabieh----A Nile houseboat with large lateen sails. [11]
Dahabeah----A Nile houseboat with large lateen sails. [11]
There are minds with large ground floors, that can store an infinite amount of knowledge; some librarians, for instance, who know enough of books to help other people, without being able to make much other use of their knowledge, have intellects of this class. [6]
He was sitting, with his head bowed on his hands, opposite to the large portrait of her dead mother in her bridal robes. [10]
It was opened with great care, and Zeno took from it a paper which lay on a rose-coloured silk pad and on which Doctor Melchior had written in large Roman characters: "To my son Zeno Ueberhell. [10]
This being received with a large silence that suggested doubt, he buttressed it with the statement that his brother once saw the boomerang kill a bird away off a hundred yards and bring it to the thrower. [5]
He spelt Command with a large C, and when he inspected, his jacks stood to attention like man-o'-war's men. [9]
Next Jan appeared with a large arm-chair on his head. [10]
If they don't wish to trade for either, send the articles to the Century, without naming a price, and if their check isn't large enough I will call and abuse them when I come. [5]
Rosenheim is a windy place, with clear starlight, with a multitude of cars on a multiplicity of tracks, and a large, lighted refreshment-room, which has a glowing, jolly stove. [4]
She signifies her willingness to continue it by calling again any time within twelve-months; after that, if the parties go on calling upon each other once a year, in our large cities, that is sufficient, and the acquaintanceship holds good. [5]
Quite likely she will soon find that she needs first a more general culture, and fall, in with thy wish that she should see more of the world at some large school. [5]
The Northeastern Railroads will continue to be a very large factor in the life of the people after you and I are gone, Mr. Vane. [9]
In fact it will be found that a large proportion of the proverbial sayings which we glibly use are fallacies based on a very limited experience of the world, and probably were set afloat by the idiocy or prejudice of one person. [4]
When she was widowed, and he found her in dire poverty, he helped her with a large share of his savings, and performed this kind service again, when the second worthless fellow she married had squandered her last penny. [10]
She, too, was widowed and had a large fortune of her own. [10]
Her sister-in-law, the widow of a magistrate, Frau Pauline Schmidt, shared the care of the pupils and the beautiful, large garden; while her pretty, bright young sons and daughters increased the charm of the intercourse. [10]
And on the whole this method has some large advantages; for whereas a revolution destroys some lives which cannot well be spared, the dynamite way doesn't. [5]
In almost the whole large group of thrushes the young have their breasts spotted--a character which is retained throughout life by many species, but is quite lost by others, as by the Turdus migratorius. [1]
We occupied the whole day, I using the large part. [7]
Several young courtiers who were walking in front of their chariots, surrounded them and joined in the laughter and merry conversation, in which the vivacious wife of the chief priest shared, having left her large travelling-chariot to be carried in a litter. [10]
I know that while the coming transaction was still a secret, you and other, gentlemen connected with the matter bought up large interests in other lines, which you proceeded to lease to yourselves at guaranteed dividends which these lines do not earn. [9]
The large halls, which were filled with odors of ambergris and incense, were as still as the grave. [10]
The only complaints which we have heard have come from circuits which were so large that the judges could not dispose of the business, and the circuits in which Judges Pearson and Ralston lately presided. [7]
Like my grapes which the spies bore out of the Promised Land, I have got every thing in Palestine on too large a scale. [5]
The severe suffering which has darkened so large a portion of my life has been attributed to this fracture, but the idea is probably incorrect; otherwise the consequences would have appeared earlier. [10]
Baskets of flowers which had half unpeopled greenhouses, large bouquets of roses, fragrant bunches of pinks, and many beautiful blossoms I am not botanist enough to name had been coming in upon me all day long. [6]
The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor's headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower clock. [2]
Finally, the dowry which Els was to bring bore no comparison to the large sums Ernst Ortlieb had lavished upon the erection of the St. Clare Convent, and hence it was inferred that the wealth of the firm had sustained considerable losses. [10]
The room in which David found himself was lofty and large, but was furnished with only a rough wooden bed, a rug, and a brazier. [11]
These autumnal fevers, which carry off a large number of our young people every year, are treacherous and deceptive diseases. [6]
Besides the variations which can be grouped with more or less probability under the foregoing heads, there is a large class of variations which may be provisionally called spontaneous, for to our ignorance they appear to arise without any exciting cause. [1]
I'll take them where they must go, scold them a bit, and pet them a bit," said Marya Dmitrievna, touching her goddaughter and favorite, Natasha, on the cheek with her large hand. [2]
They proved it when, to stand by their convictions, they put themselves and their families at the mercy of a problematical future; and when, in advanced years, they undertook the gigantic work of compiling so large and profound a German dictionary. [10]
You are right when you say that there is a large margin in human nature over which the logicians have no dominion; glad am I that it is so. [14]
Day before yesterday, when we went about to learn how large a stock of provisions every house contains, people treated me and the others very rudely, many even turned us out of doors. [10]
He said that when Kamehameha (who was at first merely a subordinate chief on the island of Hawaii), landed here, he brought a large army with him, and encamped at Waikiki. [5]
A little later when he went up to the large circle, Anna Pavlovna said to him: "I hear you are refitting your Petersburg house? [2]
They are beautiful when constructed with the large thin tiles the Romans were so fond of using. [6]
She well knew what was passing in the father's mind, for the day before he had brought all sorts of artist's materials, and told her to arrange the little gable-room, with the large window facing towards the north, and put the easel and colors there. [10]
Look at what we've worked out in large scale production and distribution in this war! [9]
The Sparrow Hills were visible in the distance, with the village, the church, and the large white house. [2]
In this district were three large cemeteries, in which during the previous year more than three thousand bodies had been buried. [5]
The elementary schools were strictly ruled, and the rod played so large a part in them, that a pedagogue could record this saying: "The scholar's ears are at his back: when he is flogged then he hears. [10]
The Hawkins family were settled there, and had a hard enough struggle with poverty and the necessity of keeping up appearances in accord with their own family pride and the large expectations they secretly cherished of a fortune in the Knobs of East Tennessee. [5]
Perhaps because they were rather deeply set, though large, and because they seemed to glow in the shadows made by the brows, the strange intensity was deepened. [11]
Some of them were nearly as large square as an ordinary parlor. [5]
Mrs. Horn's rooms were large, and they never seemed very full, though this perhaps was because people were always so quiet. [8]
But the rooms were large, and they grouped themselves in a reminiscence of the time when they were part of a dwelling that had its charm, its pathos, its impressiveness. [8]
I thought those were large rocks, but they sank into insignificance compared with those which formed another section of the platform. [5]
The men servants were carrying the large leather sofa from Prince Andrew's study into the bedroom. [2]
At dawn we were at the city gate again; this time with a hope which our wearied bodies and fevered minds magnified into a large probability. [5]
Three large rooms were assigned to them in the monastery hostelry, one of which was occupied by Prince Andrew. [2]
He dismounted and went up into the porch of a large country house which had remained intact between the Russian and French forces. [2]
The effect of well-built, well-furnished, well-kept houses and of handsome grounds always maintained in good order about them shows itself in a large circuit around the fashionable centre. [6]
And I listened well, and then came up here and made a splendid contract for a Quaker City book of 5 or 600 large pages, with illustrations, the manuscript to be placed in the publishers' hands by the middle of July. [5]
She knew quite well that she was doing a large and generous thing to pay for that lad, and that I ought in common fairness to come out with something handsome about it, but I couldn't--my mouth refused. [5]
If you've done well for yourself, and want to go to New York or some large place at the end of that time, I won't hinder you. [9]
She is a wee little creature, but she builds a strong and enduring house eight feet high--a house which is as large in proportion to her size as is the largest capitol or cathedral in the world compared to man's size. [5]
This is a wedge, going to the centre, of the general shape of a slice of apple-pie in a large and not opulent family. [6]
In the evening we went to a large reception at Mr. Gosse's. [6]
In the evening we went to a large dinner at the invitation of the Vice-Chancellor. [6]
About ten o'clock we stopped somewhere, and a large Englishman of official military bearing stepped in. [5]
By and by we stopped before a large house and got out. [5]

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