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Sentences starting with quite

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]
Quite certainly they were within it two days ago. [7]
Quite apart from wealth or position, personality plays a part more powerful than all else in the eyes of every woman who has a soul which has substance enough to exist at all. [11]
Quite mad he was not, for the illusions which haunted him were often absent for several hours, when he spoke with perfect lucidity, received reports, and gave orders. [10]
Quite true!--And it was all to please Dame Neforis that you put your arms round me, under the acacias, and called me your own, your all, your darling, your rose-bud? [10]
Quite the best view, she declared, had been obtained from the third tier of places. [10]
Quite lately, happening to meet a wounded French colonel on the road, Rostov had maintained with heat that peace was impossible between a legitimate sovereign and the criminal Bonaparte. [2]
Quite consistent with their marital relations was the fact that Nancy should have taken a fancy to the place after Ham's interest had waned. [9]
Quite apart from the honour of his nature, prison had deepened in him the hatred of injustice. [11]
Quite otherwise thought the centurion. [10]

Sentences ending with quite

Cadet, you're a wonderful fellow, but you'll never fit in quite. [11]
Then I went to New York, and at the Lotus Club, where I had a room, I finished it--but not quite. [11]
And Mrs. Whitely's skilful suggestions had on occasions almost brought him to believe in the reality of the mirage,--never quite. [9]
I don't see quite. [11]
Quite a Buffoon, quite! [12]
Then, answering my question: "You do not know her quite. [11]
He was played out, quite. [11]
But no, ah no, m'sieu', not as you think, not quite! [11]
I do not know quite. [11]
Guess he never did, quite. [9]

Short sentences using quite

She was quite willing. [5]
Is he quite well? [2]
I don't quite understand. [5]
I understand, quite understand. [2]
No; not quite that. [5]
Are you quite sure? [12]
He was quite stupefied. [8]
He was quite stoical. [11]
He is quite smart enough. [7]
You're quite right, sir. [12]

Sentences containing quite two or more times

I was quite willing to do so, and, as there was no sort of need of an introduction, anyway, it could be necessary only that some person come forward for a moment and do an unnecessary thing, and this is quite in my line. [5]
The old woman was quite herself again over the work, and as she looked at Euphorion, who sat quite crushed on his couch with his eyes fixed on the ground, she cried out to him: "After bad times, come good ones! [10]
Then, when she was freed again--she saw it all quite clearly--two heads had been cut off in the courtyard of the Hall of justice: Orion's and Paula's--and she was left alone, quite alone and forlorn. [10]
I had some talk with one Langland and a man by the name of Chaucer--old-time poets--but it was no use, I couldn't quite understand them, and they couldn't quite understand me. [5]
Even when the struggle with Germany and her allies was in progress it was quite apparent to the discerning that the true issue of the conflict was one quite familiar to American thought, of self-determination. [9]
It is quite simple, quite easy, and I hope you will take a day off and attend to it, Joe. [5]
Let us be quite, quite friends. [2]
King George was quite, quite cool, and unencumbered, save for a trifling calico jacket, a pink lava-lava, and the august fly-flapper. [11]
You've gone quite, quite wrong. [11]
Is Val quite, quite safe? [11]

More example sentences with the word quite in them

And it isn't your proposition--no, that doesn't fascinate me; it's something else, I don't quite know what; something that's born in you and oozes out of you, I suppose. [5]
Your experience and your convictions are made the reader's; and to an author, at least, they have a value and an interest quite unusual. [14]
No one but young Hillyer had been intimate with Flint Buckner; no one had really had a quarrel with him; he had affronted every man who had tried to make up to him, although not quite offensively enough to require bloodshed. [5]
I don't suppose you'll be quite sane again till after the first number is out. [8]
I appeal to you--is this quite respectful? [12]
I quite understand you; and until I feel that you have good reason once more to respect the maniac who lost you by his own fault, I, who fought you like your most deadly foe, will not even speak the final word. [10]
And now, since you will not put me quite at my ease by assuming, in words, that I have been properly 'chaperoned' here, I must inform you that my father waits hard by--is, as my riotous young brother says, 'without on the mat. [11]
I noticed that you were quite upset this morning in the cave. [9]
People would say you were not quite disinterested. [11]
And I tell you truly, you may quite believe me: it is a pain no doubt, but I can be glad of it too. [10]
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]
These rules, as you see, were quite simple and clear. [5]
I won't trust you quite that far. [5]
I know what you mean, and you are quite right. [11]
I am sure you mean well, but are you quite certain that you know how to execute such a trust as this? [12]
He--ah really was, you know, quite a sensible man. [4]
Upon my word, you know, it's quite serious and in earnest, that's clear. [12]
I don't say you haven't been foolish, but it's Howard's fault quite as much as yours. [9]
For somehow when you get at the bottom of most crimes--the small ones leastways--you find they weren't quite meant. [11]
I don't suppose you care, but I'm afraid you are not quite just to me. [4]
I have given you all I could, and I have given you very nearly, if not quite, 35,000. [7]
They have not yielded quite as much as they might have done, but pretty well--pretty well. [12]
You smile, and yet I feel sure that long as you have desired to revisit your dear Hellas, you will not be able to leave us quite without regret. [10]
The day before yesterday, do you know, I still was not quite clear about it all. [10]
In that fatal year I had my first attack of authors' lead-poisoning, and I have never got quite rid of it from that day to this. [6]
Nick's imitation of Xavier, and his description of Benjy's terrors after the storm, were so perfect that I laughed quite as heartily; and Madame de St. Gre wiped her eyes and repeated continually, "Quel drole monsieur! [9]
Six in a wrapper, quite easy to hide under your cloak. [10]
One of his wounds was considered quite dangerous, and it was thought by many that it would prove fatal. [5]
I suppose we would; not quite as much, however, as you may think. [7]
No, the drawing-room would not quite do, though it was near the perfect thing. [11]
Her simple bedroom would have suited a prince who loved floriculture, quite as well as a princess. [10]
Even now he would be quite incapable of walking forward in a given straight line. [10]
I thought it would be better that I should come than somebody quite strange. [12]
She did her work quickly and with decision and despatch, and soon turned the panic flight into a quite steady-going march. [5]
As the month wore on, and the time drew near for him to go back to the war, a state that was not quite estrangement, and yet something very like it, set in. [9]
She remembered the words, however, and the kiss, and she was quite satisfied. [11]
He repeated the words that he had written to this effect on a tile, and which requested Publius to come quite alone to the spot indicated, since she dare not speak with him in the temple. [10]
She is a wonderful woman, and we don't quite see how or when we should have gotten under way without her. [5]
She had quite won the old merchant's heart, and the enquiries for her father which he had set on foot. [10]
But the old woman, sure of it beforehand, took his soothsaying quite calmly, and only desired to be carried up to her observatory that she might watch the risings of the stars. [10]
While the neat-handed woman worked busily and carefully many merry jests passed between them--many sincere and hearty words of admiration--and before long Arsinoe had become quite excited and took pleased interest in the needle-woman's labors. [10]
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]
He was quite without self-consciousness, although there was that little touch of irresponsibility in him which betrayed a readiness to sell his dignity for a small compensation. [11]
It is, however, within the range of practical convenience to confer with the governments of States, while it is quite beyond that range to have correspondence on the subject with counties and cities. [7]
It is quite within the probabilities that this same thing was happening all over the South. [5]
It is quite within the probabilities that a century hence she will be the most imposing figure that has cast its shadow across the globe since the inauguration of our era. [5]
It is quite within the possibilities that, a century hence, people would wonder and say, "How did your predecessors come to bury their great dead in this deserted place? [5]
It is quite within the possibilities that two or three nights like that night of mine could drive a man to suicide. [5]
I quite agree with you, Col. [5]
Pierre went on with the soldiers, quite forgetting that his inn was at the bottom of the hill and that he had already passed it. [2]
She was struck with the excited look of Euthymia, being herself quite calm, and contemplating her project with entire complacency. [6]
Melissa stood mute, with tearful eyes, while Alexander, quite beside himself, tried to relieve his rage and grief by empty threats. [10]
It printed articles with quite too much of the license of Swift and Prior for the Magazines of to-day. [6]
She received him with quite the old Hawkeye openness and cordiality, and fell to talking at once of their little acquaintance there; and it seemed impossible that he could ever say to her what he had come determined to say. [5]
Mrs. Benson beamed with motherly content, and was quite as tearful as ungrammatical, but her mind was practical and forecasting. [4]
So it did with me, too, perhaps not quite so hard as you may have supposed. [7]
Summer came again, with its anniversaries and its dragging, interminable weeks: demoralizing summer, when Mrs. Mayo quite frankly appeared at her side window in a dressing sacque, and Honora longed to do the same. [9]
While this letter with its amazing contents is on its way to astonish Joe Goodman, we will consider one of quite a different, but equally characteristic sort. [5]
She quite agreed with him, praised and encouraged him, then she criticised his slovenly deportment, showed him with comical gravity how a warrior ought to stand and walk, called herself his drill-master, and was delighted at the zeal with which he strove to imitate her. [10]
The pony looked with great attention into a fire-plug which was near him, and appeared to be quite absorbed in contemplating it. [12]
He sat up with delight to see an artist and his "Madame" returning from a journey in the country, seated upon sheaves of corn, quite unregarded by the world; doing as they listed with unabashed simplicity. [11]
And yet--believe me--I wish him no ill, and I will be quite content, if only I need never go back to him. [10]
I am quite willing to answer any gentleman in the crowd who asks an intelligent question. [7]
I think it will be quite safe, and your wife is anxious. [11]
Heedless of the widow's reproof, she went on quite beside herself: "Oh, there is no one more wicked than he is, Dame Joanna! [10]
One lady (a widow) was quite certain she should stab him if he hinted at it. [12]
Not quite certain why he stayed, but talking on reflectively, Gaston at last said: "You will be coming to us to-night, of course? [11]
Every man in whose veins flowed Egyptian blood listened to him attentively, took pleasure in his projects, and was quite ready to do his utmost to enhance the glories of this ceremonial, in which every one was to take part either active or passive. [10]
How this brother, whose temper was very mild and quiet and retiring--such as Mr Abel's--was greatly beloved by the simple people among whom he dwelt, who quite revered the Bachelor (for so they called him), and had every one experienced his charity and benevolence. [12]
Mademoiselle Bourienne, with whom she had never been able to be quite frank, had now become unpleasant to her, and for various reasons Princess Mary avoided her. [2]
I had a whole saloon car all to myself--oh, quite palatial! [5]
You see, your whole nature is pure kindness, but you are still too young and innocent quite to understand all the duties of that omnipotent love which beareth and endureth all things. [10]
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]
And Mrs. Pomfret, who, remarkable as it may seem, not only recognized Austen without her lorgnette, but quite overwhelmed him with an unexpected cordiality, and declared her intention of giving them a dinner in New York. [9]
Poor William Wetherell, who was quite overwhelmed by the fact that the great Mr. Duncan had actually read his letters and liked them, could scarcely utter a sensible word. [9]
The pious youth, who so lately had punished his flesh with the scourge to banish seductive dream-figures, had in these few days become quite another man. [10]
He hesitated--like one who isn't quite sure--then conceded the point. [5]
I know people who have seem it ten times; they know the most of it by heart; they do not tire of it; and they say they shall still be quite willing to go and sit under its spell whenever they get the opportunity. [5]
Once more something whistled, but this time quite close, swooping downwards like a little bird; a flame flashed in the middle of the street, something exploded, and the street was shrouded in smoke. [2]
The mode in which this knowledge was pressed into service on all occasions to express his meaning and illustrate his thoughts was quite unexampled. [5]
The Signora's apartments, which she permitted us to see, were quite in the nature of an oratory, with shrines and sacred pictures and relics of the faith. [4]
Behind the rocks which hemmed in the plateau on which Paulus met her, at last, when she was quite exhausted, she found a shady resting-place. [10]
Wherefore, the "deal" which had been for some time working into shape in my mind was of a quite different pattern from the Cade-Tyler sort. [5]
Clement asked himself whether she felt quite as sure that her attachment would last as she once did. [6]
It was expected when the District was made out of these two that the result would be something quite extraordinary in the places of public entertainment. [4]
In an age when nastiness was written as well as spoken, and when most travelers felt called upon to satisfy a curiosity for prurient observations, Smith preserved a tone quite remarkable for general purity. [4]
Her verbal output, when left undoctored by her clerks, is quite unmistakable It always exhibits the strongly distinctive features observable in the virgin passages from her pen already quoted by me: Desert vacancy, as regards thought. [5]
It's quite true what foreigners say about our men,--that they live in a groove, that they haven't any range of conversation. [9]
But Lincoln's ways were so essentially different from his that they never became quite intelligible, and certainly not congenial to him. [7]
The youth's answers were short and confused, but his looks betrayed that he would fain have said quite other things than those which his indocile tongue allowed him to reiterate timidly. [10]
Upstairs, the bedrooms were quite as unusual, the plumbing of the new pattern, heavy and imposing. [9]
The cavalry singers were passing close by: Ah lost, quite lost... is my head so keen, Living in a foreign land. [2]
Doctor Benjamin's conjectures were not unnatural, but quite remote from the actual fact. [6]
The young spirits were excited to the highest pitch, but each expressed his feelings in quite a different manner. [10]
The young men were apparently quite as much surprised as she, and the parlor maid stood grinning behind them. [9]
Much alarmed, they went close up to him, but he exclaimed quite coherently: "Water--a drink of water!--the thief!--the scoundrel! [10]
His book is well written and is exceedingly entertaining, and so it just barely escaped being quite valuable also. [5]
I knew quite well what was going to happen, because I could date back in my own life and inspect the record. [5]
It's quite as well to crack your own filberts as to borrow the use of other people's teeth. [6]
Pierre knew quite well that this was a bull caribou, travelling wildly till he found another herd. [11]

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