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Sentences starting with spirit

Spirit was gone out of him, longing for the future had no place in his mind; in the world of public work he was dead and buried. [11]
Spirit is what counts, and the Yankees haven't got it, I was made to-day a Captain of Cavalry under Colonel Rives. [9]
Spirit of dreams, a vision Well hast thou wrought for us; Fold high the veil Elysian, The past held naught for us; Years, what are they but spaces Set in a day for me? [11]
Spirit and matter, 100, 101. [6]

Sentences ending with spirit

He was just young enough, and there was still enough natural health in him, to know the healing touch of a perfect decency, a pure truth of spirit. [11]
It is as yet, to a degree, tempered by a philosophic spirit. [4]
I suppose you Yankees cannot help your critical spirit. [4]
But she retorted with spirit. [9]
The gray responded with spirit. [5]
The Comtesse Chantavoine, who still held her hand, pressed it, though herself cold as ice with sickness of spirit. [11]
Even my wife, who saw no insolence in Margaret's attempt, applauded Mrs. Fletcher's spirit. [4]
Here was one who might have governed a province and still have been a woman, one who had taken into exile the best of safeguards against misfortune,--humor and an indomitable spirit. [9]
A hooked nose, which I compare to a vulture's beak, is never found together with a submissive spirit. [10]
What was mind, what spirit? [9]

Short sentences using spirit

Winged spirit, use your pinions! [10]
In the spirit world. [5]
I like your spirit, sir. [9]
Is this a selfish spirit? [4]
Tarboe's spirit was roused. [11]
Is that the right spirit? [5]
That is the right spirit. [5]
Such a dreadfully mercenary spirit! [4]
The spirit moved me. [11]
A spirit uplifted her. [13]

Sentences containing spirit two or more times

The spirit of wrath--not the words--is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. [5]
It has brought with it to me a new spirit, a spirit with a scorn for things base and mean. [9]
But this rule which leaves out of account the spirit of the army continually proves incorrect and is in particularly striking contrast to the facts when some strong rise or fall in the spirit of the troops occurs, as in all national wars. [2]
That body was weak, but the spirit in it was the spirit of Joan of Arc; and out of that came the steadfast answer which these people were already so familiar with and detested so sincerely: "Let come what may. [5]
He was wont to say to the little Avocat whenever Francois's name was mentioned: "The spirit of a man will support him, but a wounded spirit who can bear? [11]
How was she to know that her innocent questions tortured him cruelly; that the spirit of the Cynthia who had come to him in the tannery house had haunted him all his life, and that she herself, a new Cynthia, was still that spirit? [9]
We thereby reinstate the spirit of concession and compromise, that spirit which has never failed us in past perils, and which may be safely trusted for all the future. [7]
A spirit possessed the place, a restless spirit called William T. Sherman. [9]
Valmond did not stir, but looked steadily at De la Riviere, and said slowly, dramatically, yet with a strange genuineness also: "The spirit of France, monsieur, the spirit of France looks not forward only, but backward, for her inspiration. [11]
If you're any spirit at all, sir, you're an evil spirit. [12]

More example sentences with the word spirit in them

It would sear your heart and spirit, it would spoil all that makes you what you are. [11]
In one so young, and so unused to the scenes in which she had lately moved, this sinking of the spirit was not surprising. [12]
Once more among you the antique spirit lives. [11]
Yet I tell you that, heavy as your losses may seem, Spargapises, Tomyris and fifty thousand Massagetae can never outweigh the spirit of one king of Persia, least of all of a Cyrus. [10]
How long have you been in the spirit land? [5]
A few years yonder in the desert--power, glory, wealth won for Egypt, the strength of thine arms known, the piety of thy spirit proven, thy name upon every tongue--on thy return, who then should fear for Egypt! [11]
This almost unnatural, yet quiet, intensity had behind it something besides the mere spirit of the sportsman. [11]
Now and then, yes, very often, out of some paradise, no doubt, strays into New England conditions of reticence and self-denial such a sweet spirit, to diffuse a breath of heaven in its atmosphere, and to wither like a rose ungathered. [4]
The face, so yellow and peaked, was of the type that grows even more handsome in sickness, and in the great fever-stricken eyes a high spirit burned. [9]
Now, for some years it has been inadequate, frequently unintelligible, often grossly misleading, failing wholly to give the real spirit and meaning of the most important discussions; and it is as dry as chips besides. [4]
I have watched, year by year, this detestable spirit of greed, this lust for money and power creeping over our country, corrupting our people and institutions, and finally tainting the Church itself. [9]
He might be wrong, but his words carried the evidence of his own serene, unshaken confidence that the spirit of all truth was with him. [6]
This letter is written in a spirit of caution, and not of censure. [7]
I did not write The Trail of the Sword because it was in keeping with the spirit of the moment. [11]
Terror, blood, Diodoros wounded, Andreas, the ass on which she had ridden that night, were the images which first crowded on her awakening spirit in bewildering confusion. [10]
The heart so wounded should be healed at last; the proud spirit so tortured should find rest again; the humbled head should be lifted up once more. [5]
This stubborn spirit would surrender now. [5]
Then her spirit would rise from her body's ashes, a thousandfold reinforced, and sweep the English domination into the sea, and Cauchon along with it. [5]
My lord Alexander would have it that he had seen the spirit of one who was dead, and he would gladly give his life to see her once again. [10]
A bolder spirit would have dashed for liberty. [9]
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]
With her the words would have been wrenched forth from her heart, scarred into the paper with the bitterness of a spirit tried beyond enduring. [11]
I followed her, wondering at the masterful spirit she had shown. [9]
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]
Then he said without lookin' at me,--'It is the spirit of the White Valley and the Hills of the Mighty Men; of which all men shall know, for the North will come to her spring again one day soon, at the remaking of the world. [11]
The powerful hand with which his servant had promptly controlled the fiery spirit of the animals excited his approbation, and seemed to inspire him to put a clog boldly on the wheels of speeding fate. [10]
And she, too, with the subtle senses of a disembodied spirit, must have had a yearning towards him, for she had perceived all the depth and fervor of his passion. [10]
I entirely agree with the spirit of the verses I have looked over, in this point at least, that a true man's allegiance is given to that which is highest in his own nature. [6]
It was sung with the same spirit our men sing "We won't come back till it's over, over there! [9]
I fell in with some people I knew who were going where the spirit moved them, and I went along. [9]
Come--come and say with me that we shall part no more--in spirit no more; that, whatever comes, you and I have fulfilled our great hope, though under the shadow of the sword. [11]
He was treated with marked courtesy by the captain and with marked deference by all the officers and servants; and this deferential spirit was quickly communicated to the passengers, too. [5]
She had played with fire, from the very spirit of adventure in her, but she had not been burnt. [11]
And he resolved with democratic spirit that he would teach Stephen a lesson, if opportunity offered. [9]
Her fingers clinched with anger at the sight, and her spirit filled with disgust. [11]
They were glowing with a fire of excitement which was like a fever devouring the spirit, with little dark, flying banners of fate or tragedy behind. [11]
But if you wish war, persist in trying to grind the spirit from a people who have in them the pride of your own ancestors. [9]
Thus they were willing to commit a sin against the spirit of religious law, in order that they might preserve the letter of it. [5]
Seized of that wilful, daring spirit called Love, her sight was bounded by the little field where she strayed. [11]
He wanted his wife to abandon his wretched carcass long ago, as she herself was sound and well, but Luka said that she was content to remain and wait on the man she loved till the spirit should be freed from its burden. [5]
And the man who had ruined her life and had poisoned her true spirit was come back broken and battered. [11]
And hence those who are not married in the Spirit are not spiritually man and wife. [9]
But the path which those who live under the control of the Spirit are to take is opened up to them as they journey. [9]
The mood in which she had talked to Lady Tynemouth was gone, and in its place a spirit of revolt was at work. [11]
If the spirit which imbued the founders of this nation means anything, Mr. Bass, it means that the able men who are given a chance to rise by their own efforts must still retain the duties and responsibilities of the humblest citizens. [9]
The spirit with which he had entered the room, however, remained with him, even when he saw Kaid summon to him some of the most fanatical members of the court circle, and engage them in talk for a moment. [11]
The same spirit which had supported her on the previous night, upheld and sustained her now. [12]
It was only when he saw the mutineers would not accept the terms granted to the Spithead rebels that a new spirit influenced him. [11]
Was it because when he had once spoken so crudely of the University I had seen the reflection of her spirit in his eyes? [9]
Where, how, and when had this young countess, educated by an emigree French governess, imbibed from the Russian air she breathed that spirit and obtained that manner which the pas de chale * would, one would have supposed, long ago have effaced? [2]
She knew not what was to be required of her, she was a stranger in a strange land; but persecution and exile had gone far to strengthen her spirit and greaten her composure. [11]
How charming they were--in spirit, manner, language, pronunciation, enunciation, grammar, phrasing, matter, carriage, clothes--in every detail that goes to make the real lady and gentleman, and welcome guest. [5]
His ordinary councils were stale water--his spirit was drinking wine, now, and the taste of it was good. [5]
They, at least, were satisfied, and went off to their rooms with the restful feeling that they had arrived somewhere and no unquiet spirit at morn would say "to horse. [4]
Among those who were rich in spirit her brother Philip was certainly one of the richest, and whither had an acute understanding and restless brain led him that they so seldom gave his feelings time to make themselves heard? [10]
If so, they were generous designs; and perhaps it was inevitable that Miss Lucretia should recognize in every young woman of spirit and brains a possible recruit for the cause. [9]
His positive instructions were full of value, but the spirit in which he taught inspired that loyal love of truth which lies at the bottom of all real excellence. [3]
The lower things were flying from it, a spirit of womanhood was living in her-- feebly, but truly, living. [11]
For, notwithstanding there were certain hours in those days which brought me sweet love-making, and others of sheer mirth and vanity, yet is the spirit of man so tempered that, when great sorrow follows hard on the greatest joy it sufficeth to darken it wholly. [10]
Some of them were beautiful, but at the same time they carried such evidences about them of the cringing spirit of those great men that we found small pleasure in examining them. [5]
Good Mr. Ware went home, troubled in spirit, shaking his head. [9]
If ever woman went about doing good in an unselfish spirit it was she. [4]
However, it seemed well worth while to chance it, so he fell to groaning with considerable spirit. [5]
It is not well to starve on the chance of help coming, and then die fighting with weak arms and broken spirit. [11]
If they come, we'll say the Lord's Prayer, and make the sacred gesture, and if it goes not, we will have one of your good priests to drive out this whining spirit. [11]
Because Mavick was weak--and she had always secretly despised him for yielding to her--weak as compared with her own indomitable spirit, she generalized wildly. [4]
When we give, we will, in remembrance of you, give in all love and willingness, and when we receive, even the smallest gift, we will only ask in what spirit it was offered. [10]
After nightfall, as we walked in the middle of the roughly paved streets, meeting few people, and hearing only the echoing clatter of the wooden sabots of the few who were abroad, the old spirit of the place came over us. [4]
Day by day we lose some of our restlessness and absorb some of the spirit of quietude and ease that is in the tranquil atmosphere about us and in the demeanor of the people. [5]
The Spirit which we draw from the Gospels. [9]
Have those whom we call the rulers of the universe the right to punish me because I make use of the inquiring spirit they have bestowed on me? [10]
By our conduct we are encouraging the growth of the criminal class, and we are inviting disregard of law, and diffusing a spirit of demoralization throughout the country. [4]
Experience is what we all need, and though love or love-making cannot be called a novelty, there is something quite fresh about the study of it in the modern spirit. [4]
It is woman's way of hinting what is in the air, the spirit that is abroad in the world. [4]
She had a way of carrying her head, of throwing it back at times, that was not exactly imperious, and conveyed the impression of spirit rather than of mere vivacity. [4]
This was the way her loving spirit was flung back upon her! [4]
Yes, the spirit was there, for it flashed in her eyes as she turned and looked into Miss Lucretia's face. [9]
The awful point was that, while full of ruth for others, on herself she had no pity; the spirit was inexorable to the flesh; from the trembling hands, the unnerved limbs, the fading eyes, the same service was exacted as they had rendered in health. [14]
And yet he was so informed with the modern spirit that he was not content, as a zealot formerly might have been, to snatch souls out of the evil that is in the world, but he strove to lessen the evil. [4]
Yet that man was so heedless as not to reflect that all the social customs of civilised peoples are entitled to respectful observance, and that no man with a right spirit of courtesy in him ever has any disposition to transgress these customs. [5]
In Florence he was so annoyed by beggars that he pretends to have seized and eaten one in a frantic spirit of revenge. [5]
Was she deceived, was she dreaming or was she tricked by some evil spirit? [10]
Joan's loyal soul was outraged, and she turned upon the preacher and flung out a few words with a spirit which the crowd recognized as being in accordance with the Joan of Arc traditions: "By my faith, sir! [5]
That wild spirit was now a force which understood itself in a new if uncompleted way. [11]
But political life was not to his taste, and it would have been fatal to his sensitive spirit. [4]
His own patriotism was not a deep or lasting thing: vanity and a restless spirit were its fountains of inspiration. [11]
Indeed, Jean Jacques was living in a dream in these dark days--a dream of renunciation and sacrifice, and in the spirit of one who gives up all to some great cause. [11]
The mutinous spirit was in the air, but the whites were not afraid, and did not feel much troubled. [5]
Pentaur's hot spirit was full of wrath. [10]
Even while he was flying to her, her gentle spirit might have gone on another flight, whither he could not follow her. [5]
To Louis she was ever the same, affectionate, gentle, and unselfish; but her stronger soul ruled him without his knowledge, commanded his perturbed spirit into the abstracted quiet and bitter silence wherein he lived, and which she sought to cheer by a thousand happy devices. [11]
And presently it was dinner time and "Karl" arrived--a slender young fellow with a marvelous head and a noble eye--and he was as simple and natural, and as beautiful in spirit as his wife was. [5]
The act, which was absolutely natural, superb, electrified Janet, restored in an instant her own fierceness of spirit. [9]
Standing up, Orlando was about to call out again in peremptory tones, when, suddenly, the spirit of death touched his senses, and his heart stood still for an instant. [11]
Uncle Ben Carvel was a veritable emperor in his own domain; and the Colonel himself, had he desired to enter the kitchen, would have been obliged to come with humble and submissive spirit. [9]
Her imagination, which was a spirit more sombre than sunny--more powerful than sportive--found in such traits material whence it wrought creations like Heathcliff, like Earnshaw, like Catherine. [14]
He said there was a spirit inside of it, and it knowed everything. [5]
Now Miss Ottway was a good stenographer, she was capable, and a fine woman, but she never got the idea, the spirit of the mill in her as you've got it, and she wasn't able to save me trouble, as you do. [9]
If ever there was a gentle spirit that thought itself unfired gunpowder and latent ruin, it is Conrad Wiegand. [5]
The day was warm, but the air was full of vitality and the spirit of adventure. [4]

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