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Sentences starting with step

Step close up to me, noble Scipio--or Publius, if I may so call you--and look out towards the acacias. [10]
Step by step the objects of the leaders will become too plain for the people to stand them. [7]
Step by step, now more slowly, then more rapidly, but with increasing steadiness, the flag of the Union advanced from field to field toward the final consummation. [7]
Step forward, George Jackson. [5]
Step up, gentlemen, and assume your trust! [5]

Sentences ending with step

The door and windows of the little house were open that balmy afternoon, and the bees were buzzing among the flowers which Cynthia had planted on either side of the step. [9]
Then the place where I was born and brought up came to me with a startling completeness, and I began to go over my own life, step by step. [9]
We got under way about the turn of noon, and pulled out for the summit again, with a fresh and vigorous step. [5]
Only one foot was firm on the ground; the other-with its thin sandal all torn by the sharp stones--was stretched out over the abyss, ready for the next fatal step. [10]
He could not walk well on tiptoe and his whole body jerked at each step. [2]
But Wrangle, as Venters led him, snorted defiance or disgust rather than fear, and, like a hobbled horse on the jump, lifted his ponderous iron-shod fore hoofs and crashed down over the first rough step. [13]
We went together to open it, and the Alcalde stood on the step. [9]
She took a timid step. [9]
When the dog threw me down I must have hit it against the stone step. [10]
But I always think great physical powers of exertion and endurance ought to accompany such a step. [14]

Short sentences using step

That was a step. [11]
She knew the step. [11]
She came a step nearer. [11]
He came a step nearer. [11]
I go a step further. [7]
He took a step forward. [9]
He took a step forward. [11]
She entered with hesitating step. [11]
Chiltern's step aroused her now. [9]
Heinz followed step by step. [10]

Sentences containing step two or more times

But few words were exchanged in the chariot, for it was only step by step and with considerable difficulty that the horses could get along. [10]
This adventurous gallant, this squire of dames, had done in a day what he had worked, step by step, to do through all these years. [11]
For eighty years this opportunity has been offering itself in one new town or region after another straight westward, step by step, all the way from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. [5]
The sorrel and the chestnut mare travelled together as on one snaffle- bar, step by step, for they were foaled in the same stable. [11]
For she knew that the next step must be the last step in her old life, and towards a new life, whatever that might be. [11]
First, step by step, leaning against trees, drawing himself forwards, a journey as long to his determined mind as from youth to age. [11]
One is forced, step by step, to get experience in the world; but the learning is so disagreeable. [14]
She backed him step by step into the middle of the bar-room, and then, while the wondering crowd closed up and gazed, she gave him such another tongue-lashing as never a cowed and shamefaced braggart got before, perhaps! [5]
We thus gain some insight into the early state of man, before he had spread step by step over the face of the earth. [1]
All night they searched, three silent, eager figures, drawing step by step nearer the place where the ancient enemy of man was barracked about by men's bodies. [11]

More example sentences with the word step in them

And now, suppose you step over at once and let us see General Scott (and) General Cameron about assigning a position to General Fremont. [7]
They know how you love animals, and so they try to do you honor and show their love for you by naming all those creatures after you; insomuch that if a body should step out and call "Joan of Arc--come! [5]
When I leave you I step into a pirogue which is tied to the river bank. [9]
I've been watching you every step, and you've acted strangely this morning. [9]
Rabbits so thick you can't step without kicking one out. [13]
It means that you can't skip out on any such--" Tracy made a step toward the old man, but Mrs. Marsh sprang between, and said: "Don't, Mr. Tracy, please. [5]
And, oh, won't you ask Babcock to step round here? [4]
Ah, sir, then you are to step in here. [9]
Eva, the beautiful yet perverse woman, was one of the last persons whom he would have desired to have near him when he took the step into the other world. [10]
He looked ten years older, and she felt with him the keen suffering which every step must cause. [10]
Not a step would she stir, though Mr. Marmaduke whined and coaxed and threatened. [9]
He said he would not go a step without a safeguard from Warwick. [5]
In sooth, nothing would have induced Kasana to take this step save the torturing dread of being scorned and execrated as a base traitress by the man whom she loved. [10]
Yet Duke Maurice would have been well worthy of her whole attention, for with what a free, proud step he advanced, while his imperial master used his arm as a support! [10]
The game then would be another step nearer the end. [11]
Aristomachus had a wooden leg, but his step was so firm, even when compared with that of the light-footed Phanes, that it might have been thought to be his own limb. [10]
When afterwards my Wolff's unhappy deed was added, I felt as though I were standing in a dense, dark mist, where each step forwards must lead me into a stifling morass or over a precipice. [10]
Barbara had witnessed with very different feelings from Dona Magdalena and her brother how the former regarded every false step of Don John, and especially that of his expedition to England, as a heavy misfortune, and as such bewailed it. [10]
My mother strode with the same eagerness in her eye and her step, to the counter, and said: "Is Dr. Barrett of St. Louis, here? [5]
Clapping her hands with pleasure and running on before me for a short distance, my little acquaintance stopped at a door and remaining on the step till I came up knocked at it when I joined her. [12]
Anatole followed him with his usual jaunty step but his face betrayed anxiety. [2]
When she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, the gentlemen and Mademoiselle Bourienne rose and the little princess, indicating her to the gentlemen, said: "Voila Marie! [2]
He entered briskly, with a jerk at every step and his head slightly thrown back. [2]
Who does not wish to stand on the step next above his own? [10]
If your friend will do us humble folks so much honor, I beg he will step into our room; it is clean, is it not sir? [10]
The world was wide, and France but a step away. [11]
They watched him while, with a firm step, he crossed the room and pressed a button in the wall, and waited. [9]
For several seconds while the young man was taking his place on the step the silence continued. [2]
Wasn't it natural, when you were playing the devil with yourself, that I should step in and give you a hand? [11]
The time came when she had learned to listen for his step, when her eyes glistened at meeting him, when the words he uttered were treasured as from something more than a common mortal, and the book he had touched was like a saintly relic. [6]
In the barn-yard were the hens, just as usual, walking with measured step, scratching and picking in the muck, darting suddenly to one side with an elevated wing, clucking, chattering, jabbering endlessly about nothing. [4]
His best days were done, the spring of his life was gone, and the step was that of a man who had little more of activity and force with which to turn the halting wheels of life. [11]
But Anna Mikhaylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the portfolio, and changed her grip. [2]
Full three months went by in this fashion, and then, one day, who should step into my dungeon, torch in hand, but Gabord! [11]
The first step we took was to advertise our wants in the "Neueste Nachrichten" ("Latest News ") newspaper. [4]
Now and then we step on a rat in a hotel, but we have had no rats on shipboard lately; unless, perhaps in the Flora; we had more serious things to think of there, and did not notice. [5]
He made his way to the veranda, and was about to leave for the shore, when he heard a step behind him. [11]
His first step was to hire three woodsmen to accompany him. [5]
Although his dancing was perfect, he lost the step without apparent cause, his expression changed, and for the moment he seemed to be utterly confused. [9]
Not until she was on the bottom step did the odour of cigarettes reach her and turn her faint; and she clutched suddenly at the banisters. [9]
But the step was not easy to take. [13]
And not only was Napoleon not afraid to extend his line, but he welcomed every step forward as a triumph and did not seek battle as eagerly as in former campaigns, but very lazily. [2]
Indeed his credit was injured instead of helped by the prudent step be had taken. [5]
So complete, now, was his forgetfulness of self, of his future, of the irrevocable consequences of the step he had taken, that it was only gradually he became aware that some one was standing near him, and with a start he recognized McCrae. [9]
Then come ecclesiastics, walking with stately step, and chanting in loud and pleasant unison. [4]
He rose and walked a step or two, and stood by the fire facing her. [4]
It is a very relief to steal a walk of a hundred yards without a guide along to talk unceasingly about every stone you step upon and drag you back ages and ages to the day when it achieved celebrity. [5]
He is a very knowing young man, but I can't think he is foolish enough, to say nothing of his honesty, to make any false step of the kind you seem to hint. [6]
While walking we usually sung songs, among them very nonsensical ones, if only we could keep step well to their time. [10]
To step rudely upon the sacred praying mats, with booted feet--a thing not done by any Arab--was to inflict pain upon men who had not offended us in any way. [5]
As I went up, feeling for my knives and my gun, the dogs began to snarl with anger, and for one little step I shivered, for the thing seem not natural. [11]
When you came up here to give your care to these poor injured creatures, you took the first step in the new path I desire to show you, to true happiness. [10]
He walked with unsteady step to the door and pushed it open. [9]
He took an uncertain step toward her, as though half expecting her to flee, and stopped. [9]
Thyone, it is true, thought that her husband's youthful vigour rendered this step premature, but the visit to Alexandria harmonized with her own wishes. [10]
The cold chills trickled down my back and I wouldn't budge another step, for all Tom's persuading. [5]
We went down town together, you remember, and he asked me to step into his office. [9]
Every step I took was familiar, yet unfamiliar too. [11]
He therefore boldly took the step of self-ennobling, and gave himself forth--as he said, obeying "the voice of the people at large"--as "Lord Timothy Dexter," by which appellation he has ever since been known to the American public. [6]
Then the parents took the next step in their scheme. [5]
The young man took a step forward, and then stood staring at her with such a comical expression of injury on his face as was too much for Miss Jinny's serenity. [9]
Perhaps they brought, too, the spring to the step and the light under the long lashes when she flashed a look across the table. [9]
Like Iras, he, too, could find no rest upon his couch, and when she heard his step she called to him and asked why he did not recover the sleep which he had lost. [10]
At the door Tom dropped back a step and accosted a Sunday-dressed comrade: "Say, Billy, got a yaller ticket? [5]
We are accustomed to think that with the advent of the genuine novel of society, in the first part of this century, a great step forward was taken in fiction. [4]
From the peak to the Widow Patten's, where we proposed to pass the night, is twelve miles, a distance we rode or scrambled down, every step of the road bad, in five and a half hours. [4]
Pray step down to the valley, Dr. Marmion, and complete the situation, for you are trying to seem serious, and it is irresistibly amusing--and professional, I suppose; one must not forget that you teach the young 'sawbones' how to saw. [11]
A step forward to that wagon, a word uttered, a look, and he would have to face again the life he had put by for ever, would have to meet a hard problem and settle it--to what misery and tragedy, who might say? [11]
Impulse prompted her to tell her uncle what had happened; but at the first step she paused, and her thin lips uttered a firm "No. [10]
I was going to step out, but the king laid his hand upon my arm. [5]
Jane tried not to step in his blood, but was compelled, for she found no other footing. [13]
Crozier was about to step down when Burlingame rose. [11]
She knew how to step better than I, and there were many awkward things between us of late best not spoken of. [9]
Your first step to secure this object was the attack on Didymus. [10]
So says I to Pushee, 'You jes' step out and get the sheriff to come in and take a look at that chap. [6]
Painfully, pausing frequently to ponder over these remnants, so eloquent of the fury of the struggle, slipping backward at every step and despite our care getting tangled in the wire, we made our way up the slope. [9]
He was about to mount his horse when he heard a step behind him. [11]
Though a desire to meet and talk with quality pushed him hard, he would not go a step to the ordinary, and gave orders to be served in our room, thus fostering the mystery which had enveloped us since our arrival. [9]
And she managed to keep the good news to herself, though it would seem that the most careless observer might have seen by her springing step and her radiant countenance that some fine piece of good fortune had descended upon her. [5]
Presently Joan pointed to it and said: "Fair duke, step out of your tracks, or that machine will kill you. [5]
Philip walked back to his publishers with a certain elasticity of step, a new sense of power. [4]
He carried close to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. [2]
He got slowly to his feet and took a step forward half blindly. [11]
The idea was to advance me another step toward literature. [5]
And time and time have I walked from here to Brook Street without recognizing a step of the way, lifted clear out of myself by the sight of her devotion. [9]
It chills me through to step on it. [5]
But in taking this step the Government does not in the least reflect upon your efficiency or patriotism; on the contrary, have the fullest confidence in your ability to perform any duty required of you. [7]
The Moa stood thirteen feet high, and could step over an ordinary man's head or kick his hat off; and his head, too, for that matter. [5]
But Jethro was thinking of another scene,--of a granite-ribbed pasture on Coniston Mountain that swings in limitless space, from either end of which a man may step off into eternity. [9]
The more I think, the more clearly I see that we can't take any step without responsibilities. [9]
Day after day they had seen this figure rise, come forward a step, and speak the epilogue to this moving miracle-drama. [11]
After this drawing, these four districts, and also the Seventeenth and Twenty-ninth, shall be carefully re-enrolled; and, if you please, agents of yours may witness every step of the process. [7]
At that moment there was a heavy step in the doorway, and Lem Hallowell entered the room. [9]
From this condition there is but a very small step to the complete absence of spots in the adults at all seasons; and, lastly, to their absence at all ages and seasons, as occurs with certain species. [1]
If you'll step there and speak to Maria--" I fetched the goose grease and went to sleep again. [5]
Every step brought them nearer to it. [10]
It's one o' them big gents from Boston or New York that'll step up an' kerry her off. [6]
In an instant their lips met, but after this first kiss she tore herself from his arms, rushed up the stairs again, and then, from the top step, shouted joyously: "I could not help seeing you this once! [10]
While waiting for the young man to take his place on the step Rostopchin stood frowning and rubbing his face with his hand. [2]
As swift as the wind she came down on her feet, holding out her arms to rush at Paula; but she suddenly let them fall in visible hesitancy, and drew back a step. [10]

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