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Sentences starting with able

Able and powerful as was Mr. Crewe's discourse, the man and not the words had fastened the wandering attention of Austen Vane. [9]
Able and family. [7]

Sentences ending with able

But he is true and able. [11]
I would go to Atlanta if I could, but shan't be able. [5]
Then they sank the rover, and got away to Port de la Planta as fast as they were able. [11]
He was heavier than I, though not so tall; and he parried my first blow and my second, and many more; having lively work of it, however, for I hit him as often as I was able. [9]
A long stranger recognized his ulster as soon as he saw the tail of it following me in, but nobody claimed my shirt or my drawers, though I described them as well as I was able. [5]
Hence in civilised nations there will be some tendency to an increase both in the number and in the standard of the intellectually able. [1]
And I make my patients pay--when they are able. [4]
Immediately he handed me a letter, saying: "M'sieu', I give my word to hand you this--in a day or a year, as I am able. [11]
Mr. Carvel would have me rehearse again all that had passed in town and colony since his illness, which I did with as much moderation as I was able. [9]
And it is easier to pay any sum when we are able than it is to pay it before we are able. [7]

Short sentences using able

That woman able! [9]

Sentences containing able two or more times

We are able to keep one object vividly in view, so vividly as to be able to work for it day and night. [9]
During two or three days, not one of them was able to do more than lie down or walk about; yet so effective was the arnica, that on the fourth all were able to sit up. [5]
I'm talking about something that anyone who is not dazzled by all this luxury we are living in might be able to see, about something which, when it comes, we shan't be able to help. [9]
Two weeks ago Jean was taken down again--this time with measles, and I haven't been able to go to her and she hasn't been able to come to me. [5]
He had in him a quality of being able to overlook moderate injuries, and being able to forgive and forget mortal ones as soon as he had soundly trounced the authors of them. [5]
She had never been able to pay this, and was not able now. [5]
I had never been able to do it, and have not been able to do it since, and I am glad that it is so, for I should have a fear of being led into mere rhetoric. [11]

More example sentences with the word able in them

The difference between your friends the criminals and me is that probably nobody will ever be able to catch me out. [11]
If I were your age and able to drag myself to the street, I should be at the Arsenal now. [9]
Values are artificial: you will not be able to get ten cents of the year 1799 for a dime. [6]
In any event, you will be able to prevent the main body of the enemy's forces from leaving Richmond and falling in overwhelming force upon General McDowell. [7]
On the Sahbath you will be able to attend divine service three times, which is expected of our teachers. [6]
And how glad you should be that you are able to make true friends, without an effort. [11]
And just, because you or I would not be able to resist an invitation to go yachting with Eldon Parr, a man might be imagined who had that amount of moral courage. [9]
Manners will tell you of their kindness to us, but I vow I have not been able to see it. [9]
I dare say you meant no harm, and perhaps you will not now be able to understand why I was so grieved at what you will probably deem such a trifle; but grieved I was, and indignant too. [14]
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]
He has not yet been able even to find a publisher. [5]
In another three years, by 1820, he had so managed his affairs that he was able to buy a small estate adjoining Bald Hills and was negotiating to buy back Otradnoe--that being his pet dream. [2]
In the thirteen years since he married he had been able to keep a good many irons in the fire, and also keep them more or less hot. [11]
The portier also wrote down each day's journey and the nightly hotel on a piece of paper, and made our course so plain that we should never be able to get lost without high-priced outside help. [5]
If I am wrong in making Franklin the father of our curious official clothes, it is no matter--he will be able to stand it. [5]
If she had written Science and Health, the oldest man in the world would not be able to tell with certainty what any passage in it was intended to mean. [5]
I had been wounded lately, and was not able to ride without help; but the good Dwarf took me on behind him, and I held on to him and was safe enough. [5]
By this he would serve the enemy more effectively than the enemy is able to serve himself. [7]
Privileges like these would render the possession of such securities to the amount limited most desirable to every person of small means who might be able to save enough for the purpose. [7]
During flight, moths would often be able to escape from their enemies; nevertheless, as the hind-wings are then fully exposed to view, their bright colours must generally have been acquired at some little risk. [1]
I repeat, I would not introduce this mode of discussion here; but I wish gentlemen on the other side to understand that the use of degrading figures is a game at which they may not find themselves able to take all the winnings. [7]
The brightest man would not be able to supply it with subjects if he had to hunt them up. [5]
When all the world is bright not to be able to see it; what must that be! [10]
She drew her wool down through the canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying to make out the pattern. [2]
Of course he won't be able to play polo, or take much active exercise. [9]
Moreover, a magistrate won't be able to force a man to work for a master a whole year on a stretch whether the man wants to or not. [5]
It seemed too wonderful to be true--a free hand in Egypt, and under Imshi Pasha, the one able Minister of them all, who had, it was said, always before resisted the irrigation schemes of the foreigners, who believed only in the corroee and fate! [11]
With Pfuel was Wolzogen, who expressed Pfuel's thoughts in a more comprehensible way than Pfuel himself (who was a harsh, bookish theorist, self-confident to the point of despising everyone else) was able to do. [2]
At any rate, within five years from now there will be at least such a substantial ligament of buildings stretching between them and uniting them that a stranger will not be able to tell where the one Siamese twin leaves off and the other begins. [5]
Tomorrow I lunch with Mr. Toole and a Member of Parliament--Toole is the most able Comedian of the day. [5]
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]
Where Conspicuousness carries with it a Power which, by the light of our own observation and experience, we are able to measure and comprehend, I think our envy of the possessor is as deep and as passionate as is that of any other nation. [5]
Mark Twain, threatened with a cold, and knowing the dinner would be strenuous, did not feel able to attend, so wrote a letter which, if found suitable, could be read at the gathering. [5]
One or two wise men, however, were able to secure order long enough to have the resolution passed for forming a Local Interests Committee whose duty it would be to see that the people were not sacrificed to a "soulless plutocracy. [11]
Late in August Wingfield said, "Sickness had not now left us seven able men in our town. [4]
If He has willed to deliver France, and is able to do whatsoever He wills, where is the need for men-at-arms? [5]
Strive as we will, we have only been able to see him in his role of Providence, or of the piper. [9]
Clemens and his wife were advised to leave the cold of Berlin as soon as he was able to travel. [5]
The man upon whom they choose to confer your governorship is always able to pay the pipers. [9]
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]
How could he, who was not able even to see his hand before his eyes, succeed in finding his friend? [10]
Many a reader who wanted to read a tale through was not able to do it because of delays on account of the weather. [5]
The hostess succeeds who is able to excite this general play of all the forces at the table, even using the silent but not non-elastic material as cushions, if one may continue the figure. [4]
But after a while the steamboats so increased in number and in speed that they were able to absorb the entire commerce; and then keelboating died a permanent death. [5]
We, the Old Whigs, have been entirely beaten out on the tariff question, and we shall not be able to re-establish the policy until the absence of it shall have demonstrated the necessity for it in the minds of men heretofore opposed to it. [7]
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]
I now ask whether he is able to find in anything that Judge Trumbull, for instance, has said, or in anything that I have said, a justification at all compared with what we have, in this instance, for that sort of vulgarity. [7]
The time came when I had grown able to consider the matter with a degree of calmness. [9]
A month later when he was more recovered physically he would be able to perform the operation, but the old man was dying now, while he stood helplessly stroking his big brown beard. [11]
He had said when he sent her word of his victory, that he feared he would not be able to see her the next day at all, as he had so much to do. [11]
Mother, she did what the Indians were never able to do. [5]
Let me explain what the five did--you would not be able to reason it out for yourself. [5]
As a rule, what one of us has lacked, the other, by the bounty of Providence, has been able to supply. [5]
If the sentence were very severe, he might perhaps be able to delay its execution. [10]
If you yourself were such a son, and your ear had not perfectly caught the parting counsels of the dying-how many talents of silver would you not pay to be able to supply the missing words? [10]
Whether Doctor Melchior were holding converse with the broom, or the peruke, or a spectre whom he, and no one else could see Frau Schimmel could not tell, but she had then recovered herself sufficiently to be able to listen attentively. [10]
Two of them were expert swimmers and were able to catch the stern of another canoe as it ran by, and reached safe water, bruised but alive. [11]
Yet the consequences were by no means light, for when he, Pyramus, left him, he was barely able to totter from one chair to another. [10]
Only her hands were busy; her eyes were elsewhere, and suddenly they brightened again, for the couple on which she kept them fixed were coming back, straight towards the hedge, and she would soon be able again to hear what they were saying. [10]
Meantime the Indians were bringing in supplies of corn and meat, the men were so improved in health that thirty were able to work, and provision for three weeks' bread was laid up. [4]
Incoherent though it were and incomplete, in her present state of mind she was able to add but a few words as a postscript. [9]
Few people that were able to read took food that morning. [5]
I would I were able to press you all to my heart-- but I will at least press your eagle. [11]
Our reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. [2]
After that, they were able to continue their sin without concealment. [5]
Really, if I were a young man, I should not be able to draw the portrait of this beautiful creature so calmly. [4]
Toward evening he went off at a tangent far up-town, so as to be able to tell his wife how utterly preposterous the best there would be as compared even with this ridiculous Grosvenor Green gimcrackery. [8]
She was found weeping one day on the veille because she was no longer able to get her shoulders out of the window to use the clothes-lines stretching to her neighbour's over the way. [11]
Only I hoped we'd be able to grease this thing along and slide it through the Senate this afternoon, before they got wind of it. [9]
With the warm weather he was able to be about again, and occasionally to mend a harness, but Doctor Rowell shook his head when Jethro stopped his buggy in the road one day to inquire about Ephraim. [9]
Softened by affectionate weakness and no longer able to resist the impulse to see his little Belita happy, he whispered: "Poor thing, poor young lovers! [10]
It is a weak method, and poor, and I am glad to be able to say our side never resorts to it while there is anything else to resort to. [5]
We stood where we were, trembling and not able to move. [5]
After a time we were able to do that which should have been done at first, and fixed rope to firm rocks, in addition to being tied together. [5]
But I guess we shall be able to do that, one of these days. [5]
By this concentration we shall be able as one man or one woman to reach the human limit of cultivation, and get rid of all the aberrations of individual assertion and feeling. [4]
All the information we got out of him we shall be able to carry along with us, I think. [5]
When we arrived we found them crowded with stock, all of which was thin and hardly able to stand up. [5]
And what should we be able to do without their figures? [9]
And in it we are able to study the origin of the present English taste for the juxtaposition of striking and uncomplementary colors. [4]
So long as we are able to hope and wish, we can bear a great deal of sorrow; if the wished-for happiness does not come, anticipation is at least prolonged and has its own peculiar sweetness. [10]
I made my way cautiously through the streets towards the cathedral, for I owed a duty to the poor soldier who had died in my arms, through whose death I had been able to enter the town. [11]
But if we watch it carefully we shall be able to predict with some assurance the drift in Paris. [4]
I'm able to watch all their inspirations with perfect composure. [8]
Tarnation, I reckon Washington and all his European fellers east of the mountains won't be able ter hold us back this time. [9]
How delightful it was, too, to be able to give something to the person from whom hitherto she had only received. [10]
Whether the paper was written for Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts, or for his son, Governor John of Connecticut, there is no positive evidence that I have been able to obtain. [3]
She said it was too theatrically ridiculous; and that I would never be able to keep my mouth shut; that I would be sure to let it out and it would get into the papers--and she tried to make me promise--"Promise what? [5]
To see it was to be able to conquer it. [4]
Here, in truth, was the drama staged,--my drama, had I only been able to realize it. [9]
Only by degrees was she able to get sufficient control of herself to begin her copying, when she found a certain relief in action--her hands flying over the keys, tearing off the finished sheets, and replacing them with others. [9]
After my grandfather was pronounced to be mending, I went back to Mr. Allen until such time as we should be able to go to the country. [9]
At bottom he was probably fond of it, but he was always able to conceal it. [5]
To this I was only able to reply that on one point at least she must change her mind, for that I knew for certain that old grand-dame Pernhart loved her truly. [10]
The courier (this was not the one I have just been speaking of) thought that the portier of the hotel would be able to tell us how to find our way. [5]
Perhaps the sermon was not new, but it was fervid, and at times the able preacher roared so that articulate sounds were lost in the general effect. [4]
Her sleeping-place, happily, was not far from a window looking to the west, so that she was able to refresh her brain after the bewildering impressions which had crowded on her in the inner rooms. [10]
And I, myself, was not able to say that I had seen it mentioned in a book; and yet the autumn foliage, with all other American scenery, has received full and competent attention. [5]
Yes, although there was no one in Stratford able to teach him these things, and no library in the little village to dig them out of. [5]
Indeed; he himself was never able to account satisfactorily for the state of things which his bookseller's account made evident to him. [6]

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