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Sentences starting with about

About this time you notice, in protected, sunny spots, that the grass has a little color. [4]
About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform. [5]
About two hundred yards away there's a tavern where ours have already gathered. [2]
About his operations with Henderson he had never told Edith, and he did not tell her now. [4]
About a man, who wanted treasures, and before whom mountains opened at a word he knew. [10]
About twenty people were present, including Dolokhov and Denisov. [2]
About midnight I went away, in company with the military attaches of the British, Italian, and American embassies, to finish with a late smoke. [5]
About the third week in March there was a change; a low wandering delirium came on; and in it she begged constantly for food and even for stimulants. [14]
About twelve o'clock we turned out and went along up the bank. [5]
About ten o'clock we stopped somewhere, and a large Englishman of official military bearing stepped in. [5]

Sentences ending with about

In my judgment, your Mr. Vanderbilt knows what he is about. [5]
I know that your husband--that Mr. March was there; I read his testimony; and I wished to ask him--to ask him--" She stopped and looked distractedly about. [8]
I came into your father's camp one evening in the autumn, hungry and tired and knocked about. [11]
Was that what you wanted to see me about? [5]
There's nothing for you to be scared about. [13]
Why woman, do you suppose that man don't know what he is about? [5]
Shall I tell you just how it all came about? [10]
What else have you come about? [5]
We had as yet only acquired a bowing acquaintance with it, through pleasure excursions to Scutari and the regions round about. [5]
What is it ye want to see him about? [5]

Short sentences using about

And what about your mother? [2]
But what about your excellency?... [2]
But how about you? [2]
What are you whimpering about? [10]
It is about what happened. [5]
All about the war! [11]
He was about twenty-five. [2]
Look at her trippin' about! [11]
How about it, Tom? [9]
He was about to speak. [11]

Sentences containing about two or more times

I feel as you do about it; but I wish I felt easier about him--sure, that is, that we're not doing wrong to let him keep on talking so. [8]
If one of ye's will tell me about your tobogan rides, I'll unfold about Farcalladen Rise. [11]
For the last year the amount has been reduced to $11,125,364.13, showing a decrease of about $2,481,000 in the expenditures as compared with the preceding year, and about $3,750,000 as compared with the fiscal year 1860. [7]
A delicious dreaminess wrought its web about my yielding senses, while the snow-flakes wove a winding sheet about my conquered body. [5]
But he was writing to her often, he was talking to her freely about his perplexities, about leaving the office and trusting himself to the pursuit of literature in some way. [4]
He could not write about the sixteenth century any more than we could read about it, while the nineteenth was in the very agony and bloody sweat of its great sacrifice. [6]
Son of the working-people as he was, Beaton had never cared anything about such matters; he did not know about them or wish to know; he was perhaps too near them. [8]
He got so worked up, and got to running on so about his troubles, he forgot all about what he'd been a-going to do. [5]
I've been talking with mamma about the world and about society, and what is expected and what you must live up to. [4]
One reason, perhaps, why they do not care to go to places of worship is that they are liable to hear the questions they know something about handled in sermons by those who know very much less about them. [6]

More example sentences with the word about in them

The graveyard in Zermatt occupies only about one-eighth of an acre. [5]
It's human nature you've got to deal with, not theories about law and justice. [4]
And so if you've got 51 cents about you, or can borrow it--" "Tell me: who gets this corruption? [5]
Sellers about Napoleon, you've always told me so," answered Laura, with a look intended to contradict her words. [5]
She's my meat--make yourself easy about that. [5]
You wouldn't fuss yourself about things here in Manitou and Lebanon, if there wasn't something you wanted to get. [11]
I also received yours about General Carl Schurz. [7]
I judged from your remark about the diligence and industry of the high Parisian upper crust that it would have some point, but really I had no idea what a gold-mine I had struck. [5]
I didn't know your own Snodgrass, but have had glimpses of him from time to time, and I heard about him all the time. [5]
I received both your letters, and although I have not answered them it is not because I have forgotten them, or been uninterested about them, but because it appeared to me that I could write nothing which would do any good. [7]
You would have your legs under the Round Table and a 'Sir' in front of your names within the twenty-four hours; and you could bring about a new distribution of the married princesses and duchesses of the Court in another twenty-four. [5]
Besides, but for your interruption, I should have said nothing about my father. [10]
How certain is your information about Bragg being in the valley of the Shenandoah? [7]
I indorse all your chairman has said to you about the union of England and America. [5]
I shall need your assent and the assent of about a dozen other authors. [5]
I have cut your articles about San Marco out of a New York paper (Joe Twichell saw it and brought it home to me with loud admiration,) and sent it to Howells. [5]
One word about your absent husband must surely sound sweeter to your ears, than all my music. [10]
What romps we youngsters had about the old place whilst our elders talked their politics. [9]
He also was young, but nothing about him suggested power, only self-indulgence. [11]
In 1870 a young stranger arrived in Sydney, and set about finding something to do; but he knew no one, and brought no recommendations, and the result was that he got no employment. [5]
A good many young people think nothing about life as it presents itself in the far horizon, bounded by the snowy ridges of threescore and the dim peaks beyond that remote barrier. [6]
I looked this young man steadily in the face for about thirty seconds. [6]
Smith was a young man of about twenty-eight, vain and no doubt somewhat "bumptious," and it is easy to believe that Wingfield and the others who felt his superior force and realized his experience, honestly suspected him of designs against the expedition. [4]
But for a young lady in long skirts to make her way down that balsam, squirming about and through the stubs and dead limbs, testing each one before she trusted her weight to it, was another affair. [4]
Here is the young lady I told you about, who wishes to help us--Miss Bumpus. [9]
The' 's a young gen'l'm'n up at that school where she go,--so some of 'em tells me, 'n' she loves t' see him 'n' talk wi' him, 'n' she talks about him when she 's asleep sometimes. [6]
And for the young bloods, whose greatest regret was that they could not send forth a daughter of joy into the Champs Elysee in her carriage, she had ever sent them about their business. [11]
I don't believe you'll think much about what I did n't do,--because I couldn't,--but remember that at any rate I tried honestly to serve you. [6]
If he liked you, there could be no mistake about it. [9]
Let me tell you, sir, it is not now a question about Jimmy Madison or Jimmy Armstrong. [4]
I'll lay for you, my smarty; and if I catch you about that school I'll tan you good. [5]
Oh, I warn you, my dear, there's a good time coming, and it'll be right along before you know what you're about, too. [5]
He's wild about you, and so is Somers they have both told me so in confidence. [9]
They will tell you, about here, that I have a kind of hobby for keeping people from digging and crawling into their own graves. [11]
But why do you worry about the various reports? [5]
I 'll tell you what,--the Master said,--I know something about these young fellows that come home with their heads full of "science," as they call it, and stick up their signs to tell people they know how to cure their headaches and stomach-aches. [6]
What was that you were telling about Charles Lamb, the other day, Mandeville? [4]
I minded that you were talking to her yesterday in the lab'rat'ry, before the telegram came about Mr. George. [9]
Oh, yes, once you were talking to Auguste de St. Gre about money. [9]
I'm going now,--unless you want to hear some more about the plots I've been getting into. [9]
I have referred you to the proper authorities for the account of those improvements which about the year 1830 rendered the compound microscope an efficient and trustworthy instrument. [3]
Did anybody tell you to say you had no opinion about it? [5]
Did I understand you to say it was your opinion that the supposititious candle was lighted at about eight o'clock yesterday evening? [5]
But I'll tell you this: they'll take his pay and lie to him about whatever's goin' on inside the house. [11]
By eleven o'clock you think you're all in, that the morning'll never end, but at noon you get a twenty five cent feed that lasts you until about five in the afternoon,--and then you don't know which way the machine's headed. [9]
I don't doubt you think it rather absurd that I should trouble myself about these matters. [6]
When I saw you there beside Duncan I remembered that he had spoken about the Guardian letters, and the notion occurred to me to get him to show you his library. [9]
Let me give you the outlines of a supper to which we were invited the other night: it certainly cannot hurt you to read about it. [4]
When I met you that night there was something about you I couldn't account for. [9]
I believe all you tell me about her. [4]
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]
I will tell you something more about Isis. [10]
It is right you should know the truth about your birth, but it is not right you should declare it to all the world now. [11]
Well, just as you say, but I wished to be fair and liberal there's nothing mean about me. [5]
Do just as you say about the money matter. [7]
I remember what you said about a dilettante life. [4]
To be sure, you Romans trouble yourselves more about matters of law and administration than the culture of the arts or the subtleties of thought. [10]
Didn't I write you reams about my studies in psychology? [4]
Ask him, if you please, whatever you wish to know about his doings. [6]
Well, Judge, will you please tell me what you did about the bank decision? [7]
I will let you off at twenty-eight per cent.--twenty-seven--even twenty-five if you insist, for there is nothing illiberal about me when I am out on a diplomatic debauch. [5]
We talked--I told you of my sisters, Nan and Bet--ah, yes, you remember that; and about mine old grandam--and the rough games of the lads of Offal Court--yes, you remember these things also; very well, follow me still, you shall recall everything. [5]
Has Phaon told you nothing about his father's wishes? [10]
I'm not calling you names, I'm not talking about morality and immorality. [9]
Stay and talk; you must tell me everything that's said and done --and about the stranger. [11]
I will tell you more about this at some future time; I need not conceal it, for it has been no secret. [10]
I've no doubt you know something about them, and that you would maintain they are justified on account of the indifference of the public, and of other reasons, but I can cite an instance that is simply legalized thieving. [9]
And what do you know about what I've seen and what I haven't seen? [5]
But what do you know about gentlemen, anyway? [11]
Now I wish you just to consider that he was right about that, and that he had his reasons for saying that England did not look upon our Revolution as a foreign war, but as a civil war fought by Englishmen. [5]
I proved to you just now that I know more about the origin of Scarabei than you do. [10]
I will telegraph you in the morning about calling out the militia. [7]
And, my dear, you have just to do your duty where you are placed, and that is all there is about it. [4]
Do you think you have anything to say about the use of my money, scraped up in forty years in Ingy? [4]
Poor cat, suppose you had--" "Now I am not going to suppose anything about the cat. [5]
Now, what are you going to do about it--you--his brother--you that come here making love too? [11]
She said, "Will you go to him and tell him that this meddlesome minx, here, had no business to say anything about me to him, and you take it all back? [8]
Well, I'm glad you feel that way about it, March. [8]
Doesn't it make you feel rather small and otherwise unworthy when you see the kind of street these fellow-beings of yours live in, and then think how particular you are about locality and the number of bellpulls? [8]
Tell me what you feel about it. [9]
I see what you feel about it! [10]
And somehow you--well, you fascinate me; I think that that is about the word. [5]
But I suppose you don't know anything about politics. [9]
Bless my soul, you don't know anything about married life. [5]
Once Eda exclaimed:--"When you do fall in love, Janet, you must tell me all about it, every word! [9]
But what would you do about it, Asher? [9]
You see, dear, you couldn't talk to him about politics. [4]
How deeply have you concerned yourselves about this in Austria, France, and Germany? [5]
But wait--how did you come to know so much about this family? [5]
With a glass you can see the cow-sheds about its base, and the contented sheep nimbling pebbles in the desert solitudes that surround it, and the tired pigs dozing in the holy calm of its protecting shadow. [5]
For a time you can see he's hurt, his pride's wounded, because he shrinks away from that thing and don't want to talk about it--and so I used to think now he's learned something and he'll be more careful hereafter--but laws! [5]
Why, what can you be thinking about, Stormy? [5]
They swarm about you at every step; no single foot of ground in all Jerusalem or within its neighborhood seems to be without a stirring and important history of its own. [5]
Now why are you asking silly questions about the Fire Brigade? [2]
He thinks of you as a person of convictions--and he has heard things about you. [9]
If you think you are strong enough to bear what I am going to say, --I replied,--I will talk to you about this. [6]
Look in, when you are passing; and whenever I can give you any information about our affairs and pro'spects, I shall be glad to do it. [5]
Take care what you are about, youngster! [10]
That thing which you are about to tell. [5]
Only--don't you think you are a little too sensitive about yourself, when you are teased? [9]

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