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Sentences starting with above

Above this Damour wrote for himself an order upon the chamberlain of Bercy to enter upon Philip's private apartments in the castle; and thither he was fleeing as Philip lay dying in the dark room of the house in the Rue de Vaugirard. [11]
Above the spot where the two had sunk floated the red tarboosh of the Mudir of the Fayoum. [11]
Above the books were rows of sketches--rows of sketches! [11]
Above him again was the same lofty sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and between them gleamed blue infinity. [2]
Above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb of the sun. [2]
Above its windows was painted "The Ashuela Traction Company," a label reminiscent of my professional activities. [9]
Above him there was now nothing but the sky--the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds gliding slowly across it. [2]
Above all, there was a sculptor's revolving stand, supporting a bust which Beaton was modelling, with an eye fixed as simultaneously as possible on the clay and on the head of the old man who sat on the platform beside it. [8]
Above these the walls were covered with a beautiful dark green material brought from Sais, and the same stuff was used to cover the long divans by the wall. [10]
Above the bed various costly weapons and whips were elegantly displayed, and below them the seven arrows over which Setchem had read the words "Death to Mena. [10]

Sentences ending with above

This story, which will live and grow for years in this region, a waxing and never-waning peril of the volcano, I found, subsequently, had the foundation I have mentioned above. [4]
John A. Gurley, who bears this, and make an order corresponding with the above. [7]
Stripped here, as we are here, it will be all we can do to prevent them crossing the Potomac at Harper's Ferry or above. [7]
He took it up where it left off, "with an affection which----" and drew a long dash, as above. [6]
I have looked up the passage, and have written it in above. [9]
But Mr. Daaken, unwittingly or designedly, taught other things than those I have mentioned above. [9]
He was perhaps twenty, and wore a coat that sprung in at the waist, and trousers of a light buff-color that gathered at the ankle and were very copious above. [9]
I toiled on to the summit without a sound of alarm from above. [11]
By bearing away to the left into another path, and making a detour, she could reach the Meeting-house through a narrow lane leading past a now disused mill and a small, strong stream flowing from the hill above. [11]
He needs only to guard a trail leading down from the sage-flat above. [13]

Short sentences using above

In the above work (vol. [1]
Wolf (hearable above the storm). [5]
Above him towered Stephen Brice. [9]
It moveth above small things. [11]
See her By-law quoted above. [5]
Above all, Rosalie mattered. [11]
Above all, is it desirable? [9]
Smoke hung above her rail. [9]
But above all, excitement. [9]
Five points above cost--then ten--fifteen--twenty! [5]

Sentences containing above two or more times

Before the door was a sleigh of a pattern new to him, with a seat high above the backs of two long-bodied, deep-chested horses, their heads held with difficulty by a little footman with his arms above him. [9]
Cilo taught me to place my own power, and the greatness of the realm which it would be incumbent on me to reign over, above everything, even above the gods. [10]
I am obliged to doubt that the three-dollar Science and Health costs Mrs. Eddy above fifteen cents, or that the six dollar copy costs her above eighty cents. [5]
At the same time he felt that above his face, above the very middle of it, some strange airy structure was being erected out of slender needles or splinters, to the sound of this whispered music. [2]
In looking over the fuller list of twenty-eight districts, I find that the quotas for sixteen of them are above 2000 and below 2700, while, of the rest, six are above 2700 and six are below 2000. [7]
High above, on the flat promontory between the two rivers, is the city of tents and wooden huts, the great trees in their fresh faint green towering above the low roofs. [9]
But there they stood, Lempriere's face with a great-eyed gravity looming above his rotund figure like a moon above a purple cloud. [11]
The summit is six thousand feet above the sea, but only forty-five hundred feet above the lake. [5]
Here, if anywhere, one could be above worry, above the passion of envy; for did not every new "improvement" and every new refinement in living add to the importance of every member of this favored community? [4]
The broad base of this monster wedge is planted upon a grand glacier-paved Alpine platform whose elevation is ten thousand feet above sea-level; as the wedge itself is some five thousand feet high, it follows that its apex is about fifteen thousand feet above sea-level. [5]

More example sentences with the word above in them

Away up to your left you'll see another thread coming in--that's the Missouri and is a little above St. Louis. [5]
I transmit for your consideration a communication from the Secretary of War, accompanied by one from the Provost-Marshal General to him, both relating to the subject above mentioned. [7]
Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to De la Foret in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at the Camisard's feet. [11]
And above Winona you'll have lovely prairies; and then come the Thousand Islands, too beautiful for anything; green? [5]
Roughly proportioned, if you will allow your entire hand to represent the British Empire, you may then cut off the fingers a trifle above the middle joint of the middle finger, and what is left of the hand will represent Russia. [5]
I cannot give you that to which you have been accustomed all your life, that which you have here at Fairview, but I shouldn't say this to you if I believed that you cared for them above --other things. [9]
I beg of you a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics. [7]
The gentleman who wrote the newspaper paragraph above quoted had not been misled as to its character. [5]
And the device would take on color, red-bronze like the sumach in the autumn and streaks of vermilion, and two glowing coals that were eyes, and above them eagles' feathers, and the cracks became bramble bushes. [9]
That Mr. Billson would read a private paper was a thing which could not occur to me; he was an honourable man, and he would be above that. [5]
I wish you would learn of Everett what he would take, over and above a discharge for all the trouble we have been at, to take his business out of our hands and give it to somebody else. [7]
But the boat would float on, and the boulder descend again, and then we could see that when we had been exactly above it, it must still have been twenty or thirty feet below the surface. [5]
Jealousy!--I believe she would be capable of the worst--" "Yet," Dion interrupted, "Charmian will soften whatever injury Iras plans to do me, and, though I cannot rely much upon my uncle, Archibius is above both and favours us and our marriage. [10]
Seeing that it would be a mistake to arrest Marchand at that moment, he raised the struggling figure of the wrecker above his head and, with Herculean effort, threw him up over the heads of the Frenchmen in front of him. [11]
I had hard work to keep my head above water, and I struggled desperately to escape from my toils; for if the boat were to go down I should be dragged down with her. [6]
I've done fine work in my time, but upon that day--not a cloud above, no dust beneath, a flowing tide, and a calm sea. [11]
Some of her words came to me, shrilly, above the noise. [9]
There were high words along the railing among the duke's supporters, Captain Lewis, in his anger, going above an inference that the stallion had been broken privately. [9]
But that one word expressed an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself regret her words. [2]
Indeed, with a woman of her fearlessness and honesty--and above all, her intuition,--he felt the cruelty of his position keenly. [9]
The weal and woe of many persons were at stake, her own above all, since, as Wolff's betrothed bride, she belonged to him inseparably. [10]
We have done with those hypaethral temples, that were open above to the heavens, but we can have attics and skylights to them. [6]
Barbara was familiar with this flourishing place, above which proudly towered the Trausnitzburg, for here lived her uncle Wolfgang Lorberer, who had married her mother's sister, and was a member of the city Council. [10]
All of them, with the questionable exception of the Springfield tree above referred to, stop, so far as my experience goes, at about twenty-two or twenty-three feet of girth and a hundred and twenty of spread. [6]
On the veld, with the first delicate glow, the head of a meerkat, or a springbok, is raised above the gray-brown grass; herds of cattle move uneasily. [11]
His recent interview with the Doctor, certain remarks which had been dropped in his hearing, but above all an unaccountable impression upon his spirits, all combined to fill his mind with a foreboding conviction that he was very near some overshadowing danger. [6]
Whitie watched him with somber eyes of love, and Ring, crouched on the little rise of ground above, kept tireless guard. [13]
His voice broke with sheer grief; nevertheless his serving lad was carrying his lute after him, and as he gave me his hand to bid me good-day he told me that Ann was above tending her father. [10]
These were loaded with rings; the finger-nails were stained red, according to Egyptian custom, and gold or silver bands were worn above the elbow, and at the wrists and ankles. [10]
Charley was lying with one arm thrown above his head; the other lay over the side of the bed. [11]
His wooden image, with his bow drawn, above the doors of taverns, was a frequent feature of the scenery. [5]
She took turns with her beside his sofa, and did not cry any more, but prayed continually, turning in soul to that Eternal and Unfathomable, whose presence above the dying man was now so evident. [2]
She was familiar with both, and had seen them garlanded, adorned with flags and coats of arms, and even witnessed the erection of the stage in the hall and the stretching of the canopy above it. [10]
He made friends with and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and who could therefore be of use to him. [2]
Larks flew heavenward with a low sweet song, from amidst the grain growing luxuriantly for the winter harvest, and butterflies hovered above the blossoming fields. [10]
Who does not wish to stand on the step next above his own? [10]
For myself, I wish the earth close about me, and level green grass above me, and no one knowing of the place; or else, fire or the sea. [11]
Then a cold wind seemed to blow from the glacier above and killed all the summer. [11]
But above all, will you carefully conceal them from the eyes of the crown-prince's spies? [10]
But the reader will perceive by the above extract, that in Humboldt from one fourth to nearly half the mass was silver! [5]
The above reward will be paid in cash to the person who will furnish the seeker, in a personal interview, the criminal's address. [5]
Oh those high, wild, desolate moors, up above the whole world, and the very realms of silence I Home to dinner at two. [14]
As man and wife confronted him, Mr. Crewe greeted them in hospitable but stentorian tones that rose above the strains of "Don't you wish you'd Waited? [9]
Here was a wide natural corridor overhung with stalactites, and it led on into an artificial passage which inclined gradually upwards till it came into a mound above the level by which they entered. [11]
Are there passages whose English is not poor and thin and commonplace, but is of a quality above that? [5]
How the brother whom she had given to his imperial father would some day tower above him! [10]
Whoever knows it, whoever serves it, whoever impresses it deeply on his soul and only breathes and moves in it, no longer has any taint of baseness; he soars high above the earth, and knows nothing of misery and death. [10]
If the judges who awarded the prize agreed with the verdict of the grammateus, he must accustom himself to value his own work higher, perhaps even above that of Myrtilus. [10]
But twelve bitter white men looked down upon this scene from the scrub and rocks above, and their teeth were set. [11]
He heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. [2]
Scarcely above a whisper she replied: "Of course he might say that, but how, oh, how should we simple folk, he and I, be fitted for these high places--yet? [11]
And these colleges, which you think above the colored people, will stimulate them and gradually raise the whole mass. [4]
What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? [5]
It is that which sometimes has made me afraid, that we believed ourselves above the law. [9]
The room in which she mostly lived was above the corner of the quiet street, and might have been more aptly called a sitting-room than a salon. [9]
The second story, which projected above the ground floor into the street, was completely dark; but a faint glimmer of light streamed from the little window over the spurge laurel tree, and--this was the main thing--the bow window in the third story was still lighted. [10]
Whereupon his eyebrows, which met above his nose, were darkly knit, and he gave me to wit, shortly and well-nigh harshly, that he would abide by his own. [10]
The upper gallery which encircles the inner sweep of the dome is two hundred and forty feet above the floor of the church--very few steeples in America could reach up to it. [5]
New snag just where you straighten down; go above it. [5]
The saloon below, where we had our tea, was lighted indeed, but sealed so tight as to be insupportable; and the cabin above, stifling too, was dark as a pocket. [9]
Before they realized where they were, they had nearly crossed the Bellegarde estate, and the house itself was come into view, standing high on the slope above the withered garden. [9]
I knew well where I was, and at once started off in a northwesterly direction, toward the St. Charles River, making for a certain farmhouse above the town. [11]
The moon, which, when I took possession of my new apartments, was invisible, gradually gained each evening upon the darkness of the night, and at length rolled in full splendor above the towers, pouring a flood of tempered light into every court and hall. [4]
By good luck, when I had paid into Mr. Dix's hand the thousand pounds I had received from Charles Fox, and cleared my outstanding bills, the sum I remained in Comyn's debt was not greatly above seven hundred pounds. [9]
Ay, I know what you would say: that Sir Joshua's portrait hangs above, executed but the year after, and hung at the second exhibition of the Royal Academy. [9]
Dick was pondering what these words might mean, and still more what the presence of Mr Brass might mean, when Mrs Quilp came hurrying down stairs, declaring that the rooms above were empty. [12]
Damsel, said Arthur, what sword is that, that yonder the arm holdeth above the water? [5]
Ah, Heaven above, what shall I do? [11]
And, above all, what has the intoxicating "bowl" got to do with it, anyhow? [5]
The questions involved were political, local, personal, and above all religious. [6]
On either side were niches containing statues of Antony and Cleopatra cast in dark bronze, and above the cornice were brazen figures of Love and Death, Fame and Silence, ennobling the Egyptian forms with exquisite works of Hellenic art. [10]
The Mokattam Hills were like vast dun barriers guarding and shutting in the ghostly place, and, high above all, the minarets of the huge mosque upon the lofty rocks were impalpable fingers pointing an endless flight. [11]
The Cure's windows were dark, and the church with its white tin spire stood up sentinel-like above the village. [11]
I thought we were above the labour-trouble line, away up here in New England. [9]
In the bottom were a few odd garments, above was the hat with the purple feather, now shabby and discarded, on the hooks a skirt and jacket Lise wore to work at the Bagatelle in bad weather. [9]
We were then well down under the precipice, but still considerably above the level of the river. [5]
A spacious yard well above the pavement surrounds it, sustained by a wall of dressed stones, capped by an iron fence. [9]
The rat is well above him, there. [5]
But the first week of August in Munich it was delicious weather,--clear, sparkling, bracing air, with no chill in it and no languor in it, just as you would say it ought to be on a high, gravelly plain, seventeen hundred feet above the sea. [4]
His sinewy arms --weather-burned, too--were bare above the elbows. [9]
For I was weary and heavy-laden above any, and the word of the Lord hath refreshed me. [10]
She fought the weakness, as she fought to be above suspicious thoughts, and it passed, leaving her conscious of her utter impotence. [13]
The man said we were now on the Feil-Stutz, above the Schwegmatt--information which I was glad to get, since it gave us our position to a degree of particularity which we had not been accustomed to for a day or so. [5]
At the Hermitage we were about fifteen or eighteen hundred feet above the sea, and thus far a portion of the ascent had been pretty abrupt. [5]
In the gloom we passed lazily on with the flow of the tide, unquestioned, soon leaving the citadel behind, and ere long came softly to that point called Anse du Foulon, above which Sillery stood. [11]
What we give we lend to the Lord, and he taxes no man above his ability. [10]
Because the man we have feared, Monsieur Mallard--" "I never feared him," said Rosalie, scarcely above her breath. [11]
Betimes, next morning, we had reached an altitude of five thousand feet above the level of the sea. [5]
And once, as we drifted into an inlet at sunset, we caught sight of the shaggy head of a bear above the brown water, and leaping down into the cabin I primed the rifle that stood there and shot him. [9]
He has a way of letting it rise as his sentence goes on, or when he is opposed in argument, or wishes to mount above other voices in the conversation, until it dominates everything. [4]
Above, an uncertain, watery moon flew in and out among the shifting clouds; and now and then a shot came through the mist and the half dusk, telling of some poor fugitive fighting, overtaken, or killed. [11]
Away across the water the crags and domes were lit with a ruddy glare, and the firmament above was a reflected hell! [5]
Colonel Clark stood watching from the bank above, and it was he who pulled me, bedraggled, to dry land. [9]
Blameless though she was, she might be blamed by the world, if he and she, on the night that she fled from Joel Mazarine should meet, and, above all, meet alone--and what was the good of meeting at all, if they did not meet alone! [11]
P.S.--Since the above was written we have visited the General. [11]
A man above was watching them. [11]
Here the flat was towed alongside the gin-house where there were fifteen head standing in water; and yet, as they stood on scaffolds, their heads were above the top of the entrance. [5]
Behind that door was the future: so he opened it fearfully, with an impulse to throw his arm above his head. [9]
Brought low, it was still alert above the wreckage. [11]
The sun above was smothered; the earth beneath was trackless; the compass stood for loss all round. [11]

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