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Sentences ending with absent

With all the will in the world, their souls lost touch, though the sense in the clergyman of the other's vague yearning for human companionship was never absent. [9]
But the Ethiopian, who usually came to meet her with words of welcome, took her veil and wraps, and removed her shoes, was absent. [10]
So we dodged--we were used to that by this time--and when the scouts reached the spot we had so lately occupied, we were absent. [5]
Only the leaders were absent. [10]
I am used to being afraid of collisions when I ride or drive, but when one is on top of an elephant that feeling is absent. [5]
Does Alice appear to be present when she is absent? [5]
His head began to ache sadly; and what an endless time Caesar was absent! [10]
Every evening had there been the like mirthful doings over their wine; but Sir Franz had been ever absent. [10]
On this occasion the postmaster was seated in his shirt sleeves by the stove, alone, his listeners being conspicuously absent. [9]
Not one of the chiefs of the House of Seti was absent. [10]

Short sentences using absent

What is absent I declare! [11]
But these were all absent. [5]
I was absent. [5]

Sentences containing absent two or more times

The answer is no, because command is absent, the reasoning faculty is absent, volition is absent--as in the case of the tongs. [5]
It is absurd because, there being no reasoning faculty--that is to say, no faculty of personal command--in a pair of togs, personal responsibility for the acts of the tongs is wholly absent from the tongs; and, therefore, responsibility being absent, punishment cannot ensue. [5]

More example sentences with the word absent in them

The honeysuckle in your garden needs a support, that it may grow and put forth flowers; let these poor songs be the espalier around which your memory of the absent one can twine its tendrils and cling lovingly. [10]
One word about your absent husband must surely sound sweeter to your ears, than all my music. [10]
He always remembered with satisfaction that once when the Cure was absent and he was supposed to be dying, a priest from another parish came, and, the ministrations over, he had made an offering of a gold piece. [11]
A reception, from which he could not be absent, was evidently about to take place. [10]
His two sons were at present absent on their travels. [10]
It will be well for us all--for me, for her, for Pulcheria, and even our absent Philip, if the divinity selects her as its instrument. [10]
Quite mad he was not, for the illusions which haunted him were often absent for several hours, when he spoke with perfect lucidity, received reports, and gave orders. [10]
Mena's pretty wife was however absent, and Katuti did not send for her even after he had enquired after her health. [10]
She said she was anxious to reach the Southern Hotel where Mr. Simons, one of the absent members, was staying, before he went out. [5]
The young man was absent, but the Dukes and Countesses and Princes went over the premises with us as leisurely as was the case at the Emperor's, and conversation continued as lively as ever. [5]
The managing editor was absent, and so I thought no more about it. [5]
The man who was absent and didn't see him to anything, will scoff. [5]
It would be very agreeable for me thus to meet my old friends at my own home, but I cannot just now be absent from here so long as a visit there would require. [7]
They were not usually absent when there was a skirmish with the heathen; but, till this moment, they had been seen only in twos or threes about the Serapeum. [10]
Poor, pale, emaciated troops were those who obeyed the leaders' call, but not a man was absent and each stood ready to give his life for the deliverance of the city and his family. [10]
Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. [5]
Yesterday afternoon I told her about some plans I had been devising while absent in Bermuda, to lighten her burdens. [5]
Every member had to vote 'Yes' or 'No' in person and before witnesses; so it took weeks to decide a candidacy, because many pilots were so long absent on voyages. [5]
There were disputes to settle now that alarm had subsided, and at noon three excitable gentlemen came in to inform against a certain Monsieur Cerre, merchant and trader, then absent at St. Louis. [9]
I should like to see that "sis" of yours that was absent when I was there, though I suppose she would run away again if she were to hear I was coming. [7]
When he began to recover, the faithful fellow clung to her with the utmost devotion; but this by no means lessened his love for his master and his absent sweetheart. [10]
Lastly, he stole to Ledscha's home, and, knowing that her father was absent, had ventured as far as the open courtyard in the centre of the stately dwelling. [10]
One only has to leave home to learn how to write an interesting letter to an absent friend when he gets back. [5]
It satisfied him to know that the father of his love would be absent from Ratisbon for the present. [10]
This he proceeded to do; each one answered with an audible "Here" as his name was called, and for each one who was absent information was immediately given as to his whereabouts. [10]
Instead of drinking to absent friends he looked at the sub-factor and said: "How! [11]
And here we three meet again as exiles on one pretext or another, and you will notice that while we are absent there is a pleasing tranquillity in America--a building up of public confidence. [5]
The dumb creatures thought that as I was returned, those who had been so long absent were not far behind. [14]
You must have thought I asked you to tell me what sort of books I wanted--for I am apt to say things which I don't really mean, when I am absent minded. [5]
They did not think of fleeing from winter any more than from the summer solstice, and consequently they enjoyed a certain contentment of mind that is absent from modern life. [4]
In one of them to the prince, who was temporarily absent from the city, we have glimpses of the happy hours, the happiest of all hours, passed in this refined family circle. [4]
The villagers conducted their concerns with an absent air, and talked little; but they sighed often. [5]
In fact, while the temporo-occipital is one of the most constant of sulci in the Catarrhine, or Old World, apes, it is never very strongly developed in the New World apes; it is absent in the smaller Platyrrhini; rudimentary in Pithecia (73. [1]
But why were the soldiers, which were always on guard here, absent from their posts to-night? [10]
The Regent at the same time, with every appearance of regret, advised her to avoid an open quarrel, and not to defy Ameni's lofty severity, but to remain absent from the festival. [10]
Not one of the humbler citizens and workmen is absent, but the gentlemen in velvet and fur are but thinly represented. [10]
I will leave the book with you and will go, now; but give yourself no uneasiness--I will give you absent treatment from now till I go to bed. [5]
I will leave the book with you and will go, now, but give yourself no uneasiness--I will give you absent treatment from now till I go to bed. [5]
Mr. Hopper being still absent, she helped him to sort the papers--those grimy reminders of a more prosperous time gone by. [9]
They are also sometimes present, and sometimes absent, in nearly allied forms. [1]
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. [4]
Even now, as she spoke, she remembered a day and a night since his coming, when he was absent in London; also how the party seemed to have lost its character and life, and how, when Mr. [11]
Never before had she been out in the streets alone, and it seemed impossible to enjoy anything without the companionship and supervision of her absent sister. [10]
That is to say, three journeying ship-masters, a Boston merchant, and a returning Bermudian who had been absent from his Bermuda thirteen years; these sat on the starboard side. [5]
It cannot be said that his infatuation for her was ever absent from his consciousness: he knew she was there beside him, he betrayed it continually. [9]
There was no response--even Martha must be absent, in the village! [9]
When the emperor reproached him with never being at hand when he was wanted, he replied submissively that it was just because he found he could be of service to Caesar that he had dared to absent himself. [10]
The time he remained absent was neither short nor long to Jane Withersteen. [13]
On Sunday she remained absent from the service--for the second time in years--and though she did not actually suffer there was a dead-lock of feelings deep within her, and the waiting for a balance to fall on either side was almost as bad as suffering. [13]
The pirates had remained absent from it quite two years. [10]
When for any reason she was absent from my side, I moped, to the quiet amusement of Mrs. [9]
It is occasionally quite absent, or again is largely developed. [1]
My friend the Professor (who, as well as my friend the Poet, is unavoidably absent on this interesting occasion) has given me reason to suppose that he would occupy my empty chair about the first of January next. [6]
Could weekly contributions, on the envelope system, be relied upon, provided the people continued to come and fill the pews of absent and outraged parishioners? [9]
But sometimes the old craving for tramping would overtake him, one day his friends would find the house shut up, and he would be absent for a fortnight, perhaps for a month--one never knew when he was going, or when he would return. [9]
The vast majority of temperaments are pretty equally balanced; the intensities are absent, and this enables a nation to learn to accommodate itself to its political and religious circumstances and like them, be satisfied with them, at last prefer them. [5]
The ordinary forms of speech are absent from it. [5]
In the matter of smell he was pretty aromatic--in fact, quite horsy--and I tried to arrange with him for absent treatment, but it was not in his line, so, out of delicacy, I did not press it. [5]
In the matter of smell he was pretty aromatic, in fact quite horsey, and I tried to arrange with him for absent treatment, but it was not in his line, so out of delicacy I did not press it. [5]
He was thinking of his absent partner, and the probable results of his expedition. [6]
In the matter of compensation, it is provided that claims may be presented within ninety days from the passage of the act, "but not thereafter"; and there is no saving for minors, femmes covert, insane or absent persons. [7]
I took advantage of a moment when she was absent to venture a hint on this point, to which the old man replied that there were few grown persons as trustworthy or as careful as she. [12]
The vital warmth of a great idea had given an expression to her face which had long been absent from it. [11]
But if the occasional development of this structure in man is, as seems probable, due to reversion, it is a return to a very ancient state of things, because in the higher Quadrumana it is absent. [1]
Life to him now was one aching emptiness--since that day at the Rest of the Flax-beaters Rosalie had been absent. [11]
That we may not touch property lying within our reach, because we cannot give personal notice to an owner who is absent endeavoring to destroy the government, is certainly not satisfactory. [7]
But she did not need to remain absent long; the interview ended much sooner than she expected. [10]
I would fain not be absent, but that wish is far less earnest than the other. [10]
She certainly would not be absent long; the important things John had to say might probably require great haste, while, on the contrary, whatever needed time for execution could be comfortably despatched during his stay in the Netherlands. [10]
And there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent. [2]
But she was never absent from his thought, his imagination was wholly captive to her image, and the passion grew in these hours of absence until she became an indispensable associate in all that he was or could ever hope to be. [4]
The Governor of Nevada had no household in Carson City, and was generally absent. [5]
He was absent nearly a year. [4]
It had no name in it, but the Canon was the only man who was absent. [5]
I say to myself sometimes, in an absent mood, I must ask her about that. [6]
Thompson spoke, but my mind was absent, and I did not catch what he said. [5]
I know that Mr. Pearoe, of the Senate, and Messrs. Webster and Calvert, of the House, were absent. [7]
The Vekeel Obada moves faster than they do, and the power lies in his hands so long as Amru is absent from Egypt. [10]
But, on my mother's account, I was never long absent from Hosterwitz. [10]
There is no more impressive and revealing moment with man or woman than when you stand in a room empty of their actual presence, but having, in every inch of it, the pervasive influences of the absent personality. [11]
One face I missed, and rejoiced that she was absent, for I had a degraded feeling like that of being the favourite in a cudgel-bout. [9]
Then the Prime Minister called the Great Council together, from which, of course, the Duchess could not be absent, and during the time that she presided over the Councillors' meeting, she lost sight of George for the first time for many weeks. [10]
It is a little thing--glass is--until it is absent, then it becomes a big thing. [5]
We do not like to ask him about who his patient may be, but he or she is probably a person of some consequence, as he is absent several hours on these out-of-town visits. [6]
The most interesting letter one can write, to an absent friend, is one that treats of persons he has been acquainted with rather than the public events of the day. [5]
On a rising knoll were gathered the valiant men of Sing-Sing, assisting marvelously in the fight by chanting the great song of St. Nicholas; but as to the Gardeniers of Hudson, they were absent on a marauding party, laying waste the neighboring water-melon patches. [4]
While absent, last July, I visited two patients sick with puerperal fever, with a friend of mine in the country. [3]
As for Jean Jacques, when he locked up the house at ten o'clock, with Dolores still absent, he had the air of a man from whose shoulders great weights had fallen. [11]
A man likes--name it yourself: whatever it is, it is absent from that place. [5]
And so--he confessed it himself--so he always sees me, and most plainly when I am absent from his sight. [10]
He said, "This is the second time that that equerry has been absent without leave. [5]
When the mistress is absent, this room, although everything is here as it was before, does not look at all like the same place; it is stiff, and seems to lack a soul. [4]
The Emperor also invited us, on behalf of his absent eldest son and heir (aged 22,) to visit his palace and consider it a visit to him. [5]
This exerted an intoxicating influence upon Barbara, who had been so long absent from such scenes. [10]
Bess had no inkling that he had been absent from camp nearly all night, and only remarked solicitously that he appeared to be more tired than usual, and more in the need of sleep. [13]
So both agreed in the conjecture that the messengers sent by the absent ones had been prevented from reaching their destination. [10]
She had put in her idle moments during the last little while back, in designing a particularly rare and capable gown for herself, and this morning she set about making it up; but she was absent minded, and made an irremediable botch of it. [5]
I sat up in bed and spoke to him, and he greeted me in an absent sort of way. [11]
And yet his image was never long absent from her thoughts; she wondered if he were dejected, if he were ill, if he were lonely, and mostly there was for him a great pity in her heart, a pity born, alas! [4]
How firmly her image must have been impressed upon his soul, that he could reproduce the features of the absent one with such lifelike fidelity! [10]

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