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Sentences starting with act

Act then as those who have to pronounce a sentence, and hear both sides before deciding. [10]
Act thus, my son. [10]
Act in view of such contingency. [7]
Act second, scene first, an apartment in Carlisle castle, where the court had gone for a few days' hunting. [5]
Act at once, and damn the consequences! [11]

Sentences ending with act

Please answer as you would do, on my requirement, if the act of June 15, 1864, had not been passed, and I will so use your opinion as to satisfy that act. [7]
I was busy yesterday and I did not intend to go, knowing I should have another "Tannh:auser" opportunity in a few days; but after five o'clock I found myself free and walked out to the opera-house and arrived about the beginning of the second act. [5]
If a man would be conspicuous, let him come here and retire from the house in the midst of an act. [5]
Does it come within the act? [11]
The coming woman will not smoke, to be sure; neither will she, in coming forward to take charge of the government, plead the Baby Act. [4]
My dear Charmian, who wrote the successful novel of last year, do you not already repent your rash act? [4]
He was selfish where this young gentleman was concerned, yet he knew well how the same gentleman ought to think, speak, and act. [11]
If that's the way you're going to act! [8]
An impure corpse was not permitted to defile the pure earth by its decay; nor might it be committed to the fire or water for destruction, as their purity would be equally polluted by such an act. [10]
Her own mother was no more, and by her act! [10]

Short sentences using act

Did men act without motive? [7]
Doesn't he act them? [11]
That act is performed. [2]
Why do you not act? [11]
Why, gentlemen, for love---- Act. [5]
Letters often act like that. [5]
She would act honestly. [11]
You must act for him. [11]
End of the first act. [5]
Manners could not even act. [9]

Sentences containing act two or more times

George Washington's machine would act upon the right one; Pizarro would act upon the wrong one. [5]
The Constitutional amendments were introduced before and passed after the act enforcing the Ordinance of '87; so that, during the whole pendency of the act to enforce the Ordinance, the Constitutional amendments were also pending. [7]
The only way to recapture that charm is to place Frenchmen in the West, and have them act and live--or try to act and live--as they do in old Quebec. [11]
It strikes me there is some difference between holding a man responsible for an act which he has not done and holding him responsible for an act that he has done. [7]
Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity. [2]
Its characters are supposed to act and talk as people act and talk at home and in society. [4]
It was not so much the immediate act, as the divination, the rapport, the spirit behind the act, which could only come from the soul of the real thing. [11]
Our way of scattering applause along through an act seems to me to be better than the Mannheim way of saving it all up till the act is ended. [5]
The Washington act not only differs vitally from the Utah and New Mexico acts, but the Nebraska act differs vitally from both. [7]
It was a noble act, sir,--a right noble act. [9]

More example sentences with the word act in them

In the New Zealand law occurs this: "The word person wherever it occurs throughout the Act includes woman. [5]
Do you think your charitable act is more acceptable than the Good Samaritan's, because you do it in the name of Him who made the memory of that kind man immortal? [6]
Need I tell you that I am a lost and despised man if I am found guilty of this act of the maddest folly by the judges of my own house? [10]
But since, as you have heard, I act before I think, I went myself--I no longer know how--into the burning stable. [10]
Now, then, have you been considering the proposition that no act is ever born of any but a self-contenting impulse--(primarily). [5]
Then my love would be a free act, and not in any way a necessity. [5]
Two other episodes worthy of a place in this act of the drama occurred that morning, and one had to do with Ephraim. [9]
He did no work for two or three years before he died, but lived in clover; and his last act (like a choleric old gentleman) was to kick his doctor. [12]
And now my wits came back to me, my purposes, the power to act, which for a couple of hours had seemed to be in abeyance. [11]
He sit there with us, and play on the fiddle, and sing songs, and act plays, and help Florian in the barn, and Octave to mend the fence, and the Cure to fix the grape- vines on his wall. [11]
The Bavaria stands with the right hand upon the sheathed sword, and the left raised in the act of bestowing a wreath of victory; and the lion of the kingdom is beside her. [4]
After the occurrence with the Arab, the other event was certainly much less prominent, and here, after many years, I can see that the act was less in her than it would have been in others. [11]
One must act with care-- no haste, no flurry, no mistakes. [11]
When I've trouble with Belloc's firm it's because they act like dogs in the manger. [11]
The States aforesaid will be respectively credited under the enrollment act for the militia services entered under this proclamation. [7]
The commanding generals, who have power to act on proceedings of courts-martial in such cases, are authorized in special cases to restore to duty deserters under sentence, when in their judgment the service will be thereby benefited. [7]
Let each one who feels too weak to control his wrath, avoid the Circus; and those who go, keep still if they feel moved to act in my behalf. [10]
The act of which I speak was this. [5]
You feel it when some mysterious power, without any will of your own, prompts you to some act, be it what it may. [10]
There are times when our friends do not act like themselves, but apparently in obedience to some other law than that of their own proper nature. [6]
I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel, and yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. [7]
She didn't know what this act would be. [9]
I don't know what has got into you to-day; you act mighty curious. [5]
I don't care what act you may turn your hand to, I can straightway whisper a word in your ear and make you think you have committed a dreadful meanness. [5]
Much as Barry Whalen loathed the man, this act showed that Krool's love for the master who had sjamboked him was stronger than death. [11]
Redoubts and towers were within musket-shot of each other, with watch-houses between, and at intervals every able-bodied man in the country was obliged to leave his trade to act as sentinel, or go into camp or barracks with the militia for months at a time. [11]
Reproof and warnings were useless here; the only thing he could do was to act, and renew the conflict with the scarcely subdued illness. [10]
After awhile they went over t'other side of the street, talkin' sly, waitin' for the act to end. [9]
And it is well; her act being proportioned to the dignity of one who carries in her head and heart riches which outvalue any that any King could add, though he gave his all. [5]
You remember perfectly well what a stir it made; you remember perfectly well that even the Charleston Courier stigmatized the act as being unpleasant, of questionable propriety, and scarcely justifiable, and likewise that it would not be matter of surprise if retaliation ensued. [5]
The trio were well accustomed to act together, and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest and advantage, and nothing more was needed. [12]
By mutual concession we should harmonize and act together. [7]
Whatever we do, we must not act hastily. [9]
But this thought was unbearable and an inward voice whispered that, having neither father nor mother, he was free to act according to his own will. [10]
The Stamp Act was to make everybody stamp all materials so they should be null and void. [5]
Their first act was to declare that the fleet should not leave port until the men's demands were satisfied. [11]
But if there was to be a reference, he desired to introduce his bill embracing the three propositions, thus enabling the committee and the House to act at the same time, whether favorably or unfavorably, upon all. [7]
The lady who was thought to be most pleasing to the Emperor was invited to act as hostess. [2]
This act also was passed without yeas and nays. [7]
They declared there was only one physician in the place and he was arrested every week regularly and held to answer under the vagrant act for having "no visible means of support. [5]
But the end was not yet: he still was free to act and to ward off the spiteful stroke by a counterthrust. [10]
The fourth act was not played that night. [11]
To him life was less a problem than an experiment, and this last act, this nameless repudiation of the laws of family life, was like the sign of a chemist's activity. [11]
I suppose it was intended by Congress that this government should execute the act in question without dependence upon any other government, State, city, or county. [7]
Just as I was in the very act of mounting, I lost my senses and strength, and fell down on the ground in a dead faint. [10]
Whatever the process was in the colonel's mind, he said at last: "I see no good reason for declining to act for you, Mr. Fulkerson, and I shall be very happy if I can be of service to you. [8]
One day Tom was in the act of dosing the crack when his aunt's yellow cat came along, purring, eying the teaspoon avariciously, and begging for a taste. [5]
Landulph rose, and was in the act of claiming judgment by default when a strange clacking sound was heard coming up the stairs. [5]
While Don Luis was helping Barbara into the chair, she asked in a low tone what she was to think of this act of violence, and where she was being taken. [10]
The daring act was committed just at dawn, by six masked men, who sprang up alongside the coaches, presented revolvers at the heads of the drivers and passengers, and commanded a general dismount. [5]
It's because he was caught--caught in the act. [5]
The act, which was absolutely natural, superb, electrified Janet, restored in an instant her own fierceness of spirit. [9]
His own act was abominable in his eyes, and yet he would have done it again to-morrow, if it had again been required of him under similar circumstances. [10]
This act of war in fancy, dress, with its two steps forward and one back, and the singing of a song, is one of the most fatal to the masculine peace of mind in the whole history of carnage. [4]
The world still wants its poet-priest, who shall not trifle with Shakespeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act with equal inspiration. [6]
I did not want to act like a lunatic before strangers. [5]
There was a wait of half an hour at the end of the first act, and I could not trust myself to do it, for I felt that I should desert to stay out. [5]
What could two voiceless people say to each other, people who only spoke with their hearts and souls, when others were staring at them, watching every act, listening for every word. [11]
Please act in view of this. [7]
It was the vierkleur of the pioneer, without which the long train of capewagons, with the oxen in longer coils of effort, would never have advanced; without which the Kaffir and the Hottentot would have sacrificed every act of civilization. [11]
We never went very near it, because we knowed better now than to act like that and scare people's camels and break up their caravans. [5]
A passionate longing urged her to remove the cloth, but the boldness of the act restrained her. [10]
Thin-skinned, like all up-starts in authority, he took the bishop's delay as an act of personal contumely. [10]
It will act upon the right one of the two? [5]
I must make up my own mind how to act. [11]
She was in unusually good spirits, her heart beat higher than it had done for years; she felt uplifted by the sense of relief from a burthensome duty, and of freedom to act independently on the dictates of her own intelligence. [10]
The joint commission under the act of the last session of carrying into effect the convention with Peru on the subject of claims has been organized at Lima, and is engaged in the business intrusted to it. [7]
The advisory board under the act of 16th July, 1862, did not recommend him for further promotion. [7]
He had ceded two large bishoprics to his Protestant ally, and this act of liberality, which, it is true, had been approved and supported by Granvelle, could no longer be undone. [10]
The population's only two hundred--" "That's all right, that's all right--" "And they hadn't any right to elect me; we're not even a territory, there's no Organic Act, the government hasn't any official knowledge of us whatever. [5]
It may be true that offences, or diseases, will come, but "woe unto him through whom they come," if we catch him in the voluntary or careless act of bringing them! [3]
Soft act, faint touch, no meaning did it bear To any save myself, who felt the air Of a new feeling cross my soul's clear sight. [11]
He had been told that it was to-morrow, and not to-day, that the hideous act would be accomplished; and it was a consolation to her to know that he was spared the agony of following her in fancy in her fearful progress. [10]
He was loath to withdraw his faith from the twins, and was resolved not to do it on the present indecisive evidence; but--well, he would think, and then decide how to act. [5]
She had managed to turn the knife in the Arab's hand against his own breast, and then suddenly pressed her body against it; but the impulse of the act came near carrying her over also. [11]
Tabus willingly submitted to this act of violence, and passing her thin left arm around her son's bull neck with her free hand, patted his bearded cheeks, wrinkled brow, and bushy, almost white hair. [10]
Turning her face to the wall, she was in the act of repeating her prayers as her niece entered. [9]
By a reference to the tenth section of the Bank charter, any gentleman can see that the framers of the act contemplated the holding of stock in the institutions of other corporations. [7]
When you come to the long conversation in the second act, turn to any pamphlet of your French Meisterschaft, and shovel in as much French talk on any subject as will fill up the gaps left by the expunged German. [5]
She was hurt to the heart, and so ashamed that for a moment she did not quite know what to do or how to act. [5]
If we went to the bottom of this subject, I think we should find that the putting upon actors clothes to which they are unaccustomed makes them act and talk artificially, and often in a manner intolerable. [4]
And he refused to take any pay for it, in a sort of surprise that such a simple act of hospitality should have any commercial value. [4]
He didn't stop to reason than upon the probable consequences of his act in seeking her. [9]
They persuaded Congress to pass an act requiring the Auditor to re-examine their case. [5]
Why it comes to me now I do not know; but it is here"--she pressed her hand tremblingly to her heart--"and I will not act as though it wasn't here. [11]
The only check to material individualism is spiritual individualism, and the reborn man or woman cannot act to the detriment of his fellow-creatures. [9]
His delight was to kick my shins with all his might, under the desk, not at all as an act of hostility, but as a gratifying and harmless pastime. [6]
If we had to keep the sun kindled up and going by private corporate action, or act of Congress, and to be taxed for the support of customs officers of solar heat, we should prize it more than we do. [4]
Be cautious then to hold back from baptism all those who regard it as a preserving charm or an act of good omen--remembering that the same water which, sprinkled on sanctified hearts, leads them to holy living, brings death to the unclean soul. [10]
As he said to himself, he had had enough; he had been filled up to the chin by the Mazarine business; and his impulsive youth wanted to end it by some smashing act which would be sensational and decisive. [11]
There came home to him at that moment with a force indescribable the shamelessness of the act he committed four years ago. [11]
It is useless to go into the reasons for this act of Victoria's. [9]
She advised him to go and ask Mr. Belward's advice; begged him not to act until he had done so. [11]
She had cause to dread this, but she also had the courage to act in person in her own behalf. [10]
If they fail to do so, they fail in their duty and act wrongly. [1]
Unless you wish to blind yourself, your Eminence, you will admit that I have seen correctly the most powerful motives for this unequalled act. [10]
I beg you to believe we do not act in a spirit of disregarding merit. [7]
I was obliged to be very decided in the matter, and to act entirely on my own responsibility. [14]
And they ought to be fully satisfied, if the lecturer would only keep still, or die in the first act. [5]
Yet he appeared to be casually doing a trivial and necessary act. [11]

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