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Sentences starting with acting

Acting with his usual promptness, Philip, with the consent of Mr. Bolton, broke ground there at once, and, before snow came, had some rude buildings up, and was ready for active operations in the spring. [5]
Acting Lieutenant Commanding Sellin E. Woolworth. [7]
Acting under orders, he had marched his company to make conjunction with other companies at a point in the mountains twenty miles away, but had himself returned to get the five thousand dollars gathered by Papineau's agent. [11]
Acting is the Devil's art. [4]
Acting Lieutenant Commanding Charles H. Baldwin. [7]
Acting under his advice, Warner was induced to come to Philadelphia in 1855 and join him, and to form subsequently a partnership in legal conveyancing with another young man who had been employed in Mr. Price's office. [4]

Sentences ending with acting

Carnac stood waiting with a smile on his face, for it seemed good acting. [11]
The architect replied that Philostratus had endeavoured to make the crowd believe that the only appropriate site for the statues of which she had heard was her grandfather's garden, and he thought he knew in whose behalf the fellow was acting. [10]
I wanted to see you and find out how she was acting. [9]
Many of those looking on thought all this was a part of the show, and were thrilled with the wonderful acting. [6]
But when I look into him I seem to understand him,--that is, he always appears to me consistent with himself, and I can always gather from him very salutary influences for my own way of feeling and acting. [6]
His confession, then, had been nothing but a revolting piece of acting! [10]
It is a goodly name for our notions of breathing, suffering, enjoying, acting. [6]
What did you commit by so acting? [2]

Short sentences using acting

She was acting for me. [5]
H. B. M's Acting Commissioner. [5]

Sentences containing acting two or more times

He is no doubt convinced that he is acting generously in attempting to rescue the Celebrity from a term in prison; what he does not realize is that he is acting ungenerously to other guests who have infinitely more at stake. [9]

More example sentences with the word acting in them

To offer resistance would have been madness, for even Hermon perceived, by the loud clanking of weapons around them, the greatly superior power of the enemy, and they were acting by the orders of the King. [10]
The little man with the lisp, next to her, who is always acting in that silly way, they call Toots Cuthbert. [9]
She was acting with good presence of mind. [11]
I know not why, but there are vague whispers that he is acting against the Englishman for causes best known at Versailles, which have nothing to do with our affairs here. [11]
And the boom, which had been acting uneasily, finally decided to gybe, and swept majestically over, carrying two of the Four in front of it, and all but dropped them into the water. [9]
I felt he was acting upon deliberation; that he was trusting to the power of his insinuating address, his sophistry, to break down barriers. [11]
He knew it was a bit of acting, and it was well done. [11]
They are acting upon this idea. [5]
Are you acting under a law of the concern? [5]
But it remains true that the greatest dramas, those that have endured from the Greek times down, have been (for the audiences of their times) both good reading and good acting plays. [4]
Jeff Thompson afterwards told Philip that he once asked Senator Atchison, then acting Vice-President: of the United States, about the possibility of acclimation; he thought the opinion of the second officer of our great government would be, valuable on this point. [5]
Kemble's acting seemed to him too studied and over-labored; he had the disadvantage of a voice lacking rich bass tones. [4]
In his letter to her he had simply said that it were wiser not to write, since the acting postmistress, the Cure's sister, would note the exchange of letters, and this would arouse suspicion. [11]
Such variations appear to arise from the same unknown causes acting on the cerebral organisation, which induce slight variations or individual differences in other parts of the body; and these variations, owing to our ignorance, are often said to arise spontaneously. [1]
Now in 1812, to anyone living in close touch with these people it was apparent that these undercurrents were acting strongly and nearing an eruption. [2]
To devote it to a monastic life was acting against the purpose of the Providence that had dowered it with such strength and beauty. [10]
At the same time, he believed what the strikers said, and that the trouble was not made by them, but by gangs of roughs acting without their approval. [8]
Detricand saw that this was not acting, that it was a supreme terror, an awful momentary aberration; for the traitor's eyes were wildly staring, the mouth was drawn in agony, the hands were now rigidly clutching an imaginary something, the body stiffened where it crouched. [11]
Each of you--bear this in mind--is a main-wheel in the great machine of the state, and can serve an end only by acting unresistingly in obedience to the motive power. [10]
The acting before them was more realistic than anything they had ever seen, or were ever likely to see again in La Touche. [11]
The greeting between them was courteous, but somewhat formal, as Mr. Bradshaw was acting as one of the masters of ceremony. [6]
But she saw the hopelessness of the thing, everything was steadily acting in Gering's favour, and her father's trouble decided her at last. [11]
By and by the Acting Governor of the Territory introduced us to other "Gentiles," and we spent a sociable hour with them. [5]
Then one remembers that he is a rodent, acting after the law of his kind, and cools down and is contented to drive him off and guard the tree against his teeth for the future. [6]
During the period that he had been acting as Mark Twain's secretary in London, he had taken pleasure in collecting for him the news reports of the celebrated Tichborn Claimant case, then in the English courts. [5]
But, as you suggest, perhaps I can take a more just view of the whole picture of the eventful struggle at this great distance than do those absolutely acting and suffering on the scene. [6]
He had no strength to enforce discipline nor organize expeditions for supplies; besides, he was acting under a commission whose virtue had expired, and the mutinous spirits rebelled against his authority. [4]
Nor will I stop to inquire, nor shall I hesitate, whether my blows shall hit the Republican leaders or their allies, who are holding the Federal offices, and yet acting in concert with them. [7]
And now I state it as a fact, to be taken back if there is any mistake about it, that Judge Douglas and those acting with him voted that amendment down. [7]
People of that stamp, who are not ashamed to worship, who do not philosophize but only think just so much as is necessary for acting rightly, those are the worst contemners of every supersensual manifestation. [10]
Pierre, whose rude skill in medicine was got of hard experiences here and there, had helped him back into the world again, and was himself now a little astonished at acting as Scripture reader to a Protestant invalid. [11]
The English had seen their opportunity, and it was the English power that was really acting, not the Church. [5]
As Finden had said, "She was for ever acting, and never doin' any harm by it. [11]
It was a rough and unsavory audience in pit and gallery, but it was a responsive one, and it enjoyed the acting with little help to illusion in the way of scenery. [4]
The reader may remember that during Mark Twain's great lecture engagement in London, winter of 1873-74, Stoddard lived with him, acting as his secretary. [5]
No doctrine of prayer or special providence is to be his excuse for not looking straight at secondary causes, and acting, exactly so far as experience justifies him, as if he were himself the divine agent which antiquity fabled him to be. [3]
I understand your position, Isabel, and that you're really acting from a generous impulse, but there's nothing so precarious at our time of life as a generous impulse. [8]
To prune feeble plants and shrubs is like acting the part of dry-nurse to a sickly orphan. [4]
Was it his own nature acting through those who called him "partner"? [11]
Civil courts are organized chiefly for trials of individuals --or, at most, a few individuals acting in concert, and this in quiet times, and on charges of crimes well defined in the law. [7]
This transformation was only a clever trick of acting, nothing more. [10]
My father was one of the followers of Zeno--" "And you," interrupted Publius, "thought you were acting in accordance with the doctrine of the Stoa. [10]
You and any officer acting under your authority are hereby authorized to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in any place between that place and the city of Washington. [7]
Why, a parcel of promoted shoemakers and apprentice apothecaries, who know just as much about good acting as I do about good farming and no more. [5]
Is the habit of good living mere habit and mere acting, in which the real man never lives his real life, or is it the real life? [11]
But to think of Abby Kame acting that way! [9]
If the presence of a cat can produce its effects under these circumstances, why should not that of a human being under similar conditions, acting on certain constitutions, exercise its specific influence? [6]
But you need n't talk of nature or naturalness in acting or in anything. [4]
So he answered now: "It is the duty of the Egyptian Government to help him--of Prince Kaid, of Nahoum Pasha, who is acting for him in his absence, who governs finance, and therefore the army. [11]
Yet he was not in all acting a part. [11]
Whatever he did must be done on the instant, and happily Verus had the gift of thinking and acting promptly. [10]
I think the movement is a general and concerted one, such as would not be if he was acting upon the purpose of a very desperate defense of Richmond. [7]
But in the more limited ranges referred to, no fact is more familiar than that there is a simultaneous impulse acting on many individual minds at once, so that genius comes in clusters, and shines rarely as a single star. [6]
In spite of Miss Raglan's excellent acting, she saw that something had occurred. [11]
His name was Magister Kochel and he lodged with the king's almoner, for whom he was acting as clerk. [10]
But Myrtle had learned the look that shapes itself on the features of one who loves with a love that seeketh not its own, and she knew the difference between acting and reality. [6]
And the populace?--He lately spoiled the game of your brother, who was acting for me, in a way. [10]
Congress at its last session, acting upon the recommendation, did provide for reorganizing the system in California, and it is believed that under the present organization the management of the Indians there will be attended with reasonable success. [7]
None of the ladies was afraid of him, though they could not believe that he was really so deferential to their work as he seemed; and they knew, when he would not criticise Mr. Harrington's work, that he was just acting from principle. [8]
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. [5]
But I've seen it, and I can just see those creatures now, parading before that shield and acting like that. [5]
In December he is in London, and entranced with the acting of Miss O'Neil. [4]
Yet, acting itself is delightful; nothing so entertains us as mimicry, the personation of character. [4]
Even her alert instinct had not been able to detect the acting, and the intervening hours were spent in speculating whether her fears had not been overdone. [9]
In the present instance, Mr. Duncan and Mr. Worthington's railroads were opposed, diplomatically, but another year might see the Truro Railroad and the Central acting as one. [9]
The active sophistry in him made him advocate non- intervention in Egyptian affairs as diplomatic wisdom, though it was but personal purpose; and he almost convinced himself that he was acting from a national stand-point. [11]
I am acting in a large affair, not in a small intrigue; a century of fate may hang on this. [11]
He would interfere if he found a horse acting in such a way, and we must inform him when we came across that kind of horse doing that kind of human thing, so that he could stop it. [5]
And then the idea of her receiving reports all the time from her officers, and acting upon them, and giving orders, the same as if she was well! [5]
He said in his most conspicuously casual vein: "Er--uh--by the way, Hawkins, we are feeling disappointed about this thing--the way the materializee is acting, I mean--we are disappointed; you concede that? [5]
There was on him the pressure of necessity, of his own better nature acting under a sense of his wife's approval; and besides, there was a novelty that attracted him in trying something absolutely new to his habits. [4]
She felt that he was acting bravely and nobly, and that he was lost if even for an instant his attention were distracted from his perilous footing. [10]
But before acting he must reflect. [10]
To one question he answers, "Anderson brought a suit against me before James Adams, then an acting justice of the peace in Sangamon County, before whom he obtained a judgment. [7]
I think Kimber has reasons of his own for acting as he did to-day. [11]
They say he has been acting as minister to some ruling prince in Persia, where he killed the Shah's brother. [2]
The Vicomte, who had been acting very strangely during the meal, showed unmistakable signs of a futile anger. [9]
I shall be glad for you and each of you to aid him, and all others acting for this object, as much as possible. [7]
To wrest it from the foreign ruler was acting in the spirit of the last king in whose veins had flowed the blood of the Pharaohs, and who had toiled with enthusiastic devotion for the independence and liberty of his people. [10]
Man's actions proceed from his innate character and the motives acting upon him. [2]
All three conspirators, Fergus, Holden, and Jopp, realised that O'Ryan's acting had behind it an animal anger which transformed him. [11]
Then, to Fulkerson's extreme disappointment, the august tribunal, acting on behalf of the sovereign people in the interest of peace, declared itself powerless, and got out, and would, no doubt, have gone about its business if it had had any. [8]
And to Ed's eager inquiry as to what made them act as they had been acting, they answered evasively, and pretended that they had put it up as a joke, to see what he would do. [5]
What now chiefly dwells in my memory are Mr. Thackeray's lectures, Mademoiselle Rachel's acting, D'Aubigne's, Melville's, and Maurice's preaching, and the Crystal Palace. [14]
He drifted listlessly down the street and found Jim Hollis acting as judge in a juvenile court that was trying a cat for murder, in the presence of her victim, a bird. [5]
In 1841 Harrison died and John Tyler succeeded to the Presidency, and William R. King, of Alabama, was elected acting Vice-President by the Senate; but no one supposed that the Union was in danger. [7]
And he was desiring me particularly to comprehend that he had been acting under most disagreeable orders when he sent for the bailiff, before I cut him short. [9]
This is a convenient doctrine for me I meditate acting upon it with reference to the Roman, so I trust nobody in Cornhill will dispute its validity or affirm that 'poetry' has a value, except for trunk-makers. [14]
Suppose, in this conflict, this singular man, acting on a nature already tried beyond reason, should bend it to his will, to which it was, in some radical ways, inclined? [11]
Biberli did not cease acting as messenger between her and her future bridegroom; nay, he could now devote the lion's share of his days to it; his master, for the first time since he had entered his service, had left him. [10]
He was possessed by the tragic fear that she was acting a dream; presently she would awake--and shatter the universe. [9]
Pierre knew this, but instead of acting he only thought about his undertaking, going over its minutest details in his mind. [2]
No impression has been made on my mind against the honor or integrity of General Fremont, and I now enter my protest against being understood as acting in any hostility toward him. [7]
I had not been long at Asquith before I discovered that Farrar was acting in a peculiar manner, though I was longer in finding out what the matter was. [9]
He wished to be in retirement till his friends, acting for him in France, gave him the signal, and then with a small army of French-Canadians he would land in France. [11]
This provision plainly attests the understanding of those who made the Constitution that ordinary courts of justice are inadequate to "cases of rebellion"--attests their purpose that, in such cases, men may be held in custody whom the courts, acting on ordinary rules, would discharge. [7]
Here she was, as sane a person as the kingdom could produce; and yet, from my point of view she was acting like a crazy woman. [5]
Then he was as one in a dream where all physical motion was mechanical, and his body was acting automatically. [11]
I was acting as governor of the prison at the time, saw the meeting and heard the quarrel. [11]
And the minor and unimportant citizens and their wives went around acting in much the same way. [5]

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