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Sentences starting with action

Action must not halt behind decision, but follow it quickly and sharply, as the sound follows the blow. [10]
Action first of all, and then we will see what to do with it. [6]
Action brightened her. [13]

Sentences ending with action

A board inscribed with the name of the country or city indicated the scene of action. [4]
We disclaim sympathy with him in practical action. [7]
The same persons who abuse the reformers, and lay all our troubles at their door, are apt to be severe also on what they contemptuously emphasize as "sentiments" considered as motives of action. [6]
She knew not what action. [9]
To these considerations were to be joined other circumstances which we need not here mention, of a nature to add greatly to their force, and which would go far of themselves to determine his action. [6]
I suggest that we make the local appointments forthwith, leaving foreign or general ones for ulterior and occasional action. [7]
Even the vaccine virus, fresh from the subject, fails every day to produce its legitimate effect, though every precaution is taken to insure its action. [3]
Before he came up with the hussars, several adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action. [2]
Our enormous forces, undoubtedly superior to Napoleon's, were concentrated in one place, the troops inspired by the Emperors' presence were eager for action. [2]
The body was too healthy to belong to a fanatic, too powerful to be that of a dreamer alone, too firm for other than a man of action. [11]

Short sentences using action

This action gave Venters amusement. [13]
You've already been in action? [2]
Nothing was left but action. [11]
Then he took action. [11]
I'm going into action! [2]
Into action! [2]

Sentences containing action two or more times

Some attributed it to want of confidence, others to the tariff, others to the action of this or that political party, others to over-production, others to silver, others to the action of English capitalists in withdrawing. [4]
In some States the elements for resumption seem ready for action, but remain inactive apparently for want of a rallying point--a plan of action. [7]
If its action is diminished to a certain degree, faintness is the immediate consequence; if it is arrested, loss of consciousness; if its action is not soon restored, death, of which fainting plants the white flag, remains in possession of the system. [6]
This relation consists in the following: For common action people always unite in certain combinations, in which regardless of the difference of the aims set for the common action, the relation between those taking part in it is always the same. [2]
One of these has the power of accelerating the action of the heart, while the other has the power of retarding or arresting this action. [6]
They have a clearly legal right to assemble, and we cannot know in advance that their action will not be lawful and peaceful, and if we wait until they shall have acted their arrest or dispersion will not lessen the effect of their action. [7]
We call this catalysis, catalytic action, the action of presence, or by what learned name we choose. [3]
If any man brings his action against me, he must describe me as a gentleman, or his action is null and void. [12]
He was essentially a man of action, but his action was the bullet of his mind; he had to be quiet physically when he was really thinking. [11]

More example sentences with the word action in them

I fully acknowledge your courage, but at the same time advise you to remember that, though a man proves his courage in action, a woman's is shown in obedience. [10]
I suppose that you have done me this kindness in connection with the action of the Baltimore convention, which has recently taken place, and with which, of course, I am very well satisfied. [7]
And as she worked over the intricacies of this problem the word her husband had applied to her action recurred to her--precipitate. [9]
There was no work to do; that was all finished; this was but the second session of the last winter's Congress, and its action on the bill could have but one result--its passage. [5]
But neither my words nor my action had gone unnoticed by the other end of the room. [9]
And from the woodshed the shrill note of the scythe under the action of the grindstone. [4]
Jen started forward, woman-like, to check the action, but drew back, for she saw heroic measures might be necessary to bring him to consciousness. [11]
Another day passed without action, when the chambermaid was again applied to. [4]
The charge is, with regard to this universal suffrage, that you take the fruits of increased representation produced by it, and then deny it to a portion of the voters whose action was expected to produce a different political result. [4]
Everyone is familiar with Joshua's later life, so rich in action, and how he won in battle a new home for his people. [10]
He was well-figured, with a hand of peculiar whiteness, suggesting in its breadth more the man of action than of meditation. [11]
Action, however startling, will be proof of fitness. [11]
This procrastinator Kutuzov, whose motto was "Patience and Time," this enemy of decisive action, gave battle at Borodino, investing the preparations for it with unparalleled solemnity. [2]
Many a general who has fought a desperate and victorious fight after a long campaign, and amid all the anxieties and miseries of war, has failed to follow up his advantage, from a sudden lesion of the power for action in him. [11]
It was he who had sent Fouche word concerning Philip's adoption; it was also he who had at last, through his spies, discovered Detricand's presence in the town, and had taken action thereupon. [11]
The distance at which the action took place [the letter was left on a shelf twenty-four feet from the place where I was sitting] shows this charge to have been of notable intensity. [6]
Serious questions to which she had never given a thought had been brought before her; and yet, in this brief period of anxiety she had gained the precious sense of youthfulness and of capacity for action when she had to depend on herself. [10]
The former slackness which had shown itself even in his eyes was now replaced by an energetic readiness for action and resistance. [2]
It was only when the indignant orator "thundered and lightened" and was carried away by the heat of passion that he forgot his dignified moderation, and then how grandly voice, eye, and action helped each other! [10]
And that battery, when in action, must have been truly terrible. [9]
It seemed that when he lay down and drew his blanket over him the action was the last before utter prostration. [13]
Perhaps he guessed what was going on in me, for he said in a low, cultured voice: "The wheels will stop too long some time, and there will be no rebound;" --referring to the irregular action of his heart. [11]
Your last reports were written on the twentieth, and during all this time not only has no action been taken against the enemy or for the relief of the ancient capital, but according to your last report you have even retreated farther. [2]
The two commanders were much exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on the right flank and the French were already advancing, were engaged in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. [2]
All their faces were as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in which at least half of them would be left on the field. [2]
Yet his words were accompanied by such a charm of action and expression, that the king could understand them, notwithstanding the defective Persian in which they were clothed, better than the allegorical speeches of his own subjects. [10]
We found that we were not manly enough nor brave enough to do a generous action when there was a chance that it could get us into trouble. [5]
Is there any way for us Protestants, when love for the dead longs to find expression in action, except to adorn with flowers the places which contain their earthly remains? [10]
Then all the way down from the capital to the city ward, we shall have vital popular government, free action, discussion, agitation, life. [4]
I considered George Washington, and what action he would have taken under similar circumstances. [5]
His instinctive action was to pull Pepper down to a walk, scarcely analyzing his motives; then he had time, before reaching the spot where their paths would cross, to consider and characteristically to enjoy the unpropitious elements arrayed against a friendship with Victoria Flint. [9]
All he knew was that at the commencement of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted "Cavalry! [2]
Your friend Anson was quite gentlemanly in his action at the last. [11]
But since there was no fixed law on the subject, and since the whole probable result of their action would be an assistance in electing Gen. Cass, he must say that they were behind the Whigs in their advocacy of the freedom of the soil. [7]
This last action was habitual with him. [11]
That in itself was courageous, because it was impossible to tell what view the master of Tralee would take of her action, ill though she was. [11]
Sharp alternations of violent action and self-indulgent repose; a hard run, and a long revel after it; this is what over-much horse tends to animalize a man into. [6]
Moreover, anything performed very often by us, will at last be done without deliberation or hesitation, and can then hardly be distinguished from an instinct; yet surely no one will pretend that such an action ceases to be moral. [1]
Master Gridley could usually detect the shifting action, but the young man's features and voice never betrayed him. [6]
The eruption is usually about two or three weeks distant; and the hotel proprietors get this information from experienced guides, who observe the action of the water in the wells; so that there can be no mistake about it. [4]
It is not up till midnight, and any action taken before then on any other assumption will give grounds for damages. [11]
He had drawn up a plan of action with great military skill, and succeeded in gaining not only Cambyses' approval, but that of the old general Megabyzus and the best tacticians among the Achaemenidae. [10]
The walls were unpainted, but turned by the slow action of sun and air and rain to a quiet dove or slate color. [6]
I know and trust him, and whoever expects aught else will sooner or later, by my son's course of action, be proved a liar. [10]
Swinging in this tree-top, with a vivid consciousness of life, of his own capacity for action, it seemed a pity that he could not follow the drum and the flag into such contests as he read about so eagerly. [4]
As he turned towards her again, Orlando was startled by a sudden action on the part of his broncho. [11]
But a dammed-up torrent of emotion at last burst its bounds, and the hour that saw his release from immediate action was one that confounded him in the reaction of his spirit. [13]
But when he took action it was too late. [11]
With limbs huddled together, head bowed down, arms crossed upon the breast, and fingers tightly clenched, it rocked to and fro upon its seat without a moment's pause, accompanying the action with the mournful sound he had heard. [12]
Dokhturov was unwilling to undertake any action, as it was not clear to him now what he ought to do. [2]
Not far off to the left of him and his mounted infantry there were coming on for this purpose two batteries of artillery and three thousand infantry--Leary's brigade, which had not been in the action the day before at Wortmann's Drift. [11]
Then he roused to the call of action, to the many things he needed to do in the way of making camp fixtures and utensils, to the necessity of hunting food, and the desire to explore the valley. [13]
Entertaining these objections to the bill, I feel myself constrained to withhold from it my approval and return it for the further consideration and action of Congress. [7]
As we have to tell, not what Myrtle Hazard ought to have done, and why she should have done it, but what she did do, our task is a simpler one than it would be to lay bare all the springs of her action. [6]
I shall try to take care of it at the department till your action can be had and forwarded on. [7]
Then he fell to swift action. [13]
I have attempted to show that the defence set up for their action is anything but satisfactory. [6]
Eudoxia went forward to meet her; Mary threw herself into her arms, and before her governess could ask any questions she told her that she had been chosen to accomplish a great and important action. [10]
This she mentioned to me not many days afterwards, adding remarks almost identical with those which I subsequently read in 'Villette,' where a similar action on the part of M. Paul Emanuel is related. [14]
She was well to leeward of us, and the Araminta bore up under all sail, keen for action. [11]
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]
I tried hard to keep my temper, marvelling at the ready way he had chosen to turn my action. [9]
Macrinus then proceeded to inform the higher and lower officers of the course of action he had agreed upon with the emperor and Zminis. [10]
Accordingly I wrote to Herr J. von Fischer to ask what he supposed was the meaning of this strange action, and he has sent me two long letters full of new and curious details, which will, I hope, be hereafter published. [1]
Denisov evidently tried to expose Rostov to danger as seldom as possible, and after an action greeted his safe return with evident joy. [2]
My purpose is to be in my action just and constitutional, and yet practical, in performing the important duty with which I am charged, of maintaining the unity and the free principles of our common country. [7]
Pierre felt himself to be an insignificant chip fallen among the wheels of a machine whose action he did not understand but which was working well. [2]
I am willing to allow my history and action for the last twenty years to speak for themselves as to my political principles and my fidelity to political obligations. [7]
From time to time her hands clenched, her brow furrowed, powerful waves of heat ran through her, the craving for action became so intense she could scarcely refrain from rising in her seat. [9]
It is only through the enlightened sentiment and action of the Medical Profession that the community can be brought to acknowledge that drugs should always be regarded as evils. [6]
How strong this thread has proved is shown by the action of those of Dutch blood in the Dominion during the present war. [9]
I have always thought of you as a man of force and a man of action. [9]
It was as though the Cock of Beaugard had really summoned him to action, and the crowing had not been that of a barnyard bantam not a hundred feet away from him. [11]
My question is this: whether that indignation would be present at all if it were not meant to be turned into action. [9]
But he resisted this weakness and kept mechanically about his work, opening the letters and the manuscripts before him with that curious double action of the mind common in men of vivid imaginations. [8]
It was at this time that Dyck Calhoun--who, by consent of Richard Parker, had taken control of the Ariadne--took action which was to alter the course of his own life and that of many others. [11]
The forbearance of this government had been so extraordinary and so long continued as to lead some foreign nations to shape their action as if they supposed the early destruction of our national Union was probable. [7]
I believed that this day would see the last of the strife between England and France for dominion here; of La Pompadour's spite which I had roused to action against my country; of the struggle between Doltaire and myself. [11]
Any one with this assumption in his mind would naturally extend too far the action of natural selection, either during past or present times. [1]
She rejoiced at this action, for she felt that the strength would never fail her now to set her will against his. [10]
Many readers will think that the simple record of Mr. Seward's unresisting acquiescence in the action of the President is far from being to his advantage. [6]
Not only did they so decide at that time, but they stuck to it during sixty years, through thick and thin, as long as there was one of the Revolutionary heroes upon the stage of political action. [7]
The leader of these four pursuers was Billy Wantage, who had come to know of the curious action of the Seigneur of Chaudiere from an intimate friend, a clerk in the bank. [11]
Men uniting in these combinations always assume such relations toward one another that the larger number take a more direct share, and the smaller number a less direct share, in the collective action for which they have combined. [2]
In the daytime there was riding from place to place, and the gun practice to which something drove him, and other tasks that at least necessitated action, at night, before he won sleep, there was strife in his soul. [13]
He felt that there was now a judge of his every word and action whose judgment mattered more to him than that of all the rest of the world. [2]
Yet she seemed then, as she always appeared to be, free from any action that should set the machine of penalty going against herself. [11]
Perhaps all would then be well again, for in this unfortunate action she could recognise the sole wrong which she had ever inflicted upon her lover. [10]
Your action could then be decided by Krool's attitude and what he says. [11]
I will form them after the models of the greatest, highest, and best, and also, when the subject permits, in powerful action in accordance with my own power, but always as real men from head to foot. [10]
Prove it," answered the young man, pale and startled, but cool in speech and action. [11]
This man's career, the work he was set to do, the ideal before him, the vision of a land redeemed, captured her, carried her panting into a resolve which, however she might modify her speech or action, must be an influence in her life hereafter. [11]
Mr. Carvel was the third lieutenant of the 'Bon homme Richard', tho' he served as second in the action. [9]
Direct action is the thing, the general strike, war,--the new creed, the new religion that will bring salvation. [9]
The brethren in the temple of Anion, on the other shore, have fallen off from what must always be the Holiest to us white-robed priests, and will stand in our way when the time for action is arrived. [10]
For an instant the tempestuous action, the brilliant, swift play of the sword, the quivering flippancy of the steel, gave Dyck that which almost disconcerted him. [11]
But I remembered the story of Sir Cloudesley Shovel, who was seen all of a tremor just as he was going into action. [6]
The action and the smile--to which she could not refrain from responding--seemed to establish a tacit understanding between them. [9]
So extraordinary was the sight that, as if fascinated, the crowd before and behind followed the action with staring eyes and tense bodies. [11]
He only acknowledged the shots by a salaam-like movement of his trunk, with the point of which he gently touched the wounds with a striking and peculiar action. [5]

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