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Sentences starting with actions

Actions are rough and ready, perhaps, but that is our simple way. [11]

Sentences ending with actions

When a man works alone he always has a certain set of reflections which as it seems to him directed his past activity, justify his present activity, and guide him in planning his future actions. [2]
I put into words what Charlotte Bronte put into actions. [14]
There's no one with a right to question my actions. [13]
What was the true meaning of her actions? [11]
Capable of sacrifice to their country, personal ambition is, nevertheless, the mainspring of their actions. [9]
There is no space between consecutive thoughts, or between the never-ending series of actions. [6]
She was uncommitted, she was mistress of her own actions. [4]
Now we shall probably never have the least idea of the enormous number of impressions which pass through our consciousness, until in some future life we see the photographic record of our thoughts and the stereoscopic picture of our actions. [6]
And how could Paula have allowed a third person to come between them, and rule her feelings and actions? [10]
But the greater number of the more complex instincts appear to have been gained in a wholly different manner, through the natural selection of variations of simpler instinctive actions. [1]

Short sentences using actions

Nobody could foretell her actions. [6]

Sentences containing actions two or more times

The actions of Napoleon and Alexander, on whose words the event seemed to hang, were as little voluntary as the actions of any soldier who was drawn into the campaign by lot or by conscription. [2]
From this low motive he might acquire the habit of aiding his fellows; and the habit of performing benevolent actions certainly strengthens the feeling of sympathy which gives the first impulse to benevolent actions. [1]
There had been actions at Lambach, Amstetten, and Melk; but despite the courage and endurance--acknowledged even by the enemy--with which the Russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more rapid retreat. [2]
Thus the twenty-one acted; and, as actions speak louder than words, so actions under such responsibilities speak still louder. [7]

More example sentences with the word actions in them

My thoughts gave zest to my actions, and I was climbing the steep, pine-clad slope with rapidity when I heard Miss Trevor below me calling out to wait for her. [9]
In most, rashness would be the outcome of such a marriage of characteristics; but clear-sightedness, decision, and a little unscrupulousness had carried into success many daring actions of his life. [11]
This head smiles with sweet fascination, and the countenance of the goddess that rules the actions even of the immortals, should be stern and grave. [10]
An infamous Persian, who had lived many years in Egypt, and travelled here with us, had given them a list of all the things and actions, which we consider unclean. [10]
I don't know which tickled me the most--the actions of many fellers we met, or Venters's nerve. [13]
So fresh instructions were sent for the solution of difficulties that might be encountered, as well as fresh people who were to watch Kutuzov's actions and report upon them. [2]
We may, if we choose, call these actions instinctive; but such cases are much too rare for the development of any special instinct. [1]
But the tale was told in after days that one of his first actions in St. Louis was of this nature. [9]
I am, however, very far from wishing to deny that instinctive actions may lose their fixed and untaught character, and be replaced by others performed by the aid of the free will. [1]
The master enjoins us to look back every evening on the events, feelings and actions of the day just past. [10]
Everything is strained to such a degree that it will certainly break," said Pierre (as those who examine the actions of any government have always said since governments began). [2]
If he desired to own that, while in a state of senseless intoxication he had slandered modest maidens, and was ignorant of his actions when he staked his castle and lands against the gold lying before him, Heinz Schorlin, he might keep Tannenreuth. [10]
His actions in this war had become the theme of every tongue, and many hesitated not to compare him in prowess with the immortal Cid. [4]
If one accepts this twofold aim all Rostopchin's actions appear irreproachable. [2]
Now do not these actions clearly shew that she had in her mind a general idea or concept that some animal is to be discovered and hunted? [1]
These actions may then be said to be degraded in character, for they are no longer performed through reason or from experience. [1]
They show by their actions that they enjoy them. [5]
In his actions, the queer little man obeyed the dictates of his heart; in his speech, his head ruled his tongue, and this seemed to him the only sensible course. [10]
Then it is the influence of fashion; and what is the influence of fashion but the influence that other people's actions have on our actions--the strong inclination each of us feels to do as we see all our neighbors do? [7]
With none of the impulse that usually marked her actions, she put her arms round Guida's neck and kissed her, saying with a subdued intensity: "I'd go through fire and water for you. [11]
These actions of the elephant and bear can hardly be attributed to instinct or inherited habit, as they would be of little use to an animal in a state of nature. [1]
Now, what is the difference between such actions, when performed by an uncultivated man, and by one of the higher animals? [1]
We forget that the creation of the novel should be, to a certain extent, a synthetic process, and impart to human actions that ideal quality which we demand in painting. [4]
In front of the church I halted, reflecting that I had not remained in England with any hope of it, but rather to discover the truth about Chartersea's actions, and to save her, if it were possible. [9]
He had, moreover, the air of a man who gives a forced attention, which seemed to me the natural consequences of the recent actions of his son. [9]
I am aware that some persons maintain that actions performed impulsively, as in the above cases, do not come under the dominion of the moral sense, and cannot be called moral. [1]
It is true that my witnesses were quite willing to depose that his actions were queer and out of the common, but these witnesses were for the most part venerable farmers and backwoodsmen: expert testimony was deplorably lacking. [9]
Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. [6]
Thus it happened that his best actions procured him not friends but enemies. [10]
And pray also that he who has given us here a good gift may find his thanks in our better-ordered lives, and that he may consecrate his parts and talents to the redeeming actions of this world. [11]
The President replied that he had no designs beyond the actions of the States on this particular subject. [7]
Prince Andrew felt that either the actions of Kutuzov's army interested the Minister of War less than any of the other matters he was concerned with, or he wanted to give the Russian special messenger that impression. [2]
They confine this term to actions done deliberately, after a victory over opposing desires, or when prompted by some exalted motive. [1]
They roll down stones, or throw them at their enemies: nevertheless, they are clumsy in these various actions, and, as I have myself seen, are quite unable to throw a stone with precision. [1]
In throwing a stone or spear, and in many other actions, a man must stand firmly on his feet; and this again demands the perfect co-adaptation of numerous muscles. [1]
While we are still young we do not realize that our actions have this effect. [8]
What could account so entirely for his ways and actions as that strange poisoning which produces the state they call Tarantism? [6]
She was not so deliberate as her actions had indicated. [11]
They watch my smallest actions and report them at once to the priests. [10]
He appeared much smaller off the boards than on, and his actions and speech were quick and nervous. [9]
From that time she claimed his services as eagerly as before, but in her own heart felt as if she were his little mother, and watched all his actions as though specially commissioned to do so. [10]
It is the sentiment around which all their actions, all their arguments, circle, from which all their propositions radiate. [7]
I begin to see how near good is to evil; how near faith is to unfaith; and how difficult it is to judge from actions only; how little we can know to-day what we shall feel tomorrow. [11]
He don't go 'round preachin', like some fellers I could mention, but actions is louder than words. [9]
The promptings of reason, after very short experience, are well shewn by the following actions of American monkeys, which stand low in their order. [1]
When they had reached a plateau, which lay on the road that led from the sea over the mountain into the oasis, he turned to the youth, and said: "If we always considered all the results of our actions there would be no sins committed. [10]
Justice was so quickly distributed, men were so open in their conduct, good and bad, that none looked askance, nor put their actions in ambush, nor studied innuendo. [11]
Napoleon, predestined by Providence for the gloomy role of executioner of the peoples, assured himself that the aim of his actions had been the peoples' welfare and that he could control the fate of millions and by the employment of power confer benefactions. [2]
Benevolence and charity possess their hearts entirely; and out of the abundance of their hearts their tongues give utterance; "love through all their actions runs, and all their words are mild. [7]
Each had his place, and all were influenced by the great schemes of Rhodes and their reflection in the purposes and actions of Wallstein. [11]
There was something peculiarly and touchingly romantic about the creature and his strange actions, according to the newspaper reports. [5]
Her actions said one thing certainly; but if the question had been put to her, whether she was doing this thing because of a wish to take the place of Carmen Dolores in Jean Jacques' life she would have said no at once. [11]
He placed them on an almost romantic pinnacle, and his actions always conformed to his romantic ideal, although in his writings he sometimes adopts the conventional satire which was more common fifty years ago than now. [4]
He carried it off altogether too well, and both the studied lightness of his actions and the increased carelessness of his manner made me fear that what before was feigned, might turn to a real bitterness. [9]
A fair examination of history has served to authorize a belief that the past actions and influences of the United States were generally regarded as having been beneficial toward mankind. [7]
If the conception of freedom appears to reason to be a senseless contradiction like the possibility of performing two actions at one and the same instant of time, or of an effect without a cause, that only proves that consciousness is not subject to reason. [2]
With a pair of field-glasses he could follow their actions, could almost read their faces. [11]
He was incapable of considering how his actions might affect others or what the consequences of this or that action of his might be. [2]
The matured modesty of a lost five years did not cloak her actions now. [11]
Anatole had no notion and was incapable of considering what might come of such love-making, as he never had any notion of the outcome of any of his actions. [2]
Yet I should not have devoted so many words to it, did I not recognize the light it has thrown on human actions by its study of congenital organic tendencies. [3]
Happily Susan was not exacting; she looked up to him with too great a feeling of distance between them to dare to question his actions. [6]
Her feeling had not been the same about Mrs. Rindge: Mrs. Kame's actions savoured of deliberate choice, of an inherent and calculating wickedness. [9]
If he has no such sympathy, and if his desires leading to bad actions are at the time strong, and when recalled are not over-mastered by the persistent social instincts, and the judgment of others, then he is essentially a bad man (30. [1]
Thus we are no longer permitted to place the seat of the living actions in the extreme vessels, which are only the carriers from which each part takes what it wants by the divine right of the omnipotent nucleated cell. [3]
Napoleon himself is no longer of any account; all his actions are evidently pitiful and mean, but again an inexplicable chance occurs. [2]
But Ismail could no longer do this sort of thing without some show of reason--Europe was hanging on his actions, waiting for the apt moment to depose him. [11]
No high aim, no desire to accomplish good and great things in wider spheres, influenced the thoughts and actions of this couple. [10]
Then she had never put a curb on her tongue, or greatly on her actions, except that, though a hundred men quarrelled openly, or in their own minds, about her, no one had ever had any right to quarrel about her. [11]
He had hitherto never gone to rest at night without requiring of himself an account of the past day, and he had always been able to detect the most subtle line that divided right from wrong in his actions. [10]
The chain of nervous actions has become firmly established. [6]
The day of Nahoum's wrath and revenge was not yet come; it was his deep design to lay the foundation for his own dark actions strong on a rock of apparent confidence and devotion. [11]
But those popular movements seem to us rather blind struggles against physical evils, and to be distinguished from those more intelligent actions based upon the theory which began to stir Europe prior to the Reformation. [4]
They did not move with the stream-they lived their lives and sank away; and always below them new generations appeared, to play their brief parts in what is called history--the sequence of human actions. [4]
Upon the second morning she sat up when he awakened her, and would not permit him to bathe her face and feed her, which actions she performed for herself. [13]
My enemies have misrepresented my actions, and my language as passionate, exaggerated, mischievous, but I have no passion except for the service of my superiors. [6]
The actions of men are subject to general immutable laws expressed in statistics. [2]
No doubt these means of change often co-operate: thus when certain muscles, and the crests of bone to which they are attached, become enlarged by habitual use, this shews that certain actions are habitually performed and must be serviceable. [1]
Will you pledge me to find no fault with my actions? [5]
Nell, Nell, there may be people busy in the world, at this instant, in whose good actions and good thoughts these very graves--neglected as they look to us--are the chief instruments. [12]
It does not matter--so the short-sighted and heedless think; but I say to you, you have doubly transgressed, because the wrong-doer was the king's daughter, whom all look up to, great and small, and whose actions may serve as an example to the people. [10]
No doubt a man with a torpid mind, if his social affections and sympathies are well developed, will be led to good actions, and may have a fairly sensitive conscience. [1]
We need not make our argument for them, but we who think it is wrong in all its relations, or in some of them at least, must decide as to our own actions and our own course, upon our own judgment. [7]
As actions speak louder than words, so does a man's character often give the lie to his tongue. [9]
Was there a Law behind these actions of mother and son which he had persisted in denouncing as vagaries? [9]
Food, in its largest sense, is whatever helps to build up the normal structures, or to maintain their natural actions. [3]
There is no judge over me; I need give account to none for my actions. [10]
We can only judge by the circumstances under which actions are performed, whether they are due to instinct, or to reason, or to the mere association of ideas: this latter principle, however, is intimately connected with reason. [1]
The animal takes its place between ourselves and nature; its actions are guided, not, like our own, by the letter, but by the eternal laws of nature, which owe their origin to the Deity, while the letter is a device of man's own mind. [10]
The second method is to consider the actions of some one man--a king or a commander--as equivalent to the sum of many individual wills; whereas the sum of individual wills is never expressed by the activity of a single historic personage. [2]
A burning ambition is the sun, whose rays guide all your actions. [10]
A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his past and future actions or motives, and of approving or disapproving of them. [1]
A deed done is irrevocable, and its result coinciding in time with the actions of millions of other men assumes an historic significance. [2]
In such actions, instead of two crowds opposing each other, the men disperse, attack singly, run away when attacked by stronger forces, but again attack when opportunity offers. [2]
When later on in his memoirs Count Rostopchin explained his actions at this time, he repeatedly says that he was then actuated by two important considerations: to maintain tranquillity in Moscow and expedite the departure of the inhabitants. [2]
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of "greatness. [2]
Social animals are impelled partly by a wish to aid the members of their community in a general manner, but more commonly to perform certain definite actions. [1]
To her mind, however, in the big things, his actions always had reasonableness. [11]
Ask me of his noble actions, And with one short word I answer, 'None! [10]
Mr. Belt, in his most interesting work, 'The Naturalist in Nicaragua,' 1874, (p. 119,) likewise describes various actions of a tamed Cebus, which, I think, clearly shew that this animal possessed some reasoning power. [1]

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