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Sentences starting with active

Active and long-continued use cannot here have come into play, as in the case of the vocal organs. [1]
Active duty and responsibility are all that make it endurable. [11]

Sentences ending with active

He, the upstart, was well aware that Fortune requires her favorites to keep their eyes open and their hands active. [10]
His mind, however, was otherwise active. [5]
His voice was sharp and hard, and his movements, in comparison with the deliberation of the other members of the Egyptian court, appeared almost morbidly active. [10]
And then the matrimonial market was feverishly active. [9]
She could not help being generous, cheerful, active. [6]
The term "disuse" does not relate merely to the lessened action of muscles, but includes a diminished flow of blood to a part or organ, from being subjected to fewer alternations of pressure, or from becoming in any way less habitually active. [1]
But she must be careful what she wrote, as the Yankee scouts were active. [9]
I found my apples, and raked them out, and was glad; for I am very young and my appetite is active. [5]
Jerry also became active. [13]
It let in a world of light upon unexplored places, it set free elements of being which had not before been active. [11]

Sentences containing active two or more times

One might be amused at the Saratoga show without taking an active part in it, and indeed nobody did seem to take a very active part in it. [4]

More example sentences with the word active in them

She could not yet obtain a clear insight into the result of the promise which she had given her son; it seemed as though a veil was drawn over her active mind. [10]
During the long years of their union Mrs. Ebers was his active helpmate, many of the business details relating to his works and their American and English editions being transacted by her. [10]
His mother had written him, asking why he stayed so long in an unimportant city, he who had been so active a traveler hitherto. [4]
I said I would rather be Anson dead than Mrs. Anson living; I would rather be the active than the passive sinner; the victim, than a part of that great and cruel machine of penalty. [11]
They keep the world active, and I owe a great many of my best operations to such men. [5]
Of course he won't be able to play polo, or take much active exercise. [9]
They were fellow-creatures with whom one did not naturally enter into active sympathy, and the principal point of interest about the fiacre and its arrangements was whether the horse was fondest of trotting or of walking. [6]
His active connection with the paper he never gave up absolutely, nor did his interest in it ever cease. [4]
The wise man will keep his ears ever open, but rarely lend it his active hand. [10]
Every man in whose veins flowed Egyptian blood listened to him attentively, took pleasure in his projects, and was quite ready to do his utmost to enhance the glories of this ceremonial, in which every one was to take part either active or passive. [10]
The subtle force which is in every human being, more or less active, has this power, as if love were somehow a principle pervading nature itself, and capable of transforming it. [4]
In April, 1579, when Gilbert took active steps under the charter of 1578, diplomatic difficulties arose, growing out of Elizabeth's policy with the Spaniards, and when Gilbert's ships were ready to sail he was stopped by an order from the council. [4]
To be passive, when David in Egypt had asked for active interest; to delay, when urgency was important to Claridge Pasha; to speak coldly on Egyptian affairs to his chief, the weak Foreign Secretary, this was the policy he had begun. [11]
The other class were the active agents, and were termed strikers, and amounted to about six hundred and fifty. [5]
It may be well first to premise that I do not wish to maintain that any strictly social animal, if its intellectual faculties were to become as active and as highly developed as in man, would acquire exactly the same moral sense as ours. [1]
Poor Mr. Stoker was now helpless, faithfully and tenderly waited upon by his own wife, who had regained her health and strength,--in no small measure, perhaps, from the great need of sympathy and active aid which her unfortunate husband now experienced. [6]
His whole look was irradiated by an ever active inquiring intelligence. [6]
Its long white-washed walls, it is true, glimmered through the gloom as distinctly as ever, but instead of towering--as usual at this time--mute and lifeless above the slumbering town--the most active bustle was going on within and around it. [10]
The city was waking cheerfully, though the only active life was in the pealing bells and on the deep flowing rivers. [11]
He was seeing visions of a captain's sword and epaulettes, and planning to get men, money and horses together--for this matter had been brooding for nearly a year, and he had been the active leader in Bonaventure. [11]
Unfortunately, there was very little chance of showing sympathy in its active form for a gentleman who kept himself so much out of the way as the master of the Dudley Mansion. [6]
Dr. Thompson, the very active and intelligent surgical director of the hospitals of the place, took me in charge. [6]
The Honourable Hilary Vane bore away from the residence of his emperor a great many memoranda in an envelope, and he must have sighed as he drove through the leafy roads for Mr. Hamilton Tooting, with his fertile mind and active body. [9]
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]
You have been used to an active, adventurous, hurried life. [11]
When I look upon yonder green fields, I call upon the faithful to give thanks to Rennut, that is, that active manifestation of the One, through which the corn attains to its ripe maturity. [10]
Venerable mud-turtles crawled up and roosted upon the old logs in the stream, their backs glistening in the sun, the first inhabitants of the metropolis to begin the active business of the day. [5]
But I waked up again, and went smiling along, active, vigorous, getting pleasure out of the infinitely small things, and happy in perfecting my organization. [11]
In a big town and an active market we should have brought a good price; but this place was utterly stagnant and so we sold at a figure which makes me ashamed, every time I think of it. [5]
Jane's active mind took up her interest in him and her half-determined desire to use what charm she had to foil his evident design in visiting Cottonwoods. [13]
Now and then, too, a ribald jest came from some young roisterer near, and the fact that I stood alone among sneering enemies wound me up to a point where pride was more active than aught else. [11]
What I wanted to say about books is this: that there are times in which every active mind feels itself above any and all human books. [6]
The same gentle, thoughtful faces, the same cheerful but reverential spirit, the same quiet, the same life of active benevolence. [6]
When he reads this, as I hope he will, let him be assured of my esteem and respect; and if he gained any accommodation from being in my company, let me tell him that I learned a lesson from his active benevolence. [6]
The depredations of this extensive combination were severely felt; but so well were their plans arranged, that although Murel, who was always active, was everywhere suspected, there was no proof to be obtained. [5]
The outside pressure, therefore, is immense upon the physician, tending to force him to active treatment of some kind. [3]
At any rate, there were Protestants among her visitors and, unfortunately, they included Herr Peter Schlumperger, whom De Soto knew as an active promoter of the apostasy of the Ratisbon burghers. [10]
Those who recovered their health were reported as well; not implying that they were made so by the active treatment they had received there. [6]
He was sure the wine had been drugged, but he realized that Swinton, the landlord, would have made away with any signs of foul play, as he was himself an agent of active disloyalty and a friend of Erris Boyne. [11]
Among the rest, the sellers of fruits--oranges, bananas, and others, according to the seasons--did an active business. [6]
There was not the same ceaselessly active eye, nor the vibration of the impatient body which belonged to the money-master and miller of the Manor Cartier. [11]
She heard, however, the quick breathing of the Seigneur beside her, and it called her back to an active and necessary confidence. [11]
All that July the old prince was exceedingly active and even animated. [2]
This was all the more trying to bear, as she was obliged to take an active share in the household work,--one servant being ill in bed, and the other, Tabby, aged upwards of eighty. [14]
The speeches at the John Brown, the Walter Scott, and the Free Religious Association meetings were published at the time, no doubt with his consent, but without any active co-operation on his part. [6]
And thus, from the force of circumstances, the basest principles of our nature were either made to lie dormant, or to become the active agents in the advancement of the noblest of causes--that of establishing and maintaining civil and religious liberty. [7]
Mr. Conway gives the following brief account of his labors, and tells in the same connection a story of Father Taylor too good not to be repeated:-- "Emerson took an active interest in the public affairs of Boston. [6]
The end of the first phase came with the ride at the quick-set hedge, this with a less intent but as active a temper. [11]
Looming up above the crowd was the smiling and encouraging countenance of the ever active, always present, always helpful Mr. Smalley. [6]
Already rumors of the cause of Mr. Allen's departure were in active circulation, and I was astonished to learn that he had been seen that day seated upon Indian rock with Miss Thorn herself. [9]
I will explain that this is a law office and I think it probably does him as much good to have a law office without anything to do in it, as it would another man to have one with an active business attached. [5]
So it happens that the latter produces active, practical men, and, under favorable circumstances, great scholars, but few artists and poets. [10]
I have found that some of those active exercises, which are commonly thought to belong to young folks only, may be enjoyed at a much later period. [6]
I can believe that some have welcomed the decay of their active powers because it furnished them with peremptory reasons for sparing themselves during the few years that were left them. [6]
Those majestic guests; that row of venerable and still active volcanoes, listened; as did everybody else in the house, with attentive interest. [5]
It so happens that his room is next to mine, and I have the opportunity of observing many of his ways without any active movements of curiosity. [6]
I also learn that an active command has been assigned you by General Grant. [7]
She knew how that active mind of hers would set the young man's thoughts at work, when what he wanted was rest of every faculty. [6]
I am afraid that a lightsome disposition and a relish for humor are not so common in those whose benevolence takes an active turn as in people of sentiment, who are always ready with their tears and abounding in passionate expressions of sympathy. [6]
Yet, as her sympathies were, to some extent, rationalised by stern fact and everlasting custom, her opposition to some things became more active and more fervid. [11]
He had made speeches for Garfield during the campaign just ended, and had been otherwise active in his support. [5]
It is a sort of work in which he can appear to be very active, and yet not do much. [4]
They said that some of them had grown old and gone out of active service, but were comfortably housed and cared for in the henery--or the Lion House, as it is strangely named. [5]
And consider: if so many take an active part, where the peril is so dire, is this not evidence that the sympathizers who keep still and do not show their hands, are countless for multitudes? [5]
Her body is so frail and her mind so excessively and constantly active that I am afraid one or the other will give way. [6]
If Gabrielle Rouget should have any special connection with Luke Freeman, there might be need of the active counsel of a friend like this young officer, whose face bespoke chivalry and gentle birth. [11]
Some of these severe critics were good people enough themselves, but they loved active work and stirring companionship, and would have found their real cross if they had been called to sit at an invalid's bedside. [6]
This active old servant was unpacking the traveler's canteen and preparing tea. [2]
The cause itself seems suddenly transformed from a cold abstract theory to a living, breathing, active, and powerful chieftain, going forth "conquering and to conquer. [7]
At my side sat a charming gentleman who was a delightful and active talker, and interesting. [5]
This fine old robber-knight was a devoutly and sincerely religious man, hospitable, charitable to the poor, fearless in fight, active, enterprising, and possessed of a large and generous nature. [5]
Petya could not return unless his regiment did so or unless he was transferred to another regiment on active service. [2]
She had a repute for good works which was out of proportion to the works, as it always is, but she was really active in that way, under the vague obligation, which we now all feel, to be helpful. [8]
I did not relish this foolish bravado, and I forbade it; but presently I consented, on condition that he take me to General Wolfe's camp at Montmorenci first; for now I felt strong enough to be again on active service. [11]
He would then really be a part of the great, active, enterprising world. [4]
Our active practitioners read these by preference over almost everything else. [3]
The period of pupilage will be busy enough in acquiring the knowledge needed, and the season of active practice will leave little leisure for any but professional studies. [3]
We wish to provide a place for our coachman, who has been with us a 21 years, and is sober, active, diligent, and unusually bright and capable. [5]
The air was palpitating with sleepy comfort round him, and he felt a new vitality pass into him: his imagination was feeding his enfeebled body; his active brain was giving him a fresh counterfeit of health. [11]
After that, you owe no active duties; for you the strenuous life is over. [5]
With this active opposition of those interested, and the astonishing indifference of the general public, it is easy to see why so little is done to relieve us of this intolerable burden. [4]
The sermon was only a more formal declaration of views respecting the Lord's Supper, which he had previously made known in a conference with some of the most active members of his church. [6]
It is all one,--to be a Roman poet in his villa, a lazy friar of the Middle Ages toasting in the sun, or a modern idler, who has drifted here out of the active currents of life, and cannot make up his mind to depart. [4]
The only spot on board this ship where there lurks an active spirit against you is in the midshipmen's berth. [11]
As Dona Magdalena often spent several months with her brother, the Marquis Rodrigo de la Mota, Wolf could from time to time be permitted to visit the Netherlands or Italy to participate in the more active musical life of these countries. [10]
Presently the face of the sun shines through the veil, and men's bodies grow warm with active being, and the world stirs with busy life. [11]
The narrow streets of the humble little town were full of active life, and never had the setting stars shone upon features so cheerful, eyes sparkling so brightly with enthusiasm, and faces so transfigured by hope and devout piety. [10]
The active intellects of the country had found enough to keep them busy in creating and organizing a new order of political and social life. [6]
With active presence of mind she gathered up her garments from the floor, swept the long locks of hair together, and threw them all, with the sewing and the basket that had contained the food, into the stove on the hearth, and set them alight. [10]
All the powers of his mind were more active and clearer than ever, but they acted apart from his will. [2]
The usual reserve of her manner lessened more and more; nay, the great confidence with which he at first inspired her was increased by his active assistance. [10]
The onerous duties of her husband's office compelled him to leave her alone a great deal, and even in her extremely active life there were lonely hours when she needed a living creature that was faithfully devoted to her. [10]
They were aware of capacities for passion in those dark eyes, so musing yet so active in expression, which moved swiftly from one object to another and then suddenly became resolute. [11]
In all forms of active exercise there are three powers simultaneously in action,--the will, the muscles, and the intellect. [6]
Age brings other obvious changes besides the loss of active power. [6]
He could not now understand how he could ever even have doubted the necessity of taking an active share in life, just as a month before he had not understood how the idea of leaving the quiet country could ever enter his head. [2]
Twenty years from now she may be a vigorous and active old woman, and he a middle-aged, half-worn-out invalid, like so many overworked scholars. [6]
Good talk is not a matter of will at all; it depends--you know we are all half-materialists nowadays--on a certain amount of active congestion of the brain, and that comes when it is ready, and not before. [6]
At the farthest northern building of wood, with a separate gate, in which the orders of the bereaved were taken, and often indeed those of men still in active life, who thought to provide betimes for their suitable interment. [10]
Jethro Bass had never taken any active part in politics, though some folks had heard, in his rounds on business, that he had discussed them, and had spread the news of the infamous ticket without a parent. [9]

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