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Sentences ending with affair

Ah, well, it's your own affair. [4]
But for a young lady in long skirts to make her way down that balsam, squirming about and through the stubs and dead limbs, testing each one before she trusted her weight to it, was another affair. [4]
Conrad came last with Beaton, who had been turning over the music at the piano, and chafing inwardly at the whole affair. [8]
She was Tom's wife and Tom's affair. [9]
She had done what she believed to be her duty, and that was sufficient; the consequences were not her affair. [5]
I was always well assured of your skill; but consider the particular importance of this affair. [10]
Ah, that religion was not religion, for religion was a spiritual, not a material affair. [9]
I will invite two or three people, and if he does not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair--yes, my affair. [2]
He implored March to promise that it should never happen again; he said their only hope was in the immediate cheapening of the whole affair. [8]
If he chose to come to life again, that was his own affair. [11]

Short sentences using affair

The affair reached the Tsar. [2]
It's none of my affair. [9]
It was a local affair. [9]
She was a grand affair. [5]
Thus stands this curious affair. [7]
This is my affair. [5]
It ain't our affair. [5]
That's their affair. [5]

Sentences containing affair two or more times

That affair was the same thing as this soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and always dragging it in one direction. [2]

More example sentences with the word affair in them

We've all watched your affair with Venters in fear and trembling. [13]
It was a year after that terrible affair of the necklace, and she wished to be distracted from thinking of the calumnies which were being heaped upon her. [9]
It was far worse than he could have imagined, the way his wife took the affair, though he had imagined certain words, or perhaps only looks, from her that were bad enough. [8]
In the Petersburg world this sad side of the affair again involuntarily centered round a single incident: Kutaysov's death. [2]
Envy and ill will would also have a share in this affair, and the usually benevolent King knew no mercy where crime against his own person was concerned. [10]
Mr. Crede, behind whose store I still lived, was getting rich, and happened to have an affair of some importance in Philadelphia. [9]
But, on the whole, he was glad that this love affair had come to so honourable an end. [10]
I'll tell you what we'll do, Count Luigi: I'll make a try at your past, and if I have any success there--no, on the whole, I'll let the future alone; that's really the affair of an expert. [5]
Good patriots' shops were closed, their owners parading as on Sunday in their best, pausing in knots at every corner to discuss the affair with which the town simmered. [9]
The complex affair we call the world requires a great variety of people to keep it going. [4]
Accustomed as Janet was to these frequent arraignments of her father's inefficiency, it was gradually borne in upon her now--despite a preoccupation with her own fate--that the affair thus plaintively voiced by her mother was in effect a family crisis of the first magnitude. [9]
The moral effect was the worst of the affair before Richmond, and that has run its course downward. [7]
The whole affair was so ludicrous that Francis and everybody else (Douglass excepted) have been laughing about it ever since. [7]
The whole affair was over so suddenly that as a pastime for ladies it must have been disappointing. [4]
Evidently the affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. [2]
This Galligan affair was nothing to that. [9]
That her heart was not enlisted in this affair, as it would have been a few years before, she herself knew. [4]
But cottage life was never the exclusive affair that it is elsewhere; the society was one body, and the hotel was the centre. [4]
The whole affair was kept a profound secret until last night. [5]
Besides, when I was in Petersburg I felt (I can say this to you) that the whole affair would go to pieces without me--everyone was pulling his own way. [2]
The whole affair was evidently considered by the birds as one of the highest importance. [1]
When the coffee was brought, the door had been shut, and Dicky had drawn the curtain across, Selamlik Pasha said: "What great affair brings us together here, saadat el basha? [11]
After that, it was an affair of the connetable and his men. [11]
Her own boudoir was a cheap affair compared with that in the new house. [4]
That the affair was "arranged" Lord Montague had no doubt. [4]
But is the war our private affair, dad? [9]
But now the war chest of our opponents was negligible; and we were comforted by the thought that, however disagreeable the affair might be while it lasted, in the long run capital was invincible. [9]
He was in very good spirits; the affair with the purchaser was going on satisfactorily, and there was nothing to keep him any longer in Moscow, away from the countess whom he missed. [2]
The woman told us about the affair of the evening before. [5]
The church's high-backed, uncushioned pews would seat about three hundred persons; the edifice was but a small, plain affair, with a sort of pine board tree-box on top of it for a steeple. [5]
I got an ugly cut from the carving-knife in an affair with a goose of iron constitution in which I came off second best. [6]
He seemed to try to forget that old life and was only interested in the affair with the commissariat officers. [2]
She was still too agitated by the encounter to be able to talk of the affair calmly. [2]
The Vesuvius of today is a very poor affair compared to the mighty volcano of Kilauea, in the Sandwich Islands, but I am glad I visited it. [5]
Fulkerson was able to wear off the disagreeable impression the affair left during the course of the fore-noon, and he met Miss Woodburn with all a lover's buoyancy when he went to lunch. [8]
In marked contrast to the earnestness of young Mr. Vane, who then rested, Mr. Billings treated the affair from the standpoint of a man of large practice who usually has more weighty matters to attend to. [9]
With the entreaty to spare him in future the pain of refusing any wish of the woman he loved, the disagreeable affair had been dismissed. [10]
I am sorry to say that she refused to take the affair seriously. [4]
If you choose to risk yourself on 'possibilities,' it is not my affair, and she's a beauty, there's no mistake about that. [6]
I advise you to put your affair into the hands of Bishop Agapitus. [10]
It was indicated to newspapers (such as the Mail and State) showing a desire to keep up public interest in the affair that their advertising matter might decrease; Mr. Sherrill's great department store, for instance, did not approve of this sort of agitation. [9]
They had intended to issue the first number with the new year, and if it had been an affair of literature alone, it would have been very easy; but it was the art leg they limped on, as Fulkerson phrased it. [8]
He muttered something to himself abruptly and in a bass voice, as self-assured Germans do--it might have been "stupid fellow"... or "the whole affair will be ruined," or "something absurd will come of it."... [2]
I don't want to be impertinent,--I recognize that it's your affair, but I'd like to know why you joined the union. [9]
We sat down to an impromptu meal, which was an odd affair indeed. [9]
When, when was this terrible affair decided? [2]
Washington plunged into this love affair as he plunged into everything else--upon impulse and without reflection. [5]
When they said they would like to see Mrs. Grosvenor Green's apartment, he owned his inability to cope with the affair, and said he must send for the superintendent; he was either in the Herodotus or the Thucydides, and would be there in a minute. [8]
His impulsiveness opened the way for some confidence from her, and before the affair was arranged she was enjoying in her quality of clerical widow the balm of the Virginians' reverent sympathy. [8]
Characteristically, he considered the troublesome affair chiefly from its business side. [9]
So much for the parliamentary side of the affair, which was a revelation of generalship and organization to William Wetherell. [9]
Ralph Hambleton was the only one who took it calmly, who seemed to derive a certain enjoyment from the affair. [9]
You rejoiced at the occasion, and only were troubled that there were not three times as many killed in the affair. [7]
A woman to the North American Indian is a simple affair, dealt with without circumlocution. [4]
The flight to the mountains of men high in authority in the Mormon Church and State, when this affair was brought to the ordeal of a judicial investigation. [5]
In other words, the millionocracy, considered in a large way, is not at all an affair of persons and families, but a perpetual fact of money with a variable human element, which a philosopher might leave out of consideration without falling into serious error. [6]
We are having the Fort Pillow affair thoroughly investigated; and such investigation will probably show conclusively how the truth is. [7]
But how could the dreamer, whose first love affair had caused the total sacrifice of dignity and violation of the law, and who now seemed to have once more relapsed into the old state of torpor, attain the position? [10]
This affair with the dompteuse was mad sailing, but the man might round-to suddenly and be no worse for the escapade. [11]
Perhaps it was the difficulty, adding spice to the affair, that sent the Prince to the appeal of private marriage to win the lady, and John York always held that he loved her truly then, the first and only real affection of his life. [11]
On the contrary, the deviations made from his theory were, in his opinion, the sole cause of the whole disaster, and with characteristically gleeful sarcasm he would remark, "There, I said the whole affair would go to the devil! [2]
If not, as the demand was booked against an infantry regiment, there will be a row and the affair may end badly. [2]
The facts of the case, as nearly as our reporter could determine them from the conflicting statements of eye-witnesses, were about as follows:-- The affair was an election row, of course. [5]
In saying farewell, the captain remarked that he would not meddle in the affair of the Council. [10]
Mrs. Farquhar arranged the affair, and assigned the seats in the carriages. [4]
We can't start the affair without knowing for certain how many there are. [2]
Then I smiled, the affair was so ridiculously simple. [9]
Pentaur shortly narrated the affair to the captain, and named himself to him. [10]
Then there was the affair near Lagny, where we charged the intrenched Burgundians through the open field four times, the last time victoriously; the best prize of it Franquet d'Arras, the free-booter and pitiless scourge of the region roundabout. [5]
The noise of the affair had got around town, and I was heartily sorry I had not taken the other and better method of trying conclusions with the duke, and slapped his face. [9]
We will discuss the affair further at some less busy hour. [10]
Society looked upon the affair as already settled. [4]
She must know that this was not an affair of the moment, but that there was condensed in it all the constant devotion of months and months. [4]
When he discovered that the young man was carrying on a love affair with his daughter, he had summoned him before a court of justice for a breach of the law which forbade minors to betroth themselves without parental consent. [10]
Little Nick cared that the affair soon became the amusement of the company. [9]
It was evident that the affair so lightly begun could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of men's will. [2]
It is rumored that Prince Vasili played a very despicable part in this affair and that he returned to Petersburg quite crestfallen. [2]
The newspapers said that it was the most brilliant affair the metropolis had ever seen. [4]
Shorter, inconsequently, "is that I don't think it's a love affair. [9]
Mr. Wetherell didn't talk, but had he been the most incurable of gossips he felt that he could have done no damage to this mysterious affair, whatever it was. [9]
We too will take part..." the reader went on, and then paused ("Do you see," shouted the youth victoriously, "he's going to clear up the whole affair for you...."), "in destroying them, and will send these visitors to the devil. [2]
I myself will take a part in the wonderful affair, and my sturdy person shall represent Eros with his quiver and bow. [10]
There at his table sat the dark, impenetrable operator, whose time was exactly apportioned, serene, saturnine, or genial, as the case might be, listening attentively, speaking deliberately, despatching the affair in hand without haste or the waste of a moment. [4]
A very pretty sum was realized for some charity,--I forget what,--and the affair was voted highly successful. [6]
In Eda's mind such an affair was a kind of glorified fireworks ending in a cluster of stars, in Janet's a volcanic eruption to turn the world red. [9]
He could not stop what was going on before him and around him and was supposed to be directed by him and to depend on him, and from its lack of success this affair, for the first time, seemed to him unnecessary and horrible. [2]
My hands were still weak, and yet I clenched them as I thought of the vexatious affair. [10]
He had never spoken to March about the affair since Lindau had renounced his work, or added to the apologetic messages he had sent by Fulkerson. [8]
But I was sort of nervous on my own account-afraid of being caught, and rather dubious about the morning affair. [5]
The day may some time be past when she--is sensitive for herself--philosophers say otherwise--but she is easily put in a flutter by the affair of another. [4]
If you have some one else in your heart, or want some one else there, that is your affair, not mine--undoubtedly. [11]
I should be snug here, awaiting the affair in the cathedral on the morrow. [11]
Not even the smallest affair was settled without their intervention, on account of the duties demanded by the Republic. [10]
In her anxiety--for she was in the affair for good or ill--she went again to Monsieur Garon. [11]
On second thought she determined to see him, to discover how far the affair had gone, and to have it out with him once for all. [4]
For the final settlement of this affair he begged the Honourable Council to appoint commissioners, whom he would willingly join. [10]
He saw Karay seize the wolf, and checked his horse, supposing the affair to be over. [2]
Half a dozen sea-captains witnessed the whole affair. [5]
Since it to say that the affair, after a while, came apparently to a deadlock, owing to the impossibility of getting certain definite information from the Ribblevale books, which had been taken out of the state. [9]
I will not say all I think about that affair, Mr. Bass. [9]

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