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Sentences ending with agent

I have met you on business three or four times; true, I never offered to corrupt your principles--never hinted such a thing; but always when I had finished sounding you, I manipulated you through an agent. [5]
I've telephoned to the freight agent. [9]
The gentleman opened the door, and stood aside to let them enter, very much as if he were showing them a palace for which he was the humble agent. [9]
Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. [12]
Now the habit of chewing on rhymes without sense and soul to match them is, like that of using any other narcotic, at once a proof of feebleness and a debilitating agent. [6]
His constitution has never thrown off the malady resulting from this toxic (poisonous) agent. [6]
It took me months to assure myself that those fears were groundless, but I did assure myself at last by experimenting diligently through my agent. [5]
I felt as if I had committed all those red crimes, and that the elephant was only my irresponsible agent. [5]
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]
For myself, the great lady girds at me for being so poor an agent. [11]

Short sentences using agent

He is a free agent. [4]
She was my agent. [5]

Sentences containing agent two or more times

This was the tabu--an agent endowed with a mysterious and stupendous power, an agent not found among the properties of any European monarch, a tool of inestimable value in the business. [5]
How could he know that Boyne was an agent of the most evil forces in Ireland--an agent of skill and address, prepossessing, with the face of a Celtic poet and the eye of an assassin? [11]

More example sentences with the word agent in them

Not for worlds would Mr. Sprole have offended the agent of the Chippering Mill. [9]
The episode deals with an easy-mannered gentleman named Potts, who was the agent for a certain Major Colfax of Virginia. [9]
Doubtless this agent will advance you all you shall have need of, when you are well enough to see him. [9]
They remembered perfectly well the omniscient snobbishness of Thomas Mavick when he held a position in the State Department at Washington and was at the same time a secret agent of Rodney Henderson. [4]
The highest energy we know, the soul of man, the unit in which meet intelligence, imagination, memory, hope, love, purpose, insight,--this agent of immense resource and boundless power,--this has not been subdued by its instrument. [6]
Also how do we know but that the interloping fellow Fynes is an agent for a whisky firm perhaps? [11]
Mr. Armour's agent was in a quandary. [11]
A day or two after his second visit to the district attorney's office Mr. Greenhalge had a call from the city auditor and the purchasing agent, who talked about their families,--which was very painful. [9]
The world had turned upside down indeed if the City Government of Hampton refused to take the advice of the agent of the Chippering Mill! [9]
As the meeting took place the agent did not fail to note how alike in build and manner were the two men, how similar were their gestures. [11]
He gave thanks to the Returning Officer, and then, with his agent, left the building by the back door. [11]
Thus capital came to the assistance of Mr. Jason, a fund was raised, and I was given carte blanche to defend the miserable city auditor and purchasing agent, both of whom elicited my sympathy; for they were stout men, and rapidly losing weight. [9]
You must try to keep the run of my mind, Redpath, it is your business being the agent, and it always was too many for me. [5]
To-night I go to Harwich and git the court to app'int an agent to repair that road, and the town'll hev to pay the bill. [9]
He must, I think, have reasoned to himself in a rapid and unconscious manner, that movement without any apparent cause indicated the presence of some strange living agent, and that no stranger had a right to be on his territory. [1]
At the hotel they found a letter from the agent who had sent them the permit to see Mrs. Grosvenor Green's apartment. [8]
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]
The picture, by the way, had been obtained from the St. Paul agent of the bicycle. [9]
She thought of the story he had told her, how by self-assertion and persistence he had become agent of the Chippering Mill, how he had convinced Mr. Stephen Chippering of his ability. [9]
When at last the Returning Officer announced the result, the agent dared not glance at his defeated chief. [11]
In 1893, when the publishing company of Charles L. Webster, of which I was financial agent, failed, it left me heavily in debt. [5]
She sent for the lecture agent, and matters were soon arranged. [5]
This disposes of the last remnant of his reputation and wholly destroys his main usefulness as a moral agent, since it will make the sluggard hesitate to go to him any more. [5]
He really spent the greater part of the next day in hunting up the owner of an apartment that had neither steam heat nor an elevator, but was otherwise perfect, and trying to get him to take less than the agent asked. [8]
When appealed to, the Government Agent suggested that we go and leave him to be picked up by the ship's boat, a quarter mile distant at the time! [5]
Facing her was the agent, the genius, the Man who had snatched her from that existence, who had at his command these delights to bestow. [9]
Then when Techuti, the agent of the soul, receives your justification before Osiris and the judges of the dead, give him the writing. [10]
Ex officio, as the agent of the Chippering Mill and a man of substance to boot, he was "in" politics, hail fellow well met with and an individual to be taken into account by politicians from the governor and member of congress down. [9]
If one of the ablest lawyers in the city hadn't been hired by the respectable crowd and a lot of other queer work done, the treasurer and purchasing agent would be doing time. [9]
I resolved, however, that when I had reached London and seen Mr. Dix, Mr. Carvel's agent, he should be rewarded despite his scruples. [9]
I had attended that very opera, in the person of my agent, and had made close and accurate observations. [5]
It is fit that an agent so subtle as electricity should be the minister of it. [4]
You have the spectacle of that unsentimental thing, a Government, making reverence to that name and saying to its agent, "Uncover, and pass on; it is France that commands. [5]
I needed exercise, so I employed my agent in setting stranded logs and dead trees adrift, and I sat on a boulder and watched them go whirling and leaping head over heels down the boiling torrent. [5]
They had all 'signed'; and, said the Government Agent, 'on board they shall remain. [5]
A noxious agent should never be employed in sickness unless there is ample evidence in the particular case to overcome the general presumption against all such agents, and the evidence is very apt to be defective. [6]
On Friday afternoon, shortly after Ditmar had begun to dictate his correspondence, Mr. Holster, the agent of the Clarendon Mill, arrived and interrupted him. [9]
The other half shall be handed over to Dicearchus, my agent in Alexandria, because it is my will that Klea and Irene shall not enter my own house or that of Lysias in Corinth as wives, without the dowry that beseems their rank. [10]
I had, indeed, sent a cable to my agent in England, which was to be forwarded to the address given me by Boyd Madras at Aden. [11]
But, at the same time, I made myself tiresome, if not hoarse, with repeating to Mr. Howard, their only agent seen by me, my protest that I authorized nothing--would be responsible for nothing. [7]
That notwithstanding the rejection of our former offers, I would, if you could promise that a commissioner, minister, or other agent would be received, appoint one immediately, and renew the effort to enter into conference with a view to secure peace to the two countries. [7]
Two letters to Redpath, his agent, express his comfortable condition. [5]
The House must realise that the Government could not act as though it were wholly a free agent, or as if its every move would not be matched by another move on the part of another Power or Powers. [11]
The lecture agent ran in, with a hurried question upon his lips; but she put forth her hands, and with the tears raining from her eyes, said: "Oh, do not speak! [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]
But as the porter might be an agent of our government in disguise, we preserved an appearance of philosophical indifference in his presence. [4]
I has that piece in my pocket the day I went down to see old Stephen Chippering, when he made me agent, and I've kept it ever since. [9]
There is only one thing which can rouse the machine; not will,--that cannot reach it; nothing but a ruinous agent, which hurries the wheels awhile and soon eats out the heart of the mechanism. [6]
I took an old personal friend along to play agent for me, and for two or three weeks we roamed through Nevada and California and had a very cheerful time of it. [5]
Ditmar, the agent of that mill, is the ablest of the lot, I'm told. [9]
Another old friend of ours, Judge Abner Parkinson of Harwich, he who gave the sardonic laugh when Sam Price applied for the post of road agent, may often be seen in that Railroad Room from now on. [9]
I am agent of an iron manufacturing company, and they empower me to offer you ten thousand dollars for that land. [5]
He had one obsession now--to destroy Adrian Fellowes, his agent for Paul Kruger in the secret places of British policy and in the house of the Partners, as it were. [11]
The agent does not know, never can know, what makes him that which he is. [6]
While we have no doubt of that, or that a proper use of it would procure the poor lad's immediate pardon and liberation, we have a great doubt whether it would, by itself, enable us to reach Quilp, the chief agent in this villany. [12]
I give you my word there's no French agent in the fleet, and if there were, it wouldn't have any effect. [11]
I called in my agent and instructed him to go without delay and make a careful examination of these noted places, on foot, and bring me back a written report of the result, for insertion in my book. [5]
The agent of M'sieu' Barouche is a man of mark about here, and he'll be more marked soon--but yes! [11]
About ten o'clock Mr. Vandewaters's agent arrived. [11]
Her husband had meanwhile become Agent of the Chippering Mill, and she strongly suspected that his prudent reticence on the state of his finances was the best indication of an increasing prosperity. [9]
I looked about me for the right sort of person to accompany me in the capacity of agent, and finally hired a Mr. Harris for this service. [5]
They probably took me for an agent of the manufacturers; and so I was, but not in their pay nor with their knowledge. [6]
Jean Jacques himself managed the business of money-lending and horse-dealing; and he also was agent for fire insurance and a dealer in lightning rods. [11]
It began: "The lecture agent for Australia and New Zealand is par excellence Mr. R. S. Smythe, of Melbourne. [5]
The effect of it was to fetter and inhibit; from the moment of its intrusion she was no longer a free agent, to leave Hampton and Ditmar when she chose. [9]
Think how long it was before we had attained any real conception of the laws that govern the wonderful agent, which now works in harness with the other trained and subdued forces! [6]
The preacher, it is said, advocates temperance because he is a fanatic, and desires a union of the Church and State; the lawyer from his pride and vanity of hearing himself speak; and the hired agent for his salary. [7]
I never wander into any corner of the country but I find that an agent has been there before me, and many of that community have read the book. [5]
I have been insurance agent, sold lightning-rods, and been foreman of a gang building a mill--but I could not bear that. [11]
He was ex-officio Indian agent, too. [5]
The agent swaggered in with that easy assurance he assumed whenever he got the upper hand. [9]
The Colonel is in some sense a public man, having been a mail agent, and a Republican. [4]
The chief thing in his eyes was not the nitrogen in the soil, nor the oxygen in the air, nor manures, nor special plows, but that most important agent by which nitrogen, oxygen, manure, and plow were made effective--the peasant laborer. [2]
I'll put you in as agent, and stand behind you. [9]
The next proposition I would ask you to consider is this: The presumption always is that every noxious agent, including medicines proper, which hurts a well man, hurts a sick one. [3]
As it was, I woke up the agent and gave him a piece of my mind. [5]
At least so I was told by an agent of the concern who was on the boat. [5]
Over each two hundred and fifty miles of road they placed an agent or superintendent, and invested him with great authority. [5]
On his return home Mr. Plimpton had one day dropped in to see a Mr. Gaines, the real estate agent for some of his property. [9]
I asked what he would charge to let my agent go with me, together with such guides and porters as might be necessary. [5]
He told me he wished the colony of Maryland in hell; that he was worn out with the quarrels of Governor Eden and his Assembly, and offered to lay a guinea that the Governor's agent would get to him that day,--will-he, nill-he. [9]
Probably, at last, he sometimes thought with a whimsical smile, he should end by being an insurance agent, and asking people to insure their lives for his benefit. [5]
The next day he mentioned having received a letter from a mercantile agent with whom he had dealings. [6]
And so pleased had the Major professed himself with my story of having outwitted his agent, that he must needs have more of my adventures. [9]
Their claim agent had the impudence to suggest that the horse had been doctored by the dealer in New York. [9]
Shorter would have had a title and a salon in the Faubourg: in the twentieth, she was the wife of a most fashionable and successful real estate agent in New York, and was aware of no incongruity. [9]
Still, I shall give my note into the hands of his business agent here, and pay him the interest as it falls due. [5]
The state agent give me a ticket to here, & on the car i thought more of what you said to me, but didn't make up my mind. [5]
The German landlady gave us neat rooms and nice beds, and when I and my agent turned in, it was with the resolution to be up early and make the utmost of our first Alpine sunrise. [5]
Medicine, in distinction from food, is every unnatural or noxious agent applied for the relief of disease. [3]
The outlaws soon found that the new agent was a man who did not fear anything that breathed the breath of life. [5]
When they bring forward a remedial agent like chloral, like the bromide of potassium, like ether, used as an anesthetic, they will find no difficulty in procuring its recognition. [3]
It is impossible for the associated press to have an agent in every place to which the telegraph penetrates: therefore the telegraphic operators often act as its purveyors. [4]
As it was, everybody slept but my agent and me--only we and the barkeepers. [5]
Well, I cannot encourage him to try the ministry, because he would change his religion so fast that he would have to keep a traveling agent under wages to go ahead of him to engage pulpits and board for him. [5]
Similar was the effect of these blistering words upon the tranquil and unsuspecting Agent. [5]
I bade Banks dress me in the new suit Davenport had brought that morning, and then sent him off to seek the shipping agent of the Virginia packet to get us a cabin. [9]
Her feelings toward Ditmar were so mingled as to defy analysis, and several days went by before she could bring herself to inform Eda Rawle of the new business relationship in which she stood to the agent of the Chippering Mill. [9]
Chester arrived at dinner time at Joe Northcutt's, whose land bordered on the piece of road which had caused so much trouble, and Joe and half a dozen others had been at work there all morning under the road agent whom Judge Parkinson had appointed. [9]
I knew a devoted agent of the American Colonization Society, who, for several years, collected in Connecticut just enough, for the cause, to buy his clothes, and pay his board at a good hotel. [4]

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