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Sentences starting with ahead

Ahead of her were the lights of the Chippering Mill, in her ears was the rhythmic sound of the looms working of nights on the Bradlaugh order. [9]
Ahead of them was another shore, and they reached this at last. [11]
Ahead lay a treacherous sea, around them roaring winds, and the perilous coast of Jersey beyond all. [11]
Ahead of me there might have been a floor or a precipice, as the ground looks level at night. [9]
Ahead of us lay the Snow Rapids and the swift channel at one side of the rapids which, hurrying through a rocky archway, was known as the Devil's Slide. [11]
Ahead of her in two ways: by length of time and by fairness to all interests concerned. [5]
Ahead of her, in the canon made by the road between the great woods, strode an uncouth but powerful figure--coonskin cap, homespun breeches tucked into boots, and all. [9]
Ahead of him he beheld the state-house, its dial aflame in the light, emblematic to him of the presence within it of a spirit which cleansed it of impurities. [9]

Sentences ending with ahead

Our guards--two gorgeous young Arab sheiks, with cargoes of swords, guns, pistols and daggers on board--were loafing ahead. [5]
He said she would slap down a line, and if she couldn't find anything to rhyme with it would just scratch it out and slap down another one, and go ahead. [5]
They always deprecated, when there was trouble ahead. [5]
But at last we turned a corner and saw a great glare of light ahead. [5]
I see my way ahead. [11]
Well, dey's some use in a sign like dat, 'kase it's so fur ahead. [5]
The one thing to do was to forge ahead. [11]
It's a lonely time of day, this, the evening, when the long night's ahead. [11]
They threw open their windows to wave at her, but Virginia pressed her lips and stared straight ahead. [9]
He got aboard the tram himself, and watched the phaeton moving quickly on ahead. [11]

Short sentences using ahead

Come ahead on the stabboard! [5]
Bess gazed only straight ahead. [13]
Go ahead and organize it. [9]
That is ahead of London. [5]
What's ahead of me? [11]
His regiment was just ahead. [11]
Come ahead on it. [5]
Nicholas began to draw ahead. [2]
Limitless possibilities lay ahead. [9]
He felt danger ahead. [11]

Sentences containing ahead two or more times

I wonder if you ever heard the lines--foolish they read, but they are not: "'All summer long there was one little butterfly, Flying ahead of me, Wings red and yellow, a pretty little fellow, Flying ahead of me. [11]
We came in sight of Vienne at 2 o'clock, several miles ahead, on a hill, and I proposed to walk down there and let the boat go ahead of us. [5]
When the ship moves in one direction there is one and the same wave ahead of it, when it turns frequently the wave ahead of it also turns frequently. [2]
Mrs. Eddy has foreseen that probability--for she is a woman with a long, long look ahead, the longest look ahead that ever a woman had--and she has provided for that emergency. [5]

More example sentences with the word ahead in them

It is not you who can look ahead two short years and see the ship of Democracy splitting on the rocks at Charleston and at Baltimore, when the power of your name might have steered her safely. [9]
Two months ahead would be still better I suppose, but I don't know. [5]
Roscoe walked ahead with Ruth Devlin. [11]
One walked ahead with a smile, or else fell back to lend a helping shoulder to a fainting man. [9]
She knew well why Havel had ridden on ahead without her permission, and shaking hands with the landlord and getting into the coach, she said hastily to her new coachman: "Lose not an instant. [11]
His face was white and set; his head was thrust forward, as though looking at something far ahead of him; the pony stallions he was driving were white with sweat, and he had an air of tragic helplessness and panic. [11]
There's danger ahead which little I'd care for if it wasn't for you. [11]
Meanwhile she inquired whether it might be possible to get four horses at the next change, and she offered five gold pieces to a man who would ride on ahead of them and secure the team. [11]
On asking him what was the number of his room, he answered, that it was forty-'leven, sky-parlor floor, but that I shouldn't find it, if he did n't go ahead to show me the way. [6]
But I know what being out of work and no prospect ahead can do for a man. [5]
The speed they were going would easily bring her round away ahead of the steamer. [4]
All right, Becodar, we're both sorry, and will pray for his departed spirit; go ahead, Becodar. [11]
Keep your lantern well up so's I can see things ahead of you good. [5]
As for poor Weldon, he would stride for hours at a time with eyes fixed ahead, a wild figure,--ragged and fringed. [9]
The next morning we took up our march silently with the dawn, the prairie grouse whirring ahead of us. [9]
Ten minutes afterward we met a hot, red-faced man plunging down the mountain, making mighty strides, swinging his alpenstock ahead of him, and taking a grip on the ground with its iron point to support these big strides. [5]
Within three minutes we caught sight of the party ahead of us, and stopped to observe them. [5]
Stiff breeze, and we are fairly flying--dead ahead of it --and toward the islands. [5]
He led the way silently around by the front; and after he had turned the lock he stepped aside with a bow to let me pass in ahead of him. [9]
Not a whisper was uttered, now, but the three men stared ahead into the shadows and two of them spun the wheel back and forth with anxious watchfulness while the steamer tore along. [5]
Lem Hallowell, who was there nearly an hour ahead of them, declares that the off horse had a bunch of branches in his mouth. [9]
On either side was that soft plumbless diffusion, and ahead the secret of untravelled wilds and the fortunes of war. [11]
Yes, as I was saying, there's only St. Albans, Buccleugh and Grafton ahead of us on the list--all the rest of the British nobility are in procession behind us. [5]
The water ahead was now like blue velvet, and the rain pelting. [9]
I thought I was getting ahead of her little assessments of $35 a month, but find I am falling behind with her instead, and have let her go without money. [5]
A feeble hand was clasped in the burly hand of the factor, and then they all fell into line again, Cloud-in-the-Sky running ahead of the dogs. [11]
Ahead, the enemy was already visible. [2]
Tom and Weldon walked ahead, driving the two horses, followed by Cutcheon, his head dropped between his shoulders. [9]
Up come the voyageurs, all laughing, and ahead of them is Luc Pomfrette, with the little bell at his knee. [11]
It required no very keen eye to see the breakers ahead, and Mr. Bordley's advice to provide against seven years of famine did not go unheeded. [9]
He told Mr. Van Brunt to consult me and go ahead with his plans. [4]
Still gently chaffing us, he pushed ahead, up the trail, and soon disappeared. [5]
My last attempt upon Richmond was to get McClellan, when he was nearer there than the enemy was, to run in ahead of him. [7]
The fact is undisputed that she did not move one inch ahead while she was moving this 31 feet sideways. [7]
Last, and absolutely unassailable proof, the sutures in my skull closed six months ahead of his. [5]
She was but twenty years ahead of us, and as our lands were equally salable--more so, as he maintained--we should have no more twenty years from now than she has at present. [7]
It was so trying to give one's watch a good long undisturbed spell and then take it out and find that it had been fooling away the time and not trying to get ahead any! [5]
We might have tossed a biscuit aboard the big Serapis as she glided ahead of us. [9]
Lord Rippingdale suggested to his Majesty that one of the gentlemen should ride ahead to guard against surprise or ambush, but the King laughed, and said that his shire of Lincoln bred no brigands, and he rode on. [11]
I shall try to establish the fact that the wheel was not running and that after she struck she went ahead strong on this same wheel. [7]
She requires me to drop the lecture platform out of my mind and go straight ahead with Joan until the book is finished. [5]
We all have to do a good deal of assuming, but I am fairly certain that in every case I can call to mind the Baconian assumers have come out ahead of the Shakespearites. [5]
And the next time I was heading away to the left of it--and not gaining on it much either, for I was flying around, this way and that and t'other, but it was going straight ahead all the time. [5]
I had no thought of staying there to moralize upon the theme; but, as I looked, a figure came out of the dusk ahead, and moved swiftly towards me. [11]
It was as though a search-light were flung ahead of him and he saw, dimly, a new order--a new order in government and religion. [9]
But mind, if this is going to be too much trouble to you--go ahead and do it, all the same. [5]
Rostov did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, and fell on his hands. [2]
It's a hateful thing to see--the light green water, the deadly sissing of the straight narrow ripple like the grooves of a wash- board: and a ship's length ahead the water breaking over the reefs, two frigates behind ready to eat us. [11]
But for the thing itself, I deny that any man has ever gone ahead of me in his devotion to the principle, whatever he may have done in efficiency in advocating it. [7]
With military precision they repaired to the Brewster House, and ahead of then a banner was flung: "Winnebago County for the Tall Sucker. [9]
In our response there was no hesitation, no indecision: we said that if Lyman wanted to meddle with those soldiers, he could go ahead and do it; but if he waited for us to follow him, he would wait a long time. [5]
At any rate, there was an early breakfast, luncheon was put up, and by half-past seven we were riding up the Caney,--a half-cloudy day,--Big Tom swinging along on foot ahead, talking nineteen to the dozen. [4]
No one preceded them to clear the river, no other vessel made way for them; on the contrary, all tried to take place ahead of them, and to reach the opposite shore before them. [10]
The windows filled, the streets ahead of us became choked, as the word that the President was coming ran on like quick-fire. [9]
As he touched the sorrel with his knee he thought he heard a sound ahead. [11]
He quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but Anton ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. [2]
Peace brooded in the silent and comforting forest, and Jim and Arrowhead, the Indian ever ahead, swung along, mile after mile, on their snow-shoes, emerging at last upon the wide white prairie. [11]
Before him, on the right, Rostov saw the front lines of his hussars and still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but took to be the enemy. [2]
Walking ahead of the procession, which gets slowly down the rugged path, I lose sight of my companions, and have the solitude, the sun on the rocks, the glistening sea, all to myself. [4]
They were on the outskirts of civilisation; as Jim used to say, "One step ahead of the procession. [11]
Soon I heard the noise of clattering hoofs, and jointly with this I saw a figure rise up not far ahead of me, as if waiting for the coming horseman. [11]
When late in the night he reached the break in the sage, he sent the burro down ahead of him, and started an avalanche that all but buried the animal at the bottom of the trail. [13]
Suddenly, when in the neighbourhood of Point du Raz, the wind drew ahead very squally, with rain in gusts out of the south-west. [11]
At two in the morning they routed us out of bed--another piece of unwarranted cruelty--another stupid effort of our dragoman to get ahead of a rival. [5]
The letters of the latter show that scarcely one of them but contains the outline of some rainbow-chasing scheme, full of wild optimism, and the certainty that somewhere just ahead lies the pot of gold. [5]
The sorrel saw the horses ahead and wanted to run. [13]
They had reached the first turn when their attention was caught by the sight of a buggy ahead of them, and facing towards them. [9]
I glanced at the figure of our commander in the boat ahead, and took courage. [9]
He hurried on; the figure flitted ahead of him. [11]
In the field the Dwarf had no assignment; that is to say, he was not under orders to occupy any particular place, therefore he chose his place for himself, and went ahead of Joan and made a road for her. [5]
Nevertheless he sent the dog Ring ahead and waited. [13]
By and by the congregation will get ahead of him, and then it must, have another new skipper. [6]
Both he and the captain were in my dressing-room before I was up, ahead of that scurrilous clergyman, who was for pushing his way to my bed-curtains. [9]
I never forget that, for it seemed to me even then that, whatever glory there was for British arms ahead, there was tragedy for him. [11]
I grant you that those who are overworked and underfed, who are burning with the consciousness of wrongs, who have no outlook ahead, are essentially hopeless and miserable. [9]
How was it that the Afton with all her power flanked over from the channel to the short pier without moving one foot ahead? [7]
He put up that scheme on us and reasoned out what we would do, and we went ahead and done it perfectly exact, like a couple of pudd'nheads. [5]
Do you mean that people do not dare go ahead and do things? [4]
I thanked fortune that I had one, too, notwithstanding it was packed up with the baggage and was ten miles ahead. [5]
It zigzagged so that he could not see ahead more than a few yards at a time. [13]
The greatest brain that ever lived, no doubt, was only a small fraction of an idea ahead of the second best. [6]
Thus guided, Venters swiftly gazed ahead to make out a dust-clouded, dark group of horsemen riding down the slope. [13]
There was a sudden crackling of twigs as a man rose up from a log by the wayside ahead of him. [11]
I never saw such ahead for seeing with a lightning glance all the outlying ramifications and possibilities of a central idea. [5]
The man who succeeds in this world is the man who has sagacity enough to gauge public sentiment ahead of time, and the courage to act on his beliefs. [9]
It was perfectly straight, and exposed on both sides; but there were woods and a sharp turn three miles ahead, and he was very grateful when he got there. [5]
They can go straight ahead, but their huge proportions are not adapted for rapid movement. [11]
If they look straight ahead of them they walk straight, but then they get blind by-and-by; if they look round them and get open-eyed, their feet stumble and they fall. [11]
He climbed the stairs ahead of me and directed me, puffing, to the news room, which I found filled with men, some writing, some talking eagerly, and others turning over newspapers. [9]
They dab a splotch of sheep-dip on the place and go right ahead. [5]
The next day some of us gathered in Dickinson's office and decided that Grierson should go ahead and get the options. [9]
I reached for some of it as quick as I could to throw over my left shoulder and keep off the bad luck, but Miss Watson was in ahead of me, and crossed me off. [5]
Dicky was whistling softly, but with an air of perplexity, and he walked with a precision of step which told Kingsley of difficulty ahead. [11]
They must get so far ahead the first two days that Abdullah's pursuers might not overtake them, he said. [11]
The snow lay so deep on the ground that there was no sign of a road perceptible, and the snow-fall was so thick that we could not see more than a hundred yards ahead, else we could have guided our course by the mountain ranges. [5]
I finished teething six months ahead of him. [5]
We breakfasted in silence, and with the crew standing ready at the oars and Xavier scanning the wide expanse of waters ahead, seeking for that unmarked point whence to embark on this perilous journey, we floated down the stream. [9]
He could hear shooting ahead of him. [2]
Seeing how exhausted she was, he made her ride a few miles upon his sledge; then she sped on ahead again till she came to the borders of Askatoon. [11]
Seeing another ahead, she pushed on quickly to secure it, too. [11]

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