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Sentences starting with almost

Almost any other woman would have done so. [11]
Almost mechanically, yet with a curious vividness and permanency of vision, her eyes drifted from the patriarch's chair to the cradle in the corner; and that picture would remain with her till she could see no more at all. [11]
Almost instantly we were shut up as in a fog, the driving snow was so thick. [5]
Almost every member was standing, and it seemed as if they were all shouting,--"personal privilege," "fraud," "trickery," "open the doors. [9]
Almost instantly there was another shot, and a blue wisp of smoke rose from the red-bud bushes, where Tom was. [9]
Almost from the very beginning, I regarded that man as a liar. [5]
Almost feverishly she took off the clothes she wore and hastily threw them from her. [11]
Almost roughly he took Antoinette by the arm. [9]
Almost the first thing with which I became sociable was a book which, at my first sight of it, had a fascination for me. [11]
Almost the first thing I did was to examine it. [11]

Sentences ending with almost

I was born with the world we live upon, almost. [5]
For our woes were identical, almost. [5]
One day she tried to sing a little, but it seemed to hurt her, and she stopped before she had begun almost. [11]
I feel sure that all of the first half of the story--and I hope three-fourths--will be comedy; but by the former plan the whole of it (except the first 3 chapters) would have been tragedy and unendurable, almost. [5]
And before a statue of one of those dead Medicis reposes a crown that blazes with diamonds and emeralds enough to buy a ship-of-the-line, almost. [5]
At this moment she felt she would like to be a sister to him--she was young enough to be his daughter almost. [11]
The sun has roasted us, almost. [5]
The wounded guest regarded his wound as a blessing almost. [11]
To suppress a paper here involves the ruin of the publisher, almost. [5]
We were born in the same nest almost. [11]

Short sentences using almost

It was almost unnatural. [11]
It was almost uncanny. [11]
He seemed almost transformed. [11]
This almost amounts to bigamy. [5]
Her heart almost stopped beating. [11]
The Cure almost smiled. [11]
A haughty, almost repellent bearing. [10]
She submits almost passively. [9]
I almost cried out. [11]
Almost indubitable evidence of insanity. [5]

Sentences containing almost two or more times

The telegraph wires were thrilling almost hourly with messages of death, and the long pine boxes came by almost every train,--no need of asking what they held. [6]
A great effort was demanded to summon up the now almost unimaginable experience of his confidence; of the evening when, almost on that very spot, he had revealed to Hodder the one weakness of his life. [9]
There is a subject of profound interest to almost every writer, I might say to almost every human being. [6]
Besides these cases, pigeons which are sometimes brightly, and almost always conspicuously coloured, and which are notoriously liable to the attacks of birds of prey, offer a serious exception to the rule, for they almost always build open and exposed nests. [1]
Providence had so ordered it that if we sat still in almost any region of the globe except the tropics we would have, in course of the year, almost all the kinds of climate that exist. [4]
Then, farther out on the sage, a dark, compact body of horsemen went by, almost without sound, almost like specters, and they, too, melted into the night. [13]
But it put in the time, you see, and was almost like talking; it was almost as if I was saying, "Sandy, if you and Hello-Central were here in the cave, instead of only your photographs, what good times we could have! [5]
And it was here, while gazing at the Corots and Bonheurs, Lawrences, Romneys, Copleys, and Halses, that Hodder's sense of their owner's isolation grew almost overpowering Once, glancing over his shoulder at Mr. Parr, he surprised in his eyes an expression almost of pain. [9]
I suppose that doctors, almost without exception, give more of their time and skill in the way of charity than almost any other profession. [4]
Yet, when they came to go, she turned and said kindly, almost softly, as her fingers touched mine: "I almost envy you your profession, Dr. Marmion. [11]

More example sentences with the word almost in them

At thirty the youth has sobered into manhood, but the strong men of forty rise in almost unbroken rank between him and the approaches of old age as they show in the men of fifty. [6]
You've almost ruined yourself for me. [13]
So the two young men became first dear, and finally almost indispensable to each other. [10]
For such a young man, seemingly destined for the inner life of contemplation, to be a soldier seemed almost unnatural. [6]
Here was the young man whose life she had saved, at least for the moment, and who was yet in danger from the disease which had almost worn out his powers of resistance. [6]
A long, yellowish young borzoi, one Nicholas did not know, from another leash, rushed impetuously at the wolf from in front and almost knocked her over. [2]
Can I tell you?--I almost had five minutes of envy that evening. [4]
Denzil belongs to you, because you helped to save him years ago; the Catholic Archbishop belongs to you, because he's got brains and a love of literature and art; Barode Barouche belongs to you, because he's almost a genius too. [11]
Sure enough, when you saw the shut doors and open windows of those empty houses, all white without in the sun and dark within, and not a human to be seen, you could believe almost anything. [11]
I can see you now almost as vividly as I saw you that night when you sat flashing and beaming upon those sombre swallow-tails. [5]
After almost killing you I've pulled you through. [13]
I was sure you did evil because you loved it; that to gratify yourself you would spare no one: a man without pity--" "On the contrary," he interrupted, with a sour sort of smile, "pity is almost a foible with me. [11]
For the present you are required in Syria almost as soon as you have got home. [10]
This almost unnatural, yet quiet, intensity had behind it something besides the mere spirit of the sportsman. [11]
During the first years I worked almost exclusively at home, for I was permitted to go out only in very pleasant weather. [10]
After almost three years' experience, Winslow says, he can scarce distinguish New England from Old England, in respect of heat and cold, frost, snow, rain, winds, etc. [3]
An' what do ye be thinkin' of him they call Giggles, that almost guv his life to save the ould behemoth! [11]
But what, Ruth wrote, could a woman do, tied up by custom, and cast into particular circumstances out of which it was almost impossible to extricate herself? [5]
The skin was wrinkled, but shone, the hair spread white, the nose almost met the chin, the mouth was all malice. [11]
He said it would be happiness enough to look upon her face once more--it would be almost too much happiness when to it was added the fact that she would bring messages with her that were fresh from Louise's lips. [5]
The bed alone would almost have filled her little room at home. [9]
You say you would almost give your place in heaven for seventy or eighty dollars. [7]
Every thing was worn out--every block of stone was smooth and almost shapeless with the polishing hands and shoulders of loungers who devoutly idled here in by-gone centuries and have died and gone to the dev--no, simply died, I mean. [5]
The leg was worn away almost to skin and bone, but the knee itself was swollen with inflammation. [11]
The feminine society world welcomed him gladly, because he was rich, distinguished, a good match, and almost a newcomer, with a halo of romance on account of his supposed death and the tragic loss of his wife. [2]
He had sought work in great commercial concerns, and had almost been grateful when rejected. [11]
The landscape still wore an almost wintry appearance when our travelers left Chicago. [5]
To poke a wood-fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. [4]
Mr. Marmaduke was wont to rise at noon, and knew not wheat from barley, or good leaf from bad; his hands he kept like a lady's, rendering them almost useless by the long lace on the sleeves, and his chief pastime was card-playing. [9]
He gave a wondering cry, and almost dropped the lantern. [11]
It was a wonderfully still, beautiful night; the moon and stars were so brilliant, that our road and the landscape were lighted up almost with the brightness of day. [10]
She had gone without repeating that dinner-invitation--an almost unendurable disappointment to him. [5]
The spectators crowded within the bar and surrounded Laura who, calmer than anyone else, was supporting her aged mother, who had almost fainted from excess of joy. [5]
Mabry fell pierced with twenty buckshot, and almost instantly O'Connor fell dead without a struggle. [5]
He was intimate with the flying-squirrels who dwell in the chestnut-trees,--too intimate, for almost every day in the summer he would bring in one, until he nearly discouraged them. [4]
When the procession, with its thousand lamps and torches, paused before the hovel, which was almost invisible in the dusk, and one citizen said to another: "Here comes the sacred heart! [10]
The eastern coast, with its ragged outline of bays, headlands, indentations, islands, capes, and sand-spits, from Watch Hill, a favorite breezy resort, to Mount Desert, presents an almost continual chain of hotels and summer cottages. [4]
Ladies answered back with historiettes that would almost have made Queen Margaret of Navarre or even the great Elizabeth of England hide behind a handkerchief, but nobody hid here, but only laughed --howled, you may say. [5]
Still laughing hysterically, with her golden hair streaming about her head, folding her round like a veil which reached almost to her ankles, she came back to the chair at the dressing-table and sat down. [11]
She almost quarreled with her brother about him. [2]
He was breathing with great difficulty; his face was almost convulsed with the effort, but she recognized him in a moment; it was Murray Bradshaw,--Captain Bradshaw, as she knew by the bars on his coat flung upon the bed where he had just been laid. [6]
Indeed, his dealings with courts are almost restricted to matters connected with commerce. [5]
Then she knew with conviction that the explanation of the automobile had been an excuse; she had comprehended almost nothing of it, but she had been impressed by the facility with which he described it, by his evident mastery over it. [9]
When I meet with any facts in my own mental experience, I feel almost sure that I shall find them repeated or anticipated in the writings or the conversation of others. [6]
Jim regarded her with an almost superstitious feeling. [11]
It was mixed with adulterations which obscured and almost neutralized it. [9]
Suddenly Byng said with a voice of almost guttural anger: "You dropped that letter on my bedroom floor--that letter, you understand? [11]
She said it with a voice also charged with fear; for she was by nature a landfarer, not a sea-farer, though on the rivers of Spain she had lived almost as much as on land, and she was a good swimmer. [11]
Over the anvil, with a small bar caught in a pair of tongs, hovered Madelinette Lajeunesse, beating, almost tenderly, the red-hot point of the steel. [11]
Pierre had spoken with a slow force and precision, yet, as he went on, his eyes almost became fixed on those shifting flames, and a deep look came into them, as he was moved by his own eloquence. [11]
Rolfe was arguing with a man about the labour unions, but almost at once she knew she had fixed his attention. [9]
Elsewhere their appetites will be sure to make them enemies, or, what are almost as bad, friends whose interests are at variance with the claims of their exacting necessities and demands. [6]
We can understand why a classification founded on any single character or organ--even an organ so wonderfully complex and important as the brain--or on the high development of the mental faculties, is almost sure to prove unsatisfactory. [1]
He had a wholesome respect, not to say fear, of her; for when all else had failed, it was she who had arranged his escape from Spain, and who almost saved Carvillho Gonzales from being shot. [11]
In almost the whole large group of thrushes the young have their breasts spotted--a character which is retained throughout life by many species, but is quite lost by others, as by the Turdus migratorius. [1]
The future historian, who spared no pains to be accurate, falls into the most extraordinary anachronisms in almost every chapter. [6]
The proud woman, who had unbent little in her lifetime, whose eyes had looked out so coldly on the world, who felt for her son Ian an almost impossible aversion, drew down his head and kissed it. [11]
Let any one who doubts, carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination-piece of machinery, so to speak compounded of the Nebraska doctrine and the Dred Scott decision. [7]
The chief steward, who considered the young count's attempts almost insane--unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs--made some concessions. [2]
It was she who checked herself at last by an effort that was almost hysterical. [9]
His beard was white, his face was friendly, almost benevolent, but his eyes had a light caught from no celestial flame. [11]
Her face became white, and almost mechanically she put the letters she held on a writing-table near; then coming to the bed again she looked at the rose with a kind of horror. [11]
Her gray, nearly white hair, though ill-suited to her almost youthful features, lent them a peculiar charm, and how brightly her round, brown eyes still sparkled! [10]
He gave a whining bark almost human in its meaning, and threw himself at the legs of his master, pushing him backwards and over towards the road leading upon the bridge, as a collie guides sheep. [11]
Once in a while you will come on a house where you will find a family of readers and almost no library. [6]
A certain sentiment which we may call pride was so strong in him that he felt ready to make almost any sacrifice to prevent it. [9]
This great marvel which we have just witnessed, fellow-savants (it almost takes my breath away), is nothing less than the transit of Venus! [5]
If this conclusion, which rests almost exclusively on brain-characters, be admitted, we should have a case of convergence at least in external characters, for the anthropomorphous apes are certainly more like each other in many points, than they are to other apes. [1]
They are features which might well have served to extend the remark of Madame de Stael that a great historian is almost a statesman. [6]
An expression, indeed, which made the banker almost unrecognizable. [9]
This detestable practice, which I was almost proscribed for condemning somewhat too epigrammatically a little more than twenty years ago, came to us, I suspect, in a considerable measure from the English "general practitioners," a sort of prescribing apothecaries. [6]
During several weeks which he passed at Nahant, a seaside resort near Boston, I saw him almost daily. [6]
In spite of which he almost succeeded, this very day, in regaining, for a time at least, the ground he had lost with her. [11]
His latest opera, which has not yet been produced, is founded on the Niebelungen Lied, and will take three evenings in the representation, which is almost as bad as a Chinese play. [4]
And then beneath, where the grass almost hides it, the line: I have followed my Star to the last. [11]
There were times when Jim's nerves were shaken in his struggle against the unseen foe, and he had spoken to her querulously, almost sharply. [11]
There were moments when I was almost overcome by surges of self-commiseration and of impotent anger: for instance, I was once driven out of a shop by an incensed German grocer whom I had asked to settle a long-standing account. [9]
The question is what to believe, for much that we have heard about her is almost certainly apocryphal. [5]
Their world is what they can see, and Naples is distant and almost foreign. [4]
Would Jethro remember what happened there almost six and thirty years before? [9]
I realized, then, what a creepy, dull, inanimate horror this land had been to me all these years, and how I had been in such a stifled condition of mind as to have grown used to it almost beyond the power to notice it. [5]
The same people were still sitting here in almost the same positions as before, whispering to one another. [2]
How pinched they were perhaps no one knew but Clay, to whom they looked for almost their whole support. [5]
Her white caps were now plaited with almost coquettish skill and care, and the firm, contented manner in which she ruled Trautchen and the two under maid-servants showed that everything was going on well in Peter's house and business. [10]
First her horses were driven almost at a gallop; then they were held down to a slow walk; then they were stopped altogether, and she sat in the shade of the trees on the road to her home, pondering--whispering to herself and pondering. [11]
The French losses were almost equal to ours, but very early we said to ourselves that we were losing the battle, and we did lose it. [2]
At first you were almost always thinking of her and what a fine woman she was, and because everyone admired her, you played the peacock, too. [11]
An', Jane," he went on, almost in a whisper, "I reckon it'd be a good idea for us to talk low. [13]
As the drought went on, almost all the wells in the place dried up, except that of the Tramontano and the one in the suppressed convent of the Sacred Heart,--I think that is its name. [4]
This bright side went on brightening more and more every day: in a very little while it was become almost all sunshine and delightfulness. [5]
By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead. [5]
He knew French well, but could speak almost no Jersey patois, so, in compliment to him, Jean Touzel, Ranulph, and Guida spoke in English. [11]
The thing starts well everywhere--too well, I almost fear, to last. [7]
Presently the Mukaukas wearily opened his eyes, turned uneasily from side to side, and recognizing his kneeling son and his wife, bathed in tears, he murmured, almost inarticulately, for his paralyzed tongue no longer did his will: "Two pillules, Philip! [10]
If he had wealth, that would be almost a certainty, and he counted Sheila's gold as a guarantee of power. [11]
We compare the weakened impression of a past temptation with the ever present social instincts, or with habits, gained in early youth and strengthened during our whole lives, until they have become almost as strong as instincts. [1]
Night after night we have shivered around through these mildewed halls, dragging chains, groaning, whispering, tramping up and down stairs, till, to tell you the truth, I am almost worn out. [5]
As far as we can judge, a recurrent period, if approximately of the right duration for any process or function, would not, when once gained, be liable to change; consequently it might be thus transmitted through almost any number of generations. [1]
In the canons we almost smothered in the baking atmosphere. [5]
When we spoke, we almost invariably addressed him, his rare words fell like bolts upon the consciousness. [9]

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