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Sentences starting with amidst

Amidst unparalleled excitement the ballot was now taken, and J. W. Smith elected U. S. Senator; Dilworthy receiving not one vote! [5]
Amidst the frenzy of the bells the engines began to back and fill in a furious way, and my reason forsook its throne--we were about to crash into the woods on the other side of the river. [5]
Amidst the usual Italian clamor about nothing, we gained our hotel omnibus, and sat there for ten minutes watching the dispute over our luggage, and serenely listening to the angry vituperations of policemen and drivers. [4]
Amidst all the imposing recollections of the ancient edifice, one impressed me in the inverse ratio of its importance. [6]

More example sentences with the word amidst in them

The Speaker, not without some difficulty, recognized Mr. Harper amidst what seemed the beginning of an exodus--and Mr. Harper read his motion. [9]
Larks flew heavenward with a low sweet song, from amidst the grain growing luxuriantly for the winter harvest, and butterflies hovered above the blossoming fields. [10]
When a man who has been bred to free thought and free speech suddenly finds himself stepping about, like a dancer amidst his eggs, among the old addled majority-votes which he must not tread upon, he is a spectacle for men and angels. [6]
This it was which made him invulnerable amidst all the fierce conflicts his gentle words excited. [6]
And presently, as we stared, the note lowered and the wind was gone again, and there was the water tossing foolishly, and we lay safe amidst the green wreckage of the forest as by a miracle. [9]
Captain McCarty's company was set to making canoes, and the rest of us looked on apathetically as the huge trees staggered and fell amidst a fountain of spray in the shallow water. [9]
Between its windows was a table covered with a long, white cloth reaching to the floor, on which, amidst the silverware and glass, was set a tall vase filled with dusky roses. [9]
He led a very pleasant life there, tempering his college duties with the literature he loved, and receiving his friends amidst elegant surroundings, which added to the charm of his society. [6]
For we were upon a pleasure trip--lest any man forget,--a pleasure trip amidst stark woods and brown plains flecked with ponds. [9]
He had laid up his yacht and joined the Red Cross and, henceforth, for an indeterminable period, he was to abide amidst the discomforts and dangers of the Western Front, with five days' leave every three months. [9]
On her breakfast tray, amidst some invitations, was a letter from her. [9]
And the resolution, translated into many tongues, was adopted amidst an uproar of enthusiasm. [9]
I rode up to my Lord March, and finding there was a minute yet to run I went up the Row a distance and back again amidst more huzzaing, Pollux prancing and quivering, and frothing his bit, but never once attempting to break. [9]
When he came to himself again, he found himself in a closed cave, amidst strange forms of grey-brown, dripping stalactites. [10]
Hidden somewhere amidst those bristling miles of masonry to the northward of the towers was her future home. [9]
The capital was then, and still remains, a typically beautiful New England city, with wide streets shaded by shapely maples and elms, with substantial homes set back amidst lawns and gardens. [9]
Well-remembered figure amidst the yellow leaves dancing in the sunlight! [9]
Axes rang amidst the white dogwoods and the crabs and redbuds, and there were riotous log-raisings in the clearings. [9]
Seward suggested that the proclamation, if then brought out, amidst disaster and distress, would sound like the last shriek of a perishing cause. [7]
He had manipulated the mysteries of the Infinite so long and so exhaustively, that he would have seemed more at home among the mediaeval schoolmen than amidst the working clergy of our own time. [6]
The billows of the great organ roared among the clustered columns, as the sea breaks amidst the basaltic pillars which crowd the stormy cavern of the Hebrides. [6]
The General was the first to drink the toast, and he sat down very modestly amidst a thunder of applause. [9]
In spite of the fact that our newspapers at home had made me familiar with these aeroplane raids, as I sat there, amidst those comfortable surroundings, the thing seemed absolutely incredible. [9]
That much of the business might be seen from the veranda, but all else was concealed amidst the interior gloom. [5]
And at length the bark cast off again, amidst jeers and threats, and one-third of her crew missing, and drifted slowly back to the roads. [9]
And shortly after that, amidst a shower of miscellaneous articles and rice, Mr. and Mrs. Vane took their departure. [9]
Bob went into that little room where Jethro and Cynthia had spent so many nights together, and his glance flew straight to the picture on the wall,--the portrait of Cynthia Wetherell in crimson and seed pearls, so strangely set amidst such surroundings. [9]
It was amidst such surroundings that Charles Dudley Warner was born on the 12th of September, 1829. [4]
We walked on, stopping now and again to peer between the palings, when we heard, amidst the rattling of a cart and the jingling of bells, a chorus of voices:-- "A cheval, a cheval, pour aller voir ma mie, Lon, lon, la! [9]
Arriving at the station, amidst a hurry and bustle of legislators and politicians coming and going, many of whom nodded to him, he stood for a minute in the whirling snow reflecting. [9]
Turning southward, we soon left behind the shaded esplanade and the city's roofs below us, and came to the first of the plantation houses set back amidst the dark foliage. [9]
In the distance, Silver Brook was gleaming amidst the meadows. [9]
The crazy throng shouted amidst the din; the noise still rings in my ears. [10]
And how well she recalled, too, standing amidst the curious crowd before the great house which Mr. Worthington had just built. [9]
She had discovered salutary sap in many a human plant that had at first seemed absolutely poisonous; where she had shrunk from touching such impurity, violets and lilies had bloomed amidst the mire. [10]
Carriages were in readiness for him and his family, a band greeted him with music, and passing under a triumphal arch, he was driven to his renewed old home amidst the welcomes and the blessings of his loving and admiring friends and neighbors. [6]
The day was perfect, the woods still heavy with summer foliage, and the only signs of autumn were the hay mounds and the yellowing cornstalks stacked amidst the stubble of the fields. [9]
To-morrow, perhaps, the perfect lawns where the robins hopped amidst the shrubbery would become again the rock-bound, windswept New England pasture above the sea, and screaming gulls circle where now the swallows hovered about the steep blue roof of a French chateau. [9]
Descending from the omnibus at the hotel, in a drizzling rain, and amidst a crowd of porters and postilions and runners, the "man who spoke English" immediately presented himself; and upon him the American pounced with a torrent of questions. [4]
The last paragraph of the report contained tributes to Mrs. Joshua Holt and Mrs. Cecil Grainger for the work each had done during the year, and amidst enthusiastic hand-clapping the formal part of the meeting came to an end. [9]
Upon her bed of ashes, and amidst the squalid horrors through which they had forced their way, visions of such scenes--beautiful indeed, but not more beautiful than this sweet reality--had been always present to her mind. [12]
Why should she not live by herself amidst clean and tidy surroundings? [9]
It would be no pain to sleep amidst them. [12]
On such a morning, and amidst such a scene, she felt that there was no limit to the possibilities of life. [9]
He was no longer young and strong enough to let his grief and indignation rage like a purifying thunderstorm amidst these abuses. [10]
In the brilliant light and amidst the solemn silence that butterfly seemed like a transfigured soul, and aroused the question, Who that was permitted to live on this glowing height, so near the Most High, could desire to return to the grey mist below? [10]
As a Vaufontaine it is my duty to see that Bercy's interests are duly protected amidst the troubles of Europe. [11]
It was built in the last century, amidst the doubting predictions of staring rustics, and stands to-day as strong as ever, and seemingly good for centuries to come. [6]
We went off in one large party, amidst a general conflagration of our late homes. [5]
And that same idea which, when launched amidst the surroundings of the Boyne Club, had seemed so brilliant, now took on an aspect of tawdriness. [9]
We were repaid, however, by a night amidst the scenery of the Sierra Morena, seen by the light of the full moon. [4]
Yet, it was horrible here, and the air was impure; but had Countess Cordula looked more closely she would probably have seen one of the beautiful flowers which often bloomed amidst all the weeds, the poisonous and parasitic vegetation. [10]
It seemed to her little short of miraculous that, amidst such surroundings, he could be true to her. [9]
He dreamed that he was under the high arches of an old cathedral, amidst a throng of worshippers. [6]
Fearful tales she had heard in the prison hospitals of wounded men lying for days in the Southern sun between the trenches at Vicksburg, or freezing amidst the snow and sleet at Donelson. [9]
That grove of gnarled oaks summoned up before me visions of some classic villa poised above Grecian seas, shining amidst dark foliage, the refuge of forgotten kings. [9]
Intense was the gloom, dark the sky, yet even amidst the cruel woe there was many an hour in which bright sunshine illumined souls, and hope unfurled her green banner. [10]
Half a block from this tabernacle stood a Roman Catholic Church, prosperous, brazen, serene, flaunting an eternal permanence amidst the chaos which had succeeded permanence! [9]
Surrounded by the fragrance of the dried grasses, he soon fell asleep, and in a dream saw amidst various confused and repulsive shapes, first his father with a bleeding wound in his broad chest, and then the doctor, dancing with old Rahel. [10]
The unfortunate schoolmaster found himself taking the measure of the sanded floor, amidst the general uproar of the school. [6]
I shall never forget the impression made on me by the decorous luxury of that big house, standing amidst its old trees, halfway up the gentle slope that rose steadily from the historic highway where poor Andre was captured. [9]
To-day, for the first time, she had taken part in the general sacrifice made by the king's wives, and had tried to pray to her new gods in the open air, before the fire-altars and amidst the sound of religious songs strange to her ears. [10]
Even if the engineering of the road were not so interesting, it was something to be again amidst mountains that can boast a height of ten thousand feet. [4]
His arms were empty now, and he caught a glimpse of her poised on the road above him amidst the quivering, sunlit leaves, looking back at him over her shoulder. [9]
I slept to dream of her, of the Vicomte, her husband, walking in his park or playing cards amidst a brilliant company in a great candle-lit room like the drawing-room at Temple Bow. [9]
Then amidst a dead silence the feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. [2]
And to-day his coming might be likened to the entrance of a great physician into the room of a distant and lonely patient whom amidst wide ministrations he has not forgotten. [9]
There may have been some truth in the quotation of the Vicomte as applied to her --that she was destined to be loved only amidst the play of drama. [9]
How could it be slow amidst such beauty and magnificence? [9]
Presently he got back into the main drive where it clung to a steep, forest-covered side hill, when his attention was distracted by the sight of a straight figure in white descending amidst the foliage ahead. [9]
As he drove away, he turned once to look at the great house, with its shades closely drawn, as it stood amidst its setting of shrubbery silent under the moon. [9]
Was it true, as the Vicomte had said, that she was destined to be loved amidst the play of drama? [9]
Long hereafter, amidst agitations and terror in national councils,--in the hour of revolution,--these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre, as fit symbols and words of the thought which the passing events shall awaken. [6]
One awoke of a morning to the twittering of birds, to walk to school amidst delicate, lace-like shadows of great trees acloud with old gold: the buds lay curled like tiny feathers on the pavements. [9]
It stood half a mile from the drowsy village, deep in its own grounds amidst lawns splashed with shadows, with gravel paths edged--in barbarous fashion, if you please with shells. [9]

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