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Sentences starting with among

Among other presents Zopyrus received a gold hand-mill weighing six talents, the most honorable and distinguished gift a Persian monarch could bestow upon a subject. [10]
Among the many young men who frequented her house every day, Boris Drubetskoy, who had already achieved great success in the service, was the most intimate friend of the Bezukhov household since Helene's return from Erfurt. [2]
Among the sediment you will find half a dozen yellow particles no larger than pin-heads. [5]
Among his fellow- workers he is called a politician--if loud speaking and boasting can make one. [11]
Among these western wooded hills my day-dreams built their fairy palaces, and even now, as I look at them from my library window, across the estuary of the Charles, I find myself in the familiar home of my early visions. [6]
Among the notes with which my table was laden, Banks had found a scrawl. [9]
Among nonagenarians, three whose names are well known to Bostonians, Lord Lyndhurst, Josiah Quincy, and Sidney Bartlett, were remarkable for retaining their faculties in their extreme age. [6]
Among the courtiers whom she had known so well in Ratisbon not one vouchsafed her anything more than a passing greeting; and the Queen of Hungary, to whom she would gladly have poured out her heart, had refused her repeated entreaties for an audience. [10]
Among the many whom Kunigunde received into the convent as novices, she was most certainly "called. [10]
Among the guests whom I met in the grounds was a gentleman of the medical profession, whose name I had often heard, and whom I was very glad to see and talk with. [6]

Sentences ending with among

I am afraid I study the gondolier's marvelous skill more than I do the sculptured palaces we glide among. [5]
Constellations, before seen from afar, I sailed among. [4]

Short sentences using among

Among them were several photographs. [9]
Among them this place--Hochberghaus. [5]
Among them were our friends. [5]
Among these he halted. [13]
Caracalla among the gods! [10]
Come--no secrets among friends. [5]
He was among enemies. [11]
Has Berenike ventured among them? [10]
Nancy was not among them. [9]
Honour among rogues. [11]

Sentences containing among two or more times

When a Senator, whose place is in Washington moving among the Great and guiding the destinies of the nation, condescends to mingle among the people and accept the hospitalities of such a place as Hawkeye, the honor is not considered a light one. [5]
But these expeditions were trifles compared with the present one; for this one comprised among its servants the very greatest among the learned; and besides it was to go to the utterly unvisited regions believed to lie beyond the mighty forest--as we have remarked before. [5]
Among the latter were Mrs. Tynan and her daughter and Malachi Deely; among those who held their breath in suspence were John Sibley, Studd Bradley the financier, and the Young Doctor. [11]
We believe that we may promise him as warm a welcome among ourselves as he will receive even in America; that his place will be at once conceded to him among the first historians in our common language. [6]
Opposition or complaint was rare among the warriors, but the murmurs, curses, and threats grew all the louder among those who bore no weapons. [10]
She was anxious to write of things she had known and seen; and among the number was the West Yorkshire character, for which any tale laid among the Luddites would afford full scope. [14]
For this hour, this night is among its fellows what a hallowed temple is among other buildings--what the fervent sun is among the other lights of heaven. [10]
With one s. There are more foolish people among the Ifs than there are among the Ases. [6]
He's not among the prisoners nor among the killed! [2]
As they passed the Path by the Bazaar every eye among the hillsmen and among the handful of British was alert. [11]

More example sentences with the word among in them

But what was your steward seeking among the soldiers? [10]
Seek elsewhere, among your own people, in your own religion and language and position, the Mistress of Rozel. [11]
And who among you will falter at such a call? [9]
Any man among you who is possessed of any property may read the moral of my fable. [10]
Yes, those among you who have not been in the penitentiary, if such there be, are better than your fathers and grandfathers were; but is that any sufficient reason, for getting up annual dinners and celebrating you? [5]
But I tell you there will be sensible men enough in every ward, every guild, nay, even in the council, and among the burgomasters. [10]
I will give you the law, briefly: descendible estates among us are of two kinds, estates in fee simple and estates in fee tail. [9]
Once more among you the antique spirit lives. [11]
They had not yet had a loud conversation among the men and a dispute about something important and clever. [2]
I have mine yet among my papers. [9]
Though only five years my senior, he was already enrolled among the teachers of the legal faculty. [10]
A hundred more years and many of the barbarisms still lingering among us will, of course, have disappeared like witch-hanging. [6]
We lived among ye, poor as ye are poor, yet rich for that Egypt was no poorer because of us. [11]
And I tell ye there are things in that Book that not one among ye can read, with all your learning! [5]
This gentleman has written a volume of Essays, in which, among much that is dreamy and fanciful (if he will pardon me for saying so), there is much more that is true and manly, honest and bold. [6]
So Clara is writing a Florence friend to take a look round among the villas for us in the regions near that city. [5]
An Englishman may write with the most brutal frankness about any man or institution among us and we republish him without dreaming of altering a line or a word. [5]
First came a wreath of roses and lotos-flowers, looking as if they had been plucked just before sunrise, for among the blossoms and leaves there flashed and sparkled a glittering dew of diamonds, lightly fastened on delicate silver wires. [10]
Forty of the wounded were placed upon pallets on the floor of a great public hall, and among these was Henry. [5]
She said she would wait awhile longer, but if at the end of six months I didn't do my duty, she'd see the thing through here among my own people. [11]
And as luck would have it, six of Mr. Cooke's ten guests had left but a day or so since, and among them had been the only yacht-owner. [9]
How gladly she would have gone among these blinded mortals and exhorted them to obey with fresh faith and confidence the command of the Lord and of her brother. [10]
Here the forces would have been fighting for him; the trend was towards the elevation of the standards of living and the wider rights of labour, to the amelioration of hard conditions of life among the poor. [11]
Secondly, these missionaries would gradually, and without creating suspicion or exciting alarm, introduce a rudimentary cleanliness among the nobility, and from them it would work down to the people, if the priests could be kept quiet. [5]
With him it would either be the sewer or the sycamore-tree of Zaccheus; either the little upper chamber among the saints or eating husks with the swine. [11]
Chateaux and lands would be hers again, and she would go back again to that brilliant life among the great to which she was born, for which nature had fitted her. [9]
The grey mare would be among them. [11]
It would be worth while to pass a week or a month among the plain, average people of Stratford. [6]
It is hardly worth while to consider the projects for relieving the Mississippi River floods by creating new outlets, since these sensational propositions have commended themselves only to unthinking minds, and have no support among engineers. [5]
It is the world-old cry around the palace walls: Long live the new ruler--if you can find him among the curdling factions. [9]
Three months I worked among this set, submitting to the strokes of the overseer, fainting under the fearful heat, and stiffening under the cold dews of night. [10]
It made short work of the experimenter--and of his family, too, if he murdered somebody who belonged up among the ornamental ranks. [5]
With such persuasive words as pity and affection could suggest, they prevailed upon him to sit among them and hear what they should tell him. [12]
There were high words along the railing among the duke's supporters, Captain Lewis, in his anger, going above an inference that the stallion had been broken privately. [9]
We were among woods and rocks, hills and gorges--so shut in, in fact, that when we peeped through a chink in a curtain, we could discern nothing. [5]
C. E. S. Wood at West Point --an edition of 50 copies--and distributed among popes and kings and such people. [5]
Only the Magians, wonder-workers, and street wenches were suffered to push their way in among the horses, asses, elephants, dogs, vehicles, and mounted troops. [10]
We had seen wonders this day; and my thoughts began to run on the pleasure it would be to tell them when I got home, but he noticed those thoughts, and said: "No, all these matters are a secret among us four. [5]
I kissed the woman openly--is there none among you who has kissed secretly, and has kept the matter hidden? [11]
Another half-hour later Wolf entered and passed to his place; then other deputies began to stream in, among them many forms and faces grown familiar of late. [5]
For hours Philip's witnesses were examined, among them the officers of his duchy and Count Carignan Damour. [11]
They were elected without their consent from among those who wrote to him without his consent, and it is not likely that any one so chosen declined membership. [5]
He was alone, without friends, except among the acquaintances he had made in his new residence. [6]
Cups filled high with wine now circulated among the mad-cap mystics; even Melissa refreshed herself, handing the beaker to her lover, and Diodoros raised to his mouth that place on the rim which her lips had touched. [10]
We have seen with what astonishment the old Dutch scholar, Groen van Prinsterer, looked upon a man who had wrestled with authors like Bor and Van Meteren, who had grappled with the mightiest folios and toiled undiscouraged among half-illegible manuscript records. [6]
He bore it with unflinching fortitude; then took the rusty-looking document and handed it to some great officer or other, to be filed away among the archives of Russia--in the stove. [5]
The foreigners destroy, with their laughing levity, much that is good among us. [10]
Emerson undoubtedly met with some of them among his disciples. [6]
He had danced with many a one, and kissed a few in the old days among the flax- beaters, at the harvesting, in the gaieties of a wedding, and also down in Massachusetts. [11]
He would talk with Kald, then go again among them all, and so pass out unsuspected and safe. [11]
He introduced them with a few remarks, he told me, of which the only one he remembered was this: that he had rather write a single line which one among them should think worth remembering than set them all laughing with a string of epigrams. [6]
I am pressed with a difficulty not yet mentioned--one which threatens division among those who, united, are none too strong. [7]
Against his daughter's wish, he had given to the richest and most aristocratic among them, the Sicilian baron Don Fabrizio di Moncada, the hope of gaining her hand. [10]
They passed one winter yachting among the islands in the eastern Mediterranean; a part of another sailing from one tropical paradise to another in the West Indies. [4]
The door and windows of the little house were open that balmy afternoon, and the bees were buzzing among the flowers which Cynthia had planted on either side of the step. [9]
Nova a furious wind began to rush out from behind the waterfall, which seemed determined to sweep us from the bridge, and scatter us on the rocks and among the torrents below. [5]
I shall never win over this soldier's son to our peaceful handicraft, but he shall not remain on the mountain among these queer sluggards, for there he is being ruined, and yet he is not of a common sort. [10]
With some misgivings William Wetherell watched Mr. Bixby disappear among the throng, kicking up his heels behind, and then went upstairs. [9]
There is something,--I will not stop now to try and define it,--but there is something by which we recognize an American among the English before he speaks and betrays his origin. [6]
He fears he will die of joy, before he gets among them. [12]
Occasionally a horseman will dash among us. [5]
For to-day we will close the temple gates, solemnize the festival among ourselves, and allow no one to enter our precincts for sacrifice and prayer till the fate of the sisters is made certain. [10]
But perhaps you will ask, why did not the Redeemer come down among our fathers in those glorious days? [10]
They passed, too, wild lakes overhung with primeval trees, where the iris and the waterlily grew among the fallen trunks and the water-fowl called to each other across the blue stretches. [9]
It was a wild and rocky upland where our great pasture was, many miles from home, the road to it running by a brawling river, and up a dashing brook-side among great hills. [4]
There was a wicked look in his face, from which the landlord shrank back- shrank so far that he carried himself among the others, and stood there, half frightened, half dumfounded. [11]
Soldiers and merchants, whose various ranks in society were betokened by the length of their white garments, bordered with colored fringes, were interspersed among the crowd of half-naked, sinewy men, whose only clothing consisted of an apron, the costume of the lower classes. [10]
How this brother, whose temper was very mild and quiet and retiring--such as Mr Abel's--was greatly beloved by the simple people among whom he dwelt, who quite revered the Bachelor (for so they called him), and had every one experienced his charity and benevolence. [12]
To him for whom Apollo, the pure among the gods, and the Muses, friends of beauty, do not open it at the same time with truth, its gates will remain closed, no matter how strongly and persistently he shakes them. [10]
The high-priest alone, who, as Caesar's host, had gone up to the side of the throne, and two or three others, among them the governor of the town, a tall, elderly man of Macedonian descent, paid no heed to the brute. [10]
Among the Spaniards who were missing as a result of this excursion was a soldier named Juan Ortiz. [4]
A young surgeon who was at Sudley Church, laboring among the wounded of Bull Run, tells me they had nothing but water for dressing, and he (being also doux de sel) was astonished to see how well the wounds did under that simple treatment. [3]
Among the guests who thronged to her house there was no lack of elderly gentlemen who would gladly have married the vivacious, unusual woman, who was so nearly connected with the royal family, and lived in such luxurious style. [10]
The steadfast man, who sat so silently with frowning brow among his family, sometimes attacking the viands on his plate, then leaving them untouched, did not look like one who yields to idle whims. [10]
His beloved dead, who in the tumult of carnival mirth had vanished from his memory, again rose before his mind, among them the doctor, who gazed rebukingly at him with his clear, thoughtful eyes. [10]
Among the commanders who hold these views are some who have never had any affinity with what is called "Abolitionism," or with "Republican Party politics," but who hold them purely as military opinions. [7]
Among them many who have tasted the college prison's dreary hospitality was a lively young fellow from one of the Southern states of America, whose first year's experience of German university life was rather peculiar. [5]
Those among them who have money take their pleasure simply and with the least expense of physical energy. [4]
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]
Therefore the lawyer who had so zealously striven to expedite the blind man's entering into possession of his friend's inheritance would very willingly have permitted Myrtilus--doubtless an invalid--to continue to rest quietly among the dead. [10]
Among the curious who had flocked together were many embalmers, laborers, and humble folk, who lived in the Necropolis. [10]
Among the students who followed his instructions were two Englishmen: one of them, John Locke, afterwards author of an "Essay on the Human Understanding," three years younger than his teacher; the other, Thomas Sydenham, five years older. [3]
The younger men, who followed him, whispered among themselves, shaking their heads as though some miracle had been performed; and every eye that looked on him was radiant with enthusiastic veneration. [10]
These are they who deplore the absence among us of a tradition of monarchy, since the American people "should have something to look up to. [9]
First among those who crowded round her at Carillon that day were Jowett and Osterhaut, who had tried to warn her. [11]
Among the youths who at that time enjoyed the hospitality of the Waldstromers, Herdegen's friend, Franz von Welemisl, held the foremost place. [10]
And, still more, who among all the guests of that honored, admired Thracian woman, would have believed that this sad heart belonged to her? [10]
The highest class white men Who lived among the Maoris in the earliest time had a high opinion of them and a strong affection for them. [5]
They had long whispered it around among each other that she had a liking for the master; but there were too many of them of whom something like this could be said, to make it very remarkable. [6]
Among the papers which your old servant Hib brought with him in a small box, there must be some letters from a certain Sonnophre, a celebrated accoucheur, your own father, which . [10]
The pass to which the Egyptians had brought them within the last few hours had been so terrible, that even the better natures among the Hebrews did not think of curbing the thirst for vengeance. [10]
Keep your beauty, which is now to be degraded to feast the eyes of gaping Greeks, for the worthiest husband among our people. [10]
Among the places which I saw in my first visit was Longford Castle, the seat of the Earl of Radnor. [6]
The cushions among which he sat had come from Constantinople, the rug at his feet from Tiflis, the prayer-rug on the wall from Mecca. [11]
On the pilgrimage which he made to Loretto he had distributed more than ten thousand ducats among the poor. [10]
Among the spectacles which he has shown them is one calculated to give them an idea of his peaceful intentions,-a grand review of cavalry and artillery at the Bois de Boulogne. [4]
The tone in which he gave the order was such that even the nurse did not remonstrate; and Nilus, for his part obeyed in silence when Orion bid him return to his place among the judges. [10]
The prodigal generosity which had become an empty name has revived again among us! [10]
Among the objects which deserve special mention are the shrieking parrots and other birds and the yelping dogs in the grounds of the Society of Acclimatization,--out of the range of which the visitor will be glad to get as soon as possible. [6]
Bid me go where thou wilt, do what thou wilt, so that I may be among the fighters, and in the battle forget what I have seen. [11]

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