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Sentences starting with ample

Ample evidence on this head has been advanced in my work on 'Variation under Domestication,' but a few instances may here be given. [1]

Sentences ending with ample

I will remind the reader that in Pennsylvania a coal vein only eight feet wide is considered ample. [5]
As Honora read it she remembered that this institution had been the favourite charity of his mother; and that Mrs. Chiltern, at her death, had bequeathed an endowment which at the time had been ample. [9]
The faculties for getting into jail seem to be ample. [4]
It ran thus: "Why should my lord Caracalla affect a garment so ample? [10]

Short sentences using ample

We have ample time. [10]

More example sentences with the word ample in them

I now send you herewith what I suppose will be an ample defense against any such charges. [7]
Twenty ample fortunes would not timber one of the greatest of those silver mines. [5]
Some rascally bondmen who had seized cattle and utensils belonging to others had been bound to a palmtree, and the ravens that followed the procession; and had found ample sustenance on the way, now croaked greedily around the quickly established place of execution. [10]
She could live wherever she pleased, and her dowry, with what she had saved, would be ample to support her and Maria, in the city or the country, in a style suited to their rank. [10]
In the town where she lived was a lady of honorable condition, somewhat past middle age, who was possessed of pretty ample means, of cultivated tastes, of excellent principles, of exemplary character, and of more than common accomplishments. [6]
Its ample nurseries were producing oranges, apricots, lemons, almonds, peaches, cherries, 48 varieties of apples--in fact, all manner of fruits, and in abundance. [5]
The Queen's garments were chiefly variegated bath-towels, and she was rubbing her beaming countenance and ample bosom with hair-oil and essence of new-mown hay. [11]
The old man wept too, but his tears were tears of joy and he repeatedly assured Cambyses that he would recover and have ample opportunity of making amends for the past. [10]
In the French war, when all the rest of us Royal Americans were squabbling with his Majesty's officers out of England, and cursing them at mess, they could never be got to fight with Jack, tho' he gave them ample provocation. [9]
Philip had to walk some five miles before he reached a little station, where he could wait for a train, and he had ample time for reflection. [5]
As he stood waiting, the wonderful, ample life of her seemed to come like a wave towards him. [11]
So, as the waggon in which Biberli had come was still waiting outside, I spoke to the carter, who had brought a load of wheat to Nuremberg, and now, on his way home, had ample room under the tilt. [10]
In the second volume, the author gives us an ample supply of excellent brown bread; in his third, only such a portion as gives substance, like the crumbs of bread in a well-made, not too rich, plum-pudding. [14]
The depots are vast palaces of cut marble, with stately colonnades of the same royal stone traversing them from end to end, and with ample walls and ceilings richly decorated with frescoes. [5]
Her original, spontaneous, undoctored English furnishes ample proof of this. [5]
The ordinary chalet turns a broad, honest gable end to the road, and its ample roof hovers over the home in a protecting, caressing way, projecting its sheltering eaves far outward. [5]
He wore round, tortoise-shell spectacles, he had a high, dome-like forehead, and an ample light brown beard which he stroked from time to time. [9]
But on turning to two works, one almost universally, and the other extensively appealed to as authority in this country, I see ample reason to overlook this objection. [3]
Although it was to start early in the morning, she was in the square in ample time, partly because she hoped to see the Emperor in the distance. [10]
He was purposing to spend the winter in Southern California, coming back to the East in ample time to attend the annual meeting of the Social Science Association. [4]
I took her to her first assembly, where her simple and unassuming ways had made her an instant favourite; and her face, which had the beauty of dignity and repose even so early in life, gained her ample attention. [9]
Then he began to contemplate it, much as a philosopher contemplates a gnat's ear in the ample field of his microscope. [5]
We had ample time, for the steamboat after its arduous trip needed rest, and remained some hours in the harbor. [4]
There was ample time to note these particulars, for besides that they were sufficiently obvious without very close observation, some moments elapsed before any one broke silence. [12]
He had ample time to attend to these details while he was going up and returning. [5]
But as the time at which I am expected there, left me ample leisure, I determined to walk instead. [12]
While thinking these thoughts I yawned, in a rather ample way, and my upper teeth got hitched on a nail over the door, and while I was mounting a chair to free myself, Harris drew the window-curtain, and said: "Oh, this is luck! [5]
They still preserved their ample buckskin seat intact; and so his short pea jacket and his long, thin legs assisted to make him a picturesque object whenever he stood on the forecastle looking abroad upon the ocean over the bows. [5]
The ground between the street and the brick wall in the rear was a great stretch, as ample in acreage as many a small country-place we have in these times. [9]
My passage in the ship is a very large sum--indeed, it is a fortune--and this I must pay myself eventually, but I am allowed ample time to make it good to my employer in, he advancing it now. [5]
He went away the owner of it, and had ample time before he reached home in November, to calculate how much poorer he was by possessing it. [5]
The spacious halls, the noble stairways, the ample drawing-rooms, the ballroom, the music-room, the library, the picture-gallery, the dining-room, the conservatory--into these the crowd flowed or lingered without confusion or annoyance and in a continual pleasure of surprise. [4]
We see also the ample area or platform, carpeted with rich stuffs, whereon the throne stands. [5]
It was seldom that she had shown emotion in the past two years, and it was the more ample when it did break forth. [11]
It may be that I've got some of the sample pages here, if I haven't left them at home," said Mr. Grady, fumbling in an ample inside pocket, and drawing forth a bundle. [9]
I could see that ample preparations were being made against a siege, and every day the excitement increased. [11]
It was precisely ten o'clock in the morning when Hodder rang the bell and was shown into the ample study which he had entered on other and less vital occasions. [9]
There was ample surface in which to look for it. [4]
The rooms were spacious, and had big fireplaces, and ample piazzas all round, so that the sun could be courted or the wind be avoided at all hours of the day. [4]
This distance was so ample and full and quiet, this mystery of the desert and the sky was so immense, the spirit of it so boundless, that in the judgment of his soul nothing mattered now. [11]
There was a small portico, with marble pillars, and in the ample, swift sloping roof many dormers; servants' rooms, Archie explained. [9]
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]
Presently the long shell swept into view, with its blooming rowers, who, with their ample dresses, seemed to fill it almost as full as Raphael fills his skiff on the edge of the Lake of Galilee. [6]
This expression, as she used it in her thoughts, seems rather foreign to her habits, but there was room in her large brain for a wide range of illustrations and an ample vocabulary. [6]
In any case she had an ample pocket in her dress. [11]
The monks had set fire to the temple of Isis and the flames had been driven by the northwest wind down into the ship-yard, where they had found ample food in the enormous timber stacks and the skeletons of ships. [10]
Nevertheless, as he rode on, the water-wagtail's little figure dwelt in his mind; not alone, however, for that of Paula immediately rose by her side; and the smaller Katharina's seemed, the more ample and noble did the other appear. [10]
The arrangement brought reputation to the magazine (which was published in the days when the honor of being in print was supposed by the publisher to be ample compensation to the scribe), but little profit to Mr. Irving. [4]
An abundance of red and white roses stuck out from the front folds of his ample toga, and were held in their place by gold brooches, sparkling with precious stones of large size. [10]
The worshipper is received into an ample court, but by degrees the walls on either side approach one another, the halls become less lofty, all is gradually tending towards one point. [10]
The young men read, strolled the ample deck, rested and drowsed in the shade of the canvas, took their meals with the captain; and when the day was done they played dummy whist with him till bed-time. [5]
His only becoming quality was his ample extravagance. [11]
Notwithstanding these ample provisions for the colony, Smith had small expectation that it would thrive without him. [4]
The apotheosis was pronounced by my most intimate friend, Timmins, and I must say he did me ample justice. [4]
To Powhatan ample presents were made of penny-knives, shears, and toys, and he invited them to visit him at one of his seats called Powhatan, which was within a mile of the Falls, where now stands the city of Richmond. [4]
He was a poor man, and it would be a joyful thing for him if one day he could empty ample gold into his wife's lap. [11]
It was a place of wide-spreading grass and shade-a house of ample room. [5]
And as I passed along to bed there was another one: the big Dwarf, in brave new armor, sat sentry at Joan's door--the stern Spirit of War made flesh, as it were--and on his ample shoulder was curled a kitten asleep. [5]
Our abundant room, our broad national homestead, is our ample resource. [7]
One day--it was on the 10th of July--we found ourselves driving through what seemed to be a gentleman's estate, an ample domain, well wooded and well kept. [6]
If I were on more familiar terms with what other men call fear I should have ample reason to be afraid; for in the quail-fight we have gone in for I have wagered a crown-aye, and more than that even. [10]
The artificial heat of the big stoves in the rooms with the low ceilings only irritated her, and she felt herself growing more ample from lassitude of the flesh. [11]
An ample star of rare brilliancy came stealing up over the trees against the sky-line, twinkling and brimming with light. [11]
It was Georgian, of plum-coloured brick with marble trimmings and marble wedges over the ample windows, some years later I saw the house by Ferguson, of New York, from which Archie had cribbed it. [9]
A big fire of logs was blazing in the ample chimney-place; groups were seated about at ease, chatting, reading, smoking; couples promenaded up and down; and from the distant parlor, through the long passage, came the sound of the band. [4]
There was enough of it for the ample support of their six hundred men and their families, too. [5]
The cheerful patience of her soul had found ample satisfaction in the cultivation of her art, and in social intercourse with men who permitted her to share their own intellectual life. [10]
Cleopatra assured them of her favour, and said that she had already offered ample compensation to the old philosopher. [10]
The lesser kind of gentry, and many of the plainer folk of the village, half-pleased to find themselves passing beneath the stately portico of the ancient mansion-house, crowded in, until the ample rooms were overflowing. [6]
Under such a new system it may well be, as modern economists claim, that, we shall have an ample surplus for the Common Good. [9]
That the old mode of levying taxes is unsatisfactory we find every day; you will have ample room for improvements in every respect. [10]
We have ample means, my young sir. [10]
He seemed to me, as the world goes, a 'bon parti,' cultivated by travel and reading, well-bred, entertaining, amiable, possessed of an ample fortune, the ideal husband in the eyes of a prudent mother. [4]
Sir William took me under the shield of his ample presence, and answered all my questions about the various notable personages at his table in a way to have made my fortune if I had been a reporter. [6]
Doctor Benjamin was man enough, however, to come up to the mark, and sent him in such an account as it was becoming to send a man of ample means who had been diligently and skilfully cared for. [6]
They have fled like cowards, after dealing the sorest blows, robbing of their dearest possessions those among whom they dwelt in peace, whose protection they enjoyed, and who for long years have given them work and ample food. [10]
A few moments later, the woman, tidied and freshened, sat at the ample breakfast which was characteristic of Romany home-life. [11]
Nearby was a large, handsome house with its ample front illuminated in the same way, and above its roof floated the Star-Spangled Banner of America. [5]
Did he owe it to the laurel crown which rested on his head, or to the white toga which fell about him in ample folds, leaving only the sinewy arm bare by which he led the lion? [10]
Not every city is so well peopled as this, or has so ample an area within its walls. [5]
Since, however, it is apparent that here, as in every other state, foreign dangers necessarily attend domestic difficulties, I recommend that adequate and ample measures be adopted for maintaining the public defenses on every side. [7]
This office was in what had once been a large residence, and from its ample windows you could look out through the elms on to the square. [9]
By ten o'clock in the morning of the second of September, only the rear guard remained in the Dorogomilov suburb, where they had ample room. [2]
A midnight luncheon in our ample bed-chamber; a final smoke in its contracted veranda facing the water, the gardens, and the mountains; a summing up of the day's events. [5]
An urchin creeping in beholds The tyrant slumber-smitten, And in his pocket's ample folds He thrusts the school-yard kitten. [11]
Mrs. Holt, setting in abeyance any ideas she may have had about the affair, took Honora in her arms, and against that ample bosom was sobbed out the pent-up excitement and emotion of an extraordinary day. [9]
We will afford him ample opportunity to test his powers. [10]
This half destroyed her pleasure in the present, and the ample supply of money clouded her already disturbed peace of mind still more. [10]
What should prevent her from becoming his now that he could promise an ample income? [10]
My lady threw her arms about her neck, and hid her face in the ample bosom. [9]
The Maria was heeling to the squall by the time the Celebrity appeared at the cabin door, enveloped in an ample waterproof, a rubber cover on his yachting cap. [9]
He knew that he was going back to England--to ample work and strong days, but he did not know that he was going alone. [11]
Behind the little hall a cosey library lighted by a well, and behind that an ample dining-room. [9]
If any individual had been injured in this way, is there not an ample remedy to be found in the laws of the land? [7]
Five of these great thoroughfares radiate from one ample centre--a centre which is exceedingly well adapted to the accommodation of heavy artillery. [5]
Round her were good souls who felt with and for her, many occupations for which she was well-fitted, and which suited her tastes, with ample opportunities of bestowing and winning love. [10]
Over the ample globe, searching for thee, Thee and thy garden have I come; Ended my questing: no more, no more for me, O Sweet, the pilgrim's sandals, call me home-- Open thy gate. [11]
Hence they were glad to put a hand to such a good work, especially as it would be profitable, too, for Orion had provided the old man with ample funds. [10]
At sunset she gave it again to George Masson on the river-bank, only warmer and brighter still, with eyes that were burning, with hands that trembled, and with an agitated bosom more delicately ample than it was on the day the Antoine was wrecked. [11]
His Royal Highness forgot himself still further, and had at length withdrawn his hands from the pockets of his ample pantaloons and thrust his thumbs into his yellow waistcoat. [9]

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