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Sentences starting with an

An attempt on your life, great Caesar; but we have him fast! [10]
An oracle deceived your father and plunged him into ruin, but the oracle is miraculous, and so you too, in perfect confidence, allow it to rob you of happiness! [10]
An author whose writings are like mosaics must have borrowed from many quarries. [6]
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]
An unclean starveling wrapped a gaudy table-cloth about his loins, and hung a white rag over my shoulders. [5]
An invisible web woven of wailing and tears seemed to envelope the assembly. [10]
An abundant supply would still remain, by virtue of which she might continue to sin without fearing that Cleopatra would ever part from her Charmian. [10]
An elderly woman would not have sprung so nimbly into the skiff that was to convey her to the land. [10]
An imaginary case would illustrate his meaning. [4]
An ordinary man would have no chance at all. [9]

Short sentences using an

She's an industris young. [6]
Longfellow an American Writer. [5]
An attack's pleasant work! [2]
And an Inventory with them. [4]
This was an uplifting thought. [5]
This was an unwonted proceeding. [9]
It seems an unwise idea. [5]
Faith in an unseen order! [9]
Ah, yes, an unhappy case! [11]
That is an unfair division. [10]

Sentences containing an two or more times

Again, according to your mind, a man who steals holy vessels must needs be an infidel; therefore a tailor in Chaudiere, suspected of being an infidel, stole the holy chalices. [11]
Your experience and your convictions are made the reader's; and to an author, at least, they have a value and an interest quite unusual. [14]
That it was your brother was an accident, and--" "It was an accident that the penalty must fall on Claridge Pasha, and on you, madame. [11]
If you call your bosom friend a fool, and intend it for an insult, it is an insult; but if you do it playfully, and meaning no insult, it is not an insult. [5]
When we are young we generally estimate an opinion by the size of the person that holds it, but later we find that that is an uncertain rule, for we realize that there are times when a hornet's opinion disturbs us more than an emperor's. [5]
Indeed, an audacious young praetorian had put out his hand to pull away her veil, but an older officer stopped him. [10]
This touched the young fellow's sympathetic nature, and at the same time gave him the painful sense of being an intruder upon a sacred privacy, an observer of emotions which a stranger ought not to witness. [5]
If such as you take an interest in such as he, know, then, that I have sent him of an errand. [5]
Oh, come now, you may be a Gipsy, but that doesn't mean that you're an Egyptian or an Arab. [11]
Many years ago you docked me on an article because the subject was too old; later, you docked me on an article because the subject was too new; later still, you docked me on an article because the subject was betwixt and between. [5]

More example sentences with the word an in them

It gives a zest to pleasure to have even an indefinite object, and though the prospect of meeting Irene again was not definite, it was nevertheless alluring. [4]
The graveyard in Zermatt occupies only about one-eighth of an acre. [5]
Never had the zealous magistrate appeared so repulsive as to-day, and when he remembered how the crafty man had outwitted poor Father Anselm in his presence, he felt as if he had himself committed an unworthy deed. [10]
This Alexandria--in her youth as dissolute as she was fair--what is she now but an old hag? [10]
Yes, indeed, you yourself; an inner voice tells me so. [10]
Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent!--why, I knew you before you had spoken seven words; and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. [5]
Money gave you yours,--to go to school and college until you were twenty four, and get an education,--such as it was. [9]
I think what you're doing is splendid, Brooks, only--" here she gave him an appealing, rather commiserating look--"only I do wish you would take more interest in--in underlying principles. [9]
This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour. [5]
So you lose your temper, and come out in an article which you think is going to finish "Ananias," proving him a booby who doesn't know enough to understand even a lyceum-lecture, or else a person that tells lies. [6]
If only for your sake I will avoid doing so, for an honorable soul clings to those whom it sees maligned. [10]
If you enter your name on the Visitor's Book at Government House you will receive an invitation to the next ball that takes place there, if nothing can be proven against you. [5]
I will seek your lover, and if I find him he shall know where you are, but I cannot and will not invite him to an assignation here behind my sister's back. [10]
When I read your letter first, a flood of fire seemed to run through my veins; then I became as though I had been dipped in ether, and all the winds of an arctic sea were blowing over me. [11]
Mr Witherden, Sir, your handkerchief is hanging out of your pocket--would you allow me to--, As Mr Brass advanced to remedy this accident, the Notary shrunk from him with an air of disgust. [12]
The idea of your going and intruding on a party of strangers, that way, and talking for half an hour; why I never heard of a man in his right mind doing such a thing before. [5]
Nay, makers of your gods, Each day ye break an image in your shrine And plant a fairer image where it stood Where is the Moloch of your fathers' creed, Whose fires of torment burned for span-long babes? [6]
Neighbors' hens in your garden are an annoyance. [4]
I recommend to your favorable consideration the subject of an international telegraph across the Atlantic Ocean, and also of a telegraph between this capital and the national forts along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. [7]
Then this in your eye, that if ye'll bring an army, I'll fight till the skin is in rags on me bones, whin it's only men that's before me; but woman--and that wan! [11]
The memory of your dear father, instead of an agony, will yet be a sad, sweet feeling in your heart, of a purer and holier sort than you have known before. [7]
You can run your car sixty miles an hour in exciting passages, everything will work into it. [4]
You shall have your Buonespoir, good Rozel; but if he plays pirate any more--tell him this from his Queen--upon an English ship, I will have his head, if I must needs send Drake of Devon to overhaul him. [11]
And then there's your big high-sounding millionaire names stuck into your advertisements as stockholders--another card, that--and they are stockholders, too, but you have to give them the stock and non-assessable at that--so they're an expensive lot. [5]
Make the Mohar your ally, and it may easily happen that your rat-bites may be paid for with mortal wounds, and Rameses who, if you marched against him openly, might blow you to the ground, may be hit by a lance thrown from an ambush. [10]
He was a younger son of an impoverished earl. [9]
Such was Amasis' young, fading daughter, who was now being carried past them, and many an eye grew dim as the beautiful invalid came in sight. [10]
And after the young woman had told with great simplicity and earnestness of the struggle to support herself and lead an honest and self-respecting existence, it seemed to Honora that at last she had opened the book of life at the proper page. [9]
He was the young son of an Ohio nabob and was out there for recreation. [5]
When she was young she was beautiful--like a Madonna by an old master. [9]
He would make young Schopper pay some penalty yet more than a mere fine, to that he pledged his royal word, and as for young Welemisl, he was minded to devise some punishment that should hinder many an over-bold knight from drawing his sword! [10]
The other day young Princess Irina Vasilevna came to see me; she was an awful sight--looked as if she had put two barrels on her arms. [2]
He is a young man of a sterling though undeveloped character, who has been hampered by an indulgent parent with a large fortune. [9]
There was a young lady once, sir, the daughter of an outfitting warehouse of the first respectability--but that's a weakness. [12]
One of the young ladies presented Mr. Clemens, and thanked him for his amiability in coming to make them an address. [5]
Even as a young lad, his father's notable place in the colony, and the freedom and gaiety of life in Quebec and Montreal, had drawn upon him a notice which was as much a promise of the future as an accent of the present. [11]
She liked the Young Doctor, as who did not who came in contact with him, except those who had fear of him, and who had an idea that he could read their minds as he read their bodies. [11]
But I ask you, would you have taken the same deep interest in setting the law upon this suspected man did you not believe him to be an infidel? [11]
What right have you, monseigneur, to demand an account of my attachments and friendships? [2]
I beg of you, I beg of you," he repeated, "to occupy the position and prepare for an attack. [2]
Hasn't it struck you, Fersen, that unless a man has a voice and an interest in the industry in which he works his voice, and interest in the government for which he votes is a mockery? [9]
I also authorize you, by an order, or in what form you choose, to suspend all operations on the Treasury trade permits, in all places southeastward of the Alleghenies. [7]
In comparison with you, Baron, I am but an insignificant man, but noble blood flows in my veins as well as in yours, and I, too, am no coward. [10]
Well, I hope you won't come to an early grave like poor Charles,--or at any rate, that you may be prepared. [6]
They trust that you will receive it as an expression of sincere regard and affection from friends, who will, one and all, esteem it a great privilege to be permitted to assist in the restoration of your home. [6]
For an hour you will hate me; for a day you will resent me, and then you will begin to love me. [11]
To beg that you will give me an escort of men-at-arms and send me to the Dauphin. [5]
What may delight you will cost bitter tears to many others, and so let us both hope that this splendid spectacle may now have reached its climax, and soon may come to an end. [10]
Now, sir, if you will be so kind as to look at these maps and plans in my portfolio, I am sure I can sell you an echo for less money than any man in the trade. [5]
I knew that you were not mixed up in politics, but I also knew that you were an intimate friend of Jethro's, and I thought that you had been let into the secret of the woodchuck session. [9]
In those days you were not a Federalist or a Democrat, you were an Aristocrat or a Jacobin. [9]
Promise me, as you value me as an ally, that you will not attempt his life. [10]
I particularly advised you to use your cavalry and light artillery upon his communications, and attempt to cut off his supplies and engage him at an advantage. [7]
I have referred you to the proper authorities for the account of those improvements which about the year 1830 rendered the compound microscope an efficient and trustworthy instrument. [3]
Your company orders you to come here and rudely break up an innocent amusement, and furnishes you no way to enforce the order! [5]
I won't suppose you to be disgracing yourself in one of those miserable tubs, tugging in which is to rowing the true boat what riding a cow is to bestriding an Arab. [6]
But I tell you this, gentlemen, that you will live to see the day when you will bitterly regret this injustice to an innocent and a noble woman, and Isaac D. Worthington will live to regret it. [9]
You smile as you think of my taking it for a fleshless human figure, when I saw its tube pointing to the sky, and thought it was an arm, under the white drapery thrown over it for protection. [6]
And what do you think of a Pallas with short woolly hair; of the Charities with broad, flat Ethiopian feet; and an Egyptian, with his shaven head mirroring the sun, as Phoebus Apollo? [10]
How pleasant do you think it is to have an arm offered to you when you are walking on a level surface, where there is no chance to trip? [6]
Fraulein, I assure you that, though I'm an old woman, I never met so fine a young fellow in all my life. [10]
I swear to you that, as a man and an artist, I never felt better, and so I ought properly to be in my usual frame of mind. [10]
Another one tells you that this is an exaggeration; that the two chief villages, Port Louis and Curepipe, fall short of heavenly perfection; that nobody lives in Port Louis except upon compulsion, and that Curepipe is the wettest and rainiest place in the world. [5]
The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. [6]
How agreeable do you suppose it is to have your well-meaning friends shout and screech at you, as if you were deaf as an adder, instead of only being, as you insist, somewhat hard of hearing? [6]
And how glad you should be that you are able to make true friends, without an effort. [11]
And then again you seem as cold as your New England snow, you have no feeling, you are an Anglo-Saxon--a Puritan. [9]
It is easy, you say, for an outsider to preach waiting, patience, forbearance, sympathy, helpfulness. [4]
And just, because you or I would not be able to resist an invitation to go yachting with Eldon Parr, a man might be imagined who had that amount of moral courage. [9]
The doctrines which you once professed, and of which you have now made such an unlooked-for repudiation! [9]
I have met you on business three or four times; true, I never offered to corrupt your principles--never hinted such a thing; but always when I had finished sounding you, I manipulated you through an agent. [5]
They have cast you off like an old moccasin. [9]
T.] "Possible that you not it saw not," said Smiley, "possible that you--you comprehend frogs; possible that you not you there comprehend nothing; possible that you had of the experience, and possible that you not be but an amateur. [5]
And you, Nemesianus--are you not also an Aurelius? [10]
Even at meals you never have an hour of peace and comfort. [10]
When I postponed you lately, I did it because I thought I should be cramped for money until January, but that has turned out to be an error, so I hasten to cut short the postponement. [5]
My existence, as you know, is an uncertain quantity, and may be cut short at any moment in the ordinary course of things. [11]
But of course, you know, if I went to work at those things with an ethical intention explicitly in mind, I should spoil them. [8]
Now how do you know that the suspected criminal was an infidel, Monsieur? [11]
I've no doubt you know something about them, and that you would maintain they are justified on account of the indifference of the public, and of other reasons, but I can cite an instance that is simply legalized thieving. [9]
I would say, 'You know me, Monsieur; I shall deem it an honour to know you. [14]
I will join you in an hour. [10]
If I were you I would keep an eye on him. [4]
Let me tell you I have an order from the British Government to confine him to his estate; not to permit him to leave it; and, if he does, to arrest him. [11]
Did I tell you I had an offer from Bobbett and Fanshaw to go into their office as confidential clerk on a salary of ten thousand? [5]
I now send you herewith what I suppose will be an ample defense against any such charges. [7]
Even here to-day you heard Judge Douglas quarrel with me because I uttered a wish that it might sometime come to an end. [7]
Of course, if you heard it, you know my belief is that the total climatic influences here are getting up a number of new patterns of humanity, some of which are not an improvement on the old model. [6]
For every master you have yet sent can find the way as well as he, so that an hundred pounds might be spared, which is more than we have all, that helps to pay him wages. [4]
That is what you have to expect if you invent anything that puts an old machine out of fashion, or solve a problem that has puzzled all the world up to your time. [6]
The labour which you have shirked, which is now hidden from you, will be disclosed, you will justify your existence by taking your place as an element of the community. [9]
I suppose what you have heard a rumor of was not a general battle, but an "affair" at Bristow Station on the railroad, a few miles beyond Manassas Junction toward the Rappahannock, on Wednesday, the 14th. [7]
As it is, you have fallen into an annuity of one hundred and fifty pounds a year; but I think I may congratulate you even upon that. [12]
Now I know you have been asleep for an hour. [4]
But, by Besa, you have as many coats as an onion. [10]
It is rumoured you have an order to confine him to his plantation; but to apply it would bring revolution in Jamaica. [11]
You told me you had hired an attendant for ma. [5]
But what are you going to do when you find John Keats an apprentice to a surgeon or apothecary? [6]
Should she, as you fear, be destined to an early grave, it is indeed a great consolation to know that she is so well prepared to meet it. [7]
He spoke of you even at the very last," she went on, turning her eyes from Pierre to her companion with a shyness that surprised him for an instant. [2]

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