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Sentences starting with answer

Answer at once, what has happened to your queen? [10]
Answer me, some way or somehow--and quick. [5]
Answer me on this. [7]
Answer me, my son, do you stand with the King or with your father in this? [11]
Answer this on receipt. [7]
Answer me out of your own sense, and from my story. [11]
Answer up prompt now--don't stop to study over it. [5]
Answer up square now, and it'll be the better for you. [5]
Answer that to me, m'sieu'? [11]
Answer honestly--I should like to know whether it is very, very terrible to hear. [10]

Sentences ending with answer

Consider well before you answer. [10]
I glanced through yonder letter while talking with the Exegetus; now I will dictate the answer. [10]
It is not worth while being so--to anybody," was her chilly answer. [11]
Give me anything--anything will answer. [5]
His hospital companions, who had gathered round Rostov--a fresh arrival from the world outside--gradually began to disperse as soon as Denisov began reading his answer. [2]
She remained sitting where she was in a fearful fascination, awaiting Humphrey Crewe's answer. [9]
He would ask what it was good for, and what could I answer? [5]
They had no weapons, but there were plenty of stones, and stones might answer. [5]
When we die we know, and we have to answer. [11]
I assert that we have again and again, during this discussion, urged facts and arguments against the subtreasury which they have neither dared to deny nor attempted to answer. [7]

Short sentences using answer

Will he answer you? [5]
She gave her usual answer. [5]
Let him answer us! [2]
But he decided to answer. [8]
Answer, what art thou? [11]
And what was the answer? [10]
You answer me that. [5]
Please answer me that. [5]
I couldn't answer that. [5]
Don't answer me that way. [5]

Sentences containing answer two or more times

Then it occurred to him: if the answer to the question were contained in his name, his nationality would also be given in the answer. [2]
How was one to answer such a formidably unanswerable answer as that? [5]
I knew all this would happen; I knew that ultimately the pressure would become so great that it would compel utterance; therefore, I must be ready with an answer at that time--an answer well chosen and tranquilizing. [5]
She dreaded what the answer might be-not Jean Jacques' answer, but the answer of Life. [11]
Her hasty information that the Emperor did not wish to hear the choir at noon somewhat relieved his mind; but when, in answer to his no less hasty question about the singing at the late meal, the answer came, "What is that to me? [10]
If you mean that it is our aim to dissolve the Union, I for myself answer that it is untrue; for those who act with me I answer that it is untrue. [7]
I now propose that I will answer any of the interrogatories, upon condition that he will answer questions from me not exceeding the same number. [7]
For answer, Clarence struck the paper out of my hand, pursed up a scornful lip and said with lofty disdain: "Dismember me this animal, and return him in a basket to the base-born knave who sent him; other answer have I none! [5]
I remember Thackeray's story of his asking some simple question of a royal or semi-royal personage whom he met in the courtyard of an hotel, which question his Highness did not answer, but called a subordinate to answer for him. [6]
In the first place, Miller's answer to the first question shows upon its face that he had been tampered with, and the answer dictated to him. [7]

More example sentences with the word answer in them

I think you yourself realized that my wish to wait a year before giving a final answer was proof that I really had not that in my heart which would justify me in saying what you wished me to say. [11]
You may answer your question yourself. [5]
She said: "Read your book--and then I will answer you! [5]
The answer to your arguments is to be seen on every side, atheism, hypocrisy, vice, misery, insane and cruel grasping after wealth. [9]
Please answer as you would do, on my requirement, if the act of June 15, 1864, had not been passed, and I will so use your opinion as to satisfy that act. [7]
I don't ask you to reveal it, but I will suppose a case--a case which you will answer as a starting point for the real thing I am going to come at, and that's all I want. [5]
Let me tell you that unless there's a good round answer to what we demand, the Nore fleet'll have it out with the government. [11]
When you come, you shall ask what questions you like on that point, and I will answer to the best of my stammering ability. [14]
And what, if you please, was the answer I received? [10]
But I told you it was a delicate question, and warned you to deal with it deftly--to answer it dubiously, and leave them a little in the dark. [5]
There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. [5]
Is it possible you can answer up, right off, and tell what anybody on the other side of the earth is doing, and yet can't tell what a person is doing who isn't three yards from you? [5]
If it suits you best not to answer this, farewell. [7]
I have asked you a great many questions and you have not hesitated to answer, and you may know how I got into this miserable cage and why I stay in it. [10]
Has any one yet found the right answer to the old question: 'What is Truth? [10]
That letter you wrote, that speech you made at the Chamber of Commerce dinner--" She watched him, dreading what his answer might be. [11]
Because he has written his chiefs and asked with high confidence for an answer that will confound these questioners--and the chiefs did not reply. [5]
So I am writing to you not because I have anything to say, but because you don't have to answer and I need something to do this afternoon..... [5]
In February, she writes as follows to Mr. Smith:-- "Something you say about going to London; but the words are dreamy, and fortunately I am not obliged to hear or answer them. [14]
He did, however, write some letters in 1876, as, for instance, the answer to the invitation of the Virginia students. [6]
But her answer would assuredly have been "no," if she had had the smallest feeling of liking for the Emperor's favorite; but she bore the image of another in her heart, and did not even perceive that Antinous was beautiful. [10]
So he sent word to the sick man, that he should be pleased to visit him and have some conversation with him; and received for answer that he would be welcome. [6]
The weal or woe of her whole future depended on the answer she should give to Philostratus. [10]
I plied Cockle with questions as to what they purposed doing with me, but he was wont to turn sulky, and would answer me not a word. [9]
He was gasping with passion, and he did not answer yet. [11]
Come straightway back with me before his worship, and answer for the crime!--and then the lad will hang. [5]
His answer, bringing with it her remembrance of her husband at certain times when it was not safe to question him, had silenced her. [9]
Let him answer with facts and not with arguments. [7]
Then, approaching him with both arms extended joyfully, she exclaimed: "Thus you ought to speak and feel, and therein is the answer to the question which has agitated my soul since yesterday. [10]
Natasha watched him with an intent gaze that confused him, as if she were trying to find in his face the answer to some question. [2]
Please favor me with an answer at your earliest convenience. [7]
I am quite willing to answer any gentleman in the crowd who asks an intelligent question. [7]
Do what I will, they won't answer my German with anything but English; if that goes on, they'll stand stock-still. [5]
No mere ferule will answer for this offence. [5]
Ned Blakely--that name will answer as well as any other fictitious one (for he was still with the living at last accounts, and may not desire to be famous)--sailed ships out of the harbor of San Francisco for many years. [5]
Pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. [2]
Her lips, too, which she had but rarely and timidly opened for a question or an answer, were in constant motion; for how much she desired to know, how many questions she had to ask the silent husband who had endured such terrible suffering. [10]
Admitting the paper which he has filed in the suit to be genuine, it is clear that it cannot answer the purpose for which he designs it. [7]
But the demand which had followed her answer now recurred to her. [10]
That pathetic letter which comes to you from the incapable, the unhelpable--how do you who are familiar with it answer it? [5]
And the answer which comes to him--" "There is only one," cried the matron; "the omnipotent gods. [10]
I don't know whether the noble lord has repented or not; but I do say that his Government will rue it, if his answer is not the one word 'Intervention! [11]
And I marvelled where the Swabian, who was so slow of speech, found the words for retort and answer, till at length it was too much for him and he laid his hand on his hanger as a second and a sharper tongue. [10]
He gulped and wheezed some time before he could find an answer, and at last, after choking down the tears which had forced their way to his eyes, said, in a half-angry, half-whining tone: "Didn't I say so? [10]
This argument, from what looks like cause and effect, whether it be so or not, is what you will have to meet wherever you go, and you need not think you can answer it. [3]
But answer me, what is your country? [11]
Do you know what her answer was, Dorothy? [9]
How surprised they were, then, to see nothing of the sort happen--how they marvelled to hear him answer up promptly, in a confident and untroubled voice, and say-- "There is nought in this riddle that is difficult. [5]
And if you were to ask me to name one of the greatest religious teachers of our age, I should answer, William James. [9]
Austen's words, unconsciously, were an answer to her thoughts. [9]
She was pretty well paid, to be sure, and in answer to Selene's enquiry, he had stated the amount she earned and mentioned the name of the rich manufacturer to whom she had sold her social standing for gold. [10]
This interruption was welcome to the abbess; she had as yet found no answer to her niece's startling objection. [10]
That body was weak, but the spirit in it was the spirit of Joan of Arc; and out of that came the steadfast answer which these people were already so familiar with and detested so sincerely: "Let come what may. [5]
On such occasions we appealed to my mother, and her answer instantly set all doubts at rest; for we thought she could never be mistaken, and knew that she always told the truth. [10]
Not the entire way, but far enough to answer the requirements of the case. [5]
His characteristic answer was: "I place no value on these forms unless they depend upon and express the inner self. [10]
The precise widow was very much upset, she was also horrified at the insolent answer which,--she knew not how,--had just passed her lips. [10]
Mr. Billings' answer was to wink, very slowly, with one eye; and shortly after these pleasantries were over, the case was called. [9]
How hard it was to find the right answer, when she asked him whether he did not hope everything from the great physician's intervention, or when she inquired what were the works to which Galen owed his chief fame! [10]
Eva's only answer was the expression of her grief for his friend's decease. [10]
Ladies first-and last," was the equally sarcastic answer. [11]
The unguessed answer was that he had never surprised her in a vivid moment. [9]
If Mark Twain was tempted, we get no hint of it in his answer. [5]
At first he was silent and embarrassed, but Henrica gave him no rest, and when he had once begun to answer her questions he was soon carried away by her glowing vivacity, and gave free, joyous play to his wit. [10]
Manners; and I was put to much ingenuity to answer their queries and not reveal my own connection with him. [9]
They declared there was only one physician in the place and he was arrested every week regularly and held to answer under the vagrant act for having "no visible means of support. [5]
One thing, however, was now firmly established in his belief: that his favourite virtues were really the fairest of all, because--one will answer for all--man never felt happier than when he had succeeded in keeping his fidelity inviolate and maintaining his steadfastness. [10]
But the attendant was not there to answer. [6]
And her answer was not of her own choosing. [9]
And there really was no answer to this. [4]
Any one who was learned in the heart of woman might have smiled at such words from such lips and in such an hour; but Hermas blushed and cast down his eyes, and knew not what to answer. [10]
At first she was ill disposed to answer any questions, but she soon felt that attitude would only do harm. [11]
Such--a loving gesture was her answer. [9]
We asked what was going forward; the answer was: "Scaffolds and the stake. [5]
But Mr. Cluyme was evidently expecting no answer. [9]
A harsh answer was already on his lips, when he saw Ulrich, who had paused on the threshold in bewilderment. [10]
When his mother was alive, she once told the lad to give her the best of some freshly-baked cakes, that she might take it to the temple for an offering, and what was his answer? [10]
In the tone was a quiet certainty suggesting that she would not hesitate to answer. [11]
His father's answer was a blow he could not understand. [5]
She supposed they wanted a serious answer, and she gave it. [5]
But I didn't want to run the raft in the daytime without anybody aboard to answer questions but me; so I didn't want the plan to begin working till pretty late to-night. [5]
She, however, was waiting with ardent longing for another, so her sole answer was a troubled shake of the head. [10]
The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of the officers as he went: "Have these gentlemen attended to and taken to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds. [2]
Ephraim did not wait for an answer. [9]
Boy directed to wait for an answer. [6]
Once more Fleda's voice called, and before he could answer they were face to face. [11]
He lowered his voice and went on: "I did not ask whether you wished for peace or war--I know that every Persian prefers the labor of war to an inglorious idleness--but I wished to know what answer you would give the Massagetan warriors. [10]
I made a very nice picture of that man's house and I wanted to offer it to him for ten francs, but that wouldn't answer, seeing I was the pupil of such a master, so I sold it to him for a hundred. [5]
A person more versed in the modern world of affairs than the late rector of Bremerton would not have been so long in arriving at the answer to this riddle. [9]
He received no verbal answer to these mute questions, but when Hosea grasped his callous right hand in both his own and pressed it as he would have clasped a friend's, when he bade him farewell with tearful eyes, murmuring: "You shall hear from me! [10]
M'sieu' Doltaire smile ver' wicked, and answer, 'Make it three hunder' thousan' francs, your Excellency. [11]
And so I ventured to ask once more a question which I had asked years before and had gotten such a sharp answer that I had not thought it prudent to meddle in the matter further. [5]
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. [3]
Now she took up the beaker, and lifted it to her lips, but set it down again to answer Paaker's remark that she was breakfasting late. [10]
But if he undertakes to speak to me, he can wait for an answer till the day of judgment! [10]
If Professor Peirce undertakes to pilot me into Boston Harbor and runs me on Cohasset rocks, what answer is it to tell me that he is Superintendent of the Coast Survey? [3]
Five months and two weeks ago McFarland asked John Morgan the time of day, and turned and walked rapidly away without waiting for an answer. [5]
Yes, I will try to nibble a little now--I wish a light horsewhipping would answer instead. [5]
She dared not try to answer the question. [11]
In regard to Trumbull's charge that he [Douglas] inserted a provision into the bill to prevent the constitution being submitted to the people, what was his answer? [7]

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