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Sentences starting with around

Around our hats were wound many folds of soft white muslin, with the ends hanging and flapping down our backs--an idea brought from the Orient and used by tourists all over Europe. [5]
Around the bottom were thousands of little nicks just distinguishable to the eye. [13]
Around her neck was hung a heavy rope of pearls. [9]
Around the court-house was a familiar, buzzing scene,--the backwoodsmen, lounging against the wall or brawling over their claims, the sleek agents and attorneys, and half a dozen of a newer type. [9]
Around the gnarled trunk was a seat. [9]
Around it a thousand furious men were packed. [9]
Around him stood those who had come with him. [5]
Around the cannon the men moved still more briskly and busily. [2]
Around them were the hills of the Mighty Men-- austere, majestic; at their feet was a vast valley on which the light newly-fallen snow had not hidden all the grass. [11]
Around him in the darkness men were standing and evidently something about him interested them greatly. [2]

Sentences ending with around

Now is it you sure enough--turn around! [5]
But who has written out these others that are being so assiduously passed around? [9]
Negroes and farmers' wives took to the woods when the buggy came upon them suddenly, and altogether the drive was pleasant and animated, and a refreshment all around. [5]
The window frame which prevented anyone from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of the gentlemen around. [2]
Where was we when the license was around? [11]
Axes and choppers were plied all around. [2]
From all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. [2]
The two men were eating a late breakfast; sitting opposite each other; nobody else around. [5]
But if you was to go to Europe you'd see a raft of 'em hopping around. [5]
They were still wandering up and down, with fewer people about them, but with the same sense of solitude in their own breasts, and the same indifference from all around. [12]

Short sentences using around

I followed around to see. [5]
Now look around on England. [5]
I don't want men around. [4]
I'm going to look around. [4]
You would better jump around. [5]
Honora looked around her. [9]
Move around the driveway, please. [9]
He's around the corner. [9]
I won't come bothering around. [5]
The balls came booming around. [5]

Sentences containing around two or more times

At one place where we halted for a while, the foul gush from a sewer was making the water turbid and murky all around, and there was a random corpse slopping around in it that had floated down from up country. [5]
They had come up from the quarry and stood around the stile a while, and then went on around the garden fence. [5]
He would sit under the battlements until the crack of doom; or rather--and more appropriate in Mr. Chamberlin's case--walk around them and around, blowing trumpets until they capitulated. [9]
She had only time to realize that they were Romanys, before scarfs were thrown around her head, bound around her body, and, unconscious, she was carried away into the deep woods. [11]
Have spent the three days partly in walking about, partly in enjoying social privileges, and largely in idling around the magnificent garden at Hutt, a little distance away, around the shore. [5]
He had pushed the leaders around and around till they were about to turn in on the inner side of the end of that line of steers. [13]
The smoke of the burning mountain was wrapping itself around him; he was choking with its dense fumes; he heard the flames roaring around him, he felt the hot lava beneath his feet, he uttered a faint cry, and awoke. [6]
They reeled and sprawled around as if they were drunk, and endangered everybody's lives around them, and finally fell over and lay helpless and kicking. [5]
I have been spinning around and around the wheel like a squirrel. [5]
He thought it over, and said we must scour around and see if we could roust out one in Egypt or Arabia or around in some of these countries, but the guide said no, it warn't no use, they didn't have them. [5]

More example sentences with the word around in them

The honeysuckle in your garden needs a support, that it may grow and put forth flowers; let these poor songs be the espalier around which your memory of the absent one can twine its tendrils and cling lovingly. [10]
Now I want you, if you'll be so good, to go around with me to the Pacific delegation, for I want to rush this thing through and get along home. [5]
Well, look around you here as I do. [10]
In truth, Paula, you have forgotten how to look around and forward. [10]
If any but you had dictated the Reply, M. Bourget, I would know that that anecdote was twisted around and its intention magnified some hundreds of times, in order that it might be used as a pretext to creep in the back way. [5]
You lemme catch you fooling around that school again, you hear? [5]
You look around you and you see a nation of sixty millions-- apparently; but secreted in their hands and brains, and invisible to your eyes, is the true population of this Republic, and it numbers forty billions! [5]
She turned away, yet looked back once more--she felt tragedy around her. [11]
It is four years since Susy died; it is five years and a month that I saw her alive for the last time-throwing kisses at us from the railway platform when we started West around the world. [5]
My house my yard, everything around me, in fact, shows' that I am becoming one of these cattle--and I used to be thrifty in other times. [5]
We grounded, and Xavier, seizing a great tow-rope, leaped into the shallow water and passed the bight around a trunk. [9]
While speaking, the wretched mother, with trembling hands, tore out a locket which she wore on a little chain around her neck. [10]
His riata was wound around the pummel of my saddle, and so, as he went by he dragged me from my horse and the two animals traveled briskly on without me. [5]
They said it wouldn't go; and they wanted to examine it, and spy around and get the secret of it out of me. [5]
He thought he would satisfy himself on that point; so he searched around till he found a small sandy spot with a little funnel-shaped depression in it. [5]
He said he would sail his balloon around the globe just to show what he could do, and then he would sink it in the sea, and sink us all along with it, too. [5]
I thought I would just look around, meantime, in a quiet way, and make up my mind. [5]
Perhaps his diary would have something of interest with reference to the "Saturday Club," of which he was a member, which, in fact, formed itself around him as a nucleus, and which he attended very regularly. [6]
To offer resistance would have been madness, for even Hermon perceived, by the loud clanking of weapons around them, the greatly superior power of the enemy, and they were acting by the orders of the King. [10]
And how they would fly around when he wanted a basin of water, a gourd of the same, or a light for his pipe!--but they would instantly insult a passenger if he so far forgot himself as to crave a favor at their hands. [5]
He said it would fetch bad luck; and besides, he said, he might come and ha'nt us; he said a man that warn't buried was more likely to go a-ha'nting around than one that was planted and comfortable. [5]
But no; he would crowd up around a point, hugging the shore with affection, and then say: 'The slack water ends here, abreast this bunch of China-trees; now we cross over. [5]
I concluded I would bunch my whole invoice right here, and not go pricing around any more. [5]
I knowed he would be changing it around every which way as we went along, and heaving in new bullinesses wherever he got a chance. [5]
I got sick worryin', and when I was strong enough to be around they'd filled my job at the grocery, and it wasn't long before we had to move out of our little home in Alder Street. [9]
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]
At times the world swam around me, and I could hardly keep from letting go, so dizzying was the appalling danger. [5]
Sunday She doesn't work Sundays, but lies around all tired out, and likes to have the fish wallow over her; and she makes fool noises to amuse it, and pretends to chew its paws, and that makes it laugh. [5]
I think the work of the reformer as innocent as other work that is done around him; but when I have seen it near!--I do not like it better. [6]
The prelate's white woollen morning-robe clung closely around his stately figure. [10]
And how the woman with the red band around her neck, the mark of the rope by which she carried the stone, rushed at the other whose eye had been put out! [10]
Twilight fell around Withersteen House, and dusk and night. [13]
You can sit, with your knees drawn up to your chin and your arms clasped around them, but you are bound to turn over presently, because you are top-heavy in that position. [5]
Don Luis Quijada, with the haughty precision of the Castilian grandee, was passing through the humble folk around him and advancing directly toward her. [10]
The branch falls with the decay of its support, and must cling to the new growths around it, if it would not lie helpless in the dust. [6]
Imagine yourself there, with that watery doom creeping higher and higher around you. [5]
He flattered her with so much tact, that she thought she heard an unconscious echo through his lips of an admiration which he only shared with all around him. [6]
The wind brought with it a suggestion of the pine-clad wastes of the northwestern wilderness whence it came, and that sure harbinger of autumn, the blue haze, settled around the hills, and benumbed the rays of the sun lingering over the crests. [9]
It is honeycombed with dugouts in which the Germans who clung to it found their graves, while the victorious British army swept around it toward Bapaume. [9]
His robe filled with air and stood out all around him like a balloon. [5]
He ordered wine with a royal flourish and said: "I never dine without wine, sir" (which was a pitiful falsehood), and looked around upon the company to bask in the admiration he expected to find in their faces. [5]
A copper-colored skeleton, with a rag around him, brought me a glass decanter of water, with a lighted tobacco pipe in the top of it, and a pliant stem a yard long, with a brass mouth-piece to it. [5]
I suppose it will, but then through some convulsed crisis, shattering all around it like an earthquake. [14]
The elephant-hunter's enthusiasm will waste away little by little, and his zeal will perish at last if he plod around a month without finding a member of that noble family to assassinate. [5]
A big war will temporarily shut up the Suez Canal some day and the English ships will have to go to India around the Cape of Good Hope again; then England will have to have Bourbon and will take it. [5]
Such a fire will keep all night, with very little replenishing; and it makes a very sociable camp-fire, and one around which the most impossible reminiscences sound plausible, instructive, and profoundly entertaining. [5]
He put the will carefully back in its place, and spread his mouth and swung his hat once, twice, three times around his head, in imitation of three rousing huzzahs, no sound issuing from his lips. [5]
There was a wild outbreak of anger below, and the mob swarmed in from all around, and there we were treed, and prisoners. [5]
It had been wickedly said of him, when the news of his coming departure got around, that he feared Dorothy would fall in love with some provincial beau before he could get her within reach of a title. [9]
I saw cripples whom I had seen around Camelot for years on crutches, arrive and pray before that picture, and put down their crutches and walk off without a limp. [5]
And others, the whole way around the ring. [9]
It was Archibius, who with grave composure bade them follow him, and silently led them around the sanctuary to a side door, through which, a short time before, a litter had passed, accompanied by several attendants. [10]
Those around me who were sufficiently nimble began to run towards the noise, and I ran after them. [9]
The laughing loves who twined their rose garlands around him and Helena's predecessors had nothing to do with this grave maiden. [10]
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]
The four monks, who had leaned their heads against the cornice of the wide, closed fireplace and, in spite of the flies which buzzed around them, had fallen asleep, awoke. [10]
They were always whispering around my bed and plotting against me, and it broke my sleep and kept me fagged out, because I got no good rest. [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]
We do not whirl him around a stick, as they do, but that is merely a detail. [5]
The bullets were whining and whistling so stimulatingly around him and his horse was so eager to go that he could not restrain himself. [2]
By some odd whim of the weather the wind had backed around into the east, gathering the clouds once more. [9]
It is worth while to journey around the globe to see anything which can truthfully be called a novelty, and the diamond mine is the greatest and most select and restricted novelty which the globe has in stock. [5]
And all the while she felt as though light were spreading in her and around her, and the vision she had last seen when she lost consciousness rose again before her inward eye. [10]
Here is one which--well, now, how often we do slam right into the truth without ever suspecting it: The men employed by the Gas Company go around and speculate the meter. [5]
The long mustache, which usually curled so arrogantly upwards, now drooped damp and limp over his mouth and chin, and his long reddish hair fell in dishevelled locks around his bloated face. [10]
This desert, around which hovered gulls, sea-swallows, and sea-eagles, had been for several weeks the abode of the fugitives, Dion and Barine. [10]
The flaxen hair, which bristled around his head and hung over his broad, ugly face, gave him so unkempt and imbecile an appearance that it was repulsive to the almoner, and he harshly asked where he had been loitering. [10]
And she determined when Wednesday afternoon came around that she would take a long walk in the direction of Brookline. [9]
And one night when we was wet to the skin and the Boschs was droppin' shell all around us we got the word. [9]
It is discouraging when we look around us to-day, and in a way the pessimists are right when they say we don't see democracy. [9]
Half the time when Nick is needed he is not to be found; then it turns out that he has been gadding around with you two. [5]
Half the time, when it is packed as full as it can stick, you will see that New England weather sticking out beyond the edges and projecting around hundreds and hundreds of miles over the neighboring states. [5]
I don't read when I'm knocking around like this, having a good time. [5]
Well, one day when I was not around, one of these people came along--it was a she one, this time--and told a tale of the usual pattern. [5]
Yet, in 1895, when he was sixty years old, he decided to rebuild his fortunes by making a reading tour around the world. [5]
And at last, when he knew his time was come, he pretended to think a new visitor had entered, and so, with the rattle in his throat emphasised for dramatic effect, he said to the servant, "Shin around, John, and get the gentleman a chair. [5]
All this is what we see around us, now, now while we are actually fighting this great battle, and supporting this great load of indebtedness. [6]
Charmian, not knowing what to do, passed her arm around her. [10]
All around them were well-dressed, well-fed, prosperous-looking people, talking and laughing in subdued tones as they ate. [9]
My overcoat pockets were stuffed with German cigars and linen packages of American smoking tobacco, and a porter was following us around with this overcoat on his arm, and gradually getting it upside down. [5]
The day they were living in stretched behind them half way round the globe, across the Pacific Ocean and America and Europe; the day I was living in stretched in front of me around the other half to meet it. [5]
Councils of war were held over the advisability of seizing Mr. Carvel's house at Glencoe, but proof was lacking until one rainy night in June a captain and ten men spurred up the drive and swung into a big circle around the house. [9]
Shouts of approval were heard from the crowd around, and at the same moment a mounted patrol of French Uhlans appeared from round the corner. [2]
Those around me were gradually finding out the circumstances which brought on the deadly attack to which I was subject. [6]
The minutest particles were driven through a fine wire screen which fitted close around the battery, and were washed into great tubs warmed by super-heated steam--amalgamating pans, they are called. [5]
The two thieves were dressed in the fanciful court costumes of the middle of the sixteenth century, while the Saviour was nude, with the exception of a cloth around the loins. [5]
Pale, frightened people were doing something around the workman. [2]
Mahmoud's whole family were comfortably planted around him. [5]
Although the pedestrians were but twenty feet away, what Mr. Worthington said never reached them; but the Honorable Heth on public days carried his voice of the Forum around with him. [9]
Buttercups and daisies were blooming around the edges of the craters. [9]
And the house went on weaving and weaving and weaving, but he watched the door, and when it came around his way he plunged through it. [5]
Nothing of what went on around her escaped Sabina's little eyes, and she had observed that while the governor was considering the document addressed to him he had moved uneasily. [10]
So the four went beyond the power of gold and gewgaw, and were dragged in the mire around the walls and flung into the yellow waters of the river. [9]
He said: "I went ashore at Naples one voyage when I was in that trade, and stood around helping my passengers, for I could speak a little Italian. [5]
The effect of well-built, well-furnished, well-kept houses and of handsome grounds always maintained in good order about them shows itself in a large circuit around the fashionable centre. [6]
He ain't very well known around the State, and he was bound to run--and I just couldn't let him come out without any clothes on. [9]
Her knees became weak, she looked around her dizzily, and beheld the triumphant professional smile of the Honourable Dave Beckwith. [9]
And at night we would gather at the fire around our new emigrants to listen to the stories they had to tell,--familiar stories to all of us. [9]
By the time we were entirely around and pointed, the first buoy was not more than a hundred yards in front of us. [5]
While strolling around, we kept the run of the moon all the time, and we still kept an eye on her after we got back to the hotel portico. [5]

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