Use as in a sentence
Sentences starting with as
- As I said, you've only run away from one master to fall into another master's hands. [11]
- As for that youth, Clement Lindsay, if he had not taken himself off as he did, Murray Bradshaw confessed to himself that he should have felt uneasy. [6]
- As for 'Wild Youth' I make no apology for it. [11]
- As I understand your present life, I think you will always recall it with satisfaction, because the self-sacrifice that fills it now..." "I cannot accept your praise," he interrupted her hurriedly. [2]
- As I believe, your husband is willing to let bygones be bygones, and to begin to-morrow as though there was no to-day. [11]
- As the bold young woman tapped Gombert lightly on the arm and, with fresh words of invitation, pointed toward the counter, a shiver ran through Barbara's limbs. [10]
- As for his young pupil, she has often thought of being a teacher herself, so that she is of course very glad to acquire any accomplishment that may be useful to her in that capacity. [6]
- As for the young man, he felt as though wings were growing from his shoulders, and this fateful evening was one of the happiest of his life. [10]
- As I wrote you, he sat up both nights, with Preston--he could not be induced to leave the room. [9]
- As long as you travel with us, keep as near me as you can. [12]
Short sentences using as
- But--pardon me--not as your friend. [11]
- Insult me as you will. [10]
- There--ease up--steady, as you go. [5]
- As Mr. Chauncey Wright (1. [1]
- Misgivings as to what? [5]
- As if fighting were fun. [2]
- She might as well begin. [4]
- Such as it was! [9]
- As usual, she was wise. [5]
- Conticuere omnes, as Virgil says. [6]
Sentences containing as two or more times
- Both are as zealously fostered in Keilhau now as in former years. [10]
- 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]
- And so, many youthful poets have written as if their hearts were old before their time; their pensive morning twilight has been as cool and saddening as that of evening in more common lives. [6]
- Every time a youth looks love in a maiden's eyes, and sees the timid appealing return of the universal passion, the world for those two is just as certainly created as it was on the first morning, in all its color, odor, song, freshness, promise. [4]
- If the agile youth could reach this cleft unseen, and crawl through as far as the pool of saltwater, overgrown with tall grass and tangled desert shrubs, at which it ended, he might, aided by the clouds, succeed. [10]
- This Alexandria--in her youth as dissolute as she was fair--what is she now but an old hag? [10]
- This fact of yours, which seems so strange to you, belongs to a great series of similar facts familiarly known now to many persons, and before long to be recognized as generally as those relating to the electric telegraph and the slaving `dynamo. [6]
- They tell me you're buildin' a mill up at McChesney's, and I reckon you're as cute as any of 'em. [9]
- You're a gossip; you're a damned, pertinacious, preposterous gossip, and I'll say it as often as you like. [11]
- Why, he'll read your wrinkles as easy as a book, and not only tell you fifty or sixty things that's going to happen to you, but fifty or sixty thousand that ain't. [5]
More example sentences with the word as in them
- If the young Zouave of the family looks smart in his new uniform, its respectable head is content, though he himself grow seedy as a caraway-umbel late in the season. [6]
- But as the zigzag flash of lightning had just been followed by the peal of thunder, she clung to him, earnestly beseeching him not to leave her. [10]
- Pardon the wild youth who plagues his old friend and teacher, as he did long ago--so much has happened since. [11]
- At thirty the youth has sobered into manhood, but the strong men of forty rise in almost unbroken rank between him and the approaches of old age as they show in the men of fifty. [6]
- Here the persecuted youth changed his name, Horus, to its Greek equivalent, and henceforth he was known at home and in the schools as Apollo. [10]
- But as to yourself: Those who were born in high places rarely suit us, who have dragged ourselves up from below to a better position. [10]
- Still, as you yourself know, our mothers' wish in the first instance. [10]
- Picture it to yourself as you will! [10]
- Do not consider yourself as confined to discussing only our sad affairs. [14]
- You have proved yourself a man, Richard, and there are very few macaronies would have done as you did. [9]
- 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 always liked your writings, but you never did anything half so good as this last piece," and then to have to tell the blunderer that this last piece is n't yours, but t' other man's. [6]
- You can do your work just as well here as in Cambridge, can't you? [5]
- Depart, and when your work is finished, take as much as you like out of the treasury. [10]
- If you see your way to meet us in New Orleans, drop me a line, now, and as we approach that city I will telegraph you what day we shall arrive there. [5]
- Wishing to make your visit here as pleasant as we can, we wish you to notify us as soon as possible whether you come this way, how many, and when you will arrive. [7]
- Well, that is your training; it is the training of everybody; but as for me, I thank that incident for giving me a better light, and I have never forgotten it. [5]
- So long as your surly old father sits over the vice, he only whistles a song and spares you his complaints. [10]
- Yet I watched your steps as the hunter follows the trail of the game. [10]
- If you command your staff to have this posted as a proclamation throughout the island, it will do as much good as a thousand soldiers. [11]
- You go to your sick wife, and I will take the key to the senator as soon as I have finished my devotions. [10]
- And even if your secret should eventually be discovered--which is not probable--you will have earned respect, and society is not as stern as it used to be. [9]
- He'll travel with your roan as on one snaffle- bar. [11]
- I know how your Queen receives you; how your honour is as stable as your fief. [11]
- A shot from your pistol brought him down as he rushed forward to enter the ruins. [11]
- Go back to your people as their chiefs, and tell them that through you the Big Knives have granted peace to your nation. [9]
- Carnac, you have your own career to make, so make it as it best suits yourself. [11]
- Get emancipation into your new State government constitution and there will be no such word as fail for your cause. [7]
- Let that be your model; and remember, on peril of your reputation as a prophet, not to put a stop before or after the nunquam. [6]
- But I hope your melancholy bodings as to her early death are not well founded. [7]
- You have not your match here in Alexandria, no, nor so far as Greek is spoken. [10]
- But, pugnaciously as your loud voice summons to the strife, it will never destroy the sacred and venerable things which are worthy to endure. [10]
- I will nominate your little Philopator heir to the throne, for I have no wish to contract a permanent tie with any woman, as Cleopatra belongs to you. [10]
- In each of your letters to us, you will state the number of certain votes both for and against us, as well as the number of doubtful votes, with your opinion of the manner in which they will be cast. [7]
- 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]
- You yourself, in your law practice, are always insisting upon the sacredness of contract as the very basis of our civilization. [9]
- 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]
- But I vow your hair looks better as it is. [9]
- And they all your friends--seem to take it as a matter of course. [9]
- The safety of your fortune would be less difficult to provide for if, as was formerly the case here, we could entrust it to the merchants of Alexandria. [10]
- Try to have your force, or the advance of it, at Front Royal as soon. [7]
- But in detaching your force the President directs that it be done in such a way as to enable you to hold your ground and not interfere with the movement against Chattanooga and East Tennessee. [7]
- You can't put your finger on a spot in the map of Missouri that I don't know as if I'd made it. [5]
- The Lord took your father to himself as a martyr; your mother has dedicated herself to Heaven. [10]
- Why, Burlingame, as your family physician, I shouldn't hesitate even to present my account against your estate if, in a tussle with the devil, he got you out of my hands. [11]
- I am helping your family congratulate themselves, and am your friend as always. [5]
- The days of your education, as pupils of trained instructors, are over. [3]
- Favour us with your decision as speedily as possible, ma'am. [12]
- It's because of your concern for the welfare of your workers in the mills that I ventured to come and talk to you of how most of them live when they're at home," replied Siddons, as Janet thought, rather neatly. [9]
- You must cut your climate to your constitution, as much as your clothing to your shape. [6]
- This is now your case; which, as I have said, pains me not less than it does you. [7]
- 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]
- I have avoided your bait, as you call it, for your sake, not mine own. [11]
- You have brought your army corps to Pultusk, routed: here it is exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as you yourself reported to Count Buxhowden yesterday, you must think of retreating to our frontier--which do today. [2]
- I will remain your ally in this matter; for, as Cambyses' dying father appointed me the counsellor of his son in word and deed, I venture occasionally a bold word to arrest his excesses. [10]
- But, as for your advice--Holy Virgin!--I know now less than ever how I am to fare; but I shall soon learn. [10]
- I feel for you--oh, believe me, I feel as I have never felt, could never feel, for myself. [11]
- But when the youngest went, she commenced the work as soon as she reached the lodge; although it had always been occupied, still the Indians never could see any one. [5]
- Some of the younger officers who were there, laughed as they followed his retreating figure. [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]
- It was a young woman, with as many white muslin flounces round her as the planet Saturn has rings, that did it. [6]
- She was a young woman of thirty, slim to spareness, simply dressed in a shirtwaist and a dark blue skirt; alert, so distinctly American in type as to give a suggestion of the Indian. [9]
- Would people grow young together even as harmoniously as they grow old together? [4]
- I am too young to welcome as a guest every one whom this or that man presents to me. [10]
- 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]
- A party of young Puan bucks had decreed it to be their pleasure to encamp in Mr. Brady's yard, to peer through the shutters into Mr. Brady's house, to enjoy themselves by annoying Mr. Brady's family and others as much as possible. [9]
- When, as a young professor, I told the grey-haired author in my mother's name something which could not fail to afford him pleasure, I received the most eager assent to my query whether he still remembered her. [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]
- A good many young people think nothing about life as it presents itself in the far horizon, bounded by the snowy ridges of threescore and the dim peaks beyond that remote barrier. [6]
- Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to De la Foret in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at the Camisard's feet. [11]
- Meanwhile downstairs in young Nicholas Bolkonski's bedroom a little lamp was burning as usual. [2]
- She chaffed the young men pleasantly and wittily, as she supposed, and as the rest also supposed, apparently, judging by the applause and laughter which she got by her efforts. [5]
- Of the other young men of the village Gifted Hopkins was perhaps the most fervent of her admirers, as he had repeatedly shown by effusions in verse, of which, under the thinnest of disguises, she was the object. [6]
- At Pocasset the young men explored all the thick woods,--some who ought to have known better taking their guns, which made a talk, as one might well suppose it would. [6]
- He was a young man,--perhaps five and twenty as I now know age,--woodsman-clad, square-built, sun-reddened. [9]
- A perfectly gentlemanly young man, of courteous address and mild utterance, but means at least as much as he says. [6]
- Such as the young man was now the old man must have been, and what the son should one day be might be seen--and I rejoiced to think it--in his father's figure and face. [10]
- He still a young man but no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather important post in Vienna. [2]
- Here were this young lady and his friend, who had known each other for three days, perhaps, in the most casual way, and her friends had her already as good as married to him and off on a wedding journey. [4]
- In those days young ladies did not "come out" so frankly as they do now. [9]
- Some of these young ladies came from other cities,--New York and Philadelphia and elsewhere,--and their fathers and mothers were usually people to be mentioned as a matter of course--were, indeed, frequently so mentioned by Miss Sadler, especially when a visitor called at the school. [9]
- 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]
- They represented the young god Dionysius, the Hyades surrounding him, and in colored groups all the gifts of the divinities who watch over fields and gardens, as well as those of the Nysian god. [10]
- I asked the young gentleman to do me the kindness to go to jail as soon as he conveniently could, so that I might try to get in there and visit him, and see what college captivity was like. [5]
- I believe the young fellow would take it as a personal insult, if the Little Gentleman should show any symptoms of quitting our table for a better world. [6]
- Now a fine young fellow must be found as husband for you. [2]
- Also, he was young enough to "go a-roaming still," as he said to Henry Withers. [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 when the young count held out his closed hands, saying: "If you choose the red stone, you shall throw first," he pointed to his companion's right hand, and, as it concealed the red pebble, began the contest. [10]
- I'm not as young as I was I shall be sixty-four in October--and I can't work right along as I used to. [4]
- I ain't so young as I used to be, and, anyhow, what's the good! [11]
- Yet Mab gave Young Aleck as much as he gave her. [11]
- I reckon if you'd ever be'n a mother yo'self, Valet de Chambers, you wouldn't talk sich foolishness as dat. [5]
- And as for you, young man--as for you! [10]
- To men like you, work is as the breath of life. [11]
- There's gossip for you, thick as mortar," cried the charcoalman, and the mealman's fingers beat a tattoo on his stomach. [11]
- I will tell you, so far as I am authorized to speak for the opposition, what we mean to do with you. [7]
- For she loves you, Richard, as surely as the world is turning. [9]
- But I like you, Richard, as I have said more than once. [9]
- And as for you, my lad, you are my guest; you can't stop at any hotel in New York. [5]
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