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Sentences starting with ball

Ball inferred that you had a somewhat singular way of seeing people. [9]

Sentences ending with ball

Philip, why don't you take the heroine of the Mavick ball? [4]
As her maid unfastened her gown she perceived that her pincushion had been replaced by the one she had received at the ball. [9]
Natasha was going to her first grand ball. [2]
And it had to happen that we should meet at that ball. [2]
Another extract: Ball.--On the morning of the 15th inst., Mary E., daughter of John and Sarah F. Ball. [5]
At the card table he happened to be directly facing Natasha, and was struck by a curious change that had come over her since the ball. [2]
They are not small and meagre, but are big, brawny fellows, clothed in wide duck trousers and shirts, and they are well-armed--cutlass, powder-horn, haversack, sling, shot-gun, and pouch for ball. [11]
In a book she'd have made us meet on a grand staircase or at a court ball. [11]
Then what must she have been when adorned for the festival or the ball? [5]
This family gathering seemed humiliating to Natasha--as if there were nowhere else for the family to talk but here at the ball. [2]

Short sentences using ball

Mr. Ball looked knowing. [9]
I call the ball game. [5]
The ball killed a wolf. [5]

Sentences containing ball two or more times

When grown, it was often with difficulty that our mother persuaded her to attend a ball, while Martha's eyes sparkled joyously when there was a dance in prospect; and yet the tall and slender Paula looked extremely pretty in a ball dress. [10]
We have nothing to do but to make this ball glance from that ball and hit that other ball, and to knock that ball with this ball into a certain caecal sacculus or diverticulum which our professional friend calls a pocket. [3]
When Mrs. Pomfret's cook became inebriate and refractory, Mr. Ball was sent for, and enticed her to the station and on board of a train; when the Chillinghams' tank overflowed, Mr. Ball found the proper valve and saved the house from being washed away. [9]
They sent ball after ball into her hull and through her rigging; they tore away her mainmast, shattered her mizzenmast, and handled her as viciously as only expert gunners could. [11]
We adjourned to a cafe and played billiards an hour, and I made six or seven points by the doctor pocketing his ball, and he made as many by my pocketing my ball. [5]
It was not a ball, nor had dancing been announced, but everyone knew that Catherine Petrovna would play valses and the ecossaise on the clavichord and that there would be dancing, and so everyone had come as to a ball. [2]

More example sentences with the word ball in them

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]
Judge Tileston died, you remember, within a month after he had his great ball, twelve year ago, and some thought it was in the natur' of a judgment. [6]
Eva, fairly radiant with joy, nodded assent; and Els heard the ring of pleasure in her clear voice, too, as she exclaimed: "That was just what made the ball so delightful. [10]
Its ball carried with it the hatreds, the rages of thirty years, shaped and cooled in the mould of malignant deliberation. [6]
Longueil sprang forward with a cry of rage, but a spent ball struck him. [11]
In these days, we photograph the new criminal, and hang his picture in the Rogues' Gallery for future reference; but that Frenchman, in his day, used to take a print of the ball of a new prisoner's thumb and put that away for future reference. [5]
My first thought was to fire at his head; to plant the ball between his eyes: but this is a dangerous experiment. [4]
After the dinner was the ball, and that ended, they took their places at the windows of a roam that looked out upon a square, where a platform was raised and a vast crowd was assembled to see the king's bears fight with greyhounds. [4]
The season Dorothy was fourteen, we had a ball at the Hall the last day of the year. [9]
Well, but it was cold then, and my head seemed big and running about like a ball of air. [11]
At night there was always a ball, sometimes at Wilmot House, sometimes at Colonel Lloyd's or Mr. Bordley's, and sometimes at Carvel Hall, for my grandfather dearly loved the company of the young. [9]
They seemed to Virginia, standing motionless in the ball, to give out the very chords of agony. [9]
However, on the very day of the ball, Anne chanced to be in town again, and caught sight of Stephen pushing his way among the people on Fourth Street. [9]
The codling told us that a Rebel spy had been caught trying its fords a little while ago, and was now at Camp Curtin with a heavy ball chained to his leg,--a popular story, but a lie, Dr. Wilson said. [6]
The young men tossed the ball back and forth; they made some wild shots, but they kept it going, and they laughed when they were hit. [8]
I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homoeopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. [5]
Mr. Flint went to the lamp, unrolled the ball of telegrams, seized one and crossed the room quickly, and held it out to her. [9]
She had gone to the ball that night as if it were a funeral; she shunned men like poison, and even kept out of the way of her sister's friends. [10]
He asked people to pass their hands through their hair (thus collecting upon them a thin coating of the natural oil) and then making a thumb-mark on a glass strip, following it with the mark of the ball of each finger in succession. [5]
The ball seemed to him a kind of maelstrom in which all his hopes were likely to be wrecked. [4]
They are going to have a fancy-dress ball on board, I believe, before we get to Aden. [11]
The count wished to go home, but Helene entreated him not to spoil her improvised ball, and the Rostovs stayed on. [2]
This ball was to be the seal of their approval. [11]
He had promised to be at the ball and introduce partners to her. [2]
They will have time to attend the ball before you send them down the river? [9]
Three cannon-balls went through the chimney; one ball took off the corner of the pilot-house; shells were screaming and bursting all around. [5]
We belong to those who have learnt to 'look upwards'--there goes the ball, up again!--and who find comfort in doing so. [10]
It was at this time that Anne Brinsmade took the notion of having a ball in costume. [9]
I have shewn this feather to several persons, and many have admired it even more than the ball and socket feathers, and have declared that it was more like a work of art than of nature. [1]
The Cause of this Deplorable Quarrel, which had its Origin at the Ball, is purported to have been a Young Lady of Wit and Beauty. [9]
At this moment they heard the tinkle of the silver bowl, into which her husband threw a little ball when he wanted her. [10]
Unto this ball there happened to be invited the most bashful young lady that was ever seen, with whom Mr Abel happened to fall in love. [12]
Occasionally after that there came to my ears the muffed report of some hidden gun, and a ball like a powder-puff lay lightly on the plain, and vanished. [9]
Before and behind them other visitors were entering, also talking in low tones and wearing ball dresses. [2]
The ball represented the terrestrial globe and the stick in his other hand a scepter. [2]
Some time before the tavern took down its sign the landlord had built a hall, where many a ball had been held, to which the young folks of all the country round had resorted. [6]
Early, too early, the sun fell down behind the serrated forest-edge of the western hill, a ball of orange fire.... One evening Delphin and Herve, followed by two other canoes, paddled up to the landing. [9]
But Jerry returned the shot, and his ball struck dangerously close in the dust at Wrangle's flying feet. [13]
A member of the Ottawa government, who was on his way to the Governor-General's ball at Halifax, informed us that this country is rich in minerals, in iron especially, and he pointed out spots where gold had been washed out. [4]
Then Tarboe brought the Ninety-Nine close to the wreck, and with his little cannon put a ball into her. [11]
These reports of the Mavick ball had a peculiar interest for at least two people in New York. [4]
We go to the King's ball, when we get a chance, and are glad of a sight of the splendid uniforms and the glittering orders. [5]
All at once the first gun of the four years' cannonade hurled its ball against the walls of Fort Sumter. [6]
By and by the earth was a ball--just a round ball, of a dull color, with shiny stripes wriggling and winding around over it, which was rivers. [5]
When I entered the ball, behold, I saw the same thing, albeit I was now awake, as I had seen yestermorn in my half-sleep. [10]
She moved, and the ball rolled off her knees. [2]
The woman carried the ball in her arms to the very verge of the lake, by the deep pool called "The Pool of the Slaughtered One. [11]
The reports of the ball give you the setting of the drama. [4]
The physician in the Arabian Nights made his patient play at ball with a bat, the hollow handle of which contained drugs of marvellous efficacy. [6]
I always thought that young ladies did not get up after a ball until noon. [9]
She knew now that Tachot had loved Bartja, that he had given her the faded flowers, and that she had wreathed the ball with roses because he had thrown it to her. [10]
It is possible that no ball was in the gun; and we infer that there was, only because we cannot account for death on any other supposition. [3]
He crushed the telegrams into a tighter ball, sought for a footing, and found a precarious one. [9]
In Boston, William T. Ball, one of the leading theatrical critics during the late 90's, asserted that it was originally written by an English actor (name not divulged) who gave it to him. [5]
The higher the sun rose the higher rose that cloud of dust, and through the screen of its hot fine particles one could look with naked eye at the sun, which showed like a huge crimson ball in the unclouded sky. [2]
She was most suffocated at the governor's ball with fellers tryin' to get dances--some of 'em old fellers, too. [9]
He chats with stage lights in their dressing-rooms, and attends a ball in the Bowery or a supper at Sherry's with a ready versatility. [9]
I would as soon have touched him as a ball of angry bees or a pair of fighting wildcats. [9]
The queen presently signed to Zoe, who threw a little silver ball into a bowl of the same metal, elaborately wrought and decorated, and in a few minutes the tramp of the body-guard was audible outside the door of the tent. [10]
She realized that she had "Tossed him violently like a ball into a far country," and that she had not now a vestige of power over him--either of his senses or his mind; that he was master of the situation. [11]
Long afterwards I saw her lead a ball with the first soldier and gentleman of the land, but on that Tuesday she carried herself full as well, so well that his Excellency and the gentlemen about him applauded heartily. [9]
She cannot be satisfied when she has handcuffed a member, and put a leg-chain and ball on him and plugged his ears and removed his thinker, she goes on wrapping needless chains round and round him, just as a spider would. [5]
Suzanne is a sad coquette," said Colonel Auguste Chouteau, laughing, as we set out for the ball. [9]
The world is round, and like a ball seems swinging in the air, and swinging very pleasantly, thought Henderson, as he stepped on board the train that evening. [4]
She started, glanced round at him, and screening the candle with her hand stooped carefully with a supple and exact movement, picked up the ball, and regained her former position. [2]
Keep the ball rolling, gentlemen, keep it rolling!--fifty!--thanks, noble Roman!--going at fifty, fifty, fifty!--seventy!--ninety!--splendid!--a hundred!--pile it up, pile it up!--hundred and twenty--forty!--just in time!--hundred and fifty!--Two hundred!--superb! [5]
Mr. Wetmore is right; for me, it's like enjoying an opera, or a ball. [8]
I neglected to remark, in the proper place, that the soldiers and sailors in whose aid the ball was given had just been sent in from Boston--this was during the war of 1812. [5]
But the distaff remained untouched, and her thoughts wandered swiftly to the evening before and the ball at the Town Hall. [10]
Had the two quarreled at the ball the night before, and did Cordula now perceive an opportunity to punish the younger sister by the humiliation of the older one? [10]
Natasha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real ball was even happier. [2]
Meanwhile still more projectiles, now with the swift sinister whistle of a cannon ball, now with the agreeable intermittent whistle of a shell, flew over people's heads incessantly, but not one fell close by, they all flew over. [2]
Choosing a great poplar, these he set to hollowing out a pirogue, and himself came among the others and played leap-frog and the Indian game of ball until night fell. [9]
At that ball Pierre for the first time felt humiliated by the position his wife occupied in court circles. [2]
What made a person desired in any company was the talent of being agreeable, talent of some sort, not the ability to give a costly dinner or a big ball. [4]
With a long overcoat on his exceedingly stout, round-shouldered body, with uncovered white head and puffy face showing the white ball of the eye he had lost, Kutuzov walked with plunging, swaying gait into the crowd and stopped behind the priest. [2]
Peronskaya was pointing out to the countess the most important people at the ball. [2]
I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride; The which in every, language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. [5]
At length came one day when Mr. Crewe pulled up in front of the grocery store and called, as his custom was, loudly for Mr. Ball. [9]
The wheel turned on the roulette-table, the ball clattered. [11]
Once that--groom--come down on the pommel, then over on the ground like a ball, all muck and blood. [11]
Sometimes he copied on paper the involved and delicate pattern left by the ball of the finger, and then vastly enlarged it with a pantograph so that he could examine its web of curving lines with ease and convenience. [5]
The unexpected news of the French having crossed the Niemen was particularly startling after a month of unfulfilled expectations, and at a ball. [2]
For the success of the dinner does not necessarily depend upon the talk being brilliant, but it does depend upon its being general, upon keeping the ball rolling round the table; the old-fashioned game becomes flat when the balls all disappear into private pockets. [4]
Through the haze of smoke she saw the sun drop like a ball of fire cooled to redness, whose course is spent. [9]
He had times of relaxation into utter playfulness, delighting in a ball of yarn, catching sportively at stray ribbons when his mistress was at her toilet, and pursuing his own tail, with hilarity, for lack of anything better. [4]
On the eve of his departure from Petersburg Prince Andrew brought with him Pierre, who had not been to the Rostovs' once since the ball. [2]
Celia, in one of her letters--it was during her first year at a woman's college, when the development of muscle in gymnastics, running, and the vigorous game of ball was largely engaging the attention of this enthusiastic young lady--took him to task for his inactivity. [4]
I know that of all the patronesses of the charity ball her costume was the most exquisite, and her liberality was most spoken of. [4]
We can understand now why Mr. Ault read the accounts of the Mavick ball with a grim smile. [4]
The ball is now rolling gloriously on, and none are so able as they to increase its speed and its bulk, to add to its momentum and its magnitude--even though unlearned in letters, for this task none are so well educated. [7]
As she had not shut her eyes the night before and, from dread of the ball, had slept very little during the preceding one, she soon, though the moon was shining in through the parted curtains, lapsed into a condition midway between sleep and waking. [10]
But you did not see the ball leave the gun, pass through the air, and enter the body of the slain; and your testimony to the fact of killing is, therefore, only inferential,--in other words, circumstantial. [3]
Would my honour not have Mrs. Marble cook my dinner, and be dressed for Lady Pembroke's ball? [9]
And mind you, no word about this, Ball. [9]
There was still no result; so I examined these instruments and discovered that they possessed radical blemishes: the barometer had no hand but the brass pointer and the ball of the thermometer was stuffed with tin-foil. [5]
As soon as Nicholas entered, he was enfolded in that poetic atmosphere of love which pervaded the Rostov household that winter and, now after Dolokhov's proposal and Iogel's ball, seemed to have grown thicker round Sonya and Natasha as the air does before a thunderstorm. [2]
A tumblebug came next, heaving sturdily at its ball, and Tom touched the creature, to see it shut its legs against its body and pretend to be dead. [5]
Being ball-proof, they never skipped out of the way, but stood still and took the result; when a Bessemer was at the bat and a ball hit him, it would bound a hundred and fifty yards sometimes. [5]
They became extremely nervous; so that when a wooden ball, with which they were familiar as a plaything, was accidentally moved in the straw, under which it was partly hidden, they all instantly started away. [1]

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