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Sentences ending with bark

M. Double, a well-known medical writer and a physician of high standing in Paris, had occasion so long ago as 1801, before he had heard of Homoeopathy, to make experiments upon Cinchona, or Peruvian bark. [3]
These people about us had other peculiarities, which I have noticed in the noble red man, too: they were infested with vermin, and the dirt had caked on them till it amounted to bark. [5]
Then Mr. Worthington turned to Jethro, who was stooping over the bark. [9]
By this time the sea was running inches high, and threatening every moment to engulf the frail bark. [5]
They were on the eve, perhaps, of a splendid victory; but, perchance, on the other hand, their foot was already on the plank that led from the shore of life to Charon's bark. [10]
Dionysus is equally powerful on sea and on land; in the pirates' ship he assumed the form of a lion, and the pirates, filled with terror, flung themselves into the sea, and in the form of dolphins followed their lost bark. [10]
He is the most precious dog in the world, for he does not bark. [5]
Then you give me that book--I hain't had much education, but it come across me if you was to help me that way--And when I seed you with Worthington, I could have killed him easy as breakin' bark. [9]
Is the oak less strong and tough because the mosses and weather-stains stick in all manner of grotesque sketches along its bark? [4]
I shall not exist..." He looked at the row of birches shining in the sunshine, with their motionless green and yellow foliage and white bark. [2]

Sentences containing bark two or more times

Set up originally with the bark on, the worms worked underneath it in secret, at a novel sort of decoration, until the bark came off and exposed the stems most beautifully vermiculated, giving the effect of fine carving. [4]
He sat down, and wrote upon pieces of bark with a spear-point--those bits of bark I have seen also at Fort O'Glory. [11]

More example sentences with the word bark in them

That is the word with the bark on it! [5]
His face lighted with a happy solution of his thought; he put the bark hastily in his pocket. [5]
A good dog will bark at a woodchuck-hole long after the animal has retired to a remote part of his residence, and escaped by another hole. [4]
He gave a whining bark almost human in its meaning, and threw himself at the legs of his master, pushing him backwards and over towards the road leading upon the bridge, as a collie guides sheep. [11]
There are four which are equal to all the rest, namely, Mercury, Antimony, Bark and Opium. [3]
But at length we came to a trim-built bark lying off Redriff Stairs, with the words "Betsy, of London," painted across her stern. [9]
Jethro Bass, who was engaged in pushing hemlock bark under the stone to be crushed, straightened. [9]
She was deft, too, was Polly Ann, and spun from nettle bark many a cut of linen that could scarce be told from flax. [9]
Jethro had begun to sweep the finer pieces of bark toward the centre. [9]
From time to time he stopped to listen and heard only the usual familiar bark of coyote and sweep of wind and rustle of sage. [13]
McNeir had his thigh broken by a pike, and was dragged back after the first rush was over; and the mate of the bark was near to drowning, being rescued, indeed, by Graham, the tanner. [9]
They had decked themselves with fresh, green vines twined about their necks and bosoms, and were now going to sail a little boat made of bark in the tiny, walled pool into which the spring flowed. [10]
How you watch the tender twigs in spring, and the freshly forming bark, hovering about the healthy growing tree with your pruning-knife many a sunny morning! [4]
To add to the gloom, almost every living thing seems to have departed, and not a whistle of a bird nor the bark of the squirrel can be heard in this solitude. [5]
The woodman rims the bark near the foot of the tree, and again six feet above, and slashes it perpendicularly; then, with a blunt stick, he crowds off this thick hide exactly as an ox is skinned. [4]
The crew of the bark had assembled on the quarterdeck, stout English tars every man of them, armed with pikes and belaying-pins; and at a word from the mate they rushed in a body over the plank. [9]
And at length the bark cast off again, amidst jeers and threats, and one-third of her crew missing, and drifted slowly back to the roads. [9]
I don't wonder that the bears fall to, occasionally, and scratch the bark off the great pines and maples, tearing it angrily away. [4]
It was very tall and straight, and wholly devoid of bark, limbs, or foliage. [5]
Flanking the sidewalks, symbolizing and completing the heterogeneous and bewildering effect of the street were long rows of heavy hemlock trunks, unpainted and stripped of bark, with crosstrees bearing webs of wires. [9]
That is, I suppose it was a banyan; its bark resembled that of the great banyan in the botanical gardens at Calcutta, that spider-legged thing with its wilderness of vegetable columns. [5]
With a rattling song the starboard watch bent to their work and hove the cable short, then got the anchor home, and our bark moved off with a stately stride, and soon was bowling along at about two knots an hour. [5]
As she did so she looked out, and she saw Hiram leap into a boat and push the light bark from the shore. [10]
There were neither signs nor sounds save Nature's own, the hoot of the wood-owl, the distant bark of a mountain wolf, the whir of a partridge as she left her brood. [9]
The latter had settled into a grizzliness and grimness which belong to a very aged and stunted but sturdy oak-tree, upon the bark of which the gray moss is thick and heavy. [4]
The dismal situation sets us all into good spirits; and it is later than the night before when we crawl under our blankets, sure this time of a sound sleep, lulled by the storm and the rain resounding on the bark roof. [4]
I think I see them there, but they never bark and they never snarl, and they never spring to the snap of the whip.... [11]
You see the same thing in trees whose bark is cut, and in melons that have had only one summer's intimacy with squashes. [4]
The English bark returned to Plymouth, and Smith was left on board the French man-of-war. [4]
So I just put the bark back in my pocket and kept mum. [5]
Jethro stepped out, passing Mr. Worthington as though he had already forgotten that gentleman's existence, and seized an armful of bark that lay under cover of a lean-to. [9]
We had built our bark camp one summer and were staying on one of the popular lakes of the Saranac region. [4]
Once I came on her as she was thrusting the tattered piece of birch bark into her gown, but she never spoke to me more of Tom McChesney. [9]
I wrote down on a piece of bark the things that I would give him for her: an order on the Company at Fort o' Sin for shot, blankets, and beads. [11]
The button-wood throws off its bark in large flakes, which one may find lying at its foot, pushed out, and at last pushed off, by that tranquil movement from beneath, which is too slow to be seen, but too powerful to be arrested. [6]
On the peak of the hill is an old arbor roofed with bark and covered with the vine you call the "American Creeper"--its green is almost bloodied with red. [5]
So the name of Lichtstadt came from the clearing of the forests, Eichfeld from the felling of the oaks, Schaale from stripping off the bark, and Keilhau from the hewing with axes. [10]
While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. [2]
Thus Orion could not see her, and the dog's loud bark had prevented his hearing her coaxing call; so when Beki was quiet and stood still, Orion whistled to him. [10]
William Sowerby had not been long in Egypt, he had not travelled very far or very wide in the Orient; and he was an impressionable and harmless young man whose bark and bite were of equal value. [11]
On this moonlight night in the year 528 B. C. a bark was crossing the almost currentless Canopic mouth of the Nile. [10]
Dorothy gently pressed my hand as the bark came into the wind, and the boat was dropped into the green water. [9]
While more and more troops of the Regent's soldiers, more companies of musicians, and rare animals, followed in procession, the festal bark of Amon started from the shore. [10]
It is a more remarkable fact that the dog, since being domesticated, has learnt to bark (49. [1]
Since David Ritchie McChesney (I mention the name with pride) had risen above the necessities of a bark cradle, two more had succeeded him, a brother and a sister. [9]
While Psamtik was making every preparation for the capture of Phanes, Croesus, accompanied by his followers, had embarked on board a royal bark, and was on his way down the Nile to spend the evening with Rhodopis. [10]
The hoof-beats grew louder, and then the hound in the road gave tongue to the short, sharp bark that is the call to arms. [9]
I wrote a line on a bit of birch bark, tied it round his neck, and started him away, trusting my luck that he would pull up somewhere. [11]
The stem looked like the half of a slender walking-stick with the bark on. [5]
The dog will know me now and will not bark again. [10]
However, we plunged into the wood, they skurrying in the lead, and the trouble was quickly revealed: they had hanged a little fellow with a bark rope, and he was kicking and struggling, in the process of choking to death. [5]
Here the physician interrupted him to prove that it was not Fate, as imagined by Moslems, but man himself who guided the bark of life--but at this moment Paula looked into the room, and he broke off. [10]
We reached Lisbon in safety, and after a week of lodgings in that city by the best of fortune got passage in a swift bark bound for Baltimore. [9]
The bark came in prettily enough, men in the crowd even catching her lines and making them fast to the piles. [9]
Animals, however, sometimes imitate each other's actions: thus two species of wolves, which had been reared by dogs, learned to bark, as does sometimes the jackal (16. [1]
It was then I began to descend toward the valley of disappointment and sorrow; it was then I cast my little bark upon a mysterious ocean of wedlock, with him who then smiled and caressed me, but, alas! [5]
The smell of hundreds of thousands of logs in the river, the crushed bark, the slimy ooze were all suggestive of life in the making. [11]
She was noting how it was flashed from the bark of the birch-trees near the Fort. [11]
In spite of his master's orders he broke into a loud bark when he heard a steady knock at the door. [10]
He put his hand on his jacket pocket, found his piece of bark safe, and then struck through the woods, following the shore, with streaming garments. [5]
Some saplings which had stood in the way were bent to the ground, stripped clean of their bark, and buried under rocky debris. [5]
The crowd below grew strangely silent as the bark came nearer and nearer, until Mr. [9]
They are also good to bark at woodchuck-holes. [4]
And he has given me the bark 'Betsy', whose former master is lately dead of the small-pox. [9]
Peter Galbraith, tall, gaunt, and sombre- looking, sat with his chair tilted back against the wall, rather nervously pulling at the strips of bark of which the yielding chair-seat was made. [11]
At last she found strength to turn to fly, but at the same instant a loud and furious bark echoed behind her and she heard the monster's quick leaps as he flew after her along the stone pavement. [10]
In Keilhau we found every variety of insect in central Germany, on the bushes and in the moss, the turf, the bark of trees, or on the flowers and blades of grass, and they were alive and allowed us to watch them. [10]
Also he never forgot to keep a lookout for the surety of the bark, and if the pace seemed too great, or he saw rocks ahead, he did his part and likewise guarded me with faithful care from heedless demeanor or over-weariness. [10]
The room was filled with a motley gang of sailors, mostly from the bark Mr. [9]
At Eichfeld they felled the oaks (Fiche), and carried the trunks to Schaale, where the bark (Schale) was stripped off to make tan for the tanners on the Saale. [10]
The guides have erected a table of spruce bark, with benches at the sides; so that breakfast is taken in form. [4]
It flares up eagerly like young love, and then dies away; the wood does not keep up the promise of the bark. [4]
This is easily done, for if the reader can imagine a gnarled and venerable live oak-tree reduced to a little shrub two feet-high, with its rough bark, its foliage, its twisted boughs, all complete, he can picture the "sage-brush" exactly. [5]
The daring youth did not lack strength, that was certain, and the couple who watched him with so much uneasiness soon understood that he was striving to overtake another and larger bark which was at some distance in front of him. [10]
On the boatmen crying for help, the royal bark, which was following, had come up and taken the supposed Phanes on board, but had prevented the rowers from leaving their benches. [10]
No wild Indian could handle his bark canoe more dexterously or more vigorously than we have seen you handling yours. [6]
Take up your coat again, and learn that it is only dogs that delight to bark and bite. [11]
Through the hard century-old bark, even where there were no twigs, leaves had sprouted such as one could hardly believe the old veteran could have produced. [2]
She carried two carronades, for war with France was in the air, and it was Jean's whim to make a show of preparation, for, as he said: "If the war-dogs come, my pups can bark too. [11]
The long bark canoes, with lofty prows, stained with powerful dyes, slid along this path swiftly, the paddles noiselessly cleaving the water with the precision of a pendulum. [11]
He raised his cane above his shoulder and struck the bark so heavily that the silver head sunk deep into the wood. [9]
The dream flashes by, for the west-winds awake On pampas, on prairie, o'er mountain and lake, To bathe the swift bark, like a sea-girdled shrine With incense they stole from the rose and the pine. [6]
Hood getting ashore by stealth, came, however, unmolested to Annapolis and offered at a low price the goods he had brought out in the bark, thinking thus to propitiate his enemies. [9]
He knows the business from the bark on the tree. [11]
I left the brook at a tannery, and a most singular fellow was in the shed shovelling bark. [9]
Hood is on board the bark, sir," replied my grandfather. [9]
We buried him beneath a rustling sandal-tree, and on its bark carved the words: "Sacred to the memory of Stewart Ruttan. [11]
Dr. Rossler, I believe, first noticed the similarity of the closed wings of certain Vanessae and other butterflies to the bark of trees. [1]
A small dog began to bark. [2]
A wind arose before we sighted Greensbury Point, and I saw a bark sailing in, but thought nothing of this until Mr. Carvel, who had been silent and preoccupied, called for his glass and swept her decks. [9]
At last the bearer gave the signal; the swift, almost invisible bark, which was generally used for wild fowl shooting, shot by--Rameri seized one end of an oar that the rower held out to him, and drew the little boat up to the landing-place. [10]
I know your bark, you, Harpy, and you, Lazybones, and you, Cloud and London! [11]
The dogs do bark, The beggars are come to town. [9]
A piece of bark struck me in the face, and a dead leaf fluttered to the ground. [9]
The beautiful satin bark at once kindled into a soft, pure, but brilliant flame, something like that of naphtha. [4]
Mr. Bernard felt, at first, as one does who sees a gray rat steal out of a drain and begin gnawing at the bark of some tree loaded with fruit or blossoms, which he will soon girdle, if he is let alone. [6]
The creatures yelped as if they would bark my poor house down, like the trumpets round the walls of Jericho--you know. [10]
These were "Mercury, Antimony, Opium, and Peruvian Bark. [3]
He picked up and inspected several large semi-cylinders of the thin white bark of a sycamore, and finally chose two which seemed to suit him. [5]
So they did, and at their bark wigwam they said they had seen no Englishman. [11]

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