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Sentences starting with beaten

Beaten their cause was, and hunted down, Like to a moose in the chase full blown, Panting they stood; and a Judas sold Their hiding-place for a piece of gold. [11]
Beaten by his illegitimate son at the polls, the victim of his own wrong-doing--the sacrifice of penalty! [11]
Beaten and slain! [11]

Sentences ending with beaten

If we yield, we are beaten; if the Southern people fail him, he is beaten. [7]
In my opposition to the admission of Kansas I shall have some company, but we may be beaten. [7]
Again and again the two men seemed to sink beneath the sea, and again and again they came to the surface and battled further, torn, battered, and bloody, but not beaten. [11]
The fate of the rebellion was then virtually decided; but it still required much bloody work to convince the brave warriors who fought for it that they were really beaten. [7]
They did not rush on fiercely to the fight, nor make a brilliant onset like the Moorish and Spanish troops, but they went into the fight deliberately, and persisted obstinately, and were slow to find out when they were beaten. [4]
I think it probable, however, we shall be beaten. [7]
I've seen a perfectly capable, honest man, time and again, run against an illiterate trickster, and get beaten. [5]
He drinks two or three drops and eats a mouthful, and then will take no more even if he is beaten. [10]
It is my opinion that it is for you to take him or be defeated; and that if you do take him you may be beaten. [7]
It is conceded on all hands that the Prohibitory law is also beaten. [7]

Short sentences using beaten

They had beaten us there. [5]
Have you been beaten? [10]
We were triumphantly beaten. [5]
Kimber would have beaten me. [11]
I've been beaten. [9]
Never was beaten. [5]

Sentences containing beaten two or more times

You are a son of history; you had a duel with him, and beat him; you have always beaten him, even here where he has been supreme as governor--from first to last, you have beaten him. [11]

More example sentences with the word beaten in them

Even a jolly young Irishman of Plaster Cove, whose nature it is to sleep under whatever discouragement, is beaten by these circumstances. [4]
See Appendix B] with empty window arches, ivy-mailed battlements, moldering towers--the Lear of inanimate nature--deserted, discrowned, beaten by the storms, but royal still, and beautiful. [5]
They were gentlemen who would go home to England or Germany and tell how many miles they had beaten the guide-book every day. [5]
We, the Old Whigs, have been entirely beaten out on the tariff question, and we shall not be able to re-establish the policy until the absence of it shall have demonstrated the necessity for it in the minds of men heretofore opposed to it. [7]
All Rostov's cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored up against him. [2]
Still her courage was not quite beaten down. [4]
A burly wine-grower was elected to represent Dionysus and was seated with nothing but some wreaths of flowers to cover his naked limbs, in a four-wheeled sacrificial car of beaten brass. [10]
Yes--on; still on towards the goal; away over ruins and stones, through blood and dust, till she bowed her proud neck, crushed and beaten, and sued for mercy. [10]
He gave orders to prepare for a fresh conflict to finish the enemy and did this not to deceive anyone, but because he knew that the enemy was beaten, as everyone who had taken part in the battle knew it. [2]
He could hope to advance more quickly along the new stony path than on the old beaten track. [10]
But prithee master thy tongue, lest we be all beaten till we die! [5]
For a moment they had thought him inconsiderate to come among them in this crisis, for he was no longer of their scheme of things, and must be counted out, a beaten, battered, blind bankrupt. [11]
More than once they had beaten him, and more than once they had made him drunk on champagne and Madeira, which he loved; and he knew more than one thing about each of them which would long ago have sent an ordinary man to Siberia. [2]
Would it not, then, be much less painful to have the question decided by mutual friends some time before, than to snarl and quarrel until the day of election, and then both be beaten by the common enemy? [7]
I also told them how I expected they would be treated after they should have been beaten, and I now wish to call their attention to what I then said upon that subject. [7]
The governor beaten, the Whig vote being decreased many thousands since 1840, although the Democratic vote had not increased any. [7]
He had beaten the sweat-stained horse (temporarily--such was the impression Honora received), but she knew that he would like to have killed it for its opposition. [9]
As a rule, the rains had beaten down parts of some of the houses, and this gave the village the aspect of a mouldering and hoary ruin. [5]
He thought of the present, and he wrote: "Wave walls to seaward, Storm-clouds to leeward, Beaten and blown by the winds of the West; Sail we encumbered Past isles unnumbered, But never to greet the green island of Rest. [11]
In front of the booths, drums were beaten and instruments played in bewildering discord. [4]
The Frenchman, confusing the Austrians with the Russians, was trying to prove that the Russians had surrendered and had fled all the way from Ulm, while Dolokhov maintained that the Russians had not surrendered but had beaten the French. [2]
Tidings had come that the Sultan of Egypt had fallen upon the Island of Cyprus, and that the Mussulmans had beaten King Janus, who ruled over it, and had carried him beyond seas in triumph to Old Cairo, a prisoner and loaded with chains. [10]
Repeatedly, during three terrible days, they swarmed up the little Malakoff hill, and were beaten back with terrible slaughter. [5]
He's beaten as sure as the sun shines. [11]
The Indians caught Smith's humor, and some of the men who ran away to seek Kemps and Tussore were mocked and ridiculed, and had applied to them --Smith's law of "who cannot work must not eat;" they were almost starved and beaten nearly to death. [4]
With a breaking sigh she crept into bed slowly and lay like one who had been beaten, bruised, and shamed. [11]
How strange and severe a journey it was, only those can tell who have travelled those wastes, even in these later days, when paths have been beaten down from Mount Royal to the lodges of the North. [11]
How are the redskins to be beaten if they are not cowed in their own country? [9]
It was painfully quiet, as if a beaten people had crawled away into the holes our shot and shell had made, to hide their misery. [11]
He looked very pale and beaten as he held Nance Machell's hands now, and called her a prairie-flower, as he had done when he left her two months before. [11]
They had been out-manoeuvred, beaten, foiled, knew who had foiled them and what they had escaped; congratulated themselves, but had no gratitude to him, and still plotted his destruction. [11]
When they came out onto the beaten highroad--polished by sleigh runners and cut up by rough-shod hoofs, the marks of which were visible in the moonlight--the horses began to tug at the reins of their own accord and increased their pace. [2]
The Bithynian's heart, on the other hand, had never beaten so violently as during the brief moments when he was permitted to hold Selene's arm. [10]
Busby was leaning on it with both hands, and staring at Rawley like some animal jaded and beaten from pursuit. [11]
From the top of the Hill of Graves I have beaten the soft drum, and called, and sung the hymn which wakes the sleeping Spirits: and I know the way. [11]
I accidentally learned of one of the leaders here writing to a member south of here, in about the following language: We are beaten. [7]
Fearless the soul of him strove for us, Viking in blood and in soul, baring his face to the rain, Facing the storm he fared on, singing for England and love of us, On to the last corral where now he lies beaten and slain. [11]
But the hero of heroes was Prince Bagration, distinguished by his Schon Grabern affair and by the retreat from Austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous as his own. [2]
There lay masses of freestone in wild confusion, dust in heaps that took away my breath, and three months since I was sent over there, because above a hundred workmen engaged in stone-polishing under the burning sun had been beaten to death. [10]
Under these majestic oaks and cedars Cromwell and Ireton had stood while the beaten Royalists lashed their horses on to Brentford. [9]
If you do not get this support and this strength from the free States, you are in the minority, and you are beaten at once. [7]
This was intolerable--this must be averted--the mere thought of being beaten on this ground roused the idolaters to wrath and malice. [10]
Barbarian in so much as her father was, he had beaten this thing out with the hammer of wisdom. [11]
But even at Mr. Swain's, amongst his few intimate friends, Mr. Carroll could never be got to admit his 'nom de guerre' until long after 'Antilon' had been beaten. [9]
It is only men who have borne the shock of toil and danger, and have beaten up against the world's buffetings, that are fit to say last words over those gone down in the storm or translated in the fiery chariot of duty. [11]
Fremont and Fillmore men being united on Bissell, as they already are, he cannot be beaten. [7]
One of the men beaten by Ingolby in the recent struggle for control of the railways said to the others shivering in the grey dawn: "They were bound to get him in the back. [11]
The day before, May 26th, the colony had been attacked by two hundred Indians (four hundred, Smith says), who were only beaten off when they had nearly entered the fort, by the use of the artillery. [4]
It was a long time before the dragoons could extricate the bleeding youth, beaten almost to death. [2]
He had lived long enough to know that an interest by a woman in a man--especially a man beyond the beaten track of her observation--did not necessarily mean that she might marry him if he asked her. [9]
That score has long ago been beaten. [5]
Her pride was less wilful and tempestuous than on the day when she drove him from her; when he said things which flayed her soul, and left her body as though it had been beaten with rods. [11]
So he had left the highroad, the beaten way of salvation many others had deserted, had flung off his spectacles, had plunged into reality, to be scratched and battered, to lose his way. [9]
The seventh and last time, and we were beaten, for we had not men enough left on our two decks to force them down again. [9]
All that they know is the one beaten track that their fathers and grandfathers have followed and that they themselves have followed in their turn. [5]
They did not know at that moment that there where their eyes were riveted, there at the base of the fall, a man's body was churning about, plunged down and cast up, and beaten and whirled, imprisoned in the refluent eddy. [4]
Sophie's figure as it left the room had that drooping, beaten look which only comes to the stricken and the incurably humiliated. [11]
But as then it had only been two days since I had been bruised and beaten under a hasty and false apprehension of facts, my caution was somewhat aroused. [5]
In spite of it all--of his life in jail, of his stark mutiny, of the oppression of the governor, he had not been beaten down, but had prospered in spite of all. [11]
I fear it is that one of my family and of my humble village lies beaten to death in Damascus. [11]
After the blind injustice of the fearful and the beaten, Nicolas Lavilette and his family were blamed for the miseries which had come upon the place. [11]
In politics their influence has always been felt, and in many cases their drums ecclesiastic have beaten the reveille as vigorously, and to as good purpose, as it ever sounded in the slumbering camp. [6]
Malaish, if the infidel Inglesi was not conquered to-day, he should be beaten and captured and should die to-morrow! [11]
Never before was I so forcibly reminded of Carlyle's description of the work of a newspaper editor,--that threshing of straw already thrice beaten by the flails of other laborers in the same field. [6]
She had the house scoured from Cellar to rook the curtains washed and put up, all beds pulled to pieces, beaten, washed and put together again, and beguiled the Marchese into putting a big porcelain stove in the vast central hall. [5]
You can imagine his disgust, after the pains he had taken to render it unassailable, to find himself, as he expressed it, 'on his own dunghill,' ignominiously beaten. [6]
But I let him away in the night, Jo, and I resigned, and they thought that Halbeck had beaten me, had escaped. [11]
He believed Jethro: he would have believed him even if Mr. Flint had not informed him that afternoon that he was beaten, and bitterly he wished he had taken Mr. Flint's advice many months before. [9]
How long before he would be beaten upon that tread-mill--fondled to death by those mad paws? [11]
That is why he had not beaten Soada these months past when she refused to answer him, when with cold stubbornness she gave him his meals or withheld them at her will. [11]
Somehow the fact he had not beaten his son by the story of his secret marriage was the sole comfort he had. [11]
Many a man has died because of the neglect of the ship's surgeons; many have been kicked about the head and beaten, and haven't dared to go on the sick list for fear of their officers. [11]
The common rat has conquered and beaten several other species throughout Europe, in parts of North America, New Zealand, and recently in Formosa, as well as on the mainland of China. [1]
And there's another has been beaten too--they say he's nearly done for.... Oh, the people... Aren't they afraid of sinning?... [2]
But no sooner had I beaten the retreat than the men gathered here and there in groups that smouldered with mutiny, and I noted that some of the officers were amongst these. [9]
That which all had feared, even the Queen herself, as the fight fared on, had not come to pass--England's champion had not been beaten by the armed mystery, though the odds had seemed against him. [11]
She, too, who had fared forth so gallantly into life, had conquered only to be beaten down--to lose her way. [9]
The report which had been circulated that the Austrians had been beaten and that the whole army had surrendered at Ulm proved to be correct. [2]
Indeed, as he got into bed that fateful night he said aloud: "They shall see that I am not beaten. [11]
Lambrequins dependent from gaudy boxings of beaten tin, gilded. [5]
But after a four days' halt the mob, with no maneuvers or plans, again began running along the beaten track, neither to the right nor to the left but along the old--the worst--road, through Krasnoe and Orsha. [2]
It has taken forty years of public life to prepare such a man for the Presidency, and the result is that he can be beaten by anybody,--Mr. Polk is anybody,--he is Mr. [6]
At birth, and for several weeks afterwards, a bitch-puppy will occasionally be larger than any of the dogs, but they are invariably beaten by them later. [1]
After a hard fight they were beaten, and when the news came over here, you threw up your hats and hurrahed for Democracy. [7]
With that peculiar feeling of youth, that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner different from that of its elders which is often insincere, Nicholas wished to do something special on meeting his friend. [2]
Bouck, who was elected Democratic Governor of New York last fall by more than 15,000 majority, had not then as many votes as he had in 1840, when he was beaten by seven or eight thousand. [7]
Then they rode downhill and uphill, across a ryefield trodden and beaten down as if by hail, following a track freshly made by the artillery over the furrows of the plowed land, and reached some fleches * which were still being dug. [2]
His punishments were cruel; offenders were beaten to death before him, or tied to trees and dismembered joint by joint, or broiled to death on burning coals. [4]
They have been cruel, every one; they have worked me night and day in degraded employments, and beaten me; they have fed me ill, and some days not at all. [5]
All over the country the rebels had been scattered and beaten, and Bonaventure had been humbled and injured. [11]
This carpet was carried away and the last grain of dust beaten and banged and swept out of it; then brought back and put down again. [5]
I went the campaign, was elected, ran for the Legislature the same year (1832), and was beaten--the only time I ever have been beaten by the people. [7]
Above the cheering came the sound of a drum beaten in marching time, and above that there burst upon the night what purported to be the "Marseillaise," taken up and bawled by a hundred drunken throats and without words. [9]
Dorokhov's report about Broussier's division, the guerrillas' reports of distress in Napoleon's army, rumors of preparations for leaving Moscow, all confirmed the supposition that the French army was beaten and preparing for flight. [2]
It turned me blind when I first heard Swett was beaten and Lovejoy nominated; but, after much reflection, I really believe it is best to let it stand. [7]
The old neglected billiard--room was soon put in order, and Dick, who was a magnificent player, had a series of games with his uncle, in which, singularly enough, he was beaten, though his antagonist had been out of play for years. [6]
Since the world began everybody has beaten the Germans. [2]
In the space before the parish church it stands--a broken shaft, with an unwound wreath straying down its sides; a monument of fine proportions, a white figure of beaten valour and erring ardour of youth and beautiful bad ambition. [11]
Though he had been beaten all along the line, he hid his deep chagrin, choked down the rage that was in him. [11]
It pleases me because, if the ledges prove to be worthless, it will be a pleasant reflection to know that others were beaten worse than ourselves. [5]

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