Use begun in a sentence
Sentences starting with begun
- Begun with youthful pride and affectionate interest, they had gone on into vexation, sorrow, failure, and shame. [11]
Sentences ending with begun
- Again we passed with the same excuse, and we rounded a headland, and the great work was begun. [11]
- Sometimes I half wish I had not begun. [5]
- Old grave-haunting Kusaja, who had been dragged away from the sepulchre of her kindred, was sitting in a cart with other infirm folk, waving her veil and joining in the hymn of praise Elkanah and Abiasaph, the sons of Korah, had begun. [10]
- To be passive, when David in Egypt had asked for active interest; to delay, when urgency was important to Claridge Pasha; to speak coldly on Egyptian affairs to his chief, the weak Foreign Secretary, this was the policy he had begun. [11]
- He sits down wearily at the basswood table, and scarcely hears the familiar sounds without, which indicate that the convention of conventions has begun. [9]
- The angry father was no sufficient witness for him, yet the matter seemed important enough to send for and question Ulrich, though the meal-time had already begun. [10]
- But the thing was done, and a new life was begun. [11]
- This huge document was carried to the castle the next day, March 27th; and there, before a dozen carefully selected judges, the new trial was begun. [5]
- A new life was begun. [11]
- How it roars up the wide chimney, sending into the air the signal smoke and sparks which announce to the farming neighbors another day cheerfully begun! [4]
Short sentences using begun
- It was begun without delay. [5]
- My nose begun to itch. [5]
- I begun to suspicion something. [5]
- His education is not begun. [4]
- The play had just begun. [4]
- Then had begun his decline. [11]
- The feeling, "It has begun! [2]
- His new ministry had begun. [9]
- Another working day had begun. [9]
- We've just begun, gents. [9]
Sentences containing begun two or more times
- And often you would repeat over and over: 'I have not yet begun, to fight, I have not yet begun to fight! [9]
- The people woke up more and more, and sung louder and louder; and towards the end some begun to groan, and some begun to shout. [5]
- Just then Jim begun to breathe heavy; next he begun to snore--and then I was pretty soon comfortable again. [5]
- I begun to beg, and so did Jim; but it only give his temper a rise, and he begun to rage around and look wild out of his eyes, and I was scared of him. [5]
More example sentences with the word begun in them
- That's the way you begun here, I guess; and I don't want to see your horse tumble because some one throws a fence-rail at its legs. [11]
- She had scarcely yet begun to grind the corn of life. [11]
- Mark Twain that year was working pretty steadily on 'The Yankee at King Arthur's Court', a book which he had begun two years before. [5]
- When they reached Yaroslavl the wound had begun to fester (Natasha knew all about such things as festering) and the doctor had said that the festering might take a normal course. [2]
- It was still worse when night begun to come on. [5]
- Pollux had been working for a long time with zeal and pleasure, but at last the steward's snoring had begun to disturb him. [10]
- By this time words have begun to have a colorless look. [9]
- It was begun without the least idea what was to be its course and its outcome. [6]
- It is only within the past few years that our colleges and universities have begun to teach modern economics, social science and psychology--and this in the face of opposition from trustees. [9]
- One is struck with the fact that a great number of fragments lie about his poetical workshop: poems begun and never finished; scraps of poems, chips of poems, paving the floor with intentions never carried out. [6]
- The roof, thatched with palm-leaves and reeds, had begun to crackle when Antinous rushed into the tower only a few paces off crying: "Fire--fire! [10]
- For he saw with dismay that the Princess Constance had begun to love him! [5]
- For Mr. Temple, with all the will in the world, had begun to stagger. [9]
- Until then I will practise my music, and study the treatise on harmony that you have begun writing. [10]
- The Minorite Ignatius, whom Father Benedictus had sent after him that he might finish the work which the latter had begun, was a man who lacked neither intellect nor eloquence; but he did not possess the fiery enthusiasm and aristocratic confidence of the dead man. [10]
- The travelling musicians who, to save a few pennies, had begun to eat bread, cheese, and radishes, instead of the warm meals provided for the others, let their knives drop and set down the wine-jugs. [10]
- The secular judge who should have delivered judgment and pronounced sentence was himself so disturbed that he forgot his duty, and Joan went to her death unsentenced--thus completing with an illegality what had begun illegally and had so continued to the end. [5]
- The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor's headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower clock. [2]
- Increasing his stake, which had begun at five francs and had risen at length to five louis, he still coaxed the sardonic deity. [11]
- She did know when it had begun, but again it filled her with a bitter-sweet sense of pity. [10]
- These were written when I was twenty and twenty-one years of age, and the sonnet sequence of 'A Lover's Diary' was begun when I was twenty- three. [11]
- He knew that what he read was the true interpretation of her speech, for in some manner--he guessed not how--she had begun to idealize him, to feel that the touch of these things defiled him. [9]
- The Hebrews, who were settled in immense numbers in the province of Goshen, and whom Ani had attached to his cause by remitting their task-work, were now driven to labor at the palaces and fortifications which Rameses had begun to build. [10]
- The two commanders were much exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on the right flank and the French were already advancing, were engaged in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. [2]
- The Imperial troops were in fact masters of the secret passage; and they had begun the attack on the Serapeum in earnest. [10]
- We have begun well; let us be better friends. [11]
- It was after we had moved up to Park Street, and her health had already begun to fail. [9]
- But scarcely had we begun to move, when the expected troops from Leyderdorp pressed forward, their loud San Jago resounding far and wide, while at the same time the old enemy rose from the ditch and attacked us. [10]
- And just when we bad got used to New York, and begun to like it. [8]
- At first he was silent and embarrassed, but Henrica gave him no rest, and when he had once begun to answer her questions he was soon carried away by her glowing vivacity, and gave free, joyous play to his wit. [10]
- And the decision was scarcely announced before Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke had begun work on his new country place, Mohair. [9]
- The book, however, was not begun immediately. [5]
- The minute I was far enough above the town to see I could make the towhead, I begun to look sharp for a boat to borrow, and the first time the lightning showed me one that wasn't chained I snatched it and shoved. [5]
- But the die was cast now, and pride alone was sufficient to hold me to the course I had rashly begun upon. [9]
- But when they was both on, then the band begun to play. [11]
- You remember I was an old Whig, and whenever the Democratic party tried to get me to vote that the war had been righteously begun by the President, I would not do it. [7]
- Well, New York was America's chessboard, and the Great Players had already begun to make moves that astonished the world. [9]
- One of these was a dream story, enthusiastically begun, but perhaps with insufficient plot to carry it through, for it never reached conclusion. [5]
- But a bargain was a bargain, and Austen Vane stuck to his end of it, although he had now begun to realize many aspects of a situation which he had not before suspected. [9]
- For many years Victoria had chosen her own companions; when the custom had begun, her mother had made a protest which Mr. Flint had answered with a laugh; he thought Victoria's judgment better than his wife's. [9]
- He just stood up there, a-sailing around as easy and comfortable as if he warn't ever drunk in his life--and then he begun to pull off his clothes and sling them. [5]
- His foot swelled up pretty big, and so did his leg; but by and by the drunk begun to come, and so I judged he was all right; but I'd druther been bit with a snake than pap's whisky. [5]
- It was not until we reached the road and had begun to climb out of the valley that the silence was broken between us. [9]
- Edward could never understand this; or why the Universe, so long static and immutable, had suddenly begun to move. [9]
- The buildings, begun under straitened circumstances, were more than simple. [2]
- Then in about two seconds we heard a whack, and the dog he finished up with a most amazing howl or two, and then everything was dead still, and the parson begun his solemn talk where he left off. [5]
- So Lincoln, at twenty-one, had just begun his preparation for the public life to which he soon began to aspire. [7]
- Tom examined the turnips and the lettuce with interest, and asked what they were, and if they were to be eaten; for it was only recently that men had begun to raise these things in England in place of importing them as luxuries from Holland. [5]
- One day she tried to sing a little, but it seemed to hurt her, and she stopped before she had begun almost. [11]
- They begun raging towards me, but there I was asleep on the bench-stony blind, and then they only spit fire a bit. [11]
- The prefect's son, too, had been invited to the banquet of Seleukus; and when Caracalla heard from him and others of the splendor of the feast, he had begun to feel hungry. [10]
- I had begun to write, and every strong emotion was uttered in verses, which I showed to the companions from whom I could expect sympathy. [10]
- The foul air, to which he had already begun to get used in the corridor, was still stronger here. [2]
- Individuals had begun to use the instrument, but I never heard it alluded to by either Professors or students. [3]
- Please git him to turn back; I wants to be whah--" All of a sudden we see something, and all jumped up, and forgot everything and begun to gaze. [5]
- He had begun to think.. What did he think of me? [9]
- He had begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same question--one so important that he took no notice of what went on around him. [2]
- He had begun to think of suicide. [5]
- He cut away to the core of a matter, and having simple, fixed ideas, he was able to focus the talk, which had begun with hunting stories, and ended with the morality of duelling. [11]
- Editors had begun to take that view; but from the start it had never been my view. [11]
- Jethro had begun to sweep the finer pieces of bark toward the centre. [9]
- They ain't begun to sell her yet--he's waitin' for somebody. [9]
- Philip had begun to see that the life around him had elements enough of the comic and the tragic to give full play to all his powers. [4]
- She had begun to rise immediately, with the kite-like adaptability of the American woman for high altitudes, and the leaden weight of the husband at the end of the tail was as nothing to her. [9]
- He had begun to read it at the top of his voice, screaming down the general din, when everything was forgotten in the excitement caused by the entrance of a procession which was the successful result of many raids on the temple-treasuries and lumber-rooms. [10]
- Directly it begun to rain, and it rained like all fury, too, and I never see the wind blow so. [5]
- He had come to put the last touches to the works he had begun, and proposed to make a fresh attempt to win the favor of the man whom he now knew to be the Emperor. [10]
- He had begun to plan for his return, and concerning amusements at Stormfield for the entertainment of the neighbors, and for the benefit of the library which he had founded soon after his arrival in Redding. [5]
- I had begun to nurse a good deal of pride in presiding over a table whereon was the fruit of my honest industry. [4]
- The "story" referred to may have been any one of several begun by him at this time. [5]
- Then it begun to itch on the inside. [5]
- Well, they've begun to introduce the tea culture, here. [5]
- I will try 'to help you out of them, and I have begun to think I know how to help young people pretty well. [6]
- And he's begun to have his nails manicured. [9]
- He was glad to have come to some conclusion, at any rate provisionally, with regard to these matters, for six days had slipped away since the works had been begun in the palace of Lochias, and Hadrian's arrival was nearing rapidly. [10]
- Our columns ought to have begun to appear on an open declivity to his right. [2]
- And he wanted to git away from the subject, I reckon, because he begun to abuse the camel-driver, just the way a person does when he has got catched in something and wants to take it out of somebody else. [5]
- Shadows had begun to gather in the forest, filmy mists to creep over the waters. [9]
- In restoring Richemont to France, Joan made thoroughly secure the successful completion of the great work which she had begun. [5]
- She had begun to earn enough, and somehow a vista had been opened up--a vista whose end she could not see, alluring, enticing.... [9]
- People had begun to do so ever since the Ortlieb sisters were called the "beautiful" instead of the pious and virtuous Es. [10]
- I had begun to convince myself that nothing could, when suddenly I came face to face with the consequences of a possible marriage between Nick and Mademoiselle Antoinette. [9]
- The light begun to come before we got to the foot of the island. [5]
- We have had to bow more than once already to the strength of which you boast--but now, at a merry feast, we will not think of that, but rather continue the conversation which entertained us, and which had begun so well. [10]
- I had begun to believe that I could fill the place. [9]
- He was obliged to be present at the meeting, which had probably already begun. [10]
- For by that time you have begun to reflect that you are a person who deals in exaggerations--and exaggerations are lies. [5]
- For the first time since the Revolution had begun, the horror of it and the meaning of it were brought home to him. [11]
- I'd begun to think I warn't going to get a hint of no kind to help me. [5]
- I begun to think how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in such a fix. [5]
- By the time they were ready to depart, school had begun. [12]
- And at last they took a change and begun to lay their heads together in the wigwam and talk low and confidential two or three hours at a time. [5]
- As soon as they had cleared the farmyard, he had begun this song, and the bear, cowed at first by the thrusts of its master's pike, quieted to the well- known ditty. [11]
- Two weeks later they had begun a residence abroad which was to last for more than nine years. [5]
- As I approached, they begun to tower and swell and look like mighty furnaces. [5]
- Anyway, he set there, and pretty soon he begun to smile, and says: "Mf! [5]
- Cynthia has been there all the summer, and as it is now the first of September, her school has begun again. [9]
- It is better, then, to save the work while it is begun. [7]
- The fight begun then, and they never got no further--both of them killed. [5]
- As soon as the young officer had struck the first blow, and the god had submitted in abject impotence, they had rushed upon him and saved their captain the trouble of ending the task he had begun. [10]
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