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Sentences starting with behold

Behold the horse which he rode! [9]
Behold the clay which conducted you hither, with the heart neatly but painfully extracted. [9]
Behold the rocky wall That down its sloping sides Pours the swift rain-drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river-tides! [6]
Behold how the unclean creatures are wending toward the dead lion and gathering to the feast: "Reminiscences of Dickens. [5]
Behold the young sapling by thy door--I have planted it there. [11]
Behold me, David Ritchie, Federalist, execrably sober, at the head of the column behind the leader. [9]
Behold America, the refuge of the oppressed from everywhere (who can pay fifty dollars' admission)--any one except a Chinaman--standing up for human rights everywhere, even helping China let people in free when she wants to collect fifty dollars upon them. [5]
Behold him now, pounding with his gavel on something which should give forth a sound, but doesn't. [9]
Behold that nut-tree over there! [10]
Behold the friend of Rebellion and 'Lese Majeste', the viper in Britannia's bosom! [9]

Sentences ending with behold

Then the minstrels, which were disguised, danced; and the lords and ladies did wildly dance also, that it was a pleasure to behold. [5]
But the show which most delighted the bystanders was the procession of masks, wherein, indeed, there were many things pleasant and fair to behold. [10]
Fabian was stunned when he entered the Louis Quinze and saw her waiting at table, alert, busy, good to behold. [11]
I ran down to meet them and behold! [10]
Then, slowly, as though liking to linger over them, he repeated the words of the Scarlet Hunter: "'O son of man, behold! [11]
And this was the place we had all but sold our lives to behold! [9]
There one could see in their order the constellations of the heavens, represented by paper-gilt stars, of all magnitudes, most wonderful to behold. [4]
I drew thy roses up, and behold! [10]
Directly this sound reached his ears, Mr Abel started up, and hobbled to the door, and opened it; and behold! [12]
Getting upon a piece of rising ground, behold! [5]

Short sentences using behold

Behold, I call to thee! [11]
Behold, I save thee. [11]
Behold the hallowed morn! [6]
Now, behold I go. [11]
Behold the barren figtree! [11]
Eliminate it, and behold! [9]
Behold what "travels" amount to! [4]
Behold a marvel! [9]
Behold these evidences! [5]
Behold the god! [10]

Sentences containing behold two or more times

In Brazil he would behold an immense mongrel population of Negroes and Portuguese; in Chiloe, and other parts of South America, he would behold the whole population consisting of Indians and Spaniards blended in various degrees. [1]

More example sentences with the word behold in them

Eagles, spread out your wings,-- Behold where the red dawn is breaking! [11]
Eagles spread out your wings, Behold where the red dawn is breaking! [11]
I see that you, too, are ready to depart and should grieve to behold the comfort of your aged hosts destroyed by hasty acts that may yet be needless. [10]
If you hope, you transform a pleasant garden into the Elysian fields; if you fear anything you behold in a burning roof the conflagration of a world. [10]
I already behold you creating other works to the delight of gods and men; but this Demeter extorts boundless, enthusiastic appreciation; both as a whole, and in detail, it is faultless and worthy of the most ardent praise. [10]
You behold before you a very, very old man. [5]
It was a wondrous ramble; now and then I gasped for breath, yet on we went till, on the topmost bough of an oak, behold, there was Lorenz Abenberger, and the evil words he spoke made me wake up. [10]
Does He behold with smile serene The shows of that unending scene, Where sleepless, hopeless anguish lies, And, ever dying, never dies? [6]
Thus I fared with him to the great and mighty city of Saint Mark, which I had ever longed to behold with my bodily eyes. [10]
Since the time when the world was young, no white man hath been there save one, and behold sickness fell on him; the grave is his end. [11]
His eye paused when in line with us, and we were seized with astonishment to behold him making in our direction. [9]
You now behold what man can accomplish when he strives for anything with genuine zeal. [10]
But behold, they were not wild enough--they were not fanciful enough--they have not told half the story. [5]
The Vicomte's feelings were by no means hidden processes to Honora, and it was as though she could lift the lid of the furnace at any time and behold the growth of the flame which she had lighted. [9]
On every hand we behold those who but yesterday were the chief of sinners, now the chief apostles of the cause. [7]
And now she was to behold a palace even greater than these,--and the house where the President himself dwelt. [9]
And behold, it was the five patriarchs that had been released from the dungeons the evening before! [5]
How long I was gazing at the shifting coast I know not, for a strange wildness was within me that made me forget all else, until suddenly I became conscious of a presence at my side, and turned to behold the captain. [9]
But behold, here was a dead wall, and nothing in English history to tell how to get over it. [5]
There came a voice to a citizen of Damascus, named Ananias, saying, "Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas, for one called Saul, of Tarsus; for behold, he prayeth. [5]
There cometh a voice from out the North And a face of living flame-- A man's soul crying, Behold what worth Was life till her sweet soul came-- Heart of the World break forth! [11]
Before we had turned into Long Acre I had seen all of this Sodom of London that it should be given a man to see, if indeed we must behold some of the bestiality of this world. [9]
Then with a triumphant, vindictive smile which puckered his yellow cheeks like a wild apple, he said: "The Comte de Tournay is welcome to behold an end of the ambitions of the Vaufontaines. [11]
Come, my love, to the scented palms: Behold, the hour of remembrance! [11]
When he came to the corner of the court in which he lived, lo and behold there was the pony again! [12]
It is vain to seek reason outside ourselves; the highest to which we can attain is for reason to behold itself in us! [10]
They had meant to revive the great story for their own people and the Indians--a homely, beautiful object-lesson, in an Eden--like innocence and quiet and repose; but behold the world had invaded them! [11]
And it came to pass that when they had all fallen by the sword, save it were Coriantumr and Shiz, behold Shiz had fainted with loss of blood. [5]
And it came to pass after they had loosed me, behold, I took the compass, and it did work whither I desired it. [5]
And behold, face to face with me, who was this? [10]
He saw that to admit her contentions would be to behold crumble into ruins the structure that he had spent a life in rearing; and yet something within him responded to her words--they had the passionate, convincing ring of truth. [9]
But all that time my true passport had been floating gallantly overhead--and behold it was only our flag. [5]
On its walls thou canst behold pleasing paintings of the gods to whom thou hast devoted thy life, the most sacred chapters from the book of the dead, and many other beautiful pictures touching thine own life and character. [10]
But right at this unfortunate juncture, behold the Spring Valley cooked a dividend too! [5]
They were filled, these letters, with an elixir of which she drank thirstily to behold visions, and the weariness of her exile fell away. [9]
For behold in them is no reverence for the solemn monuments of the past, and whithersoever they go they destroy and spare not. [5]
So each of the young men drank six bottles, and behold they felt very tired, then, and lay down and slept soundly. [5]
The chink in the tent was ready to show him everything that occurred within, but he often closed his eyes that he might not behold it. [10]
The curtains of the stage waved continually by the repelled forces that were given to them, which caused Leos to behold Ambulinia leaning upon the chair of Elfonzo. [5]
Hence we behold the process by which thousands are daily passing from under the yoke of bondage hailed by some as the advance of liberty, and bewailed by others as the destruction of all liberty. [7]
How often in the months gone by had she called up the memory of the photograph she had once seen, only to doubt the more that she should ever behold that house and these trees with him by her side! [9]
He turned up the light in the hall to behold a transformation quite as wonderful as any contained in the "Arabian Nights" or Keightley's "Fairy Mythology. [9]
To see even the least of them surpassed by another vexed her; and to behold in yonder woman a form which she could not deny was no less beautiful, enraged, nay, pierced her to the heart. [10]
For he was the last man to behold with patience the shattering of his idols. [9]
To glance at the genuine son of the desert is to take the romance out of him forever--to behold his steed is to long in charity to strip his harness off and let him fall to pieces. [5]
I slipped around the corner of the house, seized the pistol, primed it with a trembling hand, and came back to behold Polly Ann, with flaming cheeks, facing them. [9]
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]
How he rejoiced that he was again permitted to behold the starry sky, and satiate his soul with the beauty of creation! [10]
Behold, Allah hath taken her wits! [11]
I was a superior man, but I have lived as a small man these many days; and now, behold, I am drawing near to my end as a superior man. [11]
If thou shouldest stumble on the nameless trail, The trail that no man rides, Lift up thy heart, Behold, O son of man, thou hast a helper near! [11]
At last she spoke of my sainted parents, but she only said: "Thy father and mother behold thee ever; therefore be diligent in school that they may rejoice in thee.--To-morrow and every morning at seven. [10]
She breathed deeply, she turned her face to the window, seeming to behold reflected there, as in a crystal, all her experiences, little and great, great and little. [9]
For a moment she closed her eyes, but opened them again to behold the transformed image of herself reflected in the windshield to confirm the illusion--if indeed it were one! [9]
His chief faculty seemed to be to give her the power to behold, with astonishing clearness, objects and truths which had lain before her eyes, and yet hidden. [9]
So they set sail in a steamer for America--and the third day out, when their sea-sickness called truce and permitted them to take their first meal at the public table, behold there sat the lawyer! [5]
In silence they rode awhile, and at last the hillsman said: "If fathers be brothers-in-blood, behold it is good that sons be also. [11]
And behold it really set: the bird got quite well and fluttered about the workshops again as sound as before, and whenever it saw me it would perch upon my shoulder and peck very gently at my hair with its sharp beak. [10]
And when he pulled on the stolen shoes somewhat therein hard hurt his sole, and when he made search under the leather, behold a large letter closely folded and sealed. [10]
It was a pretty sight to behold the handsome soldier, full of pride and power, galloping on the most spirited stallion, beside the beautiful, white-haired woman, whose eyes sparkled with vivacious light. [10]
She was, indeed, preparing to sweep away when there came a familiar tap-tap behind them on the bare floor, and he turned to behold Ephraim hobbling toward them with the aid of his green umbrella, Cynthia by his side. [9]
Warm is my place about me, and above Where was the raven, I behold the dove. [11]
Showed me the passages, and behold, his man's name is Wheeler! [5]
And this shifting panorama continues until, towards evening, behold, on a hill, Berne, shining through showers, the old feudal round tower and buildings overhanging the Aar, and the tower of the cathedral over all. [4]
Any son of our people who witnessed it would rather his tongue should wither than mock at the marvels the Lord permitted him to behold. [10]
He threw them open, and behold, the cargoes of "crude bullion" of the assay offices of Nevada faded out of my memory. [5]
You go along one of these gloomy cracks, and look up and behold the sky like a mere ribbon of light, far above your head, where the tops of the tall houses on either side of the street bend almost together. [5]
But we hurried off the servants after our own doctor and telegraphed mother--she was in New York and rushed down on the first train; and when the doctor got there, lo and behold you he found Francois had broke one of his legs, too! [5]
The serving-men carried off the game, and when the courtyard was presently cleared, behold, a strange procession came in. [10]
Behold, The Wine of Youth once poured, is poured no more 'Come, leave the Cup, and on the Winter's Snow Your Summer Garment of Enjoyment throw: Your Tide of Life is ebbing fast, and it, Exhausted once, for You no more shall flow. [5]
The very mists of the future seemed to break before his importuning gaze, and his eyes seemed indeed to behold, against the whitening dawn of the spiritual age he predicted, the slender spires of a new Church sprung from the foundations of the old. [9]
Behold this movement of my lips! [6]
But Eliza Preston, now Mrs. Parr, was one of those who were never to behold him again,--in this world, at least. [9]
Howbeit he was now in so sad and cruel a plight that a heart of stone must have melted to behold him. [10]
Behold a Caliban now for her paramour! [11]
The world might now behold the stuff that was in Hamilton Tooting. [9]
Jenny's imagination was no less vivid, but she used it merely to behold in the form most congenial to her nature and sense of beauty what faith commanded her to accept. [10]
And does not Nature plant me as an eye to behold her beauties while she is dressed in the glories of leaf and flower, and draw the icy lid over my shining surface when she stands naked and ashamed in the poverty of winter? [6]
Behold, I build my nest in thy sails, excellency. [11]
And now behold, My joy is full. [5]
Behold, it is my destiny to rule others, to serve thee. [11]
It lasts much more than one evening, and the gifts bestowed on all are without number, and bright and various indeed to behold. [10]
Greater power and more mighty mediation are needed to save and deliver me, and behold, my Margery, meseems--hear me Margery--meseems a special ruling of Heaven hath sent. [10]
Whichever way we looked, behold flowers, green garlands, hangings, pennons, and banners; it was as though all the gardens in Franconia had been stripped of their blossoms. [10]
And now Hodder looked at Eldon Parr to behold another man from the one he had known, and in that moment realized that their relationship could never again be the same. [9]
She had deemed life good, and behold, it was not good; she had thought her dayspring was on high, and happiness had burnt into darkness like quick-consuming flax. [11]
Lady, life's sweetest lesson wouldst thou learn, Come thou with me to Love's enchanted bower: High overhead the trellised roses burn; Beneath thy feet behold the feathery fern, A leaf without a flower. [6]
Behold her at last in the setting for which we always felt she was destined. [9]
Some of the king's own relations, are among the number, the aged Croesus, king of Lydia, too; we shall behold a marvellous splendor and magnificence! [10]
So they brought it, and behold, a miracle! [5]
Now behold, it is written that he who has given counsel about the country or its capital should perish with it when it comes into peril. [11]
Behold, the jig is up--let us die. [5]
As I came into the room Colonel Clark relaxed, turned toward this gentleman, and said:-- "Monsieur Gratiot, behold my commissary-general, my strategist, my financier. [9]
Only itself can inspire whom it will, and behold! [6]
But behold how iniquity can circumvent the law! [5]
It was terrible indeed to behold this woman revert--almost in the twinkling of an eye--to a vicious wretch crazed for drink, to feel that the struggle had to be fought all over again. [9]
Behold, O Kaid, in the hour that I was born thou wast born, I in the dust without thy Palace wall, thou amid the splendid things. [11]
At this point in her meditations she consulted the mirror, to behold a modest, slim-waisted young woman becomingly arrayed in white linen, whose cheeks were aglow with health, whose eyes seemingly reflected the fire of a distant high vision. [9]
Indeed, it is impossible, without a twinge of pity, to behold Howard taking root in Rivington, for we know that sooner or later he will be dug up and transplanted. [9]
Some hundreds of ignorant foreigners, dissatisfied with the money in their pay envelopes, had marched out of the Clarendon Mill and attacked the Chippering and behold, the revered structure of American Government had quivered and tumbled down like a pack of cards! [9]

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