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Sentences starting with being

Being about seven years younger than Waldo, he must have received much of his intellectual and moral guidance at his elder brother's hands. [6]
Being vigilant, one would have seen, however, that he lived in some land of memory or anticipation, beyond his life of daily toil and usual dealing. [11]
Being deeply engaged with the details of the expedition to the Soudan, David had not gone to the Palace; and he was unaware of the turn which things had taken. [11]
Being left along with his wife, who sat trembling in a corner with her eyes fixed upon the ground, the little man planted himself before her, and folding his arms looked steadily at her for a long time without speaking. [12]
Being a woman, whose ways are unaccountable, the older man took no notice of her. [9]
Being a man who thought much and wisely for other people, he wanted to give the wife time to get herself in control. [11]
Being Tom Sawyer was easy and comfortable, and it stayed easy and comfortable till by and by I hear a steamboat coughing along down the river. [5]
Being insane, he was allowed to go on talking. [5]
Being originally much too large for the apartment which it was now employed to decorate, it had been sawn short off at the waist. [12]
Being awake, my thoughts were busy, of course; and mainly they busied themselves with Sandy's curious delusion. [5]

Sentences ending with being

The tune, played with precision and in exact time, began to thrill in the hearts of Nicholas and Natasha, arousing in them the same kind of sober mirth as radiated from Anisya Fedorovna's whole being. [2]
She felt--she knew--that with her husband a portion of her own being had been riven from her, but she could not yet perceive that this last portion was nothing less than the very foundations of her whole moral and social being. [10]
A flock of wild mountain goats, accustomed to come at this hour to quench their thirst at the spring, came nearer and nearer, but drew back as they detected the presence of a human being. [10]
Their older friends, who had turned their backs on the couple and were talking busily by a window, paid no heed to them, and the blissful conviction of being loved as ardently as she loved flooded her whole being. [10]
That living quiet which descends upon a house when the midday meal and work are done came suddenly home to her, in contrast to the turmoil in her mind and being. [11]
And no matter what the result is, we must fulfill our duty by this being. [5]
The bitter controversies, wars, and persecutions which have raged in its name are utterly alien to its being. [9]
During the long voyage, the strange mystery of the ocean was wrought into her consciousness so deeply, that it seemed to have become a part of her being. [6]
Something in the two men, some vibration of temperament, struck the same chord in Junia's life and being. [11]
He never attempted to picture her as a civilised being. [11]

Short sentences using being

Man is a strange being. [4]
Isn't that being rich? [9]
Lord of all being! [6]
Great care was being taken. [5]
Her fears were being realized. [10]
It was just being opened. [5]
He liked its being old-fashioned. [8]
His predictions were being justified. [2]
His vanity was being hurt. [11]
It was like being home. [5]

Sentences containing being two or more times

There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
I liked being with the dead--liked being alone with them. [5]
In fact, he was not thinking much about being good or being bad, but of trying his powers in a world which seemed to offer to him infinite opportunities. [4]
In fact, she was an intellectual person, whom qualities of the heart saved from being disagreeable, as they saved her on the other hand from being worldly or cruel in her fashionableness. [8]
Sure enough, it was a Pi Ute Injun I used to know in Tulare County; mighty good fellow--I remembered being at his funeral, which consisted of him being burnt and the other Injuns gauming their faces with his ashes and howling like wildcats. [5]
It is perfectly true that a woman is her own excuse for being, and in a way she is doing enough for the world by simply being a woman. [4]
The soldiers fired three volleys of musketry--the wailing being previously silenced to permit of the guns being heard. [5]
I suppose, then, there is no more merit in being brave than in being a coward? [5]
He showed me the way the thing was being done, the way the company was being floated, how the market in New York was catching hold. [11]
He speaks of the quickness of their eyes and the accuracy of their judgment of the direction of approaching missiles as being quite extraordinary, and of the answering suppleness and accuracy of limb and muscle in avoiding the missile as being extraordinary also. [5]

More example sentences with the word being in them

And this being your whole duty, return and report to me. [7]
Again, according to your mind, a man who steals holy vessels must needs be an infidel; therefore a tailor in Chaudiere, suspected of being an infidel, stole the holy chalices. [11]
How certain is your information about Bragg being in the valley of the Shenandoah? [7]
Such was Amasis' young, fading daughter, who was now being carried past them, and many an eye grew dim as the beautiful invalid came in sight. [10]
But being a young woman, and a pretty one, Stephen was angry. [9]
As for his young pupil, she has often thought of being a teacher herself, so that she is of course very glad to acquire any accomplishment that may be useful to her in that capacity. [6]
This touched the young fellow's sympathetic nature, and at the same time gave him the painful sense of being an intruder upon a sacred privacy, an observer of emotions which a stranger ought not to witness. [5]
Everything that is young and strong is being enticed away and depraved. [2]
He knew that young and old wolves were there, that the hounds had separated into two packs, that somewhere a wolf was being chased, and that something had gone wrong. [2]
I can tell you, Mr. Burnett, and when you are over this delusion you will thank me for being so plain with you, my daughter would laugh at the idea of such a proposal. [4]
I feel for you what I have felt for no other being in all my life. [11]
Last Easter day you were in a drunken sleep while Mass was being said; after the funeral of your own father you were drunk again. [11]
Why, I wrote you twice to ask you what you could mean by Sid being here. [5]
How agreeable do you suppose it is to have your well-meaning friends shout and screech at you, as if you were deaf as an adder, instead of only being, as you insist, somewhat hard of hearing? [6]
Well, what do you say, friends, to being our own Victualling Board out in the open sea, if we can get there? [11]
But the King you represent had not restricted his liberties so, and you being the King, that is, yourself, were forced to abide by your own regulations. [11]
Then--need I assure you of it?--my blood boiled with righteous indignation; but instead of being ashamed of the outrage, he raised his hand to my head and pulled the veil. [10]
No one, do you hear, no human being, not even the servants, must suspect what is going on. [10]
I do hope you have not dropped the classics and gone in for the modern notion of being real and practical. [4]
The idea of you being a pilot--you! [5]
I am sure you are safe from being harmed by any such book. [6]
I only know you are charged with killing a bad man, notorious in Dublin life, and that many think he got his just deserts in being killed. [11]
I must congratulate you and Howard on being sensible enough to start your married life simply, in the country. [9]
Her fervour, repressed yet palpable, was like a flame burning before their altars--a flattery to which the learned, being human, are quick to respond. [9]
The result not yet being known, conjecture in regard to it is not here indulged. [7]
Darkness surrounded him, yet a bright dazzling light issued from his soul and illuminated his whole being with the warm golden radiance of the sun. [10]
In another three years, by 1820, he had so managed his affairs that he was able to buy a small estate adjoining Bald Hills and was negotiating to buy back Otradnoe--that being his pet dream. [2]
Philippus had, some years since, been called to the old man's bedside in sickness, and being then a beginner and in no great request, he had given the best of his time and powers to the case. [10]
During the long years of their union Mrs. Ebers was his active helpmate, many of the business details relating to his works and their American and English editions being transacted by her. [10]
After being five years at the Port School, the time drew near when I was to enter college. [6]
Not that Tom yearned for the slipper; but he regarded its occasional applications as being as inevitable as changes in the weather; lying did not come easily to him, and left to himself he much preferred to confess and have the matter over with. [9]
In 1860, the year immediately preceding the rebellion, the deficiency amounted to $5,656,705.49, the postal receipts of that year being $2,645,722.19 less that those of 1863. [7]
It was a year after that terrible affair of the necklace, and she wished to be distracted from thinking of the calumnies which were being heaped upon her. [9]
But who has written out these others that are being so assiduously passed around? [9]
These describers are writing for the "general," and so, in order to make sure of being understood, they ought to use words in their ordinary sense, or else explain. [5]
It had nearly wrecked her life: and he only realised it now, in the moment of clear-seeing which comes to every being once in a lifetime. [11]
On no account would she have changed what had occurred if only she succeeded in guarding herself from being humiliated by her lover. [10]
Handcuffs and chains would look still better on Jim, but it wouldn't go well with the story of us being so poor. [5]
Still more difficult would it be to find an instance in history of the aim of an historical personage being so completely accomplished as that to which all Kutuzov's efforts were directed in 1812. [2]
In sooth, nothing would have induced Kasana to take this step save the torturing dread of being scorned and execrated as a base traitress by the man whom she loved. [10]
I said: "It would end our adventures at the very start; and we, being without weapons, could do nothing with that armed gang. [5]
I believe I would begin attending lectures this winter if it weren't for being wanted in Washington. [5]
If possible, I would be very glad of another movement early enough to give us some benefit from the fact of the enemy's communication being broken; but neither for this reason nor any other do I wish anything done in desperation or rashness. [7]
And if you would be sorry for that, then you must have liked being here--with me. [10]
Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can't do that very handy, not being brung up to it. [5]
Something of Mr. Worthington's affairs was known: the mills, for instance, were not being run to their full capacity. [9]
It is not worth while being so--to anybody," was her chilly answer. [11]
It is the worst of policy, to say nothing of its being the worst of art; and life should never be without art. [11]
Not for the world would he have questioned his sagacious old medical friend as to the probability or possibility of their being true. [6]
Nothing in this world can save it from being a shabby, poor disgusting performance. [5]
Whatever may be worked out by a criticism of the language of those resolutions, the people have never understood them as being any more than an indorsement of the compromises of 1850, and a release of our senators from voting for the Wilmot Proviso. [7]
This being warmer work than they had calculated upon, speedily cooled the courage of the belligerents, who scrambled to their feet and called for quarter. [12]
The tyrant who wore this gaudy cloak was, no doubt, devoid alike of truth and conscience; but, as to his being a philosopher, who knew the worthlessness of earthly things and turned his back upon the world, those who could might believe it! [10]
Scornful and mocking words were being uttered by the king; Neithotep looked exultant.--In these visions Nebenchari was so lost, that one of the Persian doctors was obliged to point out to him that his patient was awake. [10]
The two dominant words of our time are law and average, both pointing to the uniformity of the order of being in which we live. [3]
I said these words did him extreme credit, but that he must not throw away the imperishable distinction of being the first man to descend an Alp per parachute, simply to save the feelings of some envious underlings. [5]
Grafton had a word and a smile for every one about the old place, but little else, being, as he said, but a younger son and a poor man. [9]
I no longer wonder at the English being such excellent caricaturists, they have such an inexhaustible number and variety of subjects to study from. [4]
How can a woman, without being misunderstood? [4]
The Judge is woefully at fault about his early friend Lincoln being a "grocery-keeper. [7]
All the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the direction of the conflagration. [2]
They went away without thinking of the tremendous significance of that immense and wealthy city being given over to destruction, for a great city with wooden buildings was certain when abandoned by its inhabitants to be burned. [2]
That movement being without result, with a shade of disappointment on his face, he felt in his left vest pocket. [5]
For, being absolutely without fear, he did what he listed and went where he listed. [11]
Everything was done without any orders being given. [2]
Rostov, in common with the whole army from which he came, was far from having experienced the change of feeling toward Napoleon and the French--who from being foes had suddenly become friends--that had taken place at headquarters and in Boris. [2]
Zdrzhinski, the officer with the long mustache, spoke grandiloquently of the Saltanov dam being "a Russian Thermopylae," and of how a deed worthy of antiquity had been performed by General Raevski. [2]
I say this with the greater freedom, because, being a politician myself, none can regard it as personal. [7]
His official relations with the Foreign Office were courteous and agreeable, the successive Foreign Ministers during his stay being Count Richberg, Count Mensdorff, and Baron Beust. [6]
She was struck with the excited look of Euthymia, being herself quite calm, and contemplating her project with entire complacency. [6]
He was done with that old world in which he once worked; he was concerned only for this narrow field where an Empire's fate was being solved. [11]
One afternoon when, with other compatriots, we were being hurried through a famous castle, the guide unwittingly ushered us into a drawing-room where the owner and several guests were seated about a tea-table. [9]
Dressed in molleton, with no adornment save the glow of a perfect health, she seemed at this moment, as on the Ecrehos, the one being on earth worth living and caring for. [11]
They were aglow with loud-colored silken hangings, but the stone floors had nothing but rushes on them for a carpet, and they were misfit rushes at that, being not all of one breed. [5]
There are minds with large ground floors, that can store an infinite amount of knowledge; some librarians, for instance, who know enough of books to help other people, without being able to make much other use of their knowledge, have intellects of this class. [6]
Thus I listened with increasing fascination to these gentlemen in evening clothes calmly treating the United States as a melon patch that existed largely for the purpose of being divided up amongst a limited and favored number of persons. [9]
This being sat with his great hand clasped to the side of his head. [11]
Besides being occupied with his estates and reading a great variety of books, Prince Andrew was at this time busy with a critical survey of our last two unfortunate campaigns, and with drawing up a proposal for a reform of the army rules and regulations. [2]
I've plenty dealin's with him, naturally, both of us being in the horse business, and I say he's right as a minted dollar as he goes now. [11]
I enjoyed being with her so much. [10]
Some one conversing with her once objected, in my presence, to that part of "Jane Eyre" in which she hears Rochester's voice crying out to her in a great crisis of her life, he being many, many miles distant at the time. [14]
This he did with considerable profit, being everywhere received with great honors. [5]
After an interview with Bigot he was being taken to the common jail. [11]
She upbraided Coello with being faithless to his paternal duty, and called him a thoughtless booby. [10]
I went on with an energy increased by the ridiculousness of the situation, the danger that an experienced woodsman was in of getting home late for supper; the lateness of the meal being nothing to the gibes of the unlost. [4]
Yet, thoroughly imbued with a reverence for the guaranteed rights of individuals, I was slow to adopt the strong measures which by degrees I have been forced to regard as being within the exceptions of the Constitution, and as indispensable to the public safety. [7]
Suddenly, a being with a red shirt, with loose prairie kind of hat, knee- boots, having metal clamps, strikes out from the shore, running on the tops of the moving logs till he reaches the jam. [11]
This being received with a large silence that suggested doubt, he buttressed it with the statement that his brother once saw the boomerang kill a bird away off a hundred yards and bring it to the thrower. [5]
They are born with a fear of not being busy; and if they are intelligent and in circumstances of leisure, they have such a sense of their responsibility that they hasten to allot all their time into portions, and leave no hour unprovided for. [4]
I shall never win over this soldier's son to our peaceful handicraft, but he shall not remain on the mountain among these queer sluggards, for there he is being ruined, and yet he is not of a common sort. [10]
He is not willing to stand in the face of that direct, naked, and impudent absurdity; he has, therefore, modified his language into that of being "controlled as other property. [7]
They know she will, her stock of usable materials being limited and her procedure in employing them always the same, substantially. [5]
Two and two will undoubtedly make four, irrespective of the emotions or other idiosyncrasies of the calculator; and the three angles of a triangle insist on being equal to two right angles, in the face of the most impassioned rhetoric or the most inspired verse. [6]
Any person who will reflect that money is only valuable while in circulation will readily perceive that any device which will keep the government revenues in constant circulation, instead of being locked up in idleness, is no inconsiderable advantage. [7]
How fine they will look on the table next year in a cut-glass dish, the cream being in a ditto pitcher! [4]
Many of them will do so not because they like his position on this question, but because they prefer him, being wrong on this, to another whom they consider farther wrong on other questions. [7]
I hope you will consider me as being really interested for Mr. Sutton and not as writing merely to relieve myself of importunity. [7]
My next incident will be set aside by most persons as being merely a "coincidence," I suppose. [5]
By examination it will be found that the first thirty-three lines, being precisely one third of the whole, relate exclusively to the distribution of the stock by the commissioners appointed by the State. [7]
Not even your wife, Luis, not even our sister, Queen Mary, must learn what is being accomplished. [10]

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