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Sentences starting with bend

Bend your ear nearer, that I may confess it openly. [10]

Sentences ending with bend

I thought it wasn't any slouch that was running that middle bar in Hog-eye Bend. [5]
The same question was written in her yearning eyes, staring at the spot where the gray of his hunting shirt showed through the bushes at the bend. [9]
Next my eye was caught by a little run fringed with bushes that curved around the cane near the bend. [9]
One day he turned on me suddenly with this settler-- 'What is the shape of Walnut Bend? [5]
Presently, however, as though arrested by a thought, he peered out of the doorway towards Juniper Bend. [11]
That night about ten we hove in sight of the lights of a town away down in a left-hand bend. [5]
This straight-backed and stiff necked man, who had never bowed his head save only in church and before the holy images of the saints, learnt now to stoop and bend. [10]
The thicket was some one hundred and fifty yards above, and on the flooded lands at a bend. [9]
There was something lacking in him to make one of those thorough-going haters of their kind at whose mere aspect every knee must bend. [10]
There's a steamboat just coming round the bend. [5]

Short sentences using bend

It will bend then. [10]

Sentences containing bend two or more times

You can bend him, but you can't break him; and it takes a lot to bend him. [11]
This bend is all filled up now--result of a cut-off; and the same agent has taken the great and once much-frequented Walnut Bend, and set it away back in a solitude far from the accustomed track of passing steamers. [5]

More example sentences with the word bend in them

You could rest your elbow on its eaves, and you had to bend in order to get in at the door. [5]
I will show you, that there is only one man in Persia who deserves the name of king;--only one who can venture to take the field against the Ethiopians;--only one who can bend this bow. [10]
Why, what could you want over here in the bend, then? [5]
I propose that you constantly bear in mind that the support you owe to the brave officers and soldiers in the field is of the very first importance, and we should therefore bend all our energies to that point. [7]
And thus he would die--out in the cold world, with no shelter over his homeless head, no friendly hand to wipe the death-damps from his brow, no loving face to bend pityingly over him when the great agony came. [5]
Naturally, the distant witness supposed they were now looking upon three corpses; so they could hardly believe their eyes when they presently saw two of the men rise to their feet and bend over the third. [5]
At first, as when I left the governor at Lachine, I said, 'I will never speak, I will never ask nor bend the knee. [11]
The orange-trees cannot well be fuller: their branches bend with the weight of fruit. [4]
However, Eagle Bend was two miles wide at this bank-full stage, and correspondingly long and deep; and the boat was steering herself straight down the middle and taking no chances. [5]
Chief of all was the renowned Bend Or, a Derby winner, a noble and beautiful bay, destined in a few weeks to gain new honors on the same turf in the triumph of his offspring Ormonde, whose acquaintance we shall make by-and-by. [6]
He'd never camp 'twixt here an' Juniper Bend at night. [11]
But I bend to your implacability. [11]
Rawley had trusted to the inspiration of the moment; he had had no clearly defined plan; he had believed that he could frighten the old man, and by force of will bend him to his purposes. [11]
Orion was accustomed to be treated in his own country as the heir of the greatest man in it; the color mounted to his brow and his Egyptian heart revolted at having to bend his pride and swallow his wrath before an Arab. [10]
He knew himself to be in the scheme of a master-workman, and by-and-by he would blunt the chisel and bend the saw; but not yet. [11]
In my own time a cut-off was made at American Bend, which shortened the river ten miles or more. [5]
It was one thousand and forty after the American Bend cut-off. [5]
And, in truth, this mighty sovereign, racked by almost unendurable pain, dealt cruelly enough with himself when he compelled his aching knee to bend until consciousness threatened to fail under the excess of agony. [10]
Another thing: if they were a small party, they would probably seek to surprise us by coming out of the cane into the creek bed above the bend, and stalk down the creek. [9]
Every now and then that calm, good-natured madman would bend a majestic look over his shoulder at us and say, "Ah, you perceive? [5]
For generations have the Rys of all the Rys been like the trees that bend only to the whirlwind; and when they speak there is no more to be said. [11]
Did ye ken the red bloom at the bend o' the crag? [11]
At 90 degrees the oak stops short; to slant upward another degree would mark infirmity of purpose; to bend downwards, weakness of organization. [6]
But everything in the good old days was not better than at the present time, and that you, whom I honour as the most faithful of husbands, may not misunderstand me, Lienhard: To bend and to succumb are two different things. [10]
She lays up the bend yonder. [5]
Well, one matchless summer's day I was bowling down the bend above island 66, brimful of self-conceit and carrying my nose as high as a giraffe's, when Mr. Bixby said-- 'I am going below a while. [5]
He stood for some moments helplessly regarding her before he gained the presence of mind to go to the door and lock it, returning to bend over her. [9]
Don't think Kirby Smith took Milliken's Bend since, allowing time to get the news to Joe Johnston and from him to Richmond. [7]
Suddenly, at a slight bend of the road, the corner of the little red building came in sight, some hundreds of yards ahead; and, on the side where it stood, in the clearing, was a white mass which Victoria recognized as a pile of lumber. [9]
At Castellamare the shore makes a sharp bend, and runs southwest along the side of the Sorrentine promontory. [4]
You make the same mistake in a less degree, when you bend to the popular ignorance and conceit so far as to direct your college education to sordid ends. [4]
Then the voice said something more, Demyan replied, and the steps in the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly. [2]
Then, as we rounded the bend, we were suddenly astonished to see people gathered on the landing at the foot of the lawn, where they had run, no doubt, in a flurry at sight of the ship below. [9]
At Red Man's River she delivered her load of contraband to the traders waiting for it, and saw it loaded into the boats and disappear beyond the wooded bend above Dingan's. [11]
This wood is really harder than iron, and I confess that the man who could bend it, would really be my master. [10]
He had already reached the last bend of the path he had followed down the ravine, and he saw at his feet the long narrow valley and the gleaming waters of the stream, which here fertilized the soil of the desert. [10]
But when Virginia reached the forest at the bend of the road, she pulled her horse down to a walk. [9]
At last Tom reached the bend in the bank, beside some red-bud bushes, and there he stayed. [9]
And again that proud smile came upon Ulman Pernhart's bearded lips, and his eye flashed fire as he said: "My life moves in a narrow round, but all that dwell therein bend to my will as the copper bends under my hammer. [10]
After the melancholy procession had passed around a steep mountain whose summit was crowned with a small Egyptian temple of Hathor and a number of monuments, it approached a bend in the valley which led to the ravine where the mines were located. [10]
That is a power she has: she can bend one to her will, although she often, involuntarily, wills things that are death to others. [11]
Nay, the shrewish plotters were fain at last to see the scrivener's daughter uplifted to be our head, and this compelled them to bend their pride before her. [10]
Caesarion's clear-cut but pallid face, whose every feature resembled that of his father, the great Caesar, bent towards them from the opening above the door, as he greeted both with a formal bend of the head and a patronizing glance. [10]
You will bend over and look. [5]
The canal abandoned, one red night fleet and transports swept around the bend and passed the city's heights, on a red river. [9]
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]
After the loss of the Shevardino Redoubt, we found ourselves on the morning of the twenty-fifth without a position for our left flank, and were forced to bend it back and hastily entrench it where it chanced to be. [2]
Human relations will not bend to it. [4]
Carefully I dressed myself, and after I was dressed I could not refrain from slipping to the bedside to bend over him once again,--for he was the only one in my life with whom I had found true companionship. [9]
Hold on to my girdle, and bend your head low till I tell you you may stand upright again. [10]
It was too much for me to suffer that he should depart, and, like the fool that I was, the desire possessed me to bend to my will this man of all men, whose stiff-necked will was ever as firm as iron. [10]
Does the Bunker-Hill Monument bend in the blast like a blade of grass? [6]
He was no longer the stern Churchman, the inveterate friend of Justice, the prejudiced priest, rigid in a pious convention, who could neither bend nor break. [11]
When a man like Ferens, on the one hand, and the mutineer whose fingers had been mutilated by Dyck in the Channel, on the other--when these agreed to bend themselves to the rule of a usurper, some idea of Calhoun's power may be got. [11]
Did you ever know of a boat following a bend up-stream at this stage of the river? [5]
He give a kind of a groan, and says-- '"I've seed a raft act so before, along here," he says, "'pears to me the current has most quit above the head of this bend durin' the last two years," he says. [5]
We had the Kentucky Bend country in the early morning--scene of a strange and tragic accident in the old times, Captain Poe had a small stern-wheel boat, for years the home of himself and his wife. [5]
This boat, the 'John J. Roe,' was so slow that when she finally sunk in Madrid Bend, it was five years before the owners heard of it. [5]
One scarcely noticed it, and yet it was like the bend of a petitioner, and gave the wish which he expressed resistless power. [10]
But I reckon it was more than a cat-nap, for when I waked up the stars was shining bright, the fog was all gone, and I was spinning down a big bend stern first. [5]
Oak, when bent, is even harder to bend back again. [9]
He was lowered into the crevice, he descended deeper and deeper between the clear blue walls of solid ice, he approached a bend in the crack and disappeared under it. [5]
She heard the inflexible man beside her sob, saw him bend over Ulrich, listen to the beating of his heart, and press his bearded lips first to his temples, then on the hand he had so harshly rejected. [10]
If there were Indians in it, they could not see the sleeping forms of our party under me because of a bend in the stream. [9]
The other things in the room were letter-files, a safe, a long-distance telephone, and a thin private secretary with a bend in his back. [9]
At a bend in the road Paaker stood still, and with him Bent-Anat and Nefert. [10]
We bend down in our rowboat, slide into the narrow opening which is three feet high, and passing into the spacious cavern, remain there for half an hour. [4]
Jakob looked as if nothing could bend him; Wilhelm as if, though equally strong, he might yield out of love. [10]
So sure was I of my whereabouts that I did not note the bend of the river, nor look at my compass. [4]
You will see how I will win over both the prettiest of little lady-loves and the high-priest who, to be sure, is a Greek, but still a man hard to bend. [10]
If I take her in hand, I will be bound by a very little coaxing and threatening to bend her to my will. [12]
It is often hard to us old men to heave stones and bend our stiff backs for so long together, but we are nearer than you younger ones to the happy future. [10]
Madame extended her hand and he kissed it, albeit he did not bend easily. [9]
The old bend had already begun to fill up, and the boat got to running away from mysterious reefs, and occasionally hitting one. [5]
He is a grandson of "Milliken's Bend," near Vicksburg--that is, a grandson of the man who gave name to Milliken's Bend. [7]
Food--but you can't go far, and keep your eye on the Bend too," he nodded towards the door, beyond which lay the frost-touched valley in the early morning light of autumn. [11]
Across the river from the city, on the pasty mud behind the levee's bank were dumped Sherman's regiments, condemned to week of ditch-digging, that the gunboats might arrive at the bend of the Mississippi below by a canal, out of reach of the batteries. [9]
A cannon ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. [2]
If, from the first, I had been required to bestir myself and bend my will, matters had not perchance have gone so hard with me. [10]
They turned their first attention to straightening the river just above the Landing, where it made a deep bend, and where the maps and plans showed that the process of straightening would not only shorten distance but increase the "fall. [5]
This time the fiend had been strong in him, and he must use every gentle persuasion he knew of to bend the deeply offended maiden to his will. [10]
Herdegen must have felt this likewise, methinks, for he would bend the knee before her and hide his face in her lap, and kiss her hands again and again. [10]
Her father had failed to bend this refractory, wonderfully beautiful iron; he had hoped to try with better fortune, but Fate had anticipated him, and he was grateful. [10]
It was not expected by you that the spirit of party would take the lead in the councils of the State, and make every interest bend to its demands. [7]
He would bend every energy to the task, and he would score that triumph once more, cost what it might to his convenience, limit as it might his frivolous and liberty-loving life. [5]
What couldst thou ever ask me that I should Not bend me to achieve thy high behest? [11]
He was near enough now for us to see him put out a hand, find an upper wire, then bend and step under it and over the lower one. [5]
Down, and still down, he went, into this profound grave; when he had reached a depth of eighty feet he passed under another bend in the crack, and thence descended eighty feet lower, as between perpendicular precipices. [5]
Our way was down the Nollichucky, past the great bend of it below Lick Creek, and so to the Great War-path, the trail by which countless parties of red marauders had travelled north and south. [9]
We bore steadily down the bend. [5]
We went drifting down into a big bend, and the night clouded up and got hot. [5]
You take the discus so, then you bend your body, and press down your knees like the arc of a bow, so that every sinew in your body helps to speed the shot when you let go. [10]
Twenty times a day we would be cramping up around a bar, while a string of these small-fry rascals were drifting down into the head of the bend away above and beyond us a couple of miles. [5]
Since my own day on the Mississippi, cut-offs have been made at Hurricane Island; at island 100; at Napoleon, Arkansas; at Walnut Bend; and at Council Bend. [5]
I may be courted twenty times, and reject twenty suitors, but not because I fear that they might bend my pride and my will; on the contrary, because I feel them increased. [10]
Suppose, in this conflict, this singular man, acting on a nature already tried beyond reason, should bend it to his will, to which it was, in some radical ways, inclined? [11]
She had been compelled to bend her head backward in order to see his face, for his figure, seven feet in height, towered like a statue of Roland above all who surrounded him. [10]
Now he is close to the 'nyssa'--the 'kampter'--the 'meta' they call it at Rome; the smaller the bend he can make round it the better for him, but it is risky work. [10]
They saw a canoe rounding the bend instead, with a single occupant paddling madly. [9]
And so we came swiftly around the bend and into safety once more. [9]

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