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Sentences starting with beneath

Beneath his speech was an undercurrent--or undertow, perhaps--carrying her swiftly, easily, helpless into the deep waters of intimacy. [9]
Beneath her abstractions there was a capacity of loving which might have been inferred from the expression of her features, the light that shone in her eyes, the tones of her voice, all of which were full of the language which belongs to susceptible natures. [6]
Beneath this was the simple line: "Why, what evil hath he done? [11]
Beneath it sat the queen of the festival--the Bride of the Nile. [10]
Beneath all his shrewdness and ability he was at heart a dreamer, a romancist to whom life was an adventure in a half-real world. [11]
Beneath her pliability she was now all firmness; the pliability had become a mockery. [9]
Beneath his smile Rostov saw in him the mood he had shown at the Club dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. [2]
Beneath the high-pointed roof were big dormer windows, and huge chimneys flanked each side of the house. [11]
Beneath the site of Pfouts and Russell's stone building there was a corral, the gate-posts of which were strong and high. [5]
Beneath the sword of Louis the Martyr, the great treasure of the parish, presented to this church by Marie Antoinette, sat Monsieur Garon, his thin fingers pressed to his mouth as if to stop a sound. [11]

Sentences ending with beneath

There she is, with her hand in her pocket, though,--and sure enough, her little bit of silver tinkled as it struck the coin beneath. [6]
Yes, this one was lifting from its bed on the hard earth beneath. [9]
But it soon took flight, away from the furnace beneath. [10]
The branches of the sycamores and plane-trees drooped and floated on the waves, but the boughs of the tall silver poplars strained upward, as if anxious to avoid the watery world beneath. [10]
He told Irving the next day that in going home he had fallen through a grating which had been carelessly left open, into a vault beneath. [4]
Here indeed was that which justified all she had done, what she was doing now, what she meant to do when she had read the last word of it and the firm, clear signature beneath. [11]
But if the paint and the ribbons and the flowers be stripped from it, a skeleton will be found beneath. [5]
Then he stood on the last high bench of the slope with the floor of the valley beneath. [13]
The Man had nursed his revenge long past the thought of its probability by the people beneath. [11]
The sun had not the insistent and intensive strength of more southerly climes; it was buoyant, confident and heartening, and it shone in a turquoise vault which covered and endeared the wide, even world beneath. [11]

Short sentences using beneath

He loved beneath his estate. [5]
It bent beneath her. [11]
Scotland Yard is beneath contempt. [11]

Sentences containing beneath two or more times

He caught the picture in his hands, and kissed it,--very foolishly, men not fathers might think,--and read the name beneath, Richard Joseph Armour; and again, beneath that, the date of birth. [11]
There was only one point where he could get a hold on the hillside--the jutting bole of a tree just beneath them, and beneath the dyke of rock and trees. [11]
But not beneath a graven stone, To plead for tears with alien eyes; A slender cross of wood alone Shall say, that here a maiden lies In peace beneath the peaceful skies. [6]

More example sentences with the word beneath in them

Through all the years, down beneath everything, there had been the helpless knowledge in her own small, garish mind that she had little sense; now she realized that she was given a chance to atone for all her pettiness by doing one great sensible thing. [11]
Alas, for long years he had dug and carried heavy loads, with chains on his feet, beneath a broiling sun. [10]
And beneath this wrath, stimulating and energizing it the more, was the ache in his soul from the loss for which he held these enemies responsible. [9]
I've done fine work in my time, but upon that day--not a cloud above, no dust beneath, a flowing tide, and a calm sea. [11]
Mr. Veneer sent word that the messenger should wait below, and presently appeared in the study, where Abel was making himself at home, as is the wont of the republican citizen, when he hides the purple of empire beneath the apron of domestic service. [6]
And the swiftness with which the petition was granted equalled its ardor; for the eagle had fallen and lowered its pinions beneath the superior might of the lion. [10]
He felt that, with her, beneath all, there was more than malice; there was a passion which would run risks to secure its end. [11]
The wedding ended with a sensation, for just as the benediction was pronounced a loud report was heard beneath the floor of the church. [11]
He was armed with a long knife, and I saw four men fall beneath it, while he himself got but one bad cut. [11]
This rider, beneath whose weight the powerful steed trembled and panted, wore a vesture of scarlet and white, thickly embroidered with eagles and falcons in silver. [10]
It maps the whole surface of the body into an arbitrary number of regions, and studies each region successively from the surface to the bone, or beneath it. [3]
And then beneath, where the grass almost hides it, the line: I have followed my Star to the last. [11]
He spied me where I had wormed myself behind the foot-board of a picket fence beneath the cannon-port of a blockhouse. [9]
But he stopped when he caught sight of the open trap and of the mattress beneath it. [9]
Her sarcasm was well veiled, but I could feel the sardonic touch beneath the smiling surface. [11]
The great globe we had left was rolling beneath us. [6]
They forget the way beneath the trees, they lose their skill in horses. [11]
I loved to watch her, for with me she was ever her own absolute self, free from all artifice, lost in her perfect naturalness: a healthy, perfect soundness, a primitive simplicity beneath the artifice of usual life. [11]
On my right was the St. Lawrence swelling on its course, hundreds of feet beneath, little boats passing hither and thither on its flood. [11]
The sun above was smothered; the earth beneath was trackless; the compass stood for loss all round. [11]
Her sable dress was ridged with manifold flounces, from beneath which a small foot showed itself from time to time, clad in the same hue of mourning. [6]
The next minute was one of suspense, for we saw the boat shoot beneath the archway. [11]
Suddenly the song was hushed, for a flash of lightning had shone down through the aperture beneath which Kallias had stationed the bride and bridegroom, followed by a loud peal of thunder. [10]
If asleep, he was evidently dreaming, for now and then he started, or his body twitched, and a muttering came from beneath the hat. [11]
The lifeless form was concealed beneath a costly coverlid, in the centre of which lay an exquisitely-carved ivory crucifix. [10]
Indeed, the bottle was beneath his arm. [9]
But beneath all was a kindly soul which intolerance could not warp, and this at last responded. [11]
But as he walked languidly along, some ladies saw him across the street, and seeing, were moved with pity, and pitying, spoke such soft words that he was tempted to accept their invitation and rest awhile beneath their hospitable roof. [6]
It was a very lovely family picture; a pretty house, surrounded by attractive scenery; scholarship, refinement, simple elegance, giving distinction to a home which to us seemed a pattern of all we could wish to see beneath an English roof. [6]
Show Thy mercy upon us this day, O Lord, and grant us Thy salvation; make the hearts of Thy servants to rejoice in Thy mercy; smite down our enemies and destroy them swiftly beneath the feet of Thy faithful servants! [2]
The ploughman turns up an old Saxon's bones, and beneath them is a tessellated pavement of the time of the Caesars. [6]
Then we were under it, for the river was low, and the dingy-uniformed officer was bowing over our passports beneath the awning. [9]
The beautiful woman turned, and, with a face full of loathing and scorn, pointed to one of the reptiles beneath the feet of the chair. [6]
It pierced the tumult of waters, found the ambushed rocks, and guided the lithe brown arms and hands, so that the swift paddle drove the canoe straight onward, as a fish drives itself through a flume of dragon's teeth beneath the flood. [11]
They had already torn off his mantle and discovered beneath its folds the sharp-edged butcher's knife which plainly betrayed his intentions. [10]
The sign-boards on top had invited customers into shop or inn, and the roll of carpet beneath was perhaps to have covered some floor to-morrow. [10]
Certain guttural sounds, too, which from time to time ascended through the floor of the caravan, and a rustling of straw in the same direction, apprised her that the driver was couched upon the ground beneath, and gave her an additional feeling of security. [12]
The spring was too far beneath to be found by them. [11]
The high-priest has told me that you did not sleep beneath the same roof as I. [10]
I know how to value his noble gifts, and I am his friend, but I am also his master, and I will find means of preventing my son from introducing the light conduct of the capital beneath his father's roof. [10]
When I got to the parlor I was in a fine frenzy concealed beneath a veneer of frigid courtesy. [5]
He was about to speak when Hope said, in a clear voice: "Thee has a strange people beneath thee. [11]
They had expected to see Nic; but Nic was on his way to the horse beneath the great elm tree, and from the elm tree to the State of New York--and safety. [11]
Some had desired to rest beneath the very ground they had trodden in their daily walks; some, where the setting sun might shine upon their beds; some, where its light would fall upon them when it rose. [12]
The ground seemed to heave beneath her feet; sick and giddy she put out her hand to find some support, that she might not sink on her knees; in so doing, she caught the tall tripod which held the dish of coals. [10]
They had started to follow, in the cool path beneath the forest trees. [9]
Angele had come to feel what he was beneath the surface. [11]
It came back to England after he'd had his fill of Hudson's Bay and the earth beneath, and had gone, as he himself said on the last page of the journal, to follow the king's buglers in 'the land that is far off. [11]
Mr. Crewe was to big a man not to perceive and appreciate the sterling philanthropy which lay beneath the exteriors of his new friends, who scorned to flatter him. [9]
Then he pointed to Amminadab's house, from which no ray of light gleamed through the darkness, and asked Hosea to spend the remainder of the night beneath his roof, as he probably would not wish yo disturb his aged father at so late an hour. [10]
Is it the time, while yet the singers are beneath the windows, to assail the bride? [11]
And all the time she saw the face of a dead man down by the river--a face now beneath the sod. [11]
For a long time nothing was heard beneath the sycamore save Miriam's low moans and the impatient footsteps of the warrior who, while struggling for composure, did not venture to disturb her. [10]
At the same time he extended his foot in an accidental sort of way, and pressed it on the right hand knob of three which were arranged in a line beneath the table. [6]
We watched it till we saw it get to the end of its journey in the valley beneath, not far from the great mill to which we were bound. [11]
My head beneath thy palm, Once more I lift Love's chalice to thine eyes: Not till thou blessest me will I arise. [11]
She had been thrown off her balance, or poise, as Charley had, for an unwonted second, been thrown off his pose, and her thought could not pierce beneath the surface. [11]
At the signal three men sprang up like magic out of the bowels of the boat beneath them, and scurried over the side; three as ripe knaves as ever cheated stocks and gallows, but simple knaves, unlike their master. [11]
Even as these thoughts passed through the lad's mind, the clac-clac had faded away into the murmur of the stream flowing by the Rue d'Egypte to the sea, and almost beneath his feet. [11]
The light of those beautiful eyes was like the lustre of ice; in all her features there was nothing of that human warmth which shows that sympathy has reached the soul beneath the mask of flesh it wears. [6]
The witch observed this; she took breath and went on: "You lords, who walk in high places, do not know how things go on in the depths beneath you; you do not choose to know. [10]
She had felt this vibrating life beat beneath the frozen surface. [11]
The stone from this David's sling falls into the ocean and is lost beneath the surface. [11]
Their own tragedies they hid beneath their grey coats and bodices; their dirty linen they never washed in public, save in the scandal such as this where the Society must intervene. [11]
The minister thought these matters over until his mind was bewildered with doubts and tossed to and fro on that stormy deep of thought heaving forever beneath the conflict of windy dogmas. [6]
As she sat there, her eyes ever watching the river as though for some one she expected, there came from the garden beneath the sound of singing. [11]
She knew that there was truth in what he said, and that beneath all was the Romany blood; but she meant to conquer it. [11]
There, standing at the window and looking down at the village beneath, was the Cure. [11]
He went to the window and looked beneath the curtain. [11]
Haymaking was beginning, the wild strawberries were reddening among the clover, and in her garden, apples had followed the buds on the trees beneath which Philip had told his fateful tale of love. [11]
Her bench beneath the venerable tree was empty, and with drooping head she approached the beloved resting-place, which she must leave forever on the morrow. [10]
Far beneath in the valley the water ran lightly on, but there came no sound from it, none from anywhere; only a general pervasive murmur quieting to the heart. [11]
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 way beneath the trees is the way of the thief, and the skill of the horse is the skill to cheat. [11]
His understanding resembled the tent which the fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed: fold it, and it seemed a toy for the hand of a lady; spread it, and the armies of the powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade. [5]
But who beneath the sun who has warm blood in his veins can preserve his composure when juicy grapes are held before his thirsting lips to be withdrawn, as from Tantalus, ere he can taste them? [10]
As soon as the sun appeared in a clear strip of sky beneath the clouds, the wind fell, as if it dared not spoil the beauty of the summer morning after the storm; drops still continued to fall, but vertically now, and all was still. [2]
At last came the sounds that I had waited for, and presently I knew by the tramp beneath, and by low laments floating up, that a wife was mourning over the dead body of her husband. [11]
The light of the sky above was a soft radiance, as of a happy Arcadian land; the fire of the toil beneath was the output of human striving, an intricate interweaving of vital forces which, like some Titanic machine, wrought out in pain--a vast destiny. [11]
Sweetest spot beneath the skies When the canker-worms don't rise,-- When the dust, that sometimes flies Into your mouth and ears and eyes. [6]
In one of the silences that fell between Shon's attempts to give hilarity to the occasion, there came a rumbling far-off sound, a sound that increased in volume till the earth beneath them responded gently to the vibration. [11]
Striking out for the shore, he swam with bold, strong strokes, his judgment guiding him well past rocks beneath the surface. [11]
The prefect set the seal beneath it in Caesar's name. [10]
Princess Mary was the same as always, but beneath her sympathy for her brother, Pierre noticed her satisfaction that the engagement had been broken off. [2]
As I left the rude taverns of a morning and jogged along the heights, I watched the vapors rise and troll away from the valleys far beneath, and saw great flocks of ducks and swans and cackling geese darkening the air in their southward flight. [9]
In due time the ring of metal and sepulchred voices rumbled in the ground beneath the besieged. [9]
Deeper than all the rest was still another feeling, which had hardly risen into the region of inwardly articulated thought, but lay unshaped beneath all the syllabled trains of sleeping or waking consciousness. [6]
Behind him appeared the quaternary number of prophets, whose head, the chief priest, moved with stately dignity beneath a canopy. [10]
Who had had the primrose path without the rain of fire, the cinders beneath the feet, the gins and the nets spread for them? [11]
After a while the path led us along a railed precipice, and we looked over--far beneath us was the snug parlor again, the little Gasternthal, with its water jets spouting from the face of its rock walls. [5]
The drudgery of the newspaper office was too distaste ful, and besides it would be beneath the dignity of a graduate and a successful magazine writer. [5]
P.S.--I have found the names and places of the men who keep the guard beneath thy window. [11]
With verdant green the mountains glow, For thee, for thee, the lilies grow; Far stretched beneath the tented hills, A fairer flower the valley fills. [5]
You descend beneath the level of human understanding by madly wallowing in the mire; and the more clearly you are convinced that you have seized the truth, the more utterly you are involved in the toils of a miserable delusion. [10]
Groves, trees, houses, the landscape, dimmed, faded, fled away beneath me. [4]
On one of the islets below the Falls, Captain Newport set up a cross with the inscription "Jacobus, Rex, 1607," and his own name beneath, and James was proclaimed King with a great shout. [4]
He had known the house years before--did the deep stream still run beneath it? [11]
Ay, he permitted the horror to enter beneath his own roof. [10]
He knew that the great primal truths, which each successive revelation only confirmed, were fast becoming hidden beneath the mechanical forms of thought, which, as with all new converts, engrossed so large a share of his attention. [6]
Who tore away the flowers beneath which they lay concealed? [10]

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