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Sentences starting with big

Big Tom sat with us before the fire and told bear stories. [4]
Big Tom Wilson was with it. [4]
Big Tom joined us in our room after supper. [4]
Big Bill Cowan, undaunted in war, stared at me with fright written on his face. [9]
Big Ben boomed the hours, and from St. James's Palace came the stroke of the quarters, lighter, quicker, almost pensive in tone. [11]
Big Tom was the guide that found his body. [4]
Big Tom refused the chicken he had provided for us, and strengthened himself with slices of raw salt pork, which he cut from a hunk with his clasp-knife. [4]
Big fire, all right--brisk trade for ten days while people scared; after that, dull policy-business till next fire. [5]
Big as he is, I have carried him eighty-one miles between nightfall and sunrise on the scout; and I am good for fifty, day in and day out, and all the time. [5]
Big Tom brought his companions to the place, and on consultation it was decided to leave the body undisturbed till Mitchell's friends could be present. [4]

Sentences ending with big

My record was writ pretty big. [11]
The occasion was too big. [11]
Shake hands--yourn'll come through the bars, but mine's too big. [5]
He would, I'll stake my life, do Al'mah a good turn if he could, even if it cost him something quite big. [11]
I tell you, Marmion, these big ships are too big. [11]
Dey had 'em in my kitchen, heaps o' times, 'ca'se it was so big. [5]
I never thought 'bout him growin' up an' bein' big. [5]
He's liberal and big. [9]
You can't put a tag on people who are really big. [9]
And she had a lady's maid, also big. [2]

Short sentences using big

The Big Financier nodded vigorously. [11]
A big house in Montreal! [11]
It was a big mistake. [11]
Henderson is a big machine. [4]
It's big enough. [4]
Big head. [6]

Sentences containing big two or more times

A little dinner wouldn't make a big talk, and what we want is the big talk, at present, if we don't lay up a cent. [8]
Such a deal would make it easy for a big firm to pour in a big cash capital and jump L. A. L. up to enormous prosperity. [5]
We buy up the little lines for nothing, and get an interest in the big ones, and sell the little lines for fifty times what they cost us, and guarantee big dividends for the big lines. [9]
His head was rather big for his body; he had a large mouth which laughed easily, a noble forehead, and big, short-sighted eyes. [11]
Our hole was pretty big, but it warn't big enough to get the grindstone through; but Jim he took the pick and soon made it big enough. [5]
In the little kingdom of Oude, which was about half as big as Ireland and about as big as the State of Maine, they had two hundred and seventy-four 'bheels'. [5]
It's a big job, and it's worth doing in a big way. [11]
And then music in the big house, or perhaps a ride afield to greet the neighbours, and fiddling and dancing in the two big quarters, Hank's and Johnson's, when the tables were cleared after the bountiful feast Mr. Carvel was wont to give them. [9]
That he was huge, a lunker, a monstrous old varmint, Big Tom knew by the size of his tracks; that he was making the ascent that morning ahead of us, Big Tom knew by the freshness of the trail. [4]
The big squares have big bronze monuments in them. [5]

More example sentences with the word big in them

A handsome, agile youth, to her sincere regret, had just fallen, but swiftly recovered his elasticity, and, springing to his feet, belaboured his opponent, a clumsy giant, so skilfully and vigorously that the bright blood streamed down his ugly face and big body. [10]
If you hate yourself, you'll get a big penance. [11]
You never spared yourself, but in a big city parish it's different. [9]
We were passing your shops, and a big crowd of men were there, making a noise, shouting at a speaker. [9]
Go back to your people as their chiefs, and tell them that through you the Big Knives have granted peace to your nation. [9]
If he--" "Shut your mouth, let Ingolby speak for himself," snarled the big river- driver. [11]
At sight of your face I took one big gulp, for I had no notion of getting you back to her. [9]
You can leave your donations in the big room outside. [5]
And then there's your big high-sounding millionaire names stuck into your advertisements as stockholders--another card, that--and they are stockholders, too, but you have to give them the stock and non-assessable at that--so they're an expensive lot. [5]
I knew that you were big enough even for that, when you understood it, coming from me. [9]
The Duncan house, you know--the big one with the conservatory. [9]
I never see you in the big reception-room. [5]
I will teach you how to know, I will lead you through all the north and make you to understand the big things of life. [11]
In the daytime you can hitch it up against the wall, out of the way--and then you have a big unencumbered and most comfortable room to spread out in. [5]
I thank Heaven you are big and honest and clumsy and--" "And what, Dorothy? [9]
Parties in New York only last week wanted me to go down into Arizona in a big diamond interest. [5]
John imagines that yonder big thistle is some whiskered villain, of whom he has read in a fairy book, and he advances on him with "Die, ruffian! [4]
He's a thousand years old, which is about as old-fashioned as I mean, and as wise, and as plain to read as though you'd write the letters of words as big as a date-palm. [11]
I could not write in the hotel itself, so I went to the annex, and in the big building--in the early spring-time--I worked night and day. [11]
He caught her wrists with his great hands, big enough for tall Medallion, and held her. [11]
If any man would like to be amused by a sight of that little thing which the President calls by that big name, he can have it by turning to Niles's Register, vol. [7]
The Big Knives would fight their own fight. [9]
It makes life worth while to talk to men like you who do really big things. [11]
There was nothing worth seeing on the Big Ivy way. [4]
The Mayor's polite words had caused the long, clean-shaven upper lip of the old man with the look of a debauched prophet, to lengthen surlily; and he noticed that a wide, flat foot in a big knee-boot, inside trousers too short, tapped the ground impatiently. [11]
We mingled companionably with the great folk who flocked to the big house to make Joan's acquaintance, and they made much of us and we lived in the clouds, so to speak. [5]
It's all French, with mirrors and big white panels and satin chairs and sofas, and a carved gilt piano that she got for nothing from a dealer she knows; and church candlesticks. [9]
The big parlor, with its photographs and stereoscope, and bits of shell and mineral, a piano and a melodeon, and a coveted old sideboard of mahogany, recalled rural New England. [4]
He crept about with heedful care and never a word, prying as he went, and presently I could see that he shook his big head as though in doubt, nay, or in sorrow. [10]
It is so with all things, little or big, majestic or trivial--there are no exceptions. [5]
Krool here entered with a tray, placing it on a small table by the big desk. [11]
It is a wine-cask as big as a cottage, and some traditions say it holds eighteen thousand bottles, and other traditions say it holds eighteen hundred million barrels. [5]
There warn't a window to it big enough for a dog to get through. [5]
A big war will temporarily shut up the Suez Canal some day and the English ships will have to go to India around the Cape of Good Hope again; then England will have to have Bourbon and will take it. [5]
Next summer we will put up a house there, not a very big house, just a long, low sort of a Moorish pavilion, the architect calls it. [4]
The military officers will not object, they know how big a man he is, and they have had enough. [11]
Our wanderings were wide and in many directions; and now I could give the reader a vivid description of the Big Trees and the marvels of the Yo Semite--but what has this reader done to me that I should persecute him? [5]
If they don't, why, glad and good, the Hardi Biaou is big enough to hold the cough-drops. [11]
You don't understand why I couldn't play as big a part as your father-- I couldn't. [11]
He takes the whole crop in advance, be it big or little. [5]
Do all men who wear big diamond breast-pins, flourish their knives at table, and use bad grammar, and cheat? [5]
One big fellow who was leaning against a lamp-post growled, 'You'd better stay in your own palace, miss, and not come prying round here. [4]
But her mother, who was born a countess--if the shoe doesn't make a foot small which Nature created big, there's such an outcry! [10]
But few people who are not on the inside, so to speak, grasp the fact that big corporations, like the Railroad, are looked upon as fair game for every kind of parasite. [9]
The boatswain's pipe whistled, and the big ship was already sliding in the water as I leaped into my pungy, which Hugo was holding to the ladder. [9]
The big dinner-parties which are commonly made to pay off social debts are generally of the sort that one would rather contribute to in money than in personal attendance. [4]
The big house where they lived was old, solid, picturesque the lower part built of logs, the upper of rough clapboards, with vines growing up the outside stone chimneys. [13]
Mark my words, when you see a man who wants a big office cheap, look out for him. [9]
He was "soldiering" when we came upon him, but he hopped up and chipped out a couple of steps about big enough for a cat, and charged us a franc or two for it. [5]
She arrived just when the clock struck noon in the big living-room of the Manor. [11]
One autumn day when I was a little lad of eight or nine, my grandfather and I were driving back from Whitehall in the big coach, when we spied a little maid of six by the Severn's bank, with her apron full of chestnuts. [9]
A month later when he was more recovered physically he would be able to perform the operation, but the old man was dying now, while he stood helplessly stroking his big brown beard. [11]
Councils of war were held over the advisability of seizing Mr. Carvel's house at Glencoe, but proof was lacking until one rainy night in June a captain and ten men spurred up the drive and swung into a big circle around the house. [9]
These big blocks were hard, solid, and crystal-clear. [5]
The upper branches were alive with these industrious toilers, and Big Tom was always on the alert to discover and mark a bee-gum, which he could visit afterwards. [4]
Let them be well trained, for we are going to leave a big contract on their hands. [5]
She did not weep passionately, but the big salt drops welled slowly from her eyes and ran down her young cheeks, as drop after drop of shining sap flows down the trunk of a wounded birch-tree. [10]
Toward nightfall, when we were about tired out, we came up against a rock as big as a cottage. [5]
By and by we passed through Marysville, and over the Big Blue and Little Sandy; thence about a mile, and entered Nebraska. [5]
Ten minutes afterward we met a hot, red-faced man plunging down the mountain, making mighty strides, swinging his alpenstock ahead of him, and taking a grip on the ground with its iron point to support these big strides. [5]
And presently, when we drew a little closer, he gave one big shout and whipped off the hat from his head; and off, too, came the caps from the white heads of Scipio and Chess and Johnson behind him. [9]
I want you, we all want you, to be the big man you are at heart. [11]
That a'n't my way,--said the young fellow John;--I burn 'em one 't' time,--little end in my mouth and big end outside. [6]
You're on the way to big success. [11]
There is currentless water --also a big island--in front of Vicksburg now. [5]
That Commander's remark was, that the Boers "would turn tail at the first beat of the big drum. [5]
Well, there she was, lookin'--lookin' in front o' her, whin round the big tree in the middle of the gardin he come and stood forninst her. [11]
Ver' well, dere was twenty men in Pontiac, ver' nice men--you will find de names cut in a stone on de church; and den, three times as big, you will find Mathurin's name. [11]
At his mercy was the daily bread of every official, every trader, every clerk, every civil servant, big and little, in the whole huge India Company's machine, and the man who hazarded his bread by any failure of subserviency to the boss lost it. [5]
All Jethro realized was that the man who stood in his way, the big, rich, masterful Gorgio was there. [11]
The town itself was squat but amiable: small houses and large huts; the only place of note and dignity, the new town hall, which was greatly overshadowed by the big mill, and even by the two smaller ones flanking it north and south. [11]
Here the land was rugged and bold, while farther on it became gentle and spacious, and was flecked or striped with farms on which low, white houses with dormer-windows and big stoops flashed to the passer-by the message of the pioneer, "It is mine. [11]
Evidently the affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. [2]
The big fellow was often seen with the little fellow, but it was for the same reason that the bull is often seen with the gnat. [5]
He saw he was in for a big fight with Manitou, and he had to think it out. [11]
But Tom he was huffy, and said me and Jim was a couple of ignorant blatherskites, and then he says: "Suppose there's a brown calf and a big brown dog, and an artist is making a picture of them. [5]
The big room was full of red-vested farmers (the Gemeindrath of the district, with the Burgermeister at the head,) drinking beer and talking public business. [5]
The big man was examining the note searchingly under the gas-jet. [5]
The stout gentleman was counting out big gold pieces in his hand and giving them to Mr. Riddle. [9]
Well, but it was cold then, and my head seemed big and running about like a ball of air. [11]
The big mate was at the wheel, and he had the old tub pointed at a star and was holding her straight up the middle of the river. [5]
When the chain was all paid out, the candle confirmed my suspicion; a considerable section of the wall was gone, exposing a good big fissure. [5]
All around us was a ring, where the sky and the water come together; yes, a monstrous big ring it was, and we right in the dead center of it--plumb in the center. [5]
People said it was a pity to see him mar his successful career with a big prominent case like this, which must go against him. [5]
Even if it was a mistake for Ingolby to take away the offices from Manitou, he's done a big thing for both cities by combining the three railways. [11]
But Big Tom was a gentleman: he never killed deer for mere sport. [4]
Within the fort was a big common dotted with forest trees, where such cattle as had been saved browsed on the scanty grass. [9]
You are always wanting to know what he is looking for in his big books, so I plucked up courage to ask him, and now I know. [10]
After a personal visit to St. Saviour's, this biggest creditor and financial potentate--M. Mornay--said that if Jean Jacques had been started right and trained right, he would have been a "general in the financial field, winning big battles. [11]
She knew the virtue of every herb in the big chest in the storeroom. [9]
There was Miss Virginia in a corner of the big parlor, for the moment alone with her cousin. [9]
This bunch of violets was the impulse of a big, magnanimous nature; but it would be followed by the inevitable reaction, which would be the real test and trial. [11]
There is the violet: all efforts of cultivation fail to make it as big as the peony, and it would be no more dear to the heart if it were quadrupled in size. [4]
Principles is all very well, but they don't git around that one big fact, that the thing that a balloon can do ain't no sort of proof of what a horse can do. [5]
He is not ver' big man. [11]
The pawnbroker gave us an old derringer with a bullet as big as a hickory nut. [5]
When I got up to see what had happened, the robin was scattered about under the tree in more than a thousand pieces, no one of which was big enough to enable a naturalist to decide from it to what species it belonged. [4]
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]
A man got up and came to see what this queer big fellow was laughing at all by himself. [2]
Nothing is more unwieldy than our big blanket-sheets: they are awkward to handle, inconvenient to read, unhandy to bind and preserve. [4]

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