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Sentences ending with block

I walked home with her, slowly, the length of the Hutchinses' block. [9]
Why, in that very moment Mrs. Eddy will cast that spiritual X-ray of hers through his dungarees and say: "I see his hypnotism working, among his insides--remove him to the block! [5]
I don't believe there's steam heat or an elevator in the whole block. [8]
Sometimes, of course, there are fifteen or twenty to a block. [5]
Fust-rate little chap,--said the papa.--Chip of the old block. [6]
From one end of the street to the other, I suppose they will average about eight or ten to a block. [5]
Why is it, Mr. Hollowell, that all you millionaires can't think of anything better to do with your money than to put up a big hotel or a great elevator or a business block? [4]
Genealogy--his own--had become his religion, and instead of going to church he spent his Sunday mornings poring over papers of various degrees of discolouration, making careful notes on the ruled block. [9]
Through her fault her sister's betrothed husband, whom she also loved, was in danger of being placed under ban, perhaps even of being led to the executioner's block! [10]
Terror and rage had sealed the old countess's lips, but now they parted in the hoarse cry: "You deserve the wheel and the gallows, not the honourable block! [10]

Short sentences using block

He would block that game. [5]

Sentences containing block two or more times

A heavy block of granite forms the summit of this pier, and on this block rests the equatorial telescope. [6]
They gave the box a single dip into a vat of boiling water, to melt the block of ice free from its tin coffin, then they shot the block out upon a platform car, and it was ready for market. [5]

More example sentences with the word block in them

The grand total would have been twice as large, but the streets were very narrow, and hundreds who wanted to bid could not get within a block of the stand, and could not make themselves heard. [5]
Every thing was worn out--every block of stone was smooth and almost shapeless with the polishing hands and shoulders of loungers who devoutly idled here in by-gone centuries and have died and gone to the dev--no, simply died, I mean. [5]
The old horse-cars with the clanging chains had disappeared, and you could take an electric to within a block of the imposing grille that surrounded the Dwyer grounds. [9]
The clue-iron which we are trying to make serve for the broken block works, however, very indifferently, and will, I am afraid, soon cut the rope. [5]
It is badly washed, it is stony, muddy, and great trees have fallen across it which wholly block the way for horses. [4]
A young lad, wandering along the deserted street, heard it, began to tremble, and sat down on a block of stone beside the doorway of a baker's shop. [11]
They had to walk up four blocks and then half a block across before they came to the indistinctive brownstone house where the Dryfooses lived. [8]
We took a walk down street, a block or two, and a place where four streets met and the principal shops were clustered, found the groups of men in the roadway thicker than ever--for this was the Exchange of Chamonix. [5]
It was not until I had walked the length of the block that I began to realize what a shock my presence there must have been to him, with his head full of the contrast between this visit and my former attitude. [9]
The very name, Uhrig's Cave, sent a shiver of delight down one's spine, and many were the conjectures one made as to what might be enclosed in that half a block of impassible brick wall, over which the great trees stretched their branches. [9]
The monks had torn the desecrated block from the niche in the Serapeum, hauled it through the courts on to the steps, and were now taking it to the arena where it was to be burnt. [10]
He was content to satisfy himself with the suggestion that he looked upon himself as degraded by the public spectacle which he had made of himself, fighting on a tin roof, for the delectation of everybody a block or two around. [5]
It is easier to preserve it on a granite block than in your head. [5]
All you got to do is to trot up Hooper Street a block and maow--and if I'm asleep, you throw some gravel at the window and that'll fetch me. [5]
Will nobody block those wheels, uncouple that pinion, cut the string that holds those weights, blow up the infernal machine with gunpowder? [6]
Send us to the Medici: bring us to the block, murder us--that were no new thing to Lord Leicester. [11]
Behind it is the long shed, and in front, rising out of the milkweed and the flowering thistle, the horse block of the first meeting-house, where many a pillion has left its burden in times bygone. [9]
But they district the city themselves, and the dogs of each district, whether it be half a block in extent, or ten blocks, have to remain within its bounds. [5]
It was larger than some in the same block, but the next neighborhood of a huge apartment-house dwarfed it again. [8]
He could not tell them what we say now: "Why fight, why block the road, losing our own men and inhumanly slaughtering unfortunate wretches? [2]
Walking down the street of shops, in the fore-noon, I was attracted by a large picture, carved, frame and all, from a single block of chocolate-colored wood. [5]
De Carteret of St. Ouen's must have gone to the block ere conceiving so. [11]
Crags and pinnacles, splintered cliffs, and leaning shafts and monuments, would have thundered down to block forever the outlet to Deception Pass. [13]
On the other side of the street Beaton could see another officer sauntering up from the block below. [8]
If it was she who blocked that game, she was not strong enough to block the next one. [5]
In the morning she waved me a brave farewell from the block where she had stood so often as I rode afield, when the dawn was in the sky. [9]
He doubtless edits, sets the type, and prints his paper, all alone; but he delights to speak of the concern as if it occupies a block and employs a thousand men. [5]
No one must see that block of porphyry turn on its pin. [10]
I do not see any block in your room but this. [6]
Far ahead round, scrawled stone appeared to block the Pass. [13]
In Sweden I saw a vast machine receive a block of wood, and turn it into marketable matches in two minutes. [5]
You will be robbed of your joust with him, for he'll mount the block instead of the steed, just as you predicted. [10]
A block of river towns and a senator, and not a casualty since they marched boldly into camp twelve weeks ago. [9]
Yet he would rather have been dragged with his brothers to the executioner's block than humbled himself before the Swiss. [10]
Quiet night and pretty comfortable day, though our sail and block show signs of failing, and need taking down--which latter is something of a job, as it requires the climbing of the mast. [5]
They do not plow with a sharpened stick, nor yet with a three-cornered block of wood that merely scratches the top of the ground. [5]
He had roughed out a block of marble for that impersonation; sculpture was a delight to him, though secondary to his main pursuit. [6]
Yes, he has opened his own road, but he isn't content with that, but must block mine. [5]
The main street, one block back from the river, and running parallel with it, was the sole business street. [5]
The weeks drifted on, until twelve went by, and then Mr. Bixby found himself, with his block of river towns and one senator, in the incomparable position of being the arbiter of the fate of the Consolidation Bill in the House and Senate. [9]
One flings himself on his prey with a rush like a block of stone hurled from a roof, but the other, without being seen, strikes his poisoned fang into his flesh like an adder hidden in the sand. [10]
A crazy inscription on a block of stone, which snuffy antiquaries bother over and tangle up and make nothing out of but a bare name (which they spell wrong)--no history, no tradition, no poetry--nothing that can give it even a passing interest. [5]
When a block of printer's type is by accident broken up and disintegrated, it falls into what is called "pi. [4]
In the midst of his grief he began to be conscious of hilarious noises and shoutings, apparently but a block or two away. [5]
By the side of a rock, which hill him from Nefert, he paused, set the cup on a flat block of stone, and drew the flask with the philter out of his girdle. [10]
In the midst of a block rose a tall, pretentious though cheaply constructed building with the words "Hotel Albert" in flaming electric letters above an archway. [9]
From what hangman's noose did you drag out the neck of one, and from what headsman's block did you rescue the other when you found them? [10]
The judge had never been a man who could compel a following, and he had no magnetism with which to lead a cause: the town tradesmen, especially those in the new brick block, would be chary as to risking the displeasure of their best customer. [9]
The anchorites sat near each other on a low block of stone, which Hermas had made into a soft couch for his father by heaping up a high pile of fresh herbs. [10]
Presently, in the midst of these thoughts, Hodder's eyes were arrested by a crowd barring the sidewalk on the block ahead; no unusual sight in that neighbourhood, and yet one which aroused in him sensations of weakness and nausea. [9]
Yesterday the third mate mended the block, and this P.M. the sail, after some difficulty, was got down, and Harry got to the top of the mast and rove the halyards through after some hardship, so that it now works easy and well. [5]
He saw a light shine again through the tavern doorway, then a dark object block the light, and a head thrust forward towards the river as though listening. [11]
This enormous block lies there, squared and ready for the builders' hands--a solid mass fourteen feet by seventeen, and but a few inches less than seventy feet long! [5]
It puts me in mind of a man who removes a block of stone in the sweat of his brow only to lay it on a sparrow's feather in order that it may not be carried away by the wind. [10]
That's the way I block it out, sir--and it's as clear as day--clear as the rosy-morn! [5]
At that she hurried the faster; but she could not run, and the picket fence was half a block long, and Bob Worthington had an advantage over her. [9]
He paid six hundred for a block of ten not quarter of an hour ago--and nine of 'em were our delegates. [9]
The Sphynx: a hundred and twenty-five feet long, sixty feet high, and a hundred and two feet around the head, if I remember rightly--carved out of one solid block of stone harder than any iron. [5]
The news which her son's letter contained fell, indeed, like a block of stone on Katuti's soul. [10]
Yes, you perceive, he might block me for a month. [5]
Secondly, it would have been senseless to block the passage of men whose whole energy was directed to flight. [2]
The block must have been as large as the Fifth Avenue Hotel before the usual waste (by the necessities of sculpture) of a fourth or a half of the original mass was begun. [5]
At first she had had a certain hesitation about going back, and on the occasion of her second visit had walked twice around the block before venturing to enter. [9]
He watched the great man turn in at his bank in the new block, and then he did as he was bid. [9]
A drop, a grain of sand, a block of stone are insignificant objects, but millions of them together, forming the sea, the desert or the pyramids, constitute a sublime whole. [10]
Half a block from this tabernacle stood a Roman Catholic Church, prosperous, brazen, serene, flaunting an eternal permanence amidst the chaos which had succeeded permanence! [9]
They were again encouraged to the attack; but by this time all the baboons had reascended the heights, excepting a young one, about six months old, who, loudly calling for aid, climbed on a block of rock, and was surrounded. [1]
Fulkerson led him down one block and half across another to the steps of a small dwelling-house, transformed, like many others, into a restaurant of the Latin ideal, with little or no structural change from the pattern of the lower middle-class New York home. [8]
Polly Ann sat down at the block again in disgust. [9]
She scrutinized every distant figure, and when they reached the block in which he lived she walked more slowly. [9]
To satisfy my curiosity I went around the block, and, sure enough, as I approached, at a good round speed, he got up and lounged lazily across my path, fouling my course exactly at the right moment to receive all my weight. [5]
But the coachman could not stop, for from the Meshchanski Street came more carts and carriages, and the Rostovs were being shouted at to move on and not block the way. [2]
The roof is composed of a single block of Istrian limestone, scooped out like a shallow bowl inside; and, being the biggest roof-stone I ever saw, I will give you the dimensions. [4]
She settled herself comfortably on the block of ice which we were using as a sofa, and I made ready to listen. [5]
A score of centuries has not effaced the marks of the Greek's or the Roman's chisel on his block of marble. [6]
The Celebrity stood by the block, in an amazement which gave me a wicked pleasure, and it was some minutes before I had the chance to introduce him. [9]
Across from the building, on Market Street, and in the middle of the block, what had once been a golden hand pointed up a narrow dusty stairway. [9]
The dingy three-story brick house in which Carlyle lived, one in a block of similar houses, was far from attractive. [6]
It was six blocks long, and in each block two or three brick stores, three stories high, towered above interjected bunches of little frame shops. [5]
Tom skirted the block, and came round into a muddy alley that led by the back of his aunt's cow-stable. [5]
The officials would block his way. [11]
Yes, Mr. Bijah Bixby is the canny captain of whom Mr. Balch spoke: he it is who owns that block of river towns, intact, and the one senator. [9]
Had Juan Diaz been a German Johannes or Hans, the Emperor Charles would have made Alfonso expiate his crime upon the block this very day. [10]
Was he to be led to the executioner's block? [10]
The chisel slipped aside, went wrong or lost its edge before the image could be extracted from the block. [10]
Mr. Hopper walked around the block, arriving again opposite the Carvel house, and beside Mr. Renault's, which was across from it. [9]
These useful persons appear to have a life-lease of this portion of the city pavement, and pretty effectually block it up nearly all day and evening. [4]
Wait long enough and you will find an old doting oak hugging a huge worn block in its yellow underground arms; that was the cornerstone of the State-House. [6]
Ham was stouter, and his clothes were more striking, more obviously expensive than ever.... On our way homeward, after we had walked a block or two in silence, Tom exclaimed:--"Don't make friends with the friendless!--eh, Hughie? [9]
Henderson was like an old Pharaoh, who was bound to build the biggest pyramid ever built to his memory; he hated to waste a block. [4]
The hearthstone is an enormous block of trap rock, with a surface not perfectly even, but a capital place to crack butternuts on. [4]
The fog-whistle, smothered among a million of trifling sounds, is not noticed a block away, in the city, but the sailor hears it far at sea, whither none of those thousands of trifling sounds can reach. [5]
When she looked again, he had covered half the block. [9]
He collected documents about his ancestors and relations, he wrote letters with a fine, painful penmanship on a ruled block he bought at Hartshorne's drug store to distant Bumpuses in Kansas and Illinois and Michigan, common descendants of Ebenezer, the original immigrant, of Dolton. [9]
It fled like a wounded animal and it was impossible to block its path. [2]
You can rent a whole block of these pigeonholes for fifty dollars a month. [5]
He sat upon a squared block of stone, with his head bent down, his forearms resting on his knees, his long hair hanging like a fringe before his face, and he was muttering to himself. [5]
I never saw a finer or more equally colored granite than the block you picked out for my first lion. [10]
We landed within a block of Libby Prison. [9]
Although still half a block away, the national characteristics of the passenger were sufficiently apparent. [9]

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