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Sentences starting with blow

Blow the house up, I guess. [9]

Sentences ending with blow

After all these years have you dropped from the weight of a blow? [9]
Then came these words, but hardly audible: "And in a thousand years the English power in France will not rise up from that blow. [5]
They have crossed without striking a blow! [2]
In anguish Jane Withersteen turned speechlessly to Lassiter, and, confirming her fears, she saw him gray-faced, aged all in a moment, stricken as if by a mortal blow. [13]
And, by a wise provision in the Constitution of our glorious American Union, no one state could tie the nuptial knot so tight that another state could not cut it at a blow. [9]
I suppose the whole force which has gone forward to you is with you by this time; and if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. [7]
If any surrendering was done, it would be to the noble Maid of Vaucouleurs, already famed and formidable though she had not yet struck a blow. [5]
Without, the fierce war-cry of the Shawanees that I knew so well echoed around the log walls, and the door trembled with a blow. [9]
She stepped toward Venters and held up both hands as if to ward off a blow. [13]
He therefore waited until the enemies of the Union struck the first blow. [7]

Short sentences using blow

Keep hid till I blow. [5]
The blow crushed her. [4]
It was a blow. [9]
The wind did blow something. [5]

Sentences containing blow two or more times

Unfortunately for this theory, it happens that a blow struck out straight is as much shorter, and therefore as much quicker than the rustic's swinging blow, as the radius is shorter than the quarter of a circle. [6]
Orion had been the victim of blow on blow from Fate--Paula had looked forward to his return with an anxious and aching heart; to-day how calm were their souls, though both stood in peril of death. [10]
The events of the previous year: the burning of Moscow and the flight from it, the death of Prince Andrew, Natasha's despair, Petya's death, and the old countess' grief fell blow after blow on the old count's head. [2]
Hence, whoever resists the final decision of the highest judicial tribunal aims a deadly blow at our whole republican system of government--a blow which, if successful, would place all our rights and liberties at the mercy of passion, anarchy, and violence. [7]
The world knew that the burning of the mill was a blow to Jean Jacques, but it did not know how great and heavy the blow was. [11]
There is a Pagan, too, an outlaw, who knows when it is time to give blow for blow with the holy man. [11]
Have I given kindness for kindness, blow for blow? [11]
When a submarine gets you, all you've got to do is to jump overboard and blow this-- (He draws the siren from the pocket and starts to blow it, but she seizes his hand. [9]
Thinking of that blow, he saw its sequel in the blow he had given now. [11]
But the same blow that almost killed the countess, this second blow, restored Natasha to life. [2]

More example sentences with the word blow in them

If you soak yourself in drink and fail in your blow, and I am not ready with the poisoned stiletto the thing won't come off neatly. [10]
Your mouths are your own, and you can blow off to suit your fancy, but if any one thinks I'm a tame coyote to be poked with a stick--! [11]
Make the Mohar your ally, and it may easily happen that your rat-bites may be paid for with mortal wounds, and Rameses who, if you marched against him openly, might blow you to the ground, may be hit by a lance thrown from an ambush. [10]
If I had you in range of my nose now I would blow your brains out. [5]
But mind, if you betray me, I'll be the first to blow out your brains. [9]
This was the worst blow of all. [5]
But before the words were well out of his mouth, his cap flew off and a fierce blow jerked his head to one side. [2]
Well, then, we won't blow on them. [5]
Paulus did not withdraw, he accepted the blow from his victim as a gift or a greeting, thinking, "Aye, and I only wish you had a dagger in your hand; I would not resist you. [10]
It comes suddenly with a terrible blow of truth. [13]
Then a cold wind seemed to blow from the glacier above and killed all the summer. [11]
The fall it will be his; and though I strive and strain, One blow will close my eyes, and I shall never waken. [11]
The man to whom he dealt a blow with this ponderous implement would forget to rise. [10]
His faculties were wholly unprepared for the blow she struck him. [9]
Woe betide him, who received a blow from the two-handed sword the Eletto still held over his shoulder, now with his left hand. [10]
Could she say whither the winds might blow, where the seed might be planted? [9]
After the blow which left her a widow, she continued to keep Mr. Carvel's home. [9]
It was only when he drifted into strange and untried fields that he began to chase rainbows, to blow iridescent bubbles, and count unmined gold. [5]
If a wind were to rise, I thought to myself, it would blow her away, and the little one with her. [10]
He knew men well, and he knew that youths of various birth take a blow in the face in various ways; now, the Emir's son had demeaned him as one of his rank, and had stood the ordeal! [10]
It is the way of the world: to-day one gives a blow and to-morrow takes one. [10]
Yet with a wave of the hand thou hast blinded him, and his blow falls on the air. [11]
His first impulse was to blow out the other candle. [11]
Yet the blow was not unkindly meant, for even while he drew back she voluntarily clasped both his hands, scrutinized him intently from head to foot, and said calmly: "Welcome to the old home, Sir Knight! [10]
Perhaps this blow was needed for his spiritual pride. [4]
But no, she was ignorant, poor thing, and did not know what a blow she had struck for life and liberty. [5]
His father's answer was a blow he could not understand. [5]
What had come upon them--what blow had fallen on the house? [10]
Tom rained cuffs upon the head and its shield, saying no word: the victim received each blow with a beseeching, "Please, Marse Tom!--oh, please, Marse Tom! [5]
His eyes, screwed up with fear as if he every moment expected another blow, gazed up at Rostov with shrinking terror. [2]
He might blow up and destroy one. [9]
The blow brought understanding back to Tarboe. [11]
But Milcah languished under the blow, and the only person who could rouse the pale, silent woman from brooding over her grief was Miriam. [10]
They didn't hear Uncle Silas say he would kill Jubiter; they didn't hear no blow struck; they didn't see no dead man, and they didn't see Uncle Silas hide anything in the bushes. [5]
Mr. Clayton now turned toward Szczepanik, and began with a taunt--a taunt which did not reach a finish; Szczepanik interrupted it with a hardy retort, and followed this with a blow. [5]
He did not turn round, but his head bent forward, as though he would take a blow from behind, and his eyes almost closed. [11]
The burning of towns and villages, the retreats after battles, the blow dealt at Borodino and the renewed retreat, the burning of Moscow, the capture of marauders, the seizure of transports, and the guerrilla war were all departures from the rules. [2]
The second one told me where to begin the talk about a strange and violent wind that used to burst upon Carson City from the Sierra Nevadas every afternoon at two o'clock and try to blow the town away. [5]
They wrestled together to-day, and the master, in all friendship, struck His Majesty a blow with the maul-stick. [10]
Joan rode straight to the fosse where she had received her wound, and standing there in the rain of bolts and arrows, she ordered the Paladin to let her long standard blow free, and to note when its fringes should touch the fortress. [5]
And in justice to that veteran it must be said, despite the knock-out blow he had received, that he seemed as debonair as ever. [9]
Are you disposed to submit patiently to the blow struck at you and at your parent's worthy memory by this restless old man, who hates you as he did your father before you? [10]
Directly it begun to rain, and it rained like all fury, too, and I never see the wind blow so. [5]
We sha'n't have to leave our fortress now when we want to blow up our civilization. [5]
Burke instantly arose to his feet, seized the tail, and exclaimed joyfully, "I claim the re--" but got no further, for a single blow of the huge trunk laid the brave fellow's fragments low in death. [5]
He kept saying to her still, 'If ever you need me, little Norice, blow it, and I will come. [11]
D.W.] The blow to her father was terrible, but heavy as it was, one may perhaps understand that her passing in that swift, painless way must have afforded him a measure of relief. [5]
A'n't it fun to hear him blow off his steam? [6]
I didn't expect to have New York fall into our hands at a blow. [8]
They both fell to earth; the Moor placed his knee upon the breast of his victim, and, brandishing his dagger, aimed a blow at his throat. [4]
When that begins to blow, one feels the foundations of his belief breaking up. [4]
It is time to blow out the candle, which has lost all its cheerfulness in the light of day. [4]
We are going to blow it out tomorrow morning. [4]
I seek only to blow a flute accompaniment in the national concert, and leave others to play the fiddle and Frenchhorn. [4]
Once he tried to be tender, and received a blow from my riding-whip. [10]
Sometimes Florence ceases to be substantial, and becomes just a faint soft dream, with domes and towers of air, and one is persuaded that he might blow it away with a puff of his breath. [5]
The first thing to be done now is to avert the blow which the Bishop intends shall strike us by the hand of Cynegius--it has already fallen on the magnificent sanctuary of the Apamaean Zeus. [10]
He was not to be daunted, attacked them too, split the skull of one, wounded another in the arm and was taking aim for a third blow, when he felt a cord round his neck. [10]
His feint of thrusting, followed instantly by a happily delivered blow which unhelmeted the Parthian, was received with hearty applause. [5]
Bob had, indeed, thought of nothing but Cynthia, and of the blow that had fallen upon her. [9]
Will nobody block those wheels, uncouple that pinion, cut the string that holds those weights, blow up the infernal machine with gunpowder? [6]
You cannot have this man except over my body: and for my body every one of you will pay with your lives; for every blow struck this night, there will be a hundred blows struck upon the river-drivers and mill-hands of this valley. [11]
He shaved through this financial crisis, in spite of the blow he had received by the loss of his lawsuits, the flitting of his cousin, Auguste Charron, and the farm debts of this same cousin. [11]
For Charles says this Falkland business with Spain will blow out of the touch-hole. [9]
She knew that this blow would break him body and soul. [11]
For every blow they strike now, they shall feel a hundred then. [5]
But why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was mined? [2]
The severe blow they have received naturally enough makes them intemperate even without there being any just cause for blame. [7]
It was not these matters that vexed him now, but the underlying forces of life set in motion by the blow which killed a fellow-man. [11]
As he stood there, his face half turned to me for a moment, this came to my mind, and I said to him, "Voban, you look like some wicked gun which would blow us all to pieces. [11]
The wind blows there a good deal in the summer months, but then you can go over to Oakland, if you choose--three or four miles away--it does not blow there. [5]
I've been with them, I marched up here with them from the Clarendon when they battered in the gates and smashed your windows--and I wanted to smash your windows, too, to blow up your mill. [9]
If one of them says to another of his own class--a naked wretch who wears about him everything he happens to possess--that he is a dog, he answers with a blow of his fist in the other's face, and what can be plainer than that! [10]
He would blow them all into the air, for the assistance of Art in joyous creating. [10]
As soon as the young officer had struck the first blow, and the god had submitted in abject impotence, they had rushed upon him and saved their captain the trouble of ending the task he had begun. [10]
She thoughtfully gave the wheel a push, and as it turned swiftly she remembered the Swiss dance the evening before, and suddenly clenched her small right hand and dealt the palm of her left a light blow. [10]
The lad with the turned-up sleeve gave the smith a blow in the face and cried wildly: "They're fighting us, lads! [2]
When news of the tragedy came to Mrs. Grier, she was reading in the papers of Carnac's victory, and in her mind was an agonizing triumph, pride in a stern blow struck for punishment. [11]
Don Luis was the tool in every blow which Charles, his master, dealt at my happiness and peace. [10]
Having settled that,--though the thought of the blow she was to receive lay like a weight on his heart,--Mr. Bentley's reason for summoning Eldon Parr to Dalton Street came to him. [9]
I never read the sermons you refer to; I dare say they're crude, but they're probably attempts to release an explosive which would blow your comfortable social system and its authority into atoms. [9]
He cannot explain the sensations which these obnoxious colors produce except by saying that it is like the deadly feeling from a blow on the epigastrium (pit of the stomach). [6]
Orion could see the seething turmoil in her soul; he felt that she was arming herself for resistance, and he longed to spur her on to deal the first blow. [10]
Farther away from the road flowers of even greater beauty blow, seen by no mortal eye; they deck themselves in beauty for no one but for their Creator, and because they rejoice in themselves. [10]
At each blow the old man shrank as if it had fallen on himself. [10]
And lastly, as the most cruel blow of all, ye slew our queen. [10]
Eldon Parr and the men who stand with him in the struggle will never recover from the blow I shall give them. [9]
He that has the last blow is in the eye of advantage. [11]
One stroke of the knife cut into the sleeve of Reeder's coat and passed downward in a slanting direction through his clothing, and entered his body at the small of the back; another blow struck more squarely, and made a much more dangerous wound. [5]
In one of the hushes there came a blow on the outside of the door that made Beaton jump, and swear with a modified profanity that merged itself in apostrophic prayer. [8]
When I struck the head of the island I never waited to blow, though I was most winded, but I shoved right into the timber where my old camp used to be, and started a good fire there on a high and dry spot. [5]
Oh, out in the forest breezes blow to heal the sick! [10]
It had brought the Eysvogels no good fortune, for on the day of its completion the business received its first serious blow, and it also served to injure the commercial house externally in a very obvious manner. [10]
To him, too, the emperor had dealt a malicious blow. [10]
The act followed the desire as the sound follows the blow of the hammer, the thunder the flash of lightning. [10]
You could face the death-storm at Donelson and Vicksburg, and give back blow for blow; but when he clawed your whiskers, and pulled your hair, and twisted your nose, you had to take it. [5]
To blow up the bridge--for what? [11]
Not so hard the blow was, but it sent the darlin's head agin' the chimney-stone, and that was the end av it. [11]
He knew that the blow he had given then was inevitable, and he had never felt real repentance. [11]
At the end the blow came swiftly and suddenly, as he would have wished it. [6]

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