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Sentences starting with bound

Bound a hundred years ago, perhaps, and one of the rich old browned covers gone--what a pity! [6]
Bound in buff-grey boards, buckram back. [5]
Bound for Hawaii (a hundred and fifty miles distant,) to visit the great volcano and behold the other notable things which distinguish that island above the remainder of the group, we sailed from Honolulu on a certain Saturday afternoon, in the good schooner Boomerang. [5]

Sentences ending with bound

And where are you bound? [5]
That the flight was to be northwards he was certain; but he had either misunderstood or forgotten the name of the place whither the sisters were bound. [10]
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]
Years are terrible things, an' for years you've been bound. [13]
He rode down the perpendicular path in the rocks, from the Castle of Banias to the oak grove, at a flying gallop, his horse striding "thirty feet" at every bound. [5]
But when he suddenly entered the room her heart gave a bound. [9]
At her first step into the water she saw a sight that sent her back with a bound. [4]
An' it's a splendid mouser she is, I'll be bound. [6]
He had a special copy of his work, printed on large paper and sumptuously bound. [6]
They had, for some time, been gradually approaching the place for which they were bound. [12]

Short sentences using bound

Off we go, homeward bound! [10]
She is bound for Melbourne. [5]
Whither is she bound? [5]
His arms are bound. [10]
Euphrasia's heart gave a bound. [9]

Sentences containing bound two or more times

For a quarter of an hour she went on at a slapping pace, clearing the moose-bushes with bound after bound, flying over the fallen logs, pausing neither for brook nor ravine. [4]
As every one is bound to preserve himself, so he is bound to preserve the rest of mankind, and except to do justice upon an offender we may not impair the life, liberty, health, or goods of another. [4]
We are not bound to give a reason why Dr. Fell is odious to us any more than the prisoner who peremptorily challenges a juryman is bound to say why he does it; it is enough that he "does not like his looks. [6]

More example sentences with the word bound in them

Learn to feel yourself a member of the body to which your destiny has bound you for the present, whether you like it or not. [10]
Say, I reckon your father's poor, and I'm bound to say he's in pretty hard luck. [5]
The stockholders of your corporation, perhaps, are bound to suffer some from the fact that you have taken its life-blood to pay dividends, and the public will demand that it be built up into a normal and healthy condition. [9]
I advise aimless young men to choose some profession without needless delay, and so get into a good strong current of human affairs, and find themselves bound up in interests with a compact body of their fellow-men. [6]
Let me tell you that the President of the United States himself is liable to impeachment, and bound to disprove any charge he may be accused of. [9]
And where are you bound now, Davy? [9]
Show Bound was written by Peter Cooper. [5]
Anxiety for her would surely have bound me to this house and the city when the time came to make the escape, for without her my life would now be valueless. [10]
And whatever she would say was bound to have a quality of interest and attraction that could be exercised by no other lips. [4]
But still I would rather you had saved me than any one else who wasn't bound, like Tynie, to do so. [11]
It was only worth twenty-five dollars--that is, apparently that was its whole cost--but its ultimate cost was inevitably bound to be a good deal more. [5]
He whose easily won heart and susceptible fancy had urged him from one commonplace love to another had been bound by the Queen with chains of indestructible and supernatural power. [10]
Of a sick woman He said that Satan had bound her; and to Peter He said, "Thou art an offense unto me. [5]
You can sit, with your knees drawn up to your chin and your arms clasped around them, but you are bound to turn over presently, because you are top-heavy in that position. [5]
A single conversation with this marvellous woman had bound her forever. [10]
We saw only wig-making establishments, with shocks of dead and repulsive hair bound upon the heads of painted waxen brigands who stared out from glass boxes upon the passer-by with their stony eyes and scared him with the ghostly white of their countenances. [5]
Some rascally bondmen who had seized cattle and utensils belonging to others had been bound to a palmtree, and the ravens that followed the procession; and had found ample sustenance on the way, now croaked greedily around the quickly established place of execution. [10]
Am not I, who brought upon you your father's curse, bound indeed to help you to free yourself from the burden of it? [10]
The trivial sin which this sweet love secret contained had been pardoned in the case of the man bound by no older obligation, after a slight penance, and now for the first time he fully enjoyed the wealth of the unexpected new happiness. [10]
The sloop from which they came, and the schooner, its consort, were bound for Gaspe, to bring provisions for several hundred Indians assembled at Miramichi and Aristiguish, who were to go by these same vessels to re-enforce the garrison of Quebec. [11]
The terrible misfortune which had now befallen him had only bound her more firmly to the man she loved. [10]
All the affection which bound the sisters together found expression at this moment of parting. [10]
But you see when people have been getting ready for months in a quiet way to get married, they are bound to grow stingy, and go to saving up money against that awful day when it is sure to be needed. [5]
From the hour when he bound up Brydon's head, Judith's fingers aiding him, he felt a spring in his blood new to him. [11]
When the arms were bound, I felt the straps on my own; when the cap come down, I gasp for breath; when the bolt is shot, I feel the wrench and the choke, and shudder go through myself--feel the world jerk out in the dark. [11]
Of course we were bound to have a Musician at our table, and we have one who sings admirably, and accompanies himself, or one or more of our ladies, very frequently. [6]
One day we were approaching New Madrid, bound down and heavily laden. [5]
Before his master went to rest, the freedman--whom he had sent out to look for a vessel bound to Pelusium and Alexandria the next day or the following one--returned to the ship. [10]
One day I went as usual, armed only with my bow and arrow, and, accompanied by my grey-hounds, heedlessly followed a hare; a troop of Danaids fell upon me, bound me with cords, and led me into their camp. [10]
He ain't very well known around the State, and he was bound to run--and I just couldn't let him come out without any clothes on. [9]
Senator Dilworthy says, we are bound to extend our religion over the isles of the sea. [5]
The old man was startled and full wroth yet, by reason of all the fine folk about us, he was bound to refrain himself, and he presently departed. [10]
But he sure was some spender," she added, as though in justice bound to give him his due. [9]
The 'Paul Jones' was now bound for St. Louis. [5]
In short, he was informed in so many words that every tie that bound her to him must be broken in favor of another, and the hypocritical regret with which she sought to cover up the hard facts only made him doubly indignant. [10]
Mark Twain himself was full of the Sellers optimism, and it was bound to overflow, fortify as he would against it. [5]
And if Antony was faithless to the wife to whom statecraft had bound him, he kept his pledge to the other, who had an earlier, better title. [10]
But the mystery was explained when we got under way again; for these people were evidently bound for a large town which lay shut in behind a tow-head (i.e., new island) a couple of miles below this landing. [5]
I fancy he was bound up in his son, though he quarrelled with him, and crossed him. [8]
The blonde's captain was bound on a whaling cruise in the North Atlantic and could not go back such a distance or make a port without orders; such being nautical law. [5]
To him it was as if the ties that had bound him to them were asunder, and he was become an outcast. [9]
One of them was a young member of Congress who had been making exhaustive studies of the situation in Italy, France and England, and the other one of our best-known writers, both bound for London. [9]
Where most everybody wants something, they are bound to be accommodating. [4]
It was not very large; it was iron bound and had been very strong before the slow years had injured it. [5]
And it is useful to me--it is bound to be so. [5]
Yet he insisted upon his purpose of not entering Alexandria again until he had resigned his office, and to do this at present was impossible, since he was bound just now, as if with chains, to the important frontier fortress. [10]
We agreed then upon a platform for the party throughout the entire State of Illinois, and now we are all bound, as a party, to that platform. [7]
A hillsman bound up the wound, and he rode on to the Tomb. [11]
Then he tore up the paper, on which he had been scribbling, into very small bits, consulted a time-table, and at noon, in a tumult of feelings, he found himself in a back seat of the express, bound for the capital. [9]
We were bound up the Niederwald, the mountain opposite Bingen, whose noble crown of forest attracted us. [4]
She was gone until late at night; and when Old Sophy, who had watched for her, bound up her long hair for her sleep, it was damp with the cold dews. [6]
It seemed to unravel that puz--" He landed in the middle of the floor at a bound, without finishing the sentence, and ran and turned up his light and seized his "records. [5]
Here she found Uarda bound hand and foot, and Kaschta lying on the ground in a heavy drunken slumber. [10]
His aim was true; the mustang gave one bound and fell lifeless, shot through the head. [6]
It is real, true love, pleasing to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, aye and to the merciful Virgin and all the saints who protect you, which has bound you and Herdegen together from your infancy. [10]
One night--it was toward the close of the war--I woke up out of a sodden lethargy, and found myself bound and gagged, and the air tainted with chloroform! [5]
When she was touched, she jerked her bound legs and looked wildly yet simply at everybody. [2]
At last Paula took leave of her, bound by a promise not to pledge herself irrevocably to Orion till his return from Doomiat, and till the abbess had informed her by letter what opinion she had formed of him in the course of their flight. [10]
We are bound to-day for the Punta della Campanella, the extreme point of the promontory, and ten miles away. [4]
I am counselled to wait and watch--D. V. I will do so; yet it is harder to wait with the hands bound, and the observant and reflective faculties at their silent and unseen work, than to labour mechanically. [14]
Then he went to the window, and as he looked through the parted curtains out upon the water--the room hung over the edge of the cliff-he bound his own shoulder. [11]
She felt bound to the nuns, who shared her aspirations. [10]
It is bound to tarnish the good name of the company; our credit will be seriously, most seriously impaired. [5]
I was bound to see more of him, so I invited him to come out to Marco's Sunday, and dine with us. [5]
I am bound to say that these two, however, sat and watched my vigorous combats with the weeds, and talked most beautifully about the application of the snake-grass figure. [4]
They brought him to Rocky Ridge, bound hand and foot, and deposited him in the middle of the cattle-yard with his back against a post. [5]
When Henderson rose to propose the health of Jerry Hollowell, neither he nor the man he eulogized as a creator of industries whose republican patriotism was not bound by State lines nor circumscribed by sections was without a sense of the humor of the situation. [4]
The latter, bound to posts, awaited their sentence. [10]
I am bound to obey your call, and here I am. [10]
Her heart yielded to no feeling but the love of Elfonzo, on whom she gazed with intense delight, and to whom she felt herself more closely bound, because he sought the hand of no other. [5]
She was sworn to me, bound to me, wanted a year in which to have her fling before she settled down, and she threw me over--like that. [11]
He was bound to make himself acquainted with the place. [7]
I will arrange to have it as a serial in one of the big magazines, and then the book would be bound to go. [4]
But I'm bound to have him in. [5]
Well, we're bound to get on one another's nerves one way or another in this world when the east wind blows; and if it isn't the east wind, it's some other wind. [11]
A body's bound to get into trouble with 'em, sure. [5]
I was bound to get into a hole, and I'm in it now, with one lung, and a wife in prospect to support. [11]
As they tried to force them to continue their march, the barbarians left them bound in the road. [10]
The wind's bound to fetch around and set in our favor. [5]
She was bound to face that again and again. [9]
It was bound to expose itself sooner or later. [5]
It was bound to come, and it would naturally come in that way. [5]
You were bound to come to it one way or another. [11]
It was necessary to close the doors to keep out the wandering cows and pigs, and I am bound to say that, notwithstanding the voices of the night, we slept there the sleep of peace. [4]
It is bound to breed sores. [5]
We are bound to believe that Nova Scotia has somewhere, or had, great pines and hemlocks that murmur, but we were not blessed with the sight of them. [4]
I am bound to avow that she had scarcely more practical knowledge of the peasantry amongst whom she lived, than a nun has of the country-people that pass her convent gates. [14]
I was bound to act that way.... [2]
Jopp was bound to a chair by a lasso. [11]
She had only time to realize that they were Romanys, before scarfs were thrown around her head, bound around her body, and, unconscious, she was carried away into the deep woods. [11]
At the same time he felt that the deeper the ground sank under him the closer bound he involuntarily became to the order. [2]
At the same time he felt bound to tell him that they would require his attendance, presently, before a justice of the peace, and that in what he did or said, he was guided entirely by his own discretion. [12]
We roared and thundered along side by side, both doing our level best, because I'd never struck a comet before that could lay over me, and so I was bound to beat this one or break something. [5]
My feet were thrust into two pairs of heavy woollen stockings, and Dorothy bound her own silk kerchief at my throat, whispering anxious questions the while. [9]
A stick was thrust between her jaws and she was fastened with a leash, as if bridled, her legs were bound together, and Daniel rolled her over once or twice from side to side. [2]
Whatever power of thought or memory he retained, was all bound up in her. [12]
And he obeyed this time also, though the person to whom a magic spell bound him was a fleeing woman. [10]
Those loyal citizens this government is bound to recognize and protect, as being Virginia. [7]
He forbore from thinking, now, of the looming events which might thrust them apart,--put a physical distance between them,--his anxiety was concerned with the possible snapping of the thread of sympathy which had bound them. [9]
But Hodder was thinking of that house whither they were bound with a new gratitude, a new wonder that it should exist. [9]

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