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Sentences starting with brains

Brains and books were one thing, but the strong arm, the quick eye, and the deft lunge home with the sword or dagger were better; they were of a man's own skill, not the acquired skill of another's brains which books give. [11]
Brains are not necessary, you know. [4]
Brains and property managed the state. [5]
Brains enough for a cabinet minister, and fit out a college faculty with what was left over. [6]

Sentences ending with brains

But mind, if you betray me, I'll be the first to blow out your brains. [9]
So it is with the brains. [1]
He must travel wide at first to convince their narrow brains. [11]
New ideas build their nests in young men's brains. [3]
But what is the use of racking our brains? [10]
I don't mind the exclamation of any old stager who drinks Madeira worth from two to six Bibles a bottle, and burns, according to his own premises, a dozen souls a year in the cigars with which he muddles his brains. [6]
What is that saying of mine about I squinting brains? [6]
She had no real cupidity, and she was not greatly enamoured of brains. [11]
It was not one of those conversations which a third person can report minutely, unless by that miracle of clairvoyance known to the readers of stories made out of authors' brains. [6]
We need your muscle, not your brains. [5]

Short sentences using brains

Profits and brains went together. [9]
With brains, you say? [11]
I reckon he has brains. [9]
The tailor yonder has brains. [11]
It takes brains. [9]

Sentences containing brains two or more times

We have brains, you and I; and for such as have brains there are no defeats, but only victories. [5]
A Brush Bascom, with a better education and more brains, but a Brush Bascom--with the brains prostituted. [9]
Yes, money and brains, but without the money brains seldom win alone. [11]
They had not brains or courage enough to keep them out of gaol, and they have not pluck or brains enough to succeed--afterwards. [11]

More example sentences with the word brains in them

One of these young brains is like a bunch of India crackers; once touch fire to it and it is best to keep hands off until it has done popping,--if it ever stops. [6]
Denzil belongs to you, because you helped to save him years ago; the Catholic Archbishop belongs to you, because he's got brains and a love of literature and art; Barode Barouche belongs to you, because he's almost a genius too. [11]
If I had you in range of my nose now I would blow your brains out. [5]
I don't say you can be, mind, but I say with work and brains it's as easy for the son of Hilary Vane as for anybody else. [9]
You look around you and you see a nation of sixty millions-- apparently; but secreted in their hands and brains, and invisible to your eyes, is the true population of this Republic, and it numbers forty billions! [5]
She was a woman of brains, of great individuality, and his own individuality might influence her. [11]
These heavy-eyed men with the alcoholized brains, these pallid youths with the nicotized optic ganglia and thinking-marrows brown as their own meerschaums, of whom you meet too many,--will ask all your wisdom to deal with their poisoned nerves and their enfeebled wills. [3]
Then to bed, with drowsy brains harassed with a mad panorama that mixes up pictures of France, of Italy, of the ship, of the ocean, of home, in grotesque and bewildering disorder. [5]
If so, they were generous designs; and perhaps it was inevitable that Miss Lucretia should recognize in every young woman of spirit and brains a possible recruit for the cause. [9]
He had a way with him, and he had brains, had Jacques Grassette, and he could manage men, as Michelin the lumber-king himself had found in a great river-row and strike, when bloodshed seemed certain. [11]
She had brains, was perfectly fearless, no man had ever taken a liberty with her, and every one in the Wadgery country who visited O'Fallen's had a wholesome respect for her opinion. [11]
Now at length was come his chance to be of use in life,--to dedicate the labor of his hands and of his brains to Abraham Lincoln uncouth prophet of the West. [9]
The Lord gave us brains, and meant that we should use them. [9]
The Waterbury showed up 11.30, now, and I beat her brains out against the bedstead. [5]
It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them sloshing around in your head same as so much drawn butter. [5]
At eventide came to lurid and disordered brains the knowledge that the other branch was here. [9]
He had said to Ian Stafford that he would do nothing, but, with the maggot of revenge and jealousy in their brains, men could not be trusted from one moment to another. [11]
If you were to hit it you would knock the boat's brains out. [5]
Discretion hasn't anything to do with brains; brains are an obstruction to it, for it does not reason, it feels. [5]
But it belonged to a number-one man, a man of brains--I've got no brains, only some sense --and I want another good man to use it and make the world easier for himself. [11]
This he repeated, till it seemed like a mass of brains, while the others, as quick as possible, cut him into very small pieces, which they then scattered in every direction. [5]
These thoughts passed through Gorgias's mind as the deep azure hue of sea and sky blended with the sunlight to bring into the strongest relief all that the skill and brains of man, aided by exhaustless resources, had here created. [10]
He's bitten with this thing, too, and he's got some brains in his head. [9]
Didn't I say they'd make an officer of you when they found out what brains you had? [11]
We are prepared, therefore, to find these two little brains in the most intimate relations with each other, as we find the cerebral hemispheres. [3]
Macgregor, the trader there, has brains like rubber. [11]
The two racked their brains for three hours; and Postmaster Burrows, who was the fortunate possessor of a pass, offered to go down to Ripton in the interest of his liege lord and see what was up. [9]
I am not the Sultan, and I am not objecting; but if that concentration of the cunningest brains in the world were going to be made in a free country (bar Scotland), I think it would be politic to stop it. [5]
He had resisted the seductions which always beset solitary men with restless brains overwrought by depressing agencies. [6]
I looked for the right people that had the money and the brains, and I let them sweat--let them sweat it out. [11]
Hasn't he got the money, and the brains, and the get-up-and-git? [9]
Why could not the jury law be so altered as to give men of brains and honesty and equal chance with fools and miscreants? [5]
That man walked the floor in torture for forty-eight hours, without eating or sleeping, and then blew his brains out. [5]
Nor, turning to the differences between the brains of the highest apes and that of man, is there any serious question as to the nature and extent of these differences. [1]
And yet, on the day when this human love has full sway, the social problems which now disturb so many minds and will permit the brains of our best citizens to take no rest, will be solved. [10]
In the Museum the brains of the great thinkers and investigators are toiling. [10]
Every lynching-account unsettles the brains of another set of excitable white men, and lights another pyre--115 lynchings last year, 102 inside of 8 months this year; in ten years this will be habit, on these terms. [5]
We have seen that, according to Lartet, existing mammals belonging to several orders have larger brains than their ancient tertiary prototypes. [1]
It is plain that there was a sort of conspiracy against him almost from the start--a conspiracy to freight him up with all the strange extravagances those people's decayed brains could invent. [5]
At five or ten or fifteen years old they put their hands up to their foreheads and ask, What are they strapping down my brains in this way for? [6]
On the whole, such was Janet's notion of the Deity, though deep within her there may have existed a hope that he might be outwitted; that, by dint of energy and brains, the fair things of life might be obtained despite a malicious opposition. [9]
His hoofs were spoilt for city pavements, and scheming, struggling and running about the streets were too much for his country brains and wore him out, as trotting under a saddle would weary a plough-horse. [10]
They've got ever so much more sense, and brains, and brightness, in proportion to their size, than any other cretur in the world. [5]
She had brains, she was skilful, inventive, supple, ardent, yet intellectually discreet. [11]
A wonderful glad sense of peace came over him with power and pleasure in work, and he gave his brains and pen no rest till morning was growing grey. [10]
One likes to see to what a splendor his species can come, even if the brains have all run down into the calves of the legs. [4]
In brains, in scientific warfare, and in statesmanship the Constable Richemont was the ablest man in France. [5]
If you have really got more brains in Boston than other folks, as you seem to think, who hates you for it, except a pack of scribbling fools? [6]
She did not rack her brains on those points. [10]
As regards the presence of the superior bridging convolution, I am inclined to think that it has existed in one hemisphere, at least, in a majority of the brains of this animal which have, up to this time, been figured or described. [1]
Where is the place where there is twenty-five times more manhood, pluck, true heroism, unselfishness, devotion to high and noble ideals, adoration of liberty, wide education, and brains, per thousand of population, than any other domain in the whole world can show? [5]
Leaving out the phenomenal exceptions, the nice shades that separate the skilful ones show how closely their brains approximate,--almost as closely as chronometers. [6]
Look at the opportunities here for a man of knowledge, brains, pluck, and enterprise to sail in and grow up with the country. [5]
I would invest one hundred dollars, more or less, in casts of brains, skulls, charts, and other matters that would make the most show for the money. [6]
Moreover, there is one circumstance in which the orang's and chimpanzee's brains resemble man's, but in which they differ from the lower apes, and that is the presence of two corpora candicantia--the Cynomorpha having but one. [1]
Yet a lump of puddingstone is a thing to look at, to think about, to study over, to dream upon, to go crazy with, to beat one's brains out against. [6]
Just a hunk of brains that is what he was. [5]
It did not occur to the citizens that brains were at the bottom of his luck. [5]
Instinctively they turned now to Stafford, whose reputation for brains and diplomacy was so great and whose friendship with Byng was so close. [11]
The Belwards were notable for their brains, and Sir William saw that the young man had an unusual share. [11]
But they did not resemble the Canadian; they lacked his tidiness, and his brains, and his gentlemanly ways, and his resolute spirit, and his humanities and generosities. [5]
And why should not old Horapollo, for once before he dies, try what his brains can contrive to achieve in the busy world of outside human existence? [10]
No, it was not material things that influenced me, but your own intellectual eminence; for you have more brains than most men, as you know so well. [11]
If I did not have that, I would send Sambo to my father's room for his ebony box and blow my brains out. [9]
All this would not have come about if his big head had not been packed with common-sense brains, and he had not had uncommon will and force of character. [4]
The chemists have not found it out yet, but human brains and breathing-organs have long since made the discovery. [6]
The law recognizes no mortgage on a man's brains, and a merchant who has given up all he has may take advantage of the laws of insolvency and may start free again for himself. [5]
But I had no brains--no brains like Jasmine's and many another woman; and I was never able to do anything. [11]
Hurtzal dared give no alarm, as he was told, with a pistol at his head, if he made any noise or exposed them, they would blow his brains out. [5]
Skilled labor, which needs brains, was carried to a high degree of performance. [4]
She had not much brains, but she had some shrewdness, and she felt her romance askew. [11]
There were cabinet ministers, ambassadors, admirals, generals, canons, Oxford professors, novelists, playwrights, poets, and a number of people equipped with rank and brains. [5]
To the popular mind this vast accumulation of learning in libraries, or in brains that do not visibly apply it, is much the same thing. [4]
They have asked me to be their ambassador to invite the hearts and brains of New York to come down here and see the work they are doing. [5]
More brains you may have, and wealth you have, but not more common sense than any common man like me. [11]
The brains of man, the orang, the chimpanzee, the gorilla, in spite of all the important differences which they present, come very close to one another" (loc. [1]
There isn't one man in Washington, in civil office, who has the brains of Anson Burlingame--and I suppose if China had not seized and saved his great talents to the world, this government would have discarded him when his time was up. [5]
You have brains, looks, skill, and a wonderful tongue. [11]
A rabbit's brains, Leicester--and a rabbit's end. [11]
Do you not know-- you do know--that, had he chosen, he might have been rich too, for his brains would have been of great use to men of practical power like yourself. [11]
The heart has its own little brains, so to speak,--small collections of nervous substance which govern its rhythmical motions under ordinary conditions. [6]
Take as an item novels, the works of fiction, which have become an absolute necessity in the modern world, as necessary to divert the mind loaded with care and under actual strain as to fill the vacancy in otherwise idle brains. [4]
Think what folly it is to cast them aside in favor of palpable impositions stolen from the records of forgotten charlatanism, or of fantastic speculations spun from the squinting brains of theorists as wild as the Egyptian astronomer. [6]
He could write it after he had blown his brains out. [5]
If your name is to live at all, it is so much more to have it live in people's hearts than only in their brains! [6]
At first all is in patches and confused, and then it folds out--if not clearly, still so I can understand--and the words I repeat come as if filtered through many brains to mine. [11]
But if there is any way to do it that would not frighten him, I have not been able to think it out, and I have tried till my brains are addled. [5]
All the brains in this hall are in Hilary's room. [9]
The fellow was in fact crazy about her beauty and ready to beat his brains out in chagrin. [5]
He said they impeded the natural development of business, and that it was justifiable for the great legal brains of the country to devise means by which these laws could be eluded. [9]
I could not imagine how this curious thing had happened; for I knew one thing--that a certain amount of pride always goes along with a teaspoonful of brains, and that this pride protects a man from deliberately stealing other people's ideas. [5]
Now he raised his head and with a hasty gesture, said: "Strange that those who toil for existence with their hands, and whose uncultured brains only move when their daily needs require it, are most ready to sacrifice the little they possess, for spiritual blessings. [10]
Professedly Celia was his critic, but really she was the necessary appreciator, for probably most writers would come to a standstill if there was no sympathetic soul to whom they could communicate, while they were fresh, the teeming fancies of their brains. [4]
The Professor armed himself with a double-barreled shot gun, started out in search of his brother-in-law, found him playing billiards in a saloon, and blew his brains out. [5]
I've always credited him with brains. [9]
No, confound her, her intellect was good, she had brains enough, but her training made her an ass--that is, from a many-centuries-later point of view. [5]
Others in that heat and crush racked their brains to find some thought and hastened to utter it. [2]
Did you ever hear of a man's growing lean by the reading of "Romeo and Juliet," or blowing his brains out because Desdemona was maligned? [6]
But the cooler heads opposed it, pointing out that addled brains in the Eastern states would pronounce it a scandal, and make no end of foolish noise about it. [5]
In order that he might remain so, I blew his brains out, and then started for home. [4]

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