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Sentences starting with broad

Broad sheets of lightning flared over the western wall. [13]
Broad thinking could hardly be said to exist at all. [4]
Broad acres are a patent of nobility; and no man but feels more, of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. [4]
Broad daylight and a hint of sunshine high on the cliff-rim to the west brought him to consideration of what he had better do. [13]

Sentences ending with broad

The walls surrounding the tower are said to be still clearly recognizable, and were 4000 feet long and 3000 broad. [10]
But our definition is less broad. [5]
As the French claimed ownership of all the affluents of the Mississippi, this latter was called the French Broad. [4]
It was from 2 to 7 fingers broad. [10]

Short sentences using broad

He is broad enough. [4]

Sentences containing broad two or more times

A broad sort of humour was written upon every feature; in the full, quizzical eye, in the width of cheek- bone, in the broad mouth, and in the depth of the laugh, which, however, often ended in a sort of chuckle not entirely pleasant. [11]
From the little farm clearings on the western slope of Coniston Mountain you can sweep the broad valley of a certain broad river where grew (and grow still) the giant pines that gave many a mast to King George's navy as tribute for the land. [9]

More example sentences with the word broad in them

And what do you think of a Pallas with short woolly hair; of the Charities with broad, flat Ethiopian feet; and an Egyptian, with his shaven head mirroring the sun, as Phoebus Apollo? [10]
Learning goes usually with uprightness, broad views, and humanity; so the learned voters, possessing the balance of power, became the vigilant and efficient protectors of the great lower rank of society. [5]
She was tall, with rich, yellow hair falling loosely about her head; she had a strong, finely cut chin and a broad brow, under which a pair of deep blue eyes shone-violet blue, rare and fine. [11]
His broad head with its bold features and glittering eyes was resting on his hand. [2]
The broad forehead, with arching eyebrows, gave an intellectual cast to a face the special stamp of which was purity. [4]
But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it, spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. [6]
At once the whole horizon line of water became a bright crimson, which deepened as evening advanced, glowing with more intense fire, and holding a broad band of what seemed solid color for more than three quarters of an hour. [4]
There were many who came regularly to inquire of him, and each afternoon I would see the broad shoulders and genial face of Governor Sharpe in the gateway, completing his walk by way of Marlboro' Street. [9]
They dressed in white linen from head to foot, like the old gentleman, and wore broad Panama hats. [5]
He was in white linen and wore a broad hat, which he took from his head as he advanced. [9]
The streets through which the procession moved were broad and straight, the houses on either side, built of brick, tall and handsome. [10]
The flaxen hair, which bristled around his head and hung over his broad, ugly face, gave him so unkempt and imbecile an appearance that it was repulsive to the almoner, and he harshly asked where he had been loitering. [10]
Yet the features were there, too, regular and fine; and her brown hair waving away from her broad, white forehead over eyes a greyish violet in colour gave her a classic distinction. [11]
How broad they were in their tastes! [5]
But the streams were full of trout then, and the moose and the elk left their broad tracks on the sands of the river. [4]
But now we were expecting one along every moment, and would see him in broad daylight. [5]
On Sunday she went to the Abbey, and heard "a broad and liberal sermon" from Archdeacon Farrar. [6]
Higbie and I went to bed at midnight, but it was only to lie broad awake and think, dream, scheme. [5]
Such a well-dressed, well-satisfied, well-fed looking crowd poured down the broad sidewalks before the handsome, stupid houses that March could easily pretend he had got among his fellow-plutocrats at last. [8]
At the top we found the stream flowing over a broad bed of rock, like a street in the wilderness, slanting up still towards the sky, and bordered by low firs and balsams, and bowlders completely covered with moss. [4]
As soon as we come out of the shadow that the great walls cast on the road we shall be in broad light. [10]
And at length we came to Hans's farm, in a prettily rolling country on the Broad River. [9]
At all the watery margins they have been present; not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been and made their tracks. [7]
However, the land-locked water was lovely, at any rate, with its glittering belts of blue and green where moderate soundings were, and its broad splotches of rich brown where the rocks lay near the surface. [5]
Streams of dirty water flowed always from the pans and were carried off in broad wooden troughs to the ravine. [5]
Slight as it was, it appeared to us a very Broadway to Paradise if broad ways ever lead thither. [4]
Our pine forest was well scorched, the dead trees all burned up, and our broad acres of manzanita swept away. [5]
The broad staircase was of easy ascent, and was guarded by quaintly turned and twisted balusters. [6]
His white hair was chiselled on his broad brow, his face was a solemn pathos petrified, his lips were curled with an iron contempt, an incalculable anger. [11]
The young countess was challenging his attention still more boldly, tossing her head back so impetuously that the turban-like roll on her hair, spite of the broad ribbon that fastened it under her chin, almost fell on the floor. [10]
And then there was Broad street! [5]
Each blazing storehouse was a gigantic torch throwing a broad glare into the darkness of the night. [10]
I could have walked the broad way with a laughing heart, though, in truth, habit of mind and desire have kept me in the better path. [11]
Some old forgotten volcanic eruption sent its broad river of fire down the mountain side here, and it poured down in a great torrent from an overhanging bluff some fifty feet high to the ground below. [5]
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. [5]
The officer, a very young lad with a broad rosy face and keen merry eyes, galloped up to Denisov and handed him a sodden envelope. [2]
Your diploma seems very broad to-day with your list of accomplishments, but it begins to shrink from this hour like the Peau de Chagrin of Balzac's story. [3]
It is a vast marble collonaded corridor extending around a great unoccupied square of ground; its broad floor is marble, and on every slab is an inscription--for every slab covers a corpse. [5]
The fire rests upon the broad hearth; the hearth rests upon a great substruction of stone, and the substruction rests upon the cellar. [4]
We was dressed up fine, and we played it on them in broad daylight. [5]
Two brothers of unusual height, who, nude like all their comrades in death, offered their broad, beautifully arched chests to the arrows, would not leave his memory. [10]
They were coarse, unsubstantial, freckled all over with broad yellow splotches, and could neither stand wear nor public exhibition. [5]
The broad oceans unrolled themselves before me. [6]
The ordinary chalet turns a broad, honest gable end to the road, and its ample roof hovers over the home in a protecting, caressing way, projecting its sheltering eaves far outward. [5]
And it was true that when Gertrude Constable had nearly died of appendicitis, it was on this lady's broad bosom that Mrs. Constable had wept. [9]
If this is true of all the narrower manifestations of human progress, how much more must it be true of those broad movements in the intellectual and spiritual domain which interest all mankind? [6]
From these old towers we looked down upon a broad, far-reaching green plain, glittering with the pools and rivulets which are the sources of the sacred river Jordan. [5]
For answer she tore herself away, and ran through the hall to the broad porch in front. [9]
It seems somewhat too broad for its height, but may be familiarity with it might dissipate this impression. [5]
Barbara was obliged to wait in the broad, lofty hall of the syndic's house for the maid-servant, who announced her; and the stout man with the big head, who had seized the knocker just before she entered, shared her fate. [10]
Slowly she walked to the window and looked out across the green grounds where the wind was shaking the wet trees, past the unfinished monument to the Father of her country, and across the broad Potomac to Alexandria in the hazy distance. [9]
There they retired to the niche formed by the deep walls of the broad central window of the house, and Herr Berthold Pfinzing whispered to his wife: "There was too much philanthropy and kindness for me in there. [10]
I am disposed to take his answer as being as broad as though he had put it in these words. [7]
He had ceased to show his face in daylight, now, for a reporter knows everybody, rich and poor, high and low, and cannot well avoid familiar faces in the broad light of day. [5]
It is pleasant to sail into the long and broad harbor of Pictou on a sunny day. [4]
He was good to look at-clean-shaven, broad of brow, fine of figure, composed of carriage, though it was not the composure of the people by whom he was surrounded. [11]
The Indians used to hold their "powwows," or magical incantations, upon a broad mound which rose out of the common level, and where some old hemlocks and beeches formed a dark grove, which served them as a temple for their demon-worship. [6]
You have only to establish a board of men in whom you have confidence,--a court of claims, so to speak,--to pass upon the validity of every application, not from a business standpoint alone, but from one of a broad justice and equity. [9]
And it needs to be pretty broad to support a traffic of such enormous proportions. [4]
It is not to be confounded with the French Broad, which originates among the hills of Transylvania, runs northward past Asheville, and finds its way to the Tennessee through the Warm Springs Gap in the Bald Mountains. [4]
When I came to again, I was sitting under an oak tree, on the grass, with a whole beautiful and broad country landscape all to myself--nearly. [5]
This was a time for broad policy-- for distribution of cassavi bread, yams and papaws, for big, and maybe rough, display of power and generosity. [11]
So they rode till they came to a lake, the which was a fair water and broad, and in the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. [5]
No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. [6]
We went abroad through the town, then, and found it a city of huge commercial buildings, and broad, handsome streets brilliant with gas-light. [5]
She had never thought him gifted with perception or insight, though he had eloquence and an eye for broad effects. [11]
She felt as though the darkness around had suddenly brightened into broad day, as her ear told her that the approaching horseman was riding straight toward the house of her host Amminadab. [10]
Now, there being this broad difference between us, I do not pretend, in addressing myself to you Kentuckians, to attempt proselyting you; that would be a vain effort. [7]
And when you think of the leagues of blighted, blasted, sandy, rocky, sun-burnt, ugly, dreary, infamous country you have ridden over to get here, you think it is the most beautiful, beautiful picture that ever human eyes rested upon in all the broad universe! [5]
He had the thick hand, stubbed fingers, with bristled pads between their joints, square, broad thumb-nails, and sturdy limbs, which mark a constitution made to use in rough out-door work. [6]
And just then they came in sight of the house of the Presidents, with its beautiful portico and its broad wings. [9]
When you transfer these sketches, many times enlarged, to a broad surface, you will learn more than in years of copying plaster-casts. [10]
Nitetis gazed at these gates in astonishment, and then a joyful smile lighted up her face, as she looked up the long broad street so brightly and beautifully decorated to welcome her. [10]
To one of them Mr. King was presented, Mrs. Stimpson--a stout woman with a broad red face and fishy eyes, wearing an elaborate head-dress with purple flowers, and attired as if she were expecting to take a prize. [4]
A man of the world to the cut of the coat across the broad shoulders. [9]
The public-houses by the wayside, from being empty and noiseless as those in the remoter parts had been, now sent out boisterous shouts and clouds of smoke; and, from the misty windows, clusters of broad red faces looked down upon the road. [12]
When morning came the train was industriously toiling along through the fat lands of Lancaster, with its broad farms of corn and wheat, its mean houses of stone, its vast barns and granaries, built as if, for storing the riches of Heliogabalus. [5]
Pentaur lightly touched the strings, leaned his head against the top of the tall bow of the harp, for some time lest in meditation; then he drew himself up boldly, and struck the chords, bringing out a strong and warlike music in broad heroic rhythm. [10]
He was expected, the steward told him, but he arched his broad breast as if preparing for a wrestling match, pulled his mustache still longer, and went up the stairs. [10]
He listened to the silence and told himself that in the broad light of day he could dispel this leaden-weighted dread. [13]
They have both the same broad forehead, too; but Abibaal's nose was more aquiline, and his hair curled less closely. [10]
We have reached the region of those broad principles and large axioms which the wise Romans, the world's lawgivers, always recognized as above all special enactments. [6]
The centre of the opposite wall was occupied by two small windows surmounted by a broad, semicircular arch, and separated by a short Roman pillar. [10]
I am afraid the only Broad Church possible is one that has its creed in the heart, and not in the head,--that we shall know its members by their fruits, and not by their words. [6]
It stands in the midst of broad lands, and the ground in front of it slopes down to Coniston Water, artificially widened here by a stone dam into a little lake. [9]
As he raised the injured man, who still uttered low moans, and supported his head on his broad breast, the sweet perfume of fine ointment was wafted to him from his hair, and a fearful suspicion dawned upon his mind. [10]
He feels that the improvements of this broad and goodly land are a mighty interest; and he is unwilling to confess to the people, or perhaps to himself, that he has built an argument which, when pressed to its conclusions, entirely annihilates this interest. [7]
The sole and the heel were plainly to be seen, and, hard by, the print of a man's large, broad shoes, with iron-shod heels, which told Kubbeling that they were those of Uhlwurm's great boots. [10]
The Emperor entered the hall through a broad path between two lines of nobles. [2]
I was on the flag-stones, for there was, no furniture in the den except a long, broad board, or combination of boards, like a barn-door, and this bed was accommodating five or six persons, and that was its full capacity. [5]
Then there was the evening promenading on the broad verandas and out upon the miniature pier, or at sunset by the water-batteries of the old fort --such a peaceful old fortress as it is. [4]
I'll give you the broad view of this subject, the view I've got to take, and I've lived in the world and seen more of it than some folks who think they know it all. [9]
It stood in the broad sunshine as silent as death, as if all were sleeping. [10]
You are on the broad road which leads to dissipation, physical ruin, moral decay, gory crime and the gallows! [5]
He would steal the broad road to hell if he could carry it. [11]
He can see the broad green Campagna, stretching away toward the mountains, with its scattered arches and broken aqueducts of the olden time, so picturesque in their gray ruin, and so daintily festooned with vines. [5]
Lastly he stripped the broad gold circlet from his arm, and holding it aloft exclaimed: "Here is the promised payment. [10]
The crimson sash, the broad diagonal belt of the mounted marshal of a great procession, so cheap in themselves, yet so entirely satisfactory to the wearer, tickle my heart's root. [6]
The arch of the broad chest stood forth in fine relief, and with it the breast-plate and points of his armor. [10]
It was on the bank of the crystal, rocky stream, at the foot of high and slender falls, which poured into a broad amber basin. [4]

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