Use brought in a sentence
Sentences starting with brought
- Brought 'em along with me. [11]
- Brought low, it was still alert above the wreckage. [11]
- Brought up a Sybarite. [10]
- Brought up to reverence her elders, she had ignored the shallowness of her aunt's character in happier days. [9]
- Brought a sight of furniture,--could n't hardly get some of it upstairs. [6]
- Brought our friend, Mr. Beaton, with me," those within heard him say; and then, after a sound of putting off overcoats, they saw him fill the doorway, with his feet set square and his arms akimbo. [8]
- Brought by H. Frederic Sprowle, youngest son of the Colonel,--the H. of course standing for the paternal Hezekiah, put in to please the father, and reduced to its initial to please the mother, she having a marked preference for Frederic. [6]
Sentences ending with brought
- He knew the veteran would be waiting for him, and unprepared for the bad news he brought. [11]
- You know the tidings this terrible day has brought? [10]
- As soon as they were together, Caesar sprang up and vehemently demanded to know what news he had brought. [10]
- When I came the next morning, Alixe met me, and asked me to see what he had brought. [11]
- What most excited the gentlemen was the news Van Hout had brought. [10]
- There, I hear the door, that is he; come here youngster, what have you brought? [10]
- If you won't step in and won't drink and will be unsociable, sergeant, why, come on and you shall have a horse as good as the one you've brought. [11]
- You know what sacrifices I have offered, what gifts I have brought. [10]
- It interrupted the Sabbath stillness, and marred the dreams the luxurious rest and indolence brought. [5]
- The bottle of rum was brought. [2]
Short sentences using brought
- I brought some with me. [2]
- She brought him water. [11]
- He brought her, too. [8]
- It brought tears to Virginia. [9]
- They were brought to him. [11]
- They were brought to attention. [9]
- Our Katterle brought the coals. [10]
- The Boy brought the book. [6]
- Winter brought many other amusements. [10]
- Mrs. Holt brought me. [9]
Sentences containing brought two or more times
- The movies brought the world to Hampton, the great world into which she longed to fare, brought the world to her! [9]
- You all know, the world knows, the forces and the resources the public agents have brought into employment to sustain a government against which there has been brought not one complaint of real injury committed against society at home or abroad. [7]
- Well, we brought the wires to the ground at the chapel, and then brought them under the ground to the platform, and hid the batteries there. [5]
- I had inspected the goods brought from Arabia and India by way of Berenice and Coptos, and had selected those I needed before the vessel that brought them had moored in the Mariotic harbor, and other goods will have reached Alexandria before me. [10]
- Word was brought that Bucklaw still lived, but was in a high fever, and that the chances were all against him; and Phips sent cordials and wines from his own stores, and asked that news be brought to him of any change. [11]
- The same rail that brought me the letter from the Punjab, brought also a little book published by Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co., of Calcutta, which interested me, for both its preface and its contents treated of this matter of over-education. [5]
- They brought him sorrow, but they brought him likewise the capacity and opportunity for large enjoyment, and at the last they laid upon him a kind of benediction. [5]
- These dishes were received by a gentleman in the same order they were brought, and placed upon the table, while the taster gave to each guard a mouthful to eat of the particular dish he had brought, for fear of any poison. [5]
- He brought no new piece of evidence inconsistent with his former testimony; but he brought a new piece, tending, as he thought, and as I think, to prove his proposition. [7]
- Only the new-comers, Nahoum's men, carried the hunt far; and they brought back with them a body which their leader commanded to be brought to a great room of the palace. [11]
More example sentences with the word brought in them
- The roll the youth had brought to the camp contained two letters. [10]
- I heard of your riding to the Neck of Baroob--the men of Boonda Broke brought word. [11]
- The practicability of your plan was not, in fact, brought to a test. [7]
- A shot from your pistol brought him down as he rushed forward to enter the ruins. [11]
- Remember me to your husband, and tell him, that Captain Allertssohn's body has been brought in and to-morrow is appointed for the funeral. [10]
- She rejoiced over your blindness, and she will gnash her teeth with rage and grief when she hears that it was Tabus who brought light into the darkness that surrounds you. [10]
- I have cut your articles about San Marco out of a New York paper (Joe Twichell saw it and brought it home to me with loud admiration,) and sent it to Howells. [5]
- You have brought your army corps to Pultusk, routed: here it is exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as you yourself reported to Count Buxhowden yesterday, you must think of retreating to our frontier--which do today. [2]
- I've come to you--Patsy Kernaghan brought me," Louise urged. [11]
- Although I was young, I was brought up to responsibility. [9]
- In 1870 a young stranger arrived in Sydney, and set about finding something to do; but he knew no one, and brought no recommendations, and the result was that he got no employment. [5]
- Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to De la Foret in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at the Camisard's feet. [11]
- Nicholas brought many young men to his parents' house. [2]
- He thought of you, of course, and Colonel Woodburn, and Beaton, and me at the foot of the table; and Conrad; and I suggested Kendricks: he's such a nice little chap; and the old man himself brought up the idea of Lindau. [8]
- An' Oldrin' brought you up the innocentest of the innocent. [13]
- I haven't brought you up for nothing. [9]
- What then brought you to Serapis? [10]
- I therefore beg you to make allowance for the circumstances in which I have been by surprise brought before you. [7]
- It's best for you to forget mot I've brought you only pain and dishonor. [13]
- It has brought you to a gate that is billions of leagues from the right one. [5]
- Tell us why you haven't brought her into the daylight, why she isn't claiming her husband at the polls. [11]
- I know that you gave the order that only three of the five ships which brought the contents of your winelofts should be unloaded. [10]
- Dyer had wanted you brought up the vilest of the vile! [13]
- What news have you brought me? [2]
- And then, when you brought me to him that morning and he got up and treated me like a lady, I just couldn't stand it. [9]
- I know that you bemoan the manner in which he has been brought up; but such late repentance must be avoided like poison. [10]
- Ulrich brought you yonder ring; she never parted with it. [10]
- He had not yet recovered from the shaking up his system had sustained, and he took to a canvas easy chair he had brought with him and placed a decanter of Scotch and a tumbler of ice at his side. [9]
- It seems only yesterday when we brought her home, Tom. [9]
- The bundle of yellow-stained envelopes he had brought were lying on the table, and Honora picked them up mechanically. [9]
- During the first years of my convalescence I could enjoy nothing save what came or was brought to me. [10]
- For her the years had given many compensations, and so she told the Cure, one midsummer day, when she brought to visit him the orphaned son of Paulette Dubois, graduated from his college in France and making ready to go to the far East. [11]
- They have been written with reverence, and the reading of the proofs has brought back to me vividly the long winters in which I pondered over the matter they contain, and wrote and rewrote the chapters. [9]
- That night another wounded man was driven down the Povarskaya, and Mavra Kuzminichna, who was standing at the gate, had him brought into the Rostovs' yard. [2]
- Thither, quoth she, would she send Herdegen on his coming; for she knew full well that the tidings brought by Akusch could not remain hid. [10]
- Some, no doubt, would rather have fought than have had peace at the price; but they could not free their minds from the sacred force which had brought most of the crowd of faction-fighters to their knees. [11]
- My best possession would not have seemed too dear a price to pay for some magic spell that would have brought you to us when, at the festal games, I danced and sang to the tambourine while the loudest shouts of applause greeted me. [10]
- But still he would never have set me free so hastily if an evil star had not brought the Swabian Junker to the spot. [10]
- Only yesterday this would have roused her wrath; to-day she could forgive him; for she could forgive anything to this unhappy soul--to the man on whom she had brought such deep anguish. [10]
- At night he would go out for booty and always brought back French clothing and weapons, and when told to would bring in French captives also. [2]
- His eyes grew worse, and on the very day which brought us the news of your safe arrival in Babylon, Amasis became totally blind. [10]
- We are all working for the same things, and we all believe that they must be brought about in the same practical way. [9]
- He saw the work of his hands, the things he had made with adze and plane, with chisel and hammer, but nothing seemed familiar save the smell of the glue pot, which brought back in a cloudy impression curious unfamiliar feelings. [11]
- And if his words brought tears to my eyes, my strength came with them. [9]
- True to his word, he brought a crucifix and put it up--not where he wished, but, at my request, opposite the door, upon the wall. [11]
- He brought the word to me that thou wast here now. [11]
- Not one single word of evidence had the defence brought to discredit Crozier, save by Crozier's own word of mouth; and if Crozier had cared to commit perjury, the defence could not have proved him guilty of it. [11]
- Well, upon my word if things ain't getting to a pretty pass when--" The house broke into laughter, but was promptly brought to order, and meantime Mr. Allen persuaded the old lady to take her seat. [5]
- They drew the wood-boat aft, and they and the captain fought back the frantic herd of frightened immigrants till the wounded could be brought there and placed in safety first. [5]
- I cannot help wondering what brought Emerson and the showy, fascinating John Gourdin together as room-mates. [6]
- You poor, dear woman, how you loved flowers, and no one has brought you even one! [10]
- Where was the woman that brought her to the tent--whose tent it was? [11]
- When the old woman had once more disappeared indoors, he asked the paraschites: "Whose heart is it that you have brought me, and how did it come into your hands? [10]
- A squalid old woman brought him this wretched supper, and it cut the duchess to the heart to see him hunt about for coppers enough to pay for it. [10]
- Thus woe on woe, and at the same time the painfully paralyzing feeling of the hostility of Fate had been evoked from its surges and, instead of happiness, they had brought sorrow and suffering. [10]
- He had died without knowing the truth, and her heart was hardened against him who had brought misery upon her. [11]
- Here art thou with whom so long the universe travailed in labor; darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth to unite his ragged sides, to shoot the gulf, to reconcile the irreconcilable? [6]
- I answered him with what carefulness I could, and brought round the question of your death, by hint and allusion getting him to speak of the mode of execution. [11]
- They both brought with them so many reminiscences of familiar scenes and events, that it was like going back for the moment to Oxbow Village. [6]
- I minded me with silent thanksgiving of all the good cheer yestereve had brought us, and of the wisdom and faithfulness of our good friends. [10]
- He was received with rapturous enthusiasm; his road led to the harbor, past the tents in which lay the wounded, who had been brought home to Egypt by ship, and he greeted them graciously from his chariot. [10]
- Then Mr. Satterlee, with much hemming and hawing, stated the business which had brought them, while Cynthia looked out of the window. [9]
- I brought cigars with me, the last time; I will not do that any more. [5]
- You will share with me the hope that the highwayman who stopped him may be brought to justice, though, indeed, your man Tardif left him behind in the dust. [11]
- It has brought with it to me a new spirit, a spirit with a scorn for things base and mean. [9]
- The wind brought with it a suggestion of the pine-clad wastes of the northwestern wilderness whence it came, and that sure harbinger of autumn, the blue haze, settled around the hills, and benumbed the rays of the sun lingering over the crests. [9]
- Here he remained, with his head bowed upon his breast for some time, and then suddenly raising it, said, 'Once, and once for all, have you brought me any money? [12]
- He probably brought with him in 1610 his wife, who gave birth to his daughter Bermuda, born on the Somers Islands at the time of the shipwreck. [4]
- He brought home with him a suit of clothes of such exquisite style and cut in fashion--Eastern fashion, city fashion--that it filled everybody with anguish and was regarded as a peculiarly wanton affront. [5]
- He had brought with him a small statue of a riverman with flannel shirt, scarf about the waist, thick defiant trousers and well-weaponed boots. [11]
- Aunt Caroline said with feeling that Dr. Hilliard's death was a blessing, after all, since it brought a long-separated father and son together once more. [9]
- It left her with a renewed sense of energy and restlessness, brought her nearer to high discoveries of mysterious joys which a voice out of the past called upon her to forego, a voice somehow identified with her father! [9]
- A copper-colored skeleton, with a rag around him, brought me a glass decanter of water, with a lighted tobacco pipe in the top of it, and a pliant stem a yard long, with a brass mouth-piece to it. [5]
- Els was received with a mournful greeting; but when Herr Ernst heard what had brought her to him, he fiercely commanded her to tell Herr Casper that he would have nothing more to do with him. [10]
- I said, "I wish you had brought one with you --I would like to look at it. [5]
- The best and wisest has his defects, and sometimes they would seem to be very grave ones if brought up against him in the form of accusation. [6]
- The letters the winged messengers had brought were read aloud from the windows of the town-hall, and the courage of the populace, pressed to the extremest limits of endurance, flickered up anew and helped them bear their misery. [10]
- He could surely win over the abbess in the course of the voyage, and Paula might be brought to reason, perhaps, this very evening. [10]
- It was no will of mine brought me to my feet. [9]
- I became, as will be seen, anything but a practical man in the true sense, though the world in which I had been brought up and continued to live deemed me such. [9]
- An English fisherman's wife said, "When a body was in trouble she didn't send her help, she brought it herself. [5]
- He brought his wife down to the Great Lakes immediately, scarcely resting day or night. [11]
- Captain Stanwix's wife, who was a good, motherly person, took charge of the little orphan, and arriving at Carvel Hall delivered her to my grandfather, who brought her up as his own daughter. [9]
- The silent landlady who waited on them at last brought a huge bowl of milk, and set it before him without a word. [11]
- Is it those who resist the measure, or those who causelessly brought it forward, and pressed it through, having reason to know, and in fact knowing, it must and would be so resisted? [7]
- The Sainian pirates, who infest the whole Ionian coast, took the messenger captive and brought Oroetes' letter to their master Polykrates. [10]
- It is you who have brought him back, and I wish personally to express my gratitude. [9]
- It is he who has brought the Empire to its most precarious state. [9]
- She it was who had handed to Hilton the paper the wild duck had brought, after Ida had read it and fallen in a faint on the floor. [11]
- He well knew who had brought all these stories to the others, and answered Xaver's malicious spite with open enmity. [10]
- And this woman who dared to do this had herself brought unhappiness to Austen. [9]
- 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]
- It was Richter who brought the full force of it home to Stephen. [9]
- It was Joe who brought the astounding news to the store that evening. [9]
- It was she who brought imagination to bear on my pastimes, and many a time has she borne my fancy far enough from the Pegnitz, over seas and rivers to groves of palm and golden fairy lands. [10]
- It was Fox who brought him up. [9]
- Mena lashed his whip, the horses started forward and rushed with frantic plunges towards the fugitives, who however could not be brought to a standstill, or rallied by the king's voice--the enemy were close upon them, cutting them down. [10]
- For a little while she lived in this atmosphere which she had brought with her. [5]
- And all the while she asked herself what it was that had brought him to this condition. [9]
- Among the papers which your old servant Hib brought with him in a small box, there must be some letters from a certain Sonnophre, a celebrated accoucheur, your own father, which . [10]
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