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Sentences starting with cannot

Cannot a man work in wood without knowing all about endogens and exogens, or must he attend Professor Gray's Lectures before he can be trusted to make a box-trap? [3]
Cannot you simplify them in some way? [5]
Cannot interfere about platform. [7]
Cannot the Judge perceive a distinction between a purpose and an expectation? [7]
Cannot you believe, Miss Benson, that I had some pride in having my friends see you and know you? [4]
Cannot you help me out with it? [7]
Cannot one see it all from the citadel hill, and by walking down by the horticultural garden and the Roman Catholic cemetery? [4]
Cannot the enemy ford the river? [7]
Cannot something be done even in Illinois? [7]
Cannot the Judge be satisfied? [7]

Sentences ending with cannot

I would fly to you--but I cannot. [9]
No, a thousand times, no, you cannot! [10]
If I could take you back to Ripton I would, but I know that I cannot. [9]
He will not say so, he dare not, he cannot. [5]
As it stands now, I cannot. [5]
Hilary Vane will not ask for his son--because he cannot. [9]
My father--no one must know--I cannot. [10]
We cannot change it--if we break our hearts, we cannot. [4]
Even Henry, who is naturally a good water-drinker, can save half of his allowance from time to time, when I cannot. [5]
She pressed her handkerchief in her hands as she went on with excited vehemence: "I am in the last extremity, I can bear it no longer, I cannot--I cannot! [10]

Short sentences using cannot

No--no--it cannot be you! [11]
She cannot spare you now. [10]
He cannot live without me. [10]
You cannot live with him. [9]
I--I cannot see very well. [9]
She cannot escape us. [11]
He cannot hurt us now. [11]
Care cannot assail us here. [5]
Honora cannot be unduly blamed. [9]
Yet I cannot understand it. [11]

Sentences containing cannot two or more times

I am not your wife in any real sense of the word, I cannot hold you, I cannot even interest you. [9]
You cannot keep your enthusiasms down, you cannot keep your emotions within bounds when that soaring bubble of marble breaks upon your view. [5]
When you plant, you think you cannot fertilize too much: when you get the bills for the manure, you think you cannot fertilize too little. [4]
I love him, yes I love him, you cannot think how dearly; still, I cannot be his! [10]
I cannot stay with you--truly I cannot, I have been expected long since. [10]
We are sorry we cannot make her a faultless heroine; but we cannot, for the reason that she was human. [5]
We cannot, then, we cannot be circling inward to be swallowed up in the whirlpool of national destruction. [6]
I would be very glad to talk with you, but you cannot leave your camp, and I cannot well leave here. [7]
Does he mean to ignore the proposition so long and well established in law, that what you cannot do directly, you cannot do indirectly? [7]
Now, as to this indirect mode by "unfriendly legislation," all lawyers here will readily understand that such a proposition cannot be tolerated for a moment, because a legislature cannot indirectly do that which it cannot accomplish directly. [7]

More example sentences with the word cannot in them

If it is your viscera, you cannot have them taken out and reorganized a moment too soon. [5]
But we know your strength; we know that the small remnant of our nation, which war and pestilence have spared, cannot resist your vast and well-armed hosts. [10]
As I understand your present life, I think you will always recall it with satisfaction, because the self-sacrifice that fills it now..." "I cannot accept your praise," he interrupted her hurriedly. [2]
You cannot keep your mind from wandering, if it wants to; it is master, not you. [5]
I will seek your lover, and if I find him he shall know where you are, but I cannot and will not invite him to an assignation here behind my sister's back. [10]
Whatever may happen, your illustrious life cannot be in danger! [10]
I cannot change your hearts--but the wife of my brother's son, the daughter of Ben Akiba, must be a daughter of our people, morning, noon, and night. [10]
It is in your hands; it is all in your hands; and I cannot speak unless--unless you are ready also. [11]
Ah, I see-- your hands are tied, they cannot aid you. [5]
You cannot imagine!--Does your foot hurt you very much, poor dear? [10]
You cannot help your company in this matter --nobody can help them. [5]
I cannot compromise your collective wisdom. [3]
I cannot stomach your Aunt Caroline. [9]
I cannot expect you, who have known the happiness of marriage, to realize the tortures of it without love. [9]
I cannot blame you, for I know it was not your fault. [14]
You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of the times. [7]
Kill me, if you will--I but cannot fight you. [11]
I dare say you will betray me to my father--" But Arsinoe did not finish her sentence, for Selene looked up at her with a mixture of suffering and alarm, and said: "I cannot be glad--I am in too much pain. [10]
I cannot tell you what I suffered. [4]
We cannot allow you to resign until things shall be a little more settled in East Tennessee. [7]
Let me give you the outlines of a supper to which we were invited the other night: it certainly cannot hurt you to read about it. [4]
Let me remind you that your doing so, at our instance, will place you in a safe and comfortable position--your present one is not desirable--and cannot injure your brother; for against him and you we have quite sufficient evidence (as you hear) already. [12]
I cannot give you that to which you have been accustomed all your life, that which you have here at Fairview, but I shouldn't say this to you if I believed that you cared for them above --other things. [9]
I cannot tell you that I am sorry for what I have done--for what I am going to do. [9]
When I tell you that a bit of ribbon in my button-hole sets my vanity prancing, I think you cannot be grievously offended that I smile at the resonant titles which make you something more than human in your own eyes. [6]
As I understand, you telegraphed General Halleck that you cannot subsist your army at Winchester unless the railroad from Harper's Ferry to that point be put in working order. [7]
I cannot let you shoot at men who carry the Union flag. [9]
I understand why you sent it, and you must try to understand why it cannot be kept. [4]
We cannot, as you say, promise to love for life. [9]
You cannot fight; you saved your life by boarding us. [11]
I cannot tell you now what my trouble is; but I can say that no other living woman has a claim upon me. [11]
I love you, you must love me--I cannot believe that you do not. [9]
At any rate you must go through the vestibule; you cannot miss your way out of the viridarium. [10]
I cannot tell you just now, but I will soon, perhaps. [11]
If, Herr Casper, you intend to share with my wife and the twins what is left after the old wealth has gone, unfortunately, I cannot permit you to do so. [10]
I cannot let you in, but come with me. [11]
I cannot tell you how we have followed you, with what interest and delight through your travels, as you have told their story in your letters to your mother. [6]
I cannot tell you how uncomfortable I felt, and then--yes, Els, then I first realised distinctly what you are to me. [10]
But of this you have no apprehension; and therefore you cannot bring it home to your feelings. [7]
By the time you have drawn twenty-one wales and written "William I.--1066-1087--twenty-one years" twenty-one times, those details will be your property; you cannot dislodge them from your memory with anything but dynamite. [5]
But even if you had wings, and could fly straight to him, they would overpower him if I cannot succeed in turning the left wing on the rear of the enemy. [10]
I cannot offer you great wealth, but I say with confidence that I can offer you something better, something surer. [9]
I will reward you for it with the only thing that the daughter of the wealthy Krates cannot purchase, yet which she probably rates at no low value--the love of her royal friend. [10]
Mr. Carvel thought you dead, and we cannot prove undue influence by Grafton unless we also prove that it was he who caused your abduction. [9]
And yet when you come to look at it you cannot deny that we would have to go without the services of some of our ablest men, sir, if the country were opposed to --to--bribery. [5]
I forgot that you cannot smoke here, Roupet; but you shall have them all the same, there! [11]
They say that you cannot live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments. [5]
And I'll warrant you cannot conceive the havoc and consternation their fulfilment would spread in England. [9]
Why doubt what you cannot but know? [2]
Submit to what you cannot avert; just as I never complain when, if I make a mistake in reading, she snatches the book from my hand, or flings it at my feet. [10]
I cannot blame you any longer. [10]
I cannot give you a new command, because we have no forces except such as already have commanders. [7]
I have not yet regained it; and until I do, I cannot trust myself in any matter of much importance. [7]
I am innocent, yet cannot I make it appear. [5]
Still, I cannot yet be your bride, your wife. [10]
At 11.40 A.M. yesterday General Rosecrans telegraphed from Chattanooga: "We hold this point, and I cannot be dislodged except by very superior numbers and after a great battle. [7]
I suppose you Yankees cannot help your critical spirit. [4]
If I could write, I dare say I should be better, but I cannot write a line. [14]
Alas, we cannot write of the future of Austen and Victoria Vane! [9]
I suppose one would take a man into the opera in London, where he cannot go in anything but that sort. [4]
Jealousy!--I believe she would be capable of the worst--" "Yet," Dion interrupted, "Charmian will soften whatever injury Iras plans to do me, and, though I cannot rely much upon my uncle, Archibius is above both and favours us and our marriage. [10]
Why speak, when words cannot express what one feels? [2]
Passing by such words as are poisonous, I can swallow most others, and chew such as I cannot swallow. [6]
I cannot help wondering what brought Emerson and the showy, fascinating John Gourdin together as room-mates. [6]
I cannot help wondering now where we found time for all these summer pleasures. [10]
Beware of the woman who cannot find free utterance for all her stormy inner life either in words or song! [6]
I cannot exist without your presence. [10]
I cannot do without the world. [9]
I cannot interpose without a better showing than you make. [7]
We cannot agree with those who confuse this personage with the chief of the Kolchytes. [10]
He must mingle with this society; he cannot sit at home--it is not business, it butters no commercial parsnips. [5]
I cannot close with the familiar 'Rejoice'--the 'Fresh Courage' placed on many a tombstone seems more appropriate. [10]
He cannot stop with merely thinking a thing is so and so; he must know it; for this is eminently one of the 'exact' sciences. [5]
Who cannot sympathize with him as he watched the thin and hesitating stream of people out of the corner of his eye as they came in at the door? [9]
I go away with feelings that may be conceived but cannot be described, feeling within myself that desolating truth that my best affections have experienced this night a stifler! [12]
And I yearned with a yearning I cannot express for our cabin in the hills and the old life there. [9]
He said compassionately, with a little shake of the head: "But you must not look like that, my pigeon: I cannot bear it. [10]
Then she added with a flattery which she knew would tell, "I cannot think quick as you do. [11]
I cannot help wishing they did. [6]
Still, I cannot wish that he were my son. [10]
If it is Winter, it will rain--and if it is Summer, it won't rain, and you cannot help it. [5]
You must let Windlehurst and me think for you; and, oh, my darling, you cannot know how much I care for your best good! [11]
A puff of wind comes and ruffles the surface, so that he cannot see the fish. [4]
If I cannot win her here, he was saying to himself, the Meigs is in it. [4]
They say that Willy is in Heaven now, and that it's always summer there, and yet I'm sure he grieves when I lie down upon his garden bed, and he cannot turn to kiss me. [12]
I cannot, I will not trust myself or you. [9]
I cannot and will not neglect my duty for the sake of the wretched woman. [10]
I hope you will meet with complete success, and I am sorry I cannot be there to witness it and help you rejoice. [5]
I know you will hold out loyally and would look death in the face as fearlessly as your sister did in Haarlem; but I, I cannot endure the thought of seeing you fall into the hands of our butchers. [10]
A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. [7]
A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. [7]
When she gets wicked or mad enough to hate, either through jealousy or because she cannot love where she would, she is merciless. [11]
You ask her why, and she cannot tell. [11]
I cannot understand why you did not deny having killed him. [11]
And this is why we cannot of ourselves add one cubit to our stature. [9]
I cannot explain why I feel that you have in you elements of growth which will eventually bring you more into sympathy with the point of view I have set forth, but I do feel it. [9]
I cannot understand why he married that penniless and empty-headed beauty. [9]
Your teeth chatter--then why cannot you shout? [5]
Monsters enough, on whom you cannot set your foot, throng your path. [10]
And on the whole this method has some large advantages; for whereas a revolution destroys some lives which cannot well be spared, the dynamite way doesn't. [5]

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