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Sentences ending with career

Without that it would be unable to develop its mines, build its roads, work to advantage and without great waste its fruitful land, establish manufactures or enter upon a prosperous industrial career. [5]
It could not well be but that the prospect of the near future, with its increase of responsibility, should create a little uneasiness in Jack's mind as to his own career. [4]
And why should we presume to set up our standard of what is valuable in life, of what is a successful career? [4]
And thus it was, that with the most friendly feelings on both sides, Mr. Emerson left the pulpit of the Second Church and found himself obliged to make a beginning in a new career. [6]
And yet he was not proud of the Cassandra Hopkins episode in his career. [9]
Of his own want of health, however, he never complains; he maintains a patient spirit in the ill turns of fortune, and his impatience in the business complications is that of a man hindered from his proper career. [4]
They did not understand that they had found a new land in which the world should renew its youth and begin a new career. [4]
I might go to the statistical tables of the annuity and life insurance offices for extended and exact information, but I prefer to take the facts which have impressed themselves upon me in my own career. [6]
Writing of himself to the Chevalier on one occasion, he laid bare with a merciless honesty his nature and his career. [11]
I don't want to see him ruin her career. [9]

Short sentences using career

One must have a career. [4]
That would be a career! [9]

Sentences containing career two or more times

But he only said, "Has thee consulted thy mother about a career, I suppose it is a career thee wants? [5]
I had convinced myself long ago that a man's business career was no affair of his wife's: I had justified that career to myself: yet I had always had a vague feeling that Maude, had she known the details, would not have approved of it. [9]
The going of Jean Jacques was inevitable; all persuasion had failed to induce him to stay--even that of Virginie; and M. Fille now treated it as though it was the beginning of a new career for Jean Jacques, whatever that career might be. [11]
The career of Henry Clay was a public career. [7]
You know I've been striving to have a career, to get out of myself somehow, and have a career for myself. [4]
Indeed, it might be that if he had gone to the well he would have ended his career on a throne, and that omitting to do it would set him upon a career that would lead to beggary and a pauper's grave. [5]

More example sentences with the word career in them

Carnac, you have your own career to make, so make it as it best suits yourself. [11]
I shall watch your distressed career to its close with deep scrutiny. [11]
Many a young writer will recall his words of encouragement at some period in his own career when the quiet appreciation of one meant more to him than did later the loud applause of many. [4]
The same conclusion would be reached, whether we were to consider him in his private relations or in his career as a man of letters. [4]
His art, too, would be a comfort to him, and if he only had the chance of making his way in his career he would have no difficulty in winning Agatha. [10]
There was a wondering and eloquent silence for a moment, then a great wave of laughter began to sweep along that human sea, but a warning bugle-blast cut its career short. [5]
You want a woman who will be wrapped up in your career, Hugh, and yet who will not share it,--who will devote herself body and soul to what you have become. [9]
It was not without a little shock that King heard the good points, the style, the physical perfections, of Irene so fully commented on, and not without some alarm that he heard predicted for her a very successful career as a belle. [4]
They will remember with gratitude every earnest effort, every encouraging word, which has helped them in their difficult and laborious career of study. [3]
It perfectly consisted with a keen sense of whatever was sordid and selfish in a man on whom his career must have had its inevitable effect. [8]
He reviewed his whole career, from that first morning when he had carried bales to the shipping room, to his replacement of Mr. [9]
In Philip's story, which was very slowly maturing, the heroine fell in love with a young man simply for himself, and regardless of the fact that he was poor and had his career to make. [4]
The particular accident which might interrupt his career must, evidently, be determined by circumstances; but it must be of a nature to explain itself without the necessity of any particular person's becoming involved in the matter. [6]
During the years which immediately followed his departure from college, Warner led the somewhat desultory and apparently aimless life of many American graduates whose future depends upon their own exertions and whose choice of a career is mainly determined by circumstances. [4]
Such as he were thwarted right and left in this career of knavery and public evils. [11]
Why, indeed, might we not feel pity for a woman whose brilliant career had been so suddenly extinguished in misfortune and crime? [5]
The maid had watched her career with much interest, and while Barine had been her mistress's guest her efforts to amuse and soothe her were unceasing. [10]
Perhaps she might watch his career with more interest from her acquaintance with him. [6]
For Mr. Varney was right,--one could feel enthusiasm for Theodore Watling; and my growing intimacy with him, the sense that I was having a part in his career, a share in his success, became for the moment the passion of my life. [9]
My legal career was reaching its logical climax, the climax he had foreseen. [9]
But to him was opposed a man who was at the beginning of his career, who needed this victory to give him such a start as few men get in that field of retarded rewards, diplomacy. [11]
Because a man was married, was he to be shut up to one little narrow career, that of husband? [4]
His career also was denounced by some as wholly vicious in its effect upon the youth of the republic, and as lowering the tone of public morals. [4]
People said it was a pity to see him mar his successful career with a big prominent case like this, which must go against him. [5]
Thus, at the very outset of our married career, an irritant developed: signs of it, indeed, were apparent from the first, when we were preparing the house we had rented for occupancy. [9]
He pictured the vanity of his diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre's happiness. [2]
An old and valued friend of mine is he, and I saw his career as it came along, and it has reached pretty well up to now, when he, by another miscarriage of justice, is a United States Senator. [5]
Next I entered upon an affluent career in Virginia City, and by a judicious investment of labor and the capital of friends, became the owner of about all the worthless wild cat mines there were in that part of the country. [5]
But for an unfortunate remark of his, he would no doubt have entered at once upon a successful career at Dawson's Landing. [5]
And like a true artist, he loved his career for itself--not for what its fruits could buy. [9]
Was this a trial of his constancy and faith, or had he made a mistake, entered upon a slavish career, from which he ought to extricate himself at any cost of the world's opinion? [4]
But if I told you that you might harm Dr. Pindar by staying here, interfere with his career, would you be willing to leave? [9]
Again, India offers to the young and the adventurous a career, military, civil, or commercial. [4]
Their career began to take a tragic aspect, and some one had to be brought in to help work the machinery; so Pudd'nhead Wilson was introduced and taken on trial. [5]
It is idle to speculate on the phenomenon taking place within her, and it may merely be remarked in passing that she possessed a quality which, in a man, leads to a career and fame. [9]
On his return to San Francisco he contributed an article on the Hornet disaster to Harper's Magazine, and looked forward to its publication as a beginning of a real career. [5]
Far from attempting to hide or ignore the struggle by which she and her husband had attained their present position, she referred with the utmost naivete to incidents in her career, while the whole table paused to listen. [9]
I was ready to give up all, throw all my life, my career, to the winds, and prove myself loyal to that which was more than all; or I was willing to eliminate myself from the scene forever. [11]
Still, she longed to free herself from a desire to see what his further career would be, which came over her again and again with overwhelming and terrible power. [10]
Startling events appeared to be too rare, in my career, to render a diary necessary. [5]
We come now to an incident which assumes the proportions of an episode-even of a catastrophe--in Mark Twain's career. [5]
I now come to a curious episode--the most curious, I think, that had yet accented my slothful, valueless, heedless career. [5]
For there flashed through his mind what men at home would think of him when this thing, such an end to his whole career, was known. [11]
He disapproved--foolishly, I thought--of my professional career, and this was only one of his limitations. [9]
Have you ever thought of any career seriously? [9]
Good Mr. Satterlee, thinking this a safe subject, allowed himself to be led into a discussion of the first citizen's career, which indeed had something fascinating in it. [9]
Mamma seems to think that society will do a great deal for me, that I will get a wider view of life, that I can do so much for society, and, with my position, mamma says, have such a career. [4]
You would not think that in a little wee primer--for that is what the Autobiography is--a person with a tumultuous career of seventy years behind her could find room for two or three pages of padding of this kind, but such is the case. [5]
What a sad thing it is to see a man close a grand career with a plagiarism in his mouth. [5]
In one of these camps we found Ab Grimes, an Upper Mississippi pilot, who afterwards became famous as a dare-devil rebel spy, whose career bristled with desperate adventures. [5]
Ten years later there is a twenty-line obituary in the London papers, and the reader is paralyzed by the splendors of a career which he is not sure that he had ever heard of before. [5]
During his career there has been a sad laying on the shelf of old generals who could not keep up with the hurry, the fierceness and dashing of the new system; and among the number I presume has been my worthy house-mate, old Trotter. [4]
This is to them a sort of business career, interrupted now and then only by occasional limited periods of seclusion. [4]
This man's career, the work he was set to do, the ideal before him, the vision of a land redeemed, captured her, carried her panting into a resolve which, however she might modify her speech or action, must be an influence in her life hereafter. [11]
He had followed the unusual and somewhat surprising career of the gentleman from Leith with some care, even to the extent of reading of Mr. Crewe's activities in the State Tribunes which had been sent him. [9]
I was often the subject of their banter, and presently I began to suspect that they regarded my career and beliefs with some concern. [9]
In that moment the scrutiny of the little man's mind was volatilized, and the Spanische, as she was ultimately called, began her career in the life of the money-master of St. Saviour's. [11]
As a play The Right of Way, skilfully and sympathetically dramatised by Mr. Eugene Presbery, has had a career extending over several years, and still continues to make its appearance. [11]
The enthusiasm of the reformed army for Joan, its devotion to her, and the hot desire had aroused in it to be led against the enemy, exceeded any manifestations of this sort which La Hire had ever seen before in his long career. [5]
It was in the midst of these social successes, and just after his admission to the bar, that Irving gave the first decided evidence of the choice of a career. [4]
And when in the midst of his career, with such large ideas of public service and philanthropy, he was stricken down, he left to me, in the confidence of his love, all that fortune which is some day to be yours. [4]
Was this, then, the meaning of her restlessness, of her charitable activities, of her unconfessed dreams of some career? [4]
This happened during the first years of the Young Doctor's career at Askatoon, when he was still alive with human prejudices, although he had a nature well balanced and singularly just. [11]
He had been the enemy of waste, the apostle of frugality and thrift; and it was that which had enabled him, in his short career, to win the confidence of the big men behind him in Montreal, to make good every step of the way. [11]
He was at the end of his career, and he had meant this victory to be the crown of his long services to Slavonia and the world. [11]
She would take the color out of a career. [4]
Austen went to the college which his father had attended,--a college of splendid American traditions,--and his career there might well have puzzled a father of far greater tolerance and catholicity. [9]
They must arrest the career of South American deliverance from thraldom. [7]
To all observation the career of Lyon, and not of Margaret, was most affected by their interview. [4]
Might call it 'The Career of a Deputy Hero. [8]
The basis of the book has a letter written by a wife to her husband at a critical time in his career when he had broken his promise to her. [11]
Little people guessed that there was no love-making--only endless discussions of books beside the great centre chimney, and discussions of Isaac Worthington's career. [9]
It happens, therefore, that there is great sympathy with the career of the lawbreakers, many people are hanging on them for support, and among them the so-called criminal lawyers. [4]
He had said that she had helped him, and she believed him; he had proved the soundness of his aims and ambitions; his career was in the world's mouth. [11]
The mournful fact that Manitou had never equipped itself with a first-class fire-engine or a fire-brigade was now to play a great part in the future career of the two towns. [11]
Certainly I'm not that kind now, even though I know in my heart that the sort of career you have made for yourself, and that I intend to make for myself is all dross. [9]
We may believe that it never occurred to the young printer, looking up landmarks of Ben Franklin, that time would show points of resemblance between the great Franklin's career and his own. [5]
Mr. Grout suggested that if I have anything to say against Mr. Putzel, or any criticism of his career or his character, I am the last person to come out on account of that maxim and tell the truth. [5]
Therefore it followed that I must contrive a new career. [5]
Nevertheless, the hint that Harry had dropped fell upon good ground, and bore fruit an hundred fold; it worked in her mind until she had built up a plan on it, and almost a career for herself. [5]
It seemed more than doubtful whether my health would ever permit me to devote myself to a practical profession or an academic career, and my interest in jurisprudence was too slight to have it allure me to make it the subject of theoretical studies. [10]
One feels drawn tenderly toward her and is moved to forget her many crimes and remember only the good deed that crowned and closed her career. [5]
And you shall taste of our hospitality at Carvel Hall, and choose that career which pleases you. [9]
He had been sure there would be no rebellion of the Maroons, and he was equally sure that his career would be made hugely successful by marriage with Sheila Llyn--but the Maroons had revolted, and the marriage was not settled! [11]
She felt a sudden weakness in her knees, for it seemed she held the career of Carnac Grier, and it moved her as she had never been moved. [11]
I lay great stress on Lincoln's career as a lawyer--much more than his biographers do because in America a state of things exists wholly different from that which prevails in Great Britain. [7]
A plain story, straightforwardly told; but Mumford told me that that pilot had 'gilded that scare of his, in spots;' that his subsequent career in the war was proof of it. [5]
He had rushed straight forward, without asking himself whither; now he reached a busy street and checked his career. [10]
Henderson will not stop in his career short of some overwhelming disaster or of death. [4]
He knew them, still he did not know them in their fulness; he was grateful, but his gratitude did not compass the splendid self-effacing devotion with which she denied herself the glorious career that had lain before her. [11]
He was, maybe, somewhat sensational; his career had, even in its present restricted compass, been spectacular; but romance, with its reveries and its moonshinings, its impulses and its blind adventures, had not been any part of his existence. [11]
Though some skeptics smiled when told of Berg's merits, it could not be denied that he was a painstaking and brave officer, on excellent terms with his superiors, and a moral young man with a brilliant career before him and an assured position in society. [2]
The "old soldier" slowly eliminates himself from the mass, and begins to take, and to make us take, a romantic view of his career. [4]
What right had she to sit there and mourn--as she knew her aunt did--and sigh over her career? [4]
Had he not, she remembered, staked his career by disagreeing with his father? [9]
Left to herself she judged that her daughter would look with more favor upon the brilliant career offered to her by Lord Montague. [4]
At any rate she had come over to Egypt with an elderly companion, and, after a short stay at the Consulate, had begun the career of the evangel. [11]
Preachers, whose sensational sermons are as widely read as descriptions of great crimes, moralized on Henderson's career and Henderson's palace, and raised up everywhere an envied image of worldly prosperity. [4]
I can't help seeing that we are growing farther and farther apart, that business, your career, is taking all of you and leaving me nothing. [9]
I not only see a career at home for more genius than we have, but for more than there is in the world. [6]

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