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Sentences ending with chain

Later on she would know, and delight to confess, that her destiny was fixed at a certain hour, at a certain moment, in New York, for subsequent events would run back to that like links in a chain. [4]
The young people, whose sport had been interrupted, had recovered from their fright and joined in a long chain. [10]
He went and unhooked a fine brass lantern, of old Dutch workmanship, swung from the ceiling by a chain. [11]
As to conversation, there is no use in sending the bucket into the well when the well is dry--it only makes a rattling of windlass and chain. [4]
Gaston, smiling, said that he would only be a buffalo fretting on a chain. [11]
You see, now, that a man will never drop a link in his chain. [5]
Also an ignorant silver watch and a showy brass watch chain. [5]
She uses both rudders all the time, and they are powerful enough to enable her to turn to the right or the left and steer around curves, in spite of the strong resistance of the chain. [5]
He found a path that led from the bank of the river, through the woods, across the mountain chain. [10]
He tried to paint, and finding the attempt useless, gazed into the garden and at the distant chain of the Guadarrama mountains; but to-day he remained unmoved by the delicate violet-blue mist that floated around the bare, naked peaks of the chain. [10]

Short sentences using chain

There the chain stops. [4]
He completes an edible chain. [4]

Sentences containing chain two or more times

Nor the Chain, either--in the nature of things; for it is a chain of sunken rocks admirably arranged to capture and kill steamboats on bad nights. [5]
And there's Jim chained by one leg, with a ten-foot chain, to the leg of his bed: why, all you got to do is to lift up the bedstead and slip off the chain. [5]

More example sentences with the word chain in them

Then, the night you're ready, fetch the leg a kick, down she goes; slip off your chain, and there you are. [5]
Take off all your useless ornaments and only wear the chain the king gave you on your marriage. [10]
While speaking, the wretched mother, with trembling hands, tore out a locket which she wore on a little chain around her neck. [10]
Without saying a word, he threw a gold chain to his brother, ordered his nobles to follow him, and left the garden, but only to wander restlessly up and down his apartments, and try to drown his rage in wine. [10]
And it's back with the ring of the chain and the spur, And it's back with the sun on the hill and the moor, And it's back is the thought sets my pulses astir,-- But I'll never go back to Farcalladen more! [11]
The eastern coast, with its ragged outline of bays, headlands, indentations, islands, capes, and sand-spits, from Watch Hill, a favorite breezy resort, to Mount Desert, presents an almost continual chain of hotels and summer cottages. [4]
Dick was seized with a great passion for examining this curious chain, and, after some preliminary questions, was rash enough to lean towards her and put out his hand toward the neck that lay in the golden coil. [6]
Perhaps the villain who hung it to my chain may buy it back again. [10]
When the corpse was removed from the house to the tomb, a distance of one chain, the procession was met by a certain man who was ardently attached to the deceased. [5]
But his mind was on the logical side-track, and he followed the chain of reasoning without fairly perceiving where it would lead him, if he carried it into real life. [6]
The supreme judge was distinguished by the possession of the longest and handsomest plume in his head-dress, and a costly sapphire amulet, which, suspended by a gold chain, hung on his breast. [10]
Every surrounding object was buried in silence save that from the neighboring Dens of the royal steeds, came the sound of the rattle of a chain, or of the stamp of a stallion's hoof. [10]
When the chain was all paid out, the candle confirmed my suspicion; a considerable section of the wall was gone, exposing a good big fissure. [5]
Round her neck was a golden torque, a round, cord-like chain, such as the Gaols used to wear; the "Dying Gladiator" has it. [6]
Look at these two hawks with the chain on their feet. [10]
Her face was turned towards the window, and the bird of paradise with the gold chain on its foot, was still there, perched on the cypress-tree. [10]
At night he turned to the chain-man to ascertain what distance they had come, and found that by some mistake he had merely dragged the chain over the ground, without keeping any record. [7]
Hain't we got to saw the leg of Jim's bed off, so as to get the chain loose? [5]
He seemed instantly to have established a chain of personal sympathy with her. [4]
I have determined to defy the strength of that deadly chain of associations connected with her presence, and I have begged her to come this evening with the friends with whom she is staying. [6]
The latter strove to catch first Chloris, then Dorippe, then some other maiden, but ere she succeeded the chain separated, joining again behind her ere she could turn. [10]
My father used to carry a chain for a surveyor sometimes, and there is a ten-foot pole in the house he used to measure land with. [6]
The chain seems to be complete, no important link wanting. [5]
They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and the last of things. [6]
The ship could therefore only get out to sea at sunrise; the chain that closed the harbor would not be opened till then. [10]
In one place there was a public building which was fenced about with a thick, rusty chain, which sagged from post to post in a succession of low swings. [5]
At that moment the young lady lifted her arm accidentally in such a way that the light fell upon the clasp of a chain which encircled her wrist. [6]
One day, when the waters were high, and the portages could be dispensed with, they made an excursion through the Riviere des Peres to the lake of that name, the next in the chain above. [9]
She well knew the silver chain with the blue turquoises, that rested on the plump neck. [10]
The poet links the most remote objects together by the slender filament of wit, the flowery chain of fancy, or the living, pulsating cord of imagination, always guided by his instinct for the beautiful. [6]
As to myself, the last remaining link of the Schopper chain whereof Margery hath many times made mention, I am still with you, my dear ones; and I remain but little changed, inasmuch as that my life has ever flowed calmly and silently onward. [10]
The frock coat, the heavy watch chain, the square-toed boots, all combined to make a Presence. [9]
Instinctively he fingered the heavy gold watch-chain he had bought in Paris to replace the silver chain with a little crucifix dangling, which his father and even his great-grandfather had worn before him. [11]
The shouts of the guards, the rattling of the chain, his wretched companions in misfortune, nay, all that surrounded him, could not fail to recall the fate awaiting him. [10]
True, even at the great harbour, news could scarcely be expected, for a chain stretching from the end of the Pharos to a cliff directly opposite in the Alveus Steganus, closed the narrow opening. [10]
Next came Plutus, the god of Wealth, followed by Freiberg miners bearing large specimens of silver ore in buckets and baskets; and, lastly, Mars, the god of War, leading by a long chain two camels on which rode captive and fettered Turks. [10]
The clasp of the chain, by which the skin was suspended, as well as that of the gold belt which circled the Imperator's body above the hips, was covered with rubies and emeralds. [10]
They couldn't get the chain off, so they just cut their hand off and shoved. [5]
Would it lengthen the chain of safety? [11]
He was hugging the chain of denial to his bosom, as though to say, "This way is safety"; he was hiding his face from the beacon-lights of her eyes, which said: "This way is home. [11]
Had he worn the chain mail instead of the frock coat he would have had her hung outside the town walls. [9]
The chain on the ancles of the companions in suffering stirred the dust, which shrouded the little band like the grief, hate, and fear darkening the soul of each. [10]
It was there that the first link was forged of the chain that was ultimately to lead to the emptying of me into the literary guild. [5]
She pulls on that chain, and so drags herself up the river or down it. [5]
But the chain that bound him to his companions in suffering was too firmly forged, and was so carefully examined and hammered every morning and evening, that the attempt to escape would only have plunged him into greater misery. [10]
He did not tarry long, but assured Ambulinia the endless chain of their existence was more closely connected than ever, since he had seen the virtuous, innocent, imploring, and the constant Amelia murdered by the jealous-hearted Farcillo, the accursed of the land. [5]
When he had sufficiently recovered from his delight, he rose, and with his arms a-kimbo, achieved a kind of demon-dance round the kennel, just without the limits of the chain, driving the dog quite wild. [12]
The chain is still across the entrance. [10]
The closely fitting steel chain armour, in which he had ridden out, now hung in large folds upon his powerful frame. [10]
Queen Isabella of Spain sold her watch and chain and other millinery so that Columbus could discover America. [5]
She was never seen without some necklace,--either the golden cord she wore at the great party, or a chain of mosaics, or simply a ring of golden scales. [6]
She had never seen such a bird before, and thought it could not possibly be a usual one, for a little gold chain was fastened to its foot, and its tail seemed made of sunbeams instead of feathers. [10]
It had a rude brass-wire cover to it, and a little coarse iron chain suspended from the bowl, with an iron splinter attached to loosen up the tobacco and pick your teeth with. [5]
Yes, for there rose the blue peaks of the Guadarrama chain, which he knew well. [10]
Three others were romping with a young bear, one pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. [2]
In his councillor's robes bordered with fur, with the golden chain round his neck, his well-favored, grave, and manly countenance, and the long, flowing hair down to his shoulders, meseemed he might have been the head of some ancient and noble family. [10]
I became a printer, and began to add one link after another to the chain which was to lead me into the literary profession. [5]
One misfortune more or less matters little in a life which has been a chain of heavy blows of Fate. [10]
It was really only a bird of paradise that had broken the chain by which he had been fastened to a tree in the park, but to her he was the Phoenix. [10]
The very tall one, who looked grave and anxious, was Wolff Eysvogel; the other, somewhat shorter, who swung gaily to and fro on the chain as if it afforded him much amusement, Heinz Schorlin. [10]
He was as one who lifteth up the yoke, He was as one who taketh off the chain, As one who sheltereth from the rain, As one who scattereth bread to the pigeons flying. [11]
There is no one particular spot to chain your eye, rivet your interest, and make you think. [5]
To skip any one of the billion acts in Columbus's chain would have wholly changed his life. [5]
See, the little one has pulled my star from the chain. [10]
I will hang On thy neck the long chain of wrought gold, When the gates of Bagdad are before us-- Doos ya lellee! [11]
McGilveray sat down on the bench, and in five minutes his feet were shackled, while a chain fastened to a staple in the wall held him in secure captivity. [11]
The chain armour on his limbs and his long surcoat were covered with mire. [10]
The ominous clank of the chain pumps beat a sort of prelude to what happened next. [9]
For the study of Moral Teratology will teach you that you do not get such a malformed character as that without a long chain of causes to account for it; and if you only knew those causes, you would know perfectly well what to expect. [6]
Their long chain of hillocks offered a firmer and more unconquerable resistance to the pressure of the sea, than the earthworks and redoubts of Alfen, Leyderdorp and Valkenburg, the three forts situated close to the banks of the Rhine, presented to hostile armies. [10]
In every pulse of Friendship's heart There breeds unfelt a throb of pain, One hour must rend its links apart, Though years on years have forged the chain. [6]
The captain was obliged to have the hapless man placed on an ass and chain another prisoner to Joshua. [10]
By consequence, thenceforth nothing will ever happen to him in accordance with the details of the old chain. [5]
Prince Andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest outside his uniform. [2]
The chain of nervous actions has become firmly established. [6]
And well it might; for if the chain that bound a saint, and the footprints a saint has left upon a stone he chanced to stand upon, be holy, surely the spot where a man gave up his life for his faith is holy. [5]
The particular had merged (inevitably, I might have known) into the general: the temporary had become the lasting, with a chain of consequences vaguely implied that even in my joy gave me pause. [9]
They will shut me up in a stone room, dark and cold, and chain me up to the wall, Nell--flog me with whips, and never let me see thee more! [12]
Iberville read the look, and presently said: "Perrot, men have fought for less than gold from a woman's chain and a buckle from her shoe. [11]
I cared to look at her as one would dwell on the sleek beauty of a deer--as, indeed, I have many a time since then, in India, watched a tigress asleep on her chain, claws hidden, wild life latent but slumbering. [11]
There were no logical breaks in the chain of their reasoning from past success with boarders in St. Barnaby to future success with boarders in New York. [8]
There was no log that might thereafter record the days and weeks unwinding the coils of an endless chain into that sea whither Philip had gone. [11]
If any single link in this chain had never existed, man would not have been exactly what he now is. [1]
At a time like this a beggar's crutch would be better than a leader's staff" "And an executioner's noose round the neck rather than a gold chain! [10]
So I was like a wild dog on a chain. [11]
My whole future life would become a chain of humiliations, and do you know whither this unfortunate marriage would lead? [10]
As the money left by her mother dwindled, she had no anxiety, for she knew that the life she so tenderly cherished would not outlast the gold which lengthened out the tenuous chain of being. [11]
This chain is laid in the bed of the river and is only fastened at the two ends. [5]
A chain was just being clasped around Hermon's wrists also when he suddenly started. [10]
She hastily put it out with a pair of tongs that hung by a chain, and then after pouring fresh oil into the lamp that was still burning she carried the light into her father's sleeping room. [10]
Not only does it occur at every step, but the universal historians' accounts are all made up of a chain of such contradictions. [2]
He acted upon it forth with: he drew out from within his under-garment a gem that hung round his neck by a gold chain. [10]
And presently, when it came to her turn to join the chain in which Ann was taking part, I marked well that she urged the youth she danced with to stand away from the craftsman's daughter. [10]
She is obedient--as is proper for a titled and recognized military personage, which she is--but the chain presses sometimes. [5]
In this Chapel is a marble chest, in which, they told us, were the ashes of St. John; and around it was wound a chain, which, they said, had confined him when he was in prison. [5]
But rhymes are iron fetters; it is dragging a chain and ball to march under their incumbrance; it is a clog-dance you are figuring in, when you execute your metrical pas seul. [6]
He will rise in the morning two minutes later than the chain of his life had appointed him to rise. [5]
Wherever you stand in Milan or within seven miles of Milan, it is visible and when it is visible, no other object can chain your whole attention. [5]
There is nothing I do not question,--said the Master;--I not only begin with the precept of Descartes, but I hold all my opinions involving any chain of reasoning always open to revision. [6]
On that point hold firm, as with a chain of steel. [7]

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