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Sentences ending with check

Captain and Quartermaster Zorrillo, remained behind to hold the citizens in check. [10]
The surest way was to return his check. [5]
It is safe to say that she had never accurately gauged the force which Virginia's respect for her elders, and affection for her aunt through Clarence, held in check. [9]
To them the time had come when the reactionary forces of Manitou must receive a check. [11]
He turned to the waiter, who regarded him unmoved, and asked for a check. [9]
A crowd like that I had seen on the dock had collected there, Mr. Swain and Mr. Hammond and other barristers holding them in check. [9]
They must have noticed, on some occasions, the manner in which Ditmar looked at her; and in business hours she had continually to caution him, to keep him in check. [9]
True, Siebenburg did not know this, but he perceived more and more plainly that both the Eysvogels, father and son, were oppressed by some grave anxiety, and that the sums which Wolff now paid him no longer sufficed to hold his creditors in check. [10]
A world of light, of commendable trees, of grey grass flecked with flowers, of life having the supreme sense of a freedom which has known no check. [11]
The wife never knew what it cost her husband thus, day by day, to take a foe by the throat and hold him in check. [11]

Sentences containing check two or more times

He had remembered his father's plea; that unnerved him, and he promised himself again to return his father's poor little check and to work on that picture and give it to Fulkerson for the check he had left and for his back debts. [8]

More example sentences with the word check in them

If she did, you would have to check your extravagances mighty quick, sir. [9]
Sentence of death would have been more welcome to him than this supercilious check to a hazardous attempt, which he had looked upon as daring and heroic. [10]
Jen started forward, woman-like, to check the action, but drew back, for she saw heroic measures might be necessary to bring him to consciousness. [11]
We came along with good winds, having no check, though twice we sighted French sloops, which, however, seemed most concerned to leave us to ourselves. [11]
If the Cosmopolitan wishes to pay $600 for either of them or $1,200 for both, gather in the check, and I will use the money in America instead of breaking into your treasury. [5]
If they don't wish to trade for either, send the articles to the Century, without naming a price, and if their check isn't large enough I will call and abuse them when I come. [5]
The restless who will not follow any steady occupation--and this relic of barbarism is a great check to civilisation (17. [1]
I will write Whitmore to send you the "Century" check for $1,000, and you can collect Mrs. [5]
Though Master Gridley was very kind to the young man, he was rather disposed to check the exuberance of his poetical aspirations. [6]
For instance, there was the Senator's check for $2,000--"to buy suitable clothing in New York with! [5]
Arnot wrote Clemens urging him to accept the check for five thousand dollars in this moment of need. [5]
In spite of untold privations and hardships, of cruel warfare and massacre, these people had toiled over the mountains into this land, and impatient of check or hindrance would, even as Clark had predicted, when their numbers were sufficient leap the Mississippi. [9]
Mr. Balch went to the table and seized a pen and filled out a check for an amount that shall be nameless. [9]
The only check to material individualism is spiritual individualism, and the reborn man or woman cannot act to the detriment of his fellow-creatures. [9]
Barbara said this to her husband when he wished to check the merry laughter of the little ones, and then went to her chamber. [10]
The check had to go back. [4]
I have had to discipline the supervisors and bookkeepers, inspect and check the output, superintend the packing, and arrange for the sale of the crop-yes, I arranged for the sale of this year's crop myself. [11]
The officers followed to check the soldiers and were involuntarily drawn into doing the same. [2]
For a long time I answered demands for "loans" and by next mail always received his check for the interest due me to date. [5]
With civilised nations this primary check acts chiefly by restraining marriages. [1]
The letter recited this at length; it had a check endorsed, and the writer asked the doctor to be his almoner. [4]
From the coast the stuff comes up to Dublin without a check, and, as he's a special favourite, he gets the best to be had in la belle France. [11]
Yet they knew the small clouds floating away from his head did not check his observation. [11]
Nothing will check the lynchings and ruler-murder but absolute silence --the absence of pow-pow about them. [5]
He knew that the Khalifa was only sending himself to Darfur that he might be a check upon Mahommed Sherif. [11]
I felt that the first diplomatic remark he made in this place would bring down a landslide of ridicule upon him, and maybe something worse; but before I could whisper to him and check him he had begun, and it was too late. [5]
It stopped at the first check from good sense. [5]
In addition to the check he gave Marian, he presented us with a huge, 'repousse' silver urn he had had made to order, and he expressed a desire that the design upon it should remind us of him forever and ever. [9]
This check for the amount will be honored at any respectable bank in America. [5]
Laura was glad that she had the check for new clothing, for she felt very certain of being able to get the Colonel to borrow a little of the money to pay hotel bills with, here and there. [5]
It was plain that it would not do to pass that drugstore again, though --we might go on asking directions, but we must cease from following finger-pointings if we hoped to check the suspicions of the disaffected member. [5]
I wonder now that I did not tell them so, for I was ever hasty; but my brain was clear that night, and I held myself in proper check, letting each move come from my enemies. [11]
It is worse than useless to attempt in any way to check the freest expression of opinion as to the efficacy of any or all of the "heroic" means of treatment employed by practitioners of different schools and periods. [3]
Had not Miss Tavish danced for one of the guilds; and had not Carmen given Father Damon a handsome check in support of his mission? [4]
They could not suffice to check one sigh of disappointed yearning. [10]
I am dreadfully sorry I didn't know it would be a help to you to let my monthly check pass over a couple of months. [5]
She hesitated about showing it to Mrs. Fletcher, and when she did, and gave her the check, it was with a sense of shame. [4]
At eight o'clock sharpshooters began firing on us from the left, and skirmishers were thrown out to hold them in check, or dislodge them and drive them from the houses where they sheltered and galled Townsend's men. [11]
No frowning age shall control The constant current of my soul, Nor a tear from pity's eye Shall check my sympathetic sigh. [5]
And the closely set lips, which usually were slightly parted, and hardly covered two of her pearly white teeth, gave her a look of such determination, that Andreas could see that no obstacle would check her. [10]
The boat, which seemed as if it had all the life and nervousness of a Derby three-year-old, felt the slight check, and all her men bent more vigorously to their oars. [6]
Margaret did not reply, but she looked at the check, and there were tears in her eyes. [4]
She wears a reddish check handkerchief, cast loosely around her neck, and it was plain that her other one is slow getting back from the wash. [5]
Then moves the Reconciliation--but does not proclaim check, it being a move for position, and to take effect later. [5]
He is a proud, high-tempered Englishman, of good but not extraordinary parts; stubborn and punctilious, with a disposition to be overbearing, which I have often been compelled to check in its own way. [6]
Mr. Hopper filled out his check, and presently departed. [9]
At this the others could not check their tears; it was Paula who had to comfort and soothe them, by telling them that she had found a paternal friend in the Kadi who had promised to intercede for her with the Khaliff. [10]
If anybody would only contrive some kind of a lever that one could thrust in among the works of this horrid automaton and check them, or alter their rate of going, what would the world give for the discovery? [6]
Pride; and for once Lady Lawless did not check Mrs. Thorne's irony. [11]
He was one of the learned circle which gathered round Julia Domna, and it was by her desire that he had accompanied Caracalla, to keep his mad passions in check when it might be possible. [10]
But in consequence of That Boy's indiscretion, we were without a check upon our expansiveness, and ran on in the way you have observed and may be disposed to find fault with. [6]
The mutilated dignity of his manhood, the broken pride of a lifetime, the bitterness in his heart need not be held in check in dealing with the man who waited to give him a last thrust of enmity. [11]
Yet a lust of fighting got into me, and it was difficult to hold myself in check at all, nor was it easy to meet his breathless and adroit advances. [11]
We had plenty of chilly tunnels wherein to check our perspiration, though. [5]
I shall do nothing to check her love of music, though, in Persia the religious services are the only occasions in which that art is studied by any but the lower classes. [10]
And Poultney Bigelow's note came promptly, with his check for $1,000. [5]
The judge did not check this kindly demonstration of homage and affection, but let it run its course unrebuked. [5]
It was only necessary to hold her impetuous temper in check, and profit by the jealousy which had now been aroused in Charles's mind. [10]
Therefore, learning being more prevalent and more easily acquired than riches, educated men became a wholesome check upon wealthy men, since they could outvote them. [5]
The first remark Miss Bronte made was to express her fear lest so severe a notice should check the sale of the book, and injuriously affect her publishers. [14]
First, an accident might happen to the schoolmaster which should put a complete and final check upon his projects and contrivances. [6]
And yet without me, without my profession he was a helpless giant, at the mercy of those alert and vindictive lawmakers who sought to restrain and hamper him, to check his growth with their webs. [9]
If you'll let me know what your campaign expenses have been up to date,--all of 'em, you understand, to-night too,--I'll give you a check for them within the next two weeks. [9]
He continued to look at Mr. Flint, and Mr. Flint continued to check the papers only more slowly. [9]
Who wants a lock without a key, a ship without a rudder, a binnacle without a compass, a check without a signature, a greenback without a goldback behind it? [3]
Yet he always liked to go alone, and consequently her affectionate care could be no check upon the length of his walks to the more distant hamlets which were in his cure. [14]
She laid the letter and the check upon her husband's desk. [4]
No check to let down; he plunges his nose in nearly to his eyes in his haste to get at it. [4]
It was too late when he arrived to disturb the quiet of Mrs. Hopkins's household, and whatever may have been Clement's impatience, he held it in check, and sat tranquilly until midnight over the pages of the book with which he had prudently provided himself. [6]
Just then Mavra Kuzminichna appeared from behind the corner of the house with a frightened yet resolute look, carrying a rolled-up check kerchief in her hand. [2]
If you feel inclined to run, check your steps and ask where the path will lead. [10]
Emigration also comes in aid as a temporary check, but, with the extremely poor classes, not to any great extent. [1]
Then, with an impulse he could not check and did not seek to check--why should he? [11]
It seemed as if the morning sunlight strove to check the smoke from the smouldering wood, in order to mount freely into the blue sky. [10]
The barrier of human feeling, strained to the utmost, that had held the crowd in check suddenly broke. [2]
In the scuffle, his railway check had disappeared, and he grimly wondered, as he noticed the loss, if the company would permit him to walk over their track if they should know he hadn't a ticket. [5]
Then he got his notes and sat down and began to check off, for first purchase, the luxuries which he should earliest wish to secure. [5]
Mr. Beach gave his check for the money and so the troubles of the Jaffa colonists were at an end.--[It was an unselfish act of benevolence; it was done without any ostentation, and has never been mentioned in any newspaper, I think. [5]
The bids went higher and higher, as the sympathies of the pioneers awoke and expanded, till at last the sack was knocked down to a mill man at two hundred and fifty dollars, and his check taken. [5]
The Senate, however, held it in check, and it never became a law. [7]
Her timorous heart, held in check by virgin modesty, accustomed to desire nothing save what she could have confessed to her sister and the abbess, seemed as if it had cast off every fetter and boldly resolved to risk the most daring deeds. [10]
And yet, methinks Heaven might feel under obligation to do something for the man who has made it his life-task to hold its enemies in check. [10]
They had such headway that they were nearly to the king before they could check up; then, frantic with rage, they stood up their horses on their hind hoofs and whirled them around, and the next moment here they came, breast to breast. [5]
Besides, he felt he might be able to check the worst excesses of the agitation, if he got power under Parker. [11]
The check that he had drawn, which was returned, had been for one of Dr. Leigh's cases. [4]
But scarcely had he concluded his clear and convincing speech, when old Nun, Hosea's father, who had with difficulty held his feelings in check, broke in. [10]
The name of Harvey, whose great discovery was the legitimate result of his severe training and patient study, should be mentioned only to check the pretensions of presumptuous ignorance. [3]
But there she had to stand, her teeth set, while her lips trembled, to check the tears which would rise. [10]
All his predispositions had been suddenly brought to check, his habits turned upon the flank and routed, his mental postures flung into confusion. [11]
A handful of guards in the prison at Ile Nou were bravely holding in check a ruthless mob of convicts; and a crowd of convicts in the street keeping back a determined military force. [11]
The range was great for revolvers, but whether the shots were meant to kill or merely to check advance, they were enough to fire that waiting ferocity in Venters. [13]
But no--the break-up got a check. [5]
He resolved to go to work on the picture at once; he had set his palette for it; but first he looked at Fulkerson's check. [8]
The enemy having given up Corinth, it is not wonderful that he is thereby enabled to check us for a time at Richmond. [7]
The primary or fundamental check to the continued increase of man is the difficulty of gaining subsistence, and of living in comfort. [1]
Doubtless many came from banquets, cookshops, taverns, or the nocturnal meeting-places of the sects that practised the magic arts, yet the weight of anxious expectation seemed to check the joyous activity, and wherever Archibius glanced he beheld eager, troubled faces. [10]
Neither can I forget the check you so opportunely gave to a dangerous sentiment which was spreading in the North. [7]
Mrs. Fletcher was for re-enclosing the check without a word of comment, but that Miss Forsythe would not do. [4]
Yet, somehow, I felt that if I could but get a half-dozen men to take a firm stand with me, I might hold the rioters in check. [11]
On his wedding-day, February 2, 1870, Clemens received a check from his publishers for more than four thousand dollars, royalty accumulated during the three months preceding. [5]

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