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Sentences starting with column

Column after column was occupied, a third of its way down, with glaring head-lines, which it made my heart sick to read. [5]

Sentences ending with column

Her scant hair was now pure white, her dress seemed to have fallen away from her wasted neck, which was like a trefoil column. [9]
It was a vast financial operation, some said, scathingly, a "deal," but the magnitude of it prevented it from falling into the reports of petty swindling that appear in the police-court column. [4]
Except your Kutuzov, there is not a single Russian in command of a column! [2]
Presently she took the perforated head, or "rose," from the neck of the watering-pot, and the full stream poured out in a round, solid column. [6]
He made a swift sign to a prisoner near the rear of the column. [11]
I ought to say that I deferred putting a value on the potatoes until I had footed up the debit column. [4]
Why don't you put a canvas-back-duck on the top of the Washington column? [6]
When the march past was finished, Joan returned to the front and rode at the head of the column. [5]
A band (one of those which played lightsome music on the birthday of the camp) is marched around to the head of the column. [9]
What a sense of freedom it gives not to write by the yard or the column! [6]

Short sentences using column

The column was moving on. [9]
The second column marches... [2]
The first column marches... [2]
The journalist chuckled--another column! [11]
Our column moved at once. [5]

Sentences containing column two or more times

Mr. Crewe's eye travelled from column to column, from page to page, in vain. [9]
On the face of it nothing is so vapid and profitless as column after column of this reading. [4]
His name appeared in the personal column of one of the local papers on the average of twice a week, or in lieu thereof one of his choicest stories in the "Notes about Town" column. [9]
The scene was dramatically worked up in column after column. [5]
The result is column after column of short paragraphs of gossip and trivialities, chips, chips, chips. [4]

More example sentences with the word column in them

And do not you believe that his name thus compulsorily placed at the head of the Independent column would work absolutely certain defeat to Blain and save the country's honor? [5]
I know our Xanthe better than you, and she no more cares for her playfellow than the column on the right side of the hearth yearns toward the one on the left, though they have stood together under the same roof so long. [10]
The fourth column, with which Kutuzov was, stood on the Pratzen Heights. [2]
The road along which they moved was bordered on both sides by dead horses; ragged men who had fallen behind from various regiments continually changed about, now joining the moving column, now again lagging behind it. [2]
A toadstool--that vegetable which springs to full growth in a single night--had torn loose and lifted a matted mass of pine needles and dirt of twice its own bulk into the air, and supported it there, like a column supporting a shed. [5]
Austrian column guides were moving in and out among the Russian troops and served as heralds of the advance. [2]
The gradually increasing weight of the brain and skull in man must have influenced the development of the supporting spinal column, more especially whilst he was becoming erect. [1]
The waxing moon was mirrored like a silver column, now wavering and tremulous, now rent by the waves tossing under a strong southeast wind, and illumined the warm autumn night. [10]
Mr. King remarked upon this dumb-show to a gentleman in a blue coat and white vest and gray hat, leaning against a column near him. [4]
And they climbed to the nook and rested and looked out across the valley to the curling column of blue smoke from their campfire. [13]
The column began to move forward. [9]
All serious trouble to Kansas affairs is over and gone...." "And a column, nearly, of the same sort. [7]
All serious trouble to Kansas affairs is over and gone ..." And a column nearly of the same sort. [7]
Dunois asked her to halt and let the column pass in review, so that the men could be sure that the reports of her presence was not a ruse to revive their courage. [5]
Only that morning, this gentleman, in glancing through the real estate column of his newspaper, had fallen upon a deed of sale which made him wink. [9]
Day after day they followed that flying column, and night after night they heard the sleepers call from the hills. [11]
The greatest of them lies in the fact that from under this very column was taken the dust from which Adam was made. [5]
I flung away the torch, leaving the head of the column in darkness, broke from Mr. [9]
Then, learning that the Times was paying Harte $100 a column for stories, he concluded to write some for the same price. [5]
In front of the tall men of the column was a wizened figure, beating madly on a drum, stepping proudly with head thrown back. [9]
The view from the summit of those steps has ever struck me as grand and imposing Nelson Column included the fountains I could dispense with. [14]
It bounced against the shaft of a column, and then fell on the shaven head of a priestling, who seized it and tossed it back. [10]
The first is the noble cast of the column of Trajan, vast in dimensions, crowded with history in its most striking and enduring form; a long array of figures representing in unquestioned realism the military aspect of a Roman army. [6]
The next day the list appears in the papers--a column and a quarter of names, in fine print, and every man in the list a billionaire and member of a couple of churches. [5]
The head of the French column, with its officers leading, appeared from below the hill. [2]
Have you beheld the flame leaping up to its parent the sun, and bearing with it, in the rising column of smoke, our prayers to the radiant Creator? [10]
In the column the feeling grew that unless it could burst through the Boer lines at this point it was done for. [5]
Half way down the column was a picture of Mr. Allen, a cut made from a photograph, and, allowing for the crudities of newspaper reproduction, it was a striking likeness of the Celebrity. [9]
The head of the column now wheeled into Wallace street and marched up at quick time. [5]
The head of the column had already descended into the hollow. [2]
The lamp in the centre of the table was a bronze column supporting a hemisphere of heavy red and emerald glass, the colours woven into an intricate and bizarre design, after the manner of the art nouveau--so the zealous salesman had informed them. [9]
From the time that we had begun to encounter ambushes Joan had ridden at the head of the column, and she took this post now. [5]
We are confident that the readers of our Raper will appreciate the letter in another column signed 'W. [9]
Remember, He said that that particular column stood upon the centre of the world. [5]
It is obvious that a minute reply cannot be made in one column to everything that can be said in six; and, consequently, I hope that expectation will be answered if I reply to such parts of the General's publication as are worth replying to. [7]
I should have supposed that the last object upon which Parisians would, in their wildest frenzy, have laid violent hands would have been the column with the figure of Napoleon at its summit. [6]
Is there any story of crime, or anything else to spice a column or so, or even a few paragraphs, with? [6]
This stout column, stiff as a flagstaff, with its feathery head of mist gleaming like silver in the failing light, had the most charming effect. [4]
The bands are started, the general and staff begin to move, and the column swings into the Olive Street road, followed by a concourse of citizens awheel and afoot, the horse cars crowded. [9]
The blue sea spread before them, the full moon mirrored on its scarcely heaving surface like a tremulous column of pure and shining silver. [10]
There is a splendid stone pillar, a clustered column, right in front of me, and I am as much protected from the minister as Old Put's troops were from the British, behind the stone wall at Bunker's Hill. [4]
His opinion was sought for on every matter of public interest, and whatever happened to him in particular was considered good for at least half a column of copy, with his name as a catch-line at the top. [5]
A web of shimmering silvery radiance covered the edges of every island, and suddenly the brilliant full moon was reflected in argent lustre like a magnificent quivering column upon the surface of the water, now rippled by the evening breeze. [10]
She paused before she came to the door, to watch the smoke curling up from the chimney straight as a column, for there was not a breath of air stirring. [11]
To ascend it seems as impossible as to go up the Column of Luxor; and one can believe that the gentlemen who first attempted it in 1864, and lost their lives, did fall four thousand feet before their bodies rested on the glacier below. [4]
I can not say any thing about the stone column that projects over Jehoshaphat from the Temple wall like a cannon, except that the Moslems believe Mahomet will sit astride of it when he comes to judge the world. [5]
A despatch from Rosecrans, leaving him at 7.30 P.M. yesterday, says: "Rebel rumors that head of Ewell's column reached Dalton yesterday. [7]
Behold me, David Ritchie, Federalist, execrably sober, at the head of the column behind the leader. [9]
For this additional reason I wish you to push forward your column as rapidly as possible. [7]
Uncle Jerry himself read the column with appreciation of its value. [4]
As his eye ran down the column he was apparently more and more interested, and he let it be shown on his face that he was surprised, and even a little astonished. [4]
His address is printed in another column, and we believe it will appeal to the intelligence and sober judgment of the state. [9]
And she stood passively, her eyes half closed, while he clasped the string around the lace collar that pressed the slender column of her neck and kissed her. [9]
The miners turned out almost en masse, leaving their work and forming in solid column about six hundred strong, armed to the teeth, they marched up to Virginia. [5]
We were on our way at five to the minute, and encountered the head of the arriving column between six and seven, a couple of leagues from the city. [5]
But at length our column wavered and halted by reason of some disturbance at the head of it. [9]
A marble column on a green meadow is all that remains of a once prosperous city. [4]
You have broken off the end of your spinal column, and littered up the floor with chips of your hams till the place looks like a marble yard. [5]
In the Republican of this morning he has presented the world with a new work of six columns in length; in consequence of which I must beg the room of one column in the Journal. [7]
If the centre of the world changes, the column changes its position accordingly. [5]
But the feature of the place is a short column that rises from the middle of the marble pavement of the chapel, and marks the exact centre of the earth. [5]
Again, too, dreams of the little scholar; of the roof opening, and a column of bright faces, rising far away into the sky, as she had seen in some old scriptural picture once, and looking down on her, asleep. [12]
The glittering column of light upon the water proved that she was not mistaken; the time which she had appointed for Hermon had already expired. [10]
But the hero of heroes was Prince Bagration, distinguished by his Schon Grabern affair and by the retreat from Austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous as his own. [2]
Then a column of dust advanced along the road from which the fanfare resounded like the scream of the hawk from the gray fog. [10]
By the Bar of Balmud they gathered another fifty hillsmen, and again half-way beyond the Old Well of Jahar they met two score more, who had hunted Boonda Broke's men, and these moved into column. [11]
All that he now wanted to know was what troops these were and to learn that he had to capture a "tongue"--that is, a man from the enemy column. [2]
At dawn the next morning the column of something short of 400 whites resumed its march. [5]
That would be nearly a column of one of our dailies. [5]
This column has moved three different times of its own accord. [5]
Nothing could be more becoming than the behavior of "Richard Venner, Esquire, the guest of Dudley Venner, Esquire, at his noble mansion," as he was announced in the Court column of the "Rockland Weekly Universe. [6]
He greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead that column himself. [2]
The one facing me had the morning paper folded to a long, narrow strip, and I knew, without any telling, that that strip represented the column that contained my pleasant financial satire. [5]
The third column marches..." and so on, read Weyrother. [2]
We are not making a reconnoissance in force, still less advancing with the main column. [3]
Nothing loath, I made my way to the head of the column, where Bowman's company had broken ranks and stood in a ring up to their thighs in the grass. [9]
There was a long and tedious zigzagging march through broken ground, with constant harassment from the Boers; and at last the column "walked into a sort of trap," and the Boers "closed in upon it. [5]
It stands more like a column than a tree, rising high into the air, with scarcely a perceptible taper, perhaps sixty, more likely a hundred, feet before it puts out a limb. [4]
So, says he, 'land so,' says he, 'Sterling Price will be here, and Steele here, and this column will take that road, and so-and-so's a damned fool. [9]
I laid my lance in rest and waited, with my heart beating, till the iron wave was just ready to break over me, then spouted a column of white smoke through the bars of my helmet. [5]
Just at this juncture a vast and dense column of smoke was seen slowly rolling toward the scene of battle. [4]
But his summit is still distinct, and out of it rises a gigantic billowy column of white smoke, greater in quantity than on any previous day of our sojourn; and the sun turns it to silver. [4]
No artistic skill is required in giving a four-square tapering figure to a stone column. [6]
Each of us is only the footing-up of a double column of figures that goes back to the first pair. [6]
All eyes fastened involuntarily on this French column advancing against them and winding down over the uneven ground. [2]
I have not intended, and do not now intend, that it shall be a great, exhausting affair, but a snug, sober column of 10,000 or 15,000. [7]
If it be intended that his column shall move on Bowling Green while another moves from Cairo or Paducah on Columbus or Camp Beauregard, it will be a repetition of the same strategic error which produced the disaster of Bull Run. [7]
Henderson sent her instead a column from The Planet devoted to a description of his private library. [4]
The prisoners were in the center of the column. [5]
He did not, in fact, begin with the sick nearest to the door, but stood awhile in the middle of the hall, leaning against a column and surveying the place and the beds. [10]
The French ranged in column on one side, the Indians on the other, and then the chief stepped forward. [11]
Instead of sixteen hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. [2]
When the thrifty housewife sees in the distance the dark column advancing in a steady whirl towards her house, she closes the doors and windows with all expedition. [5]
He touched his horse and having called Miloradovich, the commander of the column, gave him the order to advance. [2]
When she lowered her arms she saw on the roof of the nuns' granary, which adjoined the cow-stable, a slender column of smoke, followed by a narrow tongue of flame, which grew steadily brighter. [10]
Thus, in truth, he observed, were seemingly all the elements of the classic, even to the firm yet slender column of the neck. [9]
I suppose there has yet been discovered by man no gratification like that of marching at the head of a column in uniform on parade, unless, perhaps, it is marching at their head when they are leaving a field of battle. [4]
But M. Courbet has attained an immortality like that of Erostratus by the part he took in pulling down the column. [6]
The human embryo has a very well marked caudal appendage; that is, the vertebral column appears prolonged, just as it is in a young quadruped. [6]
Not more than half a column. [4]

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