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Sentences ending with compass

He studied a while, then he just went into the Details --walked round and round the hole and spied into it from every point of the compass. [5]
When, a little while after the establishment of the new magazine, the "Saturday Club" gathered about the long table at "Parker's," such a representation of all that was best in American literature had never been collected within so small a compass. [6]
The centrifugal principle which grows out of the antipathy of like to like is only the repetition in character of the arrangement we see expressed materially in certain seed-capsules, which burst and throw the seed to all points of the compass. [6]
It then occurred to me that I had better verify my course by the compass. [4]
Eternity, which not the wisest brain can conceive of!--I tell you, lady, for you are a philosopher--that is the hardest and therefore the grandest idea for human thought to compass. [10]
He pitched us some breakfast, but he told us not to come abaft the midship compass. [5]
This is, beyond question, a bold and presumptuous doubt, inasmuch as many distinguished characters, called men of the world, long-headed customers, knowing dogs, shrewd fellows, capital hands at business, and the like, have made, and do daily make, this axiom their polar star and compass. [12]
That is the merit which is most loudly praised in the old picture, and is the one which the copy most conspicuously lacks, and which the copyist must not hope to compass. [5]
Trust yourself to me, and I will carry you far on your journey, if we are travelling to the same point of the compass. [6]
So sure was I of my whereabouts that I did not note the bend of the river, nor look at my compass. [4]

Short sentences using compass

The compass annoyed me. [4]
Who can compass it? [7]

Sentences containing compass two or more times

He said there was only one creature more fickle than a wooden ship's compass, and that was the compass of an iron ship. [5]
So, Delicio shall still sail by the compass, and shall still compass all, and yet be compassed by none; for it is written, Who compasseth Delicio existeth not. [11]

More example sentences with the word compass in them

The prairie standards were not low; but tolerance is natural where the community is ready-made; where people from all points of the compass come together with all sorts of things behind them; where standards have at first no organized sanction. [11]
Having myself a well-marked barytone voice of more than half an octave in compass, I sometimes add my vocal powers to her execution of "Thou, thou reign'st in this bosom. [6]
The sun above was smothered; the earth beneath was trackless; the compass stood for loss all round. [11]
Of course there was no school report in the Union, and Boggs held me accountable, though I was innocent of any intention or desire to compass its absence from that paper, and was as sorry as any one that the misfortune had occurred. [5]
Of course there was no school report in the Union, and Boggs held me accountable, though I was innocent of any intention or desire to compass its absence from that paper and was as sorry as any one that the misfortune had occurred. [5]
Another said there was a vast fortune waiting for the genius who should invent a compass that would not be affected by the local influences of an iron ship. [5]
Did you ever try to have a sociable improving-time discussing winds, and currents and variations of compass with an undertaker? [5]
Then came reference to the well known fact that an experienced mariner can look at the compass of a new iron vessel, thousands of mile from her birthplace, and tell which way her head was pointing when she was in process of building. [5]
Ingolby had listened to the music with a sense of being swayed by a wind which blew from all quarters of the compass at once. [11]
And it came to pass after they had loosed me, behold, I took the compass, and it did work whither I desired it. [5]
We went aft to find some breakfast, and the first thing we noticed was that there was a dim light burning in a compass back there under a hood. [5]
He demanding for their Captaine, they shewed him Opechankanough, King of Pamaunkee, to whom he gave a round Ivory double compass Dyall. [4]
To my amazement, the compass, which was made near Greenwich, was wrong. [4]
But no matter--within the compass of a month thou shalt be free; and more, the laws that have dishonoured thee, and shamed the English name, shall be swept from the statute books. [5]
Within its compass the comparison in her mind was all complete. [9]
If the boats struck for Albemarle they would be in the doldrums all the way; and that means a watery perdition, with winds which are wholly crazy, and blow from all points of the compass at once and also perpendicularly. [5]
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]
One has heard so much of this organ, that he expects impossibilities, and is at first almost disappointed, although it is not long in discovering its vast compass, and its wonderful imitations, now of a full orchestra, and again of a single instrument. [4]
Pierre enjoyed the situation; he knew life all round; he had boxed the compass of experience. [11]
He said a ship's compass was not faithful to any particular point, but was the most fickle and treacherous of the servants of man. [5]
To compass this seemed an impossibility; so it was talked, and talked, and then dropped. [5]
Much to my secret delight, he agreed to this as within the compass of a gentleman's acceptance. [9]
At length he said: "Marmion, I said suburban innocence and original sin, but you've a grip on the law of square and compass too. [11]
Mr. Dickens saw our ancestors bowed in a task that had been too great for other blood,--the task of bringing into civilization in the compass of a century a wilderness three thousand miles it breadth. [9]
Leaving out two or three short journeys of the Saviour, he spent his life, preached his gospel, and performed his miracles within a compass no larger than an ordinary county in the United States. [5]
The glaring insincerity of these sermons was not sufficient to compass the banishment of the fashion from the schools, and it is not sufficient to-day; it never will be sufficient while the world stands, perhaps. [5]
In the heart of Labrador he had heard of Gaspard, and had travelled to that point in the compass where he could find him. [11]
One man will note all the landmarks, keep the points of compass in his head, observe how the streams run, in short, carry a map in his brain of any region that he has marched or galloped through. [6]
Oh, prithee delay not; to delay at such a time were to double and treble the perils that already compass thee about. [5]
My fancy had not lifted me within its compass, my dreams even had not imagined it. [9]
But it is not in tricks of imitation that this organ is so wonderful: it is its power of revealing, by all its compass, the inmost part of any musical composition. [4]
She is too much alone, and if she has travelled by the compass all these thirteen years without losing the track, it is something to the credit of human nature. [11]
Fancy departs: no more invent; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent. [6]
Beggars, cripples and monks compass you about, and make you think only of bucksheesh when you would rather think of something more in keeping with the character of the spot. [5]
Thereupon she sent messengers towards all points of the compass to seek him. [10]
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. [6]
If they would master the noble art, and put their brooding taste upon it, we might very likely compass something in our domestic architecture that we have not yet attained. [4]
Barbara had heard marvellous tales of his learning, and it was really magnificent in compass and far more important than his keen but narrow mind. [10]
That that first Maori could come, is understandable, for anybody can come to a place when he isn't trying to; but how that discoverer found his way back home again without a compass is his secret, and he died with it in him. [5]
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]
A delicate woman is the best instrument; she has such a magnificent compass of sensibilities! [6]
It is evidently impossible that I should attempt, within the compass of a single lecture, any detailed examination of the very numerous cases reported in the Homoeopathic Treatises and Journals. [3]
But I meant, if I thought you were in the right mood for listening to it, to read you some paragraphs which give in small compass the pith, the marrow, of all that my experience has taught me. [6]
Pushing out as I did, without compass and without experience, on the boundless ocean of learning, what could I expect but an utter and a hopeless shipwreck? [6]
In one of his letters it appeared that whereas no member of the House committee favored the scheme at first, there was now needed but one more vote to compass a majority report. [5]
Those laws were his chart; his course was marked out on it; if he swerved from it by so much as half a point of the compass, it meant shipwreck to his honor; that is to say, degradation from his rank as a gentleman. [5]
He had no head for figures, but he would labor for hours over scientific calculations, trying to compass them and to grasp their gigantic import. [5]
If any Bedouins had approached us, then, from that point of the compass, they would have paid dearly for their rashness. [5]
Yes, I have gone over that same route so often that I know my way without a compass, just by the waves. [5]
But we get glimpses now and then of a sphere of spiritual possibilities, where we, dull as we are now, may sail in vast circles round the largest compass of earthly intelligences. [6]
The largest actual girth I have ever found at five feet from the ground is in the great elm lying a stone's throw or two north of the main road (if my points of compass are right) in Springfield. [6]
They had gathered from many points of the compass and from many lands, but not one was missing; there was no tale of sickness or death among the flock to dampen the pleasure of the reunion. [5]
It is necessary, for the sake of those to whom the whole subject may be new, to give in the smallest possible compass the substance of the Homoeopathic Doctrine. [3]
Self-respect and respect for others,--the sensitive consciousness poises itself in these as the compass in the ship's binnacle balances itself and maintains its true level within the two concentric rings which suspend it on their pivots. [6]
Few men are fools at all points of the compass, and Mr. Crewe was far from this. [9]
It is a fine snow, gentle at first; but it soon drives in swerving lines, for the wind is from the southwest, from the west, from the northeast, from the zenith (one of the ordinary winds of New England), from all points of the compass. [4]
This is art--and fine and beautiful, and only a master can compass it; but a machine could tell the other story. [5]
The necessity of filling this space causes the writer, instead of stating his idea in the shortest compass in which it can be made perspicuous and telling, to beat it out thin, and make it cover as much ground as possible. [4]
The case looked dubious, but Ollendorff said his instinct was as sensitive as any compass, and that he could "strike a bee-line" for Carson city and never diverge from it. [5]
Manitou was a distributing point for all radiations of the compass, and men were thrown together in its streets who only saw one another once or twice a year-when they went to the woods in the Fall or worked the rivers in the Summer. [11]
There are, of course, variations of the compass to be reckoned with, and the magnet may occasionally be bewitched by near and powerful attracting objects. [4]
So at every corner of the compass he played for the breaking of the spell. [11]
You will be converted--you will be converted just as soon as every effort to compass pardon, commutation, or reprieve has failed--and then!--Why, then, every morning and every afternoon, the best and purest young ladies of the village will assemble in your cell and sing hymns. [5]
Now these scenes, condensed into a narrow compass, again passed before her mental vision, but only to reveal more distinctly the depth of misery of this hour. [10]
Equipped with their compass, these ancients appear to have had the advantage of Noah. [5]
According to the compass, the Lord only knew where I was. [4]
He consulted his compass, but it quivered hesitatingly. [11]
No person can compass or fulfil the individual mission of Jesus of Nazareth. [5]
You could not compass it--it was the idea of eternity made tangible--and the longest end of it made visible to the naked eye! [5]
You set your compass and sail west as straight as a dart, till you find the United States. [5]
I followed this caricature of a road a mile or more; then gave my luggage to the guide to carry home, and struck off through the forest, by compass, to the river. [4]
It revolves on cannon-balls, so easily that a single hand can move it, and thus the opening may be turned towards any point of the compass. [6]
As the Hardi Biaou drew near the lofty, inviolate cliffs, there opened up sombre clefts and caverns, honeycombing the island at all points of the compass. [11]
Name thy desire, and so it be within the compass of my royal power, it is thine. [5]
You wind in and out and here and there, in the most mysterious way, and have no more idea of the points of the compass than if you were a blind man. [5]
This is art and fine and beautiful, and only a master can compass it; but a machine could tell the other story. [5]
She was gathering all her life into the compass of an hour. [11]
To imperil an accused person by arbitrarily altering and widening the charge against him in order to compass his conviction when the charge as originally brought promises to fail to convict, is a thing unheard of before. [5]
Her voice was a good contralto, well balanced, true, of no great range, but within its compass melodious, and having some inexpressible charm of temperament. [11]
Each boat had a compass, a quadrant, a copy of Bowditch's 'Navigator,' and a Nautical Almanac, and the captain's and chief mate's boats had chronometers. [5]

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