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Sentences starting with conceive

Conceive of a man in a boat and his family in the water, and he goes out among his friends to ask what he would better do? [5]

Sentences ending with conceive

A more jaded wretch than I looked, it would be difficult to conceive. [14]
It is not what we believe, as I said before, that frightens us commonly, but what we conceive. [6]
Coming out of the sweet sanity of the Bolton household, this was by contrast the maddest Vanity Fair one could conceive. [5]
There were only seven gentlemen at dinner besides Mr. Smith, but of these five were critics--men more dreaded in the world of letters than you can conceive. [14]
His hand was quick, his sight clear and sure, his knowledge to a certain point most definite and practical, his mastery of the sword delightful; but he had little imagination, he did not divine, he was merely a brilliant performer, he did not conceive. [11]
Whereas every giving or deed of real humanity done while he was living would have entered into his character, and would be of lasting service to him--that is, in any future which we can conceive. [4]
Happier than tongue can tell, or heart of man conceive. [12]
Or were you bored, and therefore sought the most startling experience you could conceive? [11]
You have seen and done much in the past year; and the end of it all is more fitting than the most meticulous artist could desire or conceive. [11]

More example sentences with the word conceive in them

And I'll warrant you cannot conceive the havoc and consternation their fulfilment would spread in England. [9]
She could not write, because she could not conceive the possibility of expressing sincerely in a letter even a thousandth part of what she expressed by voice, smile, and glance. [2]
It is the whitest white you can conceive of, and the blindingest. [5]
I conceive that we stand at the head of the profession. [5]
I have no way of telling you how much happiness I wish you both, though I believe you both can conceive it. [7]
The great Alexander was restless, and at no initial instant did he conceive his scheme of conquest. [4]
I suppose it was because I could not conceive of a small country having so large a history. [5]
Patriotism, stronger in Virginia than many of us now can conceive, was on Clarence's side. [9]
And from the two propositions a third is deduced, which is that the gentlemen composing the meeting are resolved on doing their part to maintain our common government and country, despite the folly or wickedness, as they may conceive, of any administration. [7]
They were used to hearing lectures, and could hardly conceive that any subject could be treated without taking up a good part of an hour. [6]
People are apt to conceive, or at least to profess, exaggerated expectation, such as no performance can realise; then ensue disappointment and the due revenge, detraction, and failure. [14]
It is easy to conceive that Ch might be substituted for K in the report. [6]
It is easy to conceive that all these shades of opinion, and even more, may be sincerely entertained by honest and truthful men. [7]
Well, sir, try to conceive of the result: to my consternation, he took the first prize! [5]
It is hard to conceive of Emerson in either of the other so-called learned professions. [6]
It is hard to conceive of Emerson as "an expert swordsman" like Milton. [6]
It is impossible to conceive of any holiday that could take its place, nor indeed would it seem that human wit could invent another so adapted to humanity. [4]
I am unable to conceive how a message can be less safe by the express than by a staff-officer. [7]
We are used to atmospheric existence, and can hardly conceive of ourselves except as breathing creatures. [6]
I must conceive thus of the argument. [11]
My dears, if those had been English captives, conceive of the richness of that booty! [5]
No one at this day can reasonably conceive exactly what this newspaper was to such a mountain valley as Keene. [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 could conceive the revenge to his brother's amorous hand. [11]
It is as the Greek philosopher said, 'To conceive the human mind aright is the greatest gift from the gods. [11]
Do you conceive that you hold all love for those two youths yonder in sole fief or lease? [10]
I can conceive that there may be difference to you in days, and I can keep him a few days to accommodate on that point. [7]
I cannot conceive that other men feel differently. [7]
People were thicker than bees, in those narrow streets, and the men were dressed in all the outrageous, outlandish, idolatrous, extravagant, thunder-and-lightning costumes that ever a tailor with the delirium tremens and seven devils could conceive of. [5]
If there are some who conceive that any important end would be answered by recording such opinions, or by collecting the history of all the cases they could find in which no evidence of the influence of contagion existed, I believe they are in error. [3]
It is not so much that nebular theory which worries me, when I think about this subject, as a kind of bewilderment when I try to conceive of a consciousness filling all those frightful blanks of space they talk about. [6]
For she could scarcely conceive of a life that should not be devoted to the accomplishment of some definite work, and she had-no doubt that in her own case everything else would yield to the professional career she had marked out. [5]
I wish to say here, that I don't conceive that in any fair and just mind this discovery relieves me at all. [7]
At last he put into her mouth that which told the whole story of redemption and deliverance, so far as his heart could conceive it--the prayer for all sorts and conditions of men and the general thanksgiving of humanity. [11]
From a military point of view, backed by the facts of history, I conceive that Jameson's military judgment was at fault. [5]
If I went on, now, and took him into manhood, he would just like like all the one-horse men in literature and the reader would conceive a hearty contempt for him. [5]
You couldn't conceive of the Matterhorn being flattered by the notice of one of your comely little English hills, could you? [5]
The incomparable modelling of the favorite's limbs and form was soft but not effeminate; and, as Pollux had said to himself the day before, no artist in his happiest mood, could conceive the Nysaean god as different from this. [10]
I can conceive of nothing so lamentable for the progress of the world as a quarrel between these two English-speaking peoples. [4]
I can conceive of nothing plainer in the world. [7]
I could conceive of no news coming to these Highlanders later than the defeat of the Pretender. [4]
In the class of mammals the steps are not difficult to conceive which led from the ancient Monotremata to the ancient Marsupials; and from these to the early progenitors of the placental mammals. [1]
We can conceive of it by reflecting upon the blank that would exist without "The Alhambra," "The Conquest of Granada," "The Legends of the Conquest of Spain," and I may add the popular loss if we had not "The Lives of Columbus and his Companions. [4]
You cannot conceive of anything so beautiful as Constantinople, viewed from the Golden Horn or the Bosphorus. [5]
I cannot conceive of a rational man deliberately piling such an atrocious job upon himself; but if there is such a man and you be that man, why then pile it on. [5]
Can you conceive of a man's getting himself into a sweat over so diminutive a provocation? [5]
I really did not conceive or plan imposture. [11]
But he could not conceive of their life, their toil or their festivals, bereft of images, offerings, garlands, and hymns of rejoicing. [10]
I can conceive no more dreary existence than that of a man who is past the period of business activity, and who cannot, for his entertainment, his happiness, draw upon the great reservoir of literature. [4]
He had known no life but a combined one; he had been familiar with it from his birth; he was not able to conceive of any other as being agreeable, or even bearable. [5]
Imagine such human muck as this; conceive of this folly! [5]
This was the most detestable complication which he could conceive of. [6]
Indeed, he looked more the rogue than the ass; nor could I conceive how reliable barristers could hire such a one. [9]
And on the moment I can conceive of little I wouldn't do to gain that end. [13]
And this leads me to speak of what I conceive to be one of the principal tasks to be performed by the present and the coming generation of scholars, not only in the medical, but in every department of knowledge. [3]
There's a little matter on now, about an extension of the Truro Railroad to Harwich, which wouldn't interest you, but you can't conceive what a nuisance it has been to watch that House day and night, as I've had to. [9]
Now, a white man can conceive great operations, and carry them out; a niggro can't. [5]
A "tournament" in Lynchburg is a thing easily within the comprehension of the average mind; but no commonly gifted person can conceive of such a spectacle in Brooklyn without straining his powers. [5]
I can no longer conceive of the power that upholds the universe as without love nor of the love that makes men happy as other than divine. [10]
Every feature, every line was of such perfection as only the artist's soul can conceive of, nay, even dream of. [10]
He couldn't comprehend it; couldn't take it in; couldn't in any remote way conceive of it. [5]
As I conceive it, suicide would have been the best thing for him when he sinned against the code. [11]
Do you conceive it possible, Cleopatra? [10]
Italy, for instance, is full of accumulated wealth, of art, even of ostentation and display, and the new generation probably have lost the power to conceive, if not the skill to execute, the great works which excite our admiration. [4]
And although it is distasteful to me, I have sworn to support the Constitution; and having so sworn, I cannot conceive that I do support it if I withhold from that right any necessary legislation to make it practical. [7]
The third interrogatory is answered by the answer to the second, it being, as I conceive, the same as the second. [7]
Aye, aye; our intelligence, polyp-like, has long arms and can apprehend vast size and wide extent; but it can no more conceive of nothingness than it can of infinite space or time. [10]
Now, it is impossible to conceive that the catastrophe which did happen to that civilization could have happened if the world had then possessed the steam-engine, the printing-press, and the electric telegraph. [4]
For my part, I could in no wise conceive how those two should ever more speak a kind word to each other, and this meeting in truth pleased me ill. Howbeit, his next letter gave us better cheer. [10]
And the Magister, I conceive, was to be the first to whom you proposed to be a willing sacrifice, let it cost you what it may? [10]
The fact is, I believe, true; but you do not point out, nor can I conceive, how that did, or could, injure loyal men or the Union cause. [7]
Imagination cannot conceive how disjointed I was--how internally, externally and universally I was unsettled, mixed up and ruptured. [5]
It was impossible for the Honourable Brush Bascom and the Honourable Jacob Botcher to have Mr. Crewe sitting between them and not conceive a strong affection for him. [9]
I have been face to face with such dreadful, unimagined things, and in my ignorance I did not conceive that life held such terrors. [9]
He swore: but, doing so, he could not conceive all that would be required of him. [11]
The man who does not understand the construction of the machine cannot conceive that the small connecting cogwheel which revolves quietly is one of the most essential parts of the machine, and not the shaving which merely harms and hinders the working. [2]
Physical suffering, mental distress, the prospect of death at a near, if uncertain, time always before him, it was hard to conceive a more terrible strain than that which he had to endure. [6]
It would be difficult to conceive of a person more obviously up in the air than Philip at this moment. [4]
He could not conceive that a stupid chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined misery. [2]
I can not conceive of such a thing as Genoa in ruins. [5]
Can any one conceive of anything more confusing than that? [5]
I can almost conceive of a dozing and dreamy centenarian saying to one he loves, "Go, darling, go! [6]
I can not conceive how those immense blocks of stone were ever hauled from the quarries, or how they were ever raised to the dizzy heights they occupy in the temples. [5]
I can even conceive how such a discovery must have shocked you, temporarily aroused your indignation, as a clergyman, against the world as it is--and, I may add, as it has always been. [9]
He could not conceive how it had come about (it did not occur to him that the gossip about his family's great wealth had any thing to do with it). [5]
Such utter and complete ruin one could hardly conceive of. [5]
I'm incapable of committing a single original act, even though I might conceive one. [9]
My dear, I cannot conceive of you as the Pirate's Own. [4]
I watched the bull, now, with anxiety --anxiety which no one can conceive of who has not been in such a situation and felt that at any moment death might come. [5]
I had just begun to get over the agitation with which we always awake from nightmare dreams, when I heard the sound which seemed to me as of a woman's voice,--the clearest, purest soprano which one could well conceive of. [6]
I know that, because each man told what he would have done, individually; and such a medley of strange and unheard-of inventions of cruelty you could not conceive of. [5]
I could not at all conceive what was meant. [11]
Few noticed us as we sped along down Palace Street and I could not conceive whither we were going, until, passing the Hotel Dieu, I saw in front the Intendance. [11]
They had not as many visitors as before, but the old habits of life without which the count and countess could not conceive of existence remained unchanged. [2]
Yet, hard as as it is to conceive of it, never had the music sounded with noisier delights in the dancing-halls of Venice, nor had the money been more lightly tossed from hand-to-hand over the gaming-tables, nor, at any time, had there been hotter love-making. [10]
If there is any other reason than this, I confess that it is wholly beyond my power to conceive of it. [7]
And then the anxiety and the strain of it, and the temptation, because you must live, to lower your ideal, and go down to what you conceive to be the buying public. [4]
The most restless and ambitious of us can hardly conceive of Chicago as a desirable future state of existence. [4]
This slab has an escutcheon which indicates three heads, which a lively imagination may conceive to be those of Moors, on a line in the upper left corner on the husband's side of a shield, which is divided by a perpendicular line. [4]
I conceive that all animals that can learn things through teaching and drilling have to know how to observe, and put this and that together and draw an inference--the process of thinking. [5]

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