Use coniston in a sentence
Sentences starting with coniston
- Coniston Water, at the foot of the garden, sang the same song, but it seemed to Wetherell to have changed its note from sorrow to joy. [9]
- Coniston is there still behind its mountain, with its rusty firelocks and its hillside graves. [9]
- Coniston decided at once that she was to marry the heir to the Brampton Mills. [9]
- Coniston was proud of Jethro, prouder of him than ever since his last great victory in the Legislature, which brought the Truro Railroad through to Harwich and settled their townsman more firmly than ever before in the seat of power. [9]
- Coniston sank then from its proud position as the real capital of the state to a lonely hamlet among the hills. [9]
- Coniston longed to follow them, in spirit at least, but even Milly Skinner did not know their destination. [9]
- Coniston was the first to tremble, as though the forces stretching themselves in the tannery house were shaking the very ground, and the name of Jethro Bass took on once more, as by magic, a terrible meaning. [9]
- Coniston was a Congregational town still, and the deacons and dignitaries of that church were likewise the pillars of the state. [9]
- Coniston Mountain, called by some the Blue Mountain, clad in Hercynian forests, ten good miles in length, north and south, with its notch road that winds over the saddle behind the withers of it. [9]
- Coniston believes, and always will believe, that the social bars are strong enough. [9]
Sentences ending with coniston
- Tears of vexation were in her eyes, and the light of her joy at this visit to the capital flickered, and she wished she were back in Coniston. [9]
- The next summer, was the first which the painter--pioneer of summer visitors there--spent at Coniston. [9]
- He had a vehement desire to be left in peace, and to avoid politics and political discussions forever--vain desire for the storekeeper of Coniston. [9]
- After that they took the turn to the right, which was the road to Coniston. [9]
- Give your consent to the marriage, and Jethro Bass will go back to Coniston. [9]
- Cynthia was going to Coniston. [9]
- Perhaps it was that she knew in the bottom of her heart that she had been given a spirit and intelligence to cope with a larger life than that of Coniston. [9]
- The next thing that happened will be long remembered in Coniston. [9]
- Cynthia's heart stood still when he proposed this, for it touched upon her greatest fear,--which had impelled her to go to Coniston. [9]
- Jethro did not speak, but slipped his hand into hers, and thus they stood for a long time gazing at the snow fields between the pines on the heights of Coniston. [9]
Short sentences using coniston
- Ever hear of Coniston? [9]
- I'm going to Coniston. [9]
- And what did Coniston think? [9]
Sentences containing coniston two or more times
- To this day the railroad has not reached Coniston Village--nay, nor Coniston Flat, four miles nearer Brampton. [9]
- There is a spot not far from the Coniston road, and five miles distant alike from Brampton and Coniston, where Bob Worthington built his house, and where he and Cynthia dwelt many years; and they go there to this day, in the summer-time. [9]
- Indeed, during the six years which we are about to skip over so lightly, he became a marked man in Coniston, and it was voted in towns meeting that he be intrusted with that most important of literary labors, the Town History of Coniston. [9]
- That would not have mattered, for such as she would have borne Coniston and the life of Coniston cheerfully. [9]
- If it hain't Coniston Mountain about seven o'clock of a June evening, I never saw Coniston Mountain. [9]
- Of course Coniston, and presently Brampton, knew that Bob Worthington had serenaded Cynthia--and Coniston and Brampton talked. [9]
More example sentences with the word coniston in them
- Bob got in without a word, seized the reins, the cutter flew down Brampton Street (observed by many of the residents thereof) and turned into the Coniston road. [9]
- And that is why I walk on Coniston Water--to choose the best site for a dam. [9]
- And at length, when the sun was beginning visibly to fall, they came out into an open cut on the western side and saw again the long line of Coniston once more against the sky. [9]
- In the spring, when the new leaves were green on the slopes of Coniston, Priest Ware ended a life of faithful service. [9]
- This, then, was what happened when Jethro had heard of her dismissal--he had left Coniston without writing her a word and passed through Brampton without seeing her. [9]
- Coniston, too, was watching the drama, and had had a better view of the stage than Brampton, and saw some reason presently for the change in Jethro Bass. [9]
- He shot Cynthia Ware, and what she suffered in secret Coniston never guessed. [9]
- She was, indeed, waiting for the Coniston stage, and she did not see him. [9]
- It was a very red face, as we know, and its owner was standing in front of the Coniston stage, on runners now. [9]
- Let it be understood that Coniston was a village, by courtesy, and its shaded road a street. [9]
- High above the turmoil Coniston, as through the ages, looked down upon the scene impassive. [9]
- After that dark town-meeting day some of those stern old fathers became broken men, and it is said in Coniston that this calamity to righteous government, and not the storm, gave to Priest Ware his death-stroke. [9]
- As she walked toward Coniston, the thought came to her that she was rid of the thing she had stirred up, perhaps forever, and the thrush burst into his song once more. [9]
- They had agreed to walk back the ten miles to Coniston, to save the money that dinner at the hotel would cost. [9]
- She would go to Coniston unless she perished on the way. [9]
- And--and I'll go to Coniston if that will please you. [9]
- Are you going to Coniston for the holidays? [9]
- Lieutenants had gone to Coniston for further orders and instructions, and had come back without either. [9]
- Truth compels me to admit that the sum total of all his mortgages did not amount to nine thousand "dollars"; but that was a large sum of money for Coniston in those days, and even now. [9]
- William still had time for his books; in that Coniston air he began to feel stronger, and to wonder whether he might not be a Washington Irving yet. [9]
- There are some thirty other individuals in Coniston whose mortgages Jethro holds, from a horse to a house and farm. [9]
- But Jethro was thinking of another scene,--of a granite-ribbed pasture on Coniston Mountain that swings in limitless space, from either end of which a man may step off into eternity. [9]
- Thirty-six years before there had been a town-meeting in Coniston and a surprise. [9]
- The only person then in Coniston whom he thought about was Jethro Bass. [9]
- Cyamon Johnson carried the story back to Coniston, where it had the effect of eliminating Mr. Price from local politics for some time to come. [9]
- Another day, when the snow lay in great billows on the ground and filled the mountain valleys, when the pines were rusty from the long winter, two other visitors drove to Coniston in a two-horse sleigh. [9]
- It stands in the midst of broad lands, and the ground in front of it slopes down to Coniston Water, artificially widened here by a stone dam into a little lake. [9]
- But they ate the lunch Cynthia had brought, far from the crowd, under the trees by Coniston Water. [9]
- And beyond, through the foliage of the willows and the low apple trees which Jonah Winch had set out, Coniston Water gleamed and tumbled. [9]
- The choir of the birds was singing an evening anthem now as then, to the lower notes of Coniston Water, and the moist, hothouse fragrance of the ferns rose from the deep places. [9]
- Did he think that the storekeeper at Coniston would be of use to him, politically? [9]
- Snow had no terrors for a Coniston person, and Cynthia had been for her walk. [9]
- There was no telegraph to Coniston in these days, and so Mr. Sam Price, with his horse in a lather, might have been seen driving with unseemly haste toward Brampton, where in due time he arrived. [9]
- The high pulpit, taken from the old meeting house, and the cricket on which he used to stand and the Bible from which he used to preach have remained objects of veneration in Coniston to this day. [9]
- Oh, Coniston, that such scenes should take place in your town meeting! [9]
- There, in the still days of the early autumn, Wetherell looked down upon the garden he had grown to love, and listened to the song of Coniston Water. [9]
- There was no sound, save the song of Coniston Water under the shattered ice. [9]
- Such was the soul of the storekeeper of Coniston. [9]
- This was to some extent explained, a few days later, when Wetherell found himself gazing across the counter at the motherly figure of Mrs. Moses Hatch, who held the well-deserved honor of being the best cook in Coniston. [9]
- There was no shorthand reporter in Coniston in those days, and it is just as well, perhaps, that the accusations and recriminations should sink into oblivion. [9]
- In short, he set Jake to thinking deeply as his horse walked up the western heights of Coniston on the return journey. [9]
- But as he sat in the train he said to himself that in this visit to the hamlet of Coniston he had had the strangest glimpse of all. [9]
- Jonah sold good rum, but now you can't get nothin' in Coniston but hard cider and potato whiskey. [9]
- There were others right here in Coniston, Jake hinted, who might now find it convenient to emigrate to the far West. [9]
- Jethro Bass was rich beyond the dreams of avarice--for Coniston. [9]
- And Lem Hallowell remembered when Mr. Worthington was a slim-cheated young man wandering up and down Coniston Water in search of health. [9]
- His name, by reason of some strange quality in it, he had never forgotten, and suddenly he recalled that the place the countryman had come from was Coniston. [9]
- She was not quite sure that she ought to stand talking to him a third time in these woods, especially if the subject of conversation were not, as Coniston thought, the salvation of his soul. [9]
- Jock Hallowell had paused once or twice on his work on the steeple to look across the tree-tops at Coniston shouldering the sky. [9]
- At last he paused before two models at the far end of the room, passing his hand repeatedly over each as he had done so often with the cattle of Coniston. [9]
- He took his parcel and strode down to Coniston Water, and there he found Cynthia seated on a rock with her toes in a pool. [9]
- In six days orthodox Coniston came to the conclusion that this ninety and ninth soul were better left to her who had snatched it, Cynthia Ware. [9]
- As they stood or sat around the kitchen (Eben and Rias stood), Cynthia talked to them--about Coniston: rather, be it said, that they talked about Coniston in answer to her questions. [9]
- I'll tell you one thing,--you won't keep her always shut up here in Coniston. [9]
- At noon, on one of those madcap April days of that Coniston country, Jock descended from his work on the steeple to perceive the ungainly figure of Jethro Bass coming toward him across the green. [9]
- So they drove on through that realm, which was to be their realm, and came all too soon to Coniston green. [9]
- Cynthia's eyes were on the orange line of the sunset over Coniston, but she laughed a little, indulgently. [9]
- His eyes were on the great hill opposite, across Coniston Water. [9]
- The summer flew on apace, for Coniston. [9]
- Around the corner of the store, her cheeks flushed and her dark hair flying, ran little Cynthia, her hands, browned already by the Coniston sun, filled with wild strawberries. [9]
- Jethro Bass, Chairman of the Board, in the honored seat of Deacon Moses Hatch, the perquisite of the church in Coniston! [9]
- He was thinking of it now, even as it had been in his mind that winter's evening when Cynthia had come to Coniston and had surprised him with that look of terrible loneliness on his face. [9]
- She was thinking of Coniston mountain, and how the sun had just set behind it. [9]
- There was, first of all, the parting with Jethro and the messages with which he and Ephraim were laden for the whole village and town of Coniston. [9]
- Coniston, indeed, knew not what to think, when, little by little, the great men ceased to drive up to the door of the tannery house, and presently came no more. [9]
- When he was not sawing and hammering and planing, he took long walks up and down Coniston Water, and was surprised deep in thought at several places. [9]
- Although he would not confess it to himself, he had been in fear of Jethro Bass all his life, and his fear had been greater than ever since the March day when Jethro had left Coniston. [9]
- Jethro's face had not changed when Jake drove him out of Coniston the next morning. [9]
- Jethro Bass had not been in Coniston since William's arrival. [9]
- Sukey, however, got no small consolation from the sense of the greatness of the trust confided in her, and of the uproar she could make in Coniston if she chose. [9]
- It will be nice to go back to Coniston that way--over Truro Pass in the train. [9]
- He was Mr. Merrill who had come to see her father in Coniston, and who had spoken so kindly to her on that occasion. [9]
- Do you have many such odd characters in Coniston, Miss Cynthia? [9]
- Though the village loved and revered Cynthia, Coniston as a whole did not rejoice in that reform. [9]
- Ephraim had even looked up the law to see if he was eligible, and found that he was, since Coniston had no post-office, and was within the limits of delivery of the Brampton office. [9]
- Copied in the local papers of the state, it caused some surprise in Brampton, to be sure, and excitement in Coniston. [9]
- Would she always live in Coniston? [9]
- Coniston, never having listened to grand opera, was entertained and thrilled, and thought the rendering of the song better on the whole than the church choir could have done it, or even the quartette that sung at the Brampton celebrations behind the flowers. [9]
- Jake Wheeler, Jethro's lieutenant in Coniston, gave William a glowing account of that Throne Room in the Pelican Hotel at the capital, from whence Jethro ruled the state during the sessions of the General Court. [9]
- Coniston, be it known, at this time is one of the famous wool towns of New England: before the industry went West, with other industries. [9]
- He did not know that she had gone out, while they were waiting, and written a note to Jethro, explaining that her father was ill, and that they were going back to Coniston. [9]
- Cynthia and Ephraim knew, and Coniston guessed, that Jethro was taking care of Ephraim, and strong as was his affection for Jethro the old soldier found dependence hard to bear. [9]
- The father of Jethro Bass, Nathan the currier, had once, in a youthful lapse, permitted a Baptist preacher to immerse him in Coniston Water. [9]
- The mountain cast its vast blue shadow over forest and pasture, and above the pines the white mist was rising from Coniston Water--rising in strange shapes. [9]
- But she thought it strange that he would not tell her when they would be in Coniston. [9]
- He had deemed it more than possible that he might see Jethro at Coniston, but he had not taken into account that which he might say to him. [9]
- The next day is Sunday, and there is mild excitement in Coniston. [9]
- Sunrise in January is not very early, and sunrise at any season is not early for Coniston. [9]
- He never knew, indeed, until many years afterward, what had brought Stephen Merrill to Coniston. [9]
- An hour later, indeed, Coniston was discussing the man of leisure in a new light. [9]
- If Jethro had indeed instructed Bijah to look after his flock at Coniston, it was an ill-conditioned move, and some of the flock resented it when they were quite sure that Bijah was climbing the notch road toward Clovelly. [9]
- Her happiest days in this period were the Saturdays and Sundays spent with him in Coniston, and as the weeks went by she began to believe that the change, miraculous as it seemed, had indeed taken place. [9]
- Had he been in Coniston, he would have said, "How be you? [9]
- From no spot in Coniston town is the sunset so fine on distant Farewell Mountain, and Eben's sheep feed on pastures where only mountain-bred sheep can cling and thrive. [9]
- Nathan Bass's story-and-a-half house, devoid of paint, faced the road, and behind it was the shed, or barn, that served as the tannery, and between the tannery and Coniston Water were the vats. [9]
- In half an hour Brampton knew the essentials of Isaac Worthington's story, and Sam Price was on his way with it to Coniston for distribution at Jonah Winch's store. [9]
- Mr. Wetherell, after his wife died, was taken in a dying condition to Coniston, where he was forced, in order to earn his living, to become the storekeeper there. [9]
- The artist had his reward, for when the picture was hung at length in the little parlor of the tannery house it became a source of pride to Coniston second only to Jethro himself. [9]
- William Wetherell dropped his pen with a start of surprise, as it was late for a visitor in Coniston. [9]
- Some listen to him: hear the words "infamous outrage"--"if Jethro Bass is elected Selectman, Coniston will never be able to hold up her head among her sister towns for very shame. [9]
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