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Sentences starting with conspicuous

Conspicuous among them was a slender white wooden spire. [4]
Conspicuous exceptions are Motley and Parkman and a few belles-lettres writers, whose novels and stories mark a distinct literary transition since the War of the Rebellion. [4]
Conspicuous in the little assembly was a tall, elderly man in a shabby long coat and a broad felt hat, from under which his white hair fell upon his shoulders. [4]
Conspicuous colours are likewise beneficial to many animals as a warning to their would-be devourers that they are distasteful, or that they possess some special means of defence; but this subject will be discussed more conveniently hereafter. [1]
Conspicuous colours may be of use to these insects, by giving notice that they are unpalatable. [1]

Sentences ending with conspicuous

Longfellow was not yet conspicuous. [6]
I believe that wherever danger confronts you you will make yourself conspicuous. [5]
His position in the country was most conspicuous. [4]
It was not the charming scene that held her thought, but the city with its human struggle, and in that struggle one figure was conspicuous. [4]
His bald headed surroundings made the youth the more conspicuous. [5]
I should say rather that the reforms attracted to them all the ridiculous people, who almost always manage to become the most conspicuous. [4]
The announcement of publication had the effect of putting Philip in high spirits for the Mavick reception-spirits tempered, however, by the embarrassment natural to a modest man that he would be painfully conspicuous. [4]
If I branched out amongst the elect looking like this, wouldn't I attract considerable attention?--wouldn't I be a little conspicuous? [5]
I have something of the manner of each and all of them; but they all said that I had also a manner of my own, and that it was conspicuous. [5]
At last those of Myrtle Hazard were called to him, and she perceived that an accident was making him unenviably conspicuous. [6]

Short sentences using conspicuous

It was dreadfully conspicuous. [5]
Two things were conspicuous. [4]

Sentences containing conspicuous two or more times

But many brightly-coloured, white, or otherwise conspicuous species, do not seek concealment; whilst again some equally conspicuous species, as well as other dull-coloured kinds live under stones and in dark recesses. [1]
We love to be noticed by the conspicuous person; we love to be associated with such, or with a conspicuous event, even in a seventh-rate fashion, even in the forty-seventh, if we cannot do better. [5]

More example sentences with the word conspicuous in them

General Grant and yourself have been conspicuous in our most important successes; and for me to interfere and thus magnify a breach between you could not but be of evil effect. [7]
The most conspicuous young woman in the group, in riding clothes, was seated on the railing, with the toe of one boot on the ground. [9]
This is a young tree, with a future before it, if barbarians do not meddle with it, more conspicuous for its spread than its circumference, stretching not very far from a hundred feet from bough-end to bough-end. [6]
If a man would be conspicuous, let him come here and retire from the house in the midst of an act. [5]
The gallery shook with laughter, and honourable members with slips of paper in their hands were made as conspicuous as if they had been caught wearing dunces' caps. [9]
The colored people, who are a conspicuous part of the establishment, are a source of never-failing interest and amusement. [4]
Too many that were placed there as luminaries have become conspicuous by their obscurity in the midst of that illustrious company. [6]
Most of them were in conspicuous positions, and surrounded by wide acres. [9]
I thought it was pretty manifest that the elderly lady was embarrassed at finding herself in such a conspicuous place arrayed in such cheap apparel; I began to feel sorry for her and troubled about her. [5]
The British leader was conspicuous upon his horse. [11]
And of all virtues two are the least conspicuous, and at the same time the greatest: Truthfulness and humility; practise these. [10]
Every town and village along that vast stretch of double river-frontage had a best dwelling, finest dwelling, mansion,--the home of its wealthiest and most conspicuous citizen. [5]
The common Yellow Under-wings (Triphaena) often fly about during the day or early evening, and are then conspicuous from the colour of their hind-wings. [1]
Colorless skin, with two conspicuous moles. [5]
The conspicuous object toward which we traveled all the morning was a shapely conical hill at the beginning of the Gap. [4]
And here we touch one of the regrettable symptoms of the times, which is not by any means most conspicuous in the medical profession. [4]
If we come to our own country, who can fail to recognize that Benjamin Rush, the most conspicuous of American physicians, was the intellectual offspring of the movement which produced the Revolution? [3]
It was hard to come down to humdrum ordinary life again after being a General Superintendent and the most conspicuous man in the community. [5]
In two hours' time we are at Stalden, a village perched upon a rocky promontory, at the junction of the valleys of the Saas and the Visp, with a church and white tower conspicuous from afar. [4]
If at any time there was any idea that it could be controlled only by those who represented names honored for a hundred years, or conspicuous by any social privilege, the idea was swamped in popular feeling. [4]
I cannot but think she has been well and wisely chosen as the guardian of a grave which is destined to become almost the most conspicuous in the world's history. [5]
What a blessed thing it would be if a lady could make herself conspicuous in our theaters by wearing her hat. [5]
The worst of these trials, perhaps, was a conspicuous article in a newspaper containing a garbled account of his sermon and of the sensation it had produced amongst his fashionable parishioners. [9]
There was also there another of the same country, got up for the most dangerous Alpine climbing, conspicuous in red woolen stockings that came above his knees. [4]
No doubt if their colours had been brilliant, they would have been much more conspicuous to their enemies; but whether their dull tints have been specially gained for the sake of protection seems, as far as I can judge, rather doubtful. [1]
I take from the top shelf of the hospital department of my library--the section devoted to literary cripples, imbeciles, failures, foolish rhymesters, and silly eccentrics--one of the least conspicuous and most hopelessly feeble of the weak-minded population of that intellectual almshouse. [6]
John experienced all the thrill of this conspicuous authority, and I daresay that nothing in his later life has so exalted him in his own esteem; certainly nothing has since happened that was so important as the events of that parade day seemed. [4]
It is when the right words are conspicuous that they thunder: The glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome! [5]
When you get the reigns displayed upon the wall this one will be conspicuous and easily remembered. [5]
The king and the queen sat in their thrones, the most conspicuous figures there, of course. [5]
The bustle on the quay was less conspicuous than usual, for all who were free to follow their curiosity had gone into the city. [10]
But Morgan was the main attraction, the conspicuous personality here; she was head chief of this household, that was plain. [5]
But to keep the house without a vast fortune to sustain it was an impossibility, and, as it was the most conspicuous of Mavick's visible possessions, perhaps the surrender of it, which she could not prevent, would save certain odds and ends here and there. [4]
I lived at the best hotel, exhibited my clothes in the most conspicuous places, infested the opera, and learned to seem enraptured with music which oftener afflicted my ignorant ear than enchanted it, if I had had the vulgar honesty to confess it. [5]
I have noticed that the Bible, with that plain, blunt honesty which is such a conspicuous characteristic of the Scriptures, is always particular to never refer to even the illustrious mother of all mankind as a "lady," but speaks of her as a woman. [5]
The lady begged that he, as an artist, would assist in choosing the robe; and the less conspicuous and costly it was the better. [10]
He was told that he must not go alone; a guard would be too conspicuous and might invite trouble; he himself would bear him company. [11]
And also in that day, if there shall remain a high-altitude peasant whose potato-patch hasn't a railroad through it, it would make him as conspicuous as William Tell. [5]
Beyond lay the Tennessee hills and conspicuous White-Top Mountain (5530 feet), which has a good deal of local celebrity (standing where the States of Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina corner), and had been pointed out to us at Abingdon. [4]
He stood very straight, very haughty, as if entirely oblivious to his conspicuous position. [9]
He had, therefore, sprung to the acceptance, and sent his humble duty to the Queen by her winsome messenger, who, with conspicuous dramatic skill, had arranged secretly, with the help of a Gentleman Pensioner and the Master of the Horse, his appearance and his exit. [11]
The books Paolo spoke of were conspicuous, many of them, by their white vellum binding and tasteful gilding, showing that probably they had been bound in Rome, or some other Italian city. [6]
On one side some men were making ready to lower a boat, and then a conspicuous figure in blue stood out by the davits. [9]
Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush. [5]
Vulgarity is never so conspicuous as in fine apparel, on or off the stage, and never so self-conscious. [4]
We knew the situation before the train stopped by the crosses erected on the conspicuous peaks of the serrated ashy--or shall I say purple--hills that enfold the fertile valley. [4]
His loyalty was sincere; his probity was above suspicion--(and it made him sufficiently conspicuous in that trivial and conscienceless Court). [5]
In the first sat Keraunus, whose saffron-colored cloak was conspicuous from afar, as fat as Silenus the companion of Dionysus, but looking very sullen. [10]
Windsor, a most respectable old town round which the railroad sweeps, with its iron bridge, conspicuous King's College, and handsome church spire, is a great place for plaster and limestone, and would be a good location for a person interested in these substances. [4]
If such a public character was not to be had, so that there was no chance of heading the Report with the name of the Honorable Mr. Somebody, the next best thing was to get the Reverend Dr. Somebody to take that conspicuous position. [6]
Nevertheless, it is probable that conspicuous colours are indirectly beneficial to many species, as a warning that they are unpalatable. [1]
In all the preparations Maximilian Cour was a conspicuous and useful official. [11]
There it stared Philip in the face and seemed to be the only conspicuous thing in the journal. [4]
It is a people' fete, and the civic officers enjoy one day of conspicuous glory. [4]
Then Orion spoke out; he explained fully what the reasons were that had moved the Patriarch to display such conspicuous and far-reaching animosity towards his father. [10]
He, if any one, may be forgiven for his tumultuous career; for when he pleases my brother's great qualities charm old and young alike, and are as conspicuous and as remarkable as his faults--nay, I will frankly say his crimes. [10]
But I noticed one quite conspicuous and surprising absence: the traditional brutal faces. [5]
Even light remarks on current news, comments that we used to make freely on the conduct of conspicuous persons, now carried condemnation that took a personal color. [4]
The most conspicuous of these is Mount Pisgah, eighteen miles distant to the southwest, a pyramid of the Balsam range, 5757 feet high. [4]
The most conspicuous of the three parts of this short range is over four thousand seven hundred feet above the Bay of Naples, and the highest land on it. [4]
A conspicuous agency of the period was the lecture platform, which did something in the spread and popularization of information, but much more in the stimulation of independent thought and the awakening of the mind to use its own powers. [4]
From the fact of the Heliconidae being conspicuous and beautiful insects, yet so numerous in individuals and species, he concluded that they must be protected from the attacks of enemies by some secretion or odour; and this conclusion has now been amply confirmed (30. [1]
This conspicuous position of the feted artist did not please every one, and a rhetorician, famed for his sharp tongue, whispered to his neighbour, one of Hermon's older fellow-artists, "What his eyes have lost seems to benefit his tongue. [10]
She was afraid of him, she shrank from such a conspicuous sign of his favour. [9]
The social conquest of a village--to be conspicuous and attract the groundlings in this tiny theatre of life, that seemed little! [11]
This has been observed more frequently with the magpie than with any other bird, owing perhaps to its conspicuous appearance and nest. [1]
The most conspicuous object was a man on an immensely tall pair of stilts, stalking about among the crowd. [6]
Still, he was not prominent in the class, and, but for what all the world has since known of him, his would not have been a conspicuous figure to his classmates in recalling College days. [6]
Henderson himself had not much time for the frivolities of the season, and he evaded all but the more conspicuous social occasions, at which Carmen, sometimes with a little temper, insisted that he should accompany her. [4]
This time, however, not a few remained behind, curiously watching a beautifully-built Samian ship, the Okeia, with a long prow like a swan's neck, on the front of which a likeness of the goddess Hera was conspicuous. [10]
His clothes, usually neat, were awry, and his arms were full of various things, not the least conspicuous of which was a magnificent bronze clock. [9]
The grave man's natural consideration, usually so conspicuous, could not hold out against the demands made on his endurance, and he angrily and peevishly pointed to his begrimed face as he made his way through the people waiting for him. [10]
Nobody noticed their nakedness before, perhaps; nobody can help noticing it now, the fig-leaf makes it so conspicuous. [5]
Of them the most conspicuous was Clifford Melville, whose name was originally Joseph Sobieski, with habitat Poland, whose small part in this veracious tale belongs elsewhere. [11]
It is the most conspicuous place in the army, after her own. [5]
She was the most conspicuous figure in the island, and her beauty was a fine support to her wealth and reputation. [11]
When at last morning came I breakfasted early, searching the newspapers for accounts of the occurrence at Templar's Hall; and the fact that these were neither conspicuous nor circumstantial was in the nature of a triumph of self-control on the part of editors and reporters. [9]
She had no mission, nor was she afflicted by that modern form of altruism which is a yearning for notoriety by conspicuous devotion to causes and reforms quite outside her normal sphere of activity. [4]
Euryale, too, begged Melissa to allow it, as nothing would make her so conspicuous in her overdressed surroundings as excessive simplicity. [10]
It seems to me that some other way of advertising it might be devised, which would be just as conspicuous and yet not so trying to the proprieties. [5]
The captain comforted me for my loss, however, by saying that the man was without any doubt a fraud who had spectacles, but kept them in his pocket in order to make himself conspicuous. [5]
My Lord the Marquis of Wells was now most conspicuous amongst her suitors. [9]
That is a long time to sit in one place, whether one be conspicuous or not, yet some of Wagner's operas bang along for six whole hours on a stretch! [5]
In these the lofty intellectual brow was conspicuous, in those a bright, ecstatic expression particularly in the eyes. [10]
Conspicuous, both for location and personal outfit, stood Marinel, a hermit of the quack-doctor species, to introduce the sick. [5]
Its one conspicuous line, "And fired the shot heard round the world," must not take to itself all the praise deserved by this perfect little poem, a model for all of its kind. [6]
When a man is conspicuous, we always want to see him. [5]
The Government's work is always conspicuous for excellence, solidity, thoroughness, neatness. [5]
A conspicuous building is a large market-house shingled all over (as many of the public buildings are), and this and other cheap public edifices stand in the midst of a large square, which is surrounded by shabby shops for the most part. [4]
We lodged together in many places in Washington during the winter of '67-8, moving comfortably from place to place, and attracting attention by paying our board--a course which cannot fail to make a person conspicuous in Washington. [5]
She was sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. [2]
Such cats, as I have often noticed, are very conspicuous during day; but as they used to lie in watch during the dusk at the mouths of the burrows, the rabbits apparently did not distinguish them from their parti-coloured brethren. [1]
His is the humble task of following the fortunes of certain individuals, more or less conspicuous in this astonishing flowering of a democratic society, who have become dear to him by long acquaintance. [4]
There are still houses of the old sort, where wit and good-humor and free hospitality are more conspicuous than expense; but when money selects, there is usually an incongruous lot about the board. [4]
Once he saw her light robe, and its conspicuous gleam led him to the reflection, that it would be imprudent to conduct her to the humble fishing-village in that dress. [10]
Cutting off the head was a mode the people had of expressing disapproval of their conspicuous men. [4]
Thebes, at the head of the Grand Chain, and Commerce at the foot of it, were towns easily rememberable, as they had not undergone conspicuous alteration. [5]
When the artist's head appeared in the opening, the priest paused, for Moor paid the travelling expenses; but when his companion Sutor drew his cloak around him with every token of discomfort and annoyance, he followed his example in a still more conspicuous way. [10]
This conspicuous character has caused the bird to be ranked by several ornithologists as a distinct species under the name of U. lacrymans, but it is now known to be merely a variety. [1]
I had never had occasion to kill anybody, nor ever felt a desire to do so, but had worn the thing in deference to popular sentiment, and in order that I might not, by its absence, be offensively conspicuous, and a subject of remark. [5]

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