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Sentences starting with contained

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Sentences ending with contained

He commissioned Anselmus Winckler, an excellent notary, and formerly his most intimate school friend, to close the apothecary shop and to sell privately whatever it contained. [10]
Instinctively he knew what it contained. [11]
She still held the sheet in her hand, and was shouting to the angry elements the magic formulas which it contained. [10]
How delicate were the characters it contained! [10]
Of one thing she was sure, that it would not be right at this time to encourage him although she had a guilty feeling that the letter had given him encouragement in spite of all the prohibitions it contained. [9]
After a short rest, they went on through the hall in which the triangular green stems were sorted, according to the quality of the white pith they contained. [10]
An envelope was on the table with Elsie's name written in a similar hand; but the envelope was empty, and he could not find the note it contained. [6]
There was nothing left of his fortune, and his creditors were in possession of his house and all it contained. [4]
Grassette felt hastily in the dead man's pocket, drew forth a letter, and with half-blinded eyes read the few lines it contained. [11]
I eagerly seized his books, first choosing his "Axioms of the Philosophy of the Future," and afterwards devoured everything he had written which the library contained. [10]

Short sentences using contained

It contained a woman's hair. [11]
They contained zenana ladies. [5]

Sentences containing contained two or more times

This latter careful observer examined, late in the autumn, during two years, thirty-six nests; he found that twelve contained young dead birds, five contained eggs on the point of being hatched, and three, eggs not nearly hatched. [1]

More example sentences with the word contained in them

The roll the youth had brought to the camp contained two letters. [10]
His religion seemed woven all of austerity, contained no shining threads to catch my eye. [9]
That book had wisely been gotten out of the way, for it contained things which would be very awkward here. [5]
She was not wholly free from guilt, for her note had really contained an invitation to a meeting; yet she escaped. [10]
The trivial sin which this sweet love secret contained had been pardoned in the case of the man bound by no older obligation, after a slight penance, and now for the first time he fully enjoyed the wealth of the unexpected new happiness. [10]
The last words which he addressed to her before leading her back to the others contained the promise to make her patron saint, St. Clare, his own. [10]
But still later, when this very bill was first brought in, it contained no repeal. [7]
And Janet remembered when the little red book that contained the songs had arrived at Headquarters from the west and had been distributed by thousands among the strikers. [9]
He knew well what they contained, new difficulties, more urgent demands fox money. [5]
He must know what the rest of the letter contained, and the ex-schoolmaster was at hand to give the information at once. [10]
How many tears were shed over those coffins which contained the earthly remains of many a young life once rich in hopes and glowing with warm enthusiasm, many a quiet heart which had throbbed joyously for man's noblest possession! [10]
The only flowers were contained in three vases on the mantel, and were lilies of the valley, red and white roses, and arbutus. [6]
Several of them were contained in a former volume which received its name from the Address called "Currents and Counter-Currents. [6]
At the hotel we got out our slips and were a little disappointed to find that they contained the same words. [5]
Her first impulse was to hand the letter over at once; then there came the remembrance of all it contained, all it suggested. [11]
What the gift was to announce she read on the paper accompanying it, which contained the following simple lines: "The iron rude, when shaped by fire and blows, Delights our eyes as a most beauteous rose. [10]
Now, whether this was a repudiation of the Missouri line in principle depends upon whether the Missouri law contained any principle requiring the line to be extended over the country acquired from Mexico. [7]
Only the first volume originally contained much more Egyptian material, and the third I lengthened beyond my primary intention. [10]
What of true value, what of peace and security was contained in her present existence? [9]
When I entered upon my last term, my Leporello list was long enough, and contained pictures from many different classes. [10]
Mr. Billings' summing up was somewhat impassioned, and contained more quotations from the "Book of Arguments. [9]
A secretary entered, to whom he dictated a telegram which contained these words: "Langmaid has discovered a way out. [9]
She turned quickly to the portfolio on the desk, drew forth the fatal letter, and, turning to the page which contained the truth concerning David, handed it to him. [11]
Then it occurred to him: if the answer to the question were contained in his name, his nationality would also be given in the answer. [2]
We were glad to have seen that land which had an enlightened religion with future eternal rewards and punishment in it, while even Israel's religion contained no promise of a hereafter. [5]
The history of this gentleman may be found in an interesting series of questions (unfortunately not yet answered) contained in the 'Notes and Queries. [6]
When I began this final reconstruction the story contained 81,500 words, now it contains only 58,000. [5]
He knew that they contained important news for him; but he loved to do violence to his curiosity, to test his resolution, and like an epicure to reserve the best dish till the last. [10]
The document contained these words: Trouble is brewing; indeed, it is at hand. [11]
By and by there was one which contained a single line: "Court now coming in after brief recess to hear verdict. [5]
This side of the valley contained the wind or water worn caves. [13]
Whether this is the survival of the period when the paper contained little else except "selections," and other printed matter was scarce, or whether it is only the beginning of a development that shall supply the public nearly all its literature, I do not know. [4]
He involuntarily seized the saddlebag which contained the handsomest gift he had bought in Brussels for the person who had drawn him back to Ratisbon with a stronger power of attraction than anything else. [10]
The charioteer held the reins, while he himself gazed at the roll in his hand which contained the result of the calculations of the astrologer, Rabbi Simeon Ben Jochai; and this was certainly likely enough to disturb the cheerfulness of the most reckless of men. [10]
That letter contained the opening scene of the next act in the drama. [9]
He turned up the light in the hall to behold a transformation quite as wonderful as any contained in the "Arabian Nights" or Keightley's "Fairy Mythology. [9]
If, for instance, the landlord's wife at Burnsville had traveled with her husband, her table would probably have been more on a level with his knowledge of the world, and it would have contained something that the wayfaring man, though a Northerner, could eat. [4]
Then he quieted the hound and ordered one of the attendants, who came hurrying in, to bring out whatever dainty viands the house contained and a jar of the best Byblus wine from the cellar. [10]
And now, from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into a feeling of contemptuous ill will. [2]
All rejoiced in the happy termination of their troubles, and they had spent some time joyfully together, when Iamo said: 'Now I will divide the wampum,' and getting the belt which contained it, he commenced with the eldest, giving it in equal portions. [5]
In this way the dilution of the original millionth of a grain of medicine contained in the grain of powder operated on is carried successively to the billionth, trillionth, quadrillionth, quintillionth, and very often much higher fractional divisions. [3]
Two weeks after the day he left Mr. Braden's presence in the Ripton House the principal newspapers of the country contained the startling announcement that the well-known summer colony of Leith was to be represented in the State Legislature by a millionaire. [9]
The Indians robbed the coach of everything it contained, including quite an amount of treasure. [5]
The warehouses of the capital no doubt contained everything that could be needed, no matter how or when, but Berlin seemed to me too small for all the trash that was dragged out of the houses in that March night. [10]
The physician in the Arabian Nights made his patient play at ball with a bat, the hollow handle of which contained drugs of marvellous efficacy. [6]
The number of the "Banner and Oracle" which contained this advertisement was a fair specimen enough of the kind of newspaper to which it belonged. [6]
But the niches that had contained the ashes of these renowned crusaders were empty. [5]
Uncle Mumford said that Cape Girardeau was the Athens of Missouri, and contained several colleges besides those already mentioned; and all of them on a religious basis of one kind or another. [5]
Essays contained in such a volume, for instance, as "The Relation of Literature to Life" will not appeal to him whose main object in reading is amusement. [4]
The essay was subsequently published during the same year in a volume entitled "Studies of Irving," which contained also Bryant's oration and George P. Putnam's personal reminiscences. [4]
Though her father's storehouses contained chests of spices and bales of cloth, he did not know one more queenly. [10]
The magistrate's entrance startled them, and the butler vainly strove to hide a large jar whose shape betrayed that it came from Sicily and contained the noble vintage of Syracuse. [10]
Perceiving a significant smile upon the lips of the faithful follower, and recognising the peril contained in the last resolve, he shook his finger at Quijada, saying: "As if even the inmost recesses of your soul were concealed from me! [10]
There was a small packet, which I knew contained the portrait he had worn on his bosom, addressed to Mrs. Falchion; and the other was a single sheet directed to me, fully written upon, and marked in the corner: "To be made public. [11]
While some were shattering his statues to carry away in sacks the gold and ivory which they contained, others were to force their way into Myrtilus's workroom, which was on the opposite side of the house. [10]
I confess with shame--and I now beseech your pardon for it--that I said to the ruined stranger all of the words contained in the test-remark, including the disparaging fifteen. [5]
Nay, when he set his foot on the first step, it seemed as if the temple which contained his holiest treasure fell crashing around him, and an inner voice cried loudly: "Away, away from here! [10]
These letters were sent by the first messenger going south over the Alps, and that they reached Melchior will be seen from the fresh surprises contained in his answer. [10]
He made no secret of the fact that his visit to the metropolis was in the nature of a relaxation and a change of scene, but the letters themselves contained surprisingly little information as to how he was employing his holiday. [9]
She felt offended, scorned, insulted, and at the same time defrauded of the happiness which this night of the full moon contained for her. [10]
Still it would scarcely have been advisable to remain near them; for these packages, which the Ortlieb house brought from Venice, contained pepper and other spices that exhaled a pungent odor, endurable only by hardened nerves. [10]
When I first saw Marion City, thirty-five years ago, it contained one street, and nearly or quite six houses. [5]
It contained a request that he would visit Myrtle Hazard, who seemed to be in a very excitable and impressible condition, and who might perhaps be easily brought under those influences which she had resisted from her early years, through inborn perversity of character. [6]
If so, I repeat my request of an absolute retraction of all offensive allusions contained therein in relation to my private character and standing. [7]
At first, the remembrance of her contained nothing save bitterness, but now, by quiet, persistent effort, he had succeeded, not in attaining forgetfulness, but in being able to separate painful emotions from the pure and exquisite joy of remembering her. [10]
Then she abruptly remembered that she had no dressing-gown with her; that she had travelled with one single bag--little more than a hand-bag--and it contained only the emergency equipment of a nurse. [11]
One evening she received a letter from Milan, which must have contained bad news, and the next day vanished without any farewell. [10]
What is its reader to do when his journal thrusts upon him every day the amount contained in a fair-sized duodecimo volume, and on Sundays the amount of two of them? [4]
It contained her purgatory, which she regarded in good conventional fashion as a mere temporary place of detention, and likewise the heaven toward which she strained, the dwelling-place of light. [9]
The Atlantic page probably contained about a thousand words, which would make his price average, say, two cents per word. [5]
The whirlwind which preceded the bursting of the storm blew such clouds of dust and everything it contained into their faces that it was difficult to advance. [10]
To this I perceive no objection, especially as such persons would be within the general pardoning power and also the special provision for pardon and amnesty contained in this act. [7]
The pain had passed away, the despatches contained no bad news, and Dr. Mathys had permitted him to go out the next day. [10]
According to the parliamentary returns of 1825, the parish including the hamlet of Sloothby contained 108 houses and 514 inhabitants. [4]
I opened the packet addressed to Hungerford and myself, and saw that it contained a full and detailed account of his last meeting with his wife. [11]
Shall we learn other things than those that have hitherto been contained in our philosophy? [9]
In the author's opinion, with which the best critics agreed, it contained some of his best writing. [4]
The interior contained only a single, quiet, pleasant chamber, with the image of Berenike. [10]
It seemed like one solid stone, and yet all the colors of the rainbow were contained in it. [4]
The parcel contained one of her works, 'The Hamiltons,' and a very civil and friendly note, in which I find myself addressed as 'Dear Jane. [14]
Mr. Ballou broke off some fragments with a hammer, and examined them long and attentively with a small eye-glass; threw them away and broke off more; said this rock was quartz, and quartz was the sort of rock that contained silver. [5]
The slender bag of Thursday's letters contained none for me. [9]
He seized one of their boats and escaped to the ship which contained the provision. [4]
So I say of the whole history contained in his essay where he endeavored to link the men of the Revolution to popular sovereignty. [7]
She said nothing of the summons which she had received that morning, or of her answer; and her account of the matter of the dismissal and reinstatement was brief and dignified, and contained no mention of Mr. Worthington's name or agency. [9]
The last paragraph of the report contained tributes to Mrs. Joshua Holt and Mrs. Cecil Grainger for the work each had done during the year, and amidst enthusiastic hand-clapping the formal part of the meeting came to an end. [9]
It contained portraits of the English rulers, with the brief facts of their reigns. [5]
The January number of the Edinburgh Review had contained the article on Shirley, of which her correspondent, Mr. Lewes, was the writer. [14]
And the sum of the doctrine contained in these words is this: Bless those that curse you, pray for your enemies and repent for those who persecute you, for 'if ye love them that love you what thank have ye? [10]
The next number of the "Banner and Oracle" contained two announcements which she read with some interest when her attention was called to them. [6]
We ran short of plaster of Paris, or we'd have built a brontosaur that could sit down beside the Stratford Shakespeare and none but an expert could tell which was biggest or contained the most plaster. [5]
As an example of New Orleans journalistic achievement, it may be mentioned that the 'Times-Democrat' of August 26, 1882, contained a report of the year's business of the towns of the Mississippi Valley, from New Orleans all the way to St. Paul--two thousand miles. [5]
With active presence of mind she gathered up her garments from the floor, swept the long locks of hair together, and threw them all, with the sewing and the basket that had contained the food, into the stove on the hearth, and set them alight. [10]
It contained messages of love for everybody, but it was the first one in her life written to her aunt not from her heart. [4]
It contained errors of judgment and of fact. [5]
On each side of a large structure, which contained the state rooms and banqueting hall, three rows of pavilions of different sizes extended in symmetrical order. [10]
But neither he nor she was aware of one thing, that the beautiful embossed address contained an appeal to her to return to the world of song which she had renounced, to go forth once more and contribute to the happiness of humanity. [11]
Fortunately it contained no statement save the bare facts connected with the killing of Erris Boyne, and no reference to the earlier life of the dead man. [11]
This bill contained no repeal of the Missouri Compromise. [7]
I gave the new commander no instructions as to the administration of the system mentioned, beyond what is contained in the private letter afterwards surreptitiously published, in which I directed him to act solely for the public good, and independently of both parties. [7]

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