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Sentences ending with control

I can assure you, Miss Carvel," added Stephen, speaking with a force which made her start and thrill, "I can assure you from a personal knowledge of the German troops that they are not a riotous lot, and that they are under perfect control. [9]
Being a man who thought much and wisely for other people, he wanted to give the wife time to get herself in control. [11]
Besides, the woman to whom he had become attached at the Nore had been put ashore on the day Dyck gained control. [11]
When things begin to go wrong in the life of a man whose hands have held too many things, the disorder flutters through all the radii of his affairs, and presently they rattle away from the hub of his control. [11]
Well, I'm off to find Lindau, and when I come back I hope Mr. Dryfoos will have you under control. [8]
If she seems to be influenced at present by the French and Italian examples, we may be sure that she is too intelligent and too fond of freedom to long tolerate any system of chaperonage that she cannot control. [4]
As soon as they were gone, he called Boges and said in a low voice: "From this time forward the hanging-gardens and the Egyptian are under your control. [10]
Have I learned the game of control? [11]
The stopping of the alarm bells proved that the fire was under control. [10]
They tell me that when my uncle's day is done--I grieve to think it is not far off--I must take the rod of control. [11]

Short sentences using control

His control is visible everywhere. [10]
He can control the matter. [7]
Those people need spiritual control. [9]
There he had control. [11]
She will gradually control everything. [4]

Sentences containing control two or more times

To have control, then, of the Readers, is to have control of the Branch Churches. [5]
Mrs. Eddy has that control--a control wholly without limit, a control shared with no one. [5]
She holds, in perpetuity, autocratic and indisputable sovereignty and control over every branch Church in the earth; and yet says, in that sugary, naive, angel-beguiling way of hers, that the Mother-Church: "shall assume no official control of other churches of this denomination. [5]
In his life of inconstancies, it was a pleasure to rest upon something fixed, and the man who had no control over himself liked logically enough to feel his control of some one else. [8]
Try to control it, my lad; take an old man's advice and try to control it. [9]
Lost control in Asia is lost trade; this is evident in every foot of control Russia has gained in the Caucasus, about the Caspian Sea, in Persia. [4]

More example sentences with the word control in them

I don't want you to hide anything, because, if you do, I'll have Jim in, and Jim, under proper control, will tell me the whole truth, and perhaps more than the truth. [11]
I trusted to you to control him, and this is how you do it. [9]
This will give you control of both banks of the river. [7]
They were not yet under control, but she felt them, and in so far as she had power to think, she used them. [11]
We two will work the ledge, and have full control, and pay all expenses. [5]
His method was withering sarcasm, and he was clearly unable to control his animus.... No champion appeared to support Krebs, who sat pale and tense while this denunciation of him was going on. [9]
It is so wise to do this, to keep one's feelings in control, not to be too hasty! [4]
Pauline and she, who lived in different worlds, and yet were tied to each other by circumstances they could not control, would each work out her own destiny after her own nature, since John Alloway had come a-wooing. [11]
Let each one who feels too weak to control his wrath, avoid the Circus; and those who go, keep still if they feel moved to act in my behalf. [10]
But the path which those who live under the control of the Spirit are to take is opened up to them as they journey. [9]
But few seconds were needed for these reflections, and as he was accustomed when need arose to control himself, he said: "We must see--some means must be found--" and then without any greeting to his host, he slowly returned to his own house. [10]
The walking powers were much impeded by the want of control over the right leg. [6]
When those conditions were fulfilled, the control of the property reverted to the author. [4]
If you say we shall not control it, because it is only part, the same is true of every other part; and when all the parts are gone, what has become of the whole? [7]
In practical life we cannot, but in his realm the novelist can, control the weather. [4]
Philippus, as he watched her, had to control himself sternly, and as soon as possible he took his leave. [10]
The count's face was white and he could not control the feverish twitching of his lower jaw. [2]
But her self-command was unshaken, her power to control speech was the equal of his. [9]
And yet--so I was told afterwards--my delivery was not mechanical, and I actually achieved more emphasis, gave a greater impression of conviction than at any time since the night I had lost my control and violently denounced the reformers. [9]
In fact, it was the control of the subterranean corridors of the sanctuary which had suggested to Gorgias the idea of carrying Dion through them to Pyrrhus's fishing-boat. [10]
Only by degrees was she able to get sufficient control of herself to begin her copying, when she found a certain relief in action--her hands flying over the keys, tearing off the finished sheets, and replacing them with others. [9]
Leicester, who now was playing the game as though it were a hazard for states and kingdoms, read the increasing trouble in her face; and waited confidently for the moment when in desperation she would lose her self- control and go to the Queen. [11]
By nature he was insolent, but under the system of control pursued by the officers of the Ariadne, previous to the mutiny, he had not been able to do much. [11]
The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, and sometimes flung the exercise book away. [2]
It is to utilize the spots on the sun--get control of them, you understand, and apply the stupendous energies which they wield to beneficent purposes in the reorganizing of our climates. [5]
He's only about twelve years older than my son, but, like my son, there's no holding him, there's no control of him that's any good. [11]
Suddenly Mr. Carvel turned, shaking with a laughter he could not control, and strode into the private office the door slammed behind him. [9]
Who shall gainsay Turkey if she chooses to bring an army here and recover control, remove thy family from Egypt, and seize upon its lands and goods? [11]
He had had too much money, and none had known how to control him. [9]
But we believe today, more strongly than ever before, as democracy advances, as peoples tend to gain more and more control over their governments, that even this may not be an unrealizable ideal. [9]
She was ready to throw herself at his feet and implore him to control himself, to guard himself against further wrong-doing--but she maintained her proud dignity, and the eyes that met his were not less indignant and defiant than his own. [10]
Thou art about to slay thy brother; but I say unto thee, do not indulge anger; strive to control it. [10]
My object was to save the men who, having mutinied and fled from Admiralty control, are subject to capital punishment. [11]
He was trying to make for himself a future which might mean the control of a greater colony even. [11]
They'll have orders to land on the coast, to join the Irish patriots, to take control of the operations, and then to march on--" He was going to say "march on Dublin," but he stopped. [11]
He grew white to his lips with anger, and yet he knew that he must control himself. [9]
It's your business to get control of things that belong to other people, and sell them out. [9]
He had determined to get control of the Ariadne. [11]
He was determined to control the meeting and to influence its judgment. [11]
You only wish to control in your own localities; but this you must know may derange all other posts. [7]
Mr. Flint had to control himself. [9]
Indeed, he tried to control himself, for some reason standing in awe of my appearance, and then he burst out into such loud haw-haws that the crew poked their heads above the cabin hatch. [9]
He also began to build the famous Tower of Babel, but circumstances over which he had no control put it out of his power to finish it. [5]
The chief objection to a National or Democratic Control of Industry has been that it would tend to create vast political machines and thus give the politicians in office a nefarious power. [9]
For the first time in a collective experience the men gathered there were confronted with a situation which they doubted their ability to control, a situation for which there was no precedent. [9]
There was one thought that drifted across the chaos like a blue light of the spirit: Could she control the storm? [9]
It was as though she was the authority in the household and took control even of her mother. [11]
Their control in this way intimated a volatility which was not perceptible in their sentiment. [8]
It was at this time that Dyck Calhoun--who, by consent of Richard Parker, had taken control of the Ariadne--took action which was to alter the course of his own life and that of many others. [11]
Another branch of this activity is the so-called syndicating of the author's products in the control of one salesman, in which good work and inferior work are coupled together at a common selling price and in common notoriety. [4]
But above all things, he has taken the sole control of the empire of France into his hands and made it a tolerably free land--for people who will not attempt to go too far in meddling with government affairs. [5]
This state of things is continually becoming worse and makes one fear that unless a prompt remedy is applied the troops will no longer be under control in case of an engagement. [2]
They say when they let one of their big wells burn away all winter before they had learned how to control it, that well kept up a little summer all around it; the grass stayed green, and the flowers bloomed all through the winter. [8]
Poor planetary foundlings, they have known hard treatment at the hands of the brute forces of nature, from the control of which they are soon to be set free. [6]
Do you think there may be predispositions, inherited or ingrafted, but at any rate constitutional, which shall take out certain apparently voluntary determinations from the control of the will, and leave them as free from moral responsibility as the instincts of the lower animals? [6]
He left you then, and you have no more control over him. [9]
They cannot control themselves, they require a strong hand. [9]
The control of the subterranean chambers in the Temple of Isis which had been bestowed on the architect, also appeared like a miracle. [10]
Enough to control the Republican caucus. [9]
He believed in the powers exerted by that remarkable man over spirits, and his ability to work miracles, for he had proved in the most startling manner that he had perfect control even over such a determined mind as that of the prefect. [10]
Unable to control the muscles of her face, shoulders and hands, she went into the middle of the room, beckoned the men to come close to her, raised her fan to her face, and whispered: "Don Fabrizio and I are now one. [10]
The melee at the Meta had excited his steeds almost beyond control, and as they tore past the Taraxippos the third horse, Megaera, shied violently as Demetrius had predicted. [10]
Since coming to the inn he had been walked a couple of miles each day, with two men with loaded whips to control him. [9]
Their control of the country rested upon force; the stability of the Diaz rule, for instance, depended upon the "President's" ability to maintain his dictatorship--a precarious guarantee to the titles he had given. [9]
Then again, in the control of the government--the management of the partnership affairs--they have greatly the advantage of us. [7]
Isn't it because the control has been taken off? [9]
Do New-Yorkers control the capital, rule the politics, build the palaces, direct the newspapers, furnish the entertainment, manufacture the literature, set the pace in society? [4]
The moment that the boat was under way in the river, she was under the sole and unquestioned control of the pilot. [5]
I may add that, the force being under the national military control, it is also within the proclamation in regard to the habeas corpus. [7]
It troubled her that she had lost, or had never gained, the whole control of her mind. [13]
It cannot be that our Scheherezade, who looks so quiet and proper at the table, can make use of That Boy and his catapult to control the course of conversation and change it to suit herself! [6]
It was true that her own fortune was safe and in her control. [4]
Quietly, Sheila was taking control of their movements, and indeed of her own daily life. [11]
And it was suspected that the circumstances attending that marriage put him in complete control of it. [4]
And if we surrender the control of it, do we not surrender the right of self-government? [7]
The fishery would support a colony until it had obtained a good foothold, and control of these fisheries would bring more profit to England than any other occupation. [4]
His anger was suddenly at white heat; and his voice, which he strove to control, betrayed it. [9]
The mind at such times is not under control. [4]
My political education strongly inclines me against a very free use of any of these means by the executive to control the legislation of the country. [7]
It was a straight line of thought which, in its intensity, gathered all other thoughts into its wake, reduced them to the control of an obsession. [11]
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts, and "not even in inmost thought to think again the sins that made the past so pleasant to us. [1]
It's better that some one who understands, as you do, should be in control after Calhoun has gone. [11]
I felt that some day I could get the book back under my control if I so desired, while the chances of the book making an immediate phenomenal sale were not great. [11]
He might have softened the growing resentment by a change of manner, but his intellectual arrogance had control of him for the moment; and he said to himself that he had mastered the House before, and he would do so now. [11]
He tossed from side to side, he sought to control himself, but it was of no avail. [11]
Nothing ever really shook the place out of a wholesome control and composure. [11]
But with French ships, French officers and soldiers, French guns and ammunition, with the trained men of the French army to take control here, what amelioration of our weakness, what confidence and skill on our side! [11]
I understood that she had had herself under control, had worn a mask--a mask I had forced on her; and the revelation of the continued existence of that other Maude was profoundly disturbing. [9]
No frowning age shall control The constant current of my soul, Nor a tear from pity's eye Shall check my sympathetic sigh. [5]
At times he seems grateful, and then he will suddenly grow tired and hard to control. [9]
And should they see the star which 'mid the dark Illumed thy pathway to thy distant goal, Thither they'll turn the prow of their life bark; Its radiance their course also will control. [10]
One of the secrets of Dyck's control of the crew was the fact that he was a gentleman, and was born in the ruling class, and this was anathema to Nick Swaine. [11]
It involves the Science of Life, and recognizes only the divine control of Spirit, wherein Soul is our master, and material sense and human will have no place. [5]
He does not say the people can drive it out, but they can control it as other property. [7]
For your own sake--for the sake of us all--cease this foolish raving, and do not merely call yourself a skeptic--be one; control the passion that is rending you. [10]
It may be said, however, that no greater menace to democracy could have arisen than the one we seem barely to have escaped--the control of politics and government by the capitalistic interests of the nation. [9]
The men whom Rudyard had gone to save could control a greater wealth, a more precious thing than anything he had. [11]
He had a romantic mediaeval view, which translated weakness and beauty into a miracle, and what psychologists call "an inspired control. [11]
The day after Richard Parker visited the Ariadne the fleet had been put under the control of the seamen's Delegates, who were men of standing in the ships, and of personal popularity. [11]
His passion for revenge, on the other hand, is boundless--no one living can control it; and not even the noble Julia can shield those who provoke it from a cruel end. [10]

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