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Sentences starting with corner

Corner toward Court-house. [5]

Sentences ending with corner

Say, Victoria, there's your friend Mr. Vane in the corner. [9]
What ails you, you, miserable hunchback!--Who gives you a right to toss our cloaks into a corner? [10]
But after many years, as I looked on the little front-yard again, it occurred to me that there used to be some Star-of-Bethlehems in the southwest corner. [6]
Yes, your nimble wit has helped you out of many a tight corner. [9]
But Mr. Cuthbert, who did not appear to perceive the humour in this conversation, extracted some keys and several pasteboard slips from a rack in the corner. [9]
Shouts of approval were heard from the crowd around, and at the same moment a mounted patrol of French Uhlans appeared from round the corner. [2]
This western curve was the only part of the valley where the walls had been split asunder, and it was a wildly rough and inaccessible corner. [13]
As chastening, it was good exercise; but when now and again the name of Sainte-Helene rang towards him, a cloud passed over his face; that touched him in a tender corner. [11]
The afternoon sun was beating in over the threshold as he reached it, and, at his footstep, a figure started forward from the shadow of a corner. [11]
Our great achievement was achieved--the possibility of the impossible was demonstrated, and Harris and I walked proudly into the great dining-room of the Riffelberg Hotel and stood our alpenstocks up in the corner. [5]

Short sentences using corner

Every corner was familiar. [11]
He's around the corner. [9]
Any corner in bronchitis? [6]
It was on a corner. [9]
Third corner turned. [6]
Second corner turned. [6]

Sentences containing corner two or more times

We grounded the wire of a pocket electrical battery in that powder, we placed a whole magazine of Greek fire on each corner of the roof--blue on one corner, green on another, red on another, and purple on the last--and grounded a wire in each. [5]
We wrote for that, and sometimes verses in the corner of a paper called 'The Anti-Masonic Mirror,' and in which corner was a woodcut of Apollo, and inviting to destruction ambitious youths by the legend underneath,-- 'Much yet remains unsung. [6]
I went off, smarting under this insult to my dignity, and asked another local official, supplicatingly, if I couldn't have some poor little corner somewhere in a sleeping-car; but he cut me short with a venomous "No, you can't; every corner is full. [5]
The northeast side of this, with Naples in the right-hand corner, looking seaward and Castellamare in the left-hand corner, at a distance of some fourteen miles, is a vast rich plain, fringed on the shore with towns, and covered with white houses and gardens. [4]
Having put him in the corner she would herself begin to cry over her cruel, evil nature, and little Nicholas, following her example, would sob, and without permission would leave his corner, come to her, pull her wet hands from her face, and comfort her. [2]
The poor youth had to speak pretty loud, as he was at the right upper corner of the table, and the little gentleman next the lower left-hand corner. [6]
But the walls could stand it--at least the partitions could, for they consisted simply of one thickness of white "cotton domestic" stretched from corner to corner of the room. [5]
On a chief corner stood a lofty unpainted pole wreathed from top to bottom with tin pots and pans and cups, the chief tinmonger's noisy notice to the world (when the wind blew) that his shop was on hand for business at that corner. [5]
The bank was caved away under one corner of some others, and that corner was hanging over. [5]
With his hands behind him he paced briskly from corner to corner of the room, looking straight before him and thoughtfully shaking his head. [2]

More example sentences with the word corner in them

When he came, you were for tying him up in one little corner of this island--the hottest part, I know, near to Kingston, where it averages ninety degrees in the shade at any time of the year. [11]
In brief, sir, you are the kind of lad I should have been had not fate pushed me into a corner, and made me squirm for life's luxuries. [9]
No prominent hill would stick to its shape long enough for me to make up my mind what its form really was, but it was as dissolving and changeful as if it had been a mountain of butter in the hottest corner of the tropics. [5]
Not for worlds would she have been seen in the house; and knowing, as she did from her games with Mary, every nook and corner of it, she began to consider her position. [10]
And sometimes he would go to the corner table, where the four littlest sat, and fetch one back to perch on his knee and pull at his white, military mustache. [9]
Austen sat down, with the corner of the desk between them, while Mr. Flint opened the boxes and began checking off the papers on the list. [9]
Being left along with his wife, who sat trembling in a corner with her eyes fixed upon the ground, the little man planted himself before her, and folding his arms looked steadily at her for a long time without speaking. [12]
They kept up with him, in the fascination of the sight, to the next corner, where he turned down the side street still searching the gutter. [8]
Who cannot sympathize with him as he watched the thin and hesitating stream of people out of the corner of his eye as they came in at the door? [9]
A French corporal, with coat unbuttoned in a homely way, a skullcap on his head, and a short pipe in his mouth, came from behind a corner of the shed and approached Pierre with a friendly wink. [2]
These she gave with an instant decision which was part of her equipment, and then, when the butler had gone, she left the house on foot to take a cab at the corner of Piccadilly. [11]
Two officers, one with a scarf over his uniform and mounted on a lean, dark-gray horse, the other in an overcoat and on foot, stood at the corner of Ilyinka Street, talking. [2]
They lived that winter in a quiet corner of Chelsea, No. [5]
Here it is--I will translate it: 'Brick livery stable, stone foundation, middle of town, corner of Orleans and Market. [5]
The man at whose bidding this merrymaking was held stood in a corner watching with folded arms, and none to look at him might know that he was playing for a stake. [9]
Mr Sampson Brass, who no doubt had his reasons for looking sharply about him, soon learnt to distinguish the pony's trot and the clatter of the little chaise at the corner of the street. [12]
The room in which she mostly lived was above the corner of the quiet street, and might have been more aptly called a sitting-room than a salon. [9]
In a corner, which seemed to catch the sun, was a bird-cage on a pole, sought by pigeons and doves. [11]
It was one which I had rented from Howard Ogilvy, and it stood on the corner of Baker and Clinton streets, near that fashionable neighbourhood called "the Heights. [9]
By and by, whenever poor Yates saw him coming, he would turn and fly, and drag his company with him, if he had company; but it was of no use; his debtor would run him down and corner him. [5]
She and Fabian, when the boat left the shore, went to one corner of the stern, leaving Carnac and Junia in the bow. [11]
But some day when he is in a corner with orders, and his rivals are competing for the market, and labor is scarce, his men strike on him. [4]
We struck out westward or northwestward from Calcutta on an itinerary of a zig-zag sort, which would in the course of time carry us across India to its northwestern corner and the border of Afghanistan. [5]
Papers East and West had copied his Alta and Tribune letters and carried his name into every corner of the States and Territories. [5]
Good patriots' shops were closed, their owners parading as on Sunday in their best, pausing in knots at every corner to discuss the affair with which the town simmered. [9]
Toward night candles were burning round his coffin, a pall was spread over it, the floor was strewn with sprays of juniper, a printed band was tucked in under his shriveled head, and in a corner of the room sat a chanter reading the psalms. [2]
By November they were at the Grosvenor, in New York, preparing to establish themselves in a house which they had taken on the corner of Ninth Street and Fifth Avenue--Number 21. [5]
This done, I went out into the gallery, where Madame was already seated at her knitting, in the shade of the great tree that stood in the corner of the court and spread its branches over the eaves. [9]
They bristled with weapons, and armed men crowded every corner of space. [11]
In the meantime we were off through Cursitor Street at a gallop, nearly causing the death of a ragged urchin at the corner of Chancery Lane. [9]
But at last we turned a corner and saw a great glare of light ahead. [5]
The Koh-inoor, as we called him, was in a corner with our landlady's daughter. [6]
I worked my way by the suite of packed drawing-rooms, and at the corner of the house I found a window open where there was a roomy platform decorated with flags, and carpeted. [5]
But mebbe it wasn't a close call!...I'll sit here in this corner where nobody can see me from the grove. [13]
The mother was washing clothes in a tub in one corner; in another corner was a half-finished garment from a slop-shop. [4]
Last spring she was sewing here with a song on her lips, watching for him to turn the corner as he came back to dinner. [9]
But his story was scarcely ended when a carriage stopped at the Corner of the Muses and an aristocratic Roman alighted. [10]
Once, when I was in Burgos, I saw a queer, longish shadow coming round a street corner, and two minutes after, first a nose and then old Enrique appeared. [10]
Now, the chamber was in a corner, so that the window faced another way, but the incident seemed strange to her, and she stood for a moment listening. [11]
In one corner was huddled a little group of toys. [9]
One of these was Eleanor Goodrich, whom he met on a corner, tanned and revived from her long summer in Massachusetts. [9]
Presently our attention was drawn to a marble medallion portrait on the corner building of an ordinary-looking row of houses. [6]
In one corner was an ivy-covered well, with an antique iron gate, and the bucket, hanging on a hook inside the fern-grown hood, was an old wine-keg-- appropriate emblem for a smuggler's house. [11]
By night, it was again a sight to see, with its great bonfires at every corner, and its troops of revellers making merry around them. [5]
In another corner was a target for the bow and arrow-evidence of the vigorous life of the owners of the house. [11]
In one corner was a fiddler, and on the veille, flourished for the occasion with satinettes and fern, sat two centeniers and the prevot, singing an old song in the patois of three parishes. [11]
Beside the hall was a corner lot, heaped high with hills of ashes and rubbish like the vomitings of some filthy volcano; the unsightliness of which was half concealed by huge signs announcing the merits of chewing gums, tobaccos, and cereals. [9]
It had bare walls, a plain table and chairs, and a crucifix in the corner. [9]
After registering, the visitors all bought note-paper with a chromo heading, "Among the Clouds," and a natural wild-flower stuck on the corner, and then rushed to the writing-room in order to indite an epistle "from the summit. [4]
There was Miss Virginia in a corner of the big parlor, for the moment alone with her cousin. [9]
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. [5]
T.]) that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once, and of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition, --and the next day he telegraphed back for his blankets. [5]
Bounding swiftly away, Venters fled around the corner, across the street, and, leaping a hedge, he ran through yard, orchard, and garden to the sage. [13]
A few braves usually stood like statues at the corner, and in front of the door another group of hunting shirts. [9]
There was as usual a furious "zephyr" blowing the first night of the brigade's return, and about midnight the roof of an adjoining stable blew off, and a corner of it came crashing through the side of our ranch. [5]
My only mirror used to be a stream of water in summer," she added, "and a corner of a looking-glass got from the Hudson's Bay fort in the winter. [11]
Fumbling in the upper drawer for a pair of white gloves (also new), she knocked off the corner of the bureau her velvet bag; it opened as it struck the floor, and out of it rolled a lilac vanity case and a yellow coin. [9]
At the right upper corner is a fresh-looking youth of whose name and history I have as yet learned nothing. [6]
The dogs pattered up, disappeared round the corner. [13]
She was coiled up in a corner of the sofa, her eyes sparkling with admiration of his indignation and force. [4]
He had picked up his hat from a corner of the littered table, and started to leave, when Garvin, by a sudden movement, planted himself in the doorway. [9]
Their prayers had unnerved him, had got into that corner of his nature where youth and its irresponsibility loitered yet. [11]
They command an uninterrupted view of--of over the way, and they are within one minute's walk of--of the corner of the street. [12]
She established herself under a light, on a sofa in one corner, and sat, with the book on her lap watching the people who came and went. [9]
Skins hung along two sides, with bullet-holes and knife-holes showing: of the great grey wolf, the red puma, the bronze hill-lion, the beaver, the bear, and the sable; and in one corner was a huge pile of them. [11]
In another corner two old bees are languidly fighting, or cleaning themselves, or feeding one another, without themselves knowing whether they do it with friendly or hostile intent. [2]
Forward again, and twisting a corner, we beheld the indented edge of the stockade. [9]
At the corner, turning fearfully, he perceived the man in the overcoat calmly preparing to unload his wood. [9]
Before I had turned the corner of Freshwater Lane, he was in the seat, and fanning himself with his hat. [9]
Afterward, when I tried to recall what he said, I laughed at his surprising ignorance of the question at issue, and wondered where my wits could have gone that I allowed myself to be dazzled and turned aside at every corner. [9]
Chaudiere had been touched in its most superstitious corner. [11]
The next ascent took grip of fingers as well as toes, but he climbed steadily, swiftly, to reach the projecting corner, and slipped around it. [13]
The lasso he took back with him to the corner and looped the noose over the spur of rock. [13]
I thought he took a furtive glance at me out of the corner of his eye, but as not even this notice was repeated, I judged I had been mistaken. [5]
Wetmore came up to their corner, with a scroll of bread and butter in one hand and a cup of tea in the other. [8]
Then she went to the little piano in the corner where stood the statue of Andromeda, and began to play softly. [11]
Sometimes Honora went to the corner with him, and he waved her good-by from the platform as he felt in his pocket for the nickel that was to pay his fare. [9]
When he came to the corner of the court in which he lived, lo and behold there was the pony again! [12]
Well, he came to that farthest corner of the pasturage, to the Hudson's Bay country, two hundred years ago. [11]
Mr Cheggs hastened to tender his hand to Miss Sophy, and Mr Swiviller sat himself down in a corner in a very moody state. [12]
He, however, appeared to take no notice, though he watched his outrageous pursuer out of the corner of his eye, as he quietly gave orders to a porter concerning a little heap of luggage. [11]
Klea was about to stroke the coaxing animal, but it sprang back, stared at her shyly, and, as she could not help thinking, angrily with its green eyes, and then shrank back into the corner close to Irene's couch. [10]
Leonard Mallow met to settle their account in a secluded corner of Phoenix Park. [11]
When it came to Natasha's turn to choose a partner, she rose and, tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran timidly to the corner where Denisov sat. [2]
Twice he paused to look behind him, and when he reached the corner of the street he stopped for some time to survey the Governor's house opposite. [9]
He found himself, to his surprise, surveying with equanimity the pile of books in the corner which had led him to the conviction of the emptiness of the universe--but the universe was no longer empty! [9]
I'm real glad to do you a good turn, Janet, and I know you'll get along," Miss Ottway added impulsively as they parted at the corner of Faber Street. [9]
Grits was put to bed in a corner, while Tom and I, provided with various garments, huddled over the stove. [9]
But it ceased to be a dream, and they were taken back into the hard, practical world, when, as they turned the corner, Irene pointed out her favorite sign: Silas Lapham, mineral paint. [4]
Presently she came to a wooded corner where the road forked thrice, and beyond, not without difficulty,--brought her sweating mare to a stand. [9]
I carried it to a secluded corner of a lumber-yard. [5]
Uncle Tom, relegated to a corner, pretended to read his newspaper, while Honora flitted from Peter's knees to his, or sat cross-legged on the hearth-rug investigating a bottomless stocking. [9]
Presently Lawless went to a corner and from his kit drew forth a flask. [11]
I failed several times, as I could see out of the corner of my eye without being told; but at last I knew I must be looking straight at the thing--knew it from the pleasure issuing in invisible waves from him. [5]
At the same time it was as though she glanced apprehensively out of the corner of her eye at the old man by her side, as she said: "Thank you. [11]
I stood some time by a group of a dozen seated in a corner of the church. [4]
There--he's got his thumb on the bump on the near corner of his forehead, and his forefinger on the off one. [5]
Three cannon-balls went through the chimney; one ball took off the corner of the pilot-house; shells were screaming and bursting all around. [5]
He watched the three ride across the oval and round the jutting red corner where the others had gone. [13]
It seemed hardly three minutes after Jasmine's entrance when she appeared in the doorway again, and, after a hasty glance up and down the street, sped away as swiftly as she could, and, at the corner, turned up sharply towards the Strand. [11]

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