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Sentences starting with could

Could I engage you to restore some of my paintings that need that attention? [5]
Could prayer, do you think, make me sorrier than I am? [11]
Could this awkward, yellow man with his hands behind his back be he whom he had worshipped? [9]
Could he, Isaac Worthington, humble his pride and ask her to keep her suspicions to herself? [9]
Could he have won Paula's heart--Paula's love? [10]
Could she say whither the winds might blow, where the seed might be planted? [9]
Could they help, when Heaven denied its aid? [10]
Could this be what the man meant? [9]
Could he know what misery she was in, the daily witness of her father's broken condition, of her mother's uncertain temper? [4]
Could we if we would? [9]

Sentences ending with could

To renew my youth, if I could. [9]
Who told you you might meddle with such hifalut'n foolishness, hey?--who told you you could? [5]
Don't you wish you could? [5]
And we thought you could make him see this thing straight, if any man could. [9]
I believe I would relent before the year was up, and get them out if I could. [5]
There were people who were willing to teach us German, without rooms or board; or to lodge us without giving us German or food; or to feed us, and let us starve intellectually, and lodge where we could. [4]
I have done what man could. [5]
I don't think we've given Miss Dryfoos a pleasure, but perhaps nobody could. [8]
All visiting pilots were useful, for they were always ready and willing, winter or summer, night or day, to go out in the yawl and help buoy the channel or assist the boat's pilots in any way they could. [5]
I thought you were ungenerous in assuming that I did not send them as fast as I could. [7]

Short sentences using could

But bo' could you? [8]
I could persuade you. [5]
Wrangle could catch you. [13]
I could never withstand distress. [5]
He could not weep. [2]
He could not weep. [10]
But how could we? [5]
But what could we do? [5]
I could not wake him. [11]
I could not wait. [9]

Sentences containing could two or more times

I could wish your experience of your friends were more animating than mine, and that there were any horoscope you could not cast from the first day. [6]
When we were younger we could stand it; we could give way to it and take the consequences. [8]
There's a place you could hide by the river where no one could ever find you," she said, and left the room. [11]
But why did you choose a detail of my question which could be answered only with vague hearsay evidence, and go right by one which could have been answered with deadly facts?--facts in everybody's reach, facts which none can dispute. [5]
I could put you a folding bed in the room where you wrote, and we could even have one in the parlor. [8]
She could not yet feel any impulse of affection towards her, and she did not as yet understand that what was required of her was the one gift which the best will, the most loving heart in the world, could not offer at a command. [10]
She could not write, because she could not conceive the possibility of expressing sincerely in a letter even a thousandth part of what she expressed by voice, smile, and glance. [2]
He could not write about the sixteenth century any more than we could read about it, while the nineteenth was in the very agony and bloody sweat of its great sacrifice. [6]
Still more satisfactory would it be if it could be shown that he had reconsidered his predictions, and declared that he could not abide by his former alarming conclusions. [6]
Only yesterday this would have roused her wrath; to-day she could forgive him; for she could forgive anything to this unhappy soul--to the man on whom she had brought such deep anguish. [10]

More example sentences with the word could in them

Among other presents Zopyrus received a gold hand-mill weighing six talents, the most honorable and distinguished gift a Persian monarch could bestow upon a subject. [10]
Do you think, Zoe, that with that I could wear the dress of transparent bombyx silk that came yesterday from Cos? [10]
In his hottest youth he could not have made such passionate motions of affection. [11]
If the agile youth could reach this cleft unseen, and crawl through as far as the pool of saltwater, overgrown with tall grass and tangled desert shrubs, at which it ended, he might, aided by the clouds, succeed. [10]
You must know, yourself, that Hanuman could not have carried those mountains to Ceylon except by the strength of the gods. [5]
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]
Say--the next time you're going in there, don't you reckon you could spread the door and--" "No, indeedy! [5]
I received both your letters, and although I have not answered them it is not because I have forgotten them, or been uninterested about them, but because it appeared to me that I could write nothing which would do any good. [7]
You would have your legs under the Round Table and a 'Sir' in front of your names within the twenty-four hours; and you could bring about a new distribution of the married princesses and duchesses of the Court in another twenty-four. [5]
The safety of your fortune would be less difficult to provide for if, as was formerly the case here, we could entrust it to the merchants of Alexandria. [10]
You could rest your elbow on its eaves, and you had to bend in order to get in at the door. [5]
I am deeply your debtor for revelations which never could have come to me without your help. [11]
Men would call your acts treacherous if they knew what you had done; and so indeed they were; but yet I have seen you do things to others--not to me--which could rise only from the fountain of pure waters. [11]
I feel for you--oh, believe me, I feel as I have never felt, could never feel, for myself. [11]
But when the youngest went, she commenced the work as soon as she reached the lodge; although it had always been occupied, still the Indians never could see any one. [5]
Two of the younger men Honora recognized with a start, but for a moment she could not place them--until suddenly she remembered that she had seen them on her wedding trip at Hot Springs. [9]
When, as a young professor, I told the grey-haired author in my mother's name something which could not fail to afford him pleasure, I received the most eager assent to my query whether he still remembered her. [10]
I asked the young man in the ticket-office if I could have a sleeping-section, and he answered "No," with a snarl that shrivelled me up like burned leather. [5]
None but a young man could take on the job, for it will require boldness, skill, and the recklessness of perfect courage. [11]
On this the young man appeared, and though he and Paula did their utmost to preserve a suitable demeanor, every one could see the violent agitation they felt at meeting each other in such a situation. [10]
I asked the young gentleman to do me the kindness to go to jail as soon as he conveniently could, so that I might try to get in there and visit him, and see what college captivity was like. [5]
He thought the young gentleman could hardly find time for such a meeting during his brief visit. [6]
He mentioned my young friend and said he was very anxious to have the $7000 now to begin his banking operations with, and could wait a while for the rest. [5]
Everybody liked the young fellow, for how could they help liking one of such engaging manners and large fortune? [5]
Supported by the young Englishman, Hilary climbed the stone steps and reached the porch, declaring all the while that he needed no assistance, and could walk alone. [9]
She liked the Young Doctor, as who did not who came in contact with him, except those who had fear of him, and who had an idea that he could read their minds as he read their bodies. [11]
And for the young bloods, whose greatest regret was that they could not send forth a daughter of joy into the Champs Elysee in her carriage, she had ever sent them about their business. [11]
She was very young and pretty and accommodating, and always ready to do what she could to make things pleasant. [5]
Women might dislike you--many of them would--though you could not understand why; but you are good, and that, I suppose, is the best thing in the world. [11]
If he liked you, there could be no mistake about it. [9]
If they rise, you, here, would be in their way, and I could not guarantee your safety. [11]
As I wrote you, he sat up both nights, with Preston--he could not be induced to leave the room. [9]
I say to you, at the risk of the accusation of conceit, that I believed myself to have a power in the pulpit if I could only discover the truth. [9]
I am sure you, as a reasonable man, would not have been wounded could you have heard all my words and seen all my thoughts in regard to you. [7]
I looked at you, and I wished that I had never seen a woman before and could look at the world as you did then--it was like water from a spring, that look. [11]
But I loved you--" She shook her head, and with a smile of pitying disdain--he could so little see the real truth, his real misdemeanour--she said: "Oh no, never--never! [11]
If I could you would say you were nearly paid for the trouble you took. [5]
I understand all you would say to me; but he who has most at stake has said it, and, if he failed, do you think, madame, that you could succeed? [11]
If I thought you would not understand what I feel, I could not love you as I do. [9]
I could lick you with one hand tied behind me, if I wanted to. [5]
And some day you will suffer as I do, so terribly that even the brazen serpent could not cure you. [11]
I must tell you what I could not last night. [4]
I see how you were situated--another familiarity of Providence and wholly wanton intrusion--and of course we could not help ourselves. [5]
You were right: you were my star, and I was so blind with selfishness and vanity I could not see. [11]
You could if you were here. [5]
Suppose one of you wants to borrow the legs a minute from the one that's got them, could he let him? [5]
Why, what could you want over here in the bend, then? [5]
Why, I wrote you twice to ask you what you could mean by Sid being here. [5]
And I tell you this, I'd be glad to have a minister that I could follow and respect and love as I respect and love Monseigneur Lourde of Manitou. [11]
I could give you the details if I had time. [5]
I could tell you such tales of its cleverness! [10]
But--from the way you spoke, I should have thought nothing could have kept you away. [9]
I could tell you something--the history of this day, even--that would make you despise me. [8]
I have heard you say so many times that nobody could be a great artist without passing years and years at work, and growing pale and lean with thinking so hard. [6]
Sure enough, when you saw the shut doors and open windows of those empty houses, all white without in the sun and dark within, and not a human to be seen, you could believe almost anything. [11]
It--or they, as you please--bowed with elaborate foreign formality, but the Coopers could not respond immediately; they were paralyzed. [5]
I swear to you on my honor that Napoleon was in such a fix as never before and might have lost half his army but could not have taken Smolensk. [2]
And why could you not come in by the gate? [10]
And you said you loved me, and that nothing could change you! [11]
But that cat, you know, was always agin new fangled arrangements--somehow he never could abide'em. [5]
Nobody could tell you how to find any place in the kingdom, for nobody ever went intentionally to any place, but only struck it by accident in his wanderings, and then generally left it without thinking to inquire what its name was. [5]
But even if you had wings, and could fly straight to him, they would overpower him if I cannot succeed in turning the left wing on the rear of the enemy. [10]
She could sue you for cruelty and desertion, and the damages would be heavy. [11]
I've been onto you for a good while; though there was nothing I could spot certain; but now I've got you, and I'll break the 'perfect friendship' or I'll eat my shirt. [11]
How much did you figure you could get out of me, if I let you bleed me? [11]
I could tell you exactly what the difficulty is;--which would be as intelligible and amusing as a watchmaker's description of a diseased timekeeper to a ploughman. [6]
Oh, how could you ever have doubted it? [9]
I am sure you did not think I could be amused so easily. [11]
Jacob, I wonder you could sell it! [8]
How I wish you could see us felling trees to make bullet-moulds, and forging slugs for canister, and making cartridges at night with our bayonets as candlesticks. [9]
On every face you could see the words hieroglyphed: "It is a confession!--and paltry, lame, and thin. [5]
Brooks, I wish you could see the father, he's so typically unique--if one may use the expression. [9]
Alma, I wish you could see me as I really am. [8]
Since you say you could recognise the originals of all except the heroines, pray whom did you suppose the two Moores to represent? [14]
She felt that you could only love her and be glad of her, if her man was independent of you. [11]
No, oh, no, you could not tell that he had noticed the remark at all. [5]
The fact that you could not seem to feel it stimulated me. [9]
I fear that you could not put it in money. [4]
Do you think you could make a deal with Felix Marchand? [11]
Do you think you could live with such a man twenty-four hours, even if he had his crown on? [4]
Dead stop,--so still you could hear your hair growing. [6]
I wish that you could have known him. [6]
For a moment you could have heard a pine needle drop on the stoop. [9]
I don't believe you could have done it, Mr. Grier. [11]
A gentleman like you could give us twenty-five, and never know it was gone. [9]
Do you think you could get it suppressed for me? [5]
Do you think you could find me something to eat? [11]
Do you think you could endure this humdrum of enjoyment? [11]
I don't believe you could drag them away from Gretchen with nine span of horses. [5]
The best thing you could do would be to burn whole rows of these tenements, they are ideal breeding grounds for disease. [9]
There is nothing you could do to surprise me. [9]
Do you think you could convey my love and thanks to your "daddy" and Owen Seaman and those other oppressed and down-trodden subjects of yours, you darling small tyrant? [5]
I really wish you could consent to this. [7]
I do wish you could come down once more before your holiday. [5]
Do you believe you could bear that patiently? [7]
Everybody here says you can't get a thing like this through Congress without buying committees for straight-out cash on delivery, but I think I've taught them a thing or two--if I could only make them believe it. [5]
McDowell can reach you by land sooner than he could get aboard of boats, if the boats were ready at Fredericksburg, unless his march shall be resisted, in which case the force resisting him will certainly not be confronting you at Richmond. [7]
If nothing'll do you but a disturbance, out with it like a man ('ic)--but don't rake up old bygones and fling'em in the teeth of a passel of people that wants to be peaceable if they could git a chance. [5]
I come to you because I know that you could circumvent the Effendina, even if he sent ten thousand men. [11]
I could like you as well as I liked Harris himself, sir. [5]

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