Use count in a sentence
Sentences starting with count
- Count Ilya Rostov with the other members of the committee sat facing Bagration and, as the very personification of Moscow hospitality, did the honors to the prince. [2]
- Count Rostov's mouth watered with pleasure and he nudged Pierre, but Pierre wanted to speak himself. [2]
- Count Luigi was waiting, too; but not patiently, rumor said. [5]
- Count Pierre never used to forget us. [2]
- Count Rostopchin was unable to reply and, turning obediently, went in the direction indicated. [2]
- Count Philipp undertook to tell Ruth that Ulrich had found his mother again. [10]
- Count Ilya, again thrusting his way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver which he presented to Prince Bagration. [2]
- Count Landrassy had thought at first, when Ian Stafford came to Glencader, that this meeting had been purposely arranged; but through Byng's frankness and ingenuous explanations he saw that he was mistaken. [11]
- Count Ostermann-Tolstoy met the returning hussars, sent for Rostov, thanked him, and said he would report his gallant deed to the Emperor and would recommend him for a St. George's Cross. [2]
- Count Markov was the only man who knew how to handle him. [2]
Sentences ending with count
- And what do you think, Count? [2]
- But if the word can do everything, it will make you lord of the castle and a powerful count. [10]
- The major-domo to whom these entreaties were addressed, though he was sorry for the wounded, resolutely refused, saying that he dare not even mention the matter to the count. [2]
- She watches the waves and the mist till all is mist without; a scene which she had watched, how often she could not count. [11]
- Our dear countess was too clever with Vera," said the count. [2]
- Yes, I do understand figures, and I can count. [5]
- Venters crossed well-worn trails marked with fresh tracks; and when he had stolen on a little farther he saw many birds and running quail, and more rabbits than he could count. [13]
- It transpired that this signifies that the wearer has fought three duels in which a decision was reached--duels in which he either whipped or was whipped--for drawn battles do not count. [5]
- He is in the Pelican Hotel this evening, meeting the men that count. [9]
- Doubtless this was the French count. [4]
Short sentences using count
- The count sobbed yet more. [2]
- And Count Rostopchin wrote proclamations. [2]
- One can count the footfalls--one--two--three. [5]
- He looked at the count. [2]
- We shall have supper, Count. [2]
- Count Lips must stay! [10]
- It was Count Rostopchin. [2]
- Count Philipp was right. [10]
- The count burst out laughing. [2]
- You may count on me. [9]
Sentences containing count two or more times
- His official relations with the Foreign Office were courteous and agreeable, the successive Foreign Ministers during his stay being Count Richberg, Count Mensdorff, and Baron Beust. [6]
- One of these was running to cross the path of Count Rostopchin's carriage, and the count himself, his coachman, and his dragoons looked with vague horror and curiosity at these released lunatics and especially at the one running toward them. [2]
- But I had slipped one out, for fun, when the count began, and now I slipped it back and said, 'I think there is a mistake--there are eleven hundred and seven; let us count again. [5]
- Then count falls on Gabord's neck, and kisses both his ears, and gives him sables, and crosses oversea again; and so good-bye to count and his foolery. [11]
- In those old, old times, the Count Bruno lived in a great castle near there with his son, the Count Hermann, a youth of twenty. [5]
- When he awoke next morning the major-domo came to inform him that a special messenger, a police officer, had come from Count Rostopchin to know whether Count Bezukhov had left or was leaving the town. [2]
- Count Luigi is in command now; but at midnight, possession will pass to my principal, Count Angelo, and--well, you can foresee what will happen. [5]
- The day after his interview with Count Arakcheev, Prince Andrew spent the evening at Count Kochubey's. [2]
- It's hard, Count, hard to manage daughters in their mother's absence...." Pierre saw that the count was much upset and tried to change the subject, but the count returned to his troubles. [2]
- The letters were from the old count, the countess, Petya, Vera, Natasha, and Sonya, and finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other things the old count sent to his son. [2]
More example sentences with the word count in them
- You have brought your army corps to Pultusk, routed: here it is exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as you yourself reported to Count Buxhowden yesterday, you must think of retreating to our frontier--which do today. [2]
- But when the young count held out his closed hands, saying: "If you choose the red stone, you shall throw first," he pointed to his companion's right hand, and, as it concealed the red pebble, began the contest. [10]
- I will give you till I count three. [11]
- Of course, with you soldiers the years of warfare count double, and he--Duke Alba said so--was born a general. [10]
- Thus: Wrist, if you please.--I was on his right side, but he presented his left wrist, crossing it over the other.--I begin to count, holding watch in left hand. [6]
- And Jim said you mustn't count the things you are going to cook for dinner, because that would bring bad luck. [5]
- I know that you can help me, or Count Frontenac would not have sent me to you. [11]
- The examinations of yesterday count for nothing to-day--he makes a new examination every day. [5]
- For the three years I was in the mounted police, I could count a story for all the days o' the calendar --and not all o' them would make you happy to hear. [11]
- Nearly seven hundred years ago, that castle was the property of the noble Count Luigi Gennaro Guido Alphonso di Genova----" "What was his other name? [5]
- Joan walked two yards behind the Count, we three walked two yards behind Joan. [5]
- The Emperor had written to Count Rostopchin as follows: As soon as Leppich is ready, get together a crew of reliable and intelligent men for his car and send a courier to General Kutuzov to let him know. [2]
- And taking the work of General Thomas into the count, as it should be taken, it is indeed a great success. [7]
- For hours Philip's witnesses were examined, among them the officers of his duchy and Count Carignan Damour. [11]
- Only Count Orlov-Denisov with his Cossacks (the least important detachment of all) got to his appointed place at the right time. [2]
- The count listened with closed eyes, heaving abrupt sighs at certain passages. [2]
- The anxious wife wished to see Count Frontenac himself and then to find Iberville. [11]
- Then upon call, Wilson went to the window, made his examination, and said: "This is Count Luigi's right hand; this one, three signatures below, is his left. [5]
- And that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count who will not refuse to accompany you. [2]
- The old count, who noticed her blanched face, released her, asking sympathisingly what troubled her, but Els did not hear him. [10]
- The chief steward, who considered the young count's attempts almost insane--unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs--made some concessions. [2]
- There was silence while one might count ten --the master was gathering his wrath. [5]
- The afternoon in which we reached the volcano was suffocatingly hot, and the King's bodyguard had discarded all clothing--brief when complete-- save what would not count in any handicap. [11]
- After the fish, which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with the other committeemen. [2]
- There are days which count in space for years, and years for days. [9]
- Many a time when he had been asleep, with gentle fingers she had caressed his hands, his head, his face; but that did not count, because he did not know. [11]
- It was only when he drifted into strange and untried fields that he began to chase rainbows, to blow iridescent bubbles, and count unmined gold. [5]
- An hour afterwards, when Count Frontenac entered upon him, he was still in the same position. [11]
- But this is what we'll do: I have a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince Dolgorukov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now Kutuzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. [2]
- I'll tell you what we'll do, Count Luigi: I'll make a try at your past, and if I have any success there--no, on the whole, I'll let the future alone; that's really the affair of an expert. [5]
- But she knew what had been in Count Ploare's mind. [11]
- I know very well that Count Nicholas is too young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. [2]
- The count danced well and knew it. [2]
- We know how we stand towards each other and can count on each other with glad and perfect confidence, thanking the Almighty for having opened out a new life to us. [10]
- At my age we count it gain not to be disappointed, and the day when our expectations are not only fulfilled, but surpassed we number among our festivals. [10]
- You promised me we could count on a fourth, or I had never left Inman's. [9]
- All that did was to enwich the pwiests' sons and thieves and wobbahs...." Count Ilya Rostov smiled blandly and nodded approval. [2]
- Truly, the woman was to be admired, for she was earning an honest living; and no doubt they lied when they named her with Count Ploare. [11]
- Not till midwinter was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son's handwriting. [2]
- While the latter was still answering the last one, Chamberlain de Praet announced the singer's arrival, and Count Bueren escorted the aged Marquise de Leria to the monarch. [10]
- Old Count Frohlinger was still alive, but suffered a great deal from gout and the capricious young wife he had married in his old age. [10]
- The old count was resting in his study. [2]
- Only Count Rostov was pleased with them as he had been pleased with those of the naval officer, the senator, and in general with whatever speech he had last heard. [2]
- When the cotillion was over the old count in his blue coat came up to the dancers. [2]
- So strong, indeed, was his pleading, so well did his stout courage stand by him, that had Count Frontenac balanced in his favour he might have been quit of the charge of spying. [11]
- After breakfast, which was her best time, Marya Dmitrievna sat down in her armchair and called Natasha and the count to her. [2]
- His great house was filled, for there lodged Duke Ernst of Austria, the Hungarian Count of Gara--who through his wife was near of kin to the Emperor, and his Majesty's trusty secretary, Kaspar Slick, and all their people. [10]
- That young count was dying to go, too, but the King held him back for the present. [5]
- On what, then, was Count Rostopchin's fear for the tranquillity of Moscow based in 1812? [2]
- At last he was brought before the count, who restored him to liberty "for the sake of Florette's beautiful eyes. [10]
- While the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. [2]
- When the count was already leaving the room, Princess Mary went up hurriedly to Natasha, took her by the hand, and said with a deep sigh: "Wait, I must..." Natasha glanced at her ironically without knowing why. [2]
- After the great victory gained by Count Egmont against the military forces of France, eleven months after the battle of St. Quentin, there was enough to be seen in Brussels. [10]
- The count is very, very ill, and you must not see him at all. [2]
- The count had valuable Gobelin tapestries and Persian carpets in the house. [2]
- And it's no use for you to pretend that we didn't count upon him in--in every way. [8]
- Though she came upon the count in his dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to excuse his costume. [2]
- If they call up the militia, you too will have to mount a horse," remarked the old count, addressing Pierre. [2]
- When Pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal man. [2]
- When he woke up on the morning after his return to Moscow and his interview with Count Rostopchin, he could not for some time make out where he was and what was expected of him. [2]
- The count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving orders to the club steward and to the famous Feoktist, the Club's head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and fish for this dinner. [2]
- It was taken up again by other companies, and by the time Iberville presented himself to Count Frontenac, not long after, there was hardly a citizen, soldier, or woodsman, but was singing it. [11]
- But, don't be uneasy," he added, noticing that the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always a sign of approaching anger. [2]
- And then the uncharitable gossip went on, that there was the Count de l'Auney, and that Mrs. Mavick was playing the one off against the other. [4]
- John Wagner is two years older than the Rhode Island veteran, and yet has never tasted a drop of liquor in his life--unless-unless you count whisky. [5]
- But Lali was trying to think it out, not only to feel, and she did not count that subterranean force which must play its part in this new situation in her drama of life. [11]
- The old man tried to get me to fight one with Count Luigi, but he didn't succeed, so I reckon he concluded to patch up the family honor himself. [5]
- One day Moor took him aside, and told him that he had commenced a portrait of young Count Rappolstein too. [10]
- Venters's calculating eye took count of stock that outnumbered the red herd. [13]
- I want one to whom I can count for something, and to whose life and happiness I am indispensable. [10]
- So I decided to turn over and count a hundred, and let the patch of moonlight creep up and show me what the dickens it was. [5]
- He went straight to the Foreign Office for news, hoping against hope, was received by Count Mensdorff, who merely came forward and laid his arm about his shoulder with an intense sympathy beyond words. [6]
- Marya Dmitrievna talked to the count about something which they concealed from Natasha. [2]
- Pudd'nhead Wilson advanced to meet them, and said anxiously: "I must say a word in behalf of my principal's proxy, Count Luigi, to whom you have kindly granted the privilege of fighting my principal's battle for him. [5]
- Then it came to light that 'beautiful Susel' had bewitched the luckless young count and robbed him of reason by her wicked arts. [10]
- The count wanted to leave long ago, but the countess won't on any account leave Moscow till her son returns. [2]
- The count wished to go home, but Helene entreated him not to spoil her improvised ball, and the Rostovs stayed on. [2]
- She persuaded him to disobey the King in the interest of the nation, and to be reconciled to Count Richemont and welcome him. [5]
- When she needed to cry, the deceased count would be the pretext. [2]
- I didn't stop to count, anyhow--I shinned down the tree and shot for home. [5]
- Hopperson's influence ought to count twenty . [5]
- I asked him to count the letters. [5]
- We stood ready to count the astonishing clatter of reverberations. [5]
- Word was brought to Count Leonardo that a company of mountebanks besought his hospitality. [5]
- If you were to count it up, I am sure you would find that we talk an hour at least, altogether. [9]
- One is apt to be inexact when there is no particular circumstance to impress the count upon the memory. [5]
- It was singular to ask his enemy that he should see his papers handed to Count Frontenac if he were killed, but it was characteristic of him. [11]
- When it was time to go, we bade our distinguished hosts good-bye, and they retired happy and contented to their apartments to count their spoons. [5]
- When I count three, jump,' you answered. [11]
- It is full three months since I sent the shrewd and handsome Count Detzin on his devilish mission to my brother's daughter Constance. [5]
- Heinz Schorlin's friends thought the change in his mood a natural consequence of the events which had befallen him; young Count Gleichen, his most intimate companion, even looked up to him since his "call" as a consecrated person. [10]
- And I just thought I'd tell you you could count on me for a friend at court. [9]
- I see among those whom I count as listeners one by whose side I have sat as a fellow-teacher, and by whose instructions I have felt myself not too old to profit. [3]
- A minute later they let the count in. [2]
- The largest of these was the French circle of the Napoleonic alliance, the circle of Count Rumyantsev and Caulaincourt. [2]
- Each time that these hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at the count and at Anna Mikhaylovna, the latter very adroitly turned the conversation to insignificant matters. [2]
- You know, Count, there'll be a battle tomorrow. [2]
- If it stays there till the inning is played out, it will count as many points in the game as the figure in the square it has stopped in represents. [5]
- The attacking party then retreated to a height of ground, to muster their men, and to count the number of missing and slain. [5]
- The Count Almodovar then introduced me to the Queen in my official capacity, and she received me with a grave and quiet welcome, expressed in a very low voice. [4]
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