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Sentences starting with cutting

Cutting down and pulling up is what it thrives on. [4]
Cutting off the head was a mode the people had of expressing disapproval of their conspicuous men. [4]

Sentences ending with cutting

Over the low bush fence, over the unfinished sand-bag parapet at the southwest salient, spread the shrieking enemy like ants, stabbing and cutting. [11]

Short sentences using cutting

I'm cutting across the prairie. [11]

More example sentences with the word cutting in them

It looks like you're cutting out the minister, too. [9]
If the skilful woman, who was indebted to her for many a customer, began the work of cutting at once, her cousins, the Wollers, could help her the next day with the sewing. [10]
After cutting, they will weigh considerably less than a pound, but will be worth four or five times as much as they were before. [5]
Mena lashed his whip, the horses started forward and rushed with frantic plunges towards the fugitives, who however could not be brought to a standstill, or rallied by the king's voice--the enemy were close upon them, cutting them down. [10]
She informed me, while I was cutting the cloth, that Leonax would come as a suitor. [10]
Do you remember what I used to say in my lectures?--or were you asleep just then, or cutting your initials on the rail? [6]
Clark's next move was an enigma, for he set the men to cutting and trimming tall sapling poles. [9]
It was cutting very close to the bone to carve such a shred of humanity from the body politic to make a soldier of. [6]
Rufinus here pricked up his ears and then angrily exclaimed: "As sure as I long to be quit of this lumber, they are cutting my hedge again! [10]
He would wait until a story was well under way, and then annihilate the point of it with a cutting cynicism and set the table in a roar of laughter. [9]
The free inhabitants, unaccustomed to such restrictions, revenged themselves by cutting witticisms at Caesar's expense, "for clearing the streets of Alexandria by his men-at-arms as he did those of Rome by the executioner. [10]
This confronting of two civilizations is always a grand sensation to me; it is like cutting through the isthmus and letting the two oceans swim into each other's laps. [6]
It is a trephine, a surgical implement for cutting round pieces out of broken skulls, so as to get at the fragments which have been driven in, and lift them up. [3]
Mrs. Farquhar vowed to Forbes that she had dragged King along at the request of the proprietor of the hotel, who did not like to send a guest away, but he couldn't have all the trees at Profile Lake disfigured with his cutting and carving. [4]
What cutting words those lips could speak; what senseless demands they had uttered; and nothing more insolent could be imagined than her way of pursing them up if at any time he had suggested a kiss! [10]
I have found this out," said she, cutting short my objections, "in spite of the short time I have been here. [9]
The door to the surgeon's room stood open, meantime, but the cutting, sewing, splicing, and bandaging going on in there in plain view did not seem to disturb anyone's appetite. [5]
Behind him was the stout figure of Mr. Darnley, his face solemn; and last of all came Mr. Harry Riddle, very pale, but cutting the tops of the long grass with a switch. [9]
On the 13th the sounds came nearer--he was slowly, but steadily, cutting his way through, storming one stronghold after another. [5]
In the meantime, the one who brought it, by cutting the neck of the head, caused that also to bleed. [5]
Then there came the landing below, and the cutting loose from a base --unheard of. [9]
Richard, the wiseacre, the inexhaustible Richard, was caring for his cottagers and cutting the leaves of new books--his chiefest pleasure--at Greyhope. [11]
In regard to the Homestead law, I have to say that, in so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels, so that every poor man may have a home. [7]
He was cutting the end of a fresh cigar. [11]
He came into that fellow's one day with a plan for cutting up the eighty acres he'd kept into town lots; and he'd got it all plotted out so-well, and had so many practical ideas about it, that the fellow was astonished. [8]
Will stood stock still from fright, and I was for dropping my rod and cutting, when I was arrested by the dominie calling out: "Have a care, Master Carvel; have a care, sir. [9]
A cynical, cutting smile crossed Doltaire's face. [11]
Did the gentleman say anything about cutting your throat? [5]
His two brothers retreated, fighting step by step, toward the bridge, we pressing their despairing forces and cutting them down by scores. [5]
The Mississippi is remarkable in still another way--its disposition to make prodigious jumps by cutting through narrow necks of land, and thus straightening and shortening itself. [5]
The Aymaras and Quichuas of S. America, likewise have very long hair; and this, as Mr. D. Forbes informs me, is so much valued as a beauty, that cutting it off was the severest punishment which he could inflict on them. [1]
Pierre stopped, being pressed against the side of the cutting in which the road ran. [2]
In the week preceding Easter, when all the parish was busy at Four Mountains, making costumes, rehearsing, building, putting up seats, cutting down trees, and erecting crosses and calvaries, Charley disclosed to Jo a new intention. [11]
Perhaps he'll take pity on me someday, when it comes to cutting off a leg or an arm for me. [2]
He was a pious man, and of as honest a heart as I have known, albeit narrow and confined, which sprang perhaps from his provincial practice and his theological cutting and trimming. [11]
After cutting it ought to be worth from $5,000,000 to $8,000,000, therefore persons desiring to save money should buy it now. [5]
Then all at once the horses plunged into wild gallop, and the hillsmen came thundering down towards the chief and Cumner's Son, with swords waving and cutting to right and left, calling aloud, their teeth showing, death and valour in their eyes. [11]
Watches are kept on those narrow necks, at needful times, and if a man happens to be caught cutting a ditch across them, the chances are all against his ever having another opportunity to cut a ditch. [5]
He is speaking of the third month of the siege: "As an instance of the heavy firing brought to bear on our position this month may be mentioned the cutting down of the upper story of a brick building simply by musketry firring. [5]
Nearly a third of the shed roof over our heads was destroyed, and one of the stove lids, after cutting a small stanchion half in two in front of the Indian, whizzed between us and drove partly through the weather-boarding beyond. [5]
Excellent in cases of sudden syncope or fainting, such as sometimes require the opening of windows, the dashing on of cold water, the cutting of stays, perhaps, with a scene of more or less tumultuous perturbation and afflux of clamorous womanhood. [6]
It brought tears of shame into Beaton's eyes--the fine, smouldering, floating eyes that many ladies admired, under the thick bang--and he said to himself that if he were half a man he would go home and go to work cutting gravestones in his father's shop. [8]
Like most residents of Hampton who did not work in the mills, he ministered to those who did, or to those who sold merchandise to the workers, cutting their hair in his barber shop on Faber Street. [9]
From the Terror of France I had got a peasant's dress, and by rubbing my hands and face with the stain of butternut, cutting again my new-grown beard, and wearing a wig, I was well guarded against discovery. [11]
In the bottom of a deep swale between two of the biggest of the ice-waves, we found a fraud who pretended to be cutting steps to insure the safety of tourists. [5]
Did you ever notice what a nuisance it was cutting your teeth on your nurse's finger, or how back-breaking and tiresome it was trying to cut them on your big toe? [5]
Perhaps this was not without reason, since Kerry had seen Kitty Tynan angrily unclasping Burlingame's arm from around her waist, and had used cutting and decisive words to the sensualist afterwards. [11]
But I could not die before revenging myself on the men who had worked my ruin; and therefore, cutting the manacled foot from my leg, I escaped, and hid in the rushes on the banks of the Furotas. [10]
They take as much genuine pleasure in building a barricade as they do in cutting a throat or shoving a friend into the Seine. [5]
He had a marvellous way of cutting short an interview without giving offence. [9]
There is my man cutting the rope from yonder package with his sharp knife. [10]
Refinement seems to make for weakness--or let us say a cutting edge--but the old vulgar monosyllabic words bit like the blow of a pioneer's ax--and Mark was like that. [5]
Bermuda roads are made by cutting down a few inches into the solid white coral--or a good many feet, where a hill intrudes itself--and smoothing off the surface of the road-bed. [5]
The old Master listened beautifully, except for cutting in once, as I told you he did. [6]
This was something like cutting off retreat, but they got to daring each other, and of course there could be but one result--they threw their tools into a corner and made the ascent. [5]
The horse went lame a mile from town, and afterward got to cutting up some extraordinary capers. [5]
Thus the thing is hid away in the Constitution, just as an afflicted man hides away a wen or cancer which he dares not cut out at once, lest he bleed to death,--with the promise, nevertheless, that the cutting may begin at a certain time. [7]
Jo had no intention of cutting his story short. [11]
The storm was increasing, and the wind cutting, but I dug into Cynthia so that poor Hugo was put to it to hold the pace, and, tho' he had a pint of rum in him, was near perished with the cold. [9]
While he was in the height of this engagement, perhaps the horn would be blown from the back porch, reminding him that it was time to quit cutting brush and go for the cows. [4]
Mr. Burrows indulges in slight but effective sarcasm of sham reformers and so-called business men who perform the arduous task of cutting coupons and live in rarefied regions where they can only be seen by the common people when the light is turned on. [9]
The little knife in her hand reminded her of her task of cutting roses, and watching for the ship which was to bring her uncle's son from Messina. [10]
Then he said in a low, cutting tone: "I suppose your heart aches for the beautiful lady, eh? [11]
It was found impossible to get them out without cutting away a portion of the front; and so axes were brought into requisition and a gap made. [5]
When her deadened imagination again began to stir, she fancied that she was struggling with a huge crab, which was cutting her foot with shears. [10]
For my part, I used to like a grindstone that "wabbled" a good deal on its axis, for when I turned it fast, it put the grinder on a lively lookout for cutting his hands, and entirely satisfied his desire that I should "turn faster. [4]
And up them I sprung, the captain cutting at my legs as I left the sheer-pole, and I stopped not until I reached the schooner's cross-trees, where I drew my cutlass. [9]
Looking back now, I see him, with his sabre cutting right and left, as he drove his horse at one grenadier, who slipped and fell on the slippery ground, while the horse rode on him, battering him. [11]
Seems to me I heard about some cutting up at Andover--eh, Bob? [9]
There was the house before us, a small oblong stone house, with not a tree to screen it from the cutting wind; but how were we to get at it from the churchyard we could not see! [14]
Four soldiers were holding him, and a spectacled doctor was cutting into his muscular brown back. [2]
The stranger made his way into one of these rooms, where he was warmly welcomed by a young man, who was occupied in cutting a Kopais reed into a mouth-piece for a double flute, and by a tall matronly woman. [10]
Each man drew his tobacco from his pocket, and, cutting it, waited for Hume to speak. [11]
Zermatt gossip darkly hints that the elder Taugwalder cut the rope, when the accident occurred, in order to preserve himself from being dragged into the abyss; but Mr. Whymper says that the ends of the rope showed no evidence of cutting, but only of breaking. [5]
I looked at him, before cutting his leaves with singular pleasure. [14]
Her conversations with him had now become dear and even necessary to her, though at first his dry, cutting tone had displeased her, and he had often driven her into a corner in a way that was hard to bear. [10]
For a moment her thin, delicate figure shrank from the cutting wind. [4]
One likes to hear the whetting of the scythes on a fresh morning and the response of the noisy bobolink, who always sits upon the fence and superintends the cutting of the dew-laden grass. [4]
That being done, he said that The Man was his brother, who had been bad and wild in youth, a soldier; but repenting had gone as far the other way, giving up place and property, and cutting off from all his kin. [11]
It was a hail of fire meeting a slighter rain of fire--a cry of coming victory cutting through a sullen roar of despair. [11]
A giant oak had blown down across the water, and, cutting out a few branches of this, we spread our blankets under it on the turf. [9]
For it wasn't good for anything; it could not build a shack, it could not improve melons, it could not hurry a fruit crop; it was useless, it was a foolishness and a vanity; he would despise it and say cutting words. [5]
He had not gone far, however, when he saw a sprightly figure in light- brown linen cutting into his street from a cross-road. [11]
I've been screwing gimlets into him, and sticking forks in his eyes, and cutting my name on him. [12]
Gyges' looks were full of entreaty, and Araspes stationed himself between the old man and the youth, as if to ward off the blame of the elder from cutting deeper into the sad and grieved heart of the younger man. [10]
The new statesman from Leith is cutting a wide swath. [9]
But"--he stopped Fulkerson from cutting in with precipitate thanks--"I think I have a right, sir, to ask what your course will be in the event of failure? [8]
But with us fee simple estates are devisable, and Mr. Carvel was wholly within his right in cutting off the line of his eldest son. [9]
But besides the fact that cutting off Napoleon with his army would have been senseless, it was impossible. [2]
At this, Gumbert drew a knife and stabbed Reeder, cutting him in two places in the back. [5]
I allude to Dr. Brown- Sequard's observations on the transmitted effect of an operation causing epilepsy in guinea-pigs, and likewise more recently on the analogous effects of cutting the sympathetic nerve in the neck. [1]
When he went down the shaft, he found that the blind lead held its independent way through the Wide West vein, cutting it diagonally, and that it was enclosed in its own well-defined casing-rocks and clay. [5]
Once Gabriel came down from the hills, and Lajeunesse burnt him with a hot iron, for cutting his bellows in the night, to make himself a bed inside them. [11]
This cutting is done with a chisel that has a handle twelve or fifteen feet long, and is used as one uses a crowbar when he is drilling a hole, or a dasher when he is churning. [5]
Somebody is always cutting wood to feed it; somebody is busy most of the time gathering in the sap; somebody is required to watch the kettles that they do not boil over, and to fill them. [4]
His sister commenced cutting the neck part, from which the neck had been severed. [5]
The aim of cutting off Napoleon and his army never existed except in the imaginations of a dozen people. [2]
But it is cutting into our profits so that we'll either have to stop it or we'll have to move. [5]
But with him cutting high finks up at Mr. Cooke's house with a valet, and him coming on the yacht with yese, and the whole country in that state about him, begorra," said McCann, "and it's domned strange! [9]
They are peasants cutting grass, every spire of which is too precious to waste. [4]

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