Use david in a sentence
Sentences starting with david
- David had not yet been fortunate with his own business--the settlement of his Uncle Benn's estate--though the last stages of negotiation with the Prince Pasha seemed to have been reached. [11]
- David Pasha, he will come again. [11]
- David was standing where Kaid must see him, but the Effendina gave no sign of recognition. [11]
- David Humphrey, who was outside, offered to put up the Sergeant's horse; but he said: "No, if you'll hold him just a moment, Mr. Humphrey, I'll ask for a drink of something warm, and move on. [11]
- David stood still, waiting. [11]
- David straightened himself up, and clasped his hands behind him. [11]
- David motioned them towards the great gates, and, without speaking, passed swiftly down the pathway and emerged upon the road without. [11]
- David seated himself, took the stem of a narghileh in his mouth for an instant, then laid it down again and waited. [11]
- David had been too late to stop it. [11]
- David could refuse to bear punishment, but such a possibility had never occurred to her or to any one present. [11]
Sentences ending with david
- Seeing who it was--a widow who, with no demureness, had tried without avail to bring Luke Claridge to her--her lips pressed together in a bitter smile, and she said to her nephew clearly: "Patience Spielman hath little hope of thee, David. [11]
- A watcher also was set upon thee, Excellency"--he turned to David. [11]
- The French leaders understood: Goliath would have his David. [11]
- It is enough to recall the names of Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, Paul, Homer, David. [4]
- I have tried them all, David. [9]
- There, too, was the poet whose National Hymn, "My Country, 't is of thee," is known to more millions, and dearer to many of them, than all the other songs written since the Psalms of David. [6]
- To my amazement the clergyman said quietly:-- "Now what was the trouble, David? [9]
- Yet--yet a few strong patriotic men--" Lacey looked quizzically at David. [11]
- Looking round the room, at last Faith said: "Thee has all thee needs, David? [11]
- The standards of poetry are Shakespeare, Homer, Isaiah, and David. [4]
Short sentences using david
- David danced before the Lord. [11]
- David had accepted the inevitable. [11]
- David L. Gregg, the Hon. [7]
- At last David spoke. [11]
- King David of Scotland . [5]
- David made no response. [11]
- Commander David D. Porter. [7]
- David looked at Nahoum. [11]
- David, I cannot live long. [9]
- David looked at his watch. [11]
Sentences containing david two or more times
- As men meet who parted yesterday, Kaid, Nahoum, and David met, but Kaid's first quiet words to David had behind them a world of meaning: "I also have come back, Saadat, to whom be the bread that never moulds and the water that never stales! [11]
- While her mind was engaged subconsciously with what Lord Windlehurst and David said, comprehending it all, and, when Lord Windlehurst appealed to her, offering by a word contribution to the 'pourparler', she was studying David as steadily as her heated senses would permit her. [11]
- She seemed not to realise, as did David, the awful position in which they were placed, the deed which David had done, the significance of the thing that lay at their feet. [11]
- In Framley, where the whole truth never came, David and Hope occasionally take from a secret drawer the Order of the Mejidfeh to look at it, and, as David says, to "learn the lesson of Egypt once again. [11]
- The court-yard was now empty, save for the servants of the Prince, David and Mahommed, and two officers in whom David had advised Kaid to put trust. [11]
- Just outside the mosque is a miniature temple, which marks the spot where David and Goliah used to sit and judge the people.--[A pilgrim informs me that it was not David and Goliah, but David and Saul. [5]
- As she sat in the evening light, David and Lacey came, and were received by the Duchess of Snowdon, who could only say to David, as she held his hand, "Windlehurst sent his regards to you, his loving regards. [11]
- As hard as he worked to destroy the Quaker in David, she worked against him; and she did not fear the end, for she believed in David Hyam of Framley. [11]
- The Prince Pasha had settled that with David, however, at their first meeting, when David had kept on his hat and offered Kaid his hand. [11]
- She had seen David and all that David was doing; Egypt, and all that was threatening the land through the eyes of another who told the whole truth--except about his own cowardice, which was untrue. [11]
More example sentences with the word david in them
- That is why you and David are wonderful. [9]
- But still two years passed before David came. [11]
- Has he been writing the Epistles of David to the Quakers? [11]
- If David, however, would stand to the shovel hat, and if Hope would be faithful for ever to the poke bonnet and grey cloth, all might yet be well. [11]
- There was the world of the Old Testament, of David and Samson, and of those dim figures in the dawn of history, called the Patriarchs. [4]
- Judge by my words," said David gravely. [11]
- She recalled the words Lacey had used regarding a service which David had once done her. [11]
- Ah, David, what with the flute and the pen, banishment was no pain to thee! [11]
- Being deeply engaged with the details of the expedition to the Soudan, David had not gone to the Palace; and he was unaware of the turn which things had taken. [11]
- Once I went with Sir David Brewster, and perceived that he looked on objects with other eyes than mine. [14]
- But--but see, I will forgive; yes, I will follow thee with good wishes, if thee will promise to help David, whom thee has ever disliked, as, in the place held by thee, thee can do now. [11]
- The day in which David knocked him down saw the depths of his degradation reached, and, when he got up, it was to start on a new life uncertainly, vaguely at first, but a new life for all that. [11]
- The room in which David found himself was lofty and large, but was furnished with only a rough wooden bed, a rug, and a brazier. [11]
- By the trenches, where five men had died so bravely, and a traitorous pasha had paid the full penalty of a crime and won a soldier's death, David spoke to his living comrades. [11]
- To be passive, when David in Egypt had asked for active interest; to delay, when urgency was important to Claridge Pasha; to speak coldly on Egyptian affairs to his chief, the weak Foreign Secretary, this was the policy he had begun. [11]
- Arrived, the goods were deposited inside the hut, the lads were dismissed, and David and Faith were left alone. [11]
- If my mind was tuned to shun thee, I gave proof that it was willing to take thee at thine own worth, even against the will of my father, against the desire of David, who knew thee better than I--he gauged thee at first glance. [11]
- The only wrong was to David, whose grandfather had been even more to blame than his own father. [11]
- In David it was the outcome of his faith, in Nahoum it was the outcome of his philosophy, a simple, fearless fatalism. [11]
- When the man was seated on a sheepskin, the huge Mahommed squatting behind like a sentinel, David questioned him. [11]
- What his object was in summoning David for an hour when all the court and all the official Europeans should be already present, remained to be seen. [11]
- Here, he knew, was his greatest enemy where David was concerned, and yet this pretty Saint Elizabeth was wearing a fine turquoise ring with a poke bonnet, in a very worldly fashion. [11]
- And David Claridge was coming out of the desert, was coming to-day-now! [11]
- To Eglington it was a relief that there was one human being--he thought there was only one--who read him through and through; and that knowledge was in itself as powerful an influence as was the secret between David and Hylda. [11]
- When we exchange visits I'll show you an unfinished sketch of Elizabeth's time which shook David Gray's system up pretty exhaustively. [5]
- And though I urged him not to tax himself, he spoke slowly thus: "And David was in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. [11]
- In Soolsby's hut upon the hill David sat talking to the old chair-maker. [11]
- Suddenly from the trenches, which they had thought deserted, David saw jets of smoke rise, and a half-dozen of the advancing troop fell from their saddles, their riderless horses galloping on. [11]
- David's temperament and training had Will, and it was a compulsory force; David had to obey its decrees, he had no choice. [5]
- On the dull, torpid faces, light seemed struggling to live for a moment, as David talked. [11]
- At last I took out my portfolio and wrote these words on a sheet:-- "If Mrs. Clive will consent to a meeting with Mr. David Ritchie, he will deem it a favor. [9]
- She was recalling, too, the afternoon of that day when she and David had parted in the drawing-room of the Cloistered House, and Eglington had asked her to sing. [11]
- I suppose the tomb of David will be explored by a commission in due time, and I should like to see the phrenological developments of that great king and divine singer and warm-blooded man. [6]
- The story is told of David Osgood, the shaggy-browed old minister of Medford, that he had expressed his belief that not more than one soul in two thousand would be saved. [6]
- May I present to your Excellency, Mr. David Ritchie of Kentucky? [9]
- It seemed terrible to wait, when here before her was news of David, of life or death. [11]
- Dear Sir:--In regard to the time David Rankin served the enclosed discharge shows correctly--as well as I can recollect--having no writing to refer. [7]
- She turned quickly to the portfolio on the desk, drew forth the fatal letter, and, turning to the page which contained the truth concerning David, handed it to him. [11]
- As David turned to leave the table, however, he murmured, "Peacemaker! [11]
- She was beginning to feel that she had lived two lives, and that this life had no direct or vital bearing upon her previous existence, in which David had moved. [11]
- It had come to David a pure force, a constructive and practical idealism. [11]
- Returning from Alexandria to Cairo in the special train which Kaid had sent for him, David watched the scene with grave and friendly interest. [11]
- I ask attention to all the papers, but particularly to the letters of Mr. David Mack, and the paper with the long list of names. [7]
- He waved David to a seat. [11]
- We have seen Titian's celebrated Cain and Abel, his David and Goliah, his Abraham's Sacrifice. [5]
- David caught a tin cup from a shelf, poured some liquor into it, and held it to the lips of the fainting man. [11]
- For a long time David stood looking into the sparkling night before him, speechless and unmoving, his hands clasped behind him, his head bent forward, as though in a dream. [11]
- As David walked through the streets of Heddington making for the open country, he was conscious of a new feeling regarding the place. [11]
- Still, the ten thousand pounds went to David and Hope where they smilingly laboured through the time of high Nile and low Nile, and khamsin and sirocco, and cholera, and, worse than all, the banishments to the hot Siberia of Fazougli. [11]
- They did so think, and David Thomas said it was abundant. [4]
- Nor dost thou think so, Effendina," David answered gravely. [11]
- They were all there, his brethren, David and Goliath, and--er, and if he had had such experience as I have had he would have waited until those other people got through talking. [5]
- The information was then given of the loss, and that the rider had met David Thomas just before it was discovered, on the mountain beyond the Toe. [4]
- Peace be upon thee," he added at the doorway, as the torch flickered towards the room where David was to lie. [11]
- He leaned over the widening space and said in a low tone, as David again drew near: "There is still an account which should be settled, Saadat. [11]
- The last of the trio stood before David, stoical and attentive. [11]
- Getting out of the train at Heddington, he made up his mind to walk home by the road that David had taken on his return from Egypt, and he left word at the station that he would send for his luggage. [11]
- You see, David the Saadat is great on moral suasion--he's a master of it; and he's never failed yet--not altogether; though there have been minutes by a stop-watch when I've thought it wouldn't stand the strain. [11]
- He burst into the rooms of the palace where David had residence, calling: "Oyez! [11]
- Before David left the Palace the Khedive gave him the Order of the Mejidfeh, in token of what he had done for Egypt. [11]
- David looked round the little room. [11]
- She gave him the letter, her heart standing still, but she was filled with a regnant determination to defend herself, to defend David against any attack, or from any consequences. [11]
- When Nahoum left the great salon, he directed his steps towards the quarters of the Chief Eunuch, thinking of David, with a vague desire for pursuit and conflict. [11]
- The head of the desolate wretch lifted, the eyes glared at David for an instant, as though to see whether he was being mocked, and then the spare figure stretched itself, and the outcast stood up. [11]
- Just before dawn the curtain of Nahoum's room was drawn aside, the Armenian entered stealthily, and moved a step towards the couch where David lay. [11]
- Nahoum, think not that you shall triumph over David Claridge. [11]
- A secret like that of David and Hylda will do in a day what a score of years could not accomplish, will insinuate confidences which might never be given to the nearest or dearest. [11]
- If David thought that Nahoum knew, the end of all would come at once. [11]
- The truth is that David Claridge had his origin in a fairly close understanding of, and interest in, Quaker life. [11]
- David laughed and tapped his arm. [11]
- As Shelek Pasha talked on, of schools, of taxes, of laws, of government, to David, with no hat on--Samson without his hair--Hope's mind was working as it had never worked before. [11]
- Meanwhile, Shelek Pasha talked of the school, of the donkey-market, the monopoly of which the Khedive had granted David; and of the new prosperous era opening up in Egypt, due to the cotton David had introduced as an experiment. [11]
- David Gray spent Sunday here and said we could but little comprehend what a rattling stir that thing would make in the country. [5]
- As his brain struggled to regain its understanding, he saw, as in a dream, David enter the court-yard and come towards Kaid. [11]
- The shoulders were stooping and relaxed as though from great fatigue, but David could see that the figure was that of a tall man. [11]
- As David, dismounting, stood with dripping sword in his hand, in imagination, he heard the voice of Kaid say to him, as it said that night when he killed Foorgat Bey: "Hast thou never killed a man? [11]
- That night a stalwart figure passed from David Humphrey's door, carrying with him the warm atmosphere of a good woman's love. [11]
- As the fisherman sped shrieking and beckoning to the villagers, David, Lacey, and Mahommed fought for their lives in the swift current, swimming at an angle upstream towards the shore; for, as Mahommed warned them, there were rocks below. [11]
- When Nahoum stopped speaking David said: "But if I would have it, if it were well that it should be, I doubt I have the power to make it so. [11]
- Nor would she speak of the future, until the present had been fully declared and she knew the fate of David Claridge. [11]
- Meanwhile, the Nubians smote their mailed breasts with their swords in honour of David and Kaid. [11]
- David with his sling and his smooth round pebble must have had much of the same sympathy and ridicule. [9]
- This was so significant that the enemies of David rejoiced anew. [11]
- David made no sign of discomposure, but said slowly: "Dost thou think I did not know my danger, Eminence? [11]
- David felt a shiver of anxiety and apprehension as he saw this sharp, sweeping advance. [11]
- Now David and she were alone. [11]
- She had not seen David after he left Hamley. [11]
- At first it seemed to her that a trap had been set, and that David was to be the victim of Oriental duplicity; but revolt, as she did, from the miserable creature before them, she saw at last that he spoke the truth. [11]
- It would have seemed better to let David go, and destroy his work afterwards, but he had been moved by other considerations, and his design was deep. [11]
- That Nahoum should seek David, who had displaced him from his high office, was scarcely Oriental, when his every cue was to have revenge on his rival. [11]
- That old Divine said it was a piece of the finest kind of literary art--and David Gray of the Buffalo Courier said it ought to be printed privately and left behind me when I died, and then my fame as a literary artist would last. [5]
- The man turned round, and looked at David, then he jerked his head in a friendly sort of way and motioned towards the sunset. [11]
- And I, David Ritchie, saw the flags of three nations waving over it in the space of two days. [9]
- Behold me, David Ritchie, Federalist, execrably sober, at the head of the column behind the leader. [9]
- Suppose David should return and take the estates and titles, and suppose that she should close her hand upon her fortune and leave him, where would he be? [11]
- Robert Allen was retained by Driscoll, David Wilson by the defense. [5]
- David made no reply; he seemed lost in thought. [11]
- Hylda had not recovered wholly from the illness which had stricken her down on that day in London when she had sought news of David from Eglington, at such cost to her peace and health and happiness. [11]
- I'll--" He paused, realising the crisis in which David was moving, and that perils were thick around their footsteps. [11]
- David the ancient put a stone in a sling and Goliath laid him down like an egg in a nest--therefore, Nuncio, get thee to the quarry. [11]
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