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Sentences starting with decisive

Decisive encounters, he said, were impending, and she knew that the Egyptians always excluded their wives and daughters from their war train, and regarded them as the best reward of victory when peace was obtained. [10]

Sentences ending with decisive

One was that we being weak and the day far gone, the battle might not be decisive. [5]
As he said to himself, he had had enough; he had been filled up to the chin by the Mazarine business; and his impulsive youth wanted to end it by some smashing act which would be sensational and decisive. [11]
The code required satisfaction, immediate and decisive. [11]
Their movements are not yet decisive. [4]
But she could not bring herself, in Brent's presence, to declare that the argument of the rent seemed decisive. [9]
When it is fought it must be decisive. [5]
As between the first engraved portrait and the bust in the church, the form of the bones of the head and face would probably be decisive. [6]
The day was clear, glowing, decisive. [11]
You say the affair was decisive? [2]

Short sentences using decisive

The decisive moment has arrived. [2]

More example sentences with the word decisive in them

What becomes of your dogmas, in the face of the first misfortune--dogmas which enjoin a reserve of decisive judgment, that you may preserve your equanimity, and not overburden your soul, in addition to the misfortune itself, with the conviction that something monstrous has befallen you? [10]
Doris had never worn so unpleasing an aspect to Hadrian as at this instant, in this decisive moment of her life. [10]
This procrastinator Kutuzov, whose motto was "Patience and Time," this enemy of decisive action, gave battle at Borodino, investing the preparations for it with unparalleled solemnity. [2]
The decisive hour which often unites earnest men more firmly than many previous years had come to both. [10]
Away with everything which can cloud her intellect in these decisive days! [10]
It was only when Mr. Calhoun came with his hounds that anything decisive was done. [11]
In the first week of July the decisive battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of war, and the fall of Vicksburg made the great river free from its source to the Gulf. [7]
The decisive hour was close at hand. [10]
His manner was usually decisive, abrupt and self-reliant, but now he seemed to her like a clock that points to one hour while it strikes another. [10]
Both were reluctant to quit Alexandria ere decisive news had arrived from the army and the fleet. [10]
A signal was to inform him when the decisive hour arrived. [10]
All news reached this meeting-place first, and he found a large number of Macedonian citizens who, like himself, wished to discuss passing events in these decisive hours. [10]
Every now and then she perceived that his eye rested on her with a compassionate expression, and when she inquired whether he were anxious about the sufferer, he gave her some evasive answer, quite unlike his usual decisive speech. [10]
All believe that the decisive moment is near at hand, and to that end the people of the United States are desirous to aid promptly in furnishing all reinforcements that you may deem needful to sustain our government. [7]
It is true that Kolliker says no perfectly decisive fact has been brought forward to prove that the striated muscles contract without having been acted on by nerves. [3]
Fear for you, terrible fear, will destroy my vigorous strength in the decisive hours, so the words must be uttered--" Maria had hitherto listened to her husband quietly; she knew what he desired. [10]
But since it still needs me, it ought in justice to excuse me, for never have I needed you so much as during these decisive weeks, whether war is declared--and it will come to that--or not. [10]
It is now recommended that you give the legal means for making this contest a short and decisive one: that you place at the control of the government for the work at least four hundred thousand men and $400,000,000. [7]
Lawless noticed that Pourcette seemed scarcely to take any aim at all, so swift and decisive was his handling of the gun. [11]
He left in order not to obstruct the commander in chief's undivided control of the army, and hoping that more decisive action would then be taken, but the command of the armies became still more confused and enfeebled. [2]
A faint attempt on Heliodora's part to detain him met with a decisive, nay, stern refusal. [10]
Doubtless she thought of the magic goblet, now melted, which had constrained him to cast aside honour, fame, and power, as worthless rubbish, in order to obey her behest not to leave her; but though this remembrance burdened her soul, it had no decisive influence. [10]
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]
However, it was not a decisive verdict. [5]
But he had no time to utter the decisive word which the expression of his face caused his mother to await with terror, and which would perhaps have forever remained a cruel memory to them both. [2]
Henceforth she thought no more about the decisive battle, and forgot all else during the hours that she sat and followed George's movements. [10]
His thick, dark moustache was chopped off square at the lower edge of the upper lip, which implied a decisive, if not a peremptory, style of character. [6]
The count was more perturbed than ever by the condition of his affairs, which called for some decisive action. [2]
Now the decisive moment of battle had come when Kutuzov would be destroyed and the power pass to Bennigsen, or even if Kutuzov won the battle it would be felt that everything was done by Bennigsen. [2]
He writes in March, expecting that the fate of the cabinet will be determined in a week, looking daily for decisive news from Paris, and fearing dismal tidings from Poland. [4]
He would refer it to Katuti, who always knew how to say a decisive word when he, entangled in a hundred pros and cons, feared to venture on a final step. [10]
Then he said in the clear, decisive tones of a man whose plans are clearly defined in his head and who is accustomed to command: "Captain Burns, detail Detectives Jones, Davis, Halsey, Bates, and Hackett to shadow the elephant. [5]
Only the ladies, in the best places above the starting-sheds, preserved their aristocratic calm; Still, when the seventh and decisive round was begun, even the widow Mary leaned forward a little and clasped her hands more tightly over the cross in her lap. [10]
The wave of his hand was expansive, his stride was swaying and decisive, his over-ruling, fraternal faculty was always in full swing. [11]
The troops at his command were few in number in comparison with the heathen population of the city, and it was a very important matter to keep a large proportion of the worshippers of Serapis occupied elsewhere at the moment of the decisive onset. [10]
Every fibre of his being rebelled against the misfortune of being dragged through the wilderness at this decisive hour, far from his people and the father whom he knew to be in such imminent danger. [10]
You have only heard hints of what must effect such a decisive change in your future life. [10]
Yes, it would have been delightful to see them grow up and occupy the throne, but serious, decisive doubts soon blended even with an idea so rich in joy. [10]
But ere he had taken even the first decisive step he was summoned home. [10]
Any day might furnish the decisive motive; in the mean time he wished only to hold her as against all others. [6]
The first glance from her eyes which met his forced the decisive question from his lips. [10]
Anna Mikhaylovna's face expressed a consciousness that the decisive moment had arrived. [2]
A great, decisive event was imminent, and the most ardent wish her heart had ever cherished was approaching its fulfilment. [10]
Upon all these, during the siege, Mahommed Hassan had been a self- appointed spy, and had indirectly added to that knowledge which made David's decisive actions to circumvent intrigue and its consequences seem almost supernatural. [11]
He had no deeper design than to get flattered back into his own favor far enough to find courage for some sort of decisive step. [8]
The words were decisive, of command, and with them some sense as of a haven near came to me. [9]
Long before the decisive day arrived, the result was beyond doubt, and Lincoln was re-elected President by overwhelming majorities. [7]
As it was considered that the Austerlitz success might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of Prozorovski and Kamenski the latter was preferred. [2]
Many must have come thence, for I find that on the 16th an assemblage was held there from which grew the far more important one on the morning of the 17th, with its decisive conclusion in Kopenickerstrasse. [10]
One thing was certain: some decisive action must be taken. [10]
All are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division-stipulates that no one is to interfere with his arrangements--leads his division to the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. [2]
If you would but lend me this treasure to-morrow--" But she interrupted him with a decisive "Never! [10]
All this rose before her mind, and even Karnis sat gazing dumbly at the waves; for every spot where some decisive change has occurred in our lives has power to revive the past when we see it again after a long absence. [10]
Some preparations had been going on in a quiet way, so that at the right moment a decisive movement could be made. [6]
The ruling powers at that time saw in the constitution only a cage whose bars prevented them from dealing a decisive blow, but whatever they could reach through the openings they tore and injured as far as lay in their power. [10]
She looked ill and suffering; a line of pain had settled about her lips, and there were always dark shades under her eyes; still, there was something firm and decisive in her voice, and her glance was anything rather than soft and winning. [10]

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