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Sentences ending with define

The significance of the slight bridge on the narrow nose is less easy to define. [9]
It was not the Sidney Dallam of the counting-room who told that story, and Honora listened with strange sensations which she did not attempt to define. [9]
As for Hodder, something held him back--some dread that he could not at once define. [9]
Krebs did not seem like a stranger, but like one whom I had known always,--one who stood in a peculiar relationship between me and something greater I could not define. [9]
From a foreman of the mills he had risen, step by step, to his present position, which no one seemed able to define. [9]
Like the flavour of that choicest of tropical fruits, the mangosteen, it baffles analysis, and the nearest I can come to it is a mixture of matting and corn-bread, with another element too subtle to define. [9]
His affection for Jane Withersteen had not changed in the least; nevertheless, he seemed to view it from another angle and see it as another thing--what, he could not exactly define. [13]
And yet into him who sits in the seat of power a premonition of something impending gradually creeps--a premonition which he will not acknowledge, will not define. [9]
On a sudden he heard above the soft roar of the waterfall an unusual sound that he could not define. [13]
I read a gentle amusement in his eyes, and also the expression of something else, difficult to define. [9]

Short sentences using define

Why try to define it? [9]
I could not define it. [9]
She could not define it. [11]

Sentences containing define two or more times

Perhaps she did not define it so; but that which we define she felt. [11]
He neglected to define the species of attention he is giving them--I should define it as the kindly care which the warden of a penitentiary bestows upon his charges. [9]

More example sentences with the word define in them

There is something,--I will not stop now to try and define it,--but there is something by which we recognize an American among the English before he speaks and betrays his origin. [6]
Such is the way in which the Germans seem to define the word "rest"; that is to say, they rest a member by recreating, recuperating, restore its forces. [5]
She did not try to define it further than to say to herself that she herself was having almost too much happiness. [11]
It is equivalent to saying that there is no moral law; or, if there is, nobody can define it. [9]
It is time to define what we mean by literature. [4]
It is necessary to define this with some precision, in order to discuss intelligently the means of destroying this class. [4]
It is easy to define this sort of untruthfulness, and to study the moral deterioration it works in personal character, and in the quality of literary work. [4]
Is the word to carry with it license to define in detail an invisible world, and to authorize and excommunicate those whose trust is different? [9]
Who can define this charm, this difference? [4]
Honora found in the very atmosphere a certain magic which she did not try to define, but to the enjoyment of which she abandoned herself; and in those first days after her arrival she took a sheer delight in driving about the island. [9]
The recognition of the fact that the newspaper is a private and purely business enterprise will help to define the mutual relations of the editor and the public. [4]
It is probable that when the mind has been strained for a long time, and the heart and body suffered much, one sees a calamity vaguely, and cannot define it; appreciates it, and does not know it. [11]
I have to tell you that I still love her--I can't say how much, or define my feelings toward her now. [9]
King felt the subtle restraint which he could not define or explain. [4]
The face had some particular sort of wisdom, difficult to define and impossible to imitate. [11]
Recently, as it seems, the people of Maryland have been doing something to define liberty, and thanks to them that, in what they have done, the wolf's dictionary has been repudiated. [7]
Truth is, Virginie Poucette's mind did not define her feelings at all clearly, or express exactly what she wanted. [11]
There are many parallels in English literature to Cynthia's position,--so far as she was able to define that position,--the wealthy young peer, the parson's or physician's daughter, and the worldly, inexorable parents who had other plans. [9]
My critics do not define what they mean by remorse, and I can find no definition implying more than an overwhelming sense of repentance. [1]
He was abashed--ashamed; nay, he could not define the feeling in his breast. [9]
We imagine a Master and King over what you call The Whole Thing, and we speak of him as "I," but when we try to define him we find we cannot do it. [5]
Nothingness--well, you have learnt to think; are you capable of defining the meaning of the word--a monster that has neither head nor tail, neither front nor back--can you, I say, define the idea of nothingness? [10]
He had made it necessary for me to define the nature of his charges. [9]
The first look is necessary to define the person of the individual one meets so as to avoid it in passing. [6]
I didn't know, I didn't care to define it,--a renewal of her friendship, of our intimacy. [9]
The King, with his thorough connoisseurship and fine taste, my father, and the other famous judges, how much more keenly they would perceive and define it! [10]
She--a life with her represented new values, new values I did not define, that made all I had striven for in the past of little worth. [9]
Now all naturalists have learnt by dearly bought experience, how rash it is to attempt to define species by the aid of inconstant characters. [1]
No philosophical writer has as yet made the attempt to define the change --as profound as that of the tadpole to the frog--between the lover and the husband. [9]
What right has Goethe, what right has Arnold, what right has any dictionary, to define the word Irreverence for me? [5]
But the Colonel, for all his title, had a forest of poor relations and a brushwood swamp of shabby friends, for he had scrambled up to fortune, and now the time was come when he must define his new social position. [6]
Would it be far wrong to define it as "a political community without a political superior"? [7]
None got so far as to define to themselves why there should be an apparent incompatibility between ruggedness and orthodoxy--but there were some who hoped and more who feared. [9]
Something in her face deterred him from this act,--something which he himself did not understand or define. [9]
To define and express the significance of this unknown factor--the spirit of an army--is a problem for science. [2]
Never had his experience known such communion, never had a woman meant what this woman meant, and yet he could not define that meaning. [9]
And if the edges of these were being rounded off, was there not developing in the extreme West a type of men different from all preceding, which the world could not yet define? [4]
It is so difficult to define what is meant by paying. [4]
It is so difficult to analyze motives, and in Margaret's case so hard to define the change that had taken place in her. [4]
He did not define it so; but the impression vaguely, perhaps superstitiously, possessed him. [11]
Honora could not define his attitude, but she vaguely resented it. [9]
Honora could not define her sensations--excitement and shame and fear and hope and joy were so commingled. [9]
Apparently, however, Dryfoos daunted him somehow; and besides the homage which those who have not pay to those who have, Fulkerson rendered Dryfoos the tribute of a feeling which March could only define as a sort of bewilderment. [8]
How such a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. [2]
I am not concerned to define here what is meant by literature. [4]
And when the clergyman' spoke there was no anger in his voice, but a quality--a feeling which was disturbing, and difficult to define. [9]
Gradually she was awakened by something penetrating her consciousness, something insistent, pervasive, unescapable, which in drowsiness she could not define. [9]
Honora did not at first analyze or define these emotions, and was conscious only of a stirring within her, and a change. [9]
After offering herself as his passenger Victoria, too, had had a moment of terror: the action had been the result of an impulse which she did not care to attempt to define. [9]
But first, there are a number of terms which we are in the habit of using in a vague though not unintelligible way, and which it is as well now to define. [3]
And I penned another letter to Mr. Carvel, but a feeling I took no pains to define compelled me to withhold an account of Mr. [9]
I admire cows, and especially the exactness with which they define their social position. [4]
Her powers of analysis, we see, are only just budding, and she did not and could not define the ideal existence which she so unflaggingly sought. [9]
But this sudden access of morality--he did not actually define it as such--was disquieting. [9]
Now, you are about to have a convention, which among other things will probably define the elective franchise. [7]

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