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Sentences starting with description

Description indeed is forbidden to me; but there are certain of my experiences about which I may tell you. [10]
Description fails to do justice to the abomination of desolation of that vast battle-field in the rain, and the imagination, refuses to reconstruct the scene of peace--the chateaux and happy villages, the forests and pastures, that flourished here so brief a time ago. [9]

Sentences ending with description

Publius was delighted with the work, and it is in fact beautiful beyond description. [10]
I don't know whether the piece I mentioned from the French author was intended simply as Natural History, or whether there was not a little malice in his description. [6]
They require that when the author describes the character of a personage in his tale, the conduct and conversation of that personage shall justify said description. [5]
If I refer to it as a scientific _hari kari_, not for the taking but for the saving of life, I shall come near enough to its description. [6]
It was finally suggested that this could be done most effectively by weaving into a love story occurrences that might happen at a number of these places which were made the subjects of description. [4]
Did Smith see Strachey's manuscript before he published his Oxford tract, or did Strachey enlarge his own notes from Smith's description? [4]
Underneath was a short description. [9]
The view, as one rises, is of the break-neck description. [4]
The first two nights he contented himself with merely describing and exaggerating the chief dramatic incident of the Audience, but the third night he added illustration to description. [5]
And when its lilies turned to roses--when it blushed under the sun's first kiss--it was beautiful beyond all description. [5]

Short sentences using description

The medley baffles description. [10]
I was bewildered beyond description. [5]
Summer, description, 117. [6]

Sentences containing description two or more times

This is not, as you see, a description of your journal: it is a description of only one portion of it. [4]

More example sentences with the word description in them

I could tell you exactly what the difficulty is;--which would be as intelligible and amusing as a watchmaker's description of a diseased timekeeper to a ploughman. [6]
Nick's imitation of Xavier, and his description of Benjy's terrors after the storm, were so perfect that I laughed quite as heartily; and Madame de St. Gre wiped her eyes and repeated continually, "Quel drole monsieur! [9]
Mr. Tooting's description would not have stopped here. [9]
Our wanderings were wide and in many directions; and now I could give the reader a vivid description of the Big Trees and the marvels of the Yo Semite--but what has this reader done to me that I should persecute him? [5]
I asked her whether she had ever taken opium, as the description given of its effects in "Villette" was so exactly like what I had experienced,--vivid and exaggerated presence of objects, of which the outlines were indistinct, or lost in golden mist , etc. [14]
I don't know what I expected in Mrs. Scherer--from Maude's description a benevolent and somewhat stupid, blue-eyed German woman, of peasant extraction. [9]
The word "plague" was used very vaguely, as in the description of the "great sickness" found among the Indians by the expedition of 1622. [3]
In Paris there was at first no lack of pleasures of every description, especially as they met among the king's mercenaries many a dissolute Swiss knight and man at arms. [10]
Our pen fails us in a description of that festival of festivals, the Banbury one, which took place early in September. [9]
I have drawn up this description from Yarrell's 'British Fishes,' vol. [1]
I mixed it up rather too much; and so all that description of the attitude, as a key to the humbuggery of the article, was entirely lost, for nobody but me ever discovered and comprehended the peculiar and suggestive position of the petrified man's hands. [5]
There are some touches of description here, vivid, high-colored, not so much pictures as hints and impressions for pictures. [6]
In the introduction to 'The World for Sale' in this series, I drew a description of prairie life, and I need not repeat what was said there. [11]
As they came to the Lebanon end of the bridge, Fleda turned to Jowett and, commenting on his description of the scene at Barbazon, said: "He is a great man, but he trusts too much and risks too much. [11]
The Thracian listened to the description of the new art struggling to present truth, as if these things were welcome surprises, grand revelations, for which she had waited with eager longing. [10]
The best way to set the matter right and make everything pleasant and agreeable all around will be to print in this place a description of the shrine as it appeared to a recent visitor, Mr. Frederick W. Peabody, of Boston. [5]
It is impossible to read Leuckart's able description of this organ, and his reasoning, without admitting the justness of his conclusion. [1]
You have only to read Cullen's description of inflammation of the lungs or of the bowels, and compare it with such as you may find in Laennec or Watson, to see the immense gain which diagnosis and prognosis have derived from general anatomy. [3]
The phrases peculiar to other occupations serve him on rare occasions by way of description, comparison, or illustration, generally when something in the scene suggests them, but legal phrases flow from his pen as part of his vocabulary and parcel of his thought. [5]
They listened eagerly to his tidings, and when he had finished his description of the prison, Darius exclaimed: "I believe a little courage will save him. [10]
I shall try to go through the rest of my description of our boarders with as little of digression as is consistent with my nature. [6]
We were able to detect him among the crowd of arrivals at the hotel-counter by his correspondence with a description of him which had been furnished us from a trustworthy source. [5]
I think that this one detail will give you a better idea of Sammy's character than any labored-out description I could furnish you of him. [5]
The success of this manoeuvre tickled Mr Quilp beyond description, and he laughed and stamped upon the ground as at a most irresistible jest. [12]
It appears by this letter that Smith's "Map of Virginia," and his description of the country and its people, which were not published till 1612, were sent by this opportunity. [4]
In this work there are many details connected with the forms of these shelter dykes, their arrangements so as to present a series of settling basins, etc., a description of which would only complicate the conception. [5]
Any description of them is impossible; but mention may be made of two characteristic groups, remarkable for execution, and having yet a deeper interest. [4]
She shuddered at the vague description she was able to give; but he asked, "Did it offer to bite you? [8]
He first visited the ship Swordfish, lying at her wharf, saw her captain, and satisfied himself that as yet nobody at all corresponding to the description of Myrtle Hazard had been seen by any person on board. [6]
The description of the Semnopithecus nemaeus is taken from Mr. W.C. Martin's 'Natural History of Mammalia,' 1841, p. 460; see also pp. [1]
They told me the published description hit you to a dot, all except the scar, and they quarrelled about that. [9]
The description of the place and of the man was familiar. [11]
The finding of the knife was verified, the advertisement minutely describing it and offering a reward for it was put in evidence, and its exact correspondence with that description proved. [5]
My description of the grief which often overpowers this soul was far too lukewarm. [10]
The figures in the following record of some of the closing games in the first tournament will show, better than any description, how very chancy the game is. [5]
Holland, description of the Dutch, 217. [6]
So he adorned the description of his ride as an envoy most generously with many partially invented details. [10]
Myrtilus's letter, on the contrary, gave a minute description of his mode of life, and informed his friend what he expected for him and himself in the future. [10]
There's nothing in the Bible in the way of description of it to make me really wish to go there. [9]
The inspector touched the bell, handed the description to Alaric, and said: "Have fifty thousand copies of this printed at once and mailed to every detective office and pawnbroker's shop on the continent. [5]
In Palestine he tells of ants that came eleven miles to spend the summer in the desert and brought their provisions with them; yet he shows by his description of the country that the feat was an impossibility. [5]
I began to tell this story, and instead of the description of Mr. Boone's man, I put in that of Mr. Potts,--in height some five feet nine, spare, of sallow complexion and a green greatcoat. [9]
She now added something to her description as a sequel to her husband's remarks. [6]
He did not see to the bottom of this description of the Deacon. [6]
Its head, Professor Richter, the learned editor of the fragments of Sappho, did not equal Tzschirner in keenness of intellect and bewitching powers of description, yet we gladly followed the worthy man's interpretations. [10]
There is no regular livery stable in Honolulu, or, indeed, in any part of the Kingdom of Hawaii; therefore unless you are acquainted with wealthy residents (who all have good horses), you must hire animals of the wretchedest description from the Kanakas. [5]
In case the referee shall find himself unable to decide where the line is by the description of it in the treaty of June 15, 1846, shall he be authorized to establish a line according to the treaty as nearly as possible? [7]
Thereupon Kitty Fagan proceeded to array herself in her most tidy apparel, including a pair of shoes not exactly answering to her description, and set out straight for the house of the Widow Hopkins. [6]
The first long poem I wrote of my own impulse was a description of the wonderful forms assumed by the stalactite formations in the Sophie Cave in Switzerland, which we had visited. [10]
This statement is perhaps worth more than pages of description as to the character of Roan, and its contrast to Mount Washington. [4]
And, furthermore, the paper contains a portrait and an accurate description which put the thing beyond doubt. [9]
I have knocked out everything that delayed the march of the story--even the description of a Mississippi steamboat. [5]
As to the other English-speaking colonies throughout the world from Canada all around, I know by experience that the description fits them. [5]
It looked like other beds, but the place where it stood requires some description, for it was a Keilhau specialty, a favour bestowed by our teachers on the pupils. [10]
Powhatan sent once or twice a week "deer, bread, raugroughcuns (probably not to be confounded with the rahaughcuns [raccoons] spoken of before, but probably 'rawcomens,' mentioned in the Description of Virginia), half for Smith, and half for his father, Captain Newport. [4]
For the description of these birds, see Gould's 'Handbook to the Birds of Australia,' vol. [1]
Inform the sisters of their grandmother's death, and tell them the pleasant tidings you have brought us, but reserve until the morning a description of the terrible scenes you witnessed. [10]
The total expenditure of the Navy Department of every description, including the cost of the immense squadrons that have been called into existence from the fourth of March, 1861, to the first of November, 1864, is $238,647,262.35. [7]
True, his description of the lofty hall in the Brabant palace where it took place, the chapel adjoining it, and the magnificent decorations of flowers and banners that adorned it, told nothing new to Barbara. [10]
Mr. Carvel's description of the hero's reception at Versailles is graphic and very humorous. [9]
For the description of the Hebrews, which is mentioned in the Scriptures, the Bible itself offers the best authority. [10]
The little lizards of the genus Draco, which glide through the air on their rib- supported parachutes, and which in the beauty of their colours baffle description, are furnished with skinny appendages to the throat "like the wattles of gallinaceous birds. [1]
Not to speak of the fact that no description of the collective activity of men can do without the conception of power, the existence of power is proved both by history and by observing contemporary events. [2]
My own recollections of the evening, unclouded by its festivities, but confused by its multitudinous succession of introductions, are about as definite as the Duke of Wellington's alleged monosyllabic description of the battle of Waterloo. [6]
Leave the description of the drains and cesspools to the hygienic specialist, the painful facts of disease to the physician, the details of the laundry to the washerwoman. [6]
But the honey of sensuous description is spread so deeply over the surface of the goblet that a large proportion of its readers never think of its holding anything else. [6]
It is worthy of note that the figure by no means bears out Gratiolet's description, inasmuch as the fissure (antero- temporal) on the posterior half of the face of the hemisphere is more marked than any of those vaguely indicated in the anterior half. [1]
If the purpose of history be to give a description of the movement of humanity and of the peoples, the first question--in the absence of a reply to which all the rest will be incomprehensible--is: what is the power that moves peoples? [2]
Perhaps a word of description from one of his memoranda will not be out of place. [5]
An extended description of a trip to Fairmount Park is omitted because of its length, its chief interest being the tendency it shows to descriptive writing--the field in which he would make his first great fame. [5]
In the midst of a description of the last Petersburg fete she addressed her brother: "So you are really going to the war, Andrew? [2]
And I do not despair of seeing the day when but very few of this description as well as private families will be without them. [6]
He had no need to seek for fitting words in the description of Barbara Blomberg, the melody of her voice, and her admirable training. [10]
See Mr. Warington's most interesting description of the habits of the Gasterosteus leiurus in 'Annals and Magazine of Nat. [1]
I suppose French morality is not of that straight-laced description which is shocked at trifles. [5]
And on receiving Miss Martineau's assurance that she did not, Miss Bronte entreated her to declare it frankly if she thought there was any failure of this description in any future work of "Currer Bell's. [14]
I liked his looks less than his description, and the moment I clapped eyes on him I knew that Captain Daniel had never chose such a messenger. [9]
There could be little question, from the description, who this young person was. [6]
It is a literary work I want, not a brag about the road or a description of its enterprise. [4]
But suppose a literary artist ventured to go into a painstaking and elaborate description of one of these grisly things--the critics would skin him alive. [5]
The case most like it is that of Colone Townsend, which is too well known to require any lengthened description in this paper. [6]
The Duc de Lauzun, who contrived to get two dances, might give you a description in a more suitable language than English. [9]
I think I know what it is like, for the following description by Mr. Gape tallies very well with the alkali duststorm of Nevada, if you leave out the "shovel" part. [5]
His description of Jethro's appearance awed his hearers, and Jake declared that he would not be in Isaac Worthington's shoes for all of Isaac Worthington's money. [9]
His description of it is half lamentable, half amusing, for at that time it was attended by thirty students, for whom seventy professors were employed. [10]
Something of him is to be found in my description of Monseigneur Fabre. [11]
Then she went into a jolly and eager description of all that had occurred downstairs, and what the Herr Professor had said, and so forth and so on. [5]
Henderson sent her instead a column from The Planet devoted to a description of his private library. [4]
Even with our increased reading population no such sale is found for a book of that description to-day. [5]
About 1629, Smith, in writing a description of the Isle of Mevis (Nevis) in his "Travels and Adventures," says: "In this little [isle] of Mevis, more than twenty years agone, I have remained a good time together, to wod and water--and refresh my men. [4]
The stone chamber in which the bodies were opened, and the halls in which they were prepared with salt, had adjoining them a variety of laboratories and depositaries for drugs and preparations of every description. [10]
During his sojourn in Virginia, or more probably shortly after his return to England, he wrote a brief and bungling narration of his experiences in the colony, and a description of Indian life. [4]
But comparisons used in the way of description are not odious. [6]
These schools are, in the nature of things, not so very unlike each other as to require a minute description for each particular one among them. [6]
It seems as if we were doing great wrong to the scene we are contemplating in delaying it by the description of little circumstances and individual thoughts and feelings. [6]
It seemed as if her presence increased my powers of description, and when I at last took leave she exclaimed: "You'll come again, won't you? [10]
Today we have idled through a wonder of a garden attached to a ducal estate--but enough of description is enough, I judge. [5]
The desert of ice that stretched far and wide about us was wild and desolate beyond description, and the perils which beset us were so great that at times I was minded to turn back. [5]
Polly Ann and I stared transfixed at the fearful fight that followed, nor can I give any adequate description of it. [9]
Never before was I so forcibly reminded of Carlyle's description of the work of a newspaper editor,--that threshing of straw already thrice beaten by the flails of other laborers in the same field. [6]

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