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Sentences starting with descriptions

Descriptions of it have been granted to the "Dry Goods Economist" (New York) and to a syndicate of American papers. [5]
Descriptions of such a work as this must necessarily be imperfect, yet they are of value. [5]

Sentences ending with descriptions

All who read the account of him, though not having seen him, will find it one of the most charming of descriptions. [4]
He made several grimaces which gave me a better idea of the Lisbon earthquake than any I have ever got of it from paintings and descriptions. [5]
You found it accurate, I hope, in its descriptions? [6]

Short sentences using descriptions

Thomson, James, descriptions, 338. [6]

Sentences containing descriptions two or more times

If in the descriptions given by historians, especially French ones, we find their wars and battles carried out in accordance with previously formed plans, the only conclusion to be drawn is that those descriptions are false. [2]

More example sentences with the word descriptions in them

The narrator's expressions would only be intelligible to a select few, and, I should have done my Margery injustice, had I left the ideas and descriptions, whose meaning I thoroughly understood, in the clumsy form she had given them. [10]
They said they were wet and felt ridiculous and did not care anything for descriptions of scenery. [5]
Certain people who were living in St. Louis during the Civil War have been mentioned as the originals of characters in "The Crisis," and there are houses in that city which have been pointed out as fitting descriptions in that novel. [9]
Well, as I was saying, it is the fashion to write descriptions of Vesuvius; and you might as well have mine, which I shall give to you in rough outline. [4]
I thought he was more diffuse and more enthusiastic in his descriptions than he had been with the older members of the party. [6]
What comfort there was in it we had in knowing that she was a favorite in the society of which we read such glowing descriptions, and that no one else bore its honors more winningly. [4]
In Byron it was a mood, and he might have said just the opposite thing the next day, as he did in his two descriptions of the Venus de' Medici. [6]
If we are to have realism in its tedious descriptions of unimportant particulars, let it be of particulars which do not excite disgust. [6]
Hence works of this nature, embodying descriptions of men and manners, always retain something of the freshness which characterized them on the day of their appearance. [4]
Over their coffee they both talked from long distances towards the point of attack and struggle, Ismail carelessly throwing in glowing descriptions of the palaces he was building. [11]
I have found them in all the descriptions of the Nile valley, and afterwards often enjoyed the delicious perfume of the golden yellow flowers in the gardens of Alexandria and Cairo. [10]
It is not the men whose duties have made them familiar with this class of subjects who are most likely to offend by scenes and descriptions which belong to the physician's private library, and not to the shelves devoted to polite literature. [6]
In the last set, not one body out of the thirty-six was "found totally wanting in departures from the standard descriptions of the muscular system given in anatomical text books. [1]
Preachers, whose sensational sermons are as widely read as descriptions of great crimes, moralized on Henderson's career and Henderson's palace, and raised up everywhere an envied image of worldly prosperity. [4]
I do not say that Irene's letters to Mr. King were entirely taken up with descriptions of the beauty of Lenox. [4]
These descriptions do really state the truth--as nearly as the limitations of language will allow. [5]
There is undeniable power in many of his scenes, notably in the descriptions of the yellow fever in Philadelphia, found in the romance of "Arthur Mervyn. [4]
I wish to place before the reader some of the usual descriptions of the Taj, and ask him to take note of the impressions left in his mind. [5]
Pictures are given of the Persian water pipes, and descriptions of the mode of preparing it for use. [4]
These and scores of similar descriptions fill up the picture of the life furnished here. [4]
The artist was obliged, therefore, to create an ideal figure, aided by a few fragmentary descriptions of Hale's personal appearance. [4]
It contains a number of descriptions whose truth and vividness are matchless. [10]
Mr. Stoker was noted for the vividness of his descriptions of the future which was in store for the great bulk of his fellow-townsmen and fellow-worlds-men. [6]
But I do not wish descriptions of being 'gated,' or 'sent down,' or 'ploughed,' and that kind of commonplace. [11]
Much, indeed which most attracted me in her descriptions will have lost its peculiar charm in mine; as to whether I have always supplemented her correctly, that must remain an open question. [10]
And it was literally filled with the relics of the man's physical prowess cups for games of all descriptions, heads and skins from the Bitter Roots to Bengal, and masks and brushes from England. [9]
The descriptions of life in the two towns are true, and the chief characters in the book are lifted out of the life as one has seen it. [11]
I never saw it, having little faith in the comfort of any structure that is not immovably reposeful, but from the descriptions it was a boudoir afloat. [4]
The asymmetrical arrangement in the convolutions of the two hemispheres, which previous observers have referred to in their descriptions, is also well illustrated in these specimens" (pp. [1]
There was something in its descriptions and imagery that recalled,--Miss Darley could not say what,--but it made her frightfully nervous. [6]
I obey that implicitly; I am sorry if people don't like my descriptions, but I have done my best. [6]
Rivington called upon Honora in vehicles of all descriptions, in proportion to the improvidence or prosperity of the owners. [9]
I said: "You have done well, Harris; this report is concise, compact, well expressed; the language is crisp, the descriptions are vivid and not needlessly elaborated; your report goes straight to the point, attends strictly to business, and doesn't fool around. [5]
Famous Natchez-under- the-hill has not changed notably in twenty years; in outward aspect-- judging by the descriptions of the ancient procession of foreign tourists--it has not changed in sixty; for it is still small, straggling, and shabby. [5]
He had a habit of accurate observation, as his maps show, and this trait gives to his statements and descriptions, when his own reputation is not concerned, a value beyond that of those of most contemporary travelers. [4]
Space is not given me for further quotations from Irving's brilliant descriptions of court, characters, and society in that revolutionary time, nor of his half-melancholy pilgrimage to the southern scenes of his former reveries. [4]
I have not generally given descriptions of the curious objects which I saw in the great houses and museums which I visited. [6]
Here in this 'fumoir', lawyers, doctors, business men of all descriptions, newspaper correspondents, movie photographers, and millionaires who had never crossed save in a 'cabine de luxe', rubbed elbows and exchanged views and played bridge together. [9]
The descriptions of fifty years ago do not need to have a word changed in order to exactly describe the same region as it appears to-day--except as to the 'trigness' of the houses. [5]
There were, however, features in the glowing descriptions of it which need to be mentioned. [4]
The tales and descriptions of that time without exception speak only of the self-sacrifice, patriotic devotion, despair, grief, and the heroism of the Russians. [2]
On St. Valentine's Day of that year when, to tell the truth, he was seated in his office scribbling certain descriptions of nature suggested by the valentines in Mr. Hayman's stationery store, the postman brought in a letter from young Tom Gaylord. [9]
With Letter-Press Descriptions, by a Distinguished Literary Gentleman. [6]
He had often brought pictures under Caesar's notice, for he was the first living authority as a connoisseur of painting, and as having written many descriptions of pictures. [10]
Dion, too, listened attentively, now and then correcting or explaining her descriptions, while carving a head of Poseidon for the prow of a newly built boat. [10]
It is frightful, and quite answers to the descriptions I had read of it. [10]
His picturesque descriptions and bold figures are as good now as they ever were, and his book can never become obsolete. [3]
With your descriptions and Beaton's sketches--well, it would just be the greatest card! [8]
But a careful analysis of these descriptions will show that the materials of which they are formed are not individually beautiful and can not be wrought into combinations that are beautiful. [5]
But we turn a few pages and we come to one of those descriptions which arrest us at once and show him in his power and brilliancy as a literary artist. [6]

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