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Sentences starting with direct

Direct action is the thing, the general strike, war,--the new creed, the new religion that will bring salvation. [9]
Direct oxidation or combustion of the carbon and hydrogen contained in the food, or in the tissues themselves; the division of alimentary substances into respiratory, or non-azotized, and azotized,--these doctrines are familiar even to the classes in our high-schools. [3]
Direct to Springfield. [7]

Sentences ending with direct

But it seemed to me, on second thought, better to come to you direct. [9]
Manners had gone to Arlington Street direct. [9]
The truth is that the development of the modern journal has been so sudden and marvelous that its conductors find themselves in possession of a machine that they scarcely know how to manage or direct. [4]
People are not so easily or so visibly led; that is to say, the editorial influence is not so dogmatic and direct. [4]
Mr. Crewe was not given to satire; his methods, as we know, were direct. [9]
He intended to go into the desert with very little luggage, as the oracle seemed to direct. [10]

Short sentences using direct

You can direct us? [12]
Pierre was for direct attack. [11]

Sentences containing direct two or more times

Men uniting in these combinations always assume such relations toward one another that the larger number take a more direct share, and the smaller number a less direct share, in the collective action for which they have combined. [2]
Inasmuch, therefore, as some of them boldly advocate direct taxation, and all the rest--or so nearly all as to make exceptions needless--refuse to adopt the tariff, we think it is doing them no injustice to class them all as advocates of direct taxation. [7]
When some larger concourse of men direct their activity to a common aim there is a yet sharper division of those who, because their activity is given to directing and commanding, take less part in the direct work. [2]

More example sentences with the word direct in them

He is not willing to stand in the face of that direct, naked, and impudent absurdity; he has, therefore, modified his language into that of being "controlled as other property. [7]
The rapidity with which ideas grow old in our memories is in a direct ratio to the squares of their importance. [6]
The Brahmin blood which came from his grandfather as well as from his mother, a direct descendant of the old Flynt family, well known by the famous tutor, Henry Flynt, (see Cat. [6]
In the center, where Tushin's battery stood and from which Prince Andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from Schon Grabern. [2]
On my asking where the model came from, he said it was taken direct from the arm of a deformed person, who had employed one of the Italian moulders to make the cast. [6]
All these effects were produced by impressions on the organs of sense, seemingly by direct agency on certain nerve centres. [6]
This discussion, which was not at all by way of a jest, amused Dada far more than the tablets, cylinders and cones covered with numbers and cabalistic signs, to which Medius tried to direct her attention. [10]
Miss Russell's reply was not as direct as usual. [9]
The Secretary of War will suspend the order of General Hunter mentioned within, until further order and direct him to send to the Department a brief report of what is known against each one proposed to be dealt with. [7]
She could not walk around the "carry"; she must go by the direct road, and of course she couldn't go alone. [4]
Finding Madame still waiting in the gallery, I asked her to direct me thither. [9]
It was in vain that I argued I had no direct hand in the concealing of him; I felt my responsibility quite as heavy upon me. [9]
He was called upon to legislate for America and direct her policy when all Europe was the battlefield of contending dynasties, and when the struggle for supremacy imperilled the rights of all neutral nations. [7]
I am still unwilling to take all our force off the direct line between Richmond and here. [7]
The steadily rising unearned increment of urban and mineral land ought, by appropriate direct taxation, to be brought into the public exchequer; "the definite teachings of economic science are no longer to be disregarded. [9]
I hold myself under constitutional obligations to allow the people in all the States, without interference, direct or indirect, to do exactly as they please; and I deny that I have any inclination to interfere with them, even if there were no such constitutional obligation. [7]
I've got seven trunks, and I undertook to be courier because I meant to express them to Florence direct, but we were a couple of days too late. [5]
Those who had traveled said that he had the manner of a preaching friar--the simple language, so refined and yet so homely and direct, the real, the inspired word, the occasional hastening torrent of words. [4]
There was a trail there which led direct to the Widow Brown's, if I could follow it. [9]
Ah, it was too bad that he should ask such a direct question. [5]
I direct this to you at Hillsborough, and shall try to have both your letter and this appear in the Journal and Register of Monday morning. [7]
I want you to write as soon as I tell you where to direct your letter. [5]
The question pierced to the very marrow of his soul, but it was put with the utmost suavity and courtesy, and honeyed with a compliment to the young lady, too, so that there was no avoiding a direct and pleasant answer to it. [6]
I try not to take away all hope, unless the case is clearly desperate, and then to direct the activities into some other channel. [6]
We have undertaken to resent a supreme insult, and have had to bear new insults and aggressions, even to the direct menace of our national capital. [6]
It was easy to read in her high, smooth brow and dark-blue eyes with their direct gaze, that she could think clearly and decisively, and also feel deeply. [10]
I have written to her, but I can not direct the epistle because her name is one of those nine-jointed Russian affairs, and there are not letters enough in our alphabet to hold out. [5]
When he was to guide the reed in the counting-house, he sketched; when he was sent to the harbour to direct the loading of the ships, he became absorbed in gazing at the statues placed there. [10]
It is difficult to go to any particular place here; impossible to write of it in a direct manner. [4]
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 is impossible to eradicate the passions; but we must strive to direct them to a noble aim, and it is therefore necessary that everyone should be able to satisfy his passions within the limits of virtue. [2]
And, in answer to direct questions, he told her that he had seen Evelyn only a few times, and, the fact was, that Mrs. Mavick had cut him dead. [4]
This state of things has been produced by a prevailing unwillingness either to increase the tariff or resort to direct taxation. [7]
For the ancients these questions were solved by a belief in the direct participation of the Deity in human affairs. [2]
Of the receipts there were derived from customs $69,059,642.40, from internal revenue $37,640,787.95, from direct tax $1,485,103.61, from lands $167,617.17, from miscellaneous sources $3,046,615.35, and from loans $776,682,361.57, making the aggregate $901,125,674.86. [7]
Of the receipts there were derived from customs $102,316,152.99, from lands $588,333.29, from direct taxes $475,648.96, from internal revenue $109,741,134.10, from miscellaneous sources $47,511,448.10, and from loans applied to actual expenditures, including former balance, $623,443,929.13. [7]
Looked at from the village direct, it had nothing but the sky for a background. [11]
The notion that the subscriber has a right to interfere in the conduct of the paper, or the reader to direct its opinions, is based on a misconception of what the newspaper is. [4]
Judge Douglas had the privilege of replying to me at Galesburgh, and again he gave me no direct answer as to whether he would or would not sustain such a decision if made. [7]
Your husband is the natural heir, and it is only just that the Seigneury should go on in the direct line. [11]
I shall write the letter from there and send it by Andre, and you will go direct to Madame Gravois's. [9]
Trumbull admits that the language is not a direct provision for submitting it, but it is a provision necessarily implied from another provision. [7]
The condition of the Landlady's family is, from what I learn, such as to make the connection I have alluded to, I hope with delicacy, desirable for incidental as well as direct reasons, provided a fitting match could be found. [6]
I therefore approve the finding and sentence of the military commission, and direct that the major-general in command of the department including the place of trial, and wherein the convict is now in custody, appoint a time and place and carry such sentence into execution. [7]
He had, with the Duke, mingled freely, yet with great natural dignity, among the people of the duchy, and was introduced everywhere, and at all times, as the sovereign's kinsman--"in a direct line from an ancient branch," as his Highness declared. [11]
I shall direct the draft to proceed in all the districts, drawing, however, at first from each of the four districts--to wit, the Second, Fourth, Sixth, and Eighth--only, 2200 being the average quota of the other class. [7]
He thrilled at the direct simplicity of the tale. [11]
Laws must be the direct expression of the will of the majority, and be altered solely on its will. [4]
The heiress was the direct descendant of the Eschelles, an old French family, distinguished in camp and court in the glorious days of the Grand Monarch. [4]
Inform them that the daughter of Rameses has lapsed seriously from the law, and defiled herself, and direct that public--you hear me public--prayers shall be put up for her purification in every temple. [10]
But Dolokhov restarted the conversation which had dropped and began putting direct questions as to how many men there were in the battalion, how many battalions, and how many prisoners. [2]
In her, animation the charm of her unworn beauty blazed upon him with a direct personal appeal. [4]
Do New-Yorkers control the capital, rule the politics, build the palaces, direct the newspapers, furnish the entertainment, manufacture the literature, set the pace in society? [4]
The direct news that the thermometer was approaching zero, with a hopeful prospect of going below it, increased to liveliness our satisfaction in the fire. [4]
No one supposes that the nakedness of the skin is any direct advantage to man; his body therefore cannot have been divested of hair through natural selection. [1]
All historians agree that the external activity of states and nations in their conflicts with one another is expressed in wars, and that as a direct result of greater or less success in war the political strength of states and nations increases or decreases. [2]
Their address represents that the construction of direct railroad communication between Knoxville and Cincinnati by way of central Kentucky would be of great consequence in the present emergency. [7]
I sincerely trust that neither you nor any of your readers, and especially none with families, may ever be placed in such seeming direct proximity to death while obliged to decide the one question I was compelled to, viz. [5]
It deserves notice that many quadrupeds inhabiting moderately cold regions, although they do not assume a white winter dress, become paler during this season; and this apparently is the direct result of the conditions to which they have long been exposed. [1]
Leave nought unnoticed that lies in thy path, but above all direct thy gaze upward to the stars. [10]
Assuming that direct taxation is not to be adopted, the tariff question must be as durable as the government itself. [7]
So be ye sure of this that ye shall have your heart-most wishes, and there shall be one to come after me who will wear this crown even as I have worn, in direct descent, my father's crown. [11]
We got the strain direct, and we was all right on her side. [11]
Do we often stop to think what influence, direct or other, the scholar, the man of high culture, has today upon the great mass of our people? [4]
Any one can stay there who is worth two millions of dollars, or can produce a certificate from the Recorder of New York that he is a direct descendant of Hendrick Hudson or Diedrich Knickerbocker. [4]
Secondly, the direct statement of Sharpe's men that Ewell has gone to Tennessee. [7]
On this bay stands Pozzuoli, the ancient Puteoli where St. Paul landed one May day, and doubtless walked up this paved road, which leads direct to Rome. [4]
When Froebel's restless spirit drew him to Switzerland to undertake new educational enterprises, and some one was needed who could direct the business management, Barop, the steadfast man of whom I have already spoken, was secured. [10]
I promise that so far as I may have wisdom to direct, if so painful a result shall in any wise be brought about, it shall be through no fault of mine. [7]
Was there a single afflicted person, one forlorn soul whom she had directly and personally helped, or sheltered from the storm for a moment, one bereaved being whose eyes she had dried by her own direct personal sympathy? [11]
Her look was simple, direct, and kind. [11]
The language was simple and direct, an appeal to common sense, yet the words strangely seemed charged with an emotional power that I found myself resisting. [9]
He might be shorn of limb and scarred of body, but with eye sight still direct the courses of great schemes, in whatever sphere of life his purposes were at work. [11]
She maintained that she had never understood Victoria, and it was characteristic of Mrs. Pomfret that her respect increased in direct proportion to her lack of understanding. [9]
Talib had previously seen the youth by his father's side; he recognized him and asked how long he had been there, and if he had come direct from the mountain. [10]
I undertake to say, and I make the direct issue, that he did not make his charge against the editor of the Union alone. [7]
You make the same mistake in a less degree, when you bend to the popular ignorance and conceit so far as to direct your college education to sordid ends. [4]
Aunt Kate had said nothing then, but, when the time came, by her orders the sleigh and horses were at the station; and the old man had made no direct protest, for she was the one person he had never dominated nor bullied. [11]
You have columns rounded and beams hewed that they may afterwards support the roof to which in due time you wish to direct attention. [10]
His conversation always related entirely to himself; he would remain calm and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing on himself. [2]
Our system of registration is far from infallible, and sometimes an old family settlement turns up to prove that a property which has been willed out of the direct line, as in fee simple, is in reality entailed. [9]
So, in the record of the Hebrew prophets, did the right hand of Jehovah cast forth and direct it. [6]
With a woman's ready instinct she avoided committing herself to his renewed proposals, sometimes covert, sometimes direct, but the struggle tired her. [4]
The effect of quick and easy locomotion on character may have been noted before, but it seems that here is the production of a new sort of man, the direct product of our railway era. [4]
With ten days' provisions Captain Josiah Mitchell performed this memorable voyage of forty-three days and eight hours in an open boat, sailing four thousand miles in reality and thirty-three hundred and sixty by direct courses, and brought every man safe to land. [5]
By a direct process of memory I go back forty years, less one month--for I'm older than I look. [5]
In this letter Prince Andrew pointed out to his father the danger of staying at Bald Hills, so near the theater of war and on the army's direct line of march, and advised him to move to Moscow. [2]
There was none present, however, but knew of the defection of the Earl's father from the Society of Friends, and they chose to interpret the reference to a direct challenge. [11]
Cynthia had the power of furthering his wishes in many direct and indirect ways, and he felt sure of her cooperation. [6]
For several years past the revenues of the government have been unequal to its expenditures, and consequently loan after loan, sometimes direct and sometimes indirect in form, has been resorted to. [7]
We were soon outside and moving swiftly through the soft gray light, and presently were comfortably housed--with more servants to help than we were used to, and with rather embarassingly important officials to direct them. [5]
By the Emperor's orders Bagration reported direct to him. [2]
From Vyazma Napoleon ordered a direct advance on Moscow. [2]
Some of our opponents, in theory, admit the propriety of a tariff sufficient for a revenue, but even they will not in practice vote for such a tariff; while others boldly advocate direct taxation. [7]
There was no one there to direct him, and he dared not go up the stairs which led to the upper story, although it seemed that Petrus must be there. [10]
Following the bank of the river she would have increased her walk greatly, as the stream made a curve at a point above Manitou, and then came back again to its original course; so she cut across the promontory, taking the most direct line homeward. [11]
It is one of the puzzling phases of Mark Twain's character that, notwithstanding his passion for direct and lucid expression, he should have found pleasure in the poems of Robert Browning. [5]
With the death of the Prince of Vaufontaine, there is in France no direct heir to the house, nor can it, by the law, revert to my house or my heirs. [11]
It was one of the most cherished objects of his direct care and consideration, and the association of his name with it has probably been its very greatest collateral support. [7]
From the treatment of the great astronomer who was visited with the punishment of other heretics by the ecclesiastical authorities of a Catholic country some centuries since, there is no very direct inference to be drawn to the medical profession of the present time. [3]

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