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Sentences ending with directions

She had learned what had occurred, but the physician had assured her that with my vigorous constitution I should regain my health if I followed his directions. [10]
At Utica the train was broken up, and its cars despatched in various directions. [4]
I am directed to add that the Secretary of War and the General-in-chief fully concur with the President in these directions. [7]
Summer was his time for work, and he had tried his hand in various directions. [5]
When Mazarine entered, the Young Doctor gave him a casual nod and went on with his directions. [11]
In the meantime the news had got abroad in the street that the butcher's apprentice was to fight one of the Hawk's men, and when I emerged from the tavern the crowd had doubled, and people were running hither in all haste from both directions. [9]
We are so poor, and modern philanthropy all runs in other directions. [4]
A strange look passed across the face of each, then they turned and went in opposite directions. [11]
I gave the necessary directions. [14]
The inability to move the ears in man and several apes is, however, partly compensated by the freedom with which they can move the head in a horizontal plane, so as to catch sounds from all directions. [1]

Short sentences using directions

Admirable directions! [6]

More example sentences with the word directions in them

One desperate, frightened yell from the first French soldier who saw the Cossacks, and all who were in the camp, undressed and only just waking up, ran off in all directions, abandoning cannons, muskets, and horses. [2]
Still, if you wish to go there, you will have no trouble about finding it if you follow the directions given by Robert Louis Stevenson to Dr. Conan Doyle and to Mr. J. M. Barrie. [5]
This was Diodoros, who, while Alexander was giving his directions to the charioteer, had, under cover of the darkness, sprung into the vehicle from the opposite side. [10]
And my people, who are also Thine, are encamped in a spot where Pharaoh's warriors can cut them down from all directions, so that there is no way for them to fly, not one. [10]
The window frame which prevented anyone from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of the gentlemen around. [2]
James Grayden's directions were peremptory, but it was a case for the higher law. [6]
To her cousin were given the most explicit directions for his care, and after she had started for the train she returned to give further injunctions. [4]
The Secretary of War will issue directions for the execution of this order. [7]
The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy will issue the necessary directions in their respective departments for the execution of this order. [7]
It is a vast mass of building, compactly crusting a hill, and is cloven in all directions by an intricate confusion of cracks which stand for streets. [5]
From two directions two long files of infantry came plowing through the pack and press in silence; there was a low, crisp order and the crowd vanished, the square save the sidewalks was empty, the private mourner was gone. [5]
And when I took you off to the schooner, he gave me an hundred directions how to care for you, and then his sorrow bowled him all in a heap. [9]
When I came to, I found that my foot had been bandaged, there was a torch in the wall, and by my side something in a jug, of which I drank, according to directions in a surgeon's hand on a paper beside it. [11]
I had submitted to me for examination, in 1862, a manuscript found among the Winthrop Papers, marked with the superscription, "For my worthy friend Mr. Wintrop," dated in 1643, London, signed Edward Stafford, and containing medical directions and prescriptions. [3]
New Orleans intended to fittingly celebrate, this present year, the bicentennial anniversary of this illustrious event; but when the time came, all her energies and surplus money were required in other directions, for the flood was upon the land then, making havoc and devastation everywhere. [5]
There are many theories of physic and theology, and many calls in each of their directions for the right way; but we propose to settle the question of "What is Truth? [5]
Clark said nothing then, and began to give out directions for the day. [9]
Jake went to the tannery house and received his orders--orders of which he made a great mystery afterward at the store, although they consisted simply of directions to be prepared to drive Jethro to Brampton the next morning. [9]
I gave him the note and his directions, and ten minutes after he had gone I would have given much to have called him back. [9]
Shortly after noon the farmers began to arrive from several directions, with mules and horses for our use, and these they lent us for as long as the war might last, which they judged would be about three months. [5]
He heard all the directions, and carried away the papers, but he also carried away something else unknown to the broker. [4]
The king got the directions, and allowed he'd go and work that camp-meeting for all it was worth, and I might go, too. [5]
Bunce against Graves the court confirmed, wherefore, in accordance with your directions, I moved to have the case remanded to enable you to take a new trial in the court below. [7]
He winked at the butler, whispered directions to the footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. [2]
He was on the bridge, and was occupied with giving directions, so he asked me the substance of the letter, and handed it back to me, requesting me to make a copy of it soon and leave it in his cabin. [11]
He therefore proposed that they should separate, going different directions, secure accommodation for the night, rest the following day, and meet the next night at a point indicated. [11]
You must remember that Number Seven has had a fair education, that he has been a wide reader in many directions, and that he belongs to a family of remarkable intellectual gifts. [6]
It was plain that it would not do to pass that drugstore again, though --we might go on asking directions, but we must cease from following finger-pointings if we hoped to check the suspicions of the disaffected member. [5]
The hunting shirts surged around them, alert now at the prospect of a fight; men came running in from all directions, and shouts of "Hang him! [9]
According to the stage directions, he was to steal along the trees at the wings, and listen to the talk of the men at the fire plotting against him, who were presently to pretend good comradeship to his face. [11]
I always notice stage directions, because they fret me and keep me trying to get out of their way, just as the automobiles do. [5]
But there are some whose chief studies have been in different directions, and who will not complain if certain facts are mentioned which to the expert will seem rudimentary, and which hardly require recapitulation to those who are familiarly acquainted with the common text-books. [6]
Through the streets soldiers in various uniforms walked or ran confusedly in different directions like ants from a ruined ant-hill. [2]
His master having shown him the whip resumed his seat and called up the others, who, at his directions, formed in a row, standing upright as a file of soldiers. [12]
When they emerged she did not hear the directions he gave the cabman, and it was not until they turned into a narrow side street, which became dingier and dingier as they bumped their way eastward, that she experienced a sudden sinking sensation. [9]
It was a sealed story what he had been before he came to Governor Sharpe with Baltimore's directions to give him the best in the colony. [9]
He had that sagacity without which learning is a mere incumbrance, and he had also a fair share of that learning without which sagacity is like a traveller with a good horse, but who cannot read the directions on the guideboards. [6]
And as I rode off I heard her giving directions in no mild tone to the coachman through Mr. Allen. [9]
During this time Rockwell prepared himself for the ordeal which must be passed as soon as possible; gave all needed directions, and had a conference with the assistant Chief Constable to whom he confided the truth. [11]
We followed the road through the village for a space, then turned off to the right, and wandered somewhat vaguely, for want of precise directions, over the hills. [6]
But the burgomaster reached the place just at the right time, gave directions for rescuing the drowning people, and then made every, exertion to bring order out of the confusion. [10]
Meantime, snowballs had rained upon his body and head from all directions, increasing his fury; and as soon as Xaver no longer struggled he started up, exclaiming with glowing cheeks and upraised fists: "Wait, wait, you wicked fellows! [10]
Below, in small print, were minute directions where to enter, where to hitch your team, and where to go out. [9]
Nobody was so precise in his directions about diet, air, and exercise, as Dr. Jackson. [3]
There were few people in the dark streets, but at length I met a man who gave me directions, and presently found my way back to my lodging place. [9]
Dr. Stafford, whose paper of directions to his "friend, Mr. Wintrop," I cited, was probably a man of standing in London; yet toad-powder was his sovereign remedy. [3]
Yet it is only necessary to abandon the false view (adopted to gratify the "heroes") of the efficacy of the directions issued in wartime by commanders, in order to find this unknown quantity. [2]
Oh, we have only just begun--the city is so accessible in all directions, and lends itself to all sorts of magnificence and beauty. [4]
The Winthrops, to one of whom Dr. Stafford's directions were addressed, were the medical as well as the political advisers of their fellow-citizens for three or four successive generations. [3]
As the two officers stood together watching the troops detrain and make order out of the chaos of baggage and equipment, Stafford's attention was drawn to a woman some little distance away, giving directions about her impedimenta. [11]
Some were thrust off into the water, but so fierce was their onset that others gained the wharf, laying sharply about them in all directions, but getting full as many knocks as they gave. [9]
However, the ingenuity of the thing pleased Mr. Devlin, and, with that singular enterprise which in other directions has made him a rich man, he determined on its completion. [11]
Scarcely a quarter of the soldiers remain with the standards of their regiments, the others go off by themselves in different directions hoping to find food and escape discipline. [2]
It is one of the commonest in the woods: three heavy trout taking hold at once, rushing in different directions, smash the tackle into flinders. [4]
The revolt of Myrtle Hazard from the tyranny of that dogmatic dynasty now breaking up in all directions has found new illustrations since this tale was written. [6]
And now you must follow my directions strictly. [5]
They explored the mountain in all directions unsuccessfully. [4]
Even now the moisture of heaven seemed to avoid this rainless region and in all directions fires were burning, which the soldiers surrounded in double rows, like a living shield, to keep the storm from scattering the fuel. [10]
The scrub stretches miles and miles in all directions, and looks like a level roof of bush-tops without a break or a crack in it --as seamless as a blanket, to all appearance. [5]
And in the midst of it all stood Mr. Cooke, an animated central figure pedestalled on a stump, giving emphatic directions in a voice of authority. [9]
Geber and Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon and Raymond Lully, and the whole crew of "pauperes alcumistae," all give the most elaborate directions showing their student how to fail in transmuting Saturn into Luna and Sol and making a billionaire of himself. [6]
No residents were left in Moscow, and the soldiers--like water percolating through sand--spread irresistibly through the city in all directions from the Kremlin into which they had first marched. [2]
Various other bodies lay scattered in different directions around them. [5]
Dr. Wilson very kindly furnished me all the information in his power, gave me directions for telegraphing to Chambersburg, and showed every disposition to serve me. [6]
Then, with a judgment peculiarly antic (pun not intended), then take hold of opposite ends of that grasshopper leg and begin to tug with all their might in opposite directions. [5]
And following Mr. Jenks's directions she put her toe on the tread, and shrank back when the monster responded with a snort and a roar. [9]
Under his directions, Jean Touzel had removed the few things that Guida took with her to Plemont; and instructed by him, Elie Mattingley sold her furniture. [11]
They all saw it--nobody is a fool in all directions, and the Dryfooses are in their right senses a good deal of the time. [8]
It is very interesting, however, as giving short and simple practical directions, such as would be most like to be wanted and most useful, in the opinion of a physician in repute of that day. [3]
After bathing early in the morning I rested an hour, and when I rose obeyed any other directions of the physician in charge of the watering-place. [10]
They would stay in no road, no path; they broke out through the brush on all sides, and flowed away in all directions, over rocks, and hills, and the roughest places they could find. [5]
Then she walked in different directions, till she came to the place from whence the head had been taken. [5]
If you would--As I live, the directions say give one teaspoonful once an hour! [5]
Conrad could see how they struck them under the rims of their hats; the blows on their skulls sounded as if they had fallen on stone; the rioters ran in all directions. [8]
Within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with orders which showed that the Russian troops, who had hitherto been inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy. [2]
Gervase Markham in his "English Housewife," after treating of the ordering of great feasts, gives directions for "a more humble feast of an ordinary proportion. [4]
Finally he felt himself led away, placed his feet as his Uncle Archias whispered directions, and as they gropingly obeyed them ascended the temple steps and stood in utter darkness upon the platform listening to the speeches which so many had prepared. [10]
Somewhat reassured by her account of the service she was required to render, Mrs Jiniwin made her appearance in a flannel dressing-gown; and both mother and daughter, trembling with terror and cold--for the night was now far advanced--obeyed Mr Quilp's directions in submissive silence. [12]
He quickly gave her a few directions in Chinook, and told her what to do at Dingan's if she got there first. [11]
When the convicts heard Joshua's shouts and footsteps, which echoed from the bare cliffs, they were afraid that some fresh misfortune was impending, and wailing and lamentations arose in all directions. [10]
Although pure literature has made considerable gains, the main achievement has been in other directions. [4]
You start to go to a given point and you run in fifty different directions before you get there. [5]
Similar directions were given to Commodore Dupont, with a view to the opening of passages by water to and from the capital. [7]
After I had given directions as to where it was to be shipped, the shopwoman said, appealingly: "If you please, do not let your courier know you bought it. [5]
Pelicans and flamingoes, geese and ducks, storks and herons, ibises and cranes, bitterns and lapwings, flew in dark flocks of manifold forms from all directions. [10]
Lecture proposals came from several directions, but he could not accept them now. [5]
You want money for--" "Yes, the hospital-ship; and I thought they'd jump at it; but they've all been jumping in other directions. [11]
After giving directions for the disposition of the bodies, I went on deck. [11]
The Exegetus was filled with admiration as he received the clear, sagacious directions. [10]
Yet he fulfilled every order precisely according to directions, and possessed his full share of the cunning which is often a characteristic of narrow minds. [10]
All wish it done, but some wish one way and some another, and some a third, or fourth, or fifth; different bodies are pulling in different directions, and none of them, having a decided majority, are able to accomplish the common object. [7]
The colonists pushed discoveries in various directions, but soon found themselves involved in quarrels with the Indians, whose conduct was less friendly than formerly, a change partly due to the greed of the whites. [4]
He quickly gave directions to have me carried to Admiral Saunders's ship, where the exchange was to be effected, and at the same time a general passport. [11]
Thanks to Natasha's directions the work now went on expeditiously, unnecessary things were left, and the most valuable packed as compactly as possible. [2]
A book of directions goes with this. [5]
It was the consequence of a movement in mass of two different forms of civilization in different directions, and the men to whom it was attributed were only those who represented it most completely, or who talked longest and loudest about it. [6]
It must be confessed that, when Philip was alone with his books and his manuscripts, his imagination did not expand in the directions that would have seemed profitable to the head of his firm. [4]
The Empress Marya, concerned for the welfare of the charitable and educational institutions under her patronage, had given directions that they should all be removed to Kazan, and the things belonging to these institutions had already been packed up. [2]
He had scarcely composed her limbs and drawn the sheet over her, when the neighbors began to arrive from all directions. [6]
A bit of coloured glass which one could buy in the street for a trifle, and a few brown drops of some stuff which no one knows the use of, now that the directions are burned. [10]

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