Use discovery in a sentence
Sentences ending with discovery
- She was a woman, and embarked on a voyage of discovery. [9]
- Thus the summer was consumed, and nothing had been accomplished except Smith's discovery. [4]
- But tranquilly the venerable Duke crossed his limbs behind his ears and said: "My friend has touched the marrow of our mighty discovery. [5]
- Once, at a trial in court in other days, he had said in his ironical way: "One hasn't to fear the penalties of one's sins, but the damnable accident of discovery. [11]
- He imagined that there was a kind of friendly feeling between them, and he feared some crisis would be provoked in his daughter's mental condition by the discovery. [6]
- It seems strange that he did not search for the English colony, but the adventurers of that day were independent actors, and did not care to share with each other the glories of discovery. [4]
- And he must tell these lies too, conceal, deceive, and live in hourly fear of discovery. [11]
- Four days later Susan had a letter from her mother containing an astonishing discovery. [9]
- No, he would stick to their wake and follow them; he would trust to the darkness for security from discovery. [5]
- Had she ever really tried to find a region in his big nature where the fine allusiveness and subjectivity of the human mind could have free life and untrammelled exercise, could gambol in green fields of imagination and adventure upon strange seas of discovery? [11]
Short sentences using discovery
- What a discovery I've made! [11]
- The discovery pained him. [9]
- This discovery excited him. [2]
- An interesting discovery here results. [5]
- Discovery! [5]
More example sentences with the word discovery in them
- Let's see, how would they put it in the Call?--'Extraordinary Discovery --Herd of buffaloes found in the far North by an Englishman and his Franco-Irish Party--Sport for the gods--Exodus of 'brules' to White Valley! [11]
- If she wasn't working with the doctor on that discovery she'd be home with me. [9]
- Hodder repeated the word, as one groping on the threshold of a great discovery . [9]
- Some of them, who did not attempt peremptorily to choke the a processes made the startling discovery that they were not, after all, so shocked by his doctrines as they had at first supposed. [9]
- In the work which led him to the discovery of the retina in the eye he had devoted himself sedulously to the organs of sight. [10]
- All sense of weariness had been swept away by the invigorating refreshment of the great and hopeful discovery which he had made. [5]
- About nine o'clock we made an important discovery --that we were not in any path. [5]
- The other discovery was of a small hoard of coin. [6]
- Some such discovery was borne in upon her. [9]
- Marquette's and Joliet's voyage of discovery ended at the same spot--the site of the future town of Napoleon. [5]
- I had a very sweet emotion of self-pity, which took the sting out of my painful discovery that the orchestra of my pleasing life-entertainment was unstringing its instruments, and the lights were being extinguished,--that the show was almost over. [6]
- She gave herself up to a sweet and simple sense of pride in the deed she had done for him, disturbed but slightly by the chances of discovery, and the remembrance of the match that showed her face at Archangel's Rise. [11]
- As is not unfrequent with versatile and inflammable people, he caught fire at the first spark of a new medical discovery, and no sooner got home to England than he began to spread the conflagration. [6]
- She experienced a twinge of surprise at the discovery that other people in the world, in Hampton, were still leading tranquil, untormented existences. [9]
- Yet he shuddered, too, to think what might happen if it was all true, and discovery or reunion should shake to the centre the very life of the two long-parted ones. [11]
- It stands ready to-day to accept anything from any theorist, from any empiric who can make out a good case for his discovery or his remedy. [3]
- We put men to work on our part of the discovery yesterday, and last night they brought us some fine specimens. [5]
- It suddenly occurred to Victoria, in the light of a new discovery, that in the past her father's irritability had not extended to her. [9]
- I hurried over to the tea-cups, such a twinge did that discovery give me. [9]
- It is necessary to show in a brief glance what had been going on in Europe during the latter part of that century, the first quarter of which had been made illustrious in the history of medical science by the discovery of the circulation. [3]
- I kept saying to myself, he'll get so high that when discovery does finally come it will be like the sun falling out of the sky. [5]
- M. Kovalevsky writes to me from Naples, that he has now carried these observations yet further, and should his results be well established, the whole will form a discovery of the very greatest value. [1]
- They seemed not to have expected him to talk like anybody else, and the discovery that he did so delighted them. [2]
- It never occurred to General Cass to call his discovery by the odd name of popular sovereignty. [7]
- Stanton naturally failed to find it, and it remained for the writer of these notes, motoring up the Rhone one September day, exactly twenty-two years after the first discovery, to re-locate the vast reclining figure of the first consul of France, "dreaming of Universal Empire. [5]
- She was face to face with discovery and mystery. [11]
- If he lives to die again, he will distinctly recollect the discovery of America. [5]
- When we went to Agra, by and by, we happened there just in time to be in at the birth of a marvel--a memorable scientific discovery--the discovery that in certain ways the foul and derided Ganges water is the most puissant purifier in the world! [5]
- We had followed this ram round and round in a circle all day--a thing which was proven by the discovery that we had watered the Expedition seven times at one and same spring in seven hours. [5]
- So skillfully was this managed that one of the city officials was on the point of offering a reward for the discovery of the missing Diedrich. [4]
- The anguish of this discovery was hard to bear. [10]
- In consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were completely altered. [2]
- The effect of this announcement in London, accompanied as it was with Gosnold's report of the fruitfulness of the coast of New England which he explored, was something like that made upon New York by the discovery of gold in California in 1849. [4]
- For more than thirty years this great discovery, which was to banish at least half the evils which afflict humanity, has been sleeping undisturbed in the grave of oblivion. [6]
- By the time they had made the accidental and somewhat astounding discovery that he was a parson, they were willing to overlook it; in view, perhaps, of his compensating accomplishments. [9]
- All at once there grew on me, with horror, the discovery that there was digging under the cabin. [9]
- Every real person--for there are persons as there are fruits that have no distinguishing flavor, mere gooseberries--has a distinct quality, and the finding it is always like the discovery of a new island to the voyager. [4]
- Recognizing the fact, then, that we have learned nothing but the machinery of life, and are no nearer to its essence, what is it that we have gained by this great discovery of the cell formation and function? [3]
- But he reminded them how the company of Ralph Lane, in like circumstances, importuned him to proceed with the discovery of Moratico, alleging that they had yet a dog that boiled with sassafrks leaves would richly feed them. [4]
- This discovery strained the very fibres of his being. [9]
- Nothing could save the twins but the discovery of a person who did the murder on his sole personal account--an undertaking which had all the aspect of the impossible. [5]
- Suppose that in the shock of discovery Jasmine should throw everything to the winds, and lose herself in arrant egotism once more! [11]
- The study of the natural sciences teaches those who are devoted to them that the most insignificant facts may lead the way to the discovery of the most important, all-pervading laws of the universe. [6]
- The discovery of the fact that the nail of the middle finger on her right hand was broken, gave her a clew. [9]
- In speaking of the exploration of the James River as far as the Falls by Newport, Smith, and Percy, we have followed the statements of Percy and the writer of Newport's discovery that they saw the great Powhatan. [4]
- She had concealed the discovery of the will with an unswerving determination. [11]
- Indeed, but for the discovery of the capacities of the chrysanthemum, modern life would have experienced a fatal hitch in its development. [4]
- The day after the discovery and exploration of Narragansett, Mr. King spent the morning with his cousin at the Casino. [4]
- My idea is that we don't begin to know all there is to this stupendous discovery yet. [5]
- It is probable that he did open the way to the discovery of the New World. [4]
- He recounted all that had happened from the time of his discovery of the rustlers in the canyon up to the present moment. [13]
- Was it strange that Dr. Courtenay should pride himself upon the discovery of a new beauty? [9]
- Rock taken from ten feet below the surface on the other part of the discovery, has yielded $150.00 to the ton in the mill and we are at work 300 feet from their shaft. [5]
- He was equally surprised at the discovery that he had misjudged Mr. Engel, and was drawn towards him now with a strong sympathy and curiosity. [9]
- They had the street to themselves, and the promenade was one of discovery, and had much the interest of a landing in a foreign city. [4]
- By the time Still began to experiment, Kellgren had completed his development of the principles of his system and established himself in a good practice in London--1874 --and was in good shape to convey his discovery to Kansas, Mental Telegraphically. [5]
- I had no sooner made this discovery, which drew from me an involuntary groan, when a ship's lanthorn was of a sudden thrust over me, and I perceived behind it a head covered with shaggy hair and beard, and beetling brows. [9]
- The name of Sir Walter Raleigh is intimately associated with Carolina and Virginia, and it is the popular impression that he personally assisted in the discovery of the one and the settlement of the other. [4]
- Now that you should know, I have made you as great a discovery as he, for less charge than he spendeth you every meale; I had sent you this mappe of the Countries and Nations that inhabit them, as you may see at large. [4]
- And this discovery, she knew, ought to have some significance, but she felt unaccountably indifferent to it. [9]
- First of all she knew that the light in the outer office was burning dimly, and the discovery gave her a shock. [9]
- Then, with discovery, shame to her. [11]
- It must have seemed so in the awakening of the sixteenth century, when Europe, Spain leading, began that great movement of discovery and aggrandizement which has, in the end, been profitable only to a portion of the adventurers. [4]
- I put my scheme in the shape of the discovery of a remarkably petrified man. [5]
- That is to say, its powers are from Him, but the credit of the discovery of the powers and what they are for is due to an American lady. [5]
- I wish to say here, that I don't conceive that in any fair and just mind this discovery relieves me at all. [7]
- Of course I refer to surgery, and to the discovery of the causes and improvement in the treatment of contagious and epidemic diseases. [4]
- Had I, during recent years, as a result of a discovery that emotions arising from human relationships lead to discomfort and suffering, deliberately been forming a shell, until now I was incapable of natural feelings? [9]
- Thus did America receive this great discovery, destined to save thousands of lives, via Boston, from the hands of one of our own Massachusetts physicians. [3]
- The horse was really the touchstone of discovery. [11]
- So she felt quite safe from fear of discovery in this quarter, and knowing she was under the protection of the chief of the eunuchs himself, could wait for her lover calmly. [10]
- This discovery made plain the right and wise course to pursue in order to acquire certainty and exactness in understanding the statements which the newspaper was daily endeavoring to convey to me: I must catch a Verb and tame it. [5]
- He must have picked up some wood-craft and a little botany from Thoreau, and a few chemical notions from his brother-in-law, Dr. Jackson, whose name is associated with the discovery of artificial anaesthesia. [6]
- This was a peculiarly gratifying discovery, because of late times it has become fashionable to regard this creature as a myth and a superstition, a work of the inventive imaginations of our remote ancestors. [5]
- Her dislike of Paula had its rise, in the first instance, in the discovery that she, his wife, was no longer indispensable to the sufferer when he had his fair young niece's company. [10]
- With that they parted; Mr Swiveller to make the best of his way home and sleep himself sober; and Quilp to cogitate upon the discovery he had made, and exult in the prospect of the rich field of enjoyment and reprisal it opened to him. [12]
- Meeting him in Pall Mall one day, he said to me: "My dear fellow, I have made a great discovery. [11]
- Phillips and I own one half of a segregated claim in the "Flyaway" discovery, and good interests in two extensions on it. [5]
- Dr. Perkins took out a patent for his discovery, and travelled about the country to diffuse the new practice. [6]
- One or two other facts deserve mention, as showing the readiness of our medical community to receive and adopt any important idea or discovery. [3]
- Within a day or two I made another discovery. [5]
- All this was only, on Hodder's part, to be aware of the startling discovery as to how strong his sense of possession had been, and how irrational, how unwarranted. [9]
- If anybody would only contrive some kind of a lever that one could thrust in among the works of this horrid automaton and check them, or alter their rate of going, what would the world give for the discovery? [6]
- There was only one end to secret meetings, and discovery was inevitable. [11]
- About seven o'clock one blistering hot morning--for it was now dead summer time--Higbie and I took the boat and started on a voyage of discovery to the two islands. [5]
- The immediate result of this alarming discovery was that Tom went on express to warn Captain Bowman, and the rest of us returned to a painful scene at Kaskaskia. [9]
- Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her a most respectable outside-aspect of rustiness and antiquity. [5]
- Therefore, three out of the four memorable events connected with the discovery and exploration of the mighty river, occurred, by accident, in one and the same place. [5]
- I was afraid of that--when he ought to be going to New York to test the discovery at the hospitals there. [9]
- Whatever we acquire of science, of art, in discovery, in the application of natural laws in industries, is an enlargement of our horizon, and a contribution to the highest needs of man, his intellectual life. [4]
- With the discovery of Oldring's hidden cattle-range had come enlightenment on several problems. [13]
- On the 25th of March, 1584, he obtained from Elizabeth a new charter with larger powers, incorporating himself, Adrian Gilbert, brother of Sir Humphrey, and John Davys, under the title of "The College of the Fellowship for the Discovery of the Northwest Passage. [4]
- And from force of habit I made motion for my sword, to make the shameful discovery that I was clothed from head to foot in linsey-woolsey. [9]
- The discovery was of grave import to Austen. [9]
- From the Terror of France I had got a peasant's dress, and by rubbing my hands and face with the stain of butternut, cutting again my new-grown beard, and wearing a wig, I was well guarded against discovery. [11]
- I am proud of every Spanish achievement, from Hernando Cortes's victory at Thermopylae down to Vasco Nunez de Balboa's discovery of the Atlantic ocean; and of every splendid Spanish name, from Don Quixote and the Duke of Wellington down to Don Caesar de Bazan. [5]
- He soon found numerous advocates of his discovery, many of them of high standing and influence. [6]
- She had undoubtedly noticed how deeply this had lowered her in Frau Kastenmayr's esteem, and the discovery had been painful and wounded her vanity; but what did she care now for her, for her brother, for all Ratisbon? [10]
- There was almost nothing that you did not wish to know; and this, added to what I wished to know, made a boundless field for discovery. [4]
- The chemists have not found it out yet, but human brains and breathing-organs have long since made the discovery. [6]
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