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Sentences starting with earth

Earth had nothing more to offer; for he who was one of the leaders of his brotherhood beheld with grief their departure from the paths of their founder. [10]
Earth has no higher, no grander position for me. [5]
Earth not good enough for her. [11]
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust! [12]
Earth to earth, alas, and dust to dust! [9]

Sentences ending with earth

Had hell indeed yawned, and were the flames soaring up to the sky through the riven shell of the earth? [10]
It is the wretchedest, princeliest land on earth. [5]
Ye call the world yours, yet ye will not stoop to gather from the earth the fruits of the earth. [11]
But the next words: "Do not fear," checked her hasty impulse--she smoothed out the papyrus and read on with growing excitement: "Do not fear that I shall address you as a lover--as the man for whom there is but one woman on earth. [10]
And then anon within six strokes Sir Launcelot had stricken them to the earth. [5]
We are now, with the help of our allies, striving to banish these things from the face of the earth. [9]
They are acquainted with the entire history of the heavens and the earth. [10]
So the wave which was to have wafted them on to the shore of Elysium has just failed of landing them, and back they have been drawn into the desolate ocean to meet no more on earth. [6]
Do you know what a prince of the blood is, on earth? [5]
How much more was that lost image to him than all it left on earth! [6]

Short sentences using earth

We are of the earth. [11]
Thine eye pierces the earth. [11]
The very earth seemed breathing. [11]
Ah, heavens and earth, friend! [5]
The best on earth! [10]
Heavens and earth! [10]

Sentences containing earth two or more times

A shell tore up the earth two paces from Pierre and he looked around with a smile as he brushed from his clothes some earth it had thrown up. [2]
At last he spoke aloud: "There shall be an heap of corn in the earth, high upon the hills; his fruit shall shake like Libanus, and shall be green in the city like grass upon the earth. [11]
It is the spirit that whispers over the earth out of the Other Earth. [11]
It couldn't be like anybody, or anything that flies in the air, or creeps upon the earth, or swims in the waters under the earth. [8]
This is because, in great convulsions of nature, at three different times, masses of the earth --whole ranges of mountains, probably--have flown off into space, thus lessening the diameter of the earth, and changing the exact locality of its centre by a point or two. [5]
And I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. [5]
Our hearts know each other like two faithful friends, as the earth knows her moon, the moon her earth. [10]
Until I be assured that Earth is Heaven And Heaven is Earth? [5]
I sank into a deep silence, dropped out of a busy world, a morsel of earth slowly coming to Mother Earth again. [11]

More example sentences with the word earth in them

And I need your true soul to help me to shake off the burden which is crushing me to the earth and choking me. [10]
The first thing you will naturally wish to look at will be the earth you have just left. [6]
No more for you the cold earth for a bed--relieved though it be by a sleeping- mat. [11]
Is it possible you can answer up, right off, and tell what anybody on the other side of the earth is doing, and yet can't tell what a person is doing who isn't three yards from you? [5]
That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. [6]
Is my father wrong when he says that it is a proud thing to belong to the mightiest realm on earth, before whose power barbarians tremble; a great thing to feel and call yourself a Roman citizen? [10]
And it is worth reflection what we should do, what could we spend our energies on, and what would evoke them, we who are both civilized and enlightened, if all nations were civilized and the earth were entirely subdued. [4]
A ceaseless swinging with the swinging earth, A never-tiring ebbing to and fro, Trenching eternal fastnesses; a girth Round mountains in their everlasting snow. [11]
Dressed in molleton, with no adornment save the glow of a perfect health, she seemed at this moment, as on the Ecrehos, the one being on earth worth living and caring for. [11]
He was haunted with many anxieties; in the first place, Ruth was overtaxing her strength in her hospital labors, and Philip felt as if he must move heaven and earth to save her from such toil and suffering. [5]
I can say with conscious truth that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would to relieve us from this heavy reproach in any practicable way. [7]
Now the trouble with an American paper is that it has no discrimination; it rakes the whole earth for blood and garbage, and the result is that you are daily overfed and suffer a surfeit. [5]
For myself, I wish the earth close about me, and level green grass above me, and no one knowing of the place; or else, fire or the sea. [11]
In spite of will a sort of hopelessness went through me, for I could feel long blades of corn grown up about my couch, an unnatural meadow, springing from the earth floor of my dungeon. [11]
So the thousand wild cat shafts burrowed deeper and deeper into the earth day by day, and all men were beside themselves with hope and happiness. [5]
Man has spread widely over the face of the earth, and must have been exposed, during his incessant migrations (63. [1]
For the sleeper whose dream here on earth he, Charles, had beautified in so many ways, a happy waking had long since followed in the land for which she had never ceased to yearn. [10]
Whoever knows it, whoever serves it, whoever impresses it deeply on his soul and only breathes and moves in it, no longer has any taint of baseness; he soars high above the earth, and knows nothing of misery and death. [10]
He it was who arranged with my creditors to allow me to roam the face of the earth for four years and persecute the nations thereof with lectures, promising that at the end of four years I would pay dollar for dollar. [5]
Sometimes moaning, sometimes whistling, the gusts of the hurricane drove the water and the travellers before it, while the rain poured from the sky to the earth, and wherever it struck splashed upward, making little whirlpools and swiftly breaking bubbles. [10]
The sweet fragrance which the day draws from the earth lingered in the air. [9]
In this silence, which emphasized the quaking of the earth and air, there was a sense of unknown, impending disaster. [4]
The poor medicaments which Angelique brings avail not; these soothing hands and healing tones, they pass through clouds of the middle place between heaven and earth to Antoine. [11]
On the fifteenth, when young Rostov, in his dressing gown, looked out of the window, he saw it was an unsurpassable morning for hunting: it was as if the sky were melting and sinking to the earth without any wind. [2]
If only that were true which Zoe was reading yesterday, that the souls of men were destined to visit the earth again and again in new forms! [10]
Still great riches were meted out to you on earth, and what were a few nuts to you! [10]
Denisov and Rostov were living in an earth hut, dug out for them by the soldiers and roofed with branches and turf. [2]
Irene in Quebec, were left to guard the place of treasure, until, to the sound of the laughing spring, there should come many men and much machinery, and the sinking of shafts in the earth, and the making, of riches. [11]
Some of them were digging, others were wheeling barrowloads of earth along planks, while others stood about doing nothing. [2]
Cold and intangible were all things in earth and heaven. [13]
On Saturday I went to hear and see Rachel; a wonderful sight--terrible as if the earth had cracked deep at your feet, and revealed a glimpse of hell. [14]
And as they went the earth seemed suddenly to blossom anew, the glory of the Scarlet Hills burst upon them, and they could hear bugles calling far off and see giant figures trooping along the hills, all scarlet too, with streaming hair. [11]
To find the weight of the earth take the length of a degree on a meridian and multiply by 6 1/2 pounds. [5]
Laws, what asses we used to be, on earth, about these things! [5]
Two hours later we reached the foot of a tall isolated mountain, which is crowned by the crumbling castle of Banias, the stateliest ruin of that kind on earth, no doubt. [5]
We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live forever, there, in the Whole," said Pierre, and he pointed to the sky. [2]
Don't you see, we could distribute these people around the earth in less time than it is going to take you to explain that we can't. [5]
About how happy we are; and about friends left behind in the earth, and how to influence them for their good. [5]
Look on the waves: their stormy voices teach That not on earth may toil and struggle cease. [6]
However, as it was, she submitted to it, for she saw that it was shrewd, and she would have called the wisest physician on earth to her lover's bedside if she had had the power. [10]
And so it was, and all the island was en fete, and when Sheila came to Dyck's plantation the very earth seemed to rejoice. [11]
But here she was, an Indian, with few signs of civilisation or of that breeding which seems to white people the only breeding fit for earth or heaven. [11]
That her lover was the most powerful sovereign on earth, and she could appeal to him if she needed help, did not enter her mind. [10]
The earth itself was still and sober. [11]
The street beyond was so narrow, and the shadow of the houses on one side of the way so deep, that he seemed to have risen out of the earth. [12]
The sun above was smothered; the earth beneath was trackless; the compass stood for loss all round. [11]
An impure corpse was not permitted to defile the pure earth by its decay; nor might it be committed to the fire or water for destruction, as their purity would be equally polluted by such an act. [10]
But the earth was moving under it, and as it rolled from west to east the plane running through the north and south poles was every instant changing. [6]
Although the month was March, it was one of those wonderful still nights that sometimes come in the mountain-country when the wind is silent in the notches and the stars seem to burn nearer to the earth. [9]
Yes, this one was lifting from its bed on the hard earth beneath. [9]
Why, that dervish was hunting in that little hill for the treasures of the earth, and didn't know he was walking over the real ones for a thousand miles. [5]
First, the man was a priest in the days when the Huguenots were scattering to the four ends of the earth. [11]
And the sky was a fairy realm like the earth. [2]
They had been warned to pray and repent of their sins, for at the moment when the holiest sanctuary on earth should fall the whole world would crumble into nothingness. [10]
Now what I want to know is how on earth did cattle ever get in here? [13]
Electricity, in limitless volume, has existed in the air and the rocks and the earth and everywhere since time began--and was going to waste all the while. [5]
Electricity, in limitless volume, has existed in the air and the rocks and the earth and everywhere since time began --and was going to waste all the while. [5]
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. [5]
This was the very fulness of the year, the earth giving out the sweetness of her maturity, the corn in martial ranks, with golden plumes nodding. [9]
This is a very curious and interesting circumstance, and is a withering rebuke to those philosophers who would make us believe that it is not possible for any portion of the earth to fly off into space. [5]
To crush and vanquish was his profession, hatred his reward on earth. [10]
Wolff had scarcely vanished from the street, and Els from the window, when a man's slender figure appeared, as if it had risen from the earth, beside the spurge-laurel tree at the left of the house. [10]
Some were below us, some on our level; they were all in well-defined, distinct masses, molten silver on deck, below trailing rain, and attended on earth by gigantic shadows that moved with them. [4]
It has given us a degree of political freedom far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. [7]
To give herself up to memory, to pray, to dream, to picture herself in the other world among her beloved dead--and besides that to eat and drink, which she was always ready to do very freely--this was all she asked henceforth of life on earth. [10]
Keep it out until a vote is taken, and a vote in favor of it cannot be got in any population of forty thousand on earth, who have been drawn together by the ordinary motives of emigration and settlement. [7]
The love which unites two hearts is like the ocean of Homer which encircles both halves of the earth. [10]
Not the old Union Depot, with its wooden sheds, where Honora had gone so often to see the Hanburys off, that grimy gateway to the fairer regions of the earth. [9]
How well I understand the feeling which led the Pisans to load their vessels with earth from the Holy Land, and fill the area of the Campo Santo with that sacred soil! [6]
Meanwhile, at work under the windswept trees of the highway, were strange, dark men from the uttermost parts of the earth, physiognomies as old as the tombs of Pharaoh. [9]
In the cemetery Ulrich threw three handfuls of earth into the open grave, then with drooping head returned home. [10]
Wasn't the great, ugly river and dirty city at the end of the earth, to be written about in Boston journals? [9]
Deluge, December 7th, two thousand three hundred and forty-eight years B. C. Yes, and the earth stands on an elephant, and the elephant on a tortoise. [6]
It had but two rooms, the floor was of sanded earth, but it had windows on three sides, east, west, and south, and the door looked south. [11]
During this conversation two men had been busily occupied, in front of the paraschites' hut, in driving piles into the earth, and stretching a torn linen cloth upon them. [10]
When Heinz again turned to Biberli he said in a hollow tone: "If the earth should swallow up Nuremberg tonight it would not surprise me. [10]
He did not turn round but looked at her in the mirror, as though it were the last look he might give on earth. [11]
Mr. Bryant said, 'Truth crushed to earth will rise again. [5]
If the distance traversed by a locomotive in an hour is represented by one tenth of an inch, it would need a line nine feet long to indicate the corresponding advance of the earth in the same time. [4]
It seemed to transport the listener to the summit of the cathedral, as the choir now called to the ruler that the earth was full of his renown. [10]
You know the traitress, whom we are going to extirpate from the earth like a poisonous viper to-day. [10]
We found the trail in the soft wet earth and followed it. [5]
By inheritance, by tradition, by habits of thought, Austen Vane was an American,--an American as differentiated from the citizen of any other nation upon the earth. [9]
In this cavern, tradition says, Saul, the king, sat at midnight, and stared and trembled, while the earth shook, the thunders crashed among the hills, and out of the midst of fire and smoke the spirit of the dead prophet rose up and confronted him. [5]
The wondering shepherds told their breathless tale Of the bright choir that woke the sleeping vale; Told how the skies with sudden glory flamed; Told how the shining multitude proclaimed "Joy, joy to earth! [6]
Hailing these little tokens of the bachelor's disposition as so many assurances of his own welcome course from that time, the schoolmaster parted from him with a light heart and joyous spirits, and deemed himself one of the happiest men on earth. [12]
Their father he to war had gone, And on the battle-field was slain; But little did he think when he went away, But what on earth they would meet again. [5]
From this point to the Mississippi River, fifteen miles, there is not a spot of earth above water, and to the westward for thirty-five miles there is nothing but the river's flood. [5]
Hold me down to the earth, for I feel my powers a-working! [5]
I will attend to that for a little while, and try to inquire, if I can, how on earth it could be that any man could draw such an inference from anything I said. [7]
Is he going to spend his life in maintaining a principle that nobody on earth opposes? [7]
Would you venture to so consider them had they been committed by any nation on earth against the humblest of our people? [7]
The lad began to sing: "Here shall I build me my cedar house, A city with gates, a road to the sea-- For I am the lord of the Earth! [11]
I should like to see one of them balanced on a pivot properly adjusted, and watch if she did not turn so as to point north and south,--as she would, if the love-currents are like those of the earth our mother. [6]
It was wise to sacrifice the transitory pleasures of earth to loftier purposes. [10]
And it came to pass that Coriantumr fell to the earth, and became as if he had no life. [5]
Ann freely owned to me that she held Herdegen to be the noblest youth on earth, nor could I marvel, when I was myself of the same mind. [10]
It always seems to me as if they looked beyond the heaven and earth which we see. [10]
But Mary, faithful to its lightest word, Kept in her heart the sayings she had heard, Till the dread morning rent the Temple's veil, And shuddering Earth confirmed the wondrous tale. [6]
Think how superior to it earth would be, with its variety of types and faces and ages, and the enlivening attrition of the myriad interests that come into pleasant collision in such a variegated society. [5]

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