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Sentences starting with electric

Electric bells, but they don't ring. [5]

Sentences ending with electric

On the whole, the atmosphere of our entertainment was rather electric. [9]
I am so glad Susy has gone on that trip and that you are trying the electric. [5]
The air was electric. [11]
And before you could draw your breath, the cable cars had become electric. [9]

Short sentences using electric

The electric lights were blazing. [4]
Are they electric affinities? [4]

More example sentences with the word electric in them

This fact of yours, which seems so strange to you, belongs to a great series of similar facts familiarly known now to many persons, and before long to be recognized as generally as those relating to the electric telegraph and the slaving `dynamo. [6]
That glorified drug-store with the five bays included in its manifold functions a department rivalling Delmonico's, with electric fans and marble-topped tables and white-clad waiters who took one's order and filled it at the soda fountain. [9]
The old horse-cars with the clanging chains had disappeared, and you could take an electric to within a block of the imposing grille that surrounded the Dwyer grounds. [9]
The city reeked with smoke and acrid, stale gas, the electric lights were turned on to dispel the November gloom. [9]
But, on the whole, the magnet remains the same, and it is probable that a person's normal electric condition is the thing in him least liable to dangerous variation. [4]
The electric car which he caught seemed to lag, the stops were interminable. [9]
She led the way without comment up the darkened stairs, and on the landing produced another key, opened the door of her rooms, fumbled for the electric button, and suddenly the place was flooded with light. [9]
And I stood watching their receding figures as they walked out into the street and hailed the huge electric car that came to a stop beyond them. [9]
Mr. Edison is wasting his time in objective experiments, while we are in the deepest ignorance as to our electric personality or our personal electricity. [4]
The complete battery was there, the appetite was there, the acid was eating the zinc; but the electric current was too weak to flash from the brain. [4]
Even after I was frozen solid I could still distinguish that tickling, just as a corpse does when he is taking electric treatment. [5]
Behind the crowd was a row of old-fashioned brick houses, on the walls of which were patterned, by the cold electric light, the branches of the bare elms ranged along the sidewalk. [9]
Down the winding walk from the hill, touched by a distant electric light, the loitering people, in couples and in groups, seemed no more in real life than the supernumeraries in a scene at the opera. [4]
She has the usual Upper River quota of factories, newspapers, and institutions of learning; she has telephones, local telegraphs, an electric alarm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. [5]
We must clear up this unilluminated atmosphere, and here,--here is the true electric light which will irradiate its darkness. [3]
Here is a town of twelve or thirteen thousand population, with electric lighted streets, and with blocks of buildings which are stately enough, and also architecturally fine enough, to command respect in any city. [5]
As we crept toward the shore, in the thick darkness, a blinding glory of white electric light burst suddenly from our forecastle, and lit up the water and the warehouses as with a noon-day glare. [5]
To-night I want to go up that cable and call on Mr. Boldrick again, and see the mills and the electric light, and hear your whistle, from up there. [11]
The house was thrilled as with an electric shock, and the people half rose as if to seek a glimpse of the person who had made that exchange. [5]
Miller Gorse was there, and Tallant, waving a palm-leaf while sitting under the electric fan. [9]
The vibration of the monster ship increased to a strong, electric pulsation, the water hummed along her sides, she felt the swell of the open sea. [9]
She was in the light of an electric lamp, and he was in the shadow. [11]
The evening after the funeral, while the Marches sat together talking it over, and making approaches, through its shadow, to the question of their own future, which it involved, they were startled by the twitter of the electric bell at their apartment door. [8]
The invention of the electric telegraph seemed to burst upon the world simultaneously from many quarters--not perfect, perhaps, but the time for the idea had come--and happy was it for the man who entertained it. [4]
I'd go to the electric chair for him! [9]
It should be the duty of the town-clerk, by a battery, or by some means to be discovered by electricians, to find out the galvanic habit of the parties, their prevailing electric condition. [4]
But now suppose that your mind is in its nature discursive, erratic, subject to electric attractions and repulsions, volage; it may be impossible for you to compel your attention except by taking away all external disturbances. [6]
Each new splendor that burst out of my visions of the future whirled me bodily over in bed or jerked me to a sitting posture just as if an electric battery had been applied to me. [5]
We read that such a man is magnetic, meaning that he can poll a great many votes; or that such a woman thrilled her audience, meaning probably that they were in an electric condition to be shocked by her. [4]
Suddenly, with reverberating strokes, the mill bells rang out, the electric gongs chattered, the siren screeched, drowning the voices. [9]
In crossing Tower Street he was frightened by the sharp clanging of a great electric car that roared past him, aflame with light. [9]
The electric arcs, splotches in the veil, revealed on the Common phantom trees; and in the distance, against the blurred lights from the Warren Street stores skirting the park could be seen phantom vehicles, phantom people moving to and fro. [9]
The slow of speech becomes fluent; the torpid listener becomes electric with vivacity, and alive all over with interest. [6]
Suddenly an electric shock seemed to run through Natasha's whole being. [2]
Some electric lamps shining through the trees made high lights on the crests of the rapids, while the others near were in shadow and dark. [4]
A new Number Seven,--with electric lights and a bathroom and a brass bed. [9]
But he could seldom be turned from a purpose once formed; so we shut off the electric current from the fences, took an escort along, climbed over the enclosing ramparts of dead knights, and moved out upon the field. [5]
The electric wire running up the stand quivers and takes the figure, passes it to all the other wires, transmits it to every office and hotel in the city, to all the "tickers" in ten thousand chambers and "bucketshops" and offices in the republic. [4]
She tried to rouse herself, to think, to consider a situation in which her instinct had whispered just once--there must be some hidden danger: but the electric touch of his hand destroyed the process, and made her incapable of reason. [9]
When the curtain rose for the third act there was exposed a star-sown sky, in which the galaxy of Orion was shown with distinctness, each star sharply twinkling from the electric power behind- a pretty scene evoking great applause. [11]
She crossed the room to the electric switch, turning on the flood of light, picked up her tote-book and sat down again. [9]
Here and there ribbons of smoke curled upward, adding volume to the blue cloud that hung over the tables, which in turn was dissipated in spots by the industrious electric fans. [9]
The oak floor reflected its gleam, and that of the electric lights; the shades were drawn; a slight odour of steam heat pervaded the place. [9]
Set in a recess of the wall and illumined with electric light was an oil-painting the show-woman seriously declared to be a lifelike and realistic picture of the Chair in which the Mother sat when she composed her 'inspired' work. [5]
And now Alison recalled, only to be thrilled again by an electric sensation she had never before experienced with such intensity, the look of inspiration on the preacher's face as he closed. [9]
That is the reason that some clergymen refuse to marry a divorced woman; they see that she has made one electric mistake, and fear she will make another. [4]
I had it paid to me that way five years ago, and here--here it is," she added, with almost a touch of hysteria in her voice, for the excitement of it all acted on her like an electric storm. [11]
Presently he stopped on the sidewalk, looked around him, and read a sign in glaring, electric letters, Hotel Albert. [9]
Some one turned on the electric switch, darkening the scene without. [9]
This sudden disclosure of the young woman's identity had upon Hodder a certain electric effect, and with it came a realization of the extent to which--from behind the scenes, so to speak--she had gradually aroused him to a lively speculation. [9]
By the magic of the new and nobler influences the sterile spaces were transformed into wooded parks, the merry electric car replaced the melancholy 'bus, smooth concrete the tempestuous plank sidewalk, the macadamised road the primitive corduroy, et cetera. [5]
The swift motion of the electric car was grateful. [9]
In these days of electric lighting, when you have only to touch a button and your parlor or bedroom is instantly flooded with light, it is a pleasure to revert to the era of the tinder-box, the flint and steel, and the brimstone match. [6]
But in point of beauty and luxury, this would be as much superior to Nero's house as the electric light is to a Roman lamp. [4]
Some flash as of an electric spark shot from Telyanin's eyes to Rostov's and back, and back again and again in an instant. [2]
As the volts of an electric shock quivering through a body are suddenly withdrawn, and the rigidity becomes a ghastly inertness, so Jasmine's hands, and all her body, seemed released. [11]
At the end of a hallway a nurse, who had been reading beside a lamp, got up smilingly and led the way on tiptoe into the nursery, turning on a shaded electric light. [9]
In the midst of a block rose a tall, pretentious though cheaply constructed building with the words "Hotel Albert" in flaming electric letters above an archway. [9]
One day, having occasion to go over to the Boyne Iron Works to get information at first hand from certain officials, and having finished my business, I boarded a South Side electric car standing at the terminal. [9]
The bundle was now unrolled, and when the contents proved to be a plump little dressed pig, the judge looked troubled, whilst Hendon turned pale, and his body was thrilled with an electric shiver of dismay; but the King remained unmoved, protected by his ignorance. [5]
It seems hard not to be able to ask for a piece of bread or a tumbler of water, without a sensation running round the table, as if one were an electric eel or a torpedo, and couldn't be touched without giving a shock. [6]
He would only need to hollow it out and put in the electric light. [5]
These soiled and musty books are luminous and electric within. [6]
As a next move, I paid a private visit to that old cave of Merlin's--not the small one--the big one--" "Yes, the one where we secretly established our first great electric plant when I was projecting a miracle. [5]
At present they merely make trouble and do harm in the evoking of cyclones and other kinds of electric storms; but once under humane and intelligent control this will cease and they will become a boon to man. [5]
The ladies' toilettes make a fine display of color, and this is in keeping with the elegance of the vessel's furnishings and the flooding brilliancies of the electric light. [5]
Instead of the little knobs of the electric bells, a so-called "bell-rope," about the width of one's hand, provided with a brass or metal handle, hung beside the doors. [10]
Then, with a last lingering look at the brightness of the tree, she stood in the doorway and turned the electric switch. [9]
She had expected it, was waiting for it; nevertheless, an electric shock checked her heart, froze the very living fiber of her bones. [13]
You see he is on the electric light lay now. [5]
At two o'clock in the afternoon the electric light was still burning over my desk when the telephone rang and I heard Nancy's voice. [9]
Now, it is impossible to conceive that the catastrophe which did happen to that civilization could have happened if the world had then possessed the steam-engine, the printing-press, and the electric telegraph. [4]
You must be ill to shiver like that," he added, noticing that Prince Andrew winced as at an electric shock. [2]
Her head was hot, her temples throbbed.... Night had fallen, the electric arcs burned blue overhead, she was in another street--was it Stanley? [9]
After breakfast, when Honora sat down to write to Aunt Mary, she described the suite of rooms in which they lived,--the brass beds, the electric night lamps, the mahogany French furniture, the heavy carpets, and even the white-tiled bathroom. [9]
In the meantime Honora and Peter had mounted the electric car, and were speeding westward. [9]
Trixton Brent, with his hands in his pockets, stood facing her under the electric light on the porch. [9]
Something radiated from her, and like an electric current accelerated the motion of his blood. [13]
In spite of her aversion, she must have relished the sort of electric mental shock that the sight gave her. [4]
You should have heard me whiz, and seen the electric fur fly! [5]
About this time he was beginning to increase very considerably the Hambleton fortune, and a little later I became counsel for the Crescent Gas and Electric Company, in which he had shrewdly gained a controlling interest. [9]
For the ports had been closed as tight as gaskets could make them, the electric fans, as usual, obstinately "refused to march. [9]
What is the good of sending a man to Washington at the rate of a hundred miles an hour if we are uncertain of his electric state? [4]
Sentry-duty was discarded for the night, and the corral left empty of life; I ordered that quiet be maintained in the cave, and the electric lights turned down to a glimmer. [5]
The artist could find nothing to complain of in the morning except that the incandescent electric light in his chamber went out suddenly at midnight and left him in blank darkness in the most exciting crisis of a novel. [4]
The fields are fenced and watched; and at night they are under the constant inspection of lofty electric searchlight. [5]
The list is familiar enough: the railroad, the ocean steamer, photography, the spectroscope, the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, anesthetics, electric illumination,--with such lesser wonders as the friction match, the sewing machine, and the bicycle. [6]
By night an endless procession moved up one sidewalk and down another, staring hypnotically at the flash-in and flash-out electric, signs that kept the breakfast foods and ales, the safety razors, soaps, and soups incessantly in the minds of a fickle public. [9]
Something like an electric shock ran through her, and the letters of the name seemed to quiver and become red. [9]
They want an electric railrud bad up in Greenacre, and when some of us spoke for it and tried to get the committee to report it, those cheap fellers from Newcastle started such a catcall we had to set down. [9]
The New Orleans electric lights were more numerous than those of New York, and very much better. [5]
Please take your electric light and go to--but never mind, it is not for me to suggest; you will probably find the way; and any way you can reasonably count on divine assistance if you lose your bearings. [5]
That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world. [7]
Our young folks do everything that is needed by the theatre, with their own hands; scene-designing, scene-painting, gas-fitting, electric work, costume-designing--costume making, everything and all things indeed--and their orchestra and its leader are from their own ranks. [5]
It was a divine night, soft and sweet-scented, and all the rustling trees were luminous in the electric light. [4]
The world became distorted, people flitted past her like weird figures of a dream, the myriad lights of Faber Street were blurred and whirled in company with the electric signs. [9]
This was the curving frontage of the crescent city lit up with the white glare of five miles of electric lights. [5]
An electrician had come while we were at the table, and had fastened on the little electric bulbs which did duty as candles. [9]
But at the close of the fortnight they one day came upon the footprints of men in the mud of the western bank--a Robinson Crusoe experience which carries an electric shiver with it yet, when one stumbles on it in print. [5]
I dressed in cheerful haste, took the sapphire pendant from its velvet box, tiptoed into the still silent schoolroom and hung it on the tree, flooding on the electric light that set the tinsel and globes ablaze. [9]

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