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Sentences ending with element

In two days the bride, decked by base and mocking hands for an atrocious and accursed farce, would be wreathed and wedded, not to him, the bridegroom whom she loved, but to the Nile--the insensible, death-dealing element. [10]
A pig missing; supposed to have "fallen a prey to the devouring element. [6]
Stafford had suddenly roused in him some strange superstitious element. [11]
It was the reassertion of primitive man, the demands of the first element. [11]
How grand its preparation for souls, souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had dissected the emotions and applied its steely analysis to that state of being which recognizes neither psychology nor element. [6]
It is the opinion of all the great men who have expressed an opinion upon it, that it is a dangerous element. [7]
It is a matter of absolute certainty that it is a disturbing element. [7]
It had been made and put in print in that region only three days less than a month before the speech made at Charleston, the like of which Judge Douglas thinks I would not make where there was any Abolition element. [7]
Tomorrow she, her little self, would tower above all the world; and the more she felt the oppressive heat of the scorching day, the more delicious it seemed to look forward to finding rest from the torments of life in the cool element. [10]
As a dabbler in mines he had been out of his element. [11]

Short sentences using element

This, surely, was his element. [9]

Sentences containing element two or more times

As Cervantes had introduced the democratic element into romances, so Scott replaced the aristocratic element, when it had disappeared, and only a prosaic, bourgeoisie fiction existed. [4]

More example sentences with the word element in them

The labour which you have shirked, which is now hidden from you, will be disclosed, you will justify your existence by taking your place as an element of the community. [9]
Carmen, socially triumphant, would have been much more in her element at a petit souper of a not too fastidious four. [4]
Humiliation, in Mr. Worthington's eyes, had an element of publicity in it, and this episode had had none of that element; and Jethro Bass, moreover, was a highwayman who had held a pistol to his head. [9]
The element by which only the heart lives is sucked out of her crystalline prison. [6]
The glamour to which Janet had yielded herself was on occasions slightly troubled by some new and enigmatic element to be detected in his voice and glances suggestive of intentions vaguely disquieting. [9]
And Honora wondered whether there were not an element of truth in what Mr. Dewing said of their hostess--that she thought nothing immoral except novels with happy endings. [9]
We didn't know what they meant, or how to set about their accomplishment, but they were not, at least, mere selfish aspirations; they implied, unconsciously no doubt, an element of service, and certainly our ideal of marriage had something fine in it. [9]
And whether it were ingenuous, or had in it an element of the scriptural wisdom of the serpent, Langmaid could not have said. [9]
Then Herr Ueberhell went back to his search for the unknown element which had given to his son's elixir the power that had been exhibited in such wonderful fashion. [10]
The pleasant May weather suggested a novelty namely, a trip for pure recreation, the bread-and-butter element left out. [5]
My first purpose was to have the man make a collection of caves and afterwards of echoes; but perceived that the element of absurdity and impracticability was so nearly identical as to amount to a repetition of an idea..... [5]
And yet I was aware of the nascence within me of an element that gave me a stability I had hitherto lacked: I had made my decision, and I felt the stronger for it. [9]
I was brought up to believe that patriotism had an element of sacrifice in it, but I can't see ours. [9]
The Ferwer keeps up a war with the Diws or evil spirits, and is the element of man's preservation in life. [10]
And Rosalie, who trusted him-- this new element rapidly grew dominant in his thoughts-to be the common criminal in her eyes! [11]
As the blood travels its rounds, each part selects its appropriate element and transforms it to its own likeness. [3]
Her question as to why he had not made inquiries of her father added a new element to his disquietude. [9]
It was hard to tell what were the principles controlling Tarboe--there was always an element of suspicion in his brown and brilliant eyes. [11]
Murad Ault stood to Phil for the satanic element in his peaceful world. [4]
What was it to me that his grammar was bad, his construction worse, and his profanity so void of art that it was an element of weakness rather than strength in his conversation? [5]
He went on to explain that he wasn't referring now to that part of the electorate known as the labour element, the men who worked with their hands in mills, factories, etc. [9]
There would seem to be an element of danger here. [5]
He had no thought of reading in it an element of pity. [9]
Maybe something of this element entered into the heroism which had been displayed; but whatever the impulse or the motive, the act and the end were the same--men's lives were in peril, and they were risking their own to rescue them. [11]
I gathered that they found themselves sadly out of their element in that kind of business at first, but afterward got accustomed to it, reconciled to it, and more or less at home in it. [5]
The reason why there was so much slaughtering done, was, that in a new mining district the rough element predominates, and a person is not respected until he has "killed his man. [5]
They felt that there should be a leisurely element in religion. [9]
And yet might there not be an element of selfishness in this--might not its sacrifice be a family duty? [4]
He represented to them an element in life they recognized, and which had its proper niche. [9]
Men were losing their heads; there was an element of irresponsibility in the new outbreak likely to breed some violent act, which every man of them would lament when sober again. [11]
Whether or not the two rules generally hold good, we may conclude from the facts given in the eighth chapter, that the period of variation is one important element in determining the form of transmission. [1]
And to say the truth, the new element of Southern smartness lacks the trim thrift the North is familiar with; though the visitor who needs relaxation is not disposed to quarrel with the easy-going terms on which life is taken. [4]
But for history, the state and power are merely phenomena, just as for modern physics fire is not an element but a phenomenon. [2]
In him was the spiritual element asserting itself in a mediaeval form, in a struggle to mortify and deny the flesh and yet take part in modern life. [4]
Maybe it's because the Pendleton-Grenfell element have always set their patrician faces against it; maybe its been a bit overdone. [9]
Terry now played the part with a naturalness and force which soon lifted the play away from the farcical element introduced into it by those who had interpolated the gibes at himself. [11]
He had lost the old sense of comradeship, of easy equality; and he had the odd feeling of dealing with a new man, at once familiar and unfamiliar, who had somehow lifted himself out of the everyday element in which they heretofore had met. [9]
Why, then, in the name of that happiness, of the peace and sanity and pleasurable effort it had brought him, had he allowed and even encouraged the advent of a new element that threatened to destroy the equilibrium achieved? [9]
In other words, the millionocracy, considered in a large way, is not at all an affair of persons and families, but a perpetual fact of money with a variable human element, which a philosopher might leave out of consideration without falling into serious error. [6]
He awoke to the fact that in his cock-sure schemes for the civil and military life of Egypt there was not one element of sound sense; that he had been all along an egregious failure. [11]
We have appropriated the English conviviality, the German simplicity, the Roman pomp, and we have added to it an element of expense in keeping with our own greatness. [4]
Two assistants rushed the drinks along the counter with flourishes, while Barbazon took in the cash and sharply checked the rougher element, who were inclined to treat the bar as a place for looting. [11]
In these dramas the comic element is introduced whenever its character of reality gives it the right of admission and the advantage of opportune appearance. [4]
Douglas is managing the Bell element with great adroitness. [7]
It seemed strange that such a little thing should make a change, introduce an alien element into this domestic peace. [4]
Is it possible that our highest civilization has lost something of the rough and admirable element that we admire in the heroes of Homer and of Elizabeth? [4]
In the days that followed I became aware that my father's death had removed a restrictive element, that I was free now to take without criticism or opposition whatever course in life I might desire. [9]
It was the swift amalgamation of two kindred natures in the flame of a perfect sincerity, for even with the dramatic element so strongly developed in him, the Englishman was downright and true. [11]
This comparison naturally suggests the recollection of that other source of danger which was an element in the every-day life of the Rockland people. [6]
The anger of such a man had indeed some element in it of the divine; terrible, not in volume, but in righteous intensity. [9]
Looking at the story now after its publication, I am inclined to think that the introduction of the gipsy element was too bold, yet I believe it was carefully worked out in construction, and was a legitimate, intellectual enterprise. [11]
You see that sort of thing is my element, an' I've been away from it for a spell. [13]
To give them solidity they were infiltrated with stone, in the form of salts of lime, an inorganic element, so that bone would be spelt out by the letters A, B, and Y. [3]
It certainly has small element of pleasure in it. [4]
Do you think she did not see the ridiculous element in a silly speech, or the absurdity of an outrageously extravagant assertion? [6]
No element, it seemed, was now content to remain in its proper place. [9]
As has been said, she did not intellectualize her reasons, but the core of her resistance was the very essence of an individuality having its roots in a self-respecting and self-controlling inheritance--an element wanting in her sister Lise. [9]
It was a ridiculous position for lovers, or even "friends"--ridiculous because it had no element of danger except the ignominy of getting wet. [4]
Then again he reappeared, and wherever he stayed for a while, the raging element abated its fury. [10]
And we will reach this, too, if we do not ourselves relinquish the chance by the folly and evils of disunion or by long and exhausting war springing from the only great element of national discord among us. [7]
Mrs. Cortlandt was quite in her element here as director-general of expeditions and promoter of social activity. [4]
This element is present in the mortuary poetry of Philadelphia degree of development. [5]
After all, the power or element of "contract" may be sufficient for this probationary period, and by its simplicity and flexibility may be the better. [7]
There is no pleasanter place in the North for a summer residence, but there is a certain element of monotony and weariness inseparable from an excursion: travelers have been known to yawn even on the Rhine. [4]
For the most part, all of these mentioned above belonged to an element that once had had a comfortable and well-recognized place in the community, yet had somehow been displaced. [9]
There is no other city in the world where a wedding journey can better be combined with such business as is transacted here, for in both is a certain element of mystery. [4]
We have two or three young people with us who stand a fair chance of furnishing us the element without which life and tea-tables alike are wanting in interest. [6]
Others were of opinion that he was, as I once suggested, a "Bluebeard" with patriarchal tendencies, and I have even been censured for introducing so Oriental an element into my record of boarding-house experience. [6]
This is one of the most charming of the little lakes that dot the interior of New York; without bold shores or anything sensational in its scenery, it is a poetic element in a refined and lovely landscape. [4]
This is business of the higher and almost immaterial sort, and has an element of faith in it, and, as one may say, belief in the unseen, whence it is characterized by an expression--"dealing in futures. [4]
It was full of the element of chance, and he had been taking chances all his life. [11]
A large proportion of the assembly being residents for the summer, there was so much of the family content that the transient tourists could little disturb it by the introduction of their element of worry and haste. [4]
Like the flavour of that choicest of tropical fruits, the mangosteen, it baffles analysis, and the nearest I can come to it is a mixture of matting and corn-bread, with another element too subtle to define. [9]
This sounds kind of frightful, whereas when you come to think of it, a burning curtain or pile of furniture hasn't any element of danger about it in this fortress. [5]
In the breeding of domestic animals, the elimination of those individuals, though few in number, which are in any marked manner inferior, is by no means an unimportant element towards success. [1]
The essential element of discussion had been left out of him; his answers were so final and exact that they did not leave a doubt to hang conversation on. [5]
Nevertheless, the idea of developing Tom into a Shakespeare,--Tom, who had not the slightest desire to be one I was appalling, besides having in it an element of useless self-sacrifice from which I recoiled. [9]
I was aware of a new element in Mrs. Falchion's manner. [11]
It had never occurred to her, until now, when she saw him out of the element with which she had always associated him, that Peter Erwin had a personality. [9]
Some of the objects proposed by these associations are chimerical, but the agitation will doubtless go on until another element is introduced into work and wages than mere supply and demand. [4]
But it does not take into account the one essential element, human nature. [9]
Although it does not need the human element of disaster to make this canon grewsome, the keepers of the show places make the most of the late Captain Webb. [4]
The war has not changed the Southern habit of sitting out-of-doors, but has added a new element of street picturesqueness in groups of colored people lounging about the corners. [4]
Such service was not an incident of His career--it was an essential element of that career. [5]
But he had no one-sided tendency to portray the vulgar only; he brought together the higher and the lower in society, to serve as light and shade, and the aristocratic element was as prominent as the popular. [4]
The Southerners are no more sincere than the Northerners, but they have less reserve, and in the social traits that charm all who come in contact with them, they have an element of immense value in the variety of American life. [4]
The situation had no element of tragedy in it, but Philip was powerless. [4]
There was a new element now, however--that conscience which never possessed him fully until the day he saw Rosalie go travelling over the hills with her crippled father. [11]
Suppose she--" Every nerve tingled; every drop of blood beat hard against his walls of flesh; his every vicious element sprang into life. [11]
She felt that Mrs. Mavick was taking him away from the sweet serenity of their life, and that in everything she said or did there was an element of unrest and excitement. [4]
Isn't it true, Mr. Burnett, that you must have a human element to make any country interesting? [4]
No more profound mistake could be made than to attribute to any element of the population motives wholly base. [9]
As for Mrs. Maturin herself, her feeling was one of controlled pride not unmixed with concern, always conscious as she was of the hidden element of tragedy in the play she had so lovingly staged. [9]
Thus the army loses an element of refinement, and the moneyed upper class forgets what it is to count heroism among its virtues. [6]
All the unaccountable looks and tastes and ways of Elsie came back to her in the light of an ante-natal impression which had mingled an alien element in her nature. [6]
I do not know that we ever apply to a plant any element which is not a natural constituent of the vegetable structure, except perhaps externally, for the accidental purpose of killing parasites. [3]
The tall man's justice, not always worthy of the traditions of Solomon, had in it an element of force. [9]
Choose ye between Jefferson and Douglas as to what is the true view of this element among us. [7]
It is in its higher forms an artistic product, and admits the ideal element as much as pictures or statues. [6]
For its preparation it required a special study of the man and the period, and the more time he spent upon the preliminary work, the more the humorous element tended to recede. [4]

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