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Sentences starting with else

Else why do we take pleasure--a pleasure so deep that it touches the heart like melancholy--in the common drama of the opera? [4]
Else what was the meaning of this unexampled good luck at the gaming table? [10]
Else I remain the idler, the courtier--the son of the King. [11]
Else why are the ducks cooked? [10]
Else how did the circlet chance to be on her arm? [10]
Else how would she have permitted him to escape uninjured when he was already standing upon the verge of an abyss, and a wave of her hand would have sufficed to hurl him into the death-dealing gulf? [10]
Else I will not speak. [10]
Else could a Mormon marry one woman when he already has a wife, an' call it duty? [13]
Else why had it been selected as the scene of this nocturnal trial? [10]
Else the bond is water, and the spirits come in the night, and take you to the million years of torment. [11]

Sentences ending with else

Do not--I entreat you; drop the subject or else. [10]
Macrinus will inform you of all else. [10]
I don't say you can be, mind, but I say with work and brains it's as easy for the son of Hilary Vane as for anybody else. [9]
It don't do you any good to be punished for punishing someone else. [11]
Feeble hearts as you all are, respect the experience of the aged, and bless Fate if it should lame the horse of the Kadi's messenger!--However, you will not listen to anything oracular, so it will be better to talk of something else. [10]
I wish you would learn of Everett what he would take, over and above a discharge for all the trouble we have been at, to take his business out of our hands and give it to somebody else. [7]
If the master's work is praised that is made out of granite from the Holy Mountain, all the world will have granite from thence and from no where else. [10]
You do not wonder that China is today more like an herbarium than anything else. [4]
I watched this woman to see if she would ever do anything for any one else. [4]
She was here with you, and a lot she cared about anything else. [9]

Short sentences using else

Where else do you go? [4]
What else did you do? [5]
But who else was there? [6]
No one else was near. [11]
What else are they? [9]
What else do they say? [9]
What else were they for? [5]
Who else was there? [9]
Who else is there? [2]
Who else is there? [11]

Sentences containing else two or more times

I can't tell whether I've got to look out for something else or somebody else. [8]
It isn't because we haven't anything else to talk about, but because nothing else has so strong an interest for us. [5]
If you have some one else in your heart, or want some one else there, that is your affair, not mine--undoubtedly. [11]
He was not only older, but sharper, better acquainted with the city and its ways, and, whatever might be the strength of Cyprian's motives, his own were of such intensity that he thought of nothing else by day, and dreamed of nothing else by night. [6]
Nowhere else is it or was it so easy for a man to change his condition, to satisfy his wants, nowhere else has he or had he such advantages of education, such facilities of travel, such an opportunity to find an environment to suit himself. [4]
There was I--the I catalogued in the police description--present in that garden, yet so earnestly longing to be somewhere else that would it be wonderful if my 'eidolon' was somewhere else and could be seen?--though not by a policeman, for policemen have no spiritual vision. [4]
Is there nobody else that knew them, nobody else in whom they had any confidence? [12]
No one else could have accomplished it; and, in fact, no one else of high consequence had any disposition to try. [5]
It is a common observation that if persons fail in everything else, if they are fit for nothing else, they can at least write. [4]

More example sentences with the word else in them

The litters and your tottering gait would betray everything if we were to enter the boat anywhere else in the great harbour. [10]
So you lose your temper, and come out in an article which you think is going to finish "Ananias," proving him a booby who doesn't know enough to understand even a lyceum-lecture, or else a person that tells lies. [6]
And it isn't your proposition--no, that doesn't fascinate me; it's something else, I don't quite know what; something that's born in you and oozes out of you, I suppose. [5]
Bring this before your mind, and everything else that you must accept with it, if you consent, when the time arrives, to become mine. [10]
The tidings of your death can some day repeat the misery I felt in that moment, but nothing else can ever do it. [5]
Your friend's the young man from Witherden's office I think--yes--May we ne'er want a-- Nobody else at all, been, Mr Richard? [12]
I appear before you, therefore, for little else than to greet you, and to briefly say farewell. [7]
I must tell you, Doctor: if I should die, perhaps nobody else would tell you. [6]
And, indeed, if you see what a hopeless tangle our present situation is, where else can the mind logically go? [4]
Any one else you please,--Mr. Fairbrother even. [9]
What else have you or I to look forward to? [11]
Ask whatever else you like, only deliver me from this awful suspense. [10]
Think the thing you do is better than what anybody else does, and you're well started. [11]
What else have you come about? [5]
Well, I suppose you can easily get somebody else to do Lindau's work for you. [8]
In all these years, I've been closer to him than any one else, and I don't know him today half as well as you do. [9]
It is entirely wrong because none of you, I, or anybody else, could interview a man--could listen to a man talking any length of time and then go off and reproduce that talk in the first person. [5]
Somebody has been writing to me about "Oatmeal and Literature," and somebody else wants to know whether I have found character influenced by diet; also whether, in my opinion, oatmeal is preferable to pie as an American national food. [6]
These describers are writing for the "general," and so, in order to make sure of being understood, they ought to use words in their ordinary sense, or else explain. [5]
But they also wove into my life something else which lends their memory a melancholy charm. [10]
Go where you would, you heard nothing else, from morning till far into the night. [5]
And what else would they be likely to consist of? [5]
Note well, it would spoil all my pleasure, if you put yourself or any one else to inconvenience to come to Haworth. [14]
But still I would rather you had saved me than any one else who wasn't bound, like Tynie, to do so. [11]
And how else would I go about it? [5]
This horrid man would have gone off with you to Asquith or somewhere else, with handcuffs on your wrists; for it isn't a detective's place to take evidence, Mr. Crocker says. [9]
No one else would have found it so easy to forge the steel coat of mail with the Medusa head in the centre. [10]
No one else would have been capable of it. [10]
To whom else would fall the lion's share of the enormous prize! [10]
I believe they would eat protoplasm as quick as anything else, ripe or green. [4]
Or else there would be plenty who'd rob us. [2]
Clemens declared he would as soon spend his life in Weggis "as anywhere else in the geography," but October found them in Vienna for the winter, at the Hotel Metropole. [5]
She should have worn nothing else but the hue of roses. [9]
Everything in this world "jibes" in with everything else, and all the fruits of this Nebraska Bill are like the poisoned source from which they come. [7]
Grafton had a word and a smile for every one about the old place, but little else, being, as he said, but a younger son and a poor man. [9]
To poke a wood-fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. [4]
For now this woman who despised him, hated him, he desired more than all else in the world. [11]
There is no woman but thinks that her husband, the green-grocer, could write poetry if he had given his mind to it, or else she thinks small beer of poetry in comparison with an occupation or accomplishment purely vegetable. [4]
The spectators crowded within the bar and surrounded Laura who, calmer than anyone else, was supporting her aged mother, who had almost fainted from excess of joy. [5]
I opened it with trembling fingers, and poured out, chinking on the table, such a motley collection of coins as was never seen,--Spanish milled dollars, English sovereigns and crowns and shillings, paper issues of the Confederacy, and I know not what else. [9]
You are acquainted with the members down there, of course, else you could not have worked to such advantage? [5]
Deal not hardly with me, sir, else am I ruined. [5]
And to talk with him as you would to anybody else! [10]
Every one disagreed with every one else, and you would n't wonder at it, if you had seen them. [4]
One walked ahead with a smile, or else fell back to lend a helping shoulder to a fainting man. [9]
As the pony, with a presentiment that he was going home, or a determination that he would not go anywhere else (which was the same thing) trotted away pretty nimbly, Kit had no time to justify himself, and went his way also. [12]
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]
He made his will this morning--that is, appointed executors--nothing else was necessary. [5]
I hope he will be sorry and do well somewhere else and not take this to heart too much. [12]
Though he was wholly reckless for himself, for her he was prudent now--there was nothing else to do. [11]
I myself am wholly indifferent as to when we are going to "get in"; if any one else feels interested in the matter he has not indicated it in my hearing. [5]
He had a wholesome respect, not to say fear, of her; for when all else had failed, it was she who had arranged his escape from Spain, and who almost saved Carvillho Gonzales from being shot. [11]
He regarded the whole business of the war not with his intelligence or his reason but by something else. [2]
Every one else who was in the street or at the window looked after Barbara, and pointed out to others the beautiful Jungfrau Blomberg and the proud security with which she governed the spirited gray. [10]
Many of them, who seldom make a sign, come here from habit; they have nowhere else to go. [4]
Was this Sabina who no doubt was kindly disposed towards him but who loved no one else, not even herself? [10]
But even one who loved him could not carry through his incompleted work against the assaults of his enemies, who were powerful, watchful, astute, and merciless; who had a greed which set money higher than all else in the world. [11]
If this landlord, who in the past had seen him so often and so closely, did not recognise him, surely no one else would. [11]
But the man who can--give us a fresh experience on anything that interests us overrides everybody else. [6]
And all this while the poor lie in London streets upon pallets of straw, or else in the mire and dirt, and die like dogs! [4]
A certain sullenness which Rudyard and no one else had ever seen came into her eyes, and her lips became white with an ominous determination. [11]
Yet the tranquillity, which formerly exerted so beneficial an effect, had departed, and the measures of precaution he now felt compelled to adopt, like everything else that brought him into connection with the world, interrupted the progress of his work. [10]
Finally she asked whether any one else was concerned in Ledscha's flight; and when she learned that a Gallic bridge-builder accompanied the fugitive wife, she again started up as if frantic, exclaiming: "Yes, to Nemesis with the gold! [10]
In the room where he awaited the verdict of the expert, he kept saying to himself: "She would have made everything else look cheap--if it could have been. [11]
They got drunk whenever they could; then they fought each other or anybody else who came in the way; they cursed and swore always, drunk or sober; John Canty was a thief, and his mother a beggar. [5]
She knew that when he thought aloud in this way he would sometimes ask her what he had been saying, and be vexed if he noticed that she had been thinking about something else. [2]
He's a crank, whatever else he is. [11]
I said that what you thought of me meant more to me than what any one else in the world thought; and that I say now, and will always say it. [11]
We never know what we are, he had said, until we become something else! [9]
He had done what no one else had done--he had pierced the cloud surrounding Carnac: it was a woman. [11]
She grasped exactly what he would say, and made him say things he would never have thought of saying to any one else. [11]
D-didn't ask me what he could do for me, what I wanted, or anything else, but just stood there, and I stood there. [9]
I'm not sure what else you know; but I'll find out, my noble pasha, and if you've had your hand in it--but no, you ain't game-cock enough for that! [11]
I ask him what else he objects to, and he says patented processes. [9]
That was it; what else could it be? [6]
And this is what all this zeal is for--this and nothing else! [10]
I contend that we've got a real substantial success to celebrate now; but even if we hadn't, the celebration would do more than anything else to create the success, if we got it properly before the public. [8]
She knew they were unaware that the Sentence had been passed, else they would not have been with Jethro. [11]
If such convention were to ask my views, I could present little else than what I now say to you. [7]
Two new gowns were ordered, to be tried on at Sutcliffe, and as many hats, and an ulster, and heaven knows what else. [9]
Whether Doctor Melchior were holding converse with the broom, or the peruke, or a spectre whom he, and no one else could see Frau Schimmel could not tell, but she had then recovered herself sufficiently to be able to listen attentively. [10]
The two men were eating a late breakfast; sitting opposite each other; nobody else around. [5]
The window spaces were closed by wooden shutters, and whenever they moved with a low creaking or louder banging Hermon started and forgot everything else in anxiety about his invalid friend, whose suffering every strong wind brought on again, and often seriously increased. [10]
These great avenues were at all times, from three till seven, filled with vehicles; and at certain points, and late in the day, there was, or would have been anywhere else except in Paris, a jam. [4]
Thousands of people were also roaming about in the great spaces of the edifice; but there was nowhere else anything like a crowd. [4]
Bryant and Halleck were abundantly praised; hardly any one else escaped. [6]
I wish it were a little lesson in the dangers of something else. [9]
And something else went with it. [9]
I can't very well do anything else. [11]
But honesty as well as something else prompted her to say: "It was my father who invited you. [9]
He is a welcome toy everywhere else in the world. [5]
During his first weeks of pain and weakness, Ruth was unceasing in her ministrations; she quietly took charge of him, and with a gentle firmness resisted all attempts of Alice or any one else to share to any great extent the burden with her. [5]
Who else can wear the royal purple but my bright bird of Paradise, my beautiful rose Phaedime? [10]
Quite apart from wealth or position, personality plays a part more powerful than all else in the eyes of every woman who has a soul which has substance enough to exist at all. [11]
It is a weak method, and poor, and I am glad to be able to say our side never resorts to it while there is anything else to resort to. [5]
It is time we should become a little more Americanized, and instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of England, feed our own; or else in a short time, by continuing our present policy, we shall all be rendered paupers ourselves. [7]
What else, can we get for you? [5]
The treatment which we experienced at the hands of this generous-hearted people will help more than anything else to make us recollect with pleasure our stay amongst them. [5]
What's the reason we couldn't get somebody else to take us just as well? [8]
She dropped the water treatment and everything else, and pinned her faith to Pain-killer. [5]

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