Use elsie in a sentence
Sentences starting with elsie
- Elsie loved riding,--and would go off with him on a gallop now and then. [6]
- Elsie grew up with a kind of filial feeling for him, such as her nature was capable of. [6]
- Elsie was the wilder of the two. [6]
- Elsie was naturally what they call a man-hater, and there was very little danger of any sudden passion springing up between two such young persons. [6]
- Elsie was sitting up in her bed when it came, languid, but tranquil, and Helen was by her, as usual, holding her hand, which was strangely cold, Helen thought, for one who was said to have some kind of fever. [6]
- Elsie was very uncertain in her feeling about going to church. [6]
- Elsie sat quietly through the first part of the service, which was conducted in the cold, mechanical way to be expected. [6]
- Elsie rattled out the triple measure of a saraband. [6]
- Elsie could n't tell her,--did n't like to speak about it,--shuddered whenever Sophy mentioned it. [6]
- Elsie alone remained standing until her father touched her. [6]
Sentences ending with elsie
- He could also very probably learn some facts about Elsie. [6]
- Who would dare to marry Elsie? [6]
- In the mean time the strange adventure on The Mountain had brought the young master into new relations with Elsie. [6]
- It was in the latter that Dudley Venner worshipped, when he attended service anywhere,--which depended very much on the caprice of Elsie. [6]
- The old, sweet smile was on his lips, and as he yet held the stem of the glass with a shaking hand, and suffered that I should help him, he cried in a clear voice: "Once more, Prosit, Elsie! [10]
- But the first shock was no sooner over than he began to think what effect the news would have on Elsie. [6]
- It was all over with poor Elsie. [6]
- What if you or I had inherited all the tendencies that were born with his cousin Elsie? [6]
- She mus 'n' never marry nobody, --but, oh, Doctor, I should like to see him, 'n' jes' think a little how it would ha' been, if the Lord had n' been so hard on Elsie. [6]
- He did not know,--but sometimes thought that this nephew of his might take a serious liking to Elsie. [6]
Short sentences using elsie
- Elsie nodded, without speaking. [6]
- Elsie had been reasonably careful. [6]
- Elsie was to his fancy. [6]
- Dick means to have Elsie. [6]
- I am your friend, Elsie. [6]
- Elsie Venner loved Bernard Langdon. [6]
- What about Elsie? [6]
- Elsie 's dead! [6]
- Poor Elsie! [6]
- Elsie spoke. [6]
Sentences containing elsie two or more times
- Elsie took the pen and wrote, in her sharp Italian hand, Elsie Venner, Infelix. [6]
- Nobody mus' n' never live with Elsie but ol Sophy; 'n' ol Sophy won't never die 's long 's Elsie 's alive to be took care of. [6]
More example sentences with the word elsie in them
- Nobody watched Elsie with a more searching eye than her cousin, Dick Venner. [6]
- The time came when Elsie was to be laid by her mother in the small square marked by the white stone. [6]
- Tell me, Sophy, what do you think would happen, if he should chance to fall in love with Elsie, and she with him, and he should marry her? [6]
- The Doctor presently went up to Elsie, determined to engage her in conversation and get her out of her thoughts, which he saw, by her look, were dangerous. [6]
- With Elsie, he was subdued and almost tender in his manner; with the few visitors whom they saw, shy and silent,--perhaps a little watchful, if any young man happened to be among them. [6]
- But then there was something about Cousin Elsie,--(the small, white scars began stinging, as he said this to himself, and he pushed his sleeve up to look at them)--there was something about Cousin Elsie he couldn't make out. [6]
- Yet he was very uneasy about Elsie until he had seen her; he never knew what might happen to her or those about her, and came prepared for the worst. [6]
- It was not very singular that Elsie should be lingering in her old haunts, from which the change of season must soon drive her. [6]
- The more common version of the trouble at the mansion-house was this: Elsie was not exactly in her right mind. [6]
- Come, Elsie, you 've got the Dudley blood in your veins, and it does n't do for you to call this poor, sneaking schoolmaster a gentleman! [6]
- Then she looked up at the Doctor so steadily and searchingly that the diamond eyes of Elsie herself could hardly have pierced more deeply. [6]
- The old woman told the whole story of Elsie, of her birth, of her peculiarities of person and disposition, of the passionate fears and hopes with which her father had watched the course of her development. [6]
- It was hard to say what could have brought Elsie Venner to the party. [6]
- The schoolmaster meant to make Elsie jealous,--and he had done it. [6]
- There was nothing to be said in such cases, for Elsie could never talk of her griefs. [6]
- There were particular times when Elsie was in such a mood that it must have been a bold person who would have intruded upon her with reproof or counsel. [6]
- But I saw this very stepmother wash and dress little Elsie, her husband's youngest babe and not her own, and lull her till she fell asleep; and she did it right tenderly, and quite as she ought. [10]
- I kin' o' think he don' care for nothin' in this world 'xcep' jes' t' do what Elsie wan's him to. [6]
- I wonder what they 'll make of Elsie, between them! [6]
- In this case there was room for doubt,--mainly as to whether Elsie would take a fancy to come or not. [6]
- The tie between them might perhaps have been described as intellectual, for Elsie Shorter professed only to like people who were "worth while. [9]
- But dark as the Widow looked in her half-concealed pet, she was but as a pale shadow, compared to Elsie in her silent concentration of shame and anger. [6]
- It was in the probable growing relation between Elsie and the schoolmaster. [6]
- On the contrary, the moment Mr. Richard had made up his mind that he should fall in love with Elsie, he began to be more reserved with her, and to try to make friends in other quarters. [6]
- Old Sophy met the Doctor at the door and told him all the circumstances connected with the extraordinary attack from which Elsie had suffered. [6]
- On coming to the dinner-table, that day, he complained of headache, took but little food, and refused the cup of coffee which Elsie offered him, saying that it did not agree with him when he had these attacks. [6]
- He was sure that he was led softly away from the place, and that it was Elsie who had led him. [6]
- It might be supposed that the character of Elsie Veneer was suggested by some of the fabulous personages of classical or mediaeval story. [6]
- Mr. Bernard had stayed an hour or two, and left soon after he found that Elsie Venner and her father had disappeared. [6]
- Elsie had gathered so many of these sculpture-like monstrosities, that one might have thought she had robbed old Sophy's grandfather of his fetishes. [6]
- The chamber he slept in was over the room which Elsie chiefly occupied at this season. [6]
- The caprices of sick people were never to be despised, least of all of such persons as Elsie, when rendered irritable and exacting by pain and weakness. [6]
- Elsie, no doubt, showed a kind of attraction towards him, as did perhaps some others; but he had been perfectly discreet, and no father or brother or lover had any just cause of quarrel with him. [6]
- Of course the schoolmaster had been trying to make Elsie jealous, and had succeeded. [6]
- One thing Mr. Richard could not conceal from himself: Elsie had some new cause of indifference, at least, if not of aversion to him. [6]
- He ordered some remedies which he thought would relieve Elsie, and left her, saying he would call the next day, hoping to find her better. [6]
- He thought Elsie rather liked having him about the house for a while. [6]
- There was no proof, only presumption, as to the agency of Elsie in the matter referred to. [6]
- It was just possible Elsie might have sent that note. [6]
- Was Elsie Venner, poisoned by the venom of a crotalus before she was born, morally responsible for the "volitional" aberrations, which translated into acts become what is known as sin, and, it may be, what is punished as crime? [6]
- In the first place, Cousin Elsie was, unquestionably, very piquant, very handsome, game as a hawk, and hard to please, which made her worth trying for. [6]
- The reader must pardon this digression, which introduces the visit of the Reverend Chauncy Fairweather to Elsie Veneer. [6]
- Under almost any other circumstances, her father would have been unwilling to take a young fellow of whom he knew so little under his roof; but this was his nephew, and anything that seemed like to amuse or please Elsie was agreeable to him. [6]
- She took the opportunity one evening when Elsie was lying asleep and they were both sitting at some distance from her bed. [6]
- Elsie went at once to her own room, and did not come from it at the usual hours. [6]
- Elsie had none of the still, wicked light in her eyes, that morning. [6]
- At the left of the Hostess, Bernard Langdon, next him Letty Forrester, next Letty Mr. Richard Veneer, next him Elsie, and so to the Reverend Doctor again. [6]
- Elsie has something of her in her look, but those are not her mother's eyes. [6]
- And--without the air of having picked the single instance, but of having chosen from many--Mrs. Kame added that she had only lately seen Elsie Shorter, whose admiration for Honora was greater than ever. [9]
- They naturally spoke of Elsie, her illness, and the aspect it had taken. [6]
- Why, of course, nobody could be with Elsie Venner and not observe it. [6]
- He's a very nice sort of young man, handsome, too, and I don't much wonder Elsie takes to him. [6]
- But Elsie was never so much given to roaming over The Mountain as at this season; and as she had grown more absolute and uncontrollable, she was as like to take the night as the day for her rambles. [6]
- This was the nearest approach to sympathetic relations that Elsie ever had: a kind of dumb intercourse of feeling, such as one sees in the eyes of brute mothers looking on their young. [6]
- Knowing what Elsie must be to him, how hard she must make any parent's life, Helen could not but be struck with the interest Mr. Dudley Venner showed in her as his daughter's instructress. [6]
- On the Sunday morning after the talk recorded in the last chapter, Elsie made herself ready to go to meeting. [6]
- I don' think Massa Veneer never been jes' heself sence Elsie 's born. [6]
- He wan's to marry our Elsie so 's to live in the big house 'n' get all the money 'n' all the silver things 'n' all the chists full o' linen 'n' beautiful clothes. [6]
- He had tried making downright love to Elsie, with no great success as yet, in his own opinion. [6]
- I tried to make out a case for my poor Elsie, whom the most hardened theologian would find it hard to blame for her inherited ophidian tastes and tendencies. [6]
- Mr. Bernard had made up his mind, that, come what might, enemy or no enemy, live or die, he would solve the mystery of Elsie Venner, sooner or later. [6]
- She found Elsie lying on her bed, her brows strongly contracted, her eyes dull, her whole look that of great suffering. [6]
- As much as looks could tell Elsie had told her. [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]
- Handwriting was disguised; looked a little like Elsie Veneer's, but not characteristic enough to make it certain. [6]
- Elsie was not literary enough for such a scholar: so thought Miss Charlotte Ann Wood, the young poetess. [6]
- Elsie is not like anybody else. [6]
- He heard a light breathing close to his ear, and, half turning, saw the face of Elsie Venner, looking motionless into the reptile's eyes, which had shrunk and faded under the stronger enchantment of her own. [6]
- Philip, I don't know what to say about this Elsie. [6]
- You men-folks don' know nothin' 'bout these young gals; 'n' 'f you knowed all the young gals that ever lived, y' would n' know nothin' 'bout our Elsie. [6]
- With all the kindness and indulgence her father had bestowed upon her, Elsie had never felt that he loved her. [6]
- Besides, this perversion itself may often be disease, bad habits transmitted, like drunkenness, or some hereditary misfortune, as with this Elsie we were talking about. [6]
- Whether Elsie saw into his object or not was more than he could tell. [6]
- But Elsie is infinitely more dangerous to herself and others. [6]
- There was nothing in the world he would not do for Elsie. [6]
- Elsie was alone in the room, dancing one of those wild Moorish fandangos, such as a matador hot from the Plaza de Toros of Seville or Madrid might love to lie and gaze at. [6]
- Elsie looked her in the face, but did not answer in words. [6]
- It seemed as if Elsie had forgotten the last scene with him. [6]
- It was to humor one of her tastes already known to the reader, that he said to her one morning,--"Come, Elsie, take your castanets, and let us have a dance. [6]
- Dick would amuse himself with his cousin Elsie. [6]
- Dick had a hideous, gnawing suspicion that somewhere in these deep shades the schoolmaster might meet Elsie, whose evening wanderings he knew so well. [6]
- But Elsie, saw her fear, and reassured her. [6]
- At one instant he thought he could not sit where he was; he must go and speak to Elsie. [6]
- And he could have found no woman in Newport who would have brought more enthusiasm to his aid than Elsie Shorter. [9]
- If anything should happen to Elsie, it would be the most natural thing in the world that his uncle should adopt him, his nephew and only near relation, as his heir. [6]
- Everybody knew what had happened, excepting Elsie. [6]
- The cold minister had frozen Elsie until she felt as if nobody cared for her or would regret her,--and her question had betrayed this momentary feeling. [6]
- When he had gone, Elsie called Old Sophy to her. [6]
- The idea had fully taken possession of his mind that a deep intrigue was going on which would end by bringing Elsie and the schoolmaster into relations fatal to all his own hopes. [6]
- Give her this from your scholar and friend Elsie. [6]
- The others she felt sure of,--all but the old Doctor,--he might have some horrid patient or other to visit; tell him Elsie Venner's going to be there,--he always likes to have an eye on her, they say,--oh, he'd come fast enough, without any more coaxing. [6]
- The Reverend Chauncy Fairweather, hearing that his parishioner's daughter, Elsie, was very ill, could do nothing less than come to the mansion-house and tender such consolations as he was master of. [6]
- Elsie uttered a faint cry; these were her special favorites and often fed from her hand. [6]
- There are other eyes on you beside Elsie Venner's. [6]
- It was plain enough to him that the road to fortune was before him, and that the first thing was to marry Elsie. [6]
- He looked at Elsie, instinctively, involuntarily. [6]
- The Story of Elsie Yenner, written-soon after this book was published, illustrates the direction in which my thought was moving. [6]
- As for school, Elsie went or stayed away as she liked. [6]
- The father of Elsie Veneer knew his duties and his difficulties too well to trouble himself about anything others might think or say. [6]
- Her name is Elsie V., and she is the only daughter and heiress of an old family in this place. [6]
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