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Sentences ending with ends

But something more was done under this pressure, something more than creation of a habit of physical exertion to productive ends. [4]
The issues seem to vary, but it is always a right against a claim, and, however the struggle of the hour may go, a movement onward of the campaign, which uses defeat as well as victory to serve its mighty ends. [6]
I laid siege to the Commissioner of Odds and Ends. [5]
It is monstrous to me that the situation should be made on either side a political occasion for private ambition or for party ends. [4]
But oughtn't we to begin at both ends? [9]
Failing to see this, he is isolated, and, wanting his sympathy, the untutored world mocks at his super-fineness and takes its own rough way to rougher ends. [4]
But it is the same problem that we have in all our education, be it the training of the mind, the development of the body, or the use of both to good ends. [4]
The palaces of the rich, in Melbourne, are much like the palaces of the rich in America, and the life in them is the same; but there the resemblance ends. [5]
Paula stooped, lifted the necklace, held it out to the judges, pulling it straight by the two ends. [10]
Each member of the crew is armed with three tarry rope-yarns, knotted at the ends. [11]

Short sentences using ends

It ends all things. [10]
So ends the pilgrimage. [5]
All's well that ends well. [5]
That ends it. [5]

Sentences containing ends two or more times

No matter how high thee may climb, still I shall not respect thee; for thee will ever gain ends by flattery, by subtlety, and by using every man and every woman for selfish ends. [11]

More example sentences with the word ends in them

But no; he would crowd up around a point, hugging the shore with affection, and then say: 'The slack water ends here, abreast this bunch of China-trees; now we cross over. [5]
She wore heavy woollen rider's stockings, half length, and these were pulled up over the ends of her short trousers. [13]
The procession ends, where it started, in the patron's church; and there his image is set up under a gorgeous canopy of crimson and gold, to hear high mass, and some of the choicest solos, choruses, and bravuras from the operas. [4]
We pass by what would be of inestimable value to us, and pack our memories with the most trivial odds and ends that never by any chance; under any circumstances whatsoever, could be of the slightest use to any one. [5]
Around our hats were wound many folds of soft white muslin, with the ends hanging and flapping down our backs--an idea brought from the Orient and used by tourists all over Europe. [5]
A white cloth was wound round his head, the ends of which hung down to the shoulders. [10]
The superincumbent weight was sufficient to mash the ends of those great upright beams fairly into the solid wood of the horizontal ones three inches, compressing and bending the upright beam till it curved like a bow. [5]
But while I was sick, Adler's things had been sold and scattered, all except a few old letters, and some odds and ends of no value. [5]
First, the man was a priest in the days when the Huguenots were scattering to the four ends of the earth. [11]
Lying beside him was a leather bag, within which were odds and ends of food and some small books of legend and ritual. [11]
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty than any of which the history of former times tells us. [7]
For more than two months Cauchon had been raking and scraping everywhere for any odds and ends of evidence or suspicion or conjecture that might be usable against Joan, and carefully suppressing all evidence that came to hand in her favor. [5]
Two maids were turning up the hem and hurriedly biting off the ends of thread. [2]
We take infinite trouble and go to the ends of the world to get it. [4]
Streets in some towns have a litter of pieces of paper, and odds and ends of one sort or another lying around. [5]
I might have told her then that the 'Porcupine' was in the harbour at Aden, but I felt that things would work out to due ends without my help--which, indeed, they began to do immediately. [11]
Not entirely; for, to the last, he would cram into the satchel sacred to literature any odds and ends of rubbish that he couldn't find a handy place for elsewhere. [5]
It's pretty hard to tell in these days where the body ends and the soul begins. [9]
I could speak to her, and attract no notice; and if she will not listen to me, why, then, that ends it. [11]
The patient accustomed to four meals and late hours--at both ends of the day--now consider what he has to do at a health resort. [5]
Blindly she ran to another door which led into the sitting-room of the matron, used for many purposes--the hold-all of the odds and ends of the hospital life; where surgeons consulted, officers waited, and army authorities congregated for the business of the hospital. [11]
It seemed as though the tempest had seized the ends of the rope, and was dealing terrible blows with them upon her shoulders, her back, and her feet. [10]
It ends with these words: "This was written and made by the scribe Pentaur. [10]
Huck had slept there; he had just breakfasted upon some stolen odds and ends of food, and was lying off, now, in comfort, with his pipe. [5]
The ends of them were hanging over the boundary line everywhere like a fringe. [5]
Can anything in the world make her or me less a prey to evil and death?--death which ends all and must come today or tomorrow--at any rate, in an instant as compared with eternity. [2]
But often in the woods we find a place where the road ends in a field or hill, and there the tracks cross and intersect each other, and in this hour I feel that my path has come to an end. [10]
And outside, all the while, was the measured tramp of marching battalions, belated odds and ends of the French power gathering for the morrow's tragedy on the grim stage of war. [5]
The news of the strike spread everywhere in a sort of instantaneous way--spread like a flash to the very ends of the earth. [5]
With respect to the origin of the habit, Von Fischer remarks that his monkeys like to have their naked hinder ends patted or stroked, and that they then grunt with pleasure. [1]
Too long had the Northeastern Railroads elected, for their own selfish ends, governors and legislatures and controlled railroad commissions The spirit of 1776 was abroad in the land. [9]
At any rate the necessary deduction must be that the life of man ends in that nothingness whence everything in existence has proceeded. [10]
He smiled at the mealman's hesitation, even while he said to himself: "This ends it--ends it! [11]
But to keep the house without a vast fortune to sustain it was an impossibility, and, as it was the most conspicuous of Mavick's visible possessions, perhaps the surrender of it, which she could not prevent, would save certain odds and ends here and there. [4]
And so ends the history of "Those Extraordinary Twins. [5]
The legs of the heavy animal were tied together with ropes, and Marx was obliged to take the ends of the knot between his teeth like a bridle, and drag the carcass to the castle. [10]
We stirred up the hard leather letter-sacks, and the knotty canvas bags of printed matter (knotty and uneven because of projecting ends and corners of magazines, boxes and books). [5]
She now begged the Corinthian to allow her to hold the reins for a little while, and he immediately acceded to her request, giving them into her hand, though, stepping behind her, he carefully kept the ends of them in his own. [10]
The ends of the collar were apart the width of the red clipped beard, and the mustache was cropped straight along the line of the upper lip. [9]
It's a pity that satiety so speedily ends it. [10]
This year our summer is 6 months long and ends with November and the flight home to New York, but next year we hope and expect to stretch it another month and end it the first of December. [5]
We are pursuing substantially the old ends of material success and display. [4]
She furnished him some little odds and ends of employment, which he got through with after a fair fashion and with some credit. [5]
Houses the most solid were shaken and crippled, and those which were much extended in a variety of adventures were put to their wits' ends to escape shipwreck. [4]
Saying nothing aloud, she sat with her hands in her lap; now and then she clasped them, then unclasped them, then tapped the ends of the fingers together; sighed, nodded, smiled--occasionally paused, shook her head. [5]
I have just seen a despatch of Grant, of 11 P.M., May 23, on the North Anna and partly across it, which ends as follows: "Everything looks exceedingly favorable for us. [7]
English, Irish, and Scotch from the British Isles and the ends of the earth mingle there with Indians, Egyptians, and the chattering Mongolians in queer fur caps who work in the bakeries. [9]
You make the same mistake in a less degree, when you bend to the popular ignorance and conceit so far as to direct your college education to sordid ends. [4]
He wore a ruffled shirt, a large seal-ring, a standing collar of obsolete pattern, and a checkered neckerchief with the ends hanging down. [5]
Together they planted roses by the headboard and strewed wild flowers upon the grave; and then together they went away, hand in hand, and left the dead to the long sleep that heals all heart-aches and ends all sorrows. [5]
She wore a robe of violet-blue, embroidered with silver, and over her snow-white hair lay a long veil of delicate lace, woven in Egypt, the ends of which were wound round her neck and tied in a large bow beneath her chin. [10]
Philippus, on his return, will perhaps pick up the ends of the tie and join again what you have this day cut. [10]
Do the Northeastern Railroads wrongfully govern this State for their own ends? [9]
Philip himself was quick to see that this man, Count Carignan Damour, apprehensive for his own selfish ends, was bitterly opposed to him. [11]
I will now put aside reasonings, guesses, the impressive hitchings of odds and ends of clues together, and the other showy theatricals of the detective trade, and tell you in a plain, straightforward way just how this dismal thing happened. [5]
Besides, he's a Protestant, and he's English, and that ends it. [11]
If the Associated Press will adopt and use our simplified forms, and thus spread them to the ends of the earth, covering the whole spacious planet with them as with a garden of flowers, our difficulties are at an end. [5]
It was a poor apartment, with a shabby bed and some odds and ends of old furniture in it, and was vaguely lighted by a couple of sickly candles. [5]
In an old plate giving a view of the north side of Cheapside, London, in 1638, we see little but quaint gable ends and rows of small windows set close together. [4]
Sandie, the plodding peasant, finds it a hard matter to forgive Jamie, who is taken from the plough next to his, and ends in Parliament. [9]
The most absolute peace begins upon its threshold--who knows where it ends? [10]
A cloth, the Paiti-dhana, was bound round the heads of the priests, the ends of which covered the mouth, and thus preserved the pure fire from pollution by human breath. [10]
Just use the ordinary gas pipes--and there your expense ends. [5]
I was not only providing a swell dinner, but some odds and ends of extras. [5]
It is not only going backward that the plain practical workman is liable to, if he will not look up and look around; he may go forward to ends he little dreams of. [3]
There is no one on earth whom you would not torture for your selfish ends, no one whom you would not sell without compunction for your pleasure. [9]
Half the seamen on this ship have tasted the inside of a jail; and the rest come from the press-gang, and what's left are just the ragged ends of street corners. [11]
In the discussion on Sexual Selection in my 'Descent of Man,' no case interested and perplexed me so much as the brightly-coloured hinder ends and adjoining parts of certain monkeys. [1]
Empty skins of old phrases,--stuff 'em with odds and ends of old thoughts that never were good for anything,--cut 'em up in lengths and sell'em to fools! [6]
The individuals, however, of the same species vary in this respect, and some which were very shy never displayed their hinder ends. [1]
The last backwash of the movement from the west occurs: a backwash which serves to solve the apparently insuperable diplomatic difficulties and ends the military movement of that period of history. [2]
Under the windows of the king's rooms, at least forty feet from the ground, was a narrow parapet resting on the ends of the beams which supported the rafters on which lay the floor of the upper story in which the king slept. [10]
At the door of the house he grasped the hilt of his sword, and then, with rapid movements, twisted the ends of his mustache. [10]
Enlightened self-interest, stripped of sentiment, ends on Judd Jasons. [9]
In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better. [5]
Twisting the ends of his mustache with two rapid motions, he knocked at the young knight's door. [10]
The insane oddity of a monument set up in a village to preserve a name that would outlast the hills and the rocks without any such help, would advertise Elmira to the ends of the earth --and draw custom. [5]
A few accessory odds and ends were sold. [5]
Anyhow, as we now know that monkeys have the habit of turning their hinder ends towards other monkeys, it ceases to be at all surprising that it should have been this part of their bodies which has been more or less decorated. [1]
Only they must not be disappointed if they find many subjects treated in our courses as a medical class requires, rather than as a scientific class would expect, that is, with special limitations and constant reference to practical ends. [3]
Working patiently, by night, in my desolated home, I made a disguise for myself out of various odds and ends of clothing; in the nearest village I bought a pair of blue goggles. [5]
The mission ends next Saturday at five o'clock. [11]
No excuse is needed for treating this subject in some detail; for, as the German philosopher Schopenhauer remarks, "the final aim of all love intrigues, be they comic or tragic, is really of more importance than all other ends in human life. [1]
Mean while we must work earnestly in the best light He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. [7]
Ah, and how many a time have I imagined that I might myself rise and fly after my froward, dear, unduteous exile, my own Gotz, be he where he may, over mountains and seas to the ends of the earth!--I, a hapless, suffering skeleton! [10]
But as for man, she has cut him off with the mere odds and ends of the creation. [5]
For this trivial loss she had suffered intense anxiety and been faithless to her resolution to seek death, which ends all fears. [10]
He threw no loose ends of burning tobacco from cigar or pipe into the loose dry leaves and stiff-cut ground. [11]
Well, those are little reefs; you want to just miss the ends of them, but run them pretty close. [5]
When I don't like a thing, that ends it--it has got to go. [11]
Charlotte ends the letter to her friend, in which she tells her all this, with-- "May 23rd. [14]
The trial will last to the middle of March, sure; Congress ends the fourth of March. [5]
This chain is laid in the bed of the river and is only fastened at the two ends. [5]
The Bishop has just spoken of a condition of things which none of us can deny, and which ought not to exist; that is, the lust of gain--a lust which does not stop short of the penitentiary or the jail to accomplish its ends. [5]
Then, with a judgment peculiarly antic (pun not intended), then take hold of opposite ends of that grasshopper leg and begin to tug with all their might in opposite directions. [5]
The fame of it will travel to the ends of the earth, and endure to the end of time, and my name with it. [5]
But if indexing is the special need of our time in medical literature, as in every department of knowledge, it must be remembered that it is not only an immense labor, but one that never ends. [3]
They were merely intended as suggestions, and so the friends were filled with consternation when the minister stood in the pulpit and proceeded to read off the curious odds and ends in ghastly detail and in a loud voice! [5]
We have an infinite snarl of telegraph wires, and we may be reasonably sure, that, if we can follow them up, we shall find each of them ends in a battery somewhere. [3]
This festival lives in my memory like the fresh spring morning of a day whose noon is darkened by clouds, and which ends in a heavy thunderstorm. [10]

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