Use ensue in a sentence
Sentences ending with ensue
- But I used to think that if Irene, attracted by his many admirable qualities, should become his wife, and that if afterwards the Prince should appear and waken the slumbering woman's heart in her, what a tragedy would ensue. [4]
- The atmosphere was so rarified, on account of the great altitude, that one's blood lay near the surface always, and the scratch of a pin was a disaster worth worrying about, for the chances were that a grievous erysipelas would ensue. [5]
- It would be like the Queen, if her temper was up, to demand from the Medici the return of De la Foret, and war might ensue. [11]
- He was not fatally injured, it is hoped; but, sad to relate, he received such a violent blow upon the spine of the back, that palsy of the lower extremities is like to ensue. [6]
- After the regular business had been disposed of a brief interval was allowed, for the sake of decency, to ensue. [9]
- It is absurd because, there being no reasoning faculty--that is to say, no faculty of personal command--in a pair of togs, personal responsibility for the acts of the tongs is wholly absent from the tongs; and, therefore, responsibility being absent, punishment cannot ensue. [5]
- A diversion must be tried, or demoralization would ensue. [5]
- If, in pith and interest, they fall short of the first, a true success cannot ensue. [14]
More example sentences with the word ensue in them
- We see how, upon the result of the debate in which we are engaged, a war may ensue between the United States and one, two, or even more European nations. [7]
- He had been unwilling to frighten them sooner than was needful, but they must learn it sooner or later: Cynegius had arrived to overthrow the image of Serapis, and what must ensue they knew only too well. [10]
- He was utterly unable to contemplate the disaster which might ensue if certain financial ties, which were thicker than cables, were snapped. [9]
- When she returned to the dining-room, arrayed in her own finery, demure, triumphant, and had carried off Mr. Whey there would ensue an interval of silence broken only by the clattering together of the dishes Hannah snatched up. [9]
- This device was to prevent great drinking, which might ensue if the full pot stood always at the elbow. [4]
- People are apt to conceive, or at least to profess, exaggerated expectation, such as no performance can realise; then ensue disappointment and the due revenge, detraction, and failure. [14]
- It must not remain unpunished, and, while waiting for her daughter, she imagined what evil consequences might ensue if Antyllus were forbidden the house and accused to his tutor, and how unbearable, on the other hand, he might become if they omitted to do so. [10]
- They said the pay of the army and of the navy and of the whole governmental machine was far in arrears, and unless something was done, and done immediately, national bankruptcy must ensue, and possibly insurrection and revolution. [5]
- The consular system of the United States, under the enactments of the last Congress, begins to be self-sustaining, and there is reason to hope that it may become entirely so with the increase of trade which will ensue whenever peace is restored. [7]
- He was careful not to betray by look, word, or deed what was passing in his mind, as he feared the ridicule that would ensue should he fail to achieve his purpose. [10]
- The consequences which might ensue, should the populace discover that he was taking sides against the Regent, would be incalculable. [10]
- Death would ensue if it failed. [4]
- Some hundreds, indeed, had passed the night there in prayer, or in sheer terror of the catastrophe which could not fail to ensue, and they were kneeling in groups, groaning, weeping, and cursing, or squatting in stolid resignation, weary, crushed and hopeless. [10]
- Everyone knew the danger that threatened Serapis, and what must ensue if he were overthrown; and everyone had thought that the end of the world had indeed come. [10]
- Nor had they any lack of subjects, for their interests were the same, and they both had the satisfaction of reflecting what injury must ensue to public safety through their long and useless detention here. [10]
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