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Sentences starting with ephraim

Ephraim had not yet returned from the postoffice, which did not close until eight, and Cynthia smiled when she saw the utensils of his cooking-kit strewn on the hearth. [9]
Ephraim knew not what to say, and mutely handed her the leaves and blossoms. [10]
Ephraim and Cynthia watched them until they were out of sight. [9]
Ephraim did not wait for an answer. [9]
Ephraim was sitting up in his bed, watching for him, and exclaimed: "I have been waiting a long, long time to see you. [10]
Ephraim now returned to confirm the glad tidings, and what an effect it produced upon the discouraged hearts! [10]
Ephraim followed him there, and the damp, salt sea-air refreshed him and cooled his brow. [10]
Ephraim was among them animating others by his tireless vigor. [10]
Ephraim sat in their midst, and for once he was not telling war stories. [9]
Ephraim hurried to the shore, called on the shepherds to follow him and, under his direction, they helped drive the herds forward. [10]

Sentences ending with ephraim

Two other episodes worthy of a place in this act of the drama occurred that morning, and one had to do with Ephraim. [9]
With the warm weather he was able to be about again, and occasionally to mend a harness, but Doctor Rowell shook his head when Jethro stopped his buggy in the road one day to inquire about Ephraim. [9]
But nothing of the sort should happen again; and he would make the whole band feel what had fallen to his lot through Ephraim. [10]
The youth whom the slingers and archers had followed was Ephraim. [10]
They were to light the shepherds who had undertaken to attack the chariot-soldiers, and were commanded by old Nun, Hur, and Ephraim. [10]
Beard doubtless accepted it as one of the man's eccentricities that Jethro did not respond to him, for without more ado he departed arm in arm with Ephraim. [9]
They were sitting in the parlor of the Tremont House that morning with the sun streaming in the windows, waiting for Ephraim. [9]
Hosea was seeking her ere he went to his own father, who had found shelter in the big empty house of his grandson, Ephraim. [10]
On the way back to the Tremont House Cynthia related excitedly the whole circumstance to Jethro and Ephraim. [9]
He shunned Cynthia, and when he was accidentally near her, and she asked him if he would get her a glass of cider, he rudely told her--like a goose as he was--that she had better ask Ephraim. [4]

Short sentences using ephraim

I always liked Ephraim Prescott. [9]
And this is Ephraim Prescott. [9]
Ephraim laughed merrily. [10]
Poor Ephraim! [9]
Ephraim ruminated. [9]
Ephraim hesitated. [9]

Sentences containing ephraim two or more times

There was much mysterious whispering between Ephraim and Jethro in the hotel parlor after dinner, while Cynthia was turning over the leaves of a magazine, and then Ephraim proposed going out to see the sights. [9]
Cynthia and Ephraim knew, and Coniston guessed, that Jethro was taking care of Ephraim, and strong as was his affection for Jethro the old soldier found dependence hard to bear. [9]
After a while I got started, somehow; told him I was there to ask him to appoint Ephraim Prescott to the Brampton postoffice--t-told him all about Ephraim from the time he was locked in the cradle--never was so hard put that I could remember. [9]

More example sentences with the word ephraim in them

Remember also the youthful Ephraim, the grandson of Nun, Thy faithful servant. [10]
That's right, Ephraim, you know how to use your hands! [10]
The man on whose breast he saw Kasana lay her head was a prince, a person of high rank and great power, and the capricious beauty did not always repel the bold man, when his lips sought those for whose kiss Ephraim so ardently longed. [10]
Old Ezra Graves, who's on the prudential committee, told Ephraim they ought to get you. [9]
Joshua knew to whom he and Ephraim owed this favor, and received it with grateful joy. [10]
To Ephraim Prescott, who, as the days went on, found it more and more difficult to sew harness on account of his rheumatism, Jethro was not only a great man but a hero. [9]
Cynthia knew very well that Ephraim meant to lay hands on Mr. Worthington, and it would indeed have been a disastrous hour for the first citizen if the old soldier had ever got into his library. [9]
This is the way Cousin Ephraim buys his shirts! [9]
But the enemy was evidently delayed, and Ephraim easily perceived the cause of their diminished speed; for the road constantly grew softer and the narrow wheels of the chariots cut deeply into it and perhaps sank to the axles. [10]
At last he was about to lay his hand on the lad's shoulder, but paused as by the moonlight he saw Ephraim raise one arm though, before he lay down, both hands were tied more firmly than before. [10]
Inside the canvas walls Ephraim was lying on his uncle's camp-bed. [10]
She did not wait to speak to Ephraim, and she was going out again when a man rushed past her and through the partition door. [9]
The exultation of victory, the joy of success, had taken full possession of Ephraim and his youthful band; but when the sun set and there was still no sign of Hur and his band, Nun and his followers were seized with anxiety. [10]
It was not until they were seated at dinner in the hotel, Ephraim with his napkin tucked under his chin, that Jethro gave them the key to the characters in this story. [9]
At last he took his seat by the fire before the tent and only rose to give Ephraim a drink when he saw by the stars that an hour had passed. [10]
That load is too heavy for you, Ephraim, you are lifting beyond your strength. [10]
What had seemed to him grand, lofty, and worthy of the exertion of all his strength on that night when he sat before the tent where lay the delirious Ephraim, to-day lay far behind him as idle and worthless. [10]
She shrank closer to Ephraim from a perfumed lady who sat next to her in the car, and was thankful when at last they found themselves in the corridor of the Astor House standing before the desk. [9]
She was wont to entertain Ephraim on the days when his hands failed him, when he sat sunning himself before his door; and she knew that he was honest. [9]
But Ephraim begged to be let alone; yet soon after he touched his uncle and asked softly: "What are they planning with Prince Siptah? [10]
She was about to ask Jethro his name when Ephraim came limping along and put the matter out of her mind, and the three went into the almost empty dining room. [9]
During their stroll through the garden Ephraim was asked to help her cull the flowers and, when the basket he carried was filled, she invited him to sit with her in a bower and aid her to twine the wreaths. [10]
The sorrows of three years were suddenly lifted from his shoulders, and for an instant Ephraim wanted to dance until he remembered the rheumatism and the Wilderness leg. [9]
The man thus threatened was Joshua, and his companion in suffering Ephraim, who had been sentenced to share his fate. [10]
After arriving at this conviction Joshua considered, as deliberately as if the matter concerned directing one of his soldiers on his way, whether he himself, in case he regained the use of his hands, could succeed in following Ephraim without endangering his project. [10]
If they conquered, they were to join the young followers of Ephraim before sunset. [10]
Yet, even if they persisted in following the runaway, the captive warrior no longer feared the worst, for Ephraim had gained a long advance of his pursuers. [10]
With joyous confidence they marched forward and, during the journey through the cool night, Ephraim and Nun described to Joshua how they had found Kasana and how she had died. [10]
Presently they found themselves among the crowd in Washington Street, where Ephraim confessed the trepidation which he felt over the coming supper party: a trepidation greater, so he declared many times, than he had ever experienced before any of his battles in the war. [9]
And Ephraim accepted the well-meant invitation. [10]
Then she raised the tiny blood-stained weapon for a second stroke; but ere she could give her enemy another thrust, Ephraim flung himself between her and her victim and wrenched the dagger from her grasp. [10]
The sight of the table, however, had for the moment upset Ephraim, "Get Jethro to tell you how he took dinner with Jedge Binney," he said. [9]
Jabez Miller, on the north slope, had told Samuel Todd, who told Ephraim Williams, that he was going to vote for Fletcher. [9]
He would show the man whom he most esteemed that he, too, Ephraim, could hold his head high. [10]
He stopped at the harness shop, where Ephraim came limping out and lifted Cynthia to the seat beside her father, and they joggled off to Brampton. [9]
They went across the green to Cousin Ephraim Prescott's harness shop, where Jethro had tied his horse, and it was settled that Cynthia liked books. [9]
Apparently unconscious of the eyes upon him, he walked out of the meeting-house with Cynthia by his side, and they stood waiting for Wetherell and Ephraim under the maple tree there. [9]
Cynthia was holding the cushion, and at the fatal word she threw it down, not before John, but in front of Ephraim Leggett. [4]
Ephraim was in the corridor regaling his friend, Mr. [9]
Ephraim had followed the captain of the archers, who pointed out the youth's uncle, saying: "Shining armor would become you also, and when drums are beating, pipes squeaking shrilly, and banners waving, a man marches as lightly as if he had wings. [10]
Let all of the blood of Ephraim and Judah rally around me and Miriam, the wife of their chief! [10]
She also learned that the wounded Ephraim had found shelter in his uncle's tent. [10]
Her glance showed that she instantly recognized both him and Ephraim, but weakness baffled her attempt to nod to them. [10]
I'll never forget that day," said Ephraim, warming to the subject, "when we was fightin' Ewell up and down the Orange Plank Road, playin' hide-and-seek with the Johnnies in the woods. [9]
In less than ten minutes Bob had come back with Cousin Ephraim, as fast as he could hobble. [9]
For when Ephraim summoned him, he called you a maiden . [10]
She sat very still for a long while, and presently she heard Ephraim go out. [9]
Ephraim confirmed the statement, for Apu had gratefully told him of it. [10]
Ephraim was still standing in front of the tent, gazing at the spot where Pharaoh's chariots had disappeared. [10]
Now Ephraim was standing before him; and after Nun had laid his hand on his shoulders, and kissed him again and again, he asked if his son was still alive and remembered him and his people. [10]
Much of that spring Ephraim was all but helpless, and Cynthia spent many days nursing him and reading to him. [9]
Ephraim had just spoken of the beautiful Egyptian, who had loved Hosea and at whose intercession the prisoner's chains had been removed, when loud outcries were heard at a part of the strand where many of the people had gathered. [10]
Ephraim was the son of his sister. [10]
Ephraim loved to sit there of an evening and smoke his pipe and chat with Ezra Graves and the neighbors who dropped in. [9]
Silently she arose,--so silently that Ephraim, dozing by the fire, did not awake. [9]
And then, when she stopped at the post-office to speak to Ephraim on her way homeward in the afternoon, she heard men talking behind the partition, and she stood, as one stricken, listening beside the window. [9]
If I remember rightly," he added, turning again to Ephraim, the Fifth Corps was on the Orange turnpike. [9]
Ephraim had already proposed to go with some of his companions in quest of tidings, when a messenger announced that Hur's men had lost courage at the sight of the well-fortified Egyptian citadel. [10]
Silas got out,--his presence not being required,--and Cynthia was helped in, and Bob got in beside her, and away they went, leaving Ephraim waving his stick after them from the doorstep. [9]
She was, indeed, preparing to sweep away when there came a familiar tap-tap behind them on the bare floor, and he turned to behold Ephraim hobbling toward them with the aid of his green umbrella, Cynthia by his side. [9]
And Ephraim, whose plan of campaign had been to eat nothing to speak of and have a meal when he got back to the hotel, found that he wasn't hungry when he arose from the table. [9]
As the months passed, Ephraim had heard David Wheelock mentioned with more and more assurance for the place. [9]
While the fettered pair were ascending the cliff backward, Joshua heard his name shouted in joyous accents, and directly after Ephraim, with a band of youthful warriors, came rushing down the height toward him. [10]
Now they were on the verge of destruction, and he, Ephraim, who came from the camp of the enemy, was perhaps the sole person who saw the full extent of the danger. [10]
Thus Ephraim might, on his account, incur the peril of losing the one fortunate moment which promised escape. [10]
In the "Proceedings" of this Society for the year 1863 is a very pleasant paper by the late Dr. Ephraim Eliot, giving an account of the leading physicians of Boston during the last quarter of the last century. [3]
But in spite of the leech's prescription Ephraim continued restless. [10]
Now a portion of the army would pass them, and the spectacle was new to Ephraim and promised to put an end to his dull brooding. [10]
With a sigh of relief Joshua told himself that he had seen the flying Ephraim and that, come what might, the escaping youth had gained a considerable start of his pursuers. [10]
Ephraim had heard of Miss Lucretia, of course. [9]
There was, first of all, the parting with Jethro and the messages with which he and Ephraim were laden for the whole village and town of Coniston. [9]
Mr. Worthington was not mentioned, and for this, at least, Cynthia drew along breath of relief, though Ephraim was of the opinion that the first citizen should have been scored as he deserved, and held up to the contempt of his fellow-townsmen. [9]
That visitor was none other than Sergeant Ephraim Prescott, son of Isaiah of the pitch-pipe, and own cousin of Cynthia Ware's. [9]
He, Ephraim, need no longer appeal to the Omnipotent One--that was the appointed task of this great and exalted personage; but he must continue to fulfil his little duty of watching the progress of individuals. [10]
Ephraim was a New Englander, and not an adept in expressing his emotions. [9]
Ephraim, whose memory never betrayed him, hobbled up to a shabby house in the middle of one of these blocks and rang the bell. [9]
Half of Brampton must have seen Bob Worthington march up to the little yellow house which Ephraim had rented from John Billings. [9]
Ephraim was very much excited on finding himself in Washington, the sight of the place reviving in his mind a score of forgotten incidents of the war. [9]
My father and mother, my uncle Ephraim and his wife, and one or two others were present, and the conversation turned on a name for me. [5]
Ephraim sat alone most of the day in his Windsor chair by the stove, pretending to read newspapers. [9]
Then darkness veiled Miriam's eyes and she felt as if in a dream Ephraim sever the ropes around her wrists. [10]
Ephraim was still lying on his couch, smiling as if under the thrall of pleasant dreams. [10]
Ephraim had even looked up the law to see if he was eligible, and found that he was, since Coniston had no post-office, and was within the limits of delivery of the Brampton office. [9]
Cynthia bit her lip, not seeing any cause for mirth in her remark, while Ephraim looked uncomfortable and mopped the perspiration from his brow. [9]
For Ephraim Prescott, like his grandfather, was a man of action--a keen, intelligent American whose energy, under other circumstances, might have gone toward the making of the West. [9]
It refreshed Ephraim like a cool drink after long thirsting, and he could not refrain from shouting aloud and crying joyously to the others: "Saved, saved! [10]
Ephraim, though he knew of it, did not speak of it when he came home to his dinner; Mr. Graves had called, and informed her of the meeting in the town hall that night. [9]
I think this kind of talk has gone far enough, Ephraim Prescott. [9]
The certainty that Kasana was wicked and faithless, which had so unexpectedly forced itself upon Ephraim, had suddenly turned his heart from her and startled him back into the right path which he had abandoned. [10]
Hosea, in his joy and astonishment, held out his arms, but ere Ephraim could fall upon his breast, he again lost consciousness, and stalwart soldiers bore the senseless lad into the tent the quartermaster had already pitched on a dune by the sea. [10]
But had not Joseph, Ephraim, and his sons, Hosea's ancestors, been called his subjects and lived content to be numbered among the Egyptians. [10]
Standing before it, Jethro told the story in his droll way, of a city clerk and a country bumpkin, and Cynthia and Ephraim both laughed so heartily that the people who were passing turned round to look at them and laughed too. [9]
But Ephraim thought it grand enough, and yet acknowledged a homelike quality in its grandeur. [9]
The young widow interpreted the laugh as the reply she most desired and, much relieved, laid aside the spindle and invited Ephraim to go into the garden. [10]
It was remarked in the buzz of query that followed the stage's departure that Ephraim wore the blue suit and the army hat with a cord around it which he kept for occasions. [9]
Jethro, his hands in his pockets and his hat tilted, sat on the small of his back rapt in meditation; Cynthia, her head awhirl, looked around her with sparkling eyes; while Ephraim was smoking a cigar he had saved for just such a festal occasion. [9]
At last the ideas that troubled her found utterance and, as if roused from her repose, she exclaimed in terrified accents: "You are Ephraim, who seemed like his son, and the old man is Nun, his dear father. [10]
What Hur, Miriam's husband, could not accomplish, Joshua had done, and ere the young soldiers departed with Ephraim, old Nun assembled them to offer thanks to the Lord. [10]
He did, understand, however, her concern for Ephraim Prescott, for he knew that she loved the soldier. [9]
When Ephraim came home to supper that evening, he brought the Brampton Clarion, just out, and in it was an account of Miss Lucretia Penniman's speech at the mass meeting, and of her visit, and of her career. [9]

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